AP881102-0001 AP-NR-11-02-88 2352EST r a PM-APArts:RandFilm 11-02 1080 PM-AP Arts: Rand Film,1102 Ayn Rand Epic Makes It To American Cinema 46 Years Late Eds: Also in Thursday AMs report. By THEASA TUOHY Associated Press Writer NEW YORK (AP) In an adventure with almost as many twists and plot turns as the movie itself, Ayn Rand's ``We the Living'' is about to make it to American theaters. The 46-year-old film was thought to have been destroyed by Mussolini. ``We The Living'' was made in war-time Italy in 1942, and was based on the novel of the same name by Ayn Rand, whose ``objectivism'' philosphy in such works as ``The Fountainhead'' and ``Atlas Shrugged'' made her a cult figure in the 1970s. The movie has caused a stir over the years, and has repeatedly won critical acclaim, from the Venice Festival of 1942 to the Fourth Annual Boston Film Festival last month. A surface indictment of communism, the lushly photographed, romantic saga is set in Russia as the tidal wave of revolution boiled down to a new party system that meant enormous changes in the way people lived and loved and survived. Rossano Brazzi co-stars as a tubercular aristocat who can't get a job or a slot in a sanitarium because aristocrats are out of fashion. He said he made arrangements for Rand to get her first look at the film when he met her in Hollywood after the war. However, he didn't think Italy's fascist government had ordered the movie to be destroyed. It went out of circulation because the ``natural life of the film was over,'' Brazzi said in a telephone interview from his home in Rome. But Massimo Ferrara-Santamaria, a Rome lawyer who was general manager of the studio where the movie was made, said he was called before a fascist tribunal and ordered to destroy negatives and copies of the film, and was stripped of his position at the studio and as lecturer at Italian universities for his role in making the movie. ``In the tragic Italian war situation, the film was called by the public `Noi Morti' (`We the Dead'),'' he said in an interview, adding that Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels banned the film in Germany after Ferrara personally showed it at Goebbels' Berlin home in October 1942. ``At the end of the screening, Goebbels told me that the Russians were habitually presented to the German public in a much more negative way than in this picture, and therefore it was no good for Germany,'' he said. Erika and Henry Mark Holzer, the movie's producers, were Rand's lawyers in the 1960s. Mrs. Holzer said the author believed the banning story and authorized a search for the film that took the two attorneys through hundreds of interviews and dusty archives. It finally culminated two years later when they met a dealer with ``a bunch of Italian films for sale.'' They rode through the bumpy back streets of Rome with a load of potentially explosive nitrate-treated film in the back of an old truck, including the negative for ``We the Living.'' They had the movie transferred to ``safety film'' before flying it back to New York. Mrs. Holzer believes they found the original nitrate negative, which Ferrara had hidden. Ferrara and others say Italy's Ministry of Culture ordered the film destroyed about five months after its release on the grounds that though the message might purport to be anti-communist, it could also be taken as anti-totalitarian _ a strong statement for individualism, regardless of political coloration. The fascists didn't want that kind of propaganda message playing on the homefront with Italy's Axis troops stretched from North Africa to Stalingrad, and the Allies storming the beaches of Sicily. Rand had a hard-line, libertarian philosophy. It was best exemplified by Gary Cooper in the ``Fountainhead,'' who played an architect who blows up his own creation rather than allow it to be desecrated by the whims of popularism. Mrs. Holzer said Rand liked the film version of ``We the Living'' even more than ``The Fountainhead,'' although the author had written the latter's screenplay herself and was not asked for permission for the Italian film. Brazzi said it was a so-called war movie: ``We'll worry after the war about paying for it.'' He said Rand eventually did receive compensation from Scalera, the producing studio. Mrs. Holzer said that once she and her husband recovered an original nitrate negative, Rand went through the film frame by frame to identify exactly how she wanted it edited. The Italian version was made in two parts and ran over 4{ hours. The project was set aside when Rand had other commitments, and was not picked up until after the author's death in 1982. The film was restored by Duncan Scott. The epic was shot entirely on indoor, elaborately built Italian war-time sets recreating Russian country scenes, trains, ships and Petrograd. ``I'm told almost the entire White Russian community in Italy was used as extras,'' Mrs. Holzer said. The new version, distributed by Angelika Films, is under three hours, and is set for release Nov. 5 in Boston, Nov. 11 in Los Angeles and Nov. 25 in New York. It will play to other major U.S. markets before January. The film also stars a young and radiant Alida Valli, the female lead in the 1949 British thriller, ``The Third Man''; and Fosco Giachetti, who was the No. 1 box-office draw in Italy when the movie was made, according to its producers. ``We the Living'' has a bit of soap opera in it: Beautiful Kira loves Leo, the tubercular aristocat; Andrei of the dreaded secret police loves Kira because she has the courage to be independent and defiant of the new order. But underneath the suds is a hard reality: Kira forsakes her love when he turns out not tough enough to toe a moral line. Andrei kills himself when he realizes first that Kira used him to get Leo a spot in a sanitarium, and that his adored party leaves no freedom for individuals to decide whether they wish to be scoundrel or saint. Kira goes forward, wiser but unbowed, a testimony to the strong and the living, and the survival of the toughest. Rand, who espoused a personal philosophy based on unfettered capitalism and ``rational selfishness,'' held individual freedom as the highest ideal. She said alturism was weakness, and blamed it for much of the world's woes. But she also attacked libertarians of the right who often identified with her philosophy. AP881102-0002 AP-NR-11-02-88 2354EST r i PM-China-MysteryCures 11-02 1021 PM-China-Mystery Cures,1055 Scientists Try To Explain Mysteries Of Chinese Qi Treatment Eds: Also in Thursday AMs report. By KATHY WILHELM Associated Press Writer BEIJING (AP) A scientist in a white lab coat scraped bits of cancer tissue from a white mouse into two sterilized glass dishes. Two young men in slightly scruffy street clothes sat on stools in front of the dishes. Each extended his right hand over a dish, closed his eyes and concentrated. ``They are giving off qi,'' whispered the scientist, immunologist Gu Ligang. The experiment, a hybrid of modern scientific method and seeming magic, is part of a growing effort among Chinese scientists to verify and analyze what many Chinese believe to be a special human energy called qi. The belief in Qi is central to traditional Chinese medicine but it is viewed skeptically by Western scientists. In this case, the two men giving off qi were attempting to kill the cancerous cells in the dishes. Popular interest in qi and 2,000-year-old exercises to develop it, called qigong, is sweeping China after the method had been suppressed for decades as superstition. An estimated 50 million adults practice qigong exercises, while hospitals, schools and scholarly institutes across China are researching qi. ``Qigong is a national cultural treasure and an integral part of Chinese traditional medicine's theoretical system and healing methods,'' Vice Minister of Health Hu Ximing told a recent conference in Beijing of nearly 600 scientists and qigong masters from more than a dozen countries. Qi, the Chinese word for air and gas, has a special meaning in medicine _ the breath of life. Chinese traditional medicine teaches that qi flows through the body in invisible channels, like veins, and that illness is a result of blockages in its flow. Traditional healing techniques, from herbal medicines to acupuncture to qigong, are efforts to restore the distribution of qi. Gu Ligang's experiment with the cancerous cells, like hundreds being done nationwide, seeks to gather physical evidence of whether some people, known as qigong masters, can project their qi like a beam of energy to manipulate matter and cure illness. Gu, one of 30 qigong researchers at the Beijing College of Traditional Chinese Medicine, said some cancerous cells were killed in one sample in his experiment, but not enough to prove anything. Qigong masters, however, say their work proves the mysterious force exists. Hu Yulan, 59, said she has cured serious heart and neurological illnesses by directing her qi at patients. Another master, Wan Sujian, said a 49-year-old peasant woman came to him after a surgeon told her a large tumor in her brain was inoperable and that she would die in two months. Wan said the woman could barely walk because of the tumor's pressure on portions of the brain that control movement. But after 10 treatments, he said, the woman was walking freely. ``The tumor has shrunk,'' Wan claimed. He predicted complete recovery. Thousands of other qigong masters, who operate clinics without licensing or regulation, make similar claims. Some say they can heal bone fractures and diagnose ailments with X-ray vision _ even when the patient is absent. Volumes of anecdotes of seemingly miraculous cures have been published. ``There are many blank areas in science,'' said Liu Yaning, a biophysicist at the air force's Xidiaoyutai Hospital in Beijing. ``In China, many scientists believe the qigong masters will lead a revolution in science.'' But Western medicine, which in the past decade has found chemical explanations for acupuncture's ability to deaden pain, balks at the concept of qi. ``I haven't been convinced by any experiment that this energy exists or that it can be controlled,'' said Dr. David Eisenberg, an instructor at the Harvard Medical School who attended the qigong conference. However, Eisenberg, who studied traditional medicine in China in 1979 and 1980 and wrote a book about qigong, said he has seen startling demonstrations of qigong masters' skills and cannot simply dismiss them as fakes. ``There are phenomenon in every culture that suggests there may be the ability of humans to sense and-or manipulate their own biological fields, for lack of a better word,'' he said. ``I'm troubled but not convinced.'' Chinese scientists also are troubled. Many who are testing qigong masters said they believe some form of special human energy exists, but can't define it. Books on qigong describe it variously as akin to radar, infrared light, magnetism, subsonic sound waves or all of those. ``I think qi is a big bag,'' Liu said. ``There are a lot of things in it _ not just one kind of energy or matter.'' He added that his experiments, showing that natural luminescence given off by qigong masters' bodies is higher than that given off by other people, have convinced him qi exists. ``There is much clinical evidence to see the effect of qigong on many different diseases,'' said Dr. Lu Yongcai, a pathologist at the Beijing College of Traditional Medicine's Qigong Institute. ``We want to know the mechanisms. That qi is present is no problem.'' ``Qi definitely can cause biological reactions. That's a fact,'' said Zhou Yang, the institute's chief immunologist. He said his experiments have shown that qi can promote the proliferation of disease-fighting T-cells in laboratory mice and stimulate the development of the thymus, an important gland in the immune system. Chinese scientists at the qigong conference said their work showed qigong masters can do such things as kill or inhibit leukemia cells in mice, promote healing of strained muscles and broken bones in rabbits and sharpen intelligence. Eisenberg contended that most of the studies suffered from poor design or lacked control groups and other standard precautions against bias. ``There is at least as much likelihood that this is a cultural, societal wish fulfillment,'' he said. ``Qi is part of the culture. ... They are wed to it, they want to prove it.'' But Dr. Gabriel Stux, who runs an acupuncture clinic in Duesseldorf in West Germany, noted that Western medicine also relies on techniques not fully understood. ``Many drugs, you don't know how they work. But you do a lot of pragmatic things,'' he said. AP881102-0003 AP-NR-11-02-88 2355EST r a PM-DorisDuke 11-02 0671 PM-Doris Duke,0688 Doris Duke Leads Life Of Recluse, But Dives Into The Headlines With PM-Marcos Bail, Bjt Eds: Also in Thursday AMs report. By TODD RICHISSIN Associated Press Writer HILLSBOROUGH, N.J. (AP) Doris Duke, the tobacco heiress who is posting $5 million bail for former Philippine first lady Imelda Marcos, inherited so much money from her father she was once known as ``the richest girl in the world.'' ``If you're going to live, you have to be a part of life,'' Miss Duke, now 75, told The Associated Press in a 1944 interview. ``She leads a fruitful and enjoyable life,'' said her attorney, Donald Robinson. But she refuses interviews and maintains her privacy even when she ventures outside her walled 2,700-acre estate here in rolling hills about 45 miles west of New York. The 6-foot-tall Miss Duke, whose wealth is estimated by Forbes magazine at $800 million and by her former business manager at $2.5 billion, has become largely a recluse, though friendships are important to her. ``It was Miss Duke's idea to help (Mrs. Marcos),'' Robinson said after a bail hearing in federal court Wednesday. Mrs. Marcos, who is charged along with her husband, former Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos, with racketeering, made the trip to New York from the couple's home in Hawaii last weekend aboard Miss Duke's lavishly appointed private jet. Robinson said Miss Duke and Mrs. Marcos are old friends. ``She's embarrassed at the mistreatment of the Marcos family by the United States who invited them to come into the States several years ago, and then at least one prosecutor turns around and calls them criminals,'' Robinson said in a telephone interview Wednesday afternoon. Miss Duke ``doesn't believe that should be part of the American justice system. All I can tell you is they're dear, dear friends,'' he said. Robinson said Mrs. Marcos and Miss Duke met through mutual friends in Manhattan, but he declined to be more specific. Miss Duke first drew widespread publicity in 1926, when she was 14. Following the death of her father, tobacco and electric power magnate James Buchanan Duke, the teen-ager sued her mother and other trustees of the estate for title to the family's assetts here and in Manhattan. By the time the estate was settled in 1934, most of it going to Miss Duke, the holdings were worth about $133 million, what one newspaper account at the time said was more than one-third of the entire national income at the height of the Great Depression. Society pages called her ``the richest girl in the world'' as they reported her attendance at events such as opera openings. In 1944, Miss Duke very publicly completed training as a $1-a-year worker for United Seamen's Service, helping America's merchant seamen deal with wounds and the trials of war. She also endured two thoroughly chronicled divorces, the death of a day-old premature daughter and the accidental killing of a long-time companion who was crushed to death by a car Miss Duke was driving. She retreated to her extensive land holdings in New Jersey, Newport, R.I., Honolulu, Manhattan and Charlotte, N.C. She goes to great lengths to avoid the news media. During a land dispute with New Jersey in 1987, Miss Duke would only answer written questions from reporters through her attorney. Robinson said Miss Duke remains at her Hillsborough estate, staying active in the background in fights for animal rights and preserving farmland. A book published last year by her former business manager, Patrick Mahn, said her father nurtured that activism. ``J.B. fostered her love of animals and nature and he told her that every animal had a soul,'' Mahn wrote in an unauthorized biography co-written by Tom Valentine, a former friend of Miss Duke. Her father amassed his fortune by building the American Tobacco Co. from a small tobacco crop overtaken by Yankee forces during the Civil War, and from Duke Power Co. His contributions to small Trinity College in North Carolina caused it to be renamed Duke University in 1924. AP881102-0004 AP-NR-11-02-88 2355EST r i PM-BRF--DestituteDiner 11-02 0153 PM-BRF--Destitute Diner,0155 Former Chef Fined For 54th Eating Offense SYDNEY, Australia (AP) A former chef who dines at expensive restaurants and then pleads poverty has been convicted for the 54th time of refusing to pay for a meal. Paul Charles Dozsa, 48, dubbed ``the restaurant runner'' by local newspapers, was fined $160 on Monday for refusing to pay a $50 bill at a Chinese restaurant. The following day, he dined out at the five-star Sheraton-Wentworth hotel, then told the staff he could not pay the $48 check. He was fined $200 for that offense on Wednesday and ordered to compensate the restaurant. Dozsa pleaded guilty to the charges, saying he was ``in a state of inebriation''. Police said Dozsa gave his address as a coffee shop, whose staff told reporters they knew Dozsa but always checked if he had money before serving him as he had frequently refused to pay. AP881102-0005 AP-NR-11-02-88 2356EST r a AM-VesselFire 1stLd-Writethru a0847 11-02 0319 AM-Vessel Fire, 1st Ld-Writethru, a0847,0323 Three Missing In Barge Fire Eds: New throughout with 7 grafs to UPDATE with identities of crew, details on firefight; no pickup. LaserPhoto AG1 SOLDOTNA, Alaska (AP) A barge loaded with thousands of gallons of diesel fuel and gasoline burned out of control Wednesday after an explosion left three of its four crewmen missing, authorities said. State police said one crewman, identified as Stephen Hobbs of Anchorage, apparently waded ashore after an explosion rocked the vessel Wednesday morning and was treated for shock. The three men listed as missing were Stan Hanson, the skipper, of Anchor Point; Bruce Babcock, the engineer, of Homer; and Carl Anderson of Anchorage, driver of a fuel truck aboard the vessel, troopers said. The cause of the blaze was not known. The fire started at 8:45 a.m. near Trading Bay, 70 miles south of Anchorage. The vessel was about 100 yards off shore. Coast Guard Lt. Matt Carr said interviews with boat's owners revealed that 20,000 gallons of gasoline were under the deck, ``which has made us reevaluate the firefighting effort.'' He said the vessel would be allowed to burn, and the fire would be monitored from a safe distance. Carr described the fire as ``subsiding'' Wednesday night, about nine hours after the blaze began. At 5 p.m., the barge was still burning, and the Coast Guard ordered its cutter to observe the fire from a safe distance and not to attempt to fight the blaze. The 197-ton vessel, called the Alaska Constructor and owned by Motor Vessel Construction Co. of Homer, was carrying a 36,000 gallons of diesel fuel and a tank truck containing 3,000 gallons of fuel, said Coast Guard Petty Officer Chris Haley. Haley said fuel entered the sea and burned there, but the amount of the leakage was unknown. He said small boats from nearby oil platforms helped in fighting the fire. AP881102-0006 AP-NR-11-02-88 2356EST r i PM-BRF--Australia-Painting 11-02 0143 PM-BRF--Australia-Painting,0148 Record Price, $1.05 Million, Paid For Aussie Painting MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) An anonymous buyer set an auction record for an Australian painting when he paid $1.05 million for a work Rupert Bunny painted in France around 1910. The painting, Une Nuit De Canicule (Hot Summer Night), is regarded as Bunny's greatest work. Bidding by phone, the buyer refused to be identified. The auctioneers said the buyer was Australian. Auctioneer Leonard Joel's art director John Dwyer said the record sale was a ``justifiable price for a world class painting'' and would ``stay in the country _ probably in a private collection.'' Bunny, an Australian artist who established his early reputation in Europe, died in 1947. The previous auction record for an Australian painting was the $700,000 paid for Arthur Streeton's Settlers Camp in 1985 by businessman Robert Holmes a Court. AP881102-0007 AP-NR-11-02-88 2359EST r a PM-GrapeGrab 11-02 0330 PM-Grape Grab,0338 Grape Lifter Ordered To Pay 40 Cents Restitution JACKSON, Mich. (AP) A man convicted of a felony for munching on grapes at a grocery store was ordered to pay 40 cents in restitution and $600 in court costs. Eli Bradley Jr., 52, could have been imprisoned for up to four years on the charge of larceny from a building. But Jackson County Circuit Judge Russell E. Noble on Wednesday delayed the sentence and said he would consider removing the conviction from Bradley's record if he stayed out of trouble until Oct. 4, 1989. ``I'm going to appeal this because I'm not guilty of no felony,'' Bradley said after the hearing. ``Any felony on your record works against you for the rest of your life. If they can do what they did in this court, nobody is safe in the courts.'' Bradley was arrested March 4 while leaving a grocery store. Security guards testified during his trial that they saw Bradley eating several handfuls of grapes while shopping. Bradley testified that he ate no more than two or three grapes to be sure they were seedless before buying more than 1{ pounds of grapes along with other groceries for $13.25. Prosecutor Joseph Filip offered in June to reduce the charge to misdemeanor shoplifting. Defense lawyer Richard L. Wilkins chose to go to trial on the felony charge, which he considered easier to defend. A jury convicted Bradley in September. ``This matter, in my opinion, could have been handled with much less expense as a misdemeanor, not a felony,'' the judge said Wednesday. Assistant prosecutor Donald Ray said his office probably would oppose removal of the felony conviction next year even if Bradley stayed out of trouble. Filip said the September verdict showed the community agrees that ``we don't want people stealing from stores.'' In the Republican prosecutor's re-election campaign, his Democratic challenger, Paul R. Adams, has chided him as having ``made the county safe for grapes.'' AP881102-0008 AP-NR-11-02-88 0000EST r a PM-APArts:Schlesinger 11-01 0785 PM-AP Arts: Schlesinger,0806 John Schlesinger Looks for Irony Eds: Also in Wednesday AMs report. By HILLEL ITALIE Associated Press Writer NEW YORK (AP) Unlike the title character in his latest film, ``Madame Sousatzka,'' John Schlesinger doesn't see himself as a teacher. The director would rather have audiences make up their own minds. ``I hope there's plenty of irony in all my films. That's the very thing I look for,'' said the British director of ``Midnight Cowboy,'' ``Marathon Man'' and other acclaimed movies. ``It could all be disaster, but it isn't. That's kind of my attitude to life. Most of the endings I've had, there is a question mark. They're often about people determined to carry on.'' ``Madame Sousatzka,'' based on the novel by Bernice Rubens, takes place in London and stars Shirley MacLaine as a demanding, emotional piano teacher whose philosophy, ``I teach how to live,'' is the cause of much conflict with her students. Schlesinger originally sought a European actress to play the Russian-born teacher, but wanted MacLaine after deciding to cast an American. ``I liked the fact that she was willing to take risks,'' he said. ``I thought she brought quite a lot to `Terms of Endearment,' looking dreadful. She's not worried about her Shirley MacLaine image. I got to know that very fast.'' Schlesinger credits MacLaine, whose work in ``Terms of Endearment'' earned her an Academy Award for best actress in 1985, with making the eccentric Sousatzka believeable. ``Sometimes when I worked on the script, I'd say, `Oh god, she's too monstrous.' But she had a way of playing the eccentricities so that it was totally part of her,'' the director said. ``She doesn't play to the audience at all. I think it's a most extraordinary performance.'' For the part of Manek Sen, the 15-year-old prodigy who endures Sousatzska's violent mood swings, Schlesinger auditioned hundreds of actors before choosing newcomer Navin Chowdhry, who makes his film debut in the movie. Chowdhry had no musical training, but Schlesinger nevertheless found him perfect for the part. The youngster worked with musical advisor Yonty Solomon. In a way, Irina Sousatzka can be likened to Nora Desmond, the aging actress in ``Sunset Boulevard.'' Both are flamboyant on the surface and lonely underneath. Desmond falls in love with a young screenwriter, Sousatskza with Manek. ``It's a love story. She's created something and now she falls in love with him,'' Schlesinger noted. ``She's a survivor. Even if she's angry or upset. I believe it isn't so removed from people even if the subject is about music. It's all about perfectly common human experience.'' The 62-year-old Schlesinger's own musical background attracted him to the story. His father was a cellist, his mother a violinist, and Schlesinger himself was an accomplished pianist as a child. Schlesinger was a character actor in the 1950s, appearing on stage, in television and films. He also made documentary shorts. His first commercial film, ``Terminus,'' won the Golden Lion for best documentary at the 1961 Venice Film Festival. ``A Kind of Loving,'' his first feature film, was released the following year. Starring a then unknown Alan Bates, the film won the Golden Bear Award at the Berlin Film Festival and established Schlesinger as one of England's most talented young directors. He then directed ``Billy Liar'' and ``Darling,'' which earned Julie Christie the best actress Oscar in 1965. ``Midnight Cowboy,'' his first film made in Hollywood, earned Academy Awards for best picture, director and best adapted screenplay in 1969. With Jon Voight as a Texan hustler and Dustin Hoffman as a tubercular Bronx con man, ``Midnight Cowboy'' typified Schlesinger's fascination with characters who are ``up against it.'' Schlesinger sees that theme running strongly in ``Madame Sousatzka.'' ``In the case of Manek, he's up against the promise of success and the possibility of failure which she has been up against,'' he said. ``She's up against her past. She's up against it in many ways. It makes her behave a certain way. ``They're all up against something. Changing London, changing values.'' Schlesinger has also directed Glenda Jackson in ``Sunday, Bloody Sunday'' and Hoffman and Sir Laurence Olivier in ``Marathon Man.'' ``Enthusiasm,'' the director says, is what he looks for from his actors. MacLaine, he said, loved the role. ``She ... didn't care about the money, was charming to everyone, particularly the boy. The fact that's she's out banging the drum about the movie proves she's enthusiastic.'' And so is Schlesinger. He's merged his great loves, film and music, and feels the movie expresses certain things he feels. ``It's communicating,'' he said. ``You're trying to invoke an emotional response to something, to make them laugh or make them angry as well as just telling a story.'' AP881102-0009 AP-NR-11-02-88 0002EST r i PM-Peru-Garcia 11-02 0845 PM-Peru-Garcia,0867 Economic Crisis In Peru Raises Danger Of Military Takeover Eds: Also in Wednesday AMs report. By MONTE HAYES Associated Press Writer LIMA, Peru (AP) Alan Garcia, Peru's youthful president, was viewed as Latin America's brightest political star after taking office three years ago, but today his nation is mired in its worst economic crisis of the century. Garcia's reputation is in tatters, and the country's fragile democracy appears increasingly vulnerable to a military coup. Since Garcia imposed the harshest austerity program in Peru's history in early September, some critics have gone so far as to demand his resignation, and he reportedly has considered stepping down. More ominously, many public figures are warning of the growing danger of a military takeover. Cesar Hilderbrandt, editor of the independent news magazine Si, wrote in a recently published open letter to Garcia: ``You know, just as other officials of your government do, that a coup d'etat is inevitable if the political and economic climate of today continues to devastate the country,'' Peru's armed forces seized power in 1968 and ruled until 1980. They returned to the barracks under heavy public accusations that their leftist policies brought on economic mismanagement. The 39-year-old Garcia's approval rating among Peru's 21 million people has plunged from an incredible 96 percent during his first months in office to 16 percent in late October, according to the respected polling firm Apoyo. When he took over, the 6-foot-3 Garcia, leader of the populist Aprista Party, was called ``the president of hope'' by his followers, most of them impoverished mountain peasants or inhabitants of Lima's sprawling shantytowns. Nowadays he is accused of being a demagogue, of implementing impetuous, irresponsible policies that have brought economic ruin to the nation, and of failing to curtail the Shining Path movement, whose eight-year guerrilla war has claimed more than 12,000 lives. Mario Vargas Llosa, the renowned novelist who is expected to be the presidential candidate of a center-right coalition in the 1990 election, recently described Garcia as ``the charismatic young man responsible for Peru's most incompetent and ruinous government of the century.'' What has Peruvians most upset is the country's unprecedented runaway inflation, provoked, economists agree, by the government's uncontrolled spending, which has spawned a huge fiscal deficit equivalent to 16 percent of the gross domestic product. Consumer prices soared by 114 percent in September, as much in one month as all of last year. Inflation is expected to exceed 1,000 percent by year end. Having eaten up the country's hard currency reserves to finance a consumer-hinged economic recovery program and having cut itself off from fresh foreign loans, the government is close to bankruptcy. It has had to resort to selling the Central Bank's gold bullion to pay import bills, but now that is gone. Finance Minister Abel Salinas said recently the economy would shrink by at least 6 percent this year after growing 8.5 percent in 1986 and 7.0 percent in 1987. The harsh austerity measures, which included increases in food prices of more than 200 percent and a devaluation of nearly 90 percent, brought economic activity to a halt. Only four new cars were sold in the country in September because of tax increases that doubled car prices, with the least expensive Volkswagen model now costing $26,000. Beer sales were down 90 percent from August. From early September until mid October, Garcia did not leave the inner confines of the Government Palace for 34 straight days, except on one occasion to watch the changing of the guards from the front entrance. That single, fleeting appearance was interpreted by commentators as a gesture to dispel rumors he was no longer in charge of the government. Garcia was reported to have tried to present his resignation to his Cabinet before the unpopular austerity package was imposed and to have offered the job to Luis Alberto Sanchez, his 88-year-old, blind vice president. Sanchez said later that he told Garcia, ``I was elected vice president to collaborate with you, not to take your place.'' Political analysts say Garcia's recent behavior has given the impression of a dangerous power vacuum that feeds the fears of a military takeover. ``Even the least informed citizen knows, or senses, that there cannot be a power vacuum in politics. He also knows that in Peru power vacuums are always filled by the military,'' Manuel d'Ornellas, editor of the opposition newspaper Expreso, wrote in a recent column. A senior government official told The Associated Press that the military high command did, in fact, meet to consider overthrowing Garcia during his self-imposed confinement to the palace. ``The president was passing through a period of depression that worried the military,'' the official said, speaking on condition he not be identified. Having suffered in the past under long spells of military rule, Peru's political leaders have been outspoken in demanding that the armed forces not be provoked into seizing power again. ``Nothing would be more tragic for Peru than a military coup,'' writer Vargas Llosa said. ``Peru's isolation from the international community would be aggravated even further.'' AP881102-0010 AP-NR-11-02-88 0003EST r w PM-UrbanSchools 11-02 0510 PM-Urban Schools,520 Cities Set Up `Grow Your Own' Teacher Programs By NANCY BENAC Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) Urban school districts faced with tight budgets and serious teacher shortages are devising innovative local solutions such as ``grow your own'' programs to create more educators, a private study shows. The Council of the Great City Schools, in a report released Tuesday, said big cities are especially short of minority teachers and instructors in specialized areas. For the 45 districts included in the study, 70 percent of students were minorities, compared with 32 percent of the teaching force. ``The sad truth is that most new teachers would rather teach anywhere other than a large city,'' the study said. ``Black teacher education students possess no more inclination to teach in large cities than white candidates.'' The study, ``Teaching and Leading in the Great City Schools,'' said teacher shortages are four times higher in urban areas than elsewhere in the country and could quadruple by 1992 in the biggest cities. Yet the council, a coalition of 45 of the largest urban school districts in the country, chose to highlight how cities are meeting the challenge rather than dwelling on the problems they face. ``We want to make clear that although the needs of urban areas are critical, the situation is not without hope,'' said the report. ``We are moving ahead, with or without the additional funding, because we cannot afford to wait.'' The study said major increases in financing are needed to meet the challenges confronting urban schools, but that ``these obstacles are not stopping urban districts from experimenting with many approaches, using the funds available to them.'' Council Executive Director Sam Husk said of the report: ``One of the most exciting (approaches) seems to be the `grow your own' philosophy.'' While Philadelphia offers non-professional school district employees a teacher's salary while they train for teacher certification, San Diego reaches out to its large supply of local military retirees and offers special certification programs for retired Navy personnel who have bachelor's degrees in math or science. New York City, in need of bilingual teachers, sends recruiters on regular visits to Spain and the Dominican Republic and has established two permanent recruitment offices in Puerto Rico. Under the minority intern program in Omaha, Neb., students at the University of Nebraska receive a stipend to spend 15 to 20 hours a week in elementary and secondary classrooms tutoring youngsters and shadowing teachers and administrators. Houston has a magnet high school which prepares college-bound students from various ethnic backgrounds for a teaching career. In California, Fresno's ``special friends'' program teams high school students who are interested in teaching with elementary school children who need special attention. In Rochester, N.Y., the school district offers a 12-step salary scale to bring teachers' pay in line with other professions. The urban schools also reported new programs to hold on to existing teachers by improving morale and working conditions, to increase the skills of teachers and administrators, and to enhance cooperation between the teachers and other school officials. AP881102-0011 AP-NR-11-02-88 0008EST r w PM-NuclearWaste 11-02 0499 PM-Nuclear Waste,490 Governors To Meet With Feds To Discuss Nuclear Waste Disposal By BRYAN BRUMLEY Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) Top Energy Department officials will meet with the governors of Colorado, Idaho and New Mexico this month to discuss ways of disposing of radioactive wastes from weapons facilities. Waste disposal is one of many problems that have beset the department's nuclear weapons complex, forcing four facilities to partially close and virtually halting the production of atomic arms. Idaho governor Cecil Andrus took credit Tuesday for forcing the issue by blocking his state's borders last month to a rail car loaded with radioactive wastes. Andrus said Tuesday that because he ``turned up the heat,'' his state was no longer being asked to shoulder the burden and that he would ask federal officials ``for concrete evidence they are moving forward'' on ways to solve the disposal problem. ``Now we are getting support from sources that might have been content to sit back in the past and let Idaho take the heat,'' Andrus told reporters in Boise. Energy Secretary John S. Herrington asked the three governors to meet in Salt Lake City on Nov. 16 with a team headed by his chief deputy, Joseph Salgado, to discuss how to dispose of defense wastes until the department can open its planned Waste Isolation Pilot Plant near Carlsbad, N.M. Andrus and Govs. Roy Romer of Colorado and Garrey Carruthers of New Mexico said they would attend but that the date might shift. ``It's important to New Mexico to get this thing resolved,'' Carruthers said through spokesman Don Caviness. Romer said through his press secretary Cindy Parmenter that he would take part, but described the Nov. 16 date as tentative. The situation became critical last month when Andrus turned away a steel-lined boxcar loaded with low-level radioactive waste. He declared the Idaho National Engineering Laboratory off-limits for further waste storage and said that if Energy Department officials ``can't handle the waste, they shouldn't be generating it.'' The rail car, loaded with 140 drums each containing 55 gallons of waste, ended up at a siding at the department's Rocky Flats Plant near Denver. The Colorado governor allowed the boxcar to park at Rocky Flats, but asked department officials not to unload it and turned down their request to expand waste storage facilities there. The government had planned to open the New Mexico facility last month, but was delayed because Congress failed to pass legislation to transfer the land from the Bureau of Land Management to the Energy Department. Low-level radioactive material would be buried 2,000 feet underground in salt deposits at the New Mexico site. Rocky Flats, the Argonne National Laboratory near Chicago, and the Lawrence Livermore Laboratory in Livermore, Calif., have been shipping radioactive rags, machines parts, gloves, liquids and other debris to the Idaho site, where an estimated 2 million cubic feet of the waste is stored below ground and 2.4 million cubic feet is stored above ground in steel barrels. AP881102-0012 AP-NR-11-02-88 0008EST r w PM-SavingsBonds 11-02 0170 PM-Savings Bonds,170 Interest Rate On Savings Bonds Rises To 7.35 Percent WASHINGTON (AP) U.S. savings bonds will earn interest at a rate of 7.35 percent over the next six months, the government has announced. The new rate, which took effect Tuesday, is up from a rate of 6.90 percent that was effective from May 1 to Nov. 1. Jerrold B. Speers, executive director of the savings bond program, called the new rate ``highly competitive with other savings and investment instruments'' and said it should help boost bond sales in coming months. The new rate is the highest since savings bonds earned 8.36 percent from November 1985 through May 1986. Interest on savings bonds is adjusted twice a year on May 1 and Nov. 1, to reflect open market interest rates. The rate is based on 85 percent of the yield on five-year Treasury securities, which have averaged 8.65 percent over the past six months. The total value of bonds held by the public now exceeds $107 billion. AP881102-0013 AP-NR-11-02-88 0014EST r p PM-ElectionWeek Advisory 11-02 0421 PM-Election Week, Advisory Editors Managing Editors Political Editors Here is an early look at AP's day-by-day tentative story menu for election week. All plans tentative of course. SUNDAY of Nov. 6: AM-Election Rdp, by David Espo. AM-Campaign Narrative, by Robert Barr, a 50-state overview of interesting races. Will move in advance. AM-Campaign Analysis, by Donald M. Rothberg. AM-TV Campaign, by Jill Lawrence. AM-Congress Rdp, by Jim Drinkard. A look at Senate and House races. AM-Propositions Rdp, by Lee Mitgang. AM-Bush. Spot coverage from the campaign trail, By Tom Raum. AM-Dukakis. Same, by William Welch. AM-Bentsen. Same, by Steven Komarow. AM-Quayle. Same, by Eileen Putman. AM-Elections-At-A-Glance. MONDAY PMs of Nov. 7: PM-Election Rdp, by Rothberg. PM-Campaign Analysis, by Jonathan Wolman. PM-Getting Out The Vote, by Putman. Candidates working to bring out the vote on Election Day. PM-Presidential Polls, by Gary Langer. PM-Senate Rdp, by Lawrence Knutson. PM-House Rdp, by Alan Fram. PM-Governors Rdp, by Peter Brown. PM-Propositions Rdp. PM-TV Campaign. PM-Bush. Spot coverage from the campaign trail, by Rita Beamish. PM-Dukakis. Same, by John King. PM-Bentsen. Same, by Komarow. PM-Quayle. Same, by Putman. TUESDAY PMs of Nov. 8: PM-Election Rdp, by Rothberg. PM-Campaign Analysis, by Walter R. Mears. PM-Election Notebook, vignettes from several symbolic campaign stops on the eve of the election. PM-Senate Rdp, by Knutson. PM-House Rdp, by Fram. PM-Governors Rdp, by Brown. PM-Propositions Rdp. PM-Election Night TV. The networks' plans. PM-Bush, by Beamish. Bush votes in Houston and awaits returns. PM-Dukakis, by King. Votes in Boston and awaits returns. PM-Bentsen, by Komarow. Awaits returns in Austin. PM-Quayle, by Putman. Votes in Indiana and returns to Washington. PM-Reagan, by Susanne Schafer. Awaits returns at the White House. WEDNESDAY PMs of Nov. 9 PM-ELN--Election Rdp, by Rothberg. PM-ELN--Analysis, by Mears. PM-ELN--Winners and Losers. The thrill of the victors, the agony of those defeated. Vignettes from election night. PM-ELN--Senate Rdp, by Knutson. With PM-ELN--New Senator Profiles. PM-ELN--House Rdp, by Fram. PM-ELN--Governor Rdp, by Brown. With PM-ELN--New Senator Profiles. PM-ELN--Exit Polls, by Christopher Connell. PM-ELN--Propositions Rdp, by Marty Steinberg. PM-ELN--Women-Minorities, by Nancy Benac. PM-ELN--Bush, by Beamish. PM-ELN--Dukakis, by King. PM-ELN--Bentsen, by Komarow. PM-ELN--Quayle, by Putman. PM-ELN--Reagan, by Schafer. Separates on each of the 50 states and District of Columbia. Thursday PMs PM-Election Rdp, by Rothberg. PM-Election Analysis. PM-The Transition. PM-President Profile. With PM-First Lady Profile. PM-Vice President Profile. With PM-Veep Wife Profile. PM-Loser Goes Home. Where does the loser go now? PM-Senate Rdp, by Knutson. PM-House Rdp, by Fram. PM-Legislatures Rdp. The AP AP881102-0014 AP-NR-11-02-88 0018EST r i PM-UN-Population 11-02 0456 PM-UN-Population,0471 Surpassing U.S., Nigeria Will Be Fourth Most Populous Nation By 2025 By PETER JAMES SPIELMANN Associated Press Writer UNITED NATIONS (AP) Nigeria's surging birth rate will triple its population by 2025, making it the world's fourth most populous country after China, India and the Soviet Union, a new U.N. study predicts. The ``U.N. World Population Chart _ 1988'' predicts that 25 years into the third millennium Nigeria will have 301.3 million people, surpassing the United States' 300.7 million. The west-central African nation was the world's 10th most populous in 1985, with 95.1 million people. Undersecretary-general Rafeeuddin Ahmad, introducing the study at a news conference Tuesday, said Africa's population is growing faster than that of any other continent: ``The populations of Asia and Latin America are growing more moderately than Africa's, and of course in many countries in Europe, the population growth is almost stationary. ``Each woman in the world has, on the average, 3.4 children. That is the total fertility rate. The number for Africa is 6.2, and it is around 3.5 in Latin America and Asia,'' he said. Kenya and Rwanda have fertility rates of more than eight children per woman, according to the chart. ``In contrast, women in Europe and North America have 1.7 to 1.8 children, a number not sufficient to replace the existing population in the long run,'' Ahmad said. He said Africa's high birth rate offsets a life expectancy of only 52 years, compared with an average of 60 for developing countries as a whole and 73 for industrialized nations. ``Aging is bound to become a very important issue in governments both in the developed and developing countries in coming years,'' said Ahmad. By the year 2025, China will have an estimated 1.49 billion people, and India 1.44 billion. The Soviet Union is expected to have 351.4 million. The 6th through 10th most populous nations in 2025 are expected to be Pakistan, with 267 million; Indonesia, 257.7 million; Brazil, 245.8 million; Bangladesh, 234. 9 million; and Mexico, with 150 million people. Currently, West Germany, Italy, Britain, France, and Spain rank in the 25 most populous countries. By 2025, France is expected to be the only West European nation in the top 25, holding the 24th rank with 60.4 million people. The world's population was 5.1 billion in mid-1988 and will reach 6 billion in 1998. By 2025, it is expected to hit 8.46 billion. Population has been growing at a rate of about 1.7 percent since the mid-1970s, a rate that will remain steady until the mid-1990s, then steadily decline to below 1 percent by 2025, said Ahmad. The Population Division of the U.N. Department of International Economic and Social Affairs prepared the data for the chart. AP881102-0015 AP-NR-11-02-88 0020EST r i PM-Ireland-Haughey 11-02 0115 PM-Ireland-Haughey,0118 Prime Minister Out of Hospital DUBLIN, Ireland (AP) Prime Minister Charles Haughey has been discharged from a Dublin hospital, where he spent more than two weeks for treatment of a severe respiratory infection, the government said. Haughey, 63, was admitted to the Mater hospital Oct. 14. Discharged Tuesday, he was not expected to resume full duties until later this month, said a government spokesman who declined to be named. Earlier this year, Haughey was hospitalized for kidney stones, a problem that recurred while he was undergoing treatment for respiratory infection. Haughey heads the Fianna Fail party and was elected to his third term as Taoiseach, or prime minister, in February 1987. AP881102-0016 AP-NR-11-02-88 0022EST r p PM-CampaignLabels Bjt 11-02 0953 PM-Campaign Labels, Bjt,940 WASHINGTON TODAY: Dukakis' Conversion Risky Nine Days Before Election AP News Analysis By WALTER R. MEARS AP Special Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) Michael Dukakis & Co. should have seen it coming. A campaign with a clear game plan could have dealt in advance with the troublesome liberal label it first shunned and now has claimed as its own. It might have defined the label in its own way instead of leaving the Republicans leeway to write the campaign definition. Political labeling often has become a problem for presidential candidates in both parties. The tag that has hurt most reads ``liberal.'' Those who could fought back by enforcing the right to tell voters what the term meant. And if that bit of history weren't warning enough, George Bush had told the Democrats he was coming at them on ideology. Dukakis' late conversion is risky. The safer time to define a candidate and his philosophy is by midsummer, not midautumn, nine days before the voters choose a president. The Massachusetts governor had tried to position himself as a candidate for whom ideology wouldn't count. His organization saw to it that the Democrats adopted a brief, vague party platform, in marked contrast to the book-length catalogue of promises the party had issued four years earlier. Bush insisted that ideology was an issue, and when the Democrats left him the opening, he proceeded to define the word ``liberal'' to mean someone who is soft on crime, soft on national defense, likely to spend too much money and therefore force higher taxes. He then proceeded to attach the word to Dukakis. An NBC News-Wall Street Journal poll reflects the impact. Four surveys, the latest in mid-October, show a steady progression in the number of likely voters who consider Dukakis too liberal to be a good president, to 37 percent, up 11 points from midsummer. After weeks of resisting the liberal description, and after complaining about Bush's use of the tab in nationally televised debate, Dukakis shifted on Sunday and proclaimed that he is indeed a liberal, ``in the tradition of Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman and John Kennedy.'' He said that means working for the average American, helping those who need help, and at the same time, paying the government's bills. His problem is that Bush has had most of the campaign to hammer at his definition of the term, insisting that it puts Dukakis out of the American mainstream. ``This election isn't about ideology,'' Dukakis told the Democratic National Convention in accepting his nomination on July 21. ``It's about competence.'' That statement is more often quoted than the telling counterpointing Bush supplied in his own acceptance speech. ``... Competence is a narrow ideal,'' the vice president said. ``Competence makes the trains run on time but doesn't know where they're going. Competence is the creed of the technocrat .... ``The truth is, this election is about the beliefs we share, the values we honor, the principles we hold dear.'' Bush was trailing in the public opinion polls at that point, by margins similar to those that now read in his favor. The rhetoric of August foretold a big part of the campaign strategy that has reversed the odds. Bush tells his campaign rallies that beliefs and values are behind his differences with Dukakis on such matters as prison furloughs and a requirement that teachers lead pupils in reciting the Pledge of Allegiance. ``The liberal governor of Massachusetts,'' Bush says over and over again, disagrees with him. The fiercest battles over political labeling often have come during struggles for presidential nomination, not afterward. Bush says Dukakis claimed liberal credentials when he needed them to win Democratic primaries, on his way to the nomination, and then tried to move to the middle. That kind of positioning isn't unusual; it is done in both political parties. Indeed, over the course of his career, Bush has done some of it himself. When he ran for the GOP nomination in 1980, he was cast as a moderate Republican against the conservative who won _ Ronald Reagan. When he lost a Senate seat 10 years earlier in Texas, it was as a relatively liberal Republican, beaten by a Democrat who outflanked him on the right on some issues. The Democrat was Lloyd Bentsen. And when Reagan turned to Bush for the vice presidential nomination in 1980, a good many GOP conservatives were outraged. They knew Bush by his resume and by his reputation; if he'd run against Reagan he must be out of the party's liberal wing. He wasn't. But to victorious conservatives _ the ones who later complained that Reagan was acting pragmatically _ any moderate was suspect. The Republican labeling war was fiercest in 1964, with former Sen. Barry Goldwater, conservative, in one corner and the late Nelson A. Rockefeller, liberal, in the other. ``Liberal'' wasn't a popular word in GOP circles then or now, so Rockefeller defined himself as a mainstream Republican. Goldwater's conservatives won the battle and lost the war to Lyndon B. Johnson's Democratic landslide. From that day, liberal Republicans chose to designate themselves as moderates. While Dukakis likened his liberalism to men like Roosevelt, Truman and Kennedy, he sidestepped when asked if he also was in the liberal tradition of such Democrats as George McGovern and Walter Mondale, both liberals, both big losers. Maybe he should have tried the formula described by George Romney, an early loser in the contest for the 1968 GOP nomination: ``I'm as conservative as the Constitution, as liberal as Lincoln and as progressive as Theodore Roosevelt,'' he said. ___ EDITOR'S NOTE Walter R. Mears, executive editor of The Associated Press, has covered presidential campaigns since 1960. AP881102-0017 AP-NR-11-02-88 0034EST r p PM-RegionalAds Bjt 11-02 0932 PM-Regional Ads, Bjt,940 Candidates Target Key Electoral States with Specialized Ads By JILL LAWRENCE Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) Democrat Michael Dukakis is running television ads that tout his home ownership plan and trash his rival's trade record, but only for the benefit of viewers in the key electoral state of Ohio. The Ohio campaign, aimed at stretched working families, is one of several specialized televisin and radio appeals mounted by Dukakis and Republican George Bush in states critical to their presidential ambitions. The crossfire has been particularly heavy in California, Texas and Ohio, and in states with large Hispanic voter populations. A blitz of state-specific advertising is expected in the few days before the election, with New York, New Jersey, Illinois and Pennsylvania among the candidates for a final fusillade. One of the premier battlegrounds is California, with 47 electoral votes and an electorate deeply concerned about the environment. Bush jumped on that concern early, trying to alarm voters with the specter of Boston's polluted harbor. ``Michael Dukakis says he wants to protect our environment. But the EPA called Boston Harbor the dirtiest waterway in America,'' says an ad for the vice president. ``And now, Michael Dukakis says he wants to do for America what he's done for Massachusetts. California can't take that risk.'' Variations on the spot are also running in New Jersey and Washington. Dukakis, the Massachusetts governor, is countercharging in California that Bush's administration cut funds to clean up the state's coast _ from San Francisco to Southern California in one ad, from San Diego Harbor to San Francisco Bay in another. The ads say Bush opposed a crackdown on polluter corporations, twice supported a veto of the Clean Water Act and end by saying, ``That's why the non-partisan League of Conservation Voters has endorsed Michael Dukakis.'' California Democrats have been among the most active in the nation in creating their own ads. The state party is running two vote-Democratic ads hitting the GOP record on education and the environment, as well as three ``Dukakis is on your side'' spots taped last week at a raucous Dukakis rally in Los Angeles. ``I want an America that's in charge of it's own future,'' the candidate says in one of the rally ads. ``We're going to have clean air, and clean water, and clean coasts, and a clean government in Washington, D.C.'' Texas, with 29 electoral votes, is another state under media siege. Dukakis trotted out his running mate, popular Texas Sen. Lloyd Bentsen, in an early spot stressing Bentsen's lead role in passing plant-closing legislation and again more recently in an ad called ``Partnership.'' ``I've been fighting to build a future for Texas and the nation. I now have a strong partner in that fight, and he's Mike Dukakis,'' says Bentsen. ``I know him, and you know me. We're going to put America first.'' In the latest ad featuring Bentsen, the Democratic candidate accuses the Republicans of running a negative campaign and warns voters that the GOP is ``trying to scare you with some phony issues.'' Another Dukakis ad accused Bush of failing to help Texas when it was in the throes of the oil-business collapse. ``When a quarter of a million Texas jobs were lost, where was George?'' the ad asks. ``When 192 Texas banks closed, and 23,000 Texas businesses failed, where was George?'' For his part, Bush called on retired U.S. Air Force Gen. Chuck Yeager to instill fears about the safety of the state's 300,000 defense-related jobs should Dukakis be elected. Yeager, the first man to break the sound barrier, says in the ad that ``liberal Democrats'' advocating defense cuts would put those jobs at risk. Dukakis also ran two Texas commercials to counter a Bush TV attack on his furlough program and a National Rifle Association radio assault on his gun control stands. One Dukakis spot says Bush voted for gun control while in Congress and Dukakis ``supports gun ownership by hunters and sportsmen.'' The other says Dukakis ``took action and changed'' the furlough program and reduced crime by 13 percent in his state. The economic populist pitch Dukakis has adopted in the final days of his campaign emerged two weeks ago in Ohio, which has 23 electoral votes, in ads tailored to appeal to ``working families'' insecure about their economic futures. ``Michael Dukakis stands up for working families. How? Home Start, a program to give families a chance to buy their first home,'' an announcer declares in one Ohio spot as images of construction sites, tree-lined streets and the Massachusetts governor roll by. ``No new bureaucracies, no red tape ... For America's working families, Michael Dukakis for president.'' Another Ohio spot shows viewers the Japanese flag and says Bush returned from Japan ``saying our trade relationship was superb. Superb for Japan, maybe. Superb for Japanese workers. But bad news for American working families.'' The American flag waves as the announcer concludes, ``Michael Dukakis stands up to foreign competition. Keep American jobs in America. Michael Dukakis for president.'' Both candidates are seeking Hispanic votes via TV and radio stations in states with large Hispanic populations, Texas foremost among them. Bush is using an ad featuring his Mexican daughter-in-law, Columba, and his three Hispanic grandchildren. The ad _ in both English and Spanish versions _ currently is airing in Texas and New York. Dukakis is running TV spots on education, crime control and his immigrant heritage on two national Hispanic networks, Univision and Telemundo. The commercials end with the Spanish-speaking governor addressing viewers and a tagline that says ``he speaks our language.'' AP881102-0018 AP-NR-11-02-88 0032EST r a PM-People-Feinstein 11-02 0120 PM-People-Feinstein,0123 Pianist Has Busy Schedule NEW YORK (AP) First President and Mrs. Reagan. Then Britain's queen mother. Michael Feinstein will perform at the White House on Nov. 16 for the president's final state dinner. The cabaret singer and piano player will entertain for British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and guests at the 55th state dinner of Reagan's administration. The next day, Feinstein flies to London where he will appear Nov. 21 in the Royal Variety performance at the London Palladium. The queen mother and other members of the royal family are expected to attend. Feinstein, whose Broadway concert closes this weekend at the Booth Theater, will begin a national tour, beginning in Los Angeles in late November. AP881102-0019 AP-NR-11-02-88 0037EST r p PM-MontanaSenate 11-02 0654 PM-Montana Senate,650 Pastoral Politics Marks Montana Senate Campaign With PM-Political Rdp Bjt By MIKE DENNISON Associated Press Writer HELENA, Mont. (AP) Montanan John Melcher is using pastoral politics in his fight to retain his U.S. Senate seat and prevent Conrad Burns from becoming the state's first Republican senator since 1952. ``Every election some greenhorn runs against Doc Melcher,'' says a talking cow in one Melcher campaign ad. ``They come in thinking they can put Doc out to pasture.'' ``But they leave with egg on their faces, and even worse on their shoes,'' chuckles another cud-chewing bovine. Melcher, a veterinarian and two-term senator, holds a double-digit lead over Burns in recent state polls, but the Republican county commissioner from Billings is waging a spirited challenge. ``I just think John Melcher is completely out of step with the majority of Montanans,'' says Burns, who has been hammering away at his opponent as ``too liberal'' and an ineffective member of the Senate. The liberal accusation is nothing new for Melcher, who was targeted for defeat by the National Conservative Political Action Committee in 1982. He responded with TV ads that featured talking cows ridiculing NCPAC as a herd of city-slickers trying to fool Montanans about ``old Doc Melcher.'' Earlier this year, Burns picked up on the theme, warning voters that Doc Melcher's cows would be ``spreading real bull'' this election. In response, the incumbent senator again trotted out his campaign cows. Melcher, 64, a senior member of the Senate Agriculture Committee, portrays himself as a fighter who stands up for family farmers, workers and Montana's basic industries _ timber, mining and agriculture. In 1985, he fought Reagan administration attempts to reduce price supports for grain, cotton and rice. ``If what I get done is beneficial, then that's how I should be judged,'' he says. ``There are very few people in Congress who understand what the West is all about.'' Melcher is also considered something of a maverick. He was one of only two senators who voted against the Omnibus Drug Bill of 1986, one of only three who opposed the 1986 tax overhaul bill, and one of only three who voted against the U.S.-Canadian trade agreement this year. Melcher received high ratings from many liberal groups, but he has voted with conservatives on several key issues. He opposed the Panama Canal treaty in 1978, supported Reagan's 1981 tax cuts and the balanced-budget law and is a staunch opponent of abortion. Burns, 53, operated a farm-and-ranch broadcasting service until he ran for commissioner in Montana's largest county in 1986. He upset the Democratic incumbent, and announced earlier this year he would take on Melcher. ``There's quite a bit of dissatisfaction here in the state of Montana,'' he says. ``I don't think we can stand six more years of the same.'' folksy, personable campaigner, Burns has been barnstorming the state, meeting voters door-to-door. He says his outgoing, friendly style will be more effective in the Senate than Melcher's ``obstructionist'' tactics. But Burns' media campaign carries a strident tone, labeling Melcher as soft on drugs, crime, and defense, and describing him as a big-spending liberal who likes to raise taxes. Some of Burns' advertising was prepared with help from the Republican Senatorial Campaign Committee, which helped recruit him as a candidate and considers him one of the GOP's best shots at knocking off an incumbent Senate Democrat in 1988. Burns' Montana managers have denied suggestions that the national committee is calling the shots for the campaign, but say the assistance is welcome and needed to offset Melcher's 2-to-1 advantage in campaign funds. Despite polls showing him behind, Burns is convinced he has a chance. He says his agricultural background will help him cut into Melcher's power base in eastern Montana, which Melcher represented in Congress for 7{ years. ``I think it's going to be tighter than a new pair of shoes,'' Burns says of the election. AP881102-0020 AP-NR-11-02-88 0040EST r w PM-AcidRain 11-02 0568 PM-Acid Rain,560 Administration Returns To Court On Acid Rain Issue By GUY DARST Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) The Reagan administration is again in court defending its refusal to do anything about acid rain in Canada, while at the same time it has signed a new international accord limiting one of acid rain's main constituents. The Environmental Protection Agency said the accord signed Tuesday in Sofia, Bulgaria, by agency administrator Lee M. Thomas means ``no additional regulatory actions are required'' by the United States against oxides of nitrogen. These combustion products become acid rain in the atmosphere and help form urban smog. One of them is responsible for the color of the ``brown cloud'' that hangs over smoggy cities such as Los Angeles. Lawsuits were filed Tuesday in the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia seeking to force the EPA to require states to revise their air pollution control plans to eliminate damage to Canada. This is the same question that the plaintiffs, the Canadian province of Ontario, the Izaak Walton League and the Sierra Club Legal Defense Foundation, lost in a previous court round. Though the EPA under the Carter Administration had declared that acid rain originating in the United States was harming Canada, the court ruled that such a declaration was not enough to force the states to act. Formal EPA regulations are required, the court said. The EPA has argued that not enough is known about acid rain to draw up a control program. ``We cannot afford to hold our breath waiting for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to wake up and smell the sulfur,'' Ontario environment minister Jim Bradley told the provincial legislature in announcing the new lawsuit. The major component of acid rain in the eastern United States and Canada is sulfuric acid formed from sulfur dioxide emitted by utility and factory boilers. The New York state attorney general's office said it was preparing a renewal of a related suit on behalf of New York, New Jersey, Minnesota and the six New England states. In Bulgaria, the United States joined a nitrogen oxides annex to the United Nations-sponsored treaty on Long-Range Transboundary Air Pollution. In negotiation, the United States sought a 20 percent credit against emissions limits to compensate for reductions in U.S. emissions that had not yet been matched by European countries. In a compromise, the negotiators chose a ``pick your limit'' requirement. Emissions in any year through 1987, the particular year chosen by each signing country, will be the limit in the 1990s. In addition, the annual average for the period 1987-1996 may not exceed 1987 emissions. For the United States, this amounts to about a 5 percent credit. Nitrogen oxides peaked in 1978 at 22.4 million tons and are now about 20.3 million tons. Forty-four percent comes from transportation, mostly motor vehicles, and a little under half from boilers. Though new cars emit only a quarter of the nitrogen oxides that they did in the 1960s, travel has grown so much that total emissions are declining only slowly, and EPA expects the total to turn up again in about 1995, reaching 20.2 million tons in 2000. The United States refused to sign an earlier sulfur dioxide agreement pledging 30 percent emissions reductions. It said that would be unfair since U.S. emissions have fallen by a much larger amount than those in European countries. AP881102-0021 AP-NR-11-02-88 0042EST r a PM-S&LTroubles 11-02 0450 PM-S&L Troubles,450 Economists Says S&L Losses For Summer Were Sharply Lower By DAVE SKIDMORE Associated Press Writer HONOLULU (AP) Losses by the nation's savings industry dropped sharply last summer as the government transferred to its own books billions of the industry's accumulated red ink, a government economist said. Final figures for the July-September quarter aren't due out until next month, but James Barth, chief economist of the Federal Home Loan Bank Board, said Tuesday that the nation's 3,048 S&Ls lost about $2 billion. That's substantial, but it's down significantly from losses of $3.6 billion in the previous quarter and $3.9 billion in the first three months of this year. S&Ls, hard hit in depressed oil regions of the Southwest, are suffering their worst year since the Depression. The industry last earned a small profit in the first three months of 1987. Barth, speaking at the U.S. League of Savings Institutions annual convention, attributed shrinking losses to regulators' stepped-up pace of S&L rescues and closings, totaling 137 so far this year. ``Losses, rather than being reported on the books of the institutions, are being transferred to the books of the (deposit) insurance fund,'' he said. Also, because most of the rescue packages guarantee restructured institutions against future loss as well as taking away past loss, there is no way of telling from industry numbers if losses in those institutions are continuing. R. Dan Brumbaugh, a private analyst and former bank board economist, said the new loss number does not necessarily indicate the cost of cleaning up the S&L mess, estimated by regulators at $45 billion to $50 billion, is getting better. ``I would say the problem continues to grow,'' he said. Moreover, he said, thrift institutions, as well as commercial banks, are more vulnerable now to an economic downturn than at any time in 50 years. ``We have fragile institutions ... that could get significantly worse even in a mild recession,'' Brumbaugh said. Jerry L. Jordan, chief economist of First Interstate Bancorp in Los Angeles, said thrifts next year likely also face a one-half percentage point increase in long-term interest rates and a full point increase in short-term rates. Higher rates make it more expensive for thrift institutions to acquire funds for lending. Thrift institutions in the past have struggled to remain profitable during periods of rising rates, but James W. Christian, chief economist of the U.S. League, said currently solvent institutions would remain stable because rates on about a third of the loans they hold fluctuate with the market. However, Barth warned that insolvent institutions in Texas, where much of the industry's losses are concentrated, would be twice as endangered by higher interest rates as solvent S&Ls. AP881102-0022 AP-NR-11-02-88 0042EST r i PM-Turkey-Rights 11-02 0619 PM-Turkey-Rights,0636 Amnesty: Turkish Government Has As Poor A Rights Record As Military By MICHAEL WEST Associated Press Writer LONDON (AP) Turkey's civilian government has as bad a human rights record as its military predecessor, torturing parents in front of their children as part of a widespread campaign against political opponents, Amnesty International said today. The London-based human rights organization said in a report that torture continued against suspected opponents despite the government's signing in August of the U.N. Convention Against Torture. Amnesty said it has reports that five Turkish prisoners, including a 13-year-old diabetic boy, died after torture in the first half of 1988. The victims, Amnesty said, were among more than 250,000 Turks arrested for political reasons since 1980. Several thousand political prisoners were still held, it added. Amnesty said it has received more than 20 reports of prisoners being tortured since Turkey ratified the U.N. convention. ``Torture continues, despite Turkey having signed and ratified the United Nations Convention,'' the report said. ``Torture is widespread. Anyone arrested for political reasons is at grave risk ... Young men and women are tortured in front of each other. Parents are tortured in front of their children. Women held hostage for their husbands are tortured.'' The report said torture methods include electric shocks, kickings, beating on the soles of the feet, sexual assault, suspension by wrists or ankles, and deprivation of food, drink and sleep. Amnesty spokeswoman Daphne Davies said copies of the report were being sent to tour operators offering vacations in Turkey ``to give them a full picture.'' The report said that under the elected government that took over in 1983, political prisoners were still being tried by military courts. It said state security courts, intended to replace military justice, did not conduct fair trials. The preceding military regime had seized power in a 1980 coup. Of the political prisoners, Amnesty said ``some were convicted for no more than expressing their opinions, many others because they confessed to crimes of which they were innocent to escape the agony of torture.'' ``Most of these prisoners did not receive a fair trial. Some were sentenced to death. Today almost 200 people await a decision on whether they will go to the gallows,'' the report added. Among individual cases, Amnesty said Ibrahim Cicek, a member of the banned Revolutionary People's Union, said in a letter from prison that he and two friends were doused with water and made to hold hands at an Istanbul police station in October 1987. Then an electric current was turned on, passing through each of them and resulting in what he described as ``a choir of screams.'' The report said the diabetic teen-ager, Emin Ozkaya, died in hospital in January after detention at a police station in Finike, in southwest Turkey. Immediately after the military coup, violence between rival political groups decreased but human rights abuses worsened, the report said. ``Tens of thousands of men and women were taken into custody. More than 30,000 were jailed in the first four months after the coup. During the following years, Amnesty International received thousands of allegations of torture including reports of over 100 deaths as a result of torture,'' the report said. ``People from most sectors of... society were put on trial, teachers for their lessons, writers for their books, journalists for articles they had written, trade unionists for organizing workers, Kurds for separatist activities, religious leaders for their sermons, students for attending seminars. Even lawyers have been arrested and imprisoned for defending their clients,'' it said. Amnesty said its sources of information include victims, their relatives, lawyers, journalists and medical, legal and human rights aassociations with which it established contact during fact-finding visits to Turkey. AP881102-0023 AP-NR-11-02-88 0045EST r w PM-CheckCashing 11-02 0494 PM-Check Cashing,490 Low-Income Might Benefit From Changed Payments System By HARRY F. ROSENTHAL Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) Low-income recipients of government benefits often are victims of a Catch-22: because they can't afford bank accounts, they must pay high check-cashing fees _ even though the checks are backed by Uncle Sam, says a new study. The study by the General Accounting Office says it might be better if the money were made available to the recipients through electronic transfer rather than by paper checks. Some consumer groups have advocated that banking institutions be forced to cash government checks from non-customers, but the GAO study released Tuesday suggests other ways. ``Use of electronic funds transfer technology, for example, has been cited as a way to solve check-cashing problems by bringing more government check recipients into the banking system,'' the study said. ``Its use could also lower government costs and reduce banking institution concerns about check forgeries and long lines in their lobbies. Current technology can also make benefits available through use of plastic cards at automatic teller machines and point-of sale outlets.'' The agency also suggested Congress require government departments to work out a government-wide way of better delivery of benefits to recipients as well as saving money. The GAO said 17 percent of the 92.9 million families in the United States did not have banking accounts in 1985 and 56 percent of those had incomes below $10,000 a year. To cash Social Security or other checks these people often turn to 3,000 mostly unregulated outlets, which charge check-cashing fees. The GAO believes that maintaining a low-cost banking account is less expensive than using many check-cashing centers. While such an account would cost up to $4 or more a month, the GAO said, check-cashing centers usually charge more. ``For example, the Consumer Federation of America found that on average, check cashers charged $8.47 to cash one $500 government check,'' the study said. ``Even in New York, New Jersey, and Illinois, where check-cashing center fees are regulated, cashing one $500 government check costs between $3.85 and $7.50.'' Requirements that banks cash government checks for non-customers and provide low-cost checking accounts for poor people was part of a proposed restructuring of the nation's financial system that died in Congress last month. The restructuring foundered because of a jurisdictional dispute between two House committees. The GAO says no definitive information exists on why some families don't have bank accounts but that the reasons include costs, including minimum balance requirements, asset limits in welfare rules, mistrust of banking institutions, lack of mathematical and reading skills, inconvenient bank hours and account-opening requirements that require identification with a major credit card. As for banks, they said they should not be required to cash checks for non-customers because of costs, including providing extra tellers on certain days, and ``the presence of large numbers of individuals in banking institution lobbies the few days a month when government checks are received.'' AP881102-0024 AP-NR-11-02-88 0047EST r w PM-FarmScene 11-02 0844 PM-Farm Scene,850 Farm Export Volume Expected To Decline This Fiscal Year By DON KENDALL AP Farm Writer WASHINGTON (AP) Higher prices point to another increase in the value of U.S. agricultural exports in the 1989 fiscal year that began Oct. 1, but an Agriculture Department analysis says the actual volume of shipments is expected to decline. Exports of feed grains _ corn, sorghum, oats and barley _ could decline by a much as one-tenth during the fiscal year, the report said. Wheat shipments are more uncertain. Overall value of farm exports in the 1988 fiscal year that ended Sept. 30 has been estimated by USDA at $34 billion, up from $27.9 billion the year before. The volume is estimated at 146 million metric tons, up from 129.2 million tons the previous year. ``The volume of U.S. wheat exports (in 1989) is expected to fall at least through May,'' the report said. Looking at corn and the other ``coarse'' grains, the department's Economic Research Service said that ``substantial U.S. corn stocks and expanding import demand probably will hold the fiscal 1989 decline in coarse grain export volume to around 10 percent.'' Higher prices, however, will more than offset the decline in volume, meaning a greater export value. For soybeans, higher market prices ``may about match decreases in volume'' in 1989, resulting in ``little change in value'' from 1988, the report said. The report did not include a forecast of 1989 export values and volume. Those are scheduled for release by the agency on Nov. 29, including preliminary figures for 1988. But the analysis, written by economist Stephen MacDonald, said the 1989 export volume ``may decline because the drought has raised prices by reducing supplies of grains and oilseeds. However, export value may rise as higher prices and continued strong exports of high-value products offset lower volume.'' The report added that ``healthy economic growth overseas'' will help keep exports of high-value products such as meat, fruits and vegetables at current levels. ``In the past two years, U.S. agricultural exports have grown roughly 30 percent in value and volume,'' the report said. ``The U.S. share of world agricultural trade value has rebounded from 1986's 12 percent _ the lowest in over 25 years _ towards its long-term average of 16 percent. Higher prices for grains, oilseeds and other bulk products have been partly responsible.'' The report said that most of the rebound came from a greater volume of exports. ``A drop in support prices, the lower valued dollar, and increased use of the Export Enhancement Program (subsidies) raised the U.S. share of trade in bulk agricultural products from 35 percent in the 1985-86 crop year to 45 percent in 1987-88,'' the report said. ``During 1988-89, the U.S. share probably will fall somewhat, but it should remain above 1985-86.'' WASHINGTON (AP) This year's drought is expected to reduce 1988 production of dry beans by 25 percent to the lowest level in five years, says an Agriculture Department report. Also, the drought ``had a substantial impact'' on the output of snap beans, sweet corn, and green peas for processing as crops withered in Wisconsin, Minnesota, Michigan and Illinois. The report issued Tuesday was a brief summary of a forthcoming larger review. Other highlights of the U.S. vegetable situation this season and in 1987 included: _Potato production will decline this year despite good crops of winter and spring varieties. Summer and fall crops were hurt severely by the drought. In 1987, by contrast, record high yields and larger acreage pushed the total potato harvest up 7 percent to 385 million hundredweight. _Per capita use of all commercially produced vegetables dropped 1.4 pounds to an average of 325 pounds in 1987, with consumption of fresh vegetables and potatoes declining for the first time since 1981. _Lettuce and tomatoes, which account for 45 percent of fresh vegetable use, each declined in use last year, caused partly by disease-reduced yields in Calfornia lettuce and poor tomato yields in many minor producing states. _Vegetable imports grew 9 percent in 1987 to 4.9 billion pounds, with 86 percent of the increase in fresh vegetables and potatoes. _The value of production for the 10 major fresh vegetables rose 7 percent in 1987, due mainly to higher prices for lettuce, onions and tomatoes. The nine major processing vegetables increased 1 percent in value, mostly because of higher prices for snap beans, sweet corn and asparagus. WASHINGTON (AP) Agriculture Secretary Richard E. Lyng says two U.S. agricultural trade and development missions will visit four African countries in 1989. One of the missions will visit Algeria and Tunisia. The other will go to the Ivory Coast and Kenya, he said Tuesday. No dates have been set for the visits. The missions will include representatives from USDA, State Department and Agency for International Development, plus a number from the private sector. Congress authorized the missions program in 1987 to help boost U.S. agricultural farm trade and development. So far, three missions have visited five countries _ Philippines, Indonesia, Hong Kong, Singapore and Mexico. AP881102-0025 AP-NR-11-02-88 0048EST r w PM-Homeless-Pentagon 11-02 0643 PM-Homeless-Pentagon,640 Government Resisting Homeless Effort To Use Surplus Plot Near Pentagon By JAMES ROWLEY Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) Construction workers who camp out in parks are eying a plot of prime ``excess'' government land near the Pentagon that is technically eligible for consideration as a site to shelter the homeless. The Northern Virginia Union for the Homeless, which represents the homeless construction workers and their families, wants to use the land as a campsite and eventually would like to acquire it to build low-income housing. The situation has sent federal officials on a frantic search for surplus government land that would be a suitable alternative to the site near the Pentagon. The 14.2 acres of land that is estimated to be worth millions of dollars contains grassy areas and parking for 1,000 cars. The parcel was identified by the homeless group as the only plot of ``excess'' federal land in the Washington area. The General Services Administration says the property is slated to be used for possible expansion of the Pentagon and won't be considered as a site to build low-income housing. The dispute pits the Reagan administration against a group of workers who migrated to Washington from economically depressed places such as West Virginia and Oklahoma to find work in the area's booming construction market. Unable to afford hojudge ruled Sept. 30 that property classified as ``excess'' must be considered as possible sites to shelter the homeless under homeless legislation passed last year by Congress. U.S. District Judge Oliver Gasch ordered GSA to identify all underutilized government property that could be converted into shelters for the homeless. He ruled that ``excess'' property fell into that category as well. GSA spokesman Dale Bruce conceded that the Pentagon site falls into the category described in the judge's order. ``The only point we can make on that is this is a very unique situation. There are no other properties we are aware of across the country that fall into this category. It really shouldn't be on there.'' The land was first listed ``in excess'' in 1966 by the Federal Highway Administration following completion of interstate road construction. Since then, the Navy has leased the property to provide parking for employees at an office building near the Pentagon, Bruce said. The site has been on the list ever since, even though GSA was supposed to canvass other government agencies to find another use or decide it should be declared surplus property. ``Each year it has been repermitted over to the Navy,'' Bruce said. The land is now part of the Pentagon's master plan for use as the site for more Defense Department offices, he said. ``This is simply on that list out of a technicality. We are trying to do everything possible to identify optional sites for the homeless which would hopefully serve the same purpose in the Northern Virginia area,'' Bruce said. Ms. Aikens said government officials have appeared nervous at two negotiating sessions. ``Given the fact that the property has been in excess for 22 years and nobody seems set to use it,'' she said, ``they are pretty afraid of what a court might say if a question were put in front of a judge.'' AP881102-0026 AP-NR-11-02-88 0050EST r w PM-PruneBook 11-02 0536 PM-Prune Book,530 Ex-government Officials List 100 Toughest Jobs Laserphoto WX7 By JOAN MOWER Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) In picking people to run the new president's administration, transition aides can lean on suggestions in The Prune Book, a compilation of the 100 toughest jobs in Washington. The book includes anecdotes from people who have held the powerful policy and management positions in the various agencies and lists the qualifications deemed necessary for the jobs. ``These jobs are the Mount Everest of anyone's career,'' said Frank Weil, a former assistant secretary of commerce who worked with the Center for Excellence in Government to produce the book. Here are some things transition teams should look at, according to those who have held the positions. _The assistant secretary of state for African affairs needs stamina: he spends about 25 percent of his time on the road and has a grueling social schedule wining and dining African officials. _The undersecretary of state for management needs a thick skin: ``This is a job where you do not make anybody happy,'' said Ronald Spiers, who has held the post since 1983. _The assistant secretary of agriculture for marketing and inspection services should like reading government rules. And learning Spanish is a good idea: he deals regularly with people from Central America. _The CIA's general counsel should be a ``smart, savvy lawyer who's been around,'' one former occupant said. The book, released to coincide with the transition to a new administration, was written by John Trattner, a former State Department spokesman in the Carter administration. The center, which sponsored the project, recruited teams of former government officials who culled the lists of political positions to select the toughest 100 jobs. All the positions require Senate confirmation. The book's title is a play on words on the government's ``plum book,'' which lists political jobs at the start of every new administration. ``A prune is an older, wiser plum,'' Weil said. The next president could have as many as 6,000 jobs to fill in a federal civilian bureaucracy that totals about 2.1 million. Trattner said the next president could jeopardize his administration by selecting the wrong people for the 100 toughest jobs. ``The people in this small group are the critical actors in the life of any administration,'' he said. While government pay is not as high as that in the private sector, many of the jobs are similar to those held by chief executive officers of large corporations. Trattner said two of the most important positions in the 1990s will be the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency and the undersecretary of defense for acquisition, the person in charge of procurement. Both jobs involve complicated issues and intersect with private industry and Capitol Hill, he said. Since the top pay is no higher that $89,900, many people must take a cut in salary to enter government. But that doesn't seem to deter applicants, some of whom see government service as a star on their resume, Weil said. Officials at the center also said they don't think strict post-employment ethics guidelines will dampen enthusiasm for government service. ``Few people have any problems on the other side of the revolving door,'' he said. AP881102-0027 AP-NR-11-02-88 0051EST r w PM-Shoreham-NRC 11-02 0390 PM-Shoreham-NRC,380 New York State Appeals Decision To Grant Power License for Nuke Plant By KIM I. MILLS Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) New York state and the Long Island county of Suffolk are appealing a Nuclear Regulatory Commission staff recommendation that the Shoreham nuclear plant be allowed to operate at 25 percent of capacity, a lawyer says. Lawrence Lanpher, an attorney representing the county, said Tuesday that the appeal argues Shoreham should not be permitted to operate at any power level greater than 5 percent. The $5.4 billion nuclear reactor was completed in 1984 but never opened. On Monday, the NRC staff submitted a report recommending that the commission's director of nuclear reactor regulation ``be authorized to issue a 25 percent of rated power license for Shoreham.'' The staff based its conclusion on a safety evaluation report, also written by NRC staff, which found that ``the risk and consequences of accidents are greatly reduced at 25 percent power as compared to full-power operation.'' The license recommendation now goes to a three-judge panel of the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board, an arm of the NRC. If the board reaches the same conclusion as the staff, the matter still must be approved by the full commission before a 25 percent power license can be granted. NRC spokesman John Kopeck said there was no timetable for the matter to be resolved. The reactor has had a 5 percent testing license since 1985. Full-power licensing became stalled over the refusal by state and local governments to participate in emergency planning. They contend the area around Shoreham could not be safely evacuated. Lanpher said the staff report failed to quantify the reduction in risk at 25 percent of power as compared to full power. ``In fact, they talked in that report about how dangerous radiation could still spread out to 10 miles and beyond if there were an accident,'' he said. ``So we think this confirms the fact that (the Long Island Lighting Co.) cannot be authorized to operate at 25 percent power in advance of having an approved emergency plan.'' But Jim Lois, a Long Island Lighting spokesman, said the utility was pleased by the finding. ``This supports our belief that the plant can operate safely as we continue to find ways to bring much-needed energy to Long Island,'' he said. AP881102-0028 AP-NR-11-02-88 0055EST r a PM-BannedBooks 11-02 0366 PM-Banned Books,0377 High School Students Barred From Books on Witchcraft ROME, Ga. (AP) Students at East Rome High School can't find books on witchcraft on shelves at their school library, and they must have parental permission to take out other ``controversial'' books, school officials said. The policy, which was adopted a few years ago by the school's media committee, does not apply to any other high school in the city or Floyd County, and two members of the school board want it reviewed. The media committee is made up of the principal, librarian and some teachers, parents and students. One school board member said the East Rome policy amounts to unnecessary censorship. ``What we are doing is preventing certain books from hitting the eyes of certain students,'' said Sandra Jones. ``I just think it's so dangerous. It's horrifying.'' Ms. Jones said her 17-year-old son, a student at East Rome High, had received her permission last year when he sought to check out a book on witchcraft from the school library. A guidance counselor contacted her anyway, saying school officials decided not to allow her son to check out the book. ``They took the book off the shelf and would not let him check it out,'' Ms. Jones said. ``How better can we get kids focusing in on witchcraft and satanism than to tell them they can't read about it?'' Certain other books _ such as ``The Color Purple'' by Alice Walker, which includes descriptions of incest and lesbianism _ may be taken out only with parental consent. Ms. Jones said she feels her son should be allowed to read the books he chooses. ``Let him read a book. Praise God he wants to read a book,'' she said. ``I had no problem with my son checking out the book.'' East Rome librarian Vivian Strain explained that the school does have provisions for some controversial books, but there are some books ``we just plain don't buy.'' ``We try not to have controversial materials,'' she said. Ms. Jones said the school board has not addressed the high school's book policy because only two members agreed it should be on the agenda, and four are required. AP881102-0029 AP-NR-11-02-88 0031EST u i BC-DuchessofYork 11-02 0282 BC-Duchess of York,0289 Security Man Drags Fergie To Safety As Ship Cable Snaps PERTH, Australia (AP) A security man dragged the Duchess of York to safety Wednesday when a steel cable tying her husband's warship to the wharf snapped, narrowly missing the couple, officials said. The potentially serious accident occurred as Sarah stood chatting on Fremantle Port's Victoria Quay, with Prince Andrew, who was on a lower deck of his ship HMS Edinburgh. The 2-inch steel hawser, which helped secure the ship to the dock, snapped with a crack toward the bow of the guided-missile destroyer and snaked back along the ship's side. A television reporter said the duchess was less than 10 feet away and a detective with Sarah, hearing the noise, grabbed her by the arm and pulled her back from the side of the dock as the steel rope went past. ``It was pretty close,'' said a dock worker. Channel 7 television said Prince Andrew and other crew members ducked for cover as the cable smashed into the ship's hull. It said Andrew appeared angry at the incident and had ``stern words'' with an enlisted man. The couple soon recovered their composure and waved white handkerchiefs at each other as the ship sailed out on schedule. The duchess was to leave for London later Wednesday after a visit that came under strong criticism from British newspapers over her decision to leave her newborn daughter at home in the care of a nanny. The duchess encountered controversy after extending an official 10-day bicentennial visit by another four weeks while she followed her husband around to various ports. Prince Andrew is expected back in Britain on Dec. 16. AP881102-0030 AP-NR-11-02-88 0109EST r p PM-WhichBush 11-02 1018 PM-Which Bush,1,000 Which Bush? Moderates, Conservatives Wait and Wonder With PM-Political Rdp Bjt By TOM RAUM Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) Republican conservatives and moderates argue among themselves over just what political stripes George Bush would wear if he wins the White House next week, and some recent campaign utterances aren't making the labeling job any easier. Speaking at the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Ind., on Tuesday, the vice president talked for the first time of the kind of judges he would pick, if elected, for prospective Supreme Court vacancies. ``I will appoint moderate persons of conservative views,'' Bush declared. And, while he went on to fault what he called the ``excessive judicial activism of the '60s and '70s,'' his statement appeared designed to send a calming message to moderates that he would not appoint doctrinaire right wingers to the bench _ while at the same time allowing him to flash once more his credentials as a conservative. The Notre Dame remarks _ in which Bush seemed to be having it both ways _ underscore what many analysts view as Bush's split political personality. Would he follow through as the designated heir to Ronald Reagan's brand of conservatism? Or would he revert to the moderate Bush of yore who favored the Equal Rights Amendment, opposed a constitutional ban on abortions and dismissed Reagan's 1980 proposal for tax cuts as ``voodoo economics?'' Both sides are keeping their fingers crossed. ``Basically, he's more moderate than his image has been of recent years,'' says Rep. James Jeffords, R-Vt., a GOP moderate. ``I think some of the more conservative issues that President Reagan has brought to the forefront _ like abortion _ will be more on the back burner with George Bush. ... That's what we're hoping.'' On the other hand, David Carmen, a political consultant who was a key adviser to conservative Rep. Jack Kemp, R-N.Y., says of Bush: ``He's actually run to the right of Reagan on some issues, like abortion and so-called family issues. I think he'll be a conservative president.'' Bush, never accused of ideological rigidity, was a Goldwater Republican in 1966 when he was first elected to Congress, a Rockefeller Republican in 1980 when he first sought the presidency and a Reagan Republican ever since. Views are mixed on just how moderate or how conservative a Bush presidency would be. ``There's plenty evidence for either interpretation,'' said William Schneider, a political analyst for the American Enterprise Institute. ``The moderates think he's one of them: `Good old George, we've known him for years.''' ``But he's also been running a tough ideological campaign, going down the line conservative on all the major social issues, hitting all the hot buttons.'' ``He's going to have to choose which George Bush he is _ the kinder, gentler Bush or one who says, `Read my lips.' He can't keep on doing this forever,'' Schneider added. Many Bush watchers suggest that, if elected, his presidency is more likely to resemble the middle-of-the-road policies of former GOP Presidents Nixon and Ford than the ideological conservatism of Reagan or the more liberal wing of the party represented by the late Nelson Rockefeller. Still, Brent Scowcroft, who was national security adviser in the Ford administration and is now a Bush consultant on international issues, says the vice president is likely to be a ``Rockefeller Republican in foreign policy.'' ``Tough, hardheaded, no illusions, more or less power-politics oriented, with somewhat of less ideological content,'' Scowcroft said in an interview. Bush, in campaign speeches, has signaled a keen interest in negotiating further nuclear arms reduction pacts with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, seems less committed than Reagan to going full speed ahead with the ``Star Wars'' strategic defense shield, and has emphasized negotiating cuts in East-West conventional armies in Europe. On domestic issues, Bush has taken up the conservative banner and waved it, coming out strongly against gun control and in favor of the death penalty, urging a ban on abortions, talking repeatedly of the Pledge of Allegiance in classrooms and criticizing the American Civil Liberties Union. But, at the same time, Bush has argued for stronger protection of the environment, has called for an increase in the minimum wage _ if accompanied by a lower minimum for young workers _ and has proposed a tax credit that could be used for day care. In addition, the men Bush has surrounded himself with _ and who appear to be in line for key Cabinet posts in a Bush administration _ tend to be moderates, many of them from the East. They include former Pennsylvania Gov. Dick Thornburgh, now the attorney general; Nicholas Brady, a former New York investment banker who is now the treasury secretary; former Treasury Secretary and longtime friend James A. Baker III, former deputy Treasury Secretary Richard Darman and Harvard economist Martin Feldstein. ``It's looking like it's going to be an Eastern Establishment administration,'' said Richard Viguerie, a conservative direct-mail specialist. If Baker, who practiced a brand of non-ideological pragmatism both as Reagan's first-term chief of staff and as treasury secretary, were to become secretary of state in a Bush presidency, as is widely assumed, that would complicate life even further for conservatives, Viguerie said. ``Jim Baker over the years rejected confrontation with liberals. It would make a Bush administration much more in tune with the Nixon administration, and we're concerned about that. We're apprehensive.'' Still, Viguerie, echoing sentiments of other Republicans of various political persuasions, says he doesn't want to be a naysayer. ``I'm concerned about being negative at this point. I want him to have a massive landslide. And then, the day after the election, is when conservatives will speak out loud and clear.'' Rep. Jim Leach, R-Iowa, a GOP moderate, says he expects Bush to be staunchly conservative on budget issues ``in terms of restraining spending,'' but more progressive on other domestic matters. ``He's made it clear he will give a greater priority to day care, will be more environmentally sensitive. Bush doesn't wear progressiveness on his sleeve but is very likely to get substantial results,'' Leach said. AP881102-0031 AP-NR-11-02-88 0110EST r a PM-Names 11-02 0937 PM-Names ,0978 Names in The News LaserPhoto NY14 LONDON (AP) Koo Stark, a New York-born actress who had a much-publicized relationship in 1982 with Prince Andrew, sued for libel damages from a weekly newspaper that said she secretly dated the prince after her marriage. Ms. Stark said Tuesday the December 1985 report in Sunday People was untrue and spoiled her hopes of reconciliation with her husband, Timothy Jefferies, who had left her the previous month after 16 months of marriage. Sunday People owner Robert Maxwell has denied her allegations. Ms. Stark, 32, made a new career as a stage actress and as a photographer after her friendship with Prince Andrew, second son of Queen Elizabeth II, cooled early in 1984. The prince married Sarah Ferguson in July 1986. NEW YORK (AP) Financier Carl Icahn says his Children's Rescue Fund will join the city in a $14 million plan to helped disadvantaged children. At a news conference Tuesday, Icahn and Mayor Edward I. Koch said it would include construction of a building for 65 dwelling units to be used as transitional housing and the creation of group homes and agency-operated boarding homes with a total of 102 beds. Icahn, chairman of Trans World Airlines and Icahn & Co. Inc., said he got involved in such a project because ``I've always felt it's an outrage what's happening to the children in this city, to the abused children and the wayward children.'' CHICAGO (AP) Heavy-metal rocker Ozzy Osbourne is offering a $1,000 reward to the person who has his lost briefcase containing his personal phone book and British passport, a spokeswoman said. Without the passport, Osbourne was having a tough time returning to his native England, Shelley Wiseman, a spokeswoman for Osbourne in Los Angeles, said Tuesday. ``They're trying to work that part out,'' she added. Osbourne, known for his wild stage antics and use of occult imagery, was in Chicago on Monday night to appear on the syndicated radio show ``Rockline.'' ``It just disappeared at some point,'' Ms. Wiseman said of the briefcase. ``He doesn't know at what point he lost it, or whether it was stolen.'' LOS ANGELES (AP) Christina Crawford says the abuse she received from critics over her shocking portrayal of her mother, Joan Crawford, was almost as bad as the childhood mistreatment she suffered at the hands of the screen idol. ``When the attacks began, I experienced the same sense of invalidation I'd had as an abused child,'' Ms. Crawford, 49, said in a recent interview. ``But this time, I was determined to fight back.'' In her new book, ``Survivor,'' Ms. Crawford attacks her critics, who called her first book, ``Mommie Dearest,'' bitter and vindictive. Ms. Crawford's adopted sister denied tales of abuse and called her sibling ``a person born with evil.'' The new book also talks about Ms. Crawford's work with the Los Angeles County's Commission for Children's Services and the battle for creative control over ``Mommie Dearest.'' NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) ``Mr. Guitar'' Chet Atkins says the Country Music Association was ``tacky and disrespectful'' for failing to present him with his musician of the year award on national television last month. The award was the ninth such honor for Atkins, but the presentation was not made as part of the live, two-hour show broadcast Oct. 10 on CBS. ``I think that they forgot what the initial `M' stands for in CMA,'' he said Tuesday. ``If it weren't for the musicians and the melody writers, it would be the `CPA' _ Country Poets Association.'' Ed Benson, associate executive director of the Nashville-based association, said the program was designed to show off songs and performers as well as announce the award winners. ``It was a decision to play to the audience as much entertainment as we can in a two-hour show,'' he said. BRIGHTON, England (AP) Actor Laurence Olivier is ``quite fit'' after being discharged from a hospital where he underwent blood tests during the weekend, a hospital spokesman said. Laurence Evans, the 81-year-old actor's agent, said the routine tests at Royal Sussex Hospital in Brighton were made because of a kidney operation last year and there was no cause for alarm about the actor's health. Olivier lives in Brighton with his wife, actress Joan Plowright. He took his title, Baron Olivier of Brighton, from the resort. Eds: Versions of the following items moved on sports wire. LOS ANGELES (AP) Fleet-footed Olympic gold medalist Florence Griffith Joyner was greeted by thunderous applause from the studio audience as she made her acting debut on the NBC television comedy series ``227.'' Griffith Joyner, 28, winner of three gold medals and one silver medal in track and field at the Summer Games in Seoul, South Korea, said she may turn her new experience into a career in television and the movies. FloJo, as the fastest woman in the world is better known, played herself in an episode taped Tuesday night for later telecast on NBC. ``I'm very excited,'' she said in an interview. ``I'm learning a lot. I'm learning the business.'' DETROIT (AP) Earvin ``Magic'' Johnson of the NBA champion Los Angeles Lakers will serve as grand marshal of the Michigan Thanksgiving Day Parade in Detroit, organizers say. The Lansing native, who led Michigan State to the National Collegiate Athletic Association basketball championship in 1979, will ride on a special float based on the theme ``Magic,'' organizers said Tuesday. Johnson will fly to Detroit in a private jet provided by a parade sponsor after the Lakers play in Miami on Nov. 23. AP881102-0032 AP-NR-11-02-88 0035EST u a PM-NielsensList 11-02 0523 PM-Nielsens List,0590 List of Week's Top-Rated TV Shows Eds: FOX and year-to-date rankings not available. With PM-Nielsens NEW YORK (AP) Here are the prime-time television ratings as compiled by the A.C. Nielsen Co. for the week of Oct. 24-30. Top 20 listings include the week's ranking, rating for the week, and total homes. A rating measures the percentage of the nation's 90.4 million TV homes. 1. ``The Cosby Show,'' NBC, 26.2 rating, 23.7 million homes. 2. ``Cheers,'' NBC, 24.4, 22.1 million homes. 3. ``A Different World,'' NBC, 23.3, 21.1 million homes. 4. ``60 Minutes,'' CBS, 23.2, 21.0 million homes. 5. ``Devil Worship,'' NBC, 21.9, 19.8 million homes. 6. ``NFL Monday Night Football: San Francisco vs. Chicago,'' ABC, 21.4, 19.3 million homes. 7. ``Golden Girls,'' NBC, 21.2, 19.2 million homes. 8. ``Roseanne,'' ABC, 20.6, 18.6 million homes. 9. ``Growing Pains,'' ABC, 20.5, 18.5 million homes. 10. ``Dear John,'' NBC, 19.8, 17.9 million homes. 11. ``David'' _ ``ABC Movie Special,'' 19.5, 17.6 million homes. 11. ``Murder, She Wrote,'' CBS, 19.5, 17.6 million homes. 13. ``Who's the Boss?'', ABC, 19.2, 17.4 million homes. 14. ``Head of the Class,'' ABC, 18.8, 17.0 million homes. 15. ``ALF,'' NBC, 18.5, 16.7 million homes. 16. ``Empty Nest,'' NBC, 18.4, 16.6 million homes. 17. ``A Stoning in Fulham County'' _ ``NBC Monday Night Movies,'' 18.3, 16.5 million homes. 18. ``Night Court,'' NBC, 17.8, 16.1 million homes. 19. ``Hunter,'' NBC, 17.6, 15.9 million homes. 20. ``Dallas,'' CBS, 17.4, 15.7 million homes. 21. ``Knots Landing,'' CBS, 17.3 22. ``Family Ties,'' NBC, 16.0. 23. (14) ``Favorite Son,'' Part 1, _ ``NBC Sunday Night Movie,'' 15.9. 24. (26) ``Commando '' _ ``ABC Sunday Night Movie,'' 15.4. 25. ``Midnight Caller,'' NBC, 15.2. 26. ``L.A. Law,'' NBC, 14.8. 26. ``Tattinger's,'' NBC, 14.8. 28. ``Amen,'' NBC, 14.6. 29. ``Full House,'' ABC, 14.5. 30. ``Day By Day,'' NBC, 14.4. 31. ``Falcon Crest,'' CBS, 14.1. 31. ``20-20,'' ABC, 14.1 31. ``Paradise,'' CBS, 14.1. 31. ``Unsolved Mysteries,'' NBC, 14.1. 35. ``Wonder Years'' ABC, 13.9. 36. ``227,'' NBC, 13.4. 36. ``Perfect Strangers,'' ABC, 13.4. 38. ``Crimes of Passion,'' ABC, 13.2. 38. ``Mr. Belvedere,'' ABC, 13.2. 40. ``Newhart,'' CBS, 13.0. 41. ``Wiseguy,'' CBS, 12.8 41. ``Just the Ten of Us,'' ABC, 12.8. 41. ``Wonder Years'' ABC, 12.8. 44. ``Mission: Impossible,'' ABC, 12.6. 45. ``Dumbo'' _ ``Magical World of Disney,'' NBC, 12.3. 46. ``Garfield Halloween Special,'' CBS, 12.1. 47. ``Indiscreet'' _ ``CBS Monday Movie,'' 12.0. 48. ``The Equalizer,'' CBS, 11.9. 49. ``Pancho Barnes'' _ ``CBS Tuesday Movies,'' 11.7. 50. ``Coming of Age,'' CBS, 11.6. 51. ``Dadah is Death,'' Part 1, _ ``CBS Sunday Movie,'' 11.3. 52. ``MacGyver,'' ABC, 10.5. 53. ``Charlie Brown Special: This Is America,'' Part 2, CBS, 10.3. 54. ``Miami Vice,'' NBC, 10.2. 55. ``Dirty Dancing,'' CBS, 9.8. 56. ``Annie McGuire,'' CBS, 9.7. 57. ``Incredible Sunday,'' ABC, 9.5. 58. ``48 Hours: Who's Watching the Kids,'' CBS, 9.3. 59. ``West 57th,'' CBS, 9.1. 60. ``Police Story,'' ABC, 9.0. 60. ``Something Is Out There,'' NBC, 9.0. 60. ``Van Dyke Show,'' CBS, 9.0. 63. ``Sonny Spoon,'' NBC, 8.3. 64. ``Scandals,'' ABC, 8.0. 65. ``Simon & Simon,'' CBS, 7.6 65. ``World Model Search,'' ABC, 7.6. 67. ``Making of a Model,'' ABC, 6.8. AP881102-0033 AP-NR-11-02-88 0112EST r a PM-Nielsens 11-02 0419 PM-Nielsens,0431 `Cosby,' `Cheers' Lead Nielsens Again By KATHRYN BAKER AP Television Writer NEW YORK (AP) NBC's ``Cheers'' started off its seventh season in second place, right behind ``The Cosby Show,'' and season premieres finally outnumbered reruns in the weekly A.C. Nielsen Co. ratings. The highest-rated new show last week was NBC's ``Tattinger's'' which won its time period on Wednesday night and tied for 26th place in the rankings. Despite critics' complaints of tastelessness, the Geraldo Rivera special ``Devil Worship: Exposing Satan's Underground'' ranked fifth with a rating of 21.9 and a 33 share. Each rating point represents 904,000 homes with televisions. The share is a percentage of sets in use. The sitcoms ``Roseanne'' on ABC and ``Dear John'' on NBC continued in the top 10 and were looking more and more like the first new hits of the season. Last week's top 10 prime-time shows were: ``The Cosby Show,'' ``Cheers,'' and ``A Different World,'' all NBC; ``60 Minutes'' CBS; ``Devil Worship'' NBC; ``Monday Night Football'' ABC; ``Golden Girls'' NBC; ``Roseanne'' and ``Growing Pains'' ABC; and ``Dear John'' NBC. NBC won the week with an average rating of 16.4. ABC was second with 13.7 and CBS third with 12.8. CBS didn't fare well with new shows from Mary Tyler Moore and Dick Van Dyke. Moore's ``Annie McGuire'' had a 9.7 and 15 share and ranked 57th, barely above ``The Van Dyke Show'' in the bottom 10, 63rd out of 68 rankings with a 9.0 and 14. CBS also had little success with the one-hour premiere of ``Dirty Dancing,'' based on the hit movie, though its 56th place 9.8 and 18 is better than CBS has been doing in the Saturday time period. CBS' ``Paradise,'' a Western starring Lee Horsley that goes up against the NBC Thursday lineup, ranked 32nd. The highest-rated movie of the week, in sixth place, ABC's ``David,'' was the compelling real-life story of the little boy whose father severely burned him. Next highest was NBC's ``A Stoning in Fulham County'' at 17th. Part one of NBC's political thriller ``Favorite Son'' won the Sunday night movie battle, narrowly edging ABC's theatrical, ``Commando.'' They ranked 24th and 25th, respectively. The first part of CBS' ``Dadah Is Death,'' about a young man sentenced to die for drug smuggling in Malaysia, was 53rd. ABC's ``World News Tonight'' nudged the ``CBS Evening News'' to win the news ratings. ABC had a 10.7 and 21 share, CBS a 10.5 and 20 share. ``NBC Nightly News'' had a 9.8 and 20. AP881102-0034 AP-NR-11-02-88 0119EST r a PM-CircleofFriends 11-02 0361 PM-Circle of Friends,0367 Commune Leader Stole Student Money, Prosecutors Say MORRIS TOWNSHIP, N.J. (AP) Former members of a commune will testify in the conspiracy trial of the group's leader that he plotted to obtain illegal student loans to prepare for the world's economic collapse, prosecutors say. Opening arguments began Tuesday in the trial of George G. Jurcsek, and his lieutenant Mary O'Rourke. The pair, both of Mocksville, N.C., were charged in May 1987 with conspiracy and theft by deception. Former members of the Circle of Friends testified at a grand jury hearing that the commune was a tightly controlled group led by Jurcsek, whose main purpose was allegedly to defraud the state student loan agency and several credit card companies out of more than $150,000. On Tuesday, deputy state Attorney General John M. Fahy told the Superior Court jury that Jurcsek and Ms. O'Rourke controlled about 32 Circle of Friends members who applied for about 64 guaranteed student loans. Fahy said Jurcsek's hold on the group, which was based in nearby Randolph and was comprised mostly of young women, was based on his preaching of economic doom and of the inevitable collapse of the world economy by the turn of the century. In grand jury testimony that has been made public as a result of pretrial motions, several government witnesses described Jurczek, a 68-year-old Hungarian immigrant, as a man bent on leading the world after the collapse. ``He presented himself as a mystic and a psychic who has the ability to foresee the future,'' said Barbara Edwards, a former member who testified for the government. ``We considered ourselves students and he our teacher.'' Another former member, Diane Desiderio, said she participated in the fraud schemes because Jurcsek taught her ``that possession was nine-tenths of the law'' and that when the world economy failed it would be better to have money no matter how it was obtained. Defense attorneys for Jurcsek and Ms. O'Rourke tried to discredit the government's case as one based on hearsay. The witnesses, the attorneys said, were either embittered because they left the group or were simply cooperating with authorities to obtain immunity from prosecution. AP881102-0035 AP-NR-11-02-88 0119EST r i PM-MissCanada 11-02 0204 PM-Miss Canada,0212 Miss Canada Winner Is First Mixed-Race Titlist Eds: Dollar figure U.S. TORONTO (AP) Juliette Powell, of St. Laurent, Quebec, becoming the first mixed-race contestant to be crowned Miss Canada, said her victory is proof multiculturalism thrives in Canada. The 18-year-old Miss Laurentians was among 46 candidates from across Canada who competed in the 42nd annual contest, which was televised live nationally. ``I'm proud to be the first mulatto (winner) and I will gladly serve as a role model for both white and black Canadians,'' she said in a telephone interview after Tuesday's ceremony. Ms. Powell said, ``The title has nothing to do with politics ... I don't see Miss Canada as a political figure. I see it as someone who represents Canada and its people.'' Ms. Powell was born in New York City but moved to Canada as a child and now holds dual citizenship. She is a part-time model and a second-year commerce student at Vanier College in St. Laurant. The first runner up was Kari Lee Hudson, Miss Toronto. Ms. Powell was given about $100,000 in cash and prizes including a new car and mink coat. She will represent Canada in the Miss Universe pageant next May. AP881102-0036 AP-NR-11-02-88 0119EST r w PM-D'Amato-Judgeships 11-02 0584 PM-D'Amato-Judgeships,580 Sources Say D'Amato Put Hold on Republican Judicial Nominee By KIM I. MILLS Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) The nomination of Stuart A. Summit, a Park Avenue lawyer and a Republican, to a judgeship on the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals was blocked in the final days of the last Congress by Sen. Alfonse D'Amato, R-N.Y., sources said. Summit, a partner with Summit, Rovins & Feldesman, received the unanimous approval of the Senate Judiciary Committee in September after several hearings. But his nomination never reached the Senate floor, and a source on Capitol Hill and another familiar with the nomination said it was D'Amato who put a hold on it. D'Amato did not return numerous phone calls over several weeks seeking comment. On Tuesday his spokesman, Ed Martin, declined comment when asked whether D'Amato blocked Summit. Traditional ``senatorial courtesy'' allows a senator to put a hold on a judicial nomination, which effectively kills it. The identity of the senator is usually kept secret. D'Amato's action was ironic since it came on the heels of complaints from GOP senators that Democrats had held up 25 of their judicial nominees for more than a year. In retaliation, Republicans blocked floor votes on key pieces of legislation until a compromise could be reached. Eleven of those nominees were then approved and sent to the floor, but Summit never crossed the finish line. Summit said in a telephone interview Tuesday he had heard rumors for some time that his nomination was blocked but did not know for sure that D'Amato was responsible. ``If it is true, I'm amazed,'' he said. ``I cannot imagine why.'' Summit said he had put in at least three calls to D'Amato to find out if the report were true but D'Amato had not called back. On Tuesday, Summit said he had given up trying. Summit's nomination was engineered in large part by Arnold Burns, his former law partner who at the time was the No. 2 official at the Justice Department. But Summit lost his champion when Burns resigned from Justice last spring to protest then-Attorney General Edwin Meese's ethical problems. Summit said he understood that Attorney General Dick Thornburgh had tried to intervene on his behalf. Summit, who seemed baffled by the politicization of his nomination, noted that D'Amato had even spoken at his confirmation hearings. ``He very kindly attended the hearing in April of 1988 and spoke well of my credentials,'' Summit said. D'Amato's motives in blocking the nomination are unclear. The New York Law Journal and Manhattan Lawyer, two legal journals in New York City, have reported that D'Amato held up Summit in retaliation for the Judiciary Committee's treatment of two candidates he had recommended for the Eastern District benches: State Supreme Court Justices Robert Roberto Jr. and Howard E. Levitt, both of Long Island. Roberto, a former prosecutor, withdrew in June after the Judiciary Committee learned he had engaged in a sex act with a 16-year-old prostitute while investigating a massage parlor in 1971. Roberto claimed his action was necessary for conviction and noted that he had testified about it in open court during prosecution of the case. Levitt's nomination effectively died last month when the Judiciary Committee pulled his name from the agenda of one of its last meetings this session. A committee aide, speaking on condition of anonymity, said he was pulled because the panel could not reach a consensus. D'Amato said recently he would resubmit Levitt's name for consideration next year. AP881102-0037 AP-NR-11-02-88 0125EST r p PM-Quayle 1stLd-Writethru a0432 11-02 0478 PM-Quayle, 1st Ld-Writethru, a0432,430 Quayle Warns Against Overconfidence EDs: SUBS last graf, bgng He was, to CORRECT year of Truman victory; Prenoon lede uncertain; Memphis rally in late morning. With PM-Political Rdp Bjt By MERRILL HARTSON Associated Press Writer MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) Sen. Dan Quayle is warning Republicans against overconfidence in the waning days of the presidential campaign, saying the GOP could end up like Thomas Dewey in 1948. Arriving here Tuesday night at the end of a long campaign day in Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana, Quayle said ``the polls have been all over the lot.'' ``We believe, in fact, we have a small but marginally insignificant lead,'' he told reporters. Two nationwide surveys released Tuesday night show the Republican ticket of George Bush and Quayle holding double-digit leads of 12 and 13 points in the final week before the election. Earlier, while campaigning for Indiana Lt. Gov. John Mutz, who is trying to succeed Robert Orr in Quayle's homestate of Indiana, the senator sought to deflect burgeoning speculation about whether his wife, Marilyn, might be appointed to fill his vacant Senate seat in the event of a Bush-Quayle victory next Tuesday. ``It's going to be Bob Orr's decision,'' Quayle said of talk within Republican Party circles in the state that Mrs. Quayle might be offered the vacant seat. During an interview last weekend on the syndicated program ``McLaughlin: One on One,'' Quayle's wife refused to flatly rule out such a possibility. ``I think it's a real honor for her to be considered,'' Quayle told reporters in Evansville. ``I'm not going to do anything to disrupt the discussion. ... Of course, we've got a family, and life is going to change a lot'' if the Bush-Quayle ticket is elected, he said. Quayle was appearing at a campaign rally today in this ``City on the Bluffs'' before traveling to Owensboro, Ky. He has appearances scheduled later in the week in Greenville and Spartanburg, S.C., and in Oklahoma and Alabama. The senator, who complained about last-minute scheduling changes dictated by the Bush campaign headquarters in Washington, seemed buoyed by two appearances in his homestate, one in Jeffersonville and the second in Evansville. Red, white and blue balloons sailed in front of a flag-waving, cheering crowd as the band struck up ``Back Home in Indiana.'' But when he arrived in Memphis in late evening, Quayle deflected questions which assumed a Republican Party victory at the polls. ``We believe this election could still go either way,'' he said. ``We're not taking anything for granted. That would be absolutely lethal.'' ``One way you can lose an election is to sit back, and relax, and we'll end up like Dewey did,'' Quayle said. He was referring to Thomas Dewey's upset loss to Democrat Harry Truman 40 years ago in an election that virtually all the experts had given to Dewey. AP881102-0038 AP-NR-11-02-88 0125EST r a PM-RobberySuspect-Shooting 11-02 0277 PM-Robbery Suspect-Shooting,0286 Robbery Suspect Shoots Self at End of Chase By MARK GODICH Associated Press Writer DALLAS (AP) A suspect in bank stickups in five states from Florida to California shot himself in the mouth when police cornered him in Oklahoma, where he fled after running out of a bank here, authorities said. Michael Allen Cadwell, 45, of Hallandale, Fla., was in critical but stable condition late Tuesday at Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas, said hospital spokesman Paul Long. Cadwell is a suspect in bank robberies in Dallas, Houston, Los Angeles, Miami, New Orleans, Tulsa, Okla., and Washington, D.C., said Dick Newth of the FBI here. The amount of money taken was not revealed and no charges in those bank robberies have been filed. A man walked into a Savings of America Bank in Dallas on Tuesday morning, but fled when an employee noticed a bulge under his jacket and recognized him as the man who robbed the bank July 5, Newth said. The FBI relayed a description of the man's car to police departments in Texas and Oklahoma. Oklahoma authorities said they spotted a car matching the description traveling on Interstate 35 about 15 miles north of the Texas border. Officers chased the car at speeds hitting 115 mph. The man left the interstate nine miles south of Ardmore, Okla., and tried to escape on country roads, said Oklahoma Department of Public Safety Lt. Gene Loman. About five patrol cars surrounded the car when it pulled into a driveway. As officers secured the area, they heard a gunshot, Loman said. Cadwell had shot himself in the mouth with a .38-caliber revolver, police said. AP881102-0039 AP-NR-11-02-88 0143EST r w PM-Showers-Travel 11-02 0359 PM-Showers-Travel,350 Justice Department Is Investigating Its Top Porn Prosecutor WASHINGTON (AP) The Justice Department is investigating its chief pornography prosecutor for possible misuse of travel funds, government sources said. The Office of Professional Responsibility, which examines allegations of wrongdoing by department employees, is carrying out the probe of H. Robert Showers with the assistance of FBI agents, the sources, speaking on condition of anonymity, told The Associated Press. Investigators are trying to determine whether Showers scheduled official trips at taxpayer expense that permitted him to attend meetings of Christian religious groups in his hometown of Raleigh, N.C., and other cities, the sources said Tuesday. Justice Department regulations specify that employees must use the least expensive form of travel when engaging in government business. Justice Department spokesman John Russell and FBI spokesman William Carter declined to confirm that any investigation of Showers is under way. The sources, however, said investigators are studying whether Showers, while traveling on department business, took indirect flights to cities hundreds of miles out of his way to attend religious meetings. The Long Island, N.Y., newspaper Newsday reported Monday that investigators have been told that Showers arranged meetings with federal prosecutors during the same weeks as Baptist conventions, that he arranged to change planes in the city hosting the convention, attended the religious meetings and then continued on to the city where he conducted department business. Newsday also quoted sources as saying that several of Showers' conferences with prosecutors were extremely brief and that there is a possibility Showers may have taken trips that were unnecessary. The sources told Newsday that Showers traveled at government expense to Raleigh many times, attending religious meetings there. Showers was named to head up the department's National Obscenity Enforcement Unit in 1986 by Attorney General Edwin Meese III. He had been an assistant U.S. attorney in Raleigh, N.C., before being brought to Washington as a special assistant to Meese. The Office of Professional Responsibility scrutinized Showers earlier this year after he allegedly asked a colleague to destroy a memo in connection with a pornography case, sources said at the time. Showers has been placed on administrative leave. AP881102-0040 AP-NR-11-02-88 0148EST r a PM-ZZZZBest 11-02 0541 PM-ZZZZ Best,0558 Minkow: `I Was Just A Front Man For The Mob' By LINDA DEUTSCH Associated Press Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) While the press hailed him as young superstar and Wall Street poured millions into his ZZZZ Best carpet cleaning company, Barry Minkow says he was ``just a front man for the mob.'' The 22-year-old Minkow, crying on the witness stand at his federal securities fraud trial, chronicled the rise and fall of his sham company and admitted that the success of his multimillion-dollar fraud went to his head. ``I had my Ferrari and I was the press' golden boy,'' he sobbed Tuesday. ``I said, `Aren't I great? I'm Mr. Cool,' and then they (mobsters) would put me in my place, that I was just a front man for the mob.'' Minkow, who admits he perpetrated the fraud on investors, addressed his comments directly to the jurors as he sought to convince them he was a victim of duress, not a con man acting on free will as prosecutors allege. As the fraud escalated and the company went public in 1986, Minkow said, he was throwing up blood every night from beatings by the mob. Banks and investors handed over millions, unaware that by the time ZZZZ Best traded on Wall Street, it was $7 million in debt and was in the control of mobsters, he said. Minkow is charged with 57 counts of securities, credit card and mail fraud. Ten other defendants have pleaded guilty. Accountant Norman Rothberg is on trial with Minkow, charged with taking a bribe to hide ZZZZ Best's frauds. Minkow took the stand as the first defense witness Oct. 25. The prosecution rested its case on Oct. 21 after calling 47 witnesses and introducing thousands of exhibits. Minkow testified that a cadre of organized crime figures who claimed connections to the Genovese and Colombo crime families dictated his every move as he prepared a $15 million stock offering. ``I just was a puppet,'' he said. Minkow, who started his carpet cleaning company at age 16 in his parents' garage, said he was instructed by mobsters to conduct ``a road show'' to sell investors on the financial wonders of ZZZZ Best while perpetuating a massive fraud. He said he helped prepare a prospectus on the company which was ``a lie,'' and carried out a complex series of financial maneuvers to show income that didn't exist. To do this, he said, he took $7 million in bank loans and he opened five branch offices. ``The offices were so we could show that we were the great 7-Eleven of carpet cleaning,'' he said. ``It was just so I could say to the Wall Street bankers, `We're wonderful. Buy our stock.' And we were nothing. We were losing money.'' ``Was this your idea?'' defense attorney David Kenner asked Minkow repeatedly as he detailed features of the fraud. ``No, it was not,'' said Minkow, who blamed mobsters. Asked why he never went to police, Minkow said he was afraid and detailed alleged acts of brutality against him. He testified that once a mobster held his head underwater and another time he was kicked in the groin for resisting the loan scam. ``I was scared to death,'' he said. AP881102-0041 AP-NR-11-02-88 0153EST r a PM-Vitamins-Parkinson's Bjt 11-02 0660 PM-Vitamins-Parkinson's, Bjt,0683 Studies: Vitamin Treatment May Slow Progression Of Parkinson's Disease By MALCOLM RITTER AP Science Writer NEW YORK (AP) Vitamin E can ease a serious side effect of schizophrenia medication and team up with vitamin C to help slow the course of Parkinson's disease, which afflicts at least 350,000 Americans, two studies suggest. In both cases, it appeared to work by helping protect the brain against damage from chemical entities called free radicals, which are produced by the body, said the researchers, who described their studies Tuesday at a conference on vitamin E, sponsored by the New York Academy of Sciences. Jean Lud Cadet of the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York said vitamin E appeared to reduce symptoms of tardive dyskinesia, which appears in 20 percent to 30 percent of people taking antipsychotic medication for schizophrenia or some other illnesses. The condition produces jerky movements of the facial muscles and slow writhing movements of the limbs and sometimes the trunk. Cadet's experiment found that 13 of 15 patients responded to four-week treatments with vitamin E. Treatments cut the average severity of symptoms almost in half, as measured by a standard rating scale and compared to when patients took a placebo. ``That's really quite impressive,'' said John Davis, director of research at the Illinois State Psychiatric Institute and a member of the American Psychiatric Association's task force on tardive dyskinesia. No proven treatment is known now for the condition, Davis said in a telephone interview. Researchers hope to go beyond short-term easing of symptoms to drugs that produce long-term elimination or reduction in symptoms, he said. Investigation of why vitamin E helps patients may aid in reaching that goal by revealing fundamental secrets of the condition, he said. A separate study found that people in early stages of Parkinson's disease who took vitamins E and C showed slower progression of disease than other patients did. The 14 patients were able to delay starting standard treatment for 2.5 years longer than other patients, said Stanley Fahn, director of parkinsonism and movement disorder research at Columbia. Stressing that the results are preliminary, Fahn said researchers at 28 institutions have signed up 800 patients for a $10 million federally funded study of the approach. Parkinson's disease is often characterized by tremors, rigidity or loss of balance. Drugs can control symptoms, but their effect can become sporadic and side effects can include psychological disturbances and impairment of movement. The disease is caused by death of brain cells that produce dopamine, which brain cells use to communicate. Nobody know why the cells die. Fahn said his experiment was based on a hypothesis that the cells are harmed by free radicals created by the cells themselves. Parkinson's may arise because the body cannot properly handle the radicals, or it creates too many of them, he said. The vitamin experiment tested the idea of using anti-oxidants, substances that can scavenge free radicals or slow their formation. The disease progressed more slowly in the 14 patients who took high doses of the vitamins than in a group of patients observed in Chicago who did not get the vitamin treatment, he said. The result is ``just a suggestion of a way to go, not an answer in itself,'' Fahn said. The anti-oxidant approach is ``very promising,'' said Bala Manyam, director of the Parkinson's disease and movement disorders clinic at the Southern Illinois University School of Medicine in Springfield. Gunter Haase, director of the neurology department at the Pennsylvania Hospital in Philadelphia, called the approach interesting. ``If further studies bear out the reports by Dr. Fahn, then we would have a very simple form of treatment not attended by any side effects, which almost all other medications have,'' he said. The current federally funded study involves the biologically active form of vitamin E, called tocopherol, and another anti-oxidant called deprenyl. Their effects, singly and in combination, are being compared against a placebo. AP881102-0042 AP-NR-11-02-88 0123EST u a AM-SpaceShuttle 11-02 0213 AM-Space Shuttle,0217 Space Shuttle Atlantis Begins Move To Launch Pad CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) NASA early Wednesday began transporting space shuttle Atlantis to the launch pad for a late November launch with a classified military satellite. A giant tracked transporter moved out of an assembly building at 1:13 a.m. EST to start the 4-mile trip to Launch Pad 39B. The move was expected to take six to eight hours, with the vehicle traveling at maximum speed of 1 mph. At the pad, Atlantis will be readied for the second shuttle mission since the Challenger explosion killed seven astronauts on Jan. 28, 1986. After a 32-month interval while shuttle modifications were made, Discovery and a five-man crew completed a successful mission in early October. Atlantis is scheduled to be launched about Nov. 28 with another crew of five. A firm date will be set following a flight readiness review Nov. 10. Because of the military nature of the flight, the Pentagon is shrouding many details in secrecy. It has said the launch will occur between 6:32 a.m. and 9:32 a.m. but won't make the countdown public until it reaches 9 minutes before the planned liftoff. It is believed Atlantis will carry an intelligence-gathering satellite to help verify nuclear arms control treaties. AP881102-0043 AP-NR-11-02-88 0202EST r a PM-MoneyLaunderingTrial 11-02 0558 PM-Money Laundering Trial,0571 Former Operative For Drug Cartel Describes U.S. Distribution System By LARRY ROSENTHAL Associated Press Writer NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) An American who said he helped import and distribute 56 tons of cocaine gave the jury at a money-laundering trial an inside look at the Colombian drug world. Max Mermelstein had testified as a government witness in two other trials, but his testimony Tuesday at the trial of Carlos Restrepo marked the first time he discussed the Medellin cartel's operations in this country, said U.S. Attorney Stanley Twardy. The cartel, believed to be responsible for much of U.S. cocaine imports, was described by Mermelstein as a loose-knit organization of Colombia's cocaine traffickers. Mermelstein's testimony was offered to establish the identity of key figures in the Colombian drug world and their methods of operation, and not to suggest that Restrepo was a member of the Medellin cartel, U.S. District Judge Jose Cabranes told the jury. The government does not allege that Restrepo was a member of the cartel, and Mermelstein said he did not know Restrepo, a businesman in the Colombian town of Medellin who is accused of running a large-scale money-laundering operation for cartel members. Restrepo was arrested in June 1987 as a result of an FBI ``sting'' in Greenwich. He was accused of laundering more than $10 million through a front corporation set up by undercover agents. His attorney claims he was engaged in legitimate currency exchange. To prove the crime of money-laundering, prosecutors must show that Restrepo knew the source of the money and that it represented the proceeds of unlawful acts, and that he exchanged the money in an attempt to carry on the unlawful activity or to conceal its origin. Mermelstein, who ran his drug operation out of Miami, pleaded guilty in April 1986 in Los Angeles to cocaine conspiracy and possession charges. He was sentenced last year to the two years he had already served in prison following his arrest, and given ``lifetime special parole.'' Twardy said outside the court that Mermelstein was accepted into the federal witness protection program. Mermelstein told the jury that he became involved in cocaine trafficking in 1978 when he began working with a man associated with the cartel. Mermelstein estimated that he helped arrange the shipment and distribution of about 56 tons of cocaine. He said his role included dispatching pilots to bring the cocaine into the United States, distributing the cocaine and transferring the payments to his bosses. Mermelstein said he personally was responsible for collecting and transferring about $300 million in drug proceeds. About three-quarters of the cash was flown back to Colombia, while the rest was either turned over to money launderers' representatives or hidden in articles shipped to the South American country, he testified. Mermelstein said he attended a ``good number'' of cartel meetings, but made only one trip to Medellin, in 1984, to attend a party he said was thrown by a cartel member. All the meetings were designed ``to see how more and more cocaine could be brought into the U.S.,'' he said. Mermelstein identified the pictures of seven Colombians, including that of Pablo Escobar. In a recorded discussion with undercover agents, Restrepo identified Escobar as the source of much of his money and one of the largest cocaine traffickers in the Colombian city of Medellin. AP881102-0044 AP-NR-11-02-88 0206EST r a PM-Lites 11-02 0376 PM-Lites,0391 On The Light Side NORTHVILLE, Mich. (AP) A chipmunk or squirrel are top suspects in the mysterious dog-food cache that an auto mechanic blamed for a customer's clogged air filter. John Colling said that a few hours after he dropped his car off for heater repairs, his mechanic called him. ``Do you have a dog?'' he quoted the puzzled mechanic as asking. Colling said he did, and that he bought 25-pound bags of dry food for his pet. ``Well, there's two or three pounds of the stuff in your engine,'' the mechanic told him Thursday. Colling, 25, communications director at GMI Engineering & Management Institute, was surprised. Neighborhood dogs hadn't been tailing his car, and it hadn't had engine trouble. ``In fact, it's running doggone good,'' quipped Colling, who guessed that the chow was squirreled away by an animal that raided dog-food bags stored in the garage. He said he'll keep the food in a covered can from now on. PITTSBURGH (AP) It's still Halloween on the Pennsylvania Turnpike, with state troopers dressing up in costumes and going into hiding. But unsuspecting motorists shouldn't expect a treat from these belated Halloweeners, who are out to issue speeding tickets, not collect candy. Capt. Russell Clanagan, commander of the troop in charge of policing the 470-mile highway, gave the order for the 217-member Troop T ``to be innovative and creative'' in choosing places to hide. In the month the program has been in use, troopers have dressed as road maintenance workers and sat in state Department of Transportation trucks. In at least one case, they watched from a construction shed. Radar guns may be aimed from behind a tree or other hiding spot. ``We don't want to rule out anything,'' Clanagan said Tuesday. ``We want people to know that we're going to be out there making every effort to enforce the 55 mile-per-hour speed limit.'' Although the exact number of speeding tickets issued has not been compiled, Clanagan said that ``from the word that I've gotten, the results are just astronomical, more than we envisioned, way and above what we initially felt they would be.'' The practice has been in use in Maryland for years and is used in Delaware, Clanagan said. AP881102-0045 AP-NR-11-02-88 0136EST u i BC-Japan-Stocks 11-02 0027 BC-Japan-Stocks,0026 Stocks Down In Tokyo TOKYO (AP) The Nikkei Stock Average closed at 27,985.26 points, down 28.41 points, on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Wednesday. AP881102-0046 AP-NR-11-02-88 0217EST r i PM-Israel-Projection 11-02 0119 PM-Israel-Projection,0142 Radio Projects Totals From 99 Percent of Polling Stations With PM-Israel-Election, Bjt JERUSALEM (AP) Following is Israel army radio's projection of seats in the new 120-seat Knesset, or parliament, based on results from 99 percent of the nation's 4,840 polling stations in parliamentary elections. THE RIGHT: 39 _ Likud bloc 3 _ Tehiya 2 _ Tzomet 2 _ Moledet THE RELIGIOUS: 6 _ Shas 5 _ National Religious Party 5 _ Agudat Israel 2 _ Torah Flag THE LEFT: 38 _ Labor Party 3 _ Mapam 5 _ Citizens Rights Movement 2 _ Shinui Center Movement ARAB-ORIENTED: 5 _ Hadash-Communist 2 _ Progressive List for Peace 1 _ Arab Democratic Party AP881102-0047 AP-NR-11-02-88 0219EST r a PM-CapeFears 11-02 0719 PM-Cape Fears,0739 Too-Popular Cape Cod Hit With `Burn The Bridge' Syndrome By ARLENE LEVINSON Associated Press Writer BOSTON (AP) For a century, people have flocked to Cape Cod and its nearby islands with retirement dreams and tourist dollars, but many residents of the sandy peninsula are growing increasingly wary _ and weary _ of outsiders. ``The Cape Cod that I grew up in is almost extinct,'' said Ruth Rusher, the third generation of her family to make her home on the Cape. Mrs. Rusher, 78, who lives in a house in Hyannis that was built when she was born, feels it's almost too late to save the Cape's relaxed and quiet past as shopping centers and fast-food joints spring up like mushrooms. Some call the opposition to development a ``burn-the-bridge'' syndrome, a reference to the two spans over the Cape Cod Canal that connect the 65-mile stretch of beach to the Massachusetts mainland. Among the signs of discontent: Voters next week will face two ballot questions to limit development; residents of Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard are fighting to curb ferry traffic to those islands; and a case to ban recreational vehicles from the beaches was scheduled to go to federal court today. ``The bottom line is awareness of the limits, and the ability to recognize when enough is enough,'' said Susan Nickerson, executive director of the Association for the Preservation of Cape Cod. The 4,000-member group is behind the two non-binding ballot resolutions that would halt new construction until a Cape-wide regulating agency can be established to control growth. The population of Cape Cod has swelled 540 percent during the past 60 years while the rest of the state has grown just 50 percent, Ms. Nickerson said. Year-round residents number about 173,000, a figure that more than triples in the summertime, according to the Barnstable County Economic Planning Commission. Despite these figures, members of the Cape real estate industry are wary of the effort to stop growth, even temporarily, though they agree with the principle, said Nancy Harrison, vice president of the Cape Cod Home Builders Association. ``The home builders' point of view is you don't have to stop growth to put controls on the way building takes place. There are (zoning) controls already,'' said Ms. Harrison. She said her group's 250 firms worry about what could happen at the end of a moratorium. Last week, the Woods Hole, Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket Steamship Authority, a state agency, rejected an application from a ferry operator to run a high-speed catamaran service linking Boston with Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard. The would-be operator argued the service would ease the horrendous summertime traffic jams on Cape Cod by allowing visitors and residents to travel by boat directly from Boston to the two islands, rather than by car to the Cape and then to the islands via ferry. Lyn Zimmerman of Nantucket, who organized residents to oppose the catamarans, said the authority's refusal to permit such service was an important step toward helping her island cope with growing crowds of summer visitors. State Sen. William Q. MacLean Jr. disagreed, even though he owns a home on Nantucket. In fact, he said, it's because he could only finally afford that home in 1980 that he wants others to have access to the island's unspoiled, turn-of-the century charm. McLean called the opposition to the new boat service selfish. ``It's the old attitude: `I have something that you don't have and you're not going to have it,''' said MacLean, who filed a bill Monday that would strip the steamship authority of its power to license ferry operators. Replied Ms. Zimmerman: ``I don't think that people in other parts of the state that Senator MacLean represents realize how difficult it is for a community like ours to provide services.'' Meanwhile, conservationists are fighting an attempt by the Interior Department to ease National Park Service restrictions on the use of off-road vehicles at the Cape Cod National Seashore, a strip of pristine beach and brush that lines about half of the Cape's length. The new regulations would allow dune buggies to scoot along the protected shore, but not in the dunes or wetlands. The federal appeals court in Boston was scheduled to hear arguments today in a lawsuit brought by the Boston-based Conservation Law Foundation. AP881102-0048 AP-NR-11-02-88 0226EST r a PM-People-Weaver 11-02 0139 PM-People-Weaver,0143 Sigourney Weaver Builds Home Away from Home LONG LAKE, N.Y. (AP) Actress Sigourney Weaver is building a second home on the shore of an Adirondack Mountain lake in one of the most sparsely populated regions of the eastern United States. The rustic three-story custom timber peg home is situated on 417 acres on the northern end of Long Lake, a 5{-hour drive from New York City, where the actress lives with her husband, director James Simpson. The actress paid $140,000 for the property in 1986, according to the Watertown Daily Times. Katherine Olin, the agent for the star of the current movie ``Gorillas In The Mist,'' said recently she did not want the home publicized. ``I would really appreciate it if you wouldn't publish this,'' Olin said, ``if we could avoid this invasion of privacy.'' AP881102-0049 AP-NR-11-02-88 0421EST d a PM-BRF--LifeTerm 11-02 0173 PM-BRF--Life Term,0176 Man With 18-Year Record Sentenced To Life In Prison After $3 Heist SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (AP) A man with an 18-year criminal record has been sentenced to life in prison for an armed robbery in which $3 was taken. William Roldan, 35, of Springfield, also was sentenced Monday by Hampden Superior Court Judge Raymond Cross to concurrent eight- to 10-year sentences on five burglary charges and concurrent three- to five-year sentences on four counts of larceny. He pleaded guilty to all of the charges. In a plea for mercy, defense attorney Timothy Mannion blamed Roldan's criminal activities on drug addiction and alcoholism. He also contended the victim of the $3 heist ``was herself a junkie who is now doing time.'' But Assistant District Attorney Terrence Dunphy urged the life term, arguing Roldan's criminal record was ``a continuous entry from the time he became an adult'' and ``continues unabated except for the times Mr. Roldan has been incarcerated.'' Roldan will be eligible for parole in 15 years, according to Dunphy. AP881102-0050 AP-NR-11-02-88 0214EST u i AM-Japan-Markets 11-02 0217 AM-Japan-Markets,0225 Dollar and Stocks, Drop TOKYO (AP) The dollar fell against the Japanese yen Wednesday, while share prices inched down on the Tokyo Stock Exchange. The dollar closed at 124.68 yen, down 0.62 yen from Tuesday's close of 125.30 yen. Opening at 124.82 yen, the currency moved in a range of 124.40 yen to 124.85 yen. The Nikkei Stock Average of 225 selected issues, a 31.13-point winner the previous day, lost 28.41 points, to fall back to 27,985.26. Athough the index gained 60.33 points shortly after the market opened, it gradually fell afterwards. The dollar closed at the 124-yen level for the first time since June 10, when it finished trading at 124.85 yen. The Bank of Japan intervened in the market since shortly after trading began Wednesday to save the dollar from declining further, a dealer with the Bank of Tokyo said, speaking anonymously. Traders said the central bank bought small amounts of dollars intermittently as the U.S. currency continued to fall despite the reported action. But the Bank of Japan refused comment on its monetary actions. On the stock exchange, share prices moved little due to profit-taking after a week of consecutive gains, dealers said. But participants were still interested in buying a variety of issues, which made trading active, they said. AP881102-0051 AP-NR-11-02-88 0238EST r w PM-WashingtoninBrief 11-02 0382 PM-Washington in Brief,380 First US Warship Withdrawn From Persian Gulf WASHINGTON (AP) The United States is reducing its military presence in the Persian Gulf for the first time since this summer's cease-fire in the Iran-Iraq war. The guided-missile frigate Rodney M. Davis left the gulf on Tuesday for its home port in Yokosuka, Japan, Pentagon spokesman Fred Hoffman said. ``There have been no attacks against shipping in the gulf since the cease-fire began (on Aug. 20),'' said Hoffman. ``This has permitted us to assess further the threat .... ``But I want to emphasize that the departure of the Davis in no way reduces our commitment to the region,'' he added. Fifteen U.S. Navy ships remain in the gulf and 10 more in nearby seas. ___ Deadline Passes, Namibian Independence Process Delayed WASHINGTON (AP) The Reagan administration says a settlement will be reached for Namibian independence from South Africa despite the passing of a deadline over implementation of a United Nations peace plan and continuing conflict over Cuban presence in Angola. State Department spokesman Charles Redman said after the deadline passed Tuesday that settlement will be reached ``because peace in southwestern Africa is an idea whose time has come.'' A U.S.-led mediation effort involving negotiations among Angola, Cuba and South Africa had set Nov. 1 as the deadline for setting in motion a U.N. plan that would lead to independence and black majority rule in Namibia by 1989. South Africa demands, however, that 50,000 Cuban troops withdraw from Angola as a prior condition to the agreement. ___ Pilots, Controllers Need To Improve Communications, FAA Chief Says WASHINGTON (AP) The Federal Aviation Administration is issuing a 44-page booklet with ``common sense tips'' on how pilots and air traffic controllers can improve their communications with each other. FAA Administrator Allan McArtor said Tuesday his agency will also hold seminars on effective communications because too often pilots and controllers misunderstand each other, whether through poor use of language, bad listening habits or other reasons. He called for increased awareness among controllers and pilots of the need for clear and accurate communications as they work in an environment of greater traffic loads. McArtor said as many as 80 percent of pilot reports on aviation incidents involve some sort of communications lapse. AP881102-0052 AP-NR-11-02-88 0241EST r p PM-PostAbstains 11-02 0185 PM-Post Abstains,180 Washington Post Refuses To Endorse WASHINGTON (AP) The Washington Post today said it would not endorse either major party candidate for president, calling this year's race a ``terrible campaign, a national disappointment.'' In a long editorial entitled ``No Endorsement,'' the newspaper's editors said ``we would have liked'' to support Democrat Michael Dukakis but were especially alarmed at his deficiencies in foreign affairs and defense. The editorial said Republican George Bush made himself too beholden to the far right of the party and he is ``really the major source and cause of the tawdriness of this campaign.'' Mentioning Bush's controversial choice of a running mate, it said ``the prospect of Dan Quayle's suddenly having to succeed him in office will remain a legitimate anxiety.'' ``This has been a terrible campaign, a national disappointment,'' the newspaper said. ``For our part ... we do not feel that the we can in good faith argue for the vindication of the cheap shots that have animated George Bush's campaign ... or close our eyes to alarming deficiencies of the Democratic candidate as a prospective president.'' AP881102-0053 AP-NR-11-02-88 0249EST r p PM-SchoolElection Bjt 11-02 0652 PM-School Election, Bjt,0670 Students Elect Bush Overwhelmingly In Mock Presidential Election By CAROLYN LUMSDEN Associated Press Writer NORTHFIELD, Mass. (AP) Michael Dukakis beat George Bush in his hometown, but it was all downhill from there in a mock election that might make some Dukakis boosters happy the torch hasn't yet been passed to a new generation. High school students nationwide Tuesday chose Vice President Bush for president by a 2-1 margin, prompting observations that the tally is a clear signal the Old Guard has overtaken the New Frontier among the nation's youth. ``One person put it rather succinctly: The young people have grown up under the Reagan administration and they are rather complacent,'' said Kim Robert Nilsen, a spokesman for the Northfield Mount Hermon School. ``Issues do not tend to surface and be debated in any great fashion,'' Nilsen said. ``With no burning issues, there's probably no real reason to contemplate going in another direction.'' Northfield, a private, 1,160-student school in northwestern Massachusetts, coordinated what it called the first nationwide presidential election run by high school students. Casting ballots a week before the real election were ninth-through 12th-graders at two schools in every state, from 25-student Weiser High in Idaho to 1,900-student Brookline High in Massachusetts, the alma mater of Dukakis, the state's Democratic governor. In early returns, Bush, the Republican candidate, received 24,758 popular votes and 315 electoral votes, while Dukakis won 12,682 popular votes and 73 electoral votes, said Nilsen. The only states won by Dukakis were Massachusetts, Minnesota, South Dakota, Colorado and Arkansas, plus the District of Columbia, said Nilsen, who added that votes had not yet been received from Vermont and Michigan. New York and Missouri were hard-fought losses for the Dukakis camp. Alternative party candidates received a scattering of votes, with National Alliance Party candidate Lenora Fuliani winning 1,085, Libertarian Party candidate Ron Paul taking 514 and Consumer Party candidate Eugene McCarthy winning 161, Nilsen said. In Dukakis' hometown of Brookline, the Democrat received 1,008 votes to 289 for Bush. In Northfield, where all the results were phoned in, Dukakis took 518 votes while Bush won 207. Nilsen said he was very encouraged by the total student turnout, which he said was a 71 percent response at the schools with a total enrollment of 75,000 students. ``That's really heartening. ... I think we're going to be in good hands some time in the future,'' he said. He said the mock election was designed as a civics lesson for students who will be old enough to make their votes count in the real event in 1992. In a room he called ``Election Central,'' students manned five phone lines, taking the tallies and running them upstairs to a staff member at the controls of an election computer that tabulated the popular vote and the electoral college winner. ``We know mock elections are held in schools all over the United States, but they've never been tied together before,'' Nilsen said. Some of the 150 Northfield Mount Hermon students who volunteered to work on the project operated a mock television anchor booth, posted results on a huge map of the United States and hung bunting and balloons. The election, which cost $6,000, was financed by $50 fees from each school and donations ranging up to $500 from alumni of Northfield Mount Hermon. American history teacher James Shea said organizers sent notice of the election to schools on the 1987 Exemplary Schools list compiled by the U.S. Department of Education. Some 270 schools asked to take part in the election. The organizers chose 54 private schools and 46 public schools _ roughly one of each from each state and the District of Columbia _ on a first-come basis. Shea said one school in Anchorage responded to the notice by protesting that the mock election might influence the real one. ``Naturally, we were flattered someone would think that,'' he said. AP881102-0054 AP-NR-11-02-88 0251EST r p PM-PresidentialPolls 1stLd-Writethru a0468 11-02 0751 PM-Presidential Polls, 1st Ld-Writethru, a0468,680 Bush Leads by 13 in ABC Poll, 12 In ABC Poll With PM-Political Rdp Bjt Eds: ADDS one graf at end with Maryland poll NEW YORK (AP) Republican presidential nominee George Bush had double-digit leads in two national surveys released a week before the election, but neither survey showed a marked shift from last week's results. An ABC News-Washington Post survey of 1,099 probable voters gave Bush a 13-point lead over Democrat Michael Dukakis, 55-42. Although it was the largest lead for Bush in the survey, the results were not significantly different from last week's 52 percent to 44 percent lead for Bush. The poll was conducted last Wednesday through Monday and had a margin of error of plus or minus four percentage points. A CBS News poll of 1,065 probable voters gave Bush a 12-point lead, 53-41, not significantly different from last week's 54-41 margin. The new poll was conducted Saturday through Monday and had a margin of error of plus or minus three percentage points. There were signs of movement or potential movement in the CBS poll. One-seventh of the voters said they had decided in the past two weeks, and 22 percent indicated they could change their minds. Another 6 percent hadn't decided yet. In the ABC-Washington Post survey, Bush was found to have closed the gender gap, leading among women 53-44. But the poll also found his strongest support among independents _ about a third of likely voters _ whites and men. A 57 percent majority thought George Bush was running a dirty campaign, although a large number said they were voting for him anyway. Among Democrats, 64 percent said Dukakis was not the best possible candidate for the party, and 60 percent said the Democrats need to change how they pick their candidate. Bush was seen as better able to handle the economy, 52 percent to 40 percent, and was viewed as stronger on crime and defense. Dukakis's favorable ratings have slipped in the last two weeks: Only 42 percent see Dukakis as a strong leader now, compared with more than half previously; 47 percent said he has good judgment, compared with 55 percent two weeks ago. In its poll, CBS sought to measure the source of the opinions on who would prevail. An overwhelming majority, 70 percent, said they thought Bush would win the election, while just 12 percent said they thought Dukakis would win. The remainder said they didn't know. A plurality, 38 percent, said their expectation was based chiefly on what they had heard from the candidates; 22 percent said it was based on the polls; and 12 percent said their view was guided by opinions expressed in the media. As in other recent surveys, Dukakis continued to suffer from a high negative rating in the CBS poll: Forty-one percent had an unfavorable opinion of him; 33 percent, favorable. Bush, by contrast, was rated favorably by 46 percent to 33 percent. In both cases the rest were undecided or had no opinion. Bush has held a healthy lead over Dukakis in other recent polls, enjoying a slightly lower seven-point advantage, 52-45, in a Harris poll done Friday through Sunday, and 11 points, 52-41, in a Gallup poll last week. In some state polls: _ Dukakis was leading Bush by seven points, 49-42, in Massachusetts, according to a survey of 400 likely voters conducted Saturday and Sunday. The margin of error was plus or minus five points. The survey was conducted for the Boston Herald and WBZ-TV. _ In Colorado, Bush's lead over Dukakis shrank from 19 points a few days ago to 13 points, 52-39, according to a Denver Post-News 4 survey of 450 people last Friday, Saturday and Sunday. The survey had a five-point margin of error. _ Bush and Dukakis were tied in Pennsylvania, 46 points each, according to a weekend survey of 792 registered voters by the Philadelphia Daily News and Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. The margin of error was nearly four points. _ Dukakis was leading Bush 43-39 in a Michigan survey of 400 registered voters conducted Saturday and Sunday. The poll by Nordhaus Research of Southfield, Mich., had a margin of error of five percentage points. _ Bush was leading Dukakis in traditionally-Democratic Maryland by six points, 47-41 percent, in a statewide poll of 477 registered voters by the University of Maryland. The survey conducted Oct. 21 through Oct. 31 had a margin of error of five percentage points in either direction. AP881102-0055 AP-NR-11-02-88 0300EST r a PM-Devil'sNight 11-02 0363 PM-Devil's Night,0376 Young Says Anti-Arson Volunteers Could Help Fight Guns, Crack By BILL KOLE Associated Press Writer DETROIT (AP) An army of volunteers like the one that helped put a damper on Devil's Night arson fires last weekend may be deployed one day to combat crack houses and youth gunfights, says Mayor Coleman A. Young. ``Anytime an aroused community comes together to deal with a problem, that problem can be resolved,'' Young said Tuesday. ``What you've seen is a resolution of the Devil's Night problem.'' About 20,000 civilians joined police and firefighters in patrolling the streets, keeping Detroit's annual Halloween weekend fire outbreak well below last year's level and near the city's normal rate, Young said. From Saturday through Monday 229 fires broke out, a drop of 21 percent from last year, the mayor said. Devil's Night is the night before Halloween. On Saturday, a below-average number of 56 fires broke out, and Monday's 69 blazes were typical for any night of the year in the city, Young said. Officials reported 104 fires Sunday. ``This was the quietest Devil's Night in years,'' he said. ``The youngsters are beginning to get the message. ``There were a lot of pyromaniacs who were attracted to Detroit,'' Young said. ``It's good to see these people have lost interest. They're going elsewhere for their kicks.'' Young invited community leaders to City Hall, and praised the volunteers. He said the city may organize similar volunteer efforts to fight crack houses and the use of handguns by youths. ``Almost anything we try to do together we can do,'' he said. ``I think this shows that.'' Young said the city won't relax its anti-arson effort or a dusk-to-dawn weekend curfew next year. ``We cannot afford to stand idle and assume we've won the war. We need to keep the heat on,'' he said. Police detained 452 youths who defied the 6 p.m.-6 a.m. curfew, he said. Eight people were arrested on arson charges. Despite the crackdown, Devil's Night flames left three families homeless. The number of fires has dropped steadily since 1984, when the annual tradition sparked 810 blazes, killing one person and leaving dozens of others homeless. AP881102-0056 AP-NR-11-02-88 0304EST u i PM-Israel-Election Bjt 11-02 0734 PM-Israel-Election, Bjt,0752 Elections Leave Likud, Labor Courting Religious Parties For Support LaserPhotos NY5,6 By KARIN LAUB Associated Press Writer JERUSALEM (AP) The right-wing Likud bloc and rival left-leaning Labor Party, deadlocked in parliamentary elections, today courted Israel's four religious parties in a bid to form a coalition government. Likud had the early edge because it won the most votes in Tuesday's balloting and is ideologically more compatible with the small religious parties that now hold the balance of power. ``Based on the facts we have before us, it seems that the situation commands and enables the Likud to form Israel's next government,'' Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir, who heads Likud, told supporters at campaign headquarters during a nationally televised speech early today. With 99 percent of the 4,840 polling stations reporting, Likud had 39 seats in the 120-member Knesset, or parliament, Labor had 38 and the religious parties 18. Three of Labor's left-wing allies won 10 seats, three rightist Likud allies seven seats, and three Arab-oriented lists took eight seats. Sixty-one seats are needed to govern, but because neither major party has ever won an absolute majority, small parties have influence beyond their numbers. Like this year, the 1984 elections ended in deadlock, with Labor winning 44 seats and Likud 41. This election is seen as crucial in determining the future of the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip and setting policy toward Israel's Arab enemies. A protracted Palestinian insurrection that began Dec. 8 in the occupied lands has claimed the lives of at least 304 Palestinians and 10 Israelis. On Sunday, a firebomb attack in the West Bank killed a Jewish woman and her three sons. Several religious party leaders said they were not yet ready to commit themselves to either Labor or the Likud, which means unity in Hebrew. Complex negotiations over portfolios and policy could drag on for weeks. Labor, headed by Foreign Minister Shimon Peres, advocates an international Middle East peace conference and trading some land for peace. Likud opposes both. It calls for direct talks with Israel's Arab neighbors and limited self-rule for Palestinians. Shamir, 73, rejected allegations from the leftist camp that a Likud-led government would heighten chances of war. He said as prime minister he would make ``every effort to reach peace with our Arab neighbors as quickly as possible.'' Benny Begin, son of Likud founder and former Prime Minister Menachem Begin, claimed Labor's peace plan was dead. ``There will be no international conference and parts of eastern Israel (the West Bank) will not be handed over to a foreign power,'' he said on Israel radio. Peres, meanwhile, said Labor was still a contender and would seek to woo the religious parties. ``I reject Likud's attempt to annex the religious vote,'' he told supporters. ``I would not say that all religious people are necessarily right-wing,'' Peres, 65, later told Israel radio. ``We shall hear what they propose and if they all want the same thing.'' Both Labor and Likud scheduled meetings today with the religious parties. The religious bloc, which grew from 14 to 18 seats, consists of the National Religious Party and three ultra-Orthodox groups _ Shas, Agudat Israel and Torah Flag. The National Religious Party opposes territorial compromise, but the other three parties are more ambiguous on the peace issue and have not ruled out a coalition with Labor. The religious parties will be able to exact a high price from either coalition partner. For example, both Shas and the National Religious Party immediately demanded three Cabinet posts, Israeli radio said. Shamir indicated all issues on the religious agenda are up for grabs, including the key demand that only those converted to Judaism by an Orthodox rabbi should be considered Jewish. Such a move could alienate American Jews, most of whom belong to the Reform and Conservative branches of Judaism. ``No issues are taboo,'' Shamir told Israel radio. Three new parties entered Parliament, including Moledet, or Homeland, which advocates the ouster from the occupied lands of the 1.5 million Palestinians who live there. Likud needs the Moledet's support to form a rightist-religious coalition, but Begin said Moledet's platform would never be adopted as government policy. About 79 percent of Israel's 2.9 million eligible voters went to polls Tuesday; 13,000 police and civil guards protected the polling sites. The army sealed off the occupied territories where a general strike entered its second day today. AP881102-0057 AP-NR-11-02-88 0314EST r a PM-HalloweenHanging 11-02 0458 PM-Halloween Hanging,0473 Halloween Joke Turns Deadly By ALAN COOPERMAN Associated Press Writer CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) A man who tried to stage a fake Halloween hanging in a tavern but wound up choking to death in front of unsuspecting patrons ``had a stupid look on his face like he was kidding around,'' a witness says. Milton ``Michael'' Tyree, 41, died Monday night when a harness he'd rigged to simulate a hanging at the Cantab Lounge slipped, choking him, said police Detective James Dwyer. When he walked into the bar, Tyree had his face painted white, was wearing a black hood and carried a sickle ``like the Grim Reaper,'' said witness Mike Dorman. ``He came in and stood up on a chair and hitched himself to a beam,'' Dorman said. ``Somebody just pulled the chair out. He didn't look uncomfortable at all. He was moving his arms and everything. He always had a stupid look on his face like he was kidding around.'' Dwyer said: ``The harness slipped and he really was hanging, but it took the crowd a while to realize what was happening. ... When our officers arrived, he was down _ someone had cut him down _ but it was too late.'' Tyree was taken to Massachusetts General Hospital, where doctors spent the night trying to revive him. He was pronounced dead Tuesday morning, said hospital spokesman Martin Bander. Police said 60 to 70 people were in the bar during the hanging, but bar owner Richard Fitzgerald said he believed there were only 15 or 20. Fitzgerald said he stopped Tyree from performing the parlor trick earlier Monday evening. ``He came in dressed in a Halloween costume _ he looked like some kind of a creature, I don't know what he was supposed to be _ and he had a noose round his neck with about a six-inch rope,'' Fitzgerald said. ``He had this harness around his body, a kind of nylon net, which he lifted up his costume and showed me. ``The next thing I knew,'' Fitzgerald recalled, ``I was sitting in the corner watching the ball game, and a waitress said to me, `Do you see what's going on over there?''' Fitzgerald said he turned around and saw Tyree standing on a chair at the back of the bar, attaching the rope to a wooden beam across the ceiling. ``I said to him, `What do you think you're doing?' and he said, `Don't worry about me, I've done this lots of times before.' I said, `Well, you're not doing it in here!''' Tyree then left the bar. But he returned an hour later, after Fitzgerald had gone home for the night, to try the stunt again. The second time, it proved fatal. AP881102-0058 AP-NR-11-02-88 0313EST u i PM-Israel-Religious 11-02 0622 PM-Israel-Religious,0639 Small Religious Parties The Surprise Election Winners With PM-Israel-Election, Bjt By RONI RABIN Associated Press Writer JERUSALEM (AP) Four tiny religious parties were the surprise winners in Israel's election, securing enough votes to tip the scales of power and determine who heads the next coalition government. Orthodox and ultra-Orthodox parties won 18 seats Tuesday in the 120-member parliament, an increase of four seats from 1984. Analysts were surprised by the outcome, which had not registered in pre-election polls. It was seen as a reflection of the religious community's demographic growth and a trend toward greater political involvement. The religious parties now have a great deal of bargaining power because neither the right-wing Likud bloc with its 39 seats nor the left-of-center Labor Party with 38 can form a coalition alone. ``We have been invited both by Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir and by Shimon Peres,'' said Avner Shaki, referring to Likud and Labor leaders requests to negotiate with his National Religious Party. ``We will ask for the fulfilment of demands as we see fit.'' Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin of Labor said: ``The religious parties hold the key to (determining) which party will put a government together.'' But while the religious parties have not ruled out joining a Labor-led coalition, they would make strange bedfellows with Labor's traditional allies, the socialist Mapam party and the leftist Citizens Rights Movement, which takes a strong stand against religious coercion. ``We will, with the help of God, first and foremost improve the quality of life for the ultra-Orthodox community,'' said Avraham Ravitz, leader of the new religious party Torah Flag, which won two seats in the Knesset, or parliament. At the top of the Orthodox agenda is a controversial demand to revise Israel's Law of Return, which grants automatic citizenship to all Jews. The Orthodox want Israel to recognize as Jewish only those born to a Jewish mother or converted by an Orthodox rabbi. A change in the law would alienate large numbers of Jews who live in the United States and elsewhere abroad, where Orthodoxy is on the decline and interfaith marriages abound. The religious parties also want to see abortions outlawed and commercial activity banned on the Jewish Sabbath. With the exception of the National Religious Party, most religious parties favor continued exemptions from army service for seminary students, a cause for resentment among secular Israelis. ``There can be no security without the help of God. Without God's hand guiding the triggers of our soldiers, there never was any success and can be no success,'' said Rabbi Moshe Zeev Feldman, head of the Agudat Israel party. Positions on the Arab-Israeli conflict are ambiguous. While the Orthodox parties have a religious attachment to the occupied West Bank because of historic biblical ties, they tend to shy away from taking a strong political line on the areas. Only the National Religious Party, which has a more nationalistic line than the others, takes a firm stand against territorial compromise. The Palestinian revolt against Israeli rule in the West Bank and Gaza Strip was the primary issue in the campaign. The nearly 11-month-old revolt has claimed the lives of more than 300 Arabs and 10 Israelis. The NRP, which won four seats in 1984, gained one seat Tuesday. Shas, dedicated to preserving the traditions of Jews from Arab countries and North Africa, won six seats compared to last term's four. Agudat Israel, representing observant European-born Jews, increased its seats from two to five. Torah Flag is an Agudat Israel offshoot. Even though the four parties had a net gain of six seats, the increase in the religious bloc was only four seats, from 14 to 18, because two tiny religious factions merged with other parties. AP881102-0059 AP-NR-11-02-88 0336EST r a PM-ToxicVerdict 11-02 0497 PM-Toxic Verdict,0512 $50 Million Verdict Against Chemical Company Overturned KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) A state appeals court ruled that a chemical company was responsible for poisoning residents with toxic emissions, but said a trial judge was correct in throwing out a $50 million damage award against the plant. The Missouri Court of Appeals agreed Tuesday that Alcolac Inc. had been ``reckless and utterly indifferent,'' but said it was forced to dismiss the verdict because each of the 31 plaintiffs was not considered separately. The court ordered new trials to decide how much each person's health was affected by the 10-year-old plant in rural Sedalia, and how much each should be awarded in actual and punitive damages. The judges also cited errors at the original trial, including ``notorious and inflammatory statements that damage to clients' immune systems amounted to a type of chemically induced AIDS.'' The company, which produces chemicals used in making paints and plastics, contended at the 1985 trial that people living near the plant were already sick when it began operations or the ills they suffered were because they were old. But experts testified that people surrounding the plant were likely to contract cancer and would have a shortened life span because of the plant. The plaintiffs testified about burning eyes and nasal and throat problems that began when the plant opened. Two of the original 31 plaintiffs have died. One committed suicide, a death that his wife blamed on depression caused by the plant, which was within view of his front porch. Joyce Sommers, one of the plaintiffs, said she was resigned to more lengthy trial proceedings before the matter is settled. ``I guess we aren't going to have much choice but to have another trial if we want to win the case,'' she said. ``I'm not happy about it and I know the other people won't be happy either.'' Alcolac maintains that no evidence proves emissions from the plant were responsible for illnesses suffered by the plaintiffs, who are members of 13 families. Alvin D. Shapiro, an attorney for the company, said he was still studying the latest decision and declined comment. Lantz Welch, who represented the plaintiffs, said the appeals court ruling was ``one of the options.'' Welch had told the appeals court that problems in the plant were ``factually amazing.'' He cited balls of chemical foam the size of pickup trucks floating across the countryside, orchards and poultry flocks decimated by fumes and toxic waste burned under cover of darkness. Jackson County Circuit Judge Thomas J. Helms had ruled that the jury violated constitutional guidelines by awarding identical damages of $200,000 in actual damages and $1.4 million in punitive damages to each plaintiff. The appeals court, however, said it did not agree that constitutional guidelines had been broken. The court ordered a new trial be held to decide punitive damages, and a series of trials or a consolidated trial be held to determine actual damages for each plaintiff. AP881102-0060 AP-NR-11-02-88 0323EST u i PM-Japan-Markets 11-02 0246 PM-Japan-Markets,0252 Dollar Falls Against Yen Despite Intervention TOKYO (AP) The U.S. dollar fell today against the Japanese yen despite the intervention of the nation's central bank, while share prices inched down on the Tokyo Stock Exchange. The dollar closed at 124.68 yen, down 0.62 yen from Tuesday's close of 125.30 yen. The currency opened at 124.82 yen and even though the Bank of Japan began buying dollars, it fell lower and ranged between 124.40-124.85 yen. It was the third straight day the Bank of Japan intervened in the market in an effort to keep the dollar from declining, said Takamasa Yamasaki of the Daiwa Bank. He said the move and a similar intervention in the United States has not worked ``because market players are thinking the banks' move was just one of the temporary political tactics ahead of the U.S. presidential election'' on Nov. 8. ``Unless the weaker dollar makes investors worry about negative effects to the Japanese economy, the current trend is likely to continue,'' Yamasaki said. On the stock exchange market, the 225-issue Nikkei Stock Average lost 28.41 points, or 0.1 percent, closing at 27,985.26. The index gained 60.33 points shortly after the market opened, then gradually declined. ``Share prices fell because some investors sold issues for profit-taking'' following seven straight days of market gains that ended Tuesday, said an analyst with Nomura Securities, Japan's largest brokerage. Trading was active with volume on the first section estimated at 1.9 billion shares. AP881102-0061 AP-NR-11-02-88 0352EST r a PM-SillySandburg 11-02 0416 PM-Silly Sandburg,0432 Book Reveals Less-Serious Side Of Carl Sandburg CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (AP) Carl Sandburg may be remembered as the author of such serious works as his biography of Lincoln, but a new book may put the prairie bard in a different light. Called ``Fables, Foibles and Foobles,'' the book of prose by Sandburg shows a silly side to the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer. George Hendrick, an English professor at the University of Illinois, said the stories were stored with other Sandburg papers in an Asheville, N.C., bank vault after his death in 1967. After Sandburg's oldest daughter, Margaret, introduced Hendrick to the material in 1982, he proposed to put them into a book. Here's an example: ``A fly, a flea and a flick talked about books and reading. ``The fly said he always counted the pages first to see whether there were too many or not enough. ``The flea said he always ran through the book first and marked the pages to skip. ``The flick said, `I always begin reading a book wherever I open it.' Then yawning, `And the farther back the better.''' Sandburg is mostly identified with the biography of Lincoln, which won him a Pulitzer, and ``Chicago,'' the stirring poem that gave the town its moniker ``City of Big Shoulders.'' ``What people tend to forget is he always had an outrageous sense of humor,'' Hendrick said Tuesday. ``Sandburg wrote these fables over a long period of time,'' he said. ``Some were written when his family was in Chicago, some in Michigan and some in North Carolina. He probably had in mind to tell them to his grandchildren.'' Like a troubadour, Sandburg enjoyed traveling between towns to deliver public readings and lectures. After the crowds had gone home, he would hold private readings for friends and bring out the funny verse. ``He clearly was having fun with the sound of words,'' Hendrick said, ``and the whole idea that was going around in the 1930s and '40s, a real serious one, about how to read a book. Sandburg made it into a comedy.'' ``Fables, Foibles and Foobles,'' published in September by the University of Illinois Press, deals with critics, the subject of reading, politics and ``just fun,'' the professor said. Why did Sandburg fail to publish these works when he was alive? ``That is, of course, a great mystery,'' Hendrick said. ``Clearly it wasn't material that would embarrass anyone; it's funny. I think Sandburg saw this material as work for his private hours.'' AP881102-0062 AP-NR-11-02-88 0400EST r a PM-LotLottery 11-02 0559 PM-Lot Lottery,0574 Neighbors Displaced by New Stadium Get New Lots In Lottery By DAVID ROCKS Associated Press Writer CHICAGO (AP) The ping-pong balls bobbled around, then out popped the one telling Dessie Singleton where she will live after the home she has lived in for 35 years is destroyed. Ms. Singleton was among 19 families who took part in a unique lottery Tuesday night _ one that would determine who would get which lot when an entire neighborhood is relocated to make way for the new Chicago White Sox stadium. ``I hate to move, but since I've got to move, I guess they're giving us a fair deal,'' Ms. Singleton said as she followed the bouncing balls. When the American League baseball team decided on a new home across the street from 78-year-old Comiskey Park, residents of the neighborhood protested that their close-knit community would be torn apart. So officials building the $150 million ballpark agreed to move the resident homeowners as a group into a new neighborhood of their choice. Those who didn't want to were given fair-market value for their homes plus $25,000. ``How do you go in and give one lot to one person and another lot to another person?'' asked Georgia Petropoulos, project manager for the Rescorp Deveopment Co., which is overseeing the $10 million relocation. ``I think everyone realizes (a lottery) is the fairest way to do it.'' The City Council and the city's Landmark Commission still must approve the cost of the sites and plans for the homes. While most residents agreed the lottery was fair, they were not as impressed with the fairness of the move itself. ``It is not our choice _ it's our second choice,'' said Susie Myers, who lives with her sister and 95-year-old father. ``This has been home to me for 46 years. It's not my decision to move, so it does not make me happy.'' And most of them didn't have much of a preference as to which lot they were assigned. So while they enjoyed seeing their old friends at the lottery in a school cafeteria, nobody really felt they lost more than the next person. ``Actually it didn't matter to me,'' said eight-year resident Mary Marshall. ``I'm just glad it's over with.'' The neighbors will be moved from their primarily blue-collar neighborhood across the Dan Ryan Expressway to a redeveloping middle-income neighborhood called the Gap. Because their new homes will not be ready until the end of summer, they will move first to temporary housing when they leave their old homes in January. Some residents of the Gap fear the new homes will not fit into the historic district that includes several houses designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. They have objected to the design plans, complaining the new homes would be made of a plaster substitute instead of stone. ``We're clearly helping the community in that 19 vacant lots will have 19 new homes on them,'' countered Peter Bynoe, director of the Illinois Sports Facilities Authority, which is building the stadium. ``Other issues in terms of the economic stability of the new residents are unfounded.'' But when the White Sox move into their new ballpark in 1991, they may find they've lost some friends as well as neighbors. ``At one time I was a Sox fan, but not anymore,'' said Ms. Myers. AP881102-0063 AP-NR-11-02-88 0411EST r i PM-SAfrica-Journalist 11-02 0170 PM-SAfrica-Journalist,0173 Journalist Imprisoned For Not Informing On Suspected Guerrillas JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AP) A black free-lance journalist has been sentenced to four years in prison for failing to report the whereabouts of two suspected African National Congress guerrillas. Themba Khumalo, 31, freelanced for several Western news organizations at the time of his arrest in June 1987. He was sentenced Tuesday in Johnnesburg Magistrates Court to two concurrent four-year terms. According to testimony, Khumalo was approached in early 1987 by Winnie Mandela, wife of jailed ANC leader Nelson Mandela, and asked to help find accommodation for youths fleeing to the Johannesburg area from political unrest in Natal Province. The charges against Khumalo concerned two young men whom he subsequently aided. One purportedly confided to Khumalo that he was an ANC guerrilla, while the other purportedly was seen by the journalist handling a firearm. In mitigation, defense lawyers argued that Khumalo's career and possibly his life could have been in jeopardy if he had become known as an informer. AP881102-0064 AP-NR-11-02-88 0420EST r a PM-SundayPost 11-02 0444 PM-Sunday Post,0459 New York Post To Launch Sunday Edition By RONALD POWERS Associated Press Writer NEW YORK (AP) The New York Post says it will intensify New York's heated newspaper competition by launching a Sunday edition. The owner of the spirited morning tabloid that came close to extinction earlier this year said Tuesday he wants to compete seven days a week with The New York Times, the Daily News and Newsday. The Sunday edition, complete with color comics and a magazine supplement, is scheduled to make its debut March 5 and sell for $1. The decision for the project came after ``repeated requests and offers of support from our major advertisers and dealers,'' Post owner Peter S. Kalikow said. The millionaire real estate developer also predicted that the Post, after years of losses, would show a profit next year. Current losses are ``a minor fraction'' of the ``$650,000 a week when we bought the paper last March'' from Rupert Murdoch, he said at a news conference. He declined to provide specific numbers. Kalikow said he would invest $25 million in the Sunday edition and increase the paper's staff by about 60, including 30 reporters and editors. An initial press run of 500,000 copies was expected, he said. Newspaper analyst John Morton called it a ``bold move, but one I think they had to make if they want to make the Post a viable enterprise.'' ``In successful newspapers _ which the Post is not _ Sunday papers account for 40 to 50 percent of revenue,'' he said. The danger is that advertisers won't increase their Post advertising budgets, but spread them thinner to cover an additional day, he said. However, Eric Philo, an analyst for the investment firm Goldman, Sachs, said he didn't see a place for another Sunday paper in New York and predicted it only would increase the financial drain on the Post. Union reaction was favorable. ``I get the impression that (Kalikow's) here to stay over the long haul,'' said Tom Pennacchio, secretary treasurer of the Newspaper Guild, which represents the Post's editorial staff. Pennacchio said he earlier joined others in believing Kalikow was more interested in the Post's valuable lower Manhattan property than the paper itself. The Post, the nation's oldest continuously published daily newspaper, was on the verge of ceasing publication when Kalikow and Murdoch negotiated major concessions and buyouts from the paper's unions. Since then, Kalikow said, ``Both the financial as well as the editorial aspects of the paper have improved far beyond our expectations, and therefore we've moved up the Sunday publication from a date some time in our original plans of 1991 to 1989.'' AP881102-0065 AP-NR-11-02-88 0429EST r a PM-OneidaLand 11-02 0608 PM-Oneida Land,0623 Court Upholds Treaties That Cost Tribe 5 Million Acres Eds: VanGestel is cq. By JOHN M. DOYLE Associated Press Writer NEW YORK (AP) Documents dating to the dawn of the republic led a federal appeals court to reject an Indian tribe's claim to 5{ million acres of land in New York state. The decision Tuesday upheld a lower court ruling against the Oneida Indian nation, which claims it has a right to land stretching from Canada to Pennsylvania. The Oneidas, joined by four of the five other tribes that made up the once-mighty Iroquois confederacy, sought to overturn treaties made in 1785 and 1788 under which the land was sold for about $50,000. The Oneidas claimed the Articles of Confederation, which governed the United States before the Constitution was ratified, prevented New York or any other state from enacting the treaties. But the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals found that the articles ``did give the states the power to purchase Indian land within their borders and extinguish Indian title to such land so long as such activity did not interfere with Congress' paramount powers of war and peace with the Indians.'' Arlinda Locklear, a lawyer representing about 13,000 Oneidas in New York, Wisconsin and Canada, called the ruling ``legally wrong and morally wrong.'' She said she expected to seek either a rehearing by the 2nd Circuit or to petition the U.S. Supreme Court for a hearing. The defendants included the state of New York, various state agencies and two companies with operations in the area, St. Regis Paper Co. and Georgia Pacific Corp. Ray Halbritter, one of two federally recognized representatives of the Oneidas in New York, said that although the tribe lost in the lower courts before, ``where we have won is at the Supreme Court level.'' ``I'm just hoping that this will not force us into more litigation,'' he said from Cambridge, Mass., where he is a law student. The Oneidas are still negotiating the claim with the state, he said. At issue is a strip of land, 50 to 60 miles wide, running through the heart of New York from Ogdensburg on the St. Lawrence River south past Binghamton to Hales Eddy on the Pennsylvania line. The lawsuits were brought in 1978 by the Oneida Indian Nation of New York, the Oneida Indian Nation of Wisconsin and the Oneida of the Thames Band, of Ontario, Canada. They later were joined by four of the other tribes that make up the Six Nations of the Iroquois: the Onondagas, the Mohawks, the Senecas and the Tuscaroras. The Cayugas are the sixth nation. Boston lawyer Allan vanGestel, who represented the 12 New York counties encompassed by the land claim, said the decision is expected to end to one of the largest Indian land claims in the eastern United States and also will have a major impact on future Indian claims. ``Essentially, the court had to interpret the meaning of the Articles of Confederation, and what they said is that ... the state did not have to get permission from the central government,'' he said. Circuit Judge Jon O. Newman, who wrote the 52-page opinion, quoted James Madison, Thomas Jefferson and other founding fathers. He called the case ``unusual because it requires a federal court, perhaps for the first time, to determine whether actions of a state violated the Articles of Confederation.'' The appeals panel also rejected the claim that the land sale was barred by a 1784 U.S.-Iroquois treaty that guaranteed the Oneidas and Tuscaroras, who sided with the colonists in the Revolution, ``possession of the lands on which they are settled.'' AP881102-0066 AP-NR-11-02-88 0450EST r i PM-Philippines-Ship 1stLd-Writethru 11-02 0506 PM-Philippines-Ship, 1st Ld-Writethru,a0496,0524 Aquino Shuts Down Owner Of Ship That Sank In Typhoon Eds: LEADS throughout with company comment, details. No pickup. By EILEEN GUERRERO Associated Press Writer MANILA, Philippines (AP) President Corazon Aquino today shut down the country's largest domestic shipping line, which lost one ship in a typhoon last week and another last year in one of the world's worst maritime accidents. Transportation Secretary Reinerio Reyes said the indefinite suspension of Sulpicio Lines Inc. was effective immediately. ``The main reason is we want to prevent loss of lives,'' Reyes said. ``We want to make sure they (ships) are seaworthy and manned by competent crews.'' Sulpicio operates 22 passenger and cargo vessels that account for 20 percent of domestic sea traffic among the country's 7,200 islands. In Cebu, Sulpicio President Carlos Go said he was unaware of the order. ``It's bad for the public because they have fewer vessels to ride,'' Go said. He declined further comment. The suspension came one day before Sulpicio officials were to appear before the Maritime Regulatory Authority to show cause why the company should not be suspended. A Sulpicio passenger ship, the Dona Marilyn, sank Oct. 24 during Typhoon Ruby with about 500 people aboard. It was about 300 miles southeast of Manila. Vicente Gambito, vice president of Sulpicio Lines, said 161 passengers and 39 crewmen have been rescued and at least 76 people confirmed dead. Last December, Sulpicio's Dona Paz collided with an oil tanker off Mindoro island and more than 3,000 people were believed to have perished. The accidents led to calls by the Manila press and prominent politicians for a crackdown on maritime safety regulations. ``Since Sulpicio is beset by these accidents, we would like to have a closer look at their operations,'' Reyes said. ``We want to check out their ships and in the interest of the safety of passengers, I have recommended to the president to suspend indefinitely their passenger liners. ``The president agreed that this was the right step to take,'' he added. Reyes said the order was not expected to disrupt passenger service because other companies operate similar routes. Earlier today, the Transportation Department issued orders holding four Sulpicio ships in port pending an inspection of their communications equipment. Reyes said investigators would inspect Sulpicio's fleet for seaworthiness and to make sure they had proper equipment. He said if widespread deficiencies were found, ``it could result in the permanent removal'' of Sulpicio's operating franchise. Meanwhile in Cebu, the coast guard said the search for more survivors was suspended today because a tropical depression was threatening the area. Last week, Jose Luis Alcuaz, chief of the National Telecommunications Authority, told a Senate committee that the Dona Marilyn sailed through rough seas for nearly six hours before changing course in a failed attempt to escape the storm. ``We will have to find out why of the 13 ships which sailed, only the Dona Marilyn sank and 12 others diverted their route,'' Reyes said. The Dona Marilyn's skipper is among the missing. AP881102-0067 AP-NR-11-02-88 0450EST r i PM-Soviet-Jews 11-02 0122 PM-Soviet-Jews,0125 Number of Jews Allowed to Leave At 8{ Year High GENEVA (AP) Jewish emigration from the Soviet Union reached an 8{-year high in October, with 2,473 Jews allowed to leave, the organization involved in their resettlement said today. Only 78 of the emigres went to Israel after passing through the transit center at Vienna, said Regina Boucault, spokeswoman for the Intergovernmental Committee for Migration. She said the Soviets have allowed 14,288 Jews to leave the country so far this year, and 1,232 of them have gone to Israel. The October figure was the highest since March 1980. The largest official annual exodus _ 51,330 _ was recorded in 1979 before the Soviet intervention in Afghanistan chilled East-West relations. AP881102-0068 AP-NR-11-02-88 0455EST r a PM-Scarfo'sSon 11-02 0327 PM-Scarfo's Son,0338 Reputed Mobster's Son Found Hanging, In Critical Condition ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) The teen-age son of reputed underworld boss Nicodemo ``Little Nicky'' Scarfo was in critical condition today after he was found hanging by the neck while father was on trial on racketeering charges. Mark Scarfo was discovered by his mother Tuesday afternoon at the former offices of Scarf Inc., the elder Scarfo's concrete business here, officials said. The youth was brought to Atlantic City Medical Center in a coma, said Sherry Spatz, a spokeswoman for the hospital. ``He went into cardiac arrest. He was resuscitated by paramedics,'' Ms. Spatz said. ``He's unconscious and he's in critical condition.'' News of the injury reached federal court in Philadelphia late in the afternoon and brought a halt to the elder Scarfo's trial. His attorney, Robert Simone, said the trial might be postponed for several days. The elder Scarfo, reputed to be the longtime crime boss of South Jersey and the Philadelphia area, and nine others are charged with running a criminal enterprise that included murder, extortion, drug dealing, loan sharking and gambling. Simone said the hanging was a suicide attempt, and Atlantic County Prosecutor Jeffrey S. Blitz said all evidence pointed to a suicide. He declined further comment. But the prosecutor's office's major crimes unit was investigating before ruling out a homicide attempt. Dr. Sekander Ursani, an emergency specialist at the hospital, said he found no visible sign of injury on Mark Scarfo except for a bruise on his neck. Simone gave the youth's age as 17, but the hospital listed it as 18. Scarfo was on full life support systems, although he was able to breathe on his own, Ursani said. He said a breathing machine was being used to help keep his lungs clear of fluids. Simone said there was no sign of brain damage, but Ursani said it was too early to tell if the lack of oxygen caused serious injury. AP881102-0069 AP-NR-11-02-88 0508EST r i PM-ImposterPriest 11-02 0415 PM-Imposter Priest,0425 Bogus Priest Who Consoled Crash Victims Arrested In Canada TRENTON, Ontario (AP) Authorities in Detroit are seeking the extradition of a man who allegedly posed as a priest and counseled relatives of victims of a Northwest Airlines plane crash last year, then referred them to a laywer. Police arrested the man, John Irish, on Tuesday at a hotel here where he had been working for at least several months as manager, said Nancy Mouradian, spokeswoman for the Wayne County (Mich.) Sheriff's Department. ``We didn't know anything about it or about him,'' said the hotel's assistant manager, who spoke on condition of anonymity. ``It was a shock to us. ... I worked with him on a day-to-day basis and didn't know anything about him.'' Irish, 47, faces charges in Wayne County, Mich., of obtaining money under false pretenses in an amount exceeding $100, said Special Constable Brad Clairmont of the Trenton Police Department. An FBI warrant for Irish's arrest also accuses him of unlawful flight to avoid prosecution, Mouradian said. Authorities allege that Irish defrauded Northwest Airlines of about $1,100 in hotel and food charges paid by the airline while he posed as ``Father John Irish'' and counseled relatives of some of those killed in the Aug. 16, 1987, crash at Detroit Metropolitan Airport. All but one of the 154 people aboard Flight 255 died, along with two on the ground. Irish was being held Tuesday night at a detention center in Napanee pending a bail hearing scheduled for today in Belleville District Court, Clairmont said. If convicted of the felony fraud charge, he could be sentenced to up to 10 years in prison and fined $10,000, Mouradian said. Sgt. Bill Armstrong, the arresting officer, said Irish was born in Birmingham, England, but his current citizenship was unknown. Trenton police questioned Irish two months ago about an alleged sexual assault at the hotel and discovered he was wanted in Michigan when they ran his name through a computer, authorities said. Irish had lived at least since in March in Trenton, an eastern Ontario city of about 15,000, the officer said. Witnesses and law enforcement officials said after the Flight 255 crash that Irish distributed business cards for Ronald Brimmell, an attorney in Deerfield Beach, Fla. Police in Denver said a man matching Irish's description talked to survivors of the crash of Continental Airlines Flight 1713 at Stapleton International Airport in November 1987, in which 27 of 82 people aboard were killed. AP881102-0070 AP-NR-11-02-88 0533EST r i PM-Japan-SAfrica 1stLd-Writethru 11-02 0581 PM-Japan-SAfrica, 1st Ld-Writethru,a0498,0594 Japan To Cut Uranium Imports From South Africa Eds: To conform to style, changes name of Namibia to South-West Africa in first references. No pickup. By LARRY THORSON Associated Press Writer TOKYO (AP) In an apparent move to cut economic ties with Pretoria's white minority government, four Japanese utilities say they will not renew contracts to import uranium from South Africa and its territory South-West Africa. The four regional utilities named in news reports as having decided not to renew long-term contracts are Tohoku Electric Power Co., Kansai Electric Power Co., Chubu Electric Power Co. and Kyushu Electric Power Co. The Kansai utility refused comment today, but the others confirmed the change. The four utilities own 16 of the 35 nuclear reactors operating in Japan and have seven more under construction or planned. Japan gets about 29 percent of its electricity from nuclear plants. Japan has been embarrassed by its emergence as South Africa's biggest trading partner while others among its Western allies have reduced commercial links in a drive against South Africa's apartheid policy of racial separation. The Japanese government has said it is monitoring such trade _ an implicit warning of possible sanctions against companies that increase trade with South Africa. In 1986, the government urged utilities to refrain from entering new contracts with South Africa, said Nobuo Tanaka, director for international nuclear energy affairs in the Ministry of International Trade and Industry. ``Since then no new contracts have been made, and we understand that our utilities will not go into any new contract with South African mines,'' the official said in a telephone interview today with The Associated Press. Tokyo Electric Power Co., the world's largest private utility, says it has sought assurances from the British-based supplier RTZ, or Rio Tinto-Zinc Corp., that it will not receive uranium from South-West Africa, which is also known as Namibia. Tanaka said the situation regarding South-West Africa, which Pretoria governs in defiance of a United Nations resolution, is more complicated because of the circuitous route uranium follows as it is processed in several stages to be usable in nuclear reactors. RTZ-supplied uranium may come from Namibia or other sources, he said, but it goes through a conversion process in Britain and then is enriched in the United States by the U.S. Department of Energy before it reaches Japan. ``The Japanese government position is that there is no way to identify the country of origin'' of such uranium, said Tanaka. But he said Japan wanted to comply with a U.N. decree restricting economic support of South Africa's administration of Namibia. ``The utilities of course know such a decree is there. They also have been respecting this decree,'' Tanaka said. ``They are cautious entering into new contracts,'' he added. Spokesman Yasuho Takaya of the Tohuku utility said his company was not renewing contracts with RTZ that end this year and those with the South African supplier that end next year. ``We have the same position as the Japanese government,'' Takaya said. ``We don't like apartheid.'' He said the Tohoku utility obtains 10 percent of its uranium from South Africa and 10 percent from RTZ through Britain. Its major sources are 60 percent from Canada and 20 percent from Niger. The company has ample stocks to draw on, he said. Tokyo Electric Power Co., which has 11 operating reactors, said it has never received South African uranium but was concerned about the origin of uranium supplied by RTZ. AP881102-0071 AP-NR-11-02-88 0544EST r a PM-ArsonDeaths 11-02 0520 PM-Arson Deaths,0540 Teen-Ager Charged As Adult In Fire Deaths Of Brothers ELLICOTT CITY, Md. (AP) A 15-year-old cerebral palsy victim who set fire to his home in a suicide attempt was charged with arson and first-degree murder in the blaze, which killed two of his brothers, officials said. The Maryland State Fire Marshal's office and Howard County police charged Jacob S. Clemons of Ellicott City as an adult in Sunday's fire, which killed 6-year-old James Clemons and 8-year-old Michael Clemons. If convicted, the ninth-grader could be sentenced to life imprisonment on the two murder counts, a prosecutor said. An arson conviction is punishable by up to 30 years in prison. County District Judge James Vaughan on Tuesday ordered Jacob sent to Springfield Hospital Center in Sykesville for an emergency evaluation to determine if he may be a danger to himself or others. In court records, police said Jacob admitted setting fire to the house in this Baltimore suburb ``with reckless and wanton disregard of the consequences.'' Investigators said they believed he set fire to his mattress in a suicide attempt, then had second thoughts and tried to put out the blaze. A county police spokesman said authorities were reluctant to press charges against Jacob because of his medical condition, the fact that he is under psychiatric care and out of consideration for the family, but felt they had to. ``Two people died in a fire that was deliberately set,'' said Sgt. Angus Park. ``In pure legalistic terms, that's murder.'' Public Defender Carol Hanson, who is representing Jacob, asked that her client not be incarcerated at the county jail. ``At this time, it is in his best interests to be in a hospital under the care of a physician and psychologist,'' she said. Investigators said they hoped to obtain more information about Jacob's mental state from interviews. But Vaughan, acting at Hanson's request, issued a protective order prohibiting police and prosecutors from interviewing him about the fire. No family member was present at the court proceedings. Jacob kept his head bowed during a brief initial hearing before District Court Commissioner Walter F. Closson, who ordered him held without bond because of the first-degree murder charges. Authorities then arranged a bond review hearing before Vaughan to avoid sending the youth to the jail. Bob Thomas, a spokesman for the state fire marshal's office, said the case probably would go before a county grand jury in the next few weeks. ``The attempted suicide is something we are looking into. We cannot comment at this point as to the certainty of that,'' Thomas said. After the fire began, the boy rushed to awaken his 28-year-old brother-in-law, officials said. They and four others survived the fire, which occurred while the boy's parents, David and Sally Clemons, were on vacation with several other of their children. The teen-ager is one of 15 adopted children and one biological child raised by the Clemonses. Many have disabilities or are foreign-born. The two who died of smoke and soot inhalation tried to escape through a sliding glass door, but were unable to open it, authorities said. AP881102-0072 AP-NR-11-02-88 0548EST r a PM-RishTrial 11-02 0474 PM-Rish Trial,0487 Woman Accused In Small Kidnapping Admits She Lied; Case To Go To Jury By ROBERT LEE ZIMMER Associated Press Writer KANKAKEE, Ill. (AP) A 26-year-old woman accused of helping her boyfriend kidnap and murder a businessman who was buried alive says she lied repeatedly to police about the crime because she was ``scared to tell them the truth.'' Jurors were expected to begin their deliberations today after attorneys' closing arguments in the trial of Nancy Rish, who is accused of assisting in the kidnap and murder of Stephen Small. Small was the 40-year-old great-grandson of an Illinois governor and the son of the late Burrell L. Small, who controlled a group of radio and television stations. In September 1987 he was kidnapped, then buried at a remote gravesite between Kankakee and the Indiana line. His body was found two days later and authorities said he suffocated in a homemade wooden coffin before his family could pay a $1 million ransom. Testifying in her own defense Tuesday, Ms. Rish admitted she had lied to police after she and boyfriend Daniel Edwards were arrested. ``It was dawning on me what Danny was up to and I was scared,'' said Ms. Rish of Bourbonnais. ``He was putting me in the middle of this. He used me. I was very angry with him.'' She admitted that she drove Edwards to telephone booths from which authorities said ransom calls were made to the Small family in Kankakee, but said she did not know why Edwards was making the calls. The day before the kidnapping, Ms. Rish said, Edwards had her drive to a site in the country, where authorities believe the ransom was to be dropped. She said she later picked Edwards up at the same spot but had no idea of its significance. But prosecutor Michael Ficaro recited a list of statements Ms. Rish gave to police, asking each time if she had lied. Each time, she said yes. ``I was scared to tell them the truth,'' she said. The prosecutor also suggested that she changed some details of her story only after she thought police knew the truth. Edwards, 31, who lived with Ms. Rish, was convicted of murder and kidnapping in May and sentenced to die. The prosecution has not sought the death penalty for Ms. Rish, who faces identical charges. Ms. Rish described Edwards' mood after the kidnapping as ``nervous'' and ``tense.'' Later, after making calls from several pay telephones, Ms. Rish said, Edwards seemed ``mad, upset.'' Authorities believe Small's kidnapper called his family to play a tape-recording of the ransom delivery instructions to his wife, Nancy, and later made a call from another phone to tell her he was angry because police had been notified. Mrs. Small was unable to understand the delivery instructions and no ransom was paid. AP881102-0073 AP-NR-11-02-88 0548EST r a BC-Quotes 11-02 0187 BC-Quotes,0192 Current Quotations By The Associated Press ``I was born ostentatious. They will list my name in the dictionary someday. They will use `Imeldific' to mean ostentatious extravagance.'' _ Former Philippine first lady Imelda Marcos, asked by the New York Post if she looked ostentatious when she wore a floor-length gown to her arraignment in New York on federal racketeering charges. ``I had my Ferrari and I was the press' golden boy. I said, `Aren't I great? I'm Mr. Cool,' and then they (mobsters) would put me in my place, that I was just a front man for the mob.'' _ Barry Minkow testifying in his federal securities fraud trial in Los Angeles stemming from his dealings with Wall Street when his ZZZZ Best carpet cleaning company went public. ``I think people are a little tired of all the horserace polls. They want to know what the state of the race is and they're interested in public opinion. But there has been such a barrage of polls that they're saturated.'' said Andrew Kohut, president of the Gallup Organization, about the presidential election polls. AP881102-0074 AP-NR-11-02-88 0606EST r i PM-Israel-Begin 11-02 0284 PM-Israel-Begin,0292 Former Israeli Premier Says His Likud Bloc Won The Elections With PM-Israel-Election, Bjt JERUSALEM (AP) Former Prime Minister Menachem Begin broke his customary silence today to proclaim the party he once headed the victor in Israel's parliamentary elections. ``The results are clear. Labor failed in these results ... Likud (bloc) is in the first place,'' said Begin, who has lived as a recluse since quitting the premiership without explanation in 1983. Begin, 75, shared the 1978 Nobel Peace Prize with Egyptian President Anwar Sadat for their roles in the Camp David accords. On Israel's armed forces radio today, Begin said he planned to telephone Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir, the Likud leader, to congratulate him. ``From his (Shamir's) point of view and the point of view of Likud, this election is an achievement,'' he said. Begin also said he was sorry he was unable to vote in the election, but he did not elaborate. The former premier said the left-leaning Labor Party, Likud's main rival, was the big loser in the elections because it lost six parliament seats to right-wing parties. Likud won 39 seates in the 120-member parliament, while Labor won 38. The results for both parties were down from the last election in 1984, when Labor won 44 seats and Likud took 41. Four small religious parties captured 18 seats, giving them a great deal of bargaining power in negotiations to form a coalition government with Labor and Likud. Begin conceded that because Likud failed to win a clear majority, the party faced ``prolonged and difficult'' negotiations to form a government. ``But let's see what sort of government we will have in time. As I said, it ended positively.'' AP881102-0075 AP-NR-11-02-88 0615EST r a PM-NCAA-KansasNewspage 1stLd-Writethru a0509 11-02 0289 PM-NCAA-Kansas Newspage, 1st Ld - Writethru, a0509,0290 NCAA Basketball Champs Barred From Defending Title Eds: LEADS with 4 grafs to CORRECT that probation bars team from post-season play in first year, not from all competition. LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) The University of Kansas basketball team has been barred from defending its national basketball championship because of recruiting violations. The three-year NCAA probation issued Tuesday resulted from violations that occurred under former Coach Larry Brown, who has since left Kansas for the San Antonio Spurs of the National Basketball Association, the National Collegiate Athletic Association said. Current Kansas basketball coach Roy Williams said he is angry about the probation, but that his team will adapt. The probation, which bars post-season play in the first year, could be extended with even stiffer penalties should Kansas commit further violations within the three years. The school also must disassociate itself from backers that Brown identified as Jerry Collins, formerly in broadcast production for KU and now in a similar role for the San Antonio Spurs; Ralph Light, president of RAL Construction of Kansas City; and Mike Marshall, a former KU player who worked in Brown's basketball camp during 1986. The team also cannot bring recruits on paid trips to the campus for a year. And the school will be stripped of one scholarship during that period. Brown said the penalties resulted largely from improper recruiting inducements given to one-time transfer student Vincent Askew during a 10-day period in 1986. Brown, Collins, Light and Marshall were responsible for the inducements, which included airline tickets to and from Kansas, Brown said Tuesday. ``I'm just sorry it happened,'' Collins said. Light would not comment. Marshall could not be reached for comment, nor could Askew. AP881102-0076 AP-NR-11-02-88 0619EST r i PM-Thailand-U.S.Aid 11-02 0402 PM-Thailand-U.S. Aid,0412 Military Chief Says United States Must Identify Allegedly Corrupt Officers BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) The country's military chief today expressed anger at charges Thai officers stole $3.5 million in covert U.S. aid for Cambodian guerrillas and said U.S. officials must name the culprits. Gen. Chavailit Yongchaiyudh told reporters at Supreme Command Headquarters that he had no knowledge of any alleged corruption. He said the charges, first reported in The Washington Post Sunday, have hurt morale in the army. ``The Washington Post must reveal more details to back those allegations because it is irresponsible to talk lightly of something as accusatory as this,'' he said. ``That, or go to hell.'' Chavalit said he has ordered an investigation, but added that he doubted anything could be proven because he said the Americans handle the financial administration of the aid program. ``If any U.S. official can identify the culprits, come tell us,'' he said. ``But if he knows but won't come forth, then we cannot work well together and cannot call ourselves friends.'' Other Thai officers have denied there was any corruption. The program is operated by CIA officers in Thailand, which the guerrillas use as sanctuary and support in fighting Vietnamese troops that invaded Cambodia in late 1978. The money is funneled to the guerrillas at least in part through the Thai military. The aid, in the form of non-lethal items and training, goes to the forces of Prince Norodom Sihanouk and former Prime Minister Son Sann and is intended to strengthen their position relative to the third guerrilla group, the communist Khmer Rouge. The latter group killed hundreds of thousands in Cambodia before Vietnam invaded. The aid program has since been cleaned up but is operating at reduced levels, U.S. officials in Washington say. The Washington Post report said CIA officers in Thailand first turned up evidence earlier this year that money had been skimmed off from the program, which totaled $12 million in fiscal 1988. An audit team dispatched to Thailand by the Senate Intelligence Committee confirmed the scheme. The team's report to the intelligence panel on July 12 sparked disagreement over whether the covert support should be continued, The Post reported. At the time, the United States was seeking to increase the aid program. It was decided to reduce the amount of U.S. support to $8 million in the current year and to institute strict accounting procedures. AP881102-0077 AP-NR-11-02-88 0623EST r i PM-Palau-President 11-02 0379 PM-Palau-President,0395 Palauans In Festive Mood For National Elections By HOWARD GRAVES Associated Press Writer KOROR, Palau (AP) Palauans voted in a festive presidential election today less than three months after the western Pacific archipelago's president committed suicide and three years after his predecessor was assassinated. The election is of special interest to the United States and other Pacific governments because of Palau's strategic military importance. Six challengers sought to unseat President Thomas O. Remengesau, 55, who was vice president when President Lazarus Salii died Aug. 20 of a self-inflicted gunshot to the head. Salii was elected three years ago to complete the term of President Haruo I. Remeliik, who was assassinated. The apparent front-runners were Remengesau, a longtime government official; and wealthy businessmen Roman Tmetuchl, 52, and Nigratkel Etpison, 63, political observers said. The other candidates are Moses Y. Uludong, former Minister of State John O. Ngiraked, traditional chief Yutaka M. Gibbons and House Speaker Santos Olikong. The winner will serve four years and be paid $35,000 a year. Voters also cast ballots for a new vice president and national congress. Tabulation began tonight after polls closed. Ballots are counted by hand, and the final outcome is not expected for several days. Palau is west of the international dateline, putting it a day ahead of the United States. A turnout of 80-85 percent of the 11,174 registered voters, 2,000 of whom live off the islands, was expected. An estimated 15,000 people live on eight of the 200 islands that form Palau, which lies 600 miles east of the Philippines and 4,500 miles southwest of Hawaii. Palau is the world's last trusteeship, established in 1947 by the United Nations. The United States administers the archipelago's affairs. For nearly 20 years, Palau has been seeking a new political and economic arrangement with the United States, which views its location near critical sea lanes as being of strategic importance. Though marred by passing rain showers today, election day was reminiscent of a U.S. county fair. Voters were plied with free food and soft drinks at open-air booths outside key voting stations, and children waved handmade signs on the main road of Koror, Palau's business and government center. ``It is the livliest and most energized election I've seen,'' said Uludong. AP881102-0078 AP-NR-11-02-88 0634EST u i PM-Arabs-Israel 11-02 0585 PM-Arabs-Israel,0601 Arabs See Victory For Shamir A Setback For Peace With PM-Israel-Election, Bjt By JOHN RICE Associated Press Writer AMMAN, Jordan (AP) Arabs reacted with disappointed today to the results of Israel's general election, as some agreed with King Hussein that a victory by Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir is a setback for Middle East peace prospects. Foreign Minister Taher Masri of Jordan, whose country shares Israel's longest border, predicted Shamir's Likud bloc would form a coalition government within days with several small ultra-Orthodox religious parties. ``We think such a government will be a blow to the efforts of peace, especially at this time when everyone, the two superpowers, the world at large, is becoming more flexible about reaching the basis for a peaceful settlement,'' Masri told The Associated Press. But Egyptian Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Butros Ghali, told reporters: ``Egypt will do business with any new government in Israel in order to ... achieve a peaceful settlement of the Palestinian problem on the basis of implementing the principle of self-determination.'' Egypt, the only Arab country to sign a peace treaty with Israel, has worked with Jordan on ways to reach a broader settlement. Both hinted before the election that they favored a victory by Shamir's rival, Foreign Minister Shimon Peres of the Labor Party. Foreign Minister Esmat Abdel-Meguid of Egypt said in a statement: ``Egypt is ... anxious to emphasize the need for action to carry on with the peace process to achieve stability in the region. For its part, Egypt will make every effort to this end and hopes the new Israeli government will do likewise.'' Hussein told the ABC television network on Oct. 20 that a Shamir victory would be ``an absolute disaster.'' Shamir opposes Arab demands for a U.N.-sponsored Arab-Israeli peace conference and for Israel's withdrawal from Arab lands captured in 1967. Palestine Liberation Organization executive committee member Mohammed Milhem said the Israeli vote showed ``the society in Israel is not for peace. ``It seems that in Israel, and for a long time to come, there will be no chance for peace, no chance for a government that advocates peace,'' said Milhem, the elected mayor of the West Bank town of Halhoul, who was deported by the Israelis in 1980. Milhem expressed skepticism about both major parties, but said: ``With Shamir, there may be more chances for peaceful settlement than (with) Peres. He's going to escalate. He's going to kill more people, deport more people.'' ``The war is going on and it will be going on .... Innocent lives on both sides will have to be sacrificed,'' he said. ``It's because the Israeli rulers have chosen this line.'' Wahid Jabari, who represented the West Bank city of Hebron in Jordan's Parliament, stayed up late into the night listening to Israel rRadio for news of the voting. ``I was expecting success for Likud,'' Jabari said. ``The Israeli extremists are more numerous than those who want peace.'' Assad Abdul-Rahman, a political scientist on the PLO's central committee, said a Likud victory would be better than a continuation of the Likud-Labor coalition of the past four years. A relatively weak Likud-led government ``will increase polarization within Israeli society,'' he said. Ismael Makiyeh, a grocery store owner in Amman who fled Palestine before Israel was created in 1948, said, ``It would be a disaster having Shamir serve another term. I'm very pessimistic. There isn't going to be peace in this part of the world having a stubborn neighbor like that around.'' AP881102-0079 AP-NR-11-02-88 0644EST r p PM-MassachusettsFinances 11-02 0459 PM-Massachusetts Finances,440 Tax Receipts Fall Short; Dukakis Administration Sees `Fiscal Challenge' By CHRISTOPHER B. DALY Associated Press Writer BOSTON (AP) The state government has been overdrawn at the Bank of Boston by as much as $190 million as state tax collections fell below projections for October, Dukakis administration officials said. The disclosures Tuesday, coming one week before the presidential election, were considered damaging to the reputation for fiscal management cultivated by Gov. Michael Dukakis as he wages his underdog campaign for the White House. The admissions also gave to new fuel to angry Republicans in the legislature who have called for an investigation of the state's cash management practices. At a news conference, Secretary of Administration and Finance Frank Keefe tried to reassure reporters about the state's underlying economic strength. ``We face a fiscal challenge, not a fiscal crisis,'' Keefe said, citing the state's low unemployment rate and high rate of personal income growth. ``When you have the No. 1 economy in the country, you don't have a fiscal crisis. Your economy will see you through.'' A shortage of tax collections has forced the state to tap short-term borrowing for $1.2 billion _ at a cost of nearly $10 million _ since the fiscal year began on July 1, Keefe said. In addition, Keefe confirmed accusations by Republicans that the state was overdrawing its principal bank account at the Bank of Boston. ``There is nothing illegal about it. I want to make that clear,'' said Patrick Sullivan, the deputy state treasurer, at the Statehouse news conference. ``We have this agreement with the Bank of Boston. We've had it for years.'' Sullivan said the longest period of continuous overdrafts was 30 days ending Tuesday and that the peak overdraft was $190 million. He said he could not say how much the state paid in penalties. Under state law, Keefe sets fiscal policy on behalf of the administration. Treasurer Robert Q. Crane, an independently elected official, handles day-to-day cash management, including borrowing, paying bills and investing free cash. Keefe and Sullivan said the state actually has some $430 million in ``cash or cash equivalents'' on hand in other accounts. But, they said, the treasurer elected to run an overdraft at the Bank of Boston rather than tap those accounts because the cash deposits were earning higher rates of interest than the potential penalties on an overdraft. Critics said the announcement that tax collections were lower than expected was evidence that Dukakis will not be able to balance the state $11.6 billion budget without deep spending cuts or a tax increase. ``There's one purpose to all this: to mask the fiscal crisis until after the election,'' said state Sen. Paul Cellucci, a state co-chairman of the Republican presidential campaign. AP881102-0080 AP-NR-11-02-88 0650EST u i PM-Panama 11-02 0423 PM-Panama,0435 Marines Said To Trade Shots With Intruders at Panamanian Base Eds: RETRANSMITTING to fix category code. By ALINA GUERRERO Associated Press Writer PANAMA CITY, Panama (AP) Marine sentries at a U.S. Air Force fuel storage depot traded shots on-and-off for almost two hours with unidentified intruders, but there were no injuries, the U.S. Southern Command says. The gunfire occurred Monday night on the southern edge of the Arraijan Tank Farm and began when ``11 Marines in listening posts heard movement, voices and visually confirmed the presence of armed intruders in the jungle,'' the Southern Command statement said. In Washington, the Pentagon said ``there were six more exchanges of fire ... off and on until about 10 p.m.'' It said the incident was under investigation. Sentries have reported numerous intrusions at U.S. military facilities in Panama this year. A Marine sentry was killed April 11 at the tank farm when he was accidentally shot by fellow guards as they were investigating the first of the intrusions by what were described as eight men in dark uniforms. The 807-acre fuel storage depot is in a hilly, jungled area about five miles west of Panama City, the capital, and 1{ miles west of the United Stats' Howard Air Base. ``When the Marines verbally challenged the intruders, the Marines were fired on by automatic and small arms fire. The Marines returned fire with small arms'' and fired some illumination rounds, Tuesday's statement said. The Southern Command, which is responsible for all U.S. military operations in Latin America, reported four intrusions in April at U.S. military facilities in Panama by what one spokesman called ``highly trained professionals.'' In July, American soldiers exchanged gunfire with unidentified intruders on two occasions at Arraijan, the Southern Command said. The Southern Command statement said the Marine contingent involved in Monday night's shooting forms ``part of security forces temporarily dispatched to Panama since last April as part of increased security measures to protect U.S. citizens, property and interests'' in the former canal zone. Neither the Panamanian government nor the Defense Forces had any immediate comment. In the past incidents, the country's military has said its troops were not involved and suggested the U.S. sentries, nervous and inexperienced, had imagined intruders. The Defense Forces are commanded by Gen. Manuel Antonio Noriega, the country's de facto leader. Noriega is under criminal indictment in the United States on charges of cocaine trafficking. The Reagan administration has sought his ouster, through a series of economic sanctions and negotiations, but has not been successful. AP881102-0081 AP-NR-11-02-88 0651EST r a PM-WeatherpageWeather 11-02 0486 PM-Weatherpage Weather,0500 Rain In Northeast, Fair Skies In South By The Associated Press Wet, windy weather chilled the Northeast today, with snow in higher elevations, as a cold front brought showers and a few thunderstorms to the West. Showers dampened much of the northern Atlantic Coast and gale-force winds whipped the middle and northern Atlantic Coast. A winter storm advisory was in effect for parts of Vermont, and a winter weather advisory was in effect for the Catskill Mountains of eastern New York state. Snow was also expected in central Pennsylvania. In six hours overnight, more than 2 inches of rain fell at Portland, Maine, and Portsmouth, N.H., and 1{ inches at Brunswick, Maine. On Tuesday, Newark, N.J., received 1.46 inches of rain, breaking the old record for Nov. 1 of 1.40 inches set in 1941. Showers continued today over northern Utah, western Oregon, northern California and the northern Rockies, and skies were cloudy over much of the West and the north central United States. Fair skies prevailed from Colorado and New Mexico to the southern Atlantic Coast. High-temperature records were set Tuesday in Boise, Idaho, where it was 74 degrees; Denver, 78, Goodland, Kan., 78; Las Vegas, 87; Pueblo, Colo., 80; Salt Lake City, 72; and Scottsbluff, Nev., 78. The nation's high Tuesday was 94 degrees at Bullhead City, Ariz., and Laughlin, Nev. Today's forecast called for rain in much of New England, with snow in some higher elevations in Maine; rain in the Pacific Northwest; and mostly sunny skies in the rest of the nation. High temperatures were predicted in the 60s or 70s across much of the nation; the 50s across the Pacific Northwest and from the upper Mississippi Valley through the lower Ohio Valley to the mid-Atlantic Coast; the 40s from the Great Lakes region to the upper Ohio Valley and New England; the 80s in the southern tip of Florida and from the western Gulf Coast to much of Texas and the desert Southwest. Temperatures around the nation at 3 a.m. EST ranged from 23 degrees at Madison, Wis., to 75 degrees at Key West, Fla. Other reports: _East: Atlanta 47 fair; Boston 55 partly cloudy; Buffalo 40 foggy; Charleston, S.C. 46 fair; Cincinnati 34 fair; Cleveland 42 showers; Detroit 41 cloudy; Miami 69 fair; New York 46 partly cloudy; Philadelphia 41 foggy; Pittsburgh 36 partly cloudy; Portland, Maine 52 rain; Washington 45 cloudy. _Central: Bismarck 44 fair; Chicago 39 cloudy; Dallas-Fort Worth 54 fair; Denver 49 cloudy; Des Moines 34 fair; Indianapolis 34 partly cloudy; Kansas City 44 fair; Minneapolis-St. Paul 29 fair; Nashville 40 fair; New Orleans 47 fair; St. Louis 38 fair. _West: Albuquerque 45 fair; Anchorage 24 fair; Las Vegas 63 fair; Los Angeles 61 cloudy; Phoenix 69 partly cloudy; Salt Lake City 50 fair; San Diego 61 partly cloudy; San Francisco 59 cloudy; Seattle 49 partly cloudy. _Canada: Montreal 34 rain; Toronto 39 foggy. AP881102-0082 AP-NR-11-02-88 0657EST u i PM-Dollar-Gold 1stLd-Writethru a0519 11-02 0318 PM-Dollar-Gold, 1st Ld-Writethru, a0519,0331 Dollar Little Changed, Gold Up Eds: SUBS 6th graf to CORRECT that pound more expensive. Picks up 7th graf, `Other mid-morning ...' LONDON (AP) The dollar changed little against most major currencies in thin mid-morning trading today, and dealers forecast a steady course before the Nov. 8 presidential election in the United States. Gold prices were higher. Foreign exchange dealers said the dollar bounced back in Europe from lows hit during the Tokyo trading day on support from a third day of intervention from Japan's central bank, the Bank of Japan, and fear of the same by the U.S. Federal Reserve. But they said sentiment remained essentially bearish, although the dollar was unlikely to fall sharply ahead of the U.S. election. ``The nearer we come to the election the calmer the dollar will be,'' said one trader in Milan. In London, the dollar rose against the British pound. One pound cost $1.7695 today, more expensive for buyers than Tuesday's late $1.7668. Other mid-morning dollar rates compared with Tuesday's late rates: _1.7824 West German marks, down from 1.7865 _1.4990 Swiss francs, down from 1.5025 _6.0835 French francs, down 6.0965 _2.0100 Dutch guilders, down from 2.0155 _1,323.85 Italian lire, up from 1,331.50 _1.2270 Canadian dollars, down from 1.2278 Earlier in Tokyo, the dollar closed at 124.68 Japanese yen, down 0.62 yen from late Tuesday. Later, the dollar traded in London at 124.90 yen. Gold opened in London at a bid price of $411.65 a troy ounce, up from $411.25 late Tuesday. At mid-morning, London's five major bullion dealers fixed a recommended gold price of $412.50 a troy ounce. Gold was trading in Zurich at $412.10 a troy ounce today, up from $411.00 Tuesday. Earlier in Hong Kong, gold closed at a bid $413.90, up slightly from Tuesday's $413.89. Silver bullion traded in London at a bid $6.34 a troy ounce, up from $6.28. AP881102-0083 AP-NR-11-02-88 0709EST u a PM-Sakharov-Gorbachev 11-02 0414 PM-Sakharov-Gorbachev,0428 Sakharov Criticizes Gorbachev's Political Reform By The Associated Press Soviet activist Andrei D. Sakharov lashed out at Mikhail S. Gorbachev's plan for political reform, saying it was a ``time bomb'' that would give the Soviet leader a dangerous monopoly of power, published reports said. Sakharov, the Soviet Union's most prominent human rights advocate, on Tuesday strongly criticized parts of Gorbachev's proposals as a return to centralization that could augur a new age of Stalinism. ``A head of state with such powers in a country that does not have a multiparty system is just insanity. This is practically boundless power,'' he said. ``Today it is Gorbachev, but tomorrow it could be somebody else. There are no guarantees that some Stalinist will not succeed him.'' The Nobel Peace Prize-winning physicist made the comments to reporters from The New York Times and The Washington Post during a conference with Soviet and U.S. scholars in Moscow. Sakharov, who has been a strong supporter of Gorbachev since the Soviet leader ordered him released from internal exile nearly two years ago, added his voice to growing criticism of the proposed system from Soviet intellectuals. While the newly published draft election laws and constitutional amendments have been promoted as a move toward greater democracy, he said, they are actually a ``time bomb'' that would create a national leader ``vested with absolute power.'' ``Once more, everything boils down to one person, and that is extremely dangerous for perestroika,'' he said, referring to Gorbachev's plan for restructuring the Soviet economy. ``This is an extremely important question, on which the fate of our country depends.'' The proposed new electoral system, approved at a Communist Party conference in July, calls for the election of a new Congress of People's Deputies, which in turn will pick a new legislature and president. Critics contend the congress, and thus the legislature, could be manipulated by party functionaries, and the president would have extraordinary powers to issue decrees. ``This is perestroika from above,'' said Sakharov. ``It can only develop further with real democratic foundations. Without them, reform is at a dead end.'' While shift of power to a legislature is ``essential,'' he said, ``these changes will determine our life for a very long time. Before you cut your clothes you must take at least seven different measurements. Surely we need at least three months for this discussion.'' The new laws are scheduled to be approved by a special session of the Soviet legislature on Nov. 29 AP881102-0084 AP-NR-11-02-88 0713EST r a PM-ToothySculpture 11-02 0478 PM-Toothy Sculpture,0491 Dentists Oppose Tooth Sculpture Honoring Fluoridation By LISA PERLMAN Associated Press Writer GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) Dentists aren't pleased with plans for a giant molar sculpture intended to commemorate the first city to fluoridate its drinking water, saying the statue would send the wrong signals about dentistry. ``Fluoride is probably the single most significant healing effort in dentistry and an extracted tooth represents just the opposite _ feelings of pain or suffering or anxiety,'' said Dr. Charles Caldwell, president of the 400-member West Michigan Dental Society. Artist Mark Heckman, 26, said he learned recently that his hometown made history in 1945 by being the first to add fluoride to its water, but was shocked there was nothing to commemorate the event. ``I wanted to raise all the money myself and give the sculpture to the city as a present,'' Heckman said Tuesday. ``At first, everybody was telling me what a great idea it was, but the dentists have stalled the whole thing.'' His plan, dubbed ``Operation: Pearly White,'' consists of a 600-pound, 18-foot-long abstract fiberglass sculpture of a tooth balanced atop a stainless steel pole 22 feet above the Grand River downtown. Heckman said he has tried to work with the dental group, changing his design from a traditional-looking, three-rooted molar to the abstract tooth, but to no avail. ``I didn't want it to be obvious that it was a tooth. But now the dentists are sensitive about it looking like a mutant molar _ it makes them cringe,'' Heckman said, holding his mouth in feigned pain. ``I don't think anybody else is going to think about that when they look at it.'' The steel pole on which the tooth would sit hasn't been a winning point either. ``To me, that symbolizes the dental instrument,'' said Heckman, whose girlfriend is a dental hygienist. Mayor Gerald Helmholdt said he likes the design but sympathizes with the dentists' concerns. ``I think it could be unique and certainly most unusual for a piece of art,'' the mayor said. ``But I think it's important to have the dental association's support of a sculpture because they're so closely tied to its purpose.'' Caldwell said the dental society has formed a committee to design a fountain to be dedicated in 1995, the 50th anniversary of the fluoridation. Heckman, who received receiving a letter of support from former President Gerald Ford, a former Grand Rapids congressman, and funding commitments for the $55,000 tooth, has vowed to dedicate his sculpture next July. The decision ultimately will be made by the City Commission. Heckman compared his fight to the opposition fluoridation proponents faced when the idea was introduced. ``Fluoride was called a communist plot, forced medication, or worse yet, rat poison,'' Heckman said. ``Those who advocated fluoridation had to face tremendous opposition. But they didn't give up _ and neither will I.'' AP881102-0085 AP-NR-11-02-88 0717EST u i PM-Poland-Crash 1stLd-Writethru a0518 11-02 0259 PM-Poland-Crash, 1st Ld-Writethru, a0518,0262 Plane Crash Reported In Southeastern Poland, Deaths Reported ^Eds: UPDATES with police official contradicting PAP report on deaths. No pickup. WARSAW, Poland (AP) A Soviet-built domestic airliner with 29 people aboard crashed in southeastern Poland on a domestic flight today and some of the passengers were killed, authorities said. The official PAP news agency reported that 16 people were killed, but a police official in Rzeszow, near the scene, said the figure was too high and he could confirm only one death. Police Capt. Jerzy Pacula said many passengers survived with minor injuries. The Antonov-24 twin-engine turboprop plane, was on a flight from Warsaw to Rzeszow when it crashed in the village of Bialobrzegi, PAP said. It was carrying 25 passengers and four crew. The plane went down _ apparently due to a mechanical failure _ in an empty field about 170 miles southeast of Warsaw, said Pacula, the officer at police headquarters in Rzeszow. He said by telephone that the pilot was moments from making an emergency landing when he lost control and the aircraft plummeted to the ground. All the crew members survived, and the slightly injured pilot was aiding rescue operations at the scene, Pacula said. He said workers were planning to cut into the side of the plane to free passengers believed still trapped inside. Poland's worst air disaster occurred on May 9, 1987, when a Soviet-built Ilushin-62-M jetliner on a LOT flight to New York crashed outside Warsaw after one engine broke apart. It killed 183 people. AP881102-0086 AP-NR-11-02-88 1043EST r a PM-HealthCards 1stLd-Writethru a0565 11-02 0303 PM-Health Cards, 1st Ld - Writethru, a0565,0306 Blue Cross Introduces Credit Card For Health Bills Eds: LEADS with four grafs to ADD that card is available to non-members of Blue Cross and Blue Cross; PICKS UP 4th graf pvs, `More than ...' BALTIMORE (AP) A subsidiary of Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Maryland today announced the introduction of a credit card for use when paying for health care not covered by insurance. The card, Medcash, can be used to charge medical and dental bills that are not covered by health policies, such as deductibles for hospital and doctor bills, medication, cosmetic surgery and other elective procedures. Medcash can also be used for preventive health care, such as routine doctor visits, weight-loss clinics and home blood-pressure kits. Cardholders do not have to belong to Blue Cross and Blue Shield. More than 300 health care professionals and hospitals have agreed to accept the card, which will be test-marketed in Baltimore. The card later will be expanded nationally through Club Cross and Blue Shield plans around the country. ``Medcash is a card totally dedicated to the health care industry,'' said Jack Rapport, president of Health Line Inc., a subsidiary of the insurance company. The card, Rapport said, allows consumers to separate health care expenditures from retail purchases and provides a form of insurance against unforeseen medical expenses. It will provide initial credit of $1,000 to $5,000, with the possibility of obtaining additional coverage in an emergency by way of an 800 number. No interest will be charged if the balance is paid within 25 days. The card will charge competitive interest rates and provide a three-year repayment plan, the company said. In addition, Rapport said, the card will cut the time and money health care providers spend on sending and collecting bills. AP881102-0087 AP-NR-11-02-88 1044EST r w PM-Productivity 11-02 0386 PM-Productivity,380 Gain Reverses Second Quarter's Loss By MATT YANCEY AP Labor Writer WASHINGTON (AP) Corporate America boosted its productivity in the third quarter, reversing a loss of efficiency in the second quarter that was much greater than economists had previously calculated, the government said today. Productivity among non-farm businesses responsibile for three-fourths of the nation's economic activity rose at an annual rate of 1.3 percent from July through September, the Labor Department said, with a 2.8 percent increase in output and only a 1.5 percent rise in hours worked to achieve it. In the second quarter, productivity dropped by 2.4 percent, the first quarterly decline since 1986. Earlier calculations had put the second quarter efficiency loss at only 1.4 percent. The calculation of growth in second quarter output was revised from 5.2 percent to 4.0 percent. Meanwhile, productivity in the manufacturing sector, which accounts for about one-fourth of the nation's economic activity, rose 4.3 percent in the third quarter on a 6.5 percent increase, the biggest this year, in output of goods coming off assembly lines. Factories achieved the increased output with an increase of only 2 percent in hours worked, reflecting a leveling off in hiring new workers. The Labor Department figures showed manufacturing wages and benefits rising at an annual rate of 4.6 percent in the third quarter, compared with 3.8 percent over the last year. But the increased output enabled U.S. factories to maintain labor costs at only 0.3 percent above what they were in the second quarter and only 0.7 higher than they were a year ago, compared with a 4.2 percent annual inflation rate. Even with the larger pay gains recently, the figures show factory workers making 0.3 percent less than they did a year ago for each hour of work after taking inflation into account. Businessmen as a whole have not been so successful in keeping a lid on their labor costs. In the third quarter, labor costs among non-farm businesses rose at an annual rate of 4 percent on hourly wage and benefit gains averaging 5.4 percent annually. Over the last year, hourly wages and benefits have risen an average of 4.9 percent among non-farm businesses, giving workers in the private sector generally a 0.7 percent increase in their buying power after taking inflation into account. AP881102-0088 AP-NR-11-02-88 1046EST r i PM-Nicaragua 11-02 0260 PM-Nicaragua,0266 Sandinistas Close Radio Show MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) The leftist government indefinitely suspended a private radio news show for broadcasting a story about a reported air force bombing, the Sandinista newspaper Barricada said today. The Interior Ministry order, reprinted in the newspaper, said the show ``6 O'Clock Sharp,'' aired on Radio Corporacion, violated the government's communication law. A newscaster aired a news service story Monday citing U.S.- supported rebels as saying the air force bombed Indian villages along the Atlantic Coast as hurricane victims sought refuge in Honduras. The article of the communication law cited by the ministry bars the media from reporting on unconfirmed events and those that threaten national security. The media sanctions are the latest in a series that started in July with the 15-day suspension of the only opposition newspaper, La Prensa, and the news show on the Roman Catholic Radio station's Radio Catolica. The government charged that the newspaper and radio station reported inflamatory news. Last month the government shut down the news show operated by a coalition of private enterprise groups. The Interior Ministry cited a broadcast by a leader of the rebels, also known as Contras. The latest closure was announced in the newspaper under a headline reading: ``Suspended Indefinitely A Lying News Show.'' Radio Liberacion, the clandestine Contra station, reportedly located in El Salvador, repeated its claims today about the bombing and said several people died and others suffered serious injuries. The report criticized the Sandinista closure of the news show, saying it was ``repression ... against the people.'' AP881102-0089 AP-NR-11-02-88 1058EST u p PM-Candidates-Health 11-02 0279 PM-Candidates-Health,290 Bush, Dukakis in Fine Health WASHINGTON (AP) Doctors for both presidential candidates say they are in excellent health, except for minor conditions not unusual for people of their ages and lifestyles. Democratic nominee Michael Dukakis suffers an occasional backache made worse by campaign travel, Dr. Gerald Plotkin said. He issued a medical statement on Dukakis' health last September after a routine medical checkup at the Harvard Community Health Plan's Wellesley Center. The candidate ``was found to be in excellent health,'' Plotkin said. ``Over the last eight to 10 months he has had intermittent, nagging low back discomfort exacerbated by long periods of sitting in airplanes,'' the doctor said. Plotkin said then that Dukakis, who will be 55 Thursday, took an occasional anti-inflammatory medication to ease the back pain. Dukakis told The New York Times in an interview published today that he had an occasional but no longer bothersome sore back. Plotkin said Dukakis had only received treatment for routine ailments, such as hay fever and muscle sprains, and ``has had no psychological symptoms, complaints or treatment.'' ``He has had no significant illnesses during his lifetime and has been in excellent health,'' Plotkin said. ``He has never appeared depressed to me.'' Doctors interviewed by the Times said George Bush, 64, is in excellent health. Bush has a mild enlargement of the prostate gland but they do not expect corrective surgery to be necessary in the next four years. He had a basal cell skin cancer removed from his face in 1986, but has no symptoms of other cancers. He is allergic to bee stings but is receiving immunotherapy injections to stave off potentially life-threatening allergic reactions. AP881102-0090 AP-NR-11-02-88 1058EST r a PM-ParkHomeless 11-02 0266 PM-Park Homeless,0279 Rangers Tear Down Shelter in City Hall Park By JOHN SHANAHAN Associated Press Writer NEW YORK (AP) The Parks Department tore down tarpaulins sheltering about 100 homeless people who had camped out in a park for five months trying to force the city to give them apartments. ``It got so out of hand it got ridiculous. It was like an outdoor bazaar,'' said city Parks Commissioner Henry Stern, who ordered the tarpaulins in City Hall Park carted off Tuesday. The homeless were allowed to take their personal belongings. They have been staying in the park in a demonstration demanding housing, and had used park benches and fences as supports for tarpaulins. ``We're not kicking them out of the park,'' said Mayor Edward I. Koch, but he added that the homeless were not permitted to build shelters in the park. ``That's the law. And we're going to enforce the law,'' he said. Stern said that because of the camp site, park paths were blocked off, benches were filled and shrubbery was covered. By early afternoon Tuesday, several of the homeless were back, sitting on the benches, getting soaked by the rain. One, who identified himself by the nickname Heavy, said, ``I didn't stay out here for 154 days for nothing!'' ``We're out here fighting for a cause. We're fighting for our lives,'' he said. It was at least the second time the Parks Department dismantled their shelters. Larry Locke, a leader of the demonstration, has urged the city to turn over a vacant apartment building which he said the homeless would rehabilitate. AP881102-0091 AP-NR-11-02-88 1100EST u p PM-Bentsen 1stLd-Writethru a0470 11-02 0584 PM-Bentsen, 1st Ld-Writethru, a0470,560 Bentsen Says Quayle Choice Shows GOP's Disdain for Americans Eds: Top 8 grafs new with Bentsen speech; pickup pvs 4th graf bgng, ``Today, the polls; DELETES last 3 grafs pvs to tighten. By STEVEN KOMAROW Associated Press Writer CARBONDALE, Ill. (AP) Sen. Lloyd Bentsen told supporters in southern Illinois today that Vice President George Bush's choice of Dan Quayle as his running mate illustrated the ``real disdain'' that Republicans have for the American public. The Democratic vice presidential nominee attacked Quayle several times for his Senate voting record, including his opposition to requiring employers to give workers 60 days' advance notice of plant closings or mass layoffs. The Texas senator said Bush's selection of Quayle for the vice presidency showed that the GOP nominee would do anything to win the Nov. 8 election. ``Bush showed a real disdain, disregard for our country,'' Bentsen said. He was introduced by Illinois' two Democratic senators, Alan Dixon and Paul Simon, who said Bentsen would win handily if Republican senators were polled on which vice presidential candidate they preferred. ``It would be a wash-away,'' Simon said. Simon advised the crowd, ``Don't believe the polls,'' which show Bush with a significant lead over Democratic rival Michael Dukakis nationwide. Bentsen has been delivering the same message, insisting that the Democratic ticket is narrowing the gap in the final days of the campaign. From Illinois, Bentsen travels to Ohio and West Virginia before returning to Texas in the wrapup of a campaign swing that is taking him through six states in three days. At every stop, Dukakis' running mate compares the Democratic ticket's fate with efforts by Harry Truman and John Kennedy, who came from behind in the last weeks of the campaign and won. ``Today, the polls are closing, the momentum is our way,'' he told a rally attended by about 2,000 students Tuesday night at Washington University in St. Louis. The Republicans think the campaign is over and are ``popping those campaign corks, but I'll tell you on November ninth they're going to have the worst hangover they've ever had,'' he said. As he has been doing at other stops, Bentsen held over his head a reprint of the 1948 Chicago Tribune which declared, wrongly, ``Dewey Defeats Truman.'' Mike McCurry, Bentsen's press secretary, said the message would remain simple through the final days of the campaign. Bentsen will talk about how the Republicans have distorted Michael Dukakis' record through negative campaigning, and he will continue to attack Dan Quayle, George Bush's running mate. ``Those two issues are weighing heavily on the minds of voters who are reconsidering their initial choice'' of Bush as their candidate, McCurry said. Bentsen, in his speeches, cites polls selectively to highlight those which show the Democratic campaign gaining ground on the Republican ticket. McCurry, asked about new national polls sponsored by news organizations showing double-digit leads for Bush, said, ``we don't necessarily think those are accurate. They are not consistent with the campaign's own polls,'' he said. Tuesday evening in Owensboro, Ky., Bentsen addressed a huge crowd of more than 2,500 people in a tobacco warehouse. To that crowd of conservative Democrats, he said the Republican assertion that Dukakis was weak on defense was nonsense. He told them the Democrats support a military that is best in the world. ``I'll tell you what a second-best defense system is,'' he said. ``It has all the value of a second-best poker hand. All it does is cost you money.'' AP881102-0092 AP-NR-11-02-88 1109EST u p PM-Dukakis 2ndLd-Writethru a0564 11-02 0740 PM-Dukakis, 2nd Ld-Writethru, a0564,740 Dukakis Urges Supporters to `Keep Pouring It On' Till Election Day Eds: INSERTS new graf after pvs 3rd graf bgng, Dukakis then, with visit to wife, report on her condition. By DONALD M. ROTHBERG AP Political Writer MINNEAPOLIS (AP) Michael Dukakis invoked the memories of other underdog Democratic presidential candidates today and urged supporters to ``keep pouring it on'' in the closing days of the 1988 campaign. ``This is one election where millions of people are going to be looking and thinking and listening, and they're not going to be making up their mind until very close to the moment when they go into that polling booth,'' he told a rally in a downtown hotel. Dukakis then went to the University of Minnesota Hospital, where his wife, Kitty, is recovering from a respiratory viral infection. He took an unscheduled detour from Kansas City, Mo., to Minnesota late Tuesday for a post-midnight visit with his wife. The Democratic nominee visited his wife for 40 minutes after this morning's rally, and together they waved to reporters from her sixth-floor hospital window. Downstairs, Dukakis said she was ``a good deal better'' but that ``she's got to take it easy, one day at a time.'' Joining Dukakis at the rally were Massachusetts Sen. Edward M. Kennedy and Minnesota Senate candidate Hubert H. Humphrey III. Kennedy urged the partisan crowd to ``do the same thing for the governor of Massachusetts and Skip Humphrey that you did for John Kennedy in 1960.'' Kennedy also joked about the candidacy of Humphrey, son of the late Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey. ``The only trouble I have with Skip Humphrey,'' said Kennedy, ``is he is trying to get along on the basis of a famous family name.'' Dukakis said the presence of Kennedy and Humphrey on the platform ``reminds us of some very important elections.'' He cited Harry Truman's upset victory in 1948, Kennedy's close win in 1960 and the closing drive of Humphrey in 1968 when he nearly overtook Republican Richard Nixon. Dukakis urged the crowd ``to keep pouring it on and pouring it on. There are millions and millions of voters out there who haven't made up their mind.'' Dukakis told reporters at the hospital that his wife ``seemed to be much improved'' in fighting off ``a pretty tough virus,'' but said it was uncertain whether she would be well enough to return to the campaign trail before Tuesday's election. ``She said she loves me,'' he replied when asked what Mrs. Dukakis had said to him. ``And what did you say to her?'' ``I love her.'' At rallies in Ohio, Wisconsin, Michigan and Missouri, large crowds cheered Dukakis' newly refined populist message. In the crowded gymnasium at Penn Valley Community College in Kansas City, he repeatedly invoked the memory of the state's favorite son, Harry Truman, the hero of all Democratic Party underdogs. Saying he would win by taking his message to the people, Dukakis added, ``That was Harry Truman's prediction in 1948 and it's my prediction today.'' Truman defeated Republican Thomas E. Dewey 40 years ago despite an overwhelming consensus that he had no chance to win. He ridiculed President Reagan's suggestion that if Truman, a highly partisan Democrat, were alive today he would support Bush. ``I've got a message for Mr. Bush and he Republicans,'' said Dukakis ``Harry Truman stood for the little guy and you're looking at him.'' The basketball scoreboard in the gymnasium read, ``Duke 50 Bush 0.'' A large sign said, ``We need a president and a vice president, not a vice president and an idiot.'' Dukakis reminded crowds at every stop that there were only seven days remaining until Election Day. ``Give it everything you have, everything you have over the next seven days,'' he urged his supporters. Two new national polls had no good news for Dukakis. A CBS-New York Times survey said Bush was leading by a margin of 53 to 41 percent, while an ABC-Washington Post poll put the Bush lead at 55 to 42 percent. The polls had margins of error of plus or minus three and four percentage points, respectively. Senior political adviser Kirk O'Donnell said Dukakis' own polls put Bush ahead by seven points and insisted with campaign chairman Paul Brountas, ``We're closing in.'' ``National polls no longer have that kind of significance,'' said Brountas. ``We're looking at the battleground states,'' he said. ``We're making progress in those states.'' AP881102-0093 AP-NR-11-02-88 1125EST u p PM-KittyDukakis 1stLd-Writethru a0508 11-02 0484 PM-Kitty Dukakis, 1st Ld-Writethru, a0508,470 Dukakis Visits Wife in Hospital, Says She's ``Good Deal Better' Eds: Top 7 grafs new with Dukakis visit, comments; pickup pvs 4th graf bgng, Mrs. Dukakis. By SUZANNE MALICH Associated Press Writer MINNEAPOLIS (AP) Democratic presidential nominee Michael Dukakis visited his ailing wife for the second time today, joined her in waving from her hospital window and said ``she's a good deal better.'' ``She's got to take it easy, one day at a time,'' Dukakis told reporters after the 40-minute visit at the University of Minnesota Hospital, where Kitty Dukakis was admitted Monday night complaining of chills and a 102-degree fever. Mrs. Dukakis' press secretary, Paul Costello, said today that ``her spirits are terrific. Her temperature is normal.'' Costello said Mrs. Dukakis hoped she could join her husband on the campaign trail in time for his 55th birthday Thursday, but Dukakis said it was too early to say whether she'd be well enough to leave the hospital by then. During their reunion this morning, the couple waved to reporters from Mrs. Dukakis' sixth-floor hospital window. Dukakis made a campaign detour Tuesday night to Minneapolis for a post-midnight visit with his wife that lasted for a half-hour. Afterward, he said she was ``pretty sick'' and would remain in the hospital at least through today. Hospital spokeswoman Mary Stanik said Mrs. Dukakis was suffering from an upper respiratory viral infection or an allergic reaction to sinus medication. Mrs. Dukakis, 51, was hospitalized for observation and tests Monday when she complained of fever and chills while campaigning. ``She was pretty sick yesterday,'' said Dukakis, who took his wife red flowers and was accompanied by their daughter Andrea. ``She's just got to take it easy.'' Asked what his wife said to him, the Massachusetts governor replied, ``She said she loves me.'' ``And what did you say to her?'' ``I love her.'' ``She's going to be fine,'' he told reporters at the hospital. ``It's just got to be one day at a time.'' Dukakis, who flew in Tuesday night after campaigning in four states during the day, said he didn't know when Mrs. Dukakis would be released, but ``it certainly won't be'' today. Stanik said Mrs. Dukakis requested sushi for dinner Tuesday and that it was brought in from a local restaurant. Stanik said she also ate cookies and half a brownie. Mrs. Dukakis waved to television reporters standing below her sixth-floor room at one point Tuesday. Dukakis had planned to visit his wife again after appearing at an early morning rally here and campaigning in Chicago later today. Paul Costello, her press secretary, said Mrs. Dukakis is anxious to resume her campaign schedule, but no decision had been made to when that might occur. Mrs. Dukakis was operated on this summer for a herniated disk. Doctors in Minnesota ruled out any connection between her current illness and that operation. AP881102-0094 AP-NR-11-02-88 1128EST r a PM-FlagTrial 11-02 0377 PM-Flag Trial,0391 Trespass Trial Opens For 14 Black Legislators In Confederate Flag Case MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) Fourteen black legislators, including state NAACP President Thomas Reed, went on trial today on misdemeanor trespass charges for trying to remove the Confederate battle flag atop Alabama's Capitol. District Judge Craig Miller, who is presiding over the non-jury trial, agreed to let TV cameras record the proceedings. Miller earlier rejected defense claims that the lawmakers were protected by legislative immunity when they made a mostly symbolic bid on Feb. 2 _ the opening day of the 1988 legislative session _ to bring down the flag. The offense carries a penalty of up to three months in jail and a $500 fine. Reed, 60, the senior black in the Legislature, in 1970 became one of the first two blacks this century to win a seat in the Assembly. He was convicted last month on federal extortion charges in an unrelated case, and a court ordered his removal upon sentencing. No sentencing date has been set. Reed claims the extortion case was built against him because of his threat to pull down the Confederate flag if Republican Gov. Guy Hunt failed to do it before the opening day of the 1988 legislative session. Hunt said he viewed the flag as a historic emblem and refused to remove it unless instructed to do so by the Legislature. On Feb. 2, a resolution to remove the Rebel standard failed to win passage. The 14 legislators walked to a chain-link fence surrounding the Capitol, which is now closed for restoration and renovations, where they were stopped by state troopers and Capitol police, who declined to let them enter. Reed grabbed the fence as if to climb it, and was arrested. One by one, the other blacks grabbed the fence and were arrested as well. Former Gov. John Patterson said the Confederate flag was raised over the Capitol in 1961 to coincide with the Civil War centennial. The flag was still atop the dome when George C. Wallace became governor in 1963 with the pledge of ``segregation forever,'' and the never came down. Defendants in district court trials, if convicted, have the right to request a full-scale jury trial at the circuit court level. AP881102-0095 AP-NR-11-02-88 1141EST u p PM-PoliticalRdp 2ndLd-Writethru a0576 11-02 0982 PM-Political Rdp, 2nd Ld-Writethru, a0576,990 Dukakis Visits Wife in Hospital; Bush Campaigns in Close Illinois Eds: Updates with Bush speech in top 4 grafs, picking up in 2nd graf pvs, Democrat Dukakis; subs 7th graf pvs, With the, with Reagan quote; CORRECTS Birmingham to Montgomery in 15th graf pvs, Dukakis appealed By WILLIAM M. WELCH Associated Press Writer Michael Dukakis visited his hospitalized wife today and told supporters millions of voters were still ``thinking and listening,'' keeping the presidential race open. George Bush, with a solid lead in national polls, said voters should ``look beyond the charges'' in the heated race. With six days to go, Bush told students at a high school in Prairie View, Ill., near Chicago, ``In just a few days from now many of you in this room will help select the next president of the United States and I ask for your vote. ``You're not going to make your decision on some television (advertisement) or some sound bite, and what I want you to do is look beyond the charges, get past the shouting and choose as president the person who represents your values, your dreams, your hopes for the United States, and I am that man.'' ``I think things are moving in our direction,'' Bush said, but he quickly returned to his daily disclaimer that ``I'm going to keep on running as though I'm 10 points behind.'' Democrat Dukakis spoke at an early hotel rally in Minneapolis, where he had flown Tuesday night to visit his wife, who was hospitalized with a viral infection. He spent 40 minutes with her after the rally, and they waved from her 6th floor window. When he came down, he said, ``She's a good deal better.'' Dukakis urged the crowd at the rally to ``keep pouring it on and pouring it on. ... This is one election where millions of people are going to be looking and thinking and listening and they're not going to be making up their mind until very close to the moment when they go into that polling booth.'' He was joined by Sen. Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts and by Hubert H. Humphrey III, the Democratic candidate for the Senate seat his father once held. Dukakis said the two men's presence ``reminds us of some very important elections.'' He went on to cite John F. Kennedy's presidential victory in 1960 and Humphrey's closing drive that nearly caught Republican Richard M. Nixon in 1968. Dukakis also mentioned, as he does frequently, Harry Truman's upset victory in 1948. With the race for the White House in its final week, President Reagan was getting in some campaigning today with a stop on behalf of the vice president in Ohio, one of the battlegrounds. He said voters should reject ``far-out liberalism'' when they cast their ballots. New polls released a week from Election Day showed the Republican presidential nominee still leading solidly. A CBS News poll conducted Saturday through Monday showed Bush ahead by 12 percentage points, 53-41 percent _ virtually the same as the 13-point lead a CBS poll had shown a week ago. But fully one voter in five said he could still change his mind before Election Day. The survey was of 1,066 probable voters and had a margin of error of plus or minus three percentage points. An ABC News-Washington Post poll done Wednesday through Monday gave the GOP nominee a 13-point lead over Dukakis, 55-42 percent. The survey of 1,099 probable voters had a margin of error of four percentage points. An ABC News poll in California showed Bush the leader by seven percentage points in the nation's largest state, and another survey by the network indicated a close race in Illinois, with Bush leading 48-47, statistically meaningless in light of the poll's five-point margin of potential sampling error. Dukakis aides contended their own private polls showed the Democratic presidential nominee gaining on his Republican rival in battleground states. Privately, some Democrats expressed doubts. The Democratic nominee was campaigning today in Minneapolis, Chicago, Pittsburgh, and Philadelphia, where he was joining former Democratic candidate Jesse Jackson at rally at a local high school. Dukakis appealed to black voters Tuesday night at Detroit's Greater Grace Temple, where he said the Republicans have ignored the needs of inner cities and are insensitive to the plight of minorities. Dukakis was joined by Rosa Parks, whose refusal to move to the back of a Montgomery, Ala., bus was a milestone of the civil rights movement. Bush spoke to an evening rally in Waukesha, Wis., where he took a line directly from Dukakis' new populist campaign theme. ``I am on your side,'' Bush declared. ``You are on my side.'' But in Nevada, Reagan was mocking Dukakis for that same line. ``The liberals now are saying that they're on your side,'' Reagan said. ``I guess they think that that will make it easier for them to reach their hand around and put it in your pocket.'' While Dukakis kept a frenetic campaign pace, Bush was just the opposite. He campaigned enough to avoid seeming too confident, but was serene enough to deliver an above-the-fray address on presidential concerns. Bush went to the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Ind., where he pledged to ``appoint moderate persons of conservative views'' to the Supreme Court. He said Dukakis ``would appoint doctrinaire liberals.'' Bush also said he would seek an early meeting with Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev to allow them to ``size each other up correctly.'' Bush's running mate Dan Quayle was to campaign in South Bend but saw his schedule abruptly changed by the Bush campaign headquarters. He voiced irritation, but campaigned elsewhere in his native state. Democratic vice presidential nominee Lloyd Bentsen campaigned in Kentucky where he spoke to a crowd in a tobacco warehouse and said the Democrats are committed to having the best military in the world. AP881102-0096 AP-NR-11-02-88 1142EST u p PM-Bush 1stLd-Writethru a0445 11-02 0885 PM-Bush, 1st Ld-Writethru, a0445,880 Eds: Top 10 grafs new with Bush today; pick up 6th graf pvs bgng ``Two nationwide... By TERENCE HUNT Associated Press Writer CHICAGO (AP) Republican George Bush, beginning a determined push to get out the vote, urged people today to ``look beyond the charges, get past the shouting and choose as president the person who represents your values.'' Before a screaming crowd of mostly young people who filled the Adlai Stevenson High School gymnasium, Bush declared, ``I am that man.'' With only six days remaining before Americans choose a new president, Bush hit the campaign trail with a plea for GOP turnout. ``Do not forget your solemn obligation to vote,'' Bush told the crowd _ many of whom were too young to vote. The high school rally was the first stop before Bush headed to Grand Rapids and Lansing, Mich., and then a trip to Columbus, Ohio, for an overnight stop. Reflecting the closeness of the race in Illinois with its 24 electoral votes, Bush will return to the Chicago area again Thursday for another appearance. ``I come before you at the end of a long, long journey,'' Bush said at the high school. ``In just a few days from now many of you in this room will help select the next president of the United States and I ask for your vote. ``You're not going to make your decision on some television (advertisement) or some sound bite, and what I want you to do is look beyond the charges, get past the shouting and choose as president the person who represents your values, your dreams, your hopes for the United States, and I am that man.'' Expressing optimism about the outcome of the race, Bush said, ``I think things are moving in our direction,'' but quickly added his standard disclaimer that ``I'm going to keep on running as though I'm 10 points behind.'' On Tuesday, Bush indicated he would seek an early summit with Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev to explore possibilities for deeper arms cuts and solutions for other superpower problems. ``The Oval Office requires an unflashy common sense and I will try to bring that kind of common sense to the Oval Office,'' Bush told an audience of 2,000 people at the University of Notre Dame. Two nationwide polls released Tuesday night indicated that Bush's backing extends far and wide. The vice president held double-digit leads of 12 and 13 points in the two surveys. Bush, during an impromptu stop Tuesday night at a Polish dinner, expressed eagerness for the campaign to end. ``I'll sure be glad,'' Bush told a crowd of hundreds of people. ``That six days is going slow. It's like a caterpillar crawling across the plate.'' In sharp contrast to his frequent declarations that he's running as if he were 10 points behind, Bush began talking about how he would run the White House. ``I don't know what the cutting moments will be for the next president but I know they'll come and I know I'm ready,'' Bush said. ``I'm no mystic,'' he added, ``and my leadership might not be the most charismatic, but I'm not sure we need a lot of razzle dazzle. There's probably enough drama in the world today. ``But I'll try to be fair, I'll try to be wise and I'll listen,'' Bush said. For the first time, Bush said that as president he would be prepared to meet with Gorbachev so they could ``size each other up correctly.'' Bush said he would be ready to meet the Soviet leader ``at the earliest time that would serve the interests of world peace. ``And my purpose in such a meeting would not be to achieve any grand breakthrough but to engage in a serioius and direct examination of where we are and how we can best go forward toward further arms reductions, a decrease in regional tensions and further adherence to human rights, and thus toward a surer peace.'' On another subject, Bush said the next president likely will have ``a high number of seats to fill on the Supreme Court.'' ``I will appoint moderate persons of conservative views. I believe my opponent would appoint doctrinaire liberals,'' he said. ``The excessive judicial activism of the '60s and '70s is one reason Americans turned against that kind of liberalism by the '80s,'' Bush said. Several dozen protesters shouted anti-Bush messages and one heckler stood up and screamed, ``Lies, lies.'' Bush, pausing in his speech, said: ``There's always some guy who jumps up at these rallies and says the same thing. So don't let it bother you.'' Bush scorned Michael Dukakis' reputation for dwelling on details, saying, ``I think he's guided more by abstract theories and grids and graphs and computer printouts and the history of Swedish social planning'' rather than ``old fashioned common sense.'' The vice president also took issue with Dukakis' identification with the liberal tradition of former Presidents Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman and John F. Kennedy. ``I have had some programmatic differences, but I respect the tradition of Harry Truman and FDR, a liberalism that was committed abroad and concerned at home, a liberalism that spoke for some good things like civil rights,'' Bush said. ``But some of today's liberals do not see as clearly as their forefathers.'' AP881102-0097 AP-NR-11-02-88 1148EST r a BC-EditorialRdp 3Takes 11-02 0726 BC-Editorial Rdp, 3 Takes,0759 By The Associated Press Here are excerpts from recent editorials in newspapers throughout the nation. Nov. 1 The Flint (Mich.) Journal on saving the whales in Alaska: Was it worth spending $1.3 million trying to save the three, now two, wayward whales that were trapped in a prison of ice near Point Barrow, Alaska? Ask any child who fell in love with the California grays or any champion of the underdog who watched the heroic efforts for three weeks and they'll probably respond with a resounding, emotional ``yes.'' ... Others persuasively argue the event was nothing more than frenzied Arctic madness fueled by international media hype, and to a lesser extent, guilt over what mankind has done to enhance chances of whale extinction. They claim the effort endangered the lives of many people who flocked to the whales without Arctic survival training and really did little to preserve the species. These whales _ which were not the first, nor will they be the last to become trapped in Alaskan ice _ may yet die before reaching the warm waters of Mexico's west coast. ... A more important question: Why do we exert such valiant efforts for such creatures while we ignore or turn our backs on fellow human beings all around us trapped in the brutally icy confines of violence, poverty, hunger, homelessness, loneliness, illness and hopelessness? Nov. 1. St. Louis Post-Dispatch on leveraged buyouts: What's wrong with leveraged buyouts? In principle, nothing. In practice, plenty. When RJR Nabisco's management proposed last month to purchase all the company's outstanding stock, it planned to incur nearly $20 billion in debt _ a sum so great the company's future may be impaired. But since it isn't public money, why should the public care? Because when many large companies overload themselves with debt, they diminish their ability to improve their productivity, reduce their competitiveness abroad, even jeopardize their very survival should a recession occur. And low productivity, not to mention major bankruptcies by large companies, imperil the economy's health and stability. It may pay management to take a company private _ indeed it usually does in the short run. Having a personal financial stake in a major enterprise in a profitable year can make the difference between earning a substantial salary and a major fortune. But the large economy is put at risk. To the extent that the current tax code encourages debt _ and it does _ it should be changed a soon as possible. Oct. 29 The Journal, New Ulm, Minn., on the ``liberal'' label: The one word that America did not hear at the Democratic National Convention in Atlanta. ... The one word that makes Democratic professional politicians shudder. ``Liberal'' _ the ``L'' word! We think it's time (liberals) came out of the closet. Imagine what the late Hubert H. Humphrey would have done with the ``liberal'' label. ``The Happy Warrior'' would have made it his badge of honor rather than a label of shame. There have been many great liberal ideologists, men and women who have worked for great and good change in society. It's too bad the current crop of Democrats are treating the word ``liberal'' as if it meant ``leprosy.'' Oct. 28 The Bremerton (Wash.) Sun on the federal deficit: Members of the 100th Congress have scurried home to campaign in a self-congratulatory mood. With bipartisanship, strong leadership and a new assertiveness, Congress has done much to undo the excesses of the Reagan years. But Congress and Reagan have one thing in common. Both tap-danced past their gravest responsibility, deficit reduction. ... Congress allowed the deficit crisis to worsen and the Gramm-Rudman deficit plan to weaken. The havoc that will follow if Congress slowly strangles Gramm-Rudman will dwarf its other accomplishments. ... Gramm-Rudman is now little more than a bookkeeping dodge. The 1985 bill mandated progressive deficit reductions until 1991, when the budget was supposed to balance. Congress moved that date back to 1993. And it raised the 1988 deficit limit from $108 billion to $146 billion. Cynics said from the beginning Gramm-Rudman was more a gesture than a solution. Congress should repeal the bill rather than engage in this sort of charade. For all its new boldness, though, Congress won't do that. It has perfected a new maneuver, the Deficit Dodge. MORE AP881102-0098 AP-NR-11-02-88 1148EST r a BC-EditorialRdp 1stAdd 11-02 0716 BC-Editorial Rdp, 1st Add,0747 UNDATED: Deficit Dodge. Oct. 29 The Miami Herald on hate groups: White supremacists, neo-Nazis, anti-Semites, and any others dedicated to demonstrating their bigotry should be on notice: Violate the rights of those whom you love to hate, and you'll be hit where it hurts _ in the wallet. That's the message that a federal court jury wisely sent (last) week when it ruled that two white-supremacist groups must pay nearly $1 million damages to racism protesters. The Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith, the American Civil Liberties Union, and other civil rights organizations report increases in hate groups and racist violence. These laws, crafted to combat 1860s racism, unfortunately still are needed in 1988. In that light, it's ironic that the Supreme Court has voted to reconsider its 1976 Runyon vs. McCrary ruling, which permits individuals to seek punitive damages for private acts of discrimination. This is no time to diminish what is often the last bastion of legal hope for victims of irrational hatred. Oct. 27 The Times, Trenton, N.J., on presidential projections on TV: Hours before the polls close, the TV networks will declare a winner in the presidential contest, based on returns from polling places in the East. That will cast a what's-the-use pall over those who haven't yet voted. The networks are constantly refining their sampling techniques, and some analysts think this year's election night ... will bring even quicker news of the winner _ which will make things even worse out West. Some states have tried to restrict exit polling, a major data-gathering technique, but federal judges have struck these laws down on constitutional grounds. The most practical solution would be to apply a uniform nationwide poll-closing time. ... Two months ago, the Senate Rules Committee approved a bill that would close polls at 10 p.m. EST _ 7 p.m. PST _ beginning with the 1992 election. The House passed a similar measure in 1987. But the legislation died with Congress' adjourment. There'll be time to revive it before the next election. Perhaps the spectacle on Nov. 8 ... will spur the next Congress to do the job quickly. Oct. 28 The Knoxville (Tenn.) News-Sentinel on political appointees: A commission of Washington experts has come up with a new way to thwart the democratic process. Headed by former Federal Reserve chairman Paul Volcker, the National Commission on Public Service proposes that President Reagan's successor reduce the number of political appointees in the federal bureaucracy. From Cabinet members downward, the total number of such appointees is slightly more than 5,000 _ roughly two-tenths of 1 percent of the entire federal work force. All too often, this tiny beachhead is engulfed by tenured civil servants whose first priority is to protect their own programs and careers. The Washington establishment has ways to guard the status quo that the framers of the Constitution never imagined _ such as a Congress in virtually year-round session and tens of thousands of specialized lobbyists and legislative staffers who almost always want to enlarge existing programs, not shrink them. This ``permanent government'' hardly needs more power to screen out newcomers loyal to a president's mandate. The percentage of political appointees in the federal establishment should not be cut, it should be doubled. Oct. 28 Carlsbad (N.M.) Current-Argus on preserving Brazilian forests: Brazilian President Jose Sarney says it was the fact that 6,000 man-made fires were discovered burning in virgin Amazon jungle during one day that suddenly made him aware of the danger to the ecology. Consequently, in a policy flip-flop that has gratified environmentalists the world over, Sarney has reversed Brazil's 20-year-old policy of ruthlessly exploiting the vast jungles of the Amazon valley and the tropical rain forests of the Atlantic coast. The global importance of the great rain forests of Brazil is difficult to underestimate. They constitute a major ``lung'' of the world, manufacturing life-sustaining oxygen and absorbing carbon dioxide, one of the gases trapping solar heat and contributing to the alarming greenhouse effect, feared to be raising the earth's temperature. The consequences of destroying the world's remaining tropical forests are profound for a human population that demands ever-increasing amounts of oxygen. The whole planet has an interest in Sarney's heartening promise to preserve the Brazilian jungles. MORE AP881102-0099 AP-NR-11-02-88 1149EST r a BC-EditorialRdp 2ndAdd 11-02 0706 BC-Editorial Rdp, 2nd Add,0736 UNDATED: Brazilian jungles. Oct. 28 Houston Chronicle on last-minute campaigning: When the campaign itself becomes the dominant campaign issue, it's a pretty good sign the campaign has run its course. Michael Dukakis calls Republican campaign material garbage. George Bush says Democratic Party tactics are insidious. Lloyd Bentsen says the Republicans are running a miserable campaign. Dan Quayle says the Democrats are throwing political sludge. Any voter seeking enlightenment from what is going on now is out of luck. ... At this point, both national campaigns seem more interested in exchanging accusations than exploring issues. So be it. It's their campaign to run. The voters are due one note of caution, however, about the nature of political campaigns, nationally and locally. Strange charges seem to surface in the last days before an election. Whether out of desperation or calculation, rumors float and pamphlets without sources appear. Common sense calls for taking these late arrivals with a grain of salt. Oct. 31 The Press-Enterprise, Riverside, Calif., on the whistleblower veto: President Reagan really had to scrape to come up with an excuse to kill a bill that would have provided protection to ``whistleblowers'' _ federal employes who report fraud and mismanagement. The bill was approved by the House 418-0 and by the Senate on unanimous voice vote, and with good reason. Federal employees should be encouraged to report wrongdoing. And yet the president has decided to exercise his ``pocket veto'' by letting the bill die without his signature while Congress is not in session. His rationale? Reagan said the measure would have allowed employees ``who are not genuine whistleblowers'' to manipulate the process to delay or avoid discipline. ... One has come to expect that kind of reasoning from Ronald Reagan. And from the Justice Department, which urged the president to oppose the bill. ... New Attorney General Dick Thornburgh ... simply trumpeted the position taken on the bill by his predecessor, Edwin Meese, who was anything but a model of good standards. This incident gives the distinct impression that the Reagan administration's standard of justice has not benefitted by the new stewardship at the Justice Department. Oct. 27 The Register-Guard, Eugene, Ore., on the Marcos indictments: The United States offered its hospitality to Ferdinand Marcos and his wife, Imelda, in 1986. That offer did not include an exemption from U.S. laws. ... Indictments (issued last week) accuse Marcos, his wife and a number of associates of illegally backdating documents in hundred-million-dollar real estate deals, concealing ownership of valuable property, evading court-ordered freezes on assets and attempting to defraud courts and financial institutions. ... State Department officials attempted to negotiate a settlement with Marcos in which he would surrender hundreds of millions of dollars taken from the Philippines in return for having the charges dropped. ... But Marcos refused the agreement. ... Asylum in the United States is not a license to continue the activities that get people like Marcos kicked out of their own countries. Oct. 30 The Milwaukee Journal on Mossy Cade playing again with the Packers: It says something disturbing about America's infatuation with sports that the No. 1 question in Green Bay (Wis.) these days is not whether Mossy Cade should play for the Packers again, but when. Cade is the defensive back recently paroled from prison after serving 15 months of a two-year sentence for sexual assault. Bad enough that the punishment was so light; the Packers compounded the injustice by welcoming back Cade to his $250,000-a-year, high-visibility job. The Packers first described the Cade move as a football decision, not a public relations decision. They were right about that. Then they claimed that state law barred them from discriminating against Cade because of his criminal conviction. The Packer bosses just don't get it. Of course they shouldn't discriminate. Cade, like any other ex-con, is entitled to work. But he doesn't have to play. ... Cade ... surely ... can fill a job on the periphery of sports that wouldn't put him on television once a week during autumn. And if, as the Packers contend, they are obligated to take Cade back, that's exactly the kind of role they ought to find for him. AP881102-0100 AP-NR-11-02-88 1150EST r a PM-AvtexFibers-NASA 1stLd-Writethru a0478 11-02 0465 PM-Avtex Fibers-NASA, 1st Ld - Writethru, a0478,0471 NASA Seeks to Avoid Shutdown of Its Only Rayon Source Eds: SUBS grafs 5-9 bgng, `Avtex Chairman ...' with seven grafs to ADD space-program spokesman saying there is enough rayon on hand for several flights. FRONT ROYAL, Va. (AP) NASA officials, fearing a delay in the shuttle program, are seeking to keep the agency's only manufacturer of rayon from closing after it suffered big losses stemming from the Challenger disaster. NASA said Tuesday it was talking to Avtex Fibers-Front Royal Inc. to keep the supply of a rayon yarn used in shuttle rocket nozzles in production, while the Air Force identified three missiles that could be affected. The company took NASA by surprise when it announced Monday that it would close the Front Royal plant on Thursday, idling 1,300 workers and cutting off the government's only supply of the rayon, said Jerry Berg, a spokesman at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala. ``It will jeopardize the space program if we do not figure some way to get Avtex Fibers back on line by spring,'' said Jim Thomas, assistant to the solid rocket motor program manager at Marshall. Avtex Chairman John N. Gregg said Monday that without Avtex's rayon, the shuttle program might be grounded for up to two years after one more launch. But Berg said there was enough of the rayon on hand for ``the next several shuttle flights.'' NASA initially said the next 12 flights through May 1990 would be able to stay on schedule, but Berg revised the statement later in the day. Rocky Raab, a spokesman for the maker of the shuttle motors, Morton Thiokol Inc., said it was too early to say what impact the closing could have. The fibers manufactured by Avtex are woven into a cloth by other companies, Raab said. Two more layers of contractors that treat it to make it resistant to high heat. Thiokol buys the finished product for use in the nozzles of its shuttle motors, Raab said. John Kelly, an Avtex spokesman in New York, said he did not know of any talks between Avtex, based in Valley Forge, Pa., and the government that could keep the plant producing the rayon. Gregg said he lost a large amount of money because of the Challenger disaster that idled the shuttle program for more than 2{ years. At Andrews Air Force Base, Md., a spokeswoman for Air Force Systems Command said officials had determined that at least one missile system, stage one of the small ICBM, used the rayon. Two other systems, the MX intercontinental ballistic missile and the Titan satellite launcher, may also depend on the rayon, but officials had not determined that for certain by late Tuesday, Maj. Janis Bybee said. AP881102-0101 AP-NR-11-02-88 1153EST u i PM-Soviet-Hebrew 11-02 0625 PM-Soviet-Hebrew,0642 Soviets Agree to Permit Teaching of Hebrew, Visiting Official Says By JOHN-THOR DAHLBURG Associated Press Writer MOSCOW (AP) Soviet officials have agreed to permit the teaching of Hebrew and to allow Soviet Jews to participate in the World Jewish Congress, an official of the international group said today. Both steps, announced by World Jewish Congress executive director Elan Steinberg following meetings with high-level Soviet officials, would constitute major changes in how the Kremlin has dealt with the country's 1.8 million Jews. They come in the context of an effort by Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev to eliminate rancorous issues that have historically hampered the Kremlin's relations with the West, including in the field of human rights. As part of that effort, 1975 Nobel Peace laureate Andrei D. Sakharov is being allowed to travel to the West for the first time, and the Soviets have reportedly agreed to release all political prisoners by the end of the year. Edgar Bronfman, World Jewish Congress president, met for two hours today with Foreign Minister Eduard A. Shevardnadze, and later with Konstantin Kharchev, chairman of the Soviet State Committee on Religious Affairs, Steinberg said in a telephone interview. ``Soviet authorities have now agreed that the Soviet Jewish community can participate in the activities of the World Jewish Congress,'' Steinberg said, reporting on accords reached during the meetings. He said the exact form of participation remains to be worked out. The World Jewish Congress represents Jewish groups from 70 countries whose combined Jewish populations total 11-12 million, Steinberg said. Those countries include Eastern European allies of the Soviet Union, where the local Jewish populations have a central representative body, he said. Soviet Jews have no such central body as of now, Steinberg said. Assessing the agreement reached with the Soviets, the World Jewish Congress official said: ``We view this as part of a larger process of easing tensions between East and West which includes a better understanding and relationship with Jewish communities of the world and with Israel.'' The Soviet Foreign Ministry spokesman, Gennady I. Gerasimov, made general comments about the meeting between Bronfman and Shevardnadze at a government news briefing, but provided few specifics on any agreements reached. ``At the request of Edgar Bronfman, Eduard Shevardnadze gave detailed explanations concerning the real state of affairs in such issues as emigration from the U.S.S.R., including that of Jews, the freedom of worship and of cultural and educational activities,'' Gerasimov said. He said he would have details on the talks between Bronfman and Shevardnadze at Thursday's news briefing. The unsanctioned teaching of Hebrew was once treated in the Soviet Union as a criminal offense, and several Jewish activists went to prison for giving unauthorized instruction in the language. They included Josef Begun, who was allowed to emigrate to Israel this year. But an agreement signed by the Ministry of Culture to establish the first Jewish cultural center in the Soviet Union in more than 50 years says the building may be used for classes in Hebrew and Yiddish, Steinberg said. A working knowledge of Hebrew is considered an essential part of the religious instruction given to every Jew, but Soviet laws now on the books bar the private teaching of religious subjects to anyone under 18. A new, more liberalized law regulating the practice of religion in the Soviet Union is now in the works, and is expected to ease some of the current constraints on proselytizing and worship. Steinberg said no Soviet Jew has been jailed recently for the unsanctioned teaching of Hebrew. But the cultural ministry's statement of intent in an Oct. 21 agreement with Australian Jewish leaders, was the first known written commitment by Soviet officials to an easing of constraints on Hebrew-language instruction. AP881102-0102 AP-NR-11-02-88 1200EST u p PM-Reagan 2ndLd-Writethru a0584 11-02 0542 PM-Reagan, 2nd Ld-Writethru, a0584,550 Reagan Campaigns for Bush, Wisconsin Senate Candidate Eds: CORRECTS 2nd graf, Engeleiter supports rather than opposes death penalty; grafs 8-9 for release at 3:05 p.m. EST By W. DALE NELSON Associated Press Writer MILWAUKEE (AP) President Reagan campaigned for George Bush and the Republican ticket in the crucial Midwest today, urging voters to reject ``far-out liberalism'' in the election next Tuesday. Speaking at a $150-per-person fund-raising brunch for Senate candidate Susan Engeleiter, the president noted her support of the death penalty. Reagan said Dukakis and the Democratic candidate for the Senate from Wisconsin, Milwaukee Bucks owner Herbert Kohl, ``both say that, no matter how horrible and brutal the crime, they're opposed to capital punishment.'' ``George Bush and Susan Engeleiter believe that for the most horrible crimes, like when a drug dealer murders a policeman in cold blood, that kind of killer deserves and should receive the death sentence,'' the president said. Reagan noted that Mrs. Engeleiter, 36, would be the only mother with growing children in the Senate if she is elected. ``I believe the Senate could use a mother's perspective, as well,'' he said. Mrs. Engeleiter is in an uphill struggle against Kohl for the right to replace retiring Sen. William Proxmire. ``I am here today to ask everyone in Wisconsin who plans to vote for George Bush and against far-out liberalism in the White House to also vote against far-out liberalism in the Congress,'' the president said. In a speech prepared for delivery later at Baldwin Wallace College in Berea, Ohio, the president urged Ohio voters to reject the re-election bid of liberal Sen. Howard Metzenbaum, who leads Cleveland's Republican Mayor George Voinovich in public opinion polls. ``Now please, don't cancel out your vote for president by picking a tax and spend liberal for the Senate,'' he said. The White House announced, meanwhile, that Reagan will extend his campaigning through the weekend. Reagan will visit the Chicago area and southern New Jersey on Friday and to Macomb County, Mich., and the Dallas area on Saturday. On Tuesday, the president campaigned in California and in Nevada, where he sought to bolster the re-election chances of Sen. Chic Hecht, strongly challenged by Democratic Gov. Richard Bryan. At an airport rally in Reno, the president flayed Bryan and Dukakis as ``tax-and-spend twins'' and said, ``I have to tell you what a big mistake it would be for Nevada to send a jet set, tax-and-spend liberal to Washington.'' Bryan depicts himself as independent of the national Democratic Party, supports military aid to the Nicaraguan rebels and is opposed to the Equal Rights Amendment. The president sought to make a virtue of characteristics for which Hecht, seldom heard in Senate debate, has been ridiculed by his critics. `Chic doesn't grab headlines, he doesn't showboat,'' Reagan said. ``Chic's the kind of senator who doesn't make a lot of noise. He just gets thing done for his state.'' Reagan continued to strike out at Dukakis for telling audiences that he is ``on your side.'' ``Of course, the liberals now are saying that they're on your side,'' he said. ``I guess they think that will make it easier for them to reach their hand around and put it in your pocket.'' AP881102-0103 AP-NR-11-02-88 1201EST r a PM-CruiseMissile 11-02 0464 PM-Cruise Missile,0476 Former Defense Official Says Missile Flawed LANCASTER, Calif. (AP) The Pentagon purchased the air-launched cruise missile knowing it did not perform as intended, a former military official said in an interview published today. The weapon, billed as a low-flying, radar-evading missile, in fact was not able to fly low enough to hide from enemy radar, retired Air Force Lt. Col. Ronald F. Deady told the Antelope Valley Press. Deady, who now lives in Lancaster, was a member of the Joint Strategic Planning Staff at Strategic Air Command headquarters in Omaha, Neb., from 1974 to 1978 and was among the officials who monitored the missile's testing. ``The command approved it knowing that it did not fulfill operational specifications,'' he said. An Air Force spokesman denied the charges, saying the missile ``met its stated purpose.'' The Carter administration had chosen the cruise missile program over the B-1 bomber to be one of the nation's main defense systems. The missile can be armed with nuclear warheads. Deady, whose job at Edwards Air Force Base from 1978 to 1981 was to ensure the missile was meeting military specifications, said he found that tests were conducted in a way to make it appear the missile worked properly. For instance, he said the missile was launched from B-52s flying at altitudes that did not fit all operational profiles determined by the Strategic Air Command. In addition, the missile was usually tested when the weather was conducive for successful flights, he said. Deady said he complained to his superiors but got no response. Colleagues advised him against pursuing the matter, he said, and he took their advice and wrote favorable reports thereafter for the sake of his career. ``The normal methods of delivery did not perform up to operational specifications,'' he said. ``But when we turned a report in, we did not say that it does not meet specifications. We said it could.'' However, Deady said he suspects the military in April 1983 reduced its missile orders from more than 3,000 to 1,715 because the weapon could not adequately evade enemy defenses. The military has since moved on to another missile system, the advanced cruise missile. Military officials denied the decision to cancel orders was linked to the missile's performance. ``The ALCM met its stated purpose,'' said Ron Fry, a spokesman for Air Force Logistics Command, which is responsible for approving weapons systems before the service accepts them from contractors. ``But because of the new and evolving threat, the program was redirected in favor of a more advanced weapons system.'' Air-launched cruise missiles were delivered to the Air Force from 1982 through 1986. Fry said the missile, now stationed at bases in seven states, is one of the most reliable weapons in the nation's nuclear arsenal. AP881102-0104 AP-NR-11-02-88 1207EST r i PM-India-BusCrash 2ndLd-Writethru a0539 11-02 0153 PM-India-Bus Crash, 2nd Ld-Writethru, a0539,0151 Bus Crash In India Kills 65 Eds: New thruout to raise death toll, add quote. No pickup. JAMMU, India (AP) A bus toppled into a gorge in northern India today when the driver lost control while trying to negotiate a curve covered by a landslide. A senior police official said all 65 people aboard died. Sixty-three people died immediately and two who survived the plunge into the 650-foot-deep gorge north of Jammu, later died in a hospital, Deputy Inspector of Police S.S. Ali said. Ali, who visited the accident site, said 56 bodies had been recovered and that darkness was hampering the search for the remaining bodies. ``It is a terrible site, some of the bodies are badly mutilated,'' he said. The bus, which was authorized to carry 42 passengers, was traveling toward Kishtwar from Jammu, winter capital of Jammu-Kashmir state north of New Delhi. AP881102-0105 AP-NR-11-02-88 1213EST r i PM-Britain-Soviets 1stLd-Writethru a0574 11-02 0239 PM-Britain-Soviets, 1st Ld-Writethru, a0574,0242 Soviets Leave After First Spot Inspection Of Treaty In Britain Eds: Subs 2nd graf pvs, ``The Soviets...'' to CORRECT location of Molesworth. Pickup 3rd graf pvs, ``Under the...'' GREENHAM COMMON, England (AP) Soviet military experts left today after making their first spot inspection in Britain on the progress of the U.S.-Soviet Intermediate Nuclear Forces Treaty. The Soviets, who arrived Monday on 16 hours notice, inspected the two U.S. cruise missile bases in Britain. One is at Greenham Common, 50 miles west of London, and the other is at Molesworth, 50 miles north of the capital. Under the terms of the treaty, Soviet and American inspectors are able to make 20 such short-notice ``challenge inspections'' within the first five years, the Ministry of Defense said. Under the treaty, U.S. and Soviet officials agreed to eliminate within three years land-based intermediate-range nuclear weapons. The Soviet team checked Tuesday to see that all U.S. cruise missiles had been removed from Molesworth. The last eight of the 16 missiles at the base were withdrawn a week ago and flown to the U.S. Air Force base at Davis Monthan, Ariz., for destruction. On Monday, the Soviets visited Greenham Common, although none of the 96 missiles there is scheduled for removal until late 1989. In July, Soviet military experts made a separate inspection of the two bases to document the number of missiles and other equipment in Britain. AP881102-0106 AP-NR-11-02-88 1214EST r a PM-Do-It-YourselfObit 11-02 0203 PM-Do-It-Yourself Obit,0209 Man Pens Own Obituary Notice HOUSTON (AP) After two heart attacks and several scares, Jack M. Deans five years ago wrote his own obituary. It ran this week. ``No one is better qualified to author this obituary than me,'' began the obituary, which appeared in both the Houston Chronicle and The Houston Post on Tuesday. ``Don't be sorry you're reading about my earthly death,'' it continued. ``I had it great all my life because of Christ and Gladys.'' On Oct. 3, after putting up the Halloween decorations at his Bellaire home, Deans, 87, suffered another attack. He died in a coma at a hospital Monday. Deans had also sketched plans for a funeral. It was to be conducted by several of his friends, and Deans wanted it brief. Deans described himself in the obituary as ``a World War II veteran, lumberman, Sunday School teacher and lay analytical therapist for over 32 years, lecturer for 19 years at eight universities in eight departments, author, Graphoanalyst, etc.'' His wife, Gladys, said Deans never earned a college degree but taught wood preservation at several area colleges and counseled an estimated 4,000 people about marital and job problems, drugs and teen-age difficulties. AP881102-0107 AP-NR-11-02-88 1221EST r i AM-BRF--Britain-Argentina 11-02 0124 AM-BRF--Britain-Argentina,0127 Sports Minister Asks Careful Look at Argentine Invitation LONDON (AP) Britain's sports minister has asked the nation's soccer authorities to consider carefully their plans to invite Argentina to a tournament here next summer. Argentina's participation in the annual Rous Cup matches against England and Scotland would be its first appearance in Britain since the Falkland Islands war in 1982. Sports Minister Colin Moynihan has not registered an official objection with the governing Football Association, but his office said Tuesday that ``we have suggested that they should not forget how the crowd might react, especially in the present circumstances.'' Last year, the association withdrew a similar invitation to Argentina, the defending World Cup champion, ``after considering the advice'' from government officials. AP881102-0108 AP-NR-11-02-88 1223EST r i AM-BRF--Nigeria-Executions 11-02 0120 AM-BRF--Nigeria-Executions,0123 12 Granted Stay of Execution Pending Appeal LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) A judge has granted a stay of execution to 12 convicted armed robbers after a lawyer appealed the sentences because the condemned were under 18 when they committed the crimes. Judge Victor Famakinwa said Tuesday he will deliver the ruling on a petition challenging the Nov. 14 sentences. The 12, whose ages were not given, were sentenced to death by firing squad on June 22. Convicted armed robbers in Nigeria are shot in public. State Attorney Eniola Fadayomi said Sunday the trial for the 12 had been fair. She also said the human rights organization Amnesty International had asked the Nigerian government to spare the men. AP881102-0109 AP-NR-11-02-88 1223EST r i AM-BRF--Ghana-TV 11-02 0136 AM-BRF--Ghana-TV,0139 TV Service Suspended, 19 Fired After Announcer is Assaulted ACCRA, Ghana (AP) Officials of the Ghana Broadcasting Corp. have suspended TV service and fired 19 workers and five trade union officials for their alleged role in the assault of an announcer, state radio reported. Police also arrested several of the corporation's workers for ``acts of intimidation and lawlessness'' after the assault on Tuesday, Radio Ghana said. The radio did not explain the nature of the assault or disclose the identity of the announcer. It also gave no explination why only television, and not radio services were suspended or say how long the suspension would last. A skeleton staff remained at the television section of the broadcasting station while other employees were instructed to stay at home and await instructions, the radio said. AP881102-0110 AP-NR-11-02-88 1224EST r i AM-BRF--Soviet-US 11-02 0108 AM-BRF--Soviet-US,0111 Moscow Eager for Summit with New U.S. President MOSCOW (AP) The Soviet Union would like a prompt summit meeting with the new U.S. president to pursue arms control and other discussions, a Foreign Ministry spokesman said Wednesday. ``We stand for preserving a sense of momentum in the top-level Soviet-American dialogue, for it not to have artificial and unnecessary pauses,'' said chief spokesman Gennady I. Gerasimov. Gerasimov noted that both candidates have said they would like to continue regular Soviet-American summit meetings. Gerasimov said his statement can be interpreted ``as the wish not to delay for long a summit meeting with the new U.S. president.'' AP881102-0111 AP-NR-11-02-88 1224EST r i AM-BRF--AirShow 11-02 0144 AM-BRF--Air Show,0147 Ramstein Air Show Disaster Death Toll Now 70 MAINZ, West Germany (AP) A British soldier has died of injuries suffered at the Ramstein air show disaster on Aug. 28, bringing the death toll to 70, officials said Wednesday. The 40-year-old soldier, who was not identified, died over the weekend in a hospital in Hanover, said Juergen Dietzen, a spokesman for the Interior Ministry of Rhineland Palatinate state. Dietzen said 24 people remain hospitalized in 10 facilities, and four are in critical condition. The accident occurred when three Italian stunt planes collided at an annual air show at the Ramstein U.S. Air Force base. One of the planes plunged into the crowd. Authorities gave the following nationality breakdown for the dead: 60 West Germans, four Americans, one Dutch citizen, one French citizen, the British soldier and the three Italian pilots. AP881102-0112 AP-NR-11-02-88 1224EST r i AM-BRF--Uganda 11-02 0164 AM-BRF--Uganda,0168 Cabinet Minister Resigns After Accusation of Public Argument KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) A Cabinet minister accused of drawing a pistol during an argument with a woman has resigned, Radio Uganda announced Wednesday. President Yoweri Museveni accepted the resignation of Internal Affairs Minister Kahinda Otafiire ``because the National Resistance Movement government will not tolerate any indiscipline displayed by anybody regardless of his position, such as shown by Otafiire,'' the state-owned radio said. Otafiire was responsible for prisons, police and immigration departments. Radio Uganda did not say if he had been asked to resign. The government-owned newspaper New Vision reported Wednesday that Otafiire argued with Jennifer Kuteesa at Fairway Hotel in Kampala, Uganda's capital, on Oct. 15. Mrs. Kuteesa said she thought the matter was over until police began investigating the incident. Otafiire was among those who joined Museveni in 1981 to form the National Resistance Movement, the political wing of the National Resistance Army. Museveni recently made Otafiire an honorarly army colonel. AP881102-0113 AP-NR-11-02-88 1225EST r i AM-Britain-Movies 11-02 0748 AM-Britain-Movies,0767 British Movie Industry Throws Palace Party To Honor The Oscar By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press Writer HAMPTON COURT, England (AP) In a setting Hollywood would find hard to match, the British movie industry threw a party in a palace with a princess and some of the greatest names in show business to honor the 60th anniversary of the Oscar. The champagne reception Tuesday night for 400 guests at Hampton Court Palace was in the bedroom where King Henry VIII's wives slept, and dinner was served in the ornate Great Hall that Henry was in such a rush to finish that he had laborers working on it at night by candlelight. Princess Anne, president of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, said of the palace: ``It has seen many real life dramas that even the film world would find difficult to dramatize.'' Trade and Industry Secretary Lord Young, who praised the innovation in the American cinema, jokingly chided the princess: ``I was hoping our American friends could go back thinking this was a set specifically built by BAFTA for them.'' Two movies _ ``The Private Life of Henry VIII'' in 1933 and ``A Man For All Seasons'' in 1965 _ used the exterior of the palace 12 miles southwest of London as the setting, although crews were not allowed inside. ``They don't allow people to film here at all _ not commercially,'' said Ian Gray, superintendent of the palace. ``That's because it's a royal palace like Windsor or Buckingham Palace and it's not considered appropriate to have any commercial activities.'' The dinner celebrated the close ties between the British and American film industries and marked the first time the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has been honored abroad, said Bob Rehme, an Academy vice president. More than 200 Britons have won Oscars and about 80 of them attended the dinner, including actors Ben Kingsley, Peter Ustinov, Sir John Mills and Olivia De Havilland, and directors Sir Richard Attenborough, David Puttnam and David Lean. Richard Kahn, president of the American Academy, said the recognition of British filmmakers in the United States started with the first ever Oscar awards, when Charlie Chaplin was voted a special award, and has been ``nothing short of phenomenal.'' ``This dinner is a fitting capstone to Oscar's 60th year,'' Kahn said. ``The luster of Oscar is growing... Its radiance is due in no small measure to the Oscar laureates in this room tonight.'' He presented Princess Anne with a replica of an Oscar to be displayed at BAFTA, saying: ``I would like the Princess Royal to adopt this fellow as a loyal son of the realm.'' Mills, one of Britain's actor-knights and winner of the best supporting actor award in 1970 for ``Ryan's Daughter,'' said he was somewhat astonished to realize that his 59 year-career was just one year less than the span of the Academy Awards. Of all the honors he has received in his career, the 80-year-old Mills said of his Oscar: ``It's the top. I think it always has tremendous glamour.'' Ustinov, winner of best supporting actor roles for ``Spartacus'' in 1960 and ``Topkapi'' in 1964, said the British and American film industries had always been important to each other. ``I think their outlook is sometimes very different and I would encourage that difference because it's more important than if they think the same way,'' Ustinov said. Kingsley, winner of the best actor award in 1982 for the title role in ``Gandhi,'' echoed this, saying: ``Europe and America grafted together the energy of the new world and the craftsmanship of the old world which I hope will go on and on and which makes this evening very genuine.'' Asked why so many Britons had won Oscars, Kingsley quipped: ``We are a talented race _ but surely it would have to do with British actors speaking the same language as the American audience.'' Olivia De Havilland said the American love affair with British actors dates back to the 1930s and 1940s. ``When I arrived in Hollywood all the legendary favorites were British. My favorite was Ronald Coleman ... There was one British artist after another and they set the tone.'' Many of the Oscar winners who weren't able to attend _ Bob Hope, Michael Caine, Julie Andrews, Joan Fontaine and others _ will be seen in a British TV documentary titled ``The British and the Oscars,'' to be shown in Britain on Dec. 29. AP881102-0114 AP-NR-11-02-88 1226EST r p AM-Dukakis-Crowds Bjt 11-02 0731 AM-Dukakis-Crowds, Bjt,730 Dukakis Suddenly Connecting as Campaign Nears End An AP News Analysis By DONALD M. ROTHBERG AP Political Writer MILWAUKEE (AP) The hall was packed with union-label Democrats who cheered themselves hoarse as Michael Dukakis threw them the kind of political rhetoric his partisans have waited to hear. ``Hard workers, not high rollers built this country.'' ``I picked Lloyd Bentsen (loud cheers); he picked Dan Quayle (a torrent of boos) and that tells you everything you want to know. ...'' ``As your president, I'm not going to be standing up for sharp operators, I'm going to be standing up for lathe operators and machine operators.'' ``There's a lot of talk about labels in this campaign. The label I care about, the label you care about, the label the American people care about is the label, `Made in America.''' At each of these sallies and others, people leapt to their feet and held their red, white and blue signs high above their heads and cheered and chanted, ``Duke, Duke, Duke.'' Could it be? Was dull, passionless Michael Dukakis turning on a crowd? Indeed, he was. Suddenly, in the closing days of the presidential campaign, the underdog Democratic nominee seemed to have discovered some magic. He was, in the jargon of politics, making contact with his audiences. His words were stronger, his phrases sharper _ after all these months, Dukakis had found his message. It was a mix of Populism and indignation, often an effective combination for Democratic candidates. With time running out and the national polls still showing Republican George Bush with a steady lead, Dukakis is drawing big crowds and his aides are talking about closing the gap. ``This race is tightening up,'' the candidate tells every rally. ``You can sense it, you can feel it, you can taste it.'' What Dukakis was feeling and tasting at these buoyant events could also be merely a phenomenon common in national campaigns. Call it the closing days euphoria. For the loser as well as the winner, the crowds get bigger and more enthusiastic. Walter F. Mondale drew huge crowds in the closing days of the 1984 campaign and he, too, detected a surge he predicted would prove the pollsters wrong. He made that prediction the day before he lost 49 states. Politicians in eastern Washington still recall a massive turnout in 1972 for George McGovern, a crowd they now speculate included every single person in the state of Washington who ended up voting for that Democratic landslide loser. Dukakis is given a far better chance than anyone ever gave McGovern or Mondale to fool the pollsters. But an underdog he remains. For months he appeared to be a candidate in search of a message, a candidate constantly ducking and dodging the attacks of the opposition, failing to come up with an effective response. In recent weeks that began to change. The Populist message emerged and he began to make the Bush negative commercials a campaign issue. He even took on the dreaded ``L'' word. ``Yes, I'm a liberal in the tradition of Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman and John Kennedy,'' he told a rally in Bakersfield, Calif. A liberal he is, but he obviously remains uncomfortable with the tag. ``I'm not a label,'' he kept telling questioners who wanted to know why he had so avoided the term earlier and had allowed Bush to define it in derogatory fashion. But in the Milwaukee Exhibition and Convention Center, it all seemed to come together. He was helped by the crowd and also by a series of speakers who said many of the things Democrats had been wanting to hear from their presidential candidate. ``There are two candidates;, how do you decide?'' asked Sen. William Proxmire. ``You vote for the man on your side,'' he said in response to his own question. After more than 30 years in the Senate, Proxmire is retiring, having made his mark as a watchdog of government spending, the man who regularly announced his ``Golden Fleece'' awards to government officials, departments or agencies he deemed responsible for particularly outrageous wastes of public money. ``There would be no `Golden Fleeces' for a Dukakis administration,'' said the senator. ``How could I give a `Golden Fleece' to a man who mows his own lawn?'' EDITOR'S NOTE _ Donald M. Rothberg is the chief political writer of the Associated Press. AP881102-0115 AP-NR-11-02-88 1226EST u i AM-Poland-Workers Bjt 11-02 0689 AM-Poland-Workers, Bjt,0706 Shipyard Workers Bitter, Fearful After Closing Order An AP Extra By DEBORAH G. SEWARD Associated Press Writer GDANSK, Poland (AP) Even before he met his friends hurrying down the dark, icy streets for the start of the 6 a.m. shift Wednesday at the Lenin shipyard, Piotr Gawor knew what the government's decision to shut the yard meant. ``We are going to be unemployed. I don't believe their offer of new jobs,'' the 17-year-old carpenter said. Like most of the thousands of workers returning to work after a four-day holiday, Gawor only learned he would lose his job when the decision to liquidate the shipyard on grounds of economic inefficiency was announced on the evening news Monday. The closure due to begin Dec. 1 has left workers bitter and afraid, not only for their jobs but for the future of talks between authorities and the opposition. The talks _ originally planned for mid-October _ were to consider the future of the banned Solidarity trade union, which was born in the yard in August 1980. Much of the workers' anger was directed at Mieczyslaw F. Rakowski, a longtime foe of Solidarity who was named prime minister Sept. 27 after the previous government collapsed over its failure to carry out economic reform. ``It's Rakowski's policy. He was in the shipyard in 1983 swearing at people. The round table (talks) didn't take place and it is all thanks to him,'' said Krystana Burant, a crane operator who has worked at the yard for 20 years. The official press said the decision to shut the yard was made by Rakowski, and many workers see the move as Rakowski's revenge for a 1983 meeting at the shipyard where workers booed and whistled at him. That appearance by Rakowski, then deputy prime minsiter, was to defend the authorities' 1981 imposition of martial law. It has left a deep impression on workers, who have not forgotten Rakowski's attempts to humiliate their leader, Lech Walesa. Meeting Rakowski for the first time since he was released from internment following the Dec. 13, 1981, military crackdown, Walesa was allowed to criticize the government but not permitted to rebut Rakowski's reply. ``We should have just hung (Rakowski) then with his tie. He's just making a career, while we workers suffer,''' said one middle-aged worker who declined to give his name. Workers say they are not convinced of the government's argument that the yard must be closed as part of economic restructuring. ``There are so many other enterprises which are more unprofitable. These still exist, and they are closing ours,'' said an assembly worker. Some workers grumbled they should just go out on strike in protest, while others felt the action would play into the hands of a government they feel wants to portray Solidarity as anti-reform. Still others thought they could win little now by striking. ``I heard there will be a strike in the yard. But if there is a strike, they will just lock us up in jail,'' said Barant. Workers do not believe the government will succeed in squelching support for Solidarity by shutting the yard. ``Solidarity is like a tree. It has its roots here. And they think that if they cut off the roots, Solidarity will collapse. But it is not true,'' said another worker, not giving his name. For the time being, Solidarity and the official trade union OPZZ have decided to work together to fight the closure in an unusual alliance that reverses Solidarity's former policy of non-fraternization with the OPZZ. The official union federation was created to replace Solidarity after it was outlawed in 1982. The government has said that the shipyard workers will have 30,000 jobs in the Gdansk area to choose from after the yard is closed. But some workers still don't believe the yard will shut down at all. ``It's just rumors. We worked here and we are going to stay here. Besides I have to stay, because otherwise they are going to steal everything,'' said a grizzled security guard at the gate as the rest of the dispirited crew was walking in to work. AP881102-0116 AP-NR-11-02-88 1227EST r i AM-Hungary-Journal 11-02 0338 AM-Hungary-Journal,0347 First Edition of New Independent Periodical Issued BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) The first edition of an independent literary and social periodical conceived 10 years ago appeared Wednesday in Budapest under the direction of a writer once out of favor with the communist authorities. The fortnightly Hitel, which means Credit, has a print run of 20,000. Its editors say it is independent, although it has ties to the Hungarian Democratic Forum, an unofficial movement for democracy. At a price of about 75 cents, it is to be self-financing, leaders of the Forum have said. The journal bears the name ``credit'' because it hopes to win credit from readers who trust it, according to Editor Sando Csoori. Csoori, an active member of the Forum, said in his first editorial the idea for Hitel was born 10 years ago. But the communist leadership, then under Janos Kadar, was suspicious and perceived the organizers as representing a ``populist-national-radical trend,'' Csoori wrote. ``Ten years and a quiet change in the power (strucuture) had to pass before we could come out with the first issue of Hitel at long last,'' Csoori wrote. Premier Karoly Grosz took over from Kadar as Communist Party leader in May following a reshuffle that brought reformers into the leadership. In the past year, there has been a growth of independent groups and movements. Another independent magazine, Reform, came out for the first time in September. The once-banned writer Istvan Csurka was among the contributors to the 64-page first issue of Hitel. He wrote about a banned demonstration Oct. 23 to mark the anniversary of the start of the 1956 anti-communist uprising. Other articles examined constitutional reform, national self-awareness and a demonstration in September that saw 10,000 people chant calls for democracy and a multiparty system outside parliament. ``Hitel appears in a difficult and inauspicious historical moment,'' Csoori wrote. ``All Hungarian society is in motion ... so drab and gray and undivided for such a long time, ... this is the time of moral revision and recovery.'' AP881102-0117 AP-NR-11-02-88 1235EST u i PM-Poland 3rdLd-Writethru a0578 11-02 0808 PM-Poland, 3rd Ld-Writethru, a0578,0827 Solidarity Protests Shipyard Closing, But Won't Strike Eds: Subs 2 grafs for 4th graf pvs, ``British Prime...'' to UPDATE with Mrs. Thatcher arriving, implications of visit. Pickup 5th pvs, ``Walesa said... By DEBORAH G. SEWARD Associated Press Writer GDANSK, Poland (AP) The outlawed Solidarity trade federation today reversed a longstanding policy and agreed to work with the government-approved union in an effort to save the Lenin shipyard. The announcement was made by Lech Walesa, leader of Solidarity, which was founded at the shipyard. He spoke at an outdoor rally attended by nearly all the yard's 10,000 workers on the first working day since the government announced Monday that it will close the shipyard on Dec. 1. Walesa appeared to rule out a strike for the moment, saying: ``That would only make the situation worse.'' British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher arrived in Poland today on a three-day visit that will include a trip to a monument outside the yard on Friday. Solidarity leaders said they were eager to avoid creating a confrontation that could jeopardize the visit, the first to Poland by a British prime minister. Mrs. Thatcher's visit could give government officials a chance to justify their hard-line treatment of Solidarity by pointing to her success in subduing unions in Britain. The government also hopes the visit will pave the way for Western credits to help the country's debt-plagued economy. Walesa said he told the official OPZZ union that Solidarity planned to fight to save the shipyard, and he proposed the two unions suspend their disagreements to work together. ``We adopted a common position which is proof the unions can reach agreement at any moment provided we are not set against each other by someone else,'' Walesa said. The joint resolution marks a reversal of Solidarity's earlier position not to talk to the official union, which was set up in 1982 after the martial-law crackdown on Solidarity. Although the official union continues to oppose introduction of union pluralism _ saying it alone can best represent all workers _ hostility between the OPZZ and Solidarity has been diminishing. On the factory floor, the two groups have been known to cooperate on local issues. ``This is for the first time that OPZZ and Solidarity have declared cooperation so publicly and so officially, although not 100 percent of unionists are ready to defend the shipyard at any cost,'' said Franciszek Ciemny, national spokesman for the OPZZ. He said national OPZZ leaders today endorsed the government's motives to reform the economy, but decided the shipyard should not be closed abruptly. It asked for a meeting with government officials Nov. 9 to press for improved shipyard efficiency, Ciemny said. The shipyard workers have agreed to rally at 9 a.m. every Tuesday until the closure decision is reversed. Walesa said he believes Prime Minister Mieczyslaw Rakowski's decision to close the shipyard has ended hopes that proposed talks between authorities and the opposition on Poland's future can begin soon. ``At this moment it is losing sense,'' he said. ``On the one hand you are trying to talk about various subjects, and on the other hand you close the cradle of Solidarity and Walesa's workplace. It doesn't make sense.'' At the rally, management encouraged workers to take up tools and work peaceably. The thousands of workers who braved icy wind to report for 6 a.m. shift appeared willing to follow the advice. ``Just the way we fight beautifully and sing beautifully, we are going to work beautifully,'' Walesa said. ``I am proud that the shipyard is working so nicely.'' The government said Monday that the shipyard was a money-losing operation and it would be closed. The move was viewed widely as a slap at Solidarity and Walesa at a time authorities are ostensibly seeking dialogue with the opposition at proposed talks on Poland's future. Official figures show that at least one area shipyard is losing more money than the Lenin yard, the first major industrial enterprise the government has announced it will close in a bid to revive Poland's crippled economy. Government spokesman Jerzy Urban, speaking on television Tuesday, said: ``Deep economic reforms in Poland ... cannot be made mildly and without conflicts.'' The government suggested the closure was similar to economic actions taken by Mrs. Thatcher's Conservative Party government. ``Her beginning at the steering wheel was similar _ inflation, social tensions, outdated, uncompetitive industry and stagnation,'' state television said. ``But she overcame the crisis, often through unpopular means against the interests of significant groups.'' Solidarity was launched at the Lenin shipyard during nationwide strikes in August 1980 and was chartered by the government that fall, becoming the only independent labor movement ever allowed in the Soviet bloc. It developed as Poland's main political opposition but was crushed in a December 1981 military crackdown and subsequently outlawed by Parliament. AP881102-0118 AP-NR-11-02-88 1246EST r i AM-Zambia 1stLd-Writethru a0606 11-02 0330 AM-Zambia, 1st Ld - Writethru, a0606,0334 Kaunda Names Reduced Cabinet for His Sixth Term Eds: SUBS 2nd graf to CORRECT it to Northern Rhodesia, sted Rhodesia. LUSAKA, Zambia (AP) President Kenneth Kaunda, re-elected to his sixth term last week, on Wednesday announced a smaller Cabinet and promised sweeping economic reforms. Kaunda, 64, who led the British colony of Northern Rhodesia to independence as the nation of Zambia on Oct. 24, 1964, reduced the previous 22-member Cabinet to 16. The president, holding his first news conference since being installed as head of state on Monday, dubbed it a ``budget-cutting Cabinet.'' While the move met Western donors' demands for cuts in state spending in return for aid to help his ailing economy, Kaunda also named 22 ministers of state to assist the Cabinet. Cabinet ministers who were dropped from the previous government won posts as ministers of state. Zambia is burdened by record unemployment, galloping inflation and a foreign debt of $4 billion that drains 40 percent of export income. Most of those earnings have come from exports of copper. Among the state ministers were his son, Wezi, who has been mentioned as a possible successor. Kawnda said the new Cabinet's main task would be to carry out economic reforms now that he is armed with a mandate from the 2.6 million voters in his land of 7 million people. Kaunda last year abandoned an International Monetary Fund-prescribed recovery program after 15 people were killed in rioting over a doubling of food prices. That move held down prices, but most Western aid donors withdrew all aid until he accepted harsher measures to straighten out the economy. He said he hoped the IMF would resume relations with his country once the economy was restructured. Kaunda also announced that the country's international and domestic airports would be privatized. Party insiders said they expect further privatization of state corporations that cost the government tens of millions of dollars in subsidies every year. AP881102-0119 AP-NR-11-02-88 1250EST r a AM-SpaceShuttle 11-02 0498 AM-Space Shuttle,0510 Space Shuttle Atlantis Moved To Launch Pad For Pentagon Mission By HOWARD BENEDICT AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) Space Shuttle Atlantis was moved to the launch pad Wednesday for a flight late this month in which the crew will deploy a Pentagon intelligence-gathering satellite and try to determine man's role as a military observer in orbit. Perched vertically atop a huge transporter with a tank-like tread, Atlantis headed out of an assembly building into the darkness shortly after 1 a.m., completing the snail's-pace, four-mile trip seven hours later at Launch Pad 39B. The move, befitting the classified nature of the mission, was made without the floodlights, music, speeches and cheers of thousands of workers who showed up when Discovery rolled to the pad July 4 for the first shuttle mission since the 1986 Challenger explosion that killed seven astronauts. Discovery returned Americans to space Sept. 29 and successfully completed its mission four days later. Conrad Nagel, Atlantis' processing director, said NASA was aiming for a launch Nov. 28 or 29. A firm date won't be set until after a flight readiness review Nov. 16. Nagel's team began readying Atlantis in March 1987 for its third journey into space, making more than 200 modifications to improve the spacecraft's safety and performance. ``We are simply clean as far as any technical problems,'' he told reporters Wednesday. Atlantis will have a crew of five, headed by Navy Cmdr. Robert Gibson. The others are Air Force Lt. Col. Guy Gardner, Air Force Lt. Col. Jerry Ross, Air Force Col. Richard Mullane and Navy Cmdr. William Shepherd. The astronauts will deploy a satellite, believed to carry instruments to intercept electronic signals and verify arms control agreements, and conduct other experiments of a military nature. The Air Force has been planning several experiments for upcoming shuttle flights to determine the utility of astronauts for strategic reconnaissance, surveillance of Soviet naval forces and other operational military objectives. The tests will be coordinated with with ground exercises, including troop maneuvers, naval movements and ballistic missile launches. It is not known publicly which of the exercises will be conducted on the upcoming mission because the Defense Department has thrown a cloak of secrecy over most details. Officials have said the launch will occur between 6:32 a.m. and 9:32 a.m., but the time won't be made public until the countdown reaches nine minutes before liftoff. Once Atlantis is safely in orbit, there will be a news blackout, except for a brief announcement every 24 hours saying the shuttle is still up there. That plan will be broken only if something serious goes wrong. Sixteen hours' advance notice will be given of the landing. Two more Defense Department shuttle flights and seven unmanned Titan launches are planned in the next year as the Pentagon aims to start moving into space a backlog of more than 20 payloads grounded by the Challenger accident and the explosion of a Titan rocket three months later. AP881102-0120 AP-NR-11-02-88 1254EST r i AM-SriLanka 11-02 0494 AM-Sri Lanka,0509 Curfew Imposed Before Sinhalese Strike By PATRICK CRUEZ Associated Press Writer COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) The government imposed a nationwide nighttime curfew Wednesday after attacks by radical Sinhalese left at least 16 people dead. The radicals called a strike and threatened to kill all who defied it. Security forces were put on maximum alert in preparation for Thursday's strike, called by the People's Liberation Front. State radio said the curfew would be in effect from 11 p.m. to 4 a.m. Attackers believed to be Sinhalese radicals hurled a bomb into a home in the southern coast town of Tangalle overnight, killing seven members of a family, police said. In another attack also blamed on the People's Liberation Front, five policemen were injured by a homemade landmine in the northern part of the island, the military command said. The front has vowed to kill supporters of an accord aimed at ending the war by minority Tamils, who want more autonomy. Radical Sinhalese believe the accord makes too many concessions to the Tamils, who comprise 18 percent of the nation's 16 million people. The Sinhalese-dominated government has blamed the front for the assassinations of more than 500 people since the accord was signed 15 months ago. On Wednesday, the radical group told one of the largest government-run newspapers, the Associated Newspapers of Ceylon Limited, and a communist-run daily to stop publication from Thursday or face its wrath. The warning issued through leaflets in Colombo also threatened with death those who disobeyed its directive. The managements of the two newspapers were not immediately available for comment. The front claimed responsibility for a raid Tuesday on the Pannala army base 30 miles northeast of Colombo. The government said nine people died in the attack _ four soldiers, four attackers and one civilian. In Tangalle, 70 miles southeast of Colombo, police said they had little information about the bomb deaths of the seven civilians. However, a senior police official who spoke on condition of anonymity said the family may have been suspected of passing information about front members to police. The mine explosion occurred at Eppawala, 92 miles northeast of Colombo while police were removing anti-government posters, according to a spokesman for the military command in Colombo. He said the People's Liberation Front was thought to be responsible for the explosion. The front has been at the vanguard of a Sinhalese backlash the 1987 accord, which was signed by the leaders of Sri Lanka and India. India, Sri Lanka's northern neighbor with a large Tamil population of its own, mediated the accord. The accord would grant a measure of autonomy to Tamils if the guerrillas lay down their arms. The largest Tamil rebel group has refused to accept the accord. Tamils say they need a separate homeland to combat what they say is discrimination in educations and jobs. Sinhalese, who account for 75 percent of the population, hold most top government and military offices. AP881102-0121 AP-NR-11-02-88 1257EST u p AM-FloridaSenate Bjt 11-02 0890 AM-Florida Senate, Bjt,850 In Tight Florida Senate Race, Underdog Democrat Backs Away From Dukakis By DAN SEWELL Associated Press Writer MIAMI (AP) Every time Republican Senate candidate Connie Mack hits television viewers with one of his ``Hey Buddy, You're Liberal!'' commercials, Democratic rival Buddy MacKay winces and moves a little further away from Michael Dukakis. ``I'm in the Lloyd Bentsen wing of the Democratic Party,'' he says. ``Michael Dukakis is speaking for Michael Dukakis, not Buddy MacKay.'' The ghostly image of the Democratic presidential nominee as a big-spending liberal is giving MacKay the shivers and stirring Mack's hopes of squeaking through to an election victory next Tuesday in one of the most closely fought Senate battles in the nation. The tightness of the race to succeed popular Democratic Sen. Lawton Chiles, who is retiring after three terms, could test the strength of Republican presidential nominee George Bush's coattails. Recent polls give the vice president a double-digit lead over Dukakis among Florida voters _ up to 27 percentage points in one survey _ but indicate that the contest between Mack and MacKay, both of them six-year House veterans, is too close to call. Although Democrats have a 3-to-2 edge among registered voters, ticket-splitting is a recent phenomenon in Florida, and the Mack campaign has been trying to gain a boost from Bush's popularity. One TV ad shows Bush urging Floridians to send Mack to the Senate to help him as president. Another features a film clip of the vice president telling the GOP National Convention to ``read my lips _ no new taxes.'' A third commercial says Dukakis and MacKay stand together on defense issues and opposing aid for the Nicaraguan Contra rebels, and concludes: ``Hey Buddy and Mike, You're Liberal.'' Mack says he represents the same Florida conservatives who gave Ronald Reagan lopsided victories in 1980 and 1984, and boasts that he will be able to pick up the telephone and talk personally to the president if Bush is elected. MacKay responds by embracing vice presidential nominee Bentsen, the moderate Texas senator, and keeping Dukakis at arm's length. He tells crime-conscious Floridians that he supports the death penalty for drug-related murders. Dukakis opposes capital punishment. Like Dukakis, MacKay says he opposes the B-1 bomber and other defense programs he regards as costly boondoggles but favors a strong military. He says he would consider higher taxes only on such excise levies as cigarettes and liquor. He calls himself a Southern moderate-to-conservative in the mold of Chiles and Sens. Albert Gore of Tennessee, Sam Nunn of Georgia and Bob Graham of Florida, all of whom have campaigned for MacKay. Graham warns Floridians that they will lose clout in the Senate if they elect ``an ideological wacko'' like Mack. Mack, 48, repeats the mantra of ``less taxes, less government, less spending _ more freedom'' at every opportunity. MacKay charges that his opponent votes ``a bizarre ideological agenda that is anti-Florida'' and offensive to environmentalists and the elderly. The two candidates entered Congress together in 1982 with dramatically different styles, philosophies and backgrounds. MacKay, 55, whose country boy look belies his affluence as the son of a Central Florida land-owning family, spent 12 years in the state Legislature and lost a 1980 bid for the Democratic Senate nomination. One of the most highly respected politicians in Florida for years, he was heartily endorsed this year by nearly all the state's daily newspapers. MacKay was preparing for a 1990 bid for the governorship when former two-term Gov. Reubin Askew declared himself fed up with the time required for fund raising and on May 7 dropped out of a Senate race that was considered his. MacKay, relying on a dedicated cadre of volunteers, came from behind to gain a runoff election against state Insurance Commissioner Bill Gunter, whom MacKay defeated for the Democratic nomination on Oct. 4. Connie Mack bears the name of his grandfather, the famed manager of the Philadelphia Athletics baseball team who adopted a nickname in place of his real name, Cornelius McGillicuddy. The placid, telegenic Mack was born in Philadelphia and moved to Florida with his family in 1951. He became a bank president in the small southwest Gulf Coast town of Cape Coral. Like Reagan, Mack says he is a former liberal Democrat whose views evolved into GOP conservatism. He says it was Reagan's 1980 election that inspired him to enter politics. He won in 1982 and was easily re-elected twice. In the House, he is a member of the Republican band of young conservative activists led by Rep. Newt Gingrich of Georgia. When national GOP leaders urged him to challenge Chiles, Mack left Rep. Jack Kemp's presidential campaign team to enter the Senate race in October 1987. Although MacKay has a moderate record, he's undoubtedly too liberal for Mack, who has one of the most conservative records in Congress. Mack has been host of fund-raising appearances by Reagan and Iran-Contra figure Oliver North. He refused to debate his primary opponent, former U.S. Attorney Robert Merkle, who carried a life-size cutout called ``Cardboard Connie'' and derided his foe as an intellectual lightweight. When Mack won the primary with 62 percent of the vote, Merkle didn't endorse him but promised only that he wouldn't oppose him. Meanwhile, Gunter eased Democratic fears of a divided party by campaigning for MacKay. AP881102-0122 AP-NR-11-02-88 1255EST r i AM-Poland-Crash 11-02 0298 AM-Poland-Crash,0309 Plane Crash in Southeast Poland Kills At Least One By JOHN DANISZEWSKI Associated Press Writer WARSAW, Poland (AP) A Polish airliner making an emergency landing went out of control and crashed into a field Wednesday, killing one passenger and injuring 15, officials said. The LOT airliner, with 25 passengers and four crewmembers, went down in the village of Bialabrzegi, about 170 miles southeast of Warsaw, according to the official PAP news agency. Police Capt. Jerzy Pacula said most of the injuries were minor. Authorities said five people were hospitalized and at least 10 others were treated and released. Pacula said the Soviet-made Antonov 24 plane apparently had mechanical problems and the pilot was moments from making an emergency landing when he lost control and crashed in the empty field. Pacula spoke by telephone from police headquarters in Rzeszow, near the crash site. PAP said the pilot's actions averted a greater disaster. ``The pilot managed to land the machine on its belly on a flat field and the maneuver, performed in a masterly way, saved the lives of the passengers,'' PAP said. Pacula said the pilot was slightly injured and aided in rescue operations. The twin-engine turboprop was on a flight from Warsaw to the city of Rzeszow. A doctor at a hospital in the town of Lancut said the facility treated 13 people from the crash and hospitalized three of them in serious condition. The others were discharged. Pacula said another two people were hospitalized in Rzeszow. PAP said one of the passengers hospitalized was British, but he offered no other identification. Poland's worst air disaster occurred May 9, 1987, when a Soviet-built Ilyushin-62M jetliner on a LOT flight to New York crashed outside Warsaw after one engine broke apart. It killed 183 people. AP881102-0123 AP-NR-11-02-88 1257EST r a PM-JailedTwin 1stLd-Writethru a0433 11-02 0233 PM-Jailed Twin, 1st Ld - Writethru, a0433,0236 Twin Jailed Under Brother's Name Eds: Rewrites throughout to ADD how license numbers are generated, raise reference to how scheme was detected. URBANA, Ill. (AP) Police trying to figure out how Ronald Sayles could have committed a moving violation while he supposedly was behind bars realized he and his twin have been sharing the same driver's license number. Reginald and Ronald Sayles, 20, have 15 traffic tickets between them on the same license number, according to Champaign County Court's traffic division. Reginald was arrested and charged Sept. 17 with drunken driving and leaving the scene of an accident. He had nearly completed his two-week jail term when police discovered he had given officers Ronald's name and identification. The scheme began unraveling last week when new traffic charges were filed against Ronald. Sheriff's deputies wondered how he had managed a moving violation while in jail. Criminal records supervisor Isabelle Ober obtained a fingerprint check and on Friday, jailers paid Reginald a visit. ``He just kind of grinned at us,'' Ober said. Drivers are issued a 12-digit number that encodes the motorist's sex, date of birth and last name. Mike Lawrence, a spokesman for Secretary of State Jim Edgar, said the state employees who issue license numbers usually get a computer signal that flags duplicate numbers. But, he said, the employee apparently ignored the signal. AP881102-0124 AP-NR-11-02-88 1300EST u i PM-Salvador 1stLd-Writethru a0461 11-02 0750 PM-Salvador, 1st Ld-Writethru, a0461,0776 Rebels Kill Six Soldiers Today Following Attack on National Guard HQ LaserPhoto NY7 Eds: Leads with 9 grafs to UPDATE with rebel two attacks today, killing six soldiers. Pickup 6th graf pvs, ``Rebel mortar...'' ^By ANNIE CABRERA Associated Press Writer SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) Leftist rebels killed six soldiers today in attacks on an army post and a bridge, authorities said. The assaults came one day after a mortar attack on the National Guard headquarters. The army post attacked today was guarding a sugar refinery. ``They attacked us with mortars and rifle fire ... damaged the offices and killed four soldiers ... and wounded four others,'' said the head of security at the refinery who identified himself as Sgt. Sandoval. He said the attack began shortly after midnight and lasted several hours. About the same time, rebels attacked national guardsmen at the Las Canas bridge just north of San Salvador, military sources said. Two guardsmen were killed and several guerrillas wounded in the 30-minute attack, they said. Four soldiers were killed and 37 wounded in the attack on the National Guard headquarters Tuesday. Two guard barracks were destroyed. The guerrillas' clandestine Radio Venceremos called Tuesday's attack in the northern part of this capital a ``welcome'' to Col. Rene Emilio Ponce on the first day of his new job as military chief of staff. National Guard commander Col. Jose Humberto Gomez suffered a shrapnel wound to a leg, and eight guardsmen were reported in critical condition, a defense ministry spokesman said. Seven civilians also were wounded. One of two parked cars packed with explosives about a block from the base exploded during the 45-minute attack Tuesday, damaging nearby vehicles and homes. Army munitions experts de-activated explosives in the other car. Rebel mortar fire set off grenades stored inside the main building at the compound and panicked residents of the poor, working-class neighborhood that surrounds the site. National Guard officers at the site said they believed the 81mm mortars were launched from La Lomita, a hillock about 530 yards east of the compound. Deputy Public Security Minister Col. Leopoldo Hernandez said the salvo destroyed two guard barracks. Col. Ponce said the attack was carried out by urban commandos of the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front, the umbrella group of five leftist guerrilla organizations. Ponce said about 15 rebels participated in the attack, which he described as being staged for ``propagandistic'' purposes. Hernandez said the surprise attack ``doesn't mean there was neglect by the security forces or the National Guard. What happened is, there isn't any way to stop a mortar attack.'' The guard forms part of El Salvador's armed forces and participates in counterinsurgency operations. Radio Venceremos, in a statement received in Mexico City, said rebels attacked a prison and blew up an electricity substation in Sensuntepeque, 50 miles northeast of San Salvador. Military sources confirmed rebels attacked the prison there for four hours Monday night, but there were no injuries or escapes. In another statement, Venceremos said army forces suffered 479 casualties, including dead and wounded, in combat during October. It did not provide a breakdown or a rebel casualty figure. It said the guerrillas were stepping up the urban war in an offensive called ``Death to Reagan's Policy, Yankees Out of El Salvador.'' The attacks came as guerrilla leaders embarked on a tour to brief Latin American leaders on the possibility of resuming peace talks with the government. Front commanders Leonel Gonzalez and Joaquin Villalobos met Monday in Panama City with Roman Catholic archbishop Arturo Rivera Damas, who said he presented a report on proposals for a negotiated end to the 9-year conflict that has claimed 65,000 lives. Rivera Damas declined to elaborate. Salvadoran church leaders have mediated the few meetings between the government and rebels. The last meeting was Oct. 20, 1987, in San Salvador. Meanwhile, negotiations continued late Tuesday with inmates holding at least three hostages at a prison in Quezaltepeque, 15 miles north of San Salvador. Six inmates there demanded political asylum in Mexico in exchange for the hostages' release, a prison official said. One inmate yelled out a window to reporters that his group was holding 12 hostages. Clutching a pistol and a grenade, he threatened to amputate their arms and legs if the asylum demands were not met. Col. Miguel Vasconcelos, commander of the army brigade that has surrounded the prison, said the hostage-taking incident began Monday night when prisoners jumped two guards and took their rifles. AP881102-0125 AP-NR-11-02-88 1311EST r w PM-Scotus-DrugsTests 1stLd-Writethru a0414 11-02 0737 PM-Scotus-Drugs Tests, 1st Ld-Writethru, a0414,730 Eds: New material first 12 grafs, picking up 4th graf pvs, Benjamin Civiletti, Administration Calls Drug Tests Vital By JAMES H. RUBIN Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) The Reagan administration told the Supreme Court today that mandatory drug tests for some railroad workers and U.S. Customs Service employees are vital to public safety and confidence in government. Attorney General Dick Thornburgh, in an unusual move, appeared himself to plead for testing of rail workers after train accidents. ``This is a case about railway safety,'' he said. It is about ``the hazards created by use of drugs and alcohol by those in charge of trains.'' Solicitor General Charles Fried, the administration's top courtroom lawyer, defended the Customs Service drug testing program. ``There is rather special, urgent and symbolic significance'' in assuring the public that the agency responsible for preventing drug smuggling has a drug-free work force, Fried said. ``The Customs Service is indeed entitled to take a fine filter to show to itself, its workers and the public that (workers) are not involved in drug use,'' he said. The drug tests were attacked as a ``humiliating invasion of privacy'' by Lois Williams, representing the Customs Service workers. ``Innocent persons have a great deal of reason to be apprehensive,'' she said. Lawrence Mann, an attorney for the railway workers, said the drug tests are unconstitutional because they are incapable of proving on-the-job impairment. ``Neither the alcohol nor the drug test can demonstrate impairment,'' he said. The tests can show the presence of a residue from a drug that may have been taken by ``someone 60 days ago in the privacy of home.'' The two cases will provide a crucial test for mandatory drug testing in the American workplace. Thornburgh's appearance underscored the importance of today's two-hour argument session. Benjamin Civiletti was the last attorney general to argue a case before the justices when he appeared in 1980 to present the Carter administration's side in a case involving the deportation of an alleged Nazi. Thornburgh last argued a case before the high court in 1977 when he headed the Justice Department's criminal division. In today's cases, the justices agreed to decide whether the nation's railroads may require all employees involved in accidents to take drug tests; and whether the Customs Service may impose the tests for those seeking drug-enforcement jobs. Both cases involve governmental authority to test workers for the presence of drugs. The eventual rulings by the court, expected sometime in 1989, will not deal with drug tests for private employees. But the decisions could have an important psychological impact on whether businesses will demand that their workers undergo such tests. Tests conducted by federal, state or local governments will be affected directly by the court's action. In the railroad case, the Federal Railroad Administration issued regulations in 1985 aimed at alleviating ``a significant safety problem'' caused by alcohol and drug use among employees. The agency, an arm of the U.S. Department of Transportation, generally requires railroads to take blood and urine specimens after accidents, incidents and rules violations. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in February that the tests are unreasonable searches banned by the Constitution's Fourth Amendment. ``Accidents, incidents or rule violations, by themselves, do not create reasonable grounds for suspecting that tests will demonstrate alcohol or drug impairment in any one railroad employee, much less an entire train crew,'' the appeals court said. Government lawyers have said that from 1972 through 1983, railroad accidents linked to drug or alcohol abuse killed 42 people, injured 61 and caused some $19 million in property damage. In the Customs Service case, the government contends the need to fight drug smuggling justifies mandatory tests for those applying for or holding drug-enforcement jobs. Workers in such sensitive jobs must provide urine samples in restroom stalls as a person overseeing the procedure waits outside the stall. Testing was authorized under an executive order President Reagan signed in 1986. The Reagan administration has said the tests are needed to prevent agents who use drugs from being bribed or blackmailed. Any sacrifice of personal privacy is outweighed by the need to stop drug smuggling, the administration said. The National Treasury Employees Union, in challenging the tests, said they subject workers to a humiliating invasion of privacy. The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the tests for Customs Service workers in such sensitive jobs. AP881102-0126 AP-NR-11-02-88 1318EST u i AM-Poland Bjt 11-02 0896 AM-Poland, Bjt,0921 Solidarity, Official Union Plan to Cooperate to Save Jobs By DEBORAH G. SEWARD Associated Press Writer GDANSK, Poland (AP) Lech Walesa told a rally of nearly all the 10,000 workers at the Lenin shipyard Wednesday that Solidarity and a government-backed union will cooperate for the first time to try to keep the shipyard open. The government, meanwhile, announced a new approach to Walesa by Interior Minister Gen. Czeslaw Kiszczak to start delayed talks between authorities and the opposition on Poland's future. Walesa, leader of the outlawed Solidarity union, announced the unprecedented cooperation with the rival official OPZZ trade union during the outdoor rally at the shipyard where Solidarity sprang up during nationwide strikes in August 1980. The rally took place on the first workday since the government on Monday revealed its plans to close the yard Dec. 1, citing economic reasons. The move was denounced by activists as a deliberate blow by new Prime Minister Mieczyslaw F. Rakowski aimed at his longtime nemesis Solidarity, a charge Rakowski has denied. Solidarity and the official trade union said in a joint resolution that, ``The liquidation of the enterprise ... is a completely political decision because the financial position of the shipyard is advantageous at the present moment. ``One must not decide the future of the Gdansk shipyard without consulting the workcrew. We will defend our shipyard.'' But Walesa appeared to rule out a strike for the moment, said it ``would only make the situation worse.'' Activists said they wanted to avoid creating any confrontation that might jeopardize Mrs. Thatcher's planned visit to a monument just outside the shipyard Friday. Walesa said the common position reached by Solidarity with the OPZZ ``is proof the unions can reach agreement at any moment provided we are not set against each other by someone else.'' ``We are united by this single goal _ saving the shipyard,'' he said. It proves ``that pluralism is possible.'' He added that he has received messages from all over the country that people are willing to buy shares in the shipyard in order to preserve it. The joint stance with the official union marks a reversal of Solidarity's earlier position not to talk to OPZZ, which was set up in 1982 after the martial-law crackdown on Solidarity. Although the OPZZ continues to oppose introduction of union pluralism _ saying it alone can best represent all workers, even Solidarity supporters _ hostility between the OPZZ and Solidarity has been diminishing. On the factory floor, the two groups have been known to cooperate on local issues. Solidarity questions the independence of the official union, particularly at the national level. The head of the OPZZ is a member of the ruling communist party Politiburo. ``This is for the first time that OPZZ and Solidarity have declared cooperation so publically and so officially, although not 100 percent of unionists are ready to defend the shipyard at any cost,'' said Franciszek Ciemny, national spokesman for the OPZZ, interviewed by telephone in Warsaw. He said the OPZZ national secretariat met about the shipyard Wednesday and endorsed the government's motives to reform the economy, but decided to press for improvements in the shipyard's efficiency rather than an abrupt closure. The OPZZ leadership asked for a meeting with government officials Nov. 9 to set procedures for working out alternative solutions to the shutting down of workplaces, Ciemny said. Walesa said he believed Rakowski's decision to close the shipyard has ended hopes that the round-table between authorities and the opposition on Poland's future could begin soon. ``At this moment it is losing sense,'' he said. ``On the one hand you are trying to talk about various subjects, and on the other hand you close the cradle of Solidarity and Walesa's workplace. It doesn't make sense.'' He said he wasn't pronouncing the talks dead, but said he hoped authorities would reconsider their recent actions. At the shipyard rally, management encouraged workers to take up tools and work peaceably. The thousands of workers who braved icy wind to report for 6 a.m. shift appeared willing to follow the advice. ``Just the way we fight beautifully and sing beautifully, we are going to work beautifully,'' Walesa said. The yard has long been a symbol of worker dissent in Poland. Its August 1980 strike toppled Communist Party leader Edward Gierek and a strike in August of this year contributed to the ouster of Prime Minister Zbigniew Messner. Rakowski said he ordered the closing of the yard as the first major act of his pledge to restructure Poland's outdated, money-losing heavy industries. Government spokesman Jerzy Urban contacted Polish state radio to say the prime minister has asked Kiszczak ``to turn to Lech Walesa to mutually overcome the difficulties in the preparation for the round table.'' But there was no sign the government was prepared to drop its objections to Solidarity's proposed delegation to the talks, which has been the major stumbling block. The long-promised talks, due to start in mid-October, stalled when the government required Walesa to purge two delegates whom authorities deemed extremist. Walesa refused to allow interference in his delegation, saying it would set a bad precedent. The developments came as Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher of Britain arrived in Poland, beginning a three-day visit set to include meetings with top political leaders as well as a highly symbolic excursion to Gdansk to see Walesa. AP881102-0127 AP-NR-11-02-88 1333EST r i AM-Czechoslovakia 11-02 0450 AM-Czechoslovakia,0467 Newspapers Say 20 Face Charges in Brno PRAGUE, Czechoslovakia (AP) Twenty people detained during an illegal independence day rally last week face fines and criminal prosecution, according to newspapers received in Prague on Wednesday. Eight more people detained prior to another rally are likely to be charged with incitement, which carries a sentence of up to eight years in prison. Newspapers from the Moravian capital of Brno said about 350 people took part in the banned rally Friday to commemorate the 70th anniversary of Czechoslovakia's independence. The crowd included young people ``in extravagant dress,'' activists with the human rights movement Charter 77 and ``deplorably, also mothers with small children,'' one newspaper account said. The Brno newspapers said 39 people were detained after police broke up the Brno demonstration and that 20 of them face charges. The newspapers said eight will be charged with unspecified misdeeds, which can be tried before a criminal court, and 12 face misdemeanor charges, which are tried before National Committees, tribunals of local representatives. Both can be entered on a person's identity documents, giving them a police record. The same day as the Brno rally, police used tear gas, water cannon, batons and dogs to break up an illegal rally in Prague by about 5,000 people. Authorities announced that eight people detained during a sweep before that rally face charges of incitement that could send them to jail for up to eight years. Prague's evening newspaper Vecerni Praha said Monday that employers of each of the eight activists with the Independent Peace Association will be informed in writing about the charges. The newspaper criticized by name Hana Marvanova, a leading activist, saying she was frequently absent from work and used this time ``mostly for anti-state activities.'' Other Prague activists held were described as having previous convictions for rowdiness, theft and drug-related offenses. Petr Uhl, a leading activist, told The Associated Press in Vienna that most of the dozens of others who were detained, including banned playwright Vaclav Havel, had been released. Uhl, a Charter 77 signatory, said the eight still in custody included three prominent members of the Independent Peace Association, Tomas Dvorak, Hana Marvanova and Lubos Vydra. The Peace Association was one of five groups that called the Prague rally. The other activists still in custody were Petr Cibulka, Dusan Skala, Ivan Jirous, Jiri Tichy and a Roman Catholic priest, Frantisek Lizna, Uhl said. Uhl said Havel, who was detained Thursday, was released Monday without being charged. However, Uhl said authorities were preparing a criminal case of incitement against a new dissident group, the Movement for Civil Freedom. He said house searches and interrogations were conducted in the past five days. AP881102-0128 AP-NR-11-02-88 1329EST u p AM-DownonPolls 11-02 0807 AM-Down on Polls,800 Everyone Seems Turned Off By Political Polls With AM-Political Rdp Bjt By GARY LANGER Associated Press Writer NEW YORK (AP) Just about everybody, it seems, is becoming turned off by the never-ending opinion polls of the 1988 presidential campaign, which critics say are trivializing issues and alienating voters. Democratis nominee Michael Dukakis, who is trailing in the polls, has led the attack on their role in the election. Even Republicans are questioning whether survey results may improperly influence voters' choices. ``The question is whether these polls are giving the impression to the American people that their vote doesn't matter,'' Republican National Chairman Frank J. Fahrenkopf Jr. said in an interview. ``There is that danger.'' The public also is down on polls. Forty-five percent in a recent Gallup survey said reporting who's ahead is bad for the country, and as many said polls do not improve election coverage. Even more _ 52 percent _ said polls should not be reported in the final weeks of a presidential campaign. That disquiet may stem from the way polls have muscled so heavily into the contest this year. Bush and Dukakis have been rated in more than 90 major national surveys, six times the number conducted in the 1964 election. ``I think people are a little tired of all the horserace polls,'' said Andrew Kohut, president of the Gallup Organization. ``They want to know what the state of the race is and they're interested in public opinion. But there has been such a barrage of polls that they're saturated.'' Dukakis, frustrated by his persistent underdog showing in the polls, has begun to lash out. He says voters are ``not going to let the pollsters or anyone else make their decisions for them.'' In fact, the poll-takers agree. Poll results may shape perceptions of who's ahead but they do not influence voter decisions, the experts said in interviews this week. The evidence is in the polls themselves. ``Every time people complain about the polls they talk about it leading opinion,'' said CBS News pollster Warren Mitofsky. ``If that was the case, the polls would never change except to go up for the leading candidate.'' ``I don't know of a single pollster or political analyst who believes that the polls are creating a bandwagon effect,'' said Everett Ladd, head of the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research at the University of Connecticut. ``There's a lot of evidence that people reach their voting decisions for deep and very substantial reasons,'' Ladd said. ``They have interests and identifications that they bring to bear on the process. They aren't tossed around because of what a poll finds.'' Gallup polls provide evidence: The share of respondents who expect Bush to win grew from 45 percent in mid-August to 68 percent last week. But Bush's lead grew by far less, from four points to 10 among registered voters. ``What's happening is that people are recognizing that Bush is ahead,'' said Kohut. ``But it doesn't seem to be affecting voter preferences.'' There are other concerns. Critics say polls have hogged too much of the media's campaign coverage, and that the focus on Bush's lead could dissuade voters from turning out on Election Day. ``It's not just the existence of the polls themselves. It's when we get into the indication of the polls that the race is over,'' Fahrenkopf said. ``I have no indication that that affects voter turnout. But it could.'' CBS News' Mitofsky argues that it does not. Despite the proliferation of polls, ``participation has stayed at the same share of the number of people registered in every election since 1964,'' he said. ``If people were only going to vote for who they thought would win,'' Mitofsky said, ``then there wouldn't be a single Democratic vote for president cast in Utah,'' where Republicans predominate in national races. A related question is whether exit polls discouraged turnout in 1980, when the networks declared Ronald Reagan the winner while polls in the West were still open. Los Angeles Times pollster I.A. Lewis said his surveys indicated turnout was not affected by the call, but it is difficult to gauge. If such polls did discourage turnout, Lewis noted, the effect at least would likely be evenhanded, with the results creating complacency among one candidate's backers as much as discouragement among the other's. Some pollsters agreed that surveys have drawn increasing _ and perhaps inordinate _ media attention. But Lewis noted that before news organizations conducted polls, they made do with possibly misleading briefings from the candidates' own pollsters. Without the polls, Kohut said, the media would rely on the unsubstantiated views of pundits. ``It's unfortunate the candidates are hammered by the polls,'' Kohut said. ``But if it wasn't the polls, they'd be hammered by some other, less objective measure of the dynamics of the race.'' AP881102-0129 AP-NR-11-02-88 1353EST r i AM-TutuProtest 11-02 0211 AM-Tutu Protest,0217 Black Anti-Sanctions Protesters Given Tea at Tutu's Residence CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) Scores of blacks protesting Archbishop Desmond Tutu's support of sanctions were treated to tea at his residence Wednesday while their leaders conferred with Anglican leaders. About 200 residents of Crossroads, a shantytown near Cape Town, came in minibuses to Tutu's official residence in the wealthy Cape Town neighborhood of Bishopscourt. Tutu, leader of the Anglican church in southern Africa, was attending an ecumenical church conference in Kenya, but other Anglican leaders met with representatives of the protesters. A statement issued after the meeting said both sides agreed that apartheid was a fundamental cause of South Africa's problems and that blacks suffered economically long before sanctions were imposed. Tutu has been the target of several protests this year involving blacks who claim they are losing job opportunities because of sanctions. Previous protests have been featured prominently on newscasts of the state-run television network, and Tutu's staff has suggested there is an orchestrated campaign to create a false impression the archbishop is widely opposed by his fellow blacks. Crossroads has been dominated since 1986 by a conservative faction which ousted anti-apartheid activists during a series of battles. President P.W. Botha visited the shantytown in August. AP881102-0130 AP-NR-11-02-88 1357EST r a PM-NavyDolphins 3rdLd-Writethru a0557 11-02 0582 PM-Navy Dolphins, 3rd Ld - Writethru, a0557,0594 Navy Dolphin Training Program Reported in Disarray Eds: LEADS with 7 grafs to ADD denial from Pentagon; PICKS UP 6th graf pvs, `A trainer ...'; SUBS 11th graf pvs, `The program's ...' with four grafs with more from Pentagon. SEATTLE (AP) A Navy program to train dolphins as underwater security guards is in disarray, with four of the animals dead and others blinded or crippled by abusive handlers, a newspaper reported today. The Seattle Post-Intelligencer quoted unidentified sources, including two former trainers who asked that their names be withheld, as saying four of the Navy's three dozen dolphins have died in the past 18 months. The former trainers said some of the dolphins have been blinded or have suffered crippling injuries as a result of poor training procedures. The program, which trains dolphins to hunt for mines and enemy frogmen, leaves the animals vulnerable to infection or illness by moving them from cooler to warmer water and subjects them to other stress, they said. In Washington, Navy spokesman Lt. Cmdr. Craig Quigley today denied animals had been mistreated. ``We simply do not use negative techniques and browbeat these mammals into doing what we want to do,'' said Quigley. ``Even (the environmental group) Greenpeace has complimented our training methods as better than the industry. ``We use positive reinforcement and we depend upon a close relationship between the trainer and animal. Ultimately in the training, you have to go to the open ocean. If we were mistreating these mammals, why would they return to their trainers?'' A trainer, Rick Trout, who has worked at the Navy project in San Diego since 1985, told a convention of the International Marine Animal Trainers Association in San Antonio, Texas, this week he saw ``specific incidences of abuse, weight loss, corporal punishment and damage to animals after transport.'' Trainers use ``very negative methods, including food deprivation, corporal punishment (hitting), and other aversive techniques,'' Trout said. The newspaper said one dolphin died last month near Port Townsend and two others died earlier in San Diego, where the program is based. Last year, a dolphin died during patrol in the Persian Gulf of what the Navy said was some type of bacterial infection that developed into pneumonia. After that, four other dolphins were returned to United States. A Persian Gulf environmentalist, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said at the time that the dolphin probably was not used to the gulf environment and its bacteria. Quigley said the Navy program currently includes 115 animals, most of them dolphins and the remainder sea lions and Beluga whales. The work began more than 20 years ago, and the Navy has records showing its mortality rate is much lower than the industry standard, Quigley added. He said he was checking to determine if there had been four deaths in the past 18 months. ``I know of two deaths within the past year,'' he said. ``One involved a dolphin sent to the Persian Gulf, and the other involved a dolphin that died 11 days after being sent to Indian Island in the Pacific Northwest. We're still awaiting laboratory reports on the cause of that last death. ``But I can say categorically that we have not had any deaths through mistreatment.'' Sources quoted by the newspaper blamed the project's problems on rapid turnover among employees in San Diego and pressure to expand the project to the Trident nuclear submarine base at Bangor and other sites. AP881102-0131 AP-NR-11-02-88 1358EST r i AM-BRF--Iraq-British 11-02 0167 AM-BRF--Iraq-British,0173 British Airways Resumes Flights to Baghdad BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) British Airways resumed flights to Baghdad on Wednesday, 20 months after they were suspended because of Iranian missile attacks on the Iraqi capital during the gulf war. The airline, Britain's flag carrier, will have two flights a week to Baghdad via Cairo. British Airways halted its service to Baghdad and Tehran in March 1987 during fierce missile attacks on both capitals. An airline spokesman said it also was considering starting a London-Baghdad service with its supersonic Concorde jetliner. But he noted no agreement has been reached yet with Iraq's civil aviation authorities. Other foreign airlines were expected to resume flights to Baghdad following the Aug. 20 cease-fire in the 8-year-old gulf war. Gulf Air, owned by Bahrain, Oman, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates, announced that it will resume flights to Baghdad and Tehran this month. British Airways is scheduled to resume flights to Tehran on Dec. 15, with a twice-weekly service via Cyprus. AP881102-0132 AP-NR-11-02-88 1401EST r i AM-Pakistan 11-02 0519 AM-Pakistan,0538 Opposition Leader Puts Her Election Campaign On Rails By IQBAL JAFFERY Associated Press Writer RAWALPINDI, Pakistan (AP) Opposition leader Benazir Bhutto has put her campaign for Nov. 16 elections on the rails _ literally _ in a 31-stop tour before thousands of chanting and flag-waving followers. Ms. Bhutto, recovered from giving birth to her first child in September and an illness last month, rode the green and yellow ``Khyber Mail'' from Sunday to Tuesday as the train wound its way 1,000 miles through Pakistan. The followers lined the tracks from Karachi in the south to Rawalpindi in the north. They were the biggest crowds so far in the campaign which pits her left-leaning Pakistan People's Party against a wobbly center-right political alliance dominated by the Pakistan Muslim League. From the door of her air-conditioned coach, she preached the message handed down by her late father, Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto: democracy and prosperity to the poor masses. After 27 hours, her voice was a barely audible rasp. ``They don't want to listen to me, they simply want to see me,'' Ms. Bhutto, 35, confided as the train rolled through the darkness in southern Punjab. Scores of supporters waving the red, green and black party flag rode on the roof. Two of them were killed south of the rural town of Multan when a low bridge knocked them under the wheels. Her father led a popularly elected socialist government from 1973 to 1977 when the army chief, Gen. Mohammed Zia ul-Haq, ousted him in a military coup. Bhutto was hanged two years later after being convicted of conspiracy in the killing of a political foe. Zia's 11-year rule ended Aug. 17 when he was killed in a plane crash. U.S. Ambassador Arnold Raphael and 28 others also died in the crash of the C-130 transport plane. Although sabotage was suspected, the cause of the crash is still under investigation. Zia had ordered November elections on a non-party basis the month before. Ms. Bhutto challenged Zia's non-party decree in the Supreme Court, which ruled Oct. 2 in favor of free party-based elections. She gave birth to her first child, a boy, on Sept. 21. Just as she was to kick off her campaign Oct. 16, a kidney infection put her back in bed. On Monday night, Ms. Bhutto, party aides, bodyguards and reporters boarded the northbound Khyber Mail in Karachi station. At Multan station, Khaswar Mirza was asked why he came to see her. ``I have spent six years in prison and had 12 lashes for her (during Zia's rule). She is my leader and I am prepared to spend another six years for her,'' he said. Although the country has not had free elections in more than a decade, Ms. Bhutto's party is widely expected to win a majority in a new 217-member National Assembly. In Nov. 19 provincial assembly elections, the Bhutto forces are expected to do well in the populous Sind and Punjab. Arid Baluchistan and the rugged North-West Frontier are expected to favor the leftist Awami (People's) National Party of Abdul Wali Khan. AP881102-0133 AP-NR-11-02-88 1407EST r p AM-BRF--BarbaraBush 11-02 0168 AM-BRF--Barbara Bush,180 Mrs. Bush Campaigns in Hometown, Botches Congressman's Name RYE, N.Y. (AP) Barbara Bush twice muffed the name of the local Republican congressman during a campaign stop in her hometown on Wednesday and finally gave up, urging the crowd to just ``vote for all these people.'' ``It was here that I grew up, got educated, got married at the Presbyterian church down the street,'' the wife of GOP presidential candidate George Bush told about 1,000 people outside City Hall. ``It was here that I learned values. George grew up just around the corner and learned the same values of God and family and pride in country that you and I have.'' Bush grew up in neighboring Greenwich, Conn. Then, urging votes for local Republicans, she tried to endorse Rep. Joseph DioGuardi for re-election. But she called him ``DelGadio,'' and after bungling the second attempt as well, asked the crowd to ``vote for all these people'' and said she was giving up on the names. AP881102-0134 AP-NR-11-02-88 1408EST r i AM-Philippines-Ship 11-02 0527 AM-Philippines-Ship,0547 Aquino Temporarily Shuts Shipping Company By MIGUEL C. SUAREZ Associated Press Writer MANILA, Philippines (AP) President Corazon Aquino ordered the nation's largest domestic shipping firm closed Wednesday while the government inspects its crews and ships after accidents that killed thousands of people. Officials of the company, Sulpicio Lines, Inc., said the indefinite closing was unfair and would disrupt shipping across the island nation. The order came nine days after Sulpicio's Dona Marilyn ferry sank during a typhoon with about 500 people aboard. In December, another Sulpicio ferry, the Dona Paz, collided with an oil tanker and sank. The official death toll of that accident was about 1,500, but some estimates have said more than 3,000 people may have died. ``Since Sulpicio is beset by these accidents, we would like to have a closer look at their operations,'' Secretary of Transportation Reinerio Reyes said. Reyes told reporters Mrs. Aquino was aware of the ship shortage in the Philippines and ordered the inspection of Sulpicio's vessels be completed as soon as possible. ``The main reason is we want to prevent loss of lives,'' Reyes said. ``We want to make sure (the ships) are seaworthy and manned by competent crews.'' Sulpicio operates 22 passenger and cargo vessels, which account for 20 percent of domestic sea traffic among the country's 7,200 islands. In the central Philippine city of Cebu, hub of the country's domestic shipping, Sulpicio's president and general manager, Carlos Go, said he was unaware of the order. ``It's bad for the public because they have fewer vessels to ride,'' Go said. He refused further comment. Go's brother Eusebio, the company's executive vice president, said the order was unnecessary and unfair. ``They can inspect the ships without suspending the operations,'' he said. Sulpicio officials were to appear before the Maritime Industry Authority, a Department of Transportation agency, on Thursday to show why the company's operations should not be suspended. Reyes said he recommended to Mrs. Aquino that Sulpicio be temporarily closed so its ships could be inspected and their crews' qualifications tested. ``The president agreed that this was the right step to take,'' he said, adding that the company's franchise could be if widespread deficiencies were found. Before Reyes met with Mrs. Aquino, his department issued orders holding four Sulpicio ships in port because they allegedly had inadequate communications equipment. The search for victims of the Dona Marilyn sinking is still going on. Like the Dona Paz, it has been difficult to determine the number of victims because of confusion over how many people were aboard. The Dona Marilyn sailed Oct. 23 from Manila for the Leyte island port of Tacloban, despite warnings that Typhoon Ruby was approaching. Vicente Gambito, vice president of Sulpicio Lines, said 161 passengers and 39 crewmen were rescued after it sank about 300 miles southeast of Manila. He said at least 76 people were confirmed dead but only 54 bodies had been recovered. Sulpicio said the manifest showed about 487 passengers and crew, but the ship radioed after leaving Manila that it was carrying 517 people. The coast guard in Manila said it counted 491 people before the ship left Manila. AP881102-0135 AP-NR-11-02-88 1408EST r a PM-FranklinExecution 1stLd-Writethru a0529 11-02 0345 PM-Franklin Execution, 1st Ld - Writethru, a0529,0349 Attorneys Seek To Halt Planned Early Thursday Execution Eds: LEADS with seven grafs to UPDATE with appeal filed with Supreme Court; PICKS UP 10th graf pvs, `There's some ...' By MICHAEL L. GRACZYK Associated Press Writer HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) A man awaiting execution early Thursday for the murder of a nurse appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court for a reprieve today. A federal court in San Antonio and an appeals court in New Orleans on Tuesday had refused to halt the execution of Donald Gene Franklin, 37. Franklin's case virtually halted all Texas executions for a year when the Supreme Court agreed to consider his challenge to the Texas capital punishment law. But the court in June rejected 6-3 his claim that jurors were not allowed to consider mitigating circumstances in deciding his punishment. Defense attorney George Scharmen filed an appeal today with the nation's highest court. Franklin, who has had three trials and at least five execution dates, faces lethal injection for the 1975 abduction-slaying of a San Antonio nurse. The three-judge federal appeals court panel that turned down Franklin's request Tuesday said the inmate's third such attempt ``presents no more than one warmed-over variation on a claim made earlier and denied.'' In their latest appeal to the Supreme Court, attorneys are again raising the issue of mitigating circumstances _ specifically, testimony from Franklin's mother about his growing up in a broken home _ and hope the high court's review of another Texas case involving death row inmate Johnny Penry will mean a reprieve for Franklin. ``There's some reason for optimism based on Penry,'' Scharmen said. ``On the other hand, Franklin has received three trials and several stays. So in terms of optimism, I really don't know what to say.'' State attorneys have characterized Franklin, on death row for nearly 12{ years, as the most likely to die of the more than 280 condemned inmates in Texas. ``This time I think it's maybe finally going to happen,'' said Bill Zapalac, an assistant attorney general. AP881102-0136 AP-NR-11-02-88 1409EST r i AM-BRF--China-Loan 11-02 0170 AM-BRF--China-Loan,0174 World Bank to Loan China $4 Billion BEIJING (AP) The World Bank will provide China with $4 billion in loans in the next two years for economic development projects, a senior bank official said Wednesday. World Bank Vice President for Asia Attila Karaosmanoglu said 35 percent of the funds will be 35-year interest-free loans and the rest 20-year loans with an interest rate of 7.72 percent, the official Xinhua News Agency reported. China has been granted $7.2 billion in World Bank loans since it resumed its membership in the organization in 1980. In 1988, loans reached about $1.7 billion, 10 percent of total bank lending. Loans to China have gone to 66 projects in energy, transportation, agriculture and industry. Bank President Barber Conable said in March that China will receive about $12 billion in loans between 1988 and 1992, and that by 1990, China will be the largest recipient of credit from the International Development Association, the bank's wing for low-interest long-term loans to developing countries. AP881102-0137 AP-NR-11-02-88 1409EST r w AM-Pryor-Taxes 11-02 0223 AM-Pryor-Taxes,220 Review of IRS Penalties Next on Senator's Agenda WASHINGTON (AP) Sen. David Pryor, D-Ark., chief sponsor of a ``taxpayers' bill of rights,'' said Wednesday he plans to ask Congress next year to review the 152 types of penalties that can be imposed by the Internal Revenue Service. ``We think that many of those 152 penalties are extremely arbitrary and we're going to be reviewing them,'' Pryor said. Pryor commented during a breakfast meeting with about 40 people to thank a variety of groups for supporting his ``taxpayers' bill of rights.'' The measure was approved by the Senate and House two weeks ago as part of a package of tax legislation enacted shortly before the 100th Congress adjourned. The bill has yet to be signed by President Reagan, Pryor noted, but ``I don't believe he will veto it.'' The bill requires the IRS to tell taxpayers about their rights before being audited, allows taxpayers to be represented by lawyers during all proceedings and also permits taxpayers to collect damages in suits against the IRS. ``We did something that has not been done for 124 years, and that is strengthen the hand of the taxpayers,'' Pryor said. Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev., a co-sponsor of the bill, agreed. ``This is something that will really help the American public,'' he told the meeting. AP881102-0138 AP-NR-11-02-88 1413EST r a AM-HouseWreck 11-02 0238 AM-House Wreck,0245 House Hit By Car For Second Time MEDFORD, Ore. (AP) Jay Robinson says he won't move from his home, even though cars have run into it twice in less than two months. ``The Lord has protected us two times,'' Robinson said Tuesday as he surveyed the wreckage caused by the Halloween night crash. ``Why not three?'' Fortunately, Robinson said, no one was home at about 9 p.m. Monday when a 1977 Chevrolet Monza crashed through the house, which is located opposite where a major road in the rural area makes a 90-degree turn. ``When my wife got home, the car was totally hidden in the living room,'' said Robinson. ``If anybody had been here last night, there's no doubt they would have been hurt. ``The Lord is protecting us,'' he added. Trooper Pat McNeilly said the driver, Mark Andrew Root, 20, tried to run away, but was tackled by neighbors. Root, who was treated for minor injuries, was held in lieu of $13,000 bail on various charges. Robinson said work was recently completed on repairs from the last time someone failed to make the corner. About six weeks ago Robinson and his 13-year-old daughter were sitting in the living room when they heard the screech of a car skidding. ``I got up and was opening the door just as the car crashed through the wall right by where we'd been sitting,'' Robinson said. AP881102-0139 AP-NR-11-02-88 1414EST r w AM-Mayor'sTrip 11-02 0335 AM-Mayor's Trip,330 D.C. Mayor Criticized for Indirect South African Support WASHINGTON (AP) District of Columbia Mayor Marion Barry lent credibility and respectability to South Africa's apartheid regime by participating in a Bahamian golf tournament partially supported by an oil company doing business in that African nation, according to a local union official. Joslyn N. Williams, president of the Washington Metropolitan Council of the AFL-CIO said he was ``distressed'' that Barry was present for the tournament, which began Wednesday. Barry has been one of the most prominent Washington leaders of the movement to boycott the Royal Dutch-Shell Group of Companies, Williams said Tuesday. The Shell companies are partial sponsors of the tournament, according to a tournament organizer. Barry's press secretary, John C. White, said the trip was paid for by Resorts International Ltd., a company that operates gambling casinos, including a casino at the Paradise Island Resort in the Bahamas. White said Barry was not a golfer and would not participate in the tournament. Barry said he knew the tournament was partially sponsored by Shell, but added, ``Everybody knows where I stand'' on South Africa. ``I cut up my credit card from Shell,'' he said. Barry returned to Washington on Monday from a five-day business trip to California and Hawaii. Tournament director Fred Higgs told The Washington Post the Paradise Island Celebrity Golf Tournament's major sponsors were the Bahamas Ministry of Tourism and Resorts International. He declined to say how much Shell contributed to the event. White said city officials had determined the anti-apartheid boycott was aimed at Shell's South African and U.S. subsidiaries, not its company in the Bahamas. ``As far as I'm concerned, it does not make any difference whether it is Shell U.S.A., Shell Bahamas. It is all part of one giant conglomerate, and that conglomerate is exploiting blacks in South Africa,'' Williams said. ``When prominent leaders, especially prominent black leaders, get tied in with Shell in any shape or form, it diminishes the struggle in South Africa,'' he said. AP881102-0140 AP-NR-11-02-88 1414EST r a AM-Heart 11-02 0307 AM-Heart,0315 Dieting and Exercising Improve Cholesterol Levels Eds: For Release at 6 p.m. EST BOSTON (AP) Programs to help people lower their risk of heart disease should put more emphasis on losing weight and getting exercise, according to a new study. The recommendation is based on a finding that both dieting and exercise help men and women improve their cholesterol levels. Experts have long known that fat people, who are at increased risk of heart trouble, also have relatively low levels of high-density lipoprotein cholesterol, or HDL. This so-called good cholesterol helps keep the arteries free of dangerous deposits. On the other hand, people who get lots of exercise tend to have higher amounts of protective HDL. The latest study, conducted at Stanford University, was intended to look separately at the effects of dieting and exercise on the cholesterol levels of overweight men. It found that men who slimmed down were able to raise their good cholesterol levels, regardless of whether they took off the weight through dieting or exercising. ``It appears that attention to weight loss and increased exercise should be more strongly emphasized in contemporary campaigns to reduce risk of coronary heart disease,'' the researchers wrote. The study was directed by Dr. Peter D. Wood and published in Thursday's New England Journal of Medicine. For a year, they studied 131 overweight men who ranged in age from 30 to 59. One-third of them went on diets, one-third jogged and the rest did nothing differently. Although only men were studied, the study said its conclusions would apply to both men and women. In an accompanying editorial, Drs. Henry Blackburn and David R. Jacobs Jr. of the University of Minnesota said that burning up 150 to 300 calories a day in such moderate activities as walking and working around the house is beneficial exercise. AP881102-0141 AP-NR-11-02-88 1414EST r w AM-BRF--US-Canada 11-02 0117 AM-BRF--US-Canada,110 Two Countries Agree on Hijacking Policy WASHINGTON (AP) The United States and Canada issued a joint statement Wednesday pledging not to allow hijacked aircraft which have landed in their territory to take off again. State Department spokesman Charles Redman said the United States already has a ``no-takeoff policy'' concerning hijackings but decided that a cooperative approach with Canada could serve as a deterrent to further hijackings. The two countries agreed the policy would be in effect ``except under extraordinary circumstances,'' Redman said. They also agreed to take ``all appropriate measures to restore control of the hijacked aircraft to its lawful commander and to detain the hijackers for the purpose of prosecution or extradition.'' AP881102-0142 AP-NR-11-02-88 1424EST r a AM-SubmarineLaunch 11-02 0196 AM-Submarine Launch,0200 Strike-Delayed Launch Set for Attack Sub Miami GROTON, Conn. (AP) The launch of the attack submarine Miami, which had been delayed by a 103-day strike by workers at the Electric Boat shipyard, has been scheduled for Nov. 12. Because of the production slowdown caused by the strike that ended last month, the shipyard has not launched a submarine since the Trident ballistic missile submarine Pennsylvania was christened April 23. The Miami, an improved Los Angeles-class submarine, was originally scheduled for launch July 30. The 10,000-member Metal Trades Council struck July 1 to Oct. 11 over wage and benefit issues. Salaried employees and strike-breakers continued limited construction on the shipyard's backlog of eight Trident and eight attack submarines. Electric Boat spokesman Neil D. Ruenzel said Tuesday that 3,557 union workers are back on the job and that 5,877 have been contacted about returning to work. The recall is expected to take another two weeks, he said. The Miami will be the 26th Los Angeles-class submarine launched at Electric Boat, one of only two submarine builders in the country. The last attack sub launched at Electric Boat was the Topeka, on Jan. 23. AP881102-0143 AP-NR-11-02-88 1412EST u a PM-People-Ditka 1stLd-Writethru a0579 11-02 0419 PM-People-Ditka, 1st Ld - Writethru, a0579,0431 Bears Coach Mike Ditka Hospitalized With Chest Pains Eds: LEADS with 8 grafs with Ditka suffering a heart attack, comments from Bears officials; PICKS UP 6th graf pvs, `Known for ...'; A version also moving on sports wires. By BERNARD SCHOENBURG Associated Press Writer LAKE FOREST, Ill. (AP) Chicago Bears coach Mike Ditka suffered a mild heart attack after his morning workout today at the team's training camp and was hospitalized in serious but stable condition, officials said. The 49-year-old National Football League coach was given medication, said Dr. Jay Alexander, a cardiologist at Lake Forest Hospital. ``It's too soon to say when he will be back and resuming his duties,'' Alexander said. ``He suggested 48 hours.'' Bears President Mike McCaskey said Ditka appeared to be in good spirits and joked about visiting a friend at the hospital later today. ``He felt a little rueful about all this. He was beginning to realize that there was a good reason to be brought to the hospital,'' McCaskey said. Ditka suffered chest pains as he was getting dressed for an appearance at a rally for George Bush in nearby Prairie View and was taken to the hospital by private vehicle, said Bears spokesman Bryan Harlan. Assistant coach Johnny Roland said Ditka suffered chest pains Monday as well but apparently did nothing about them. Roland said three assistant coaches persuaded Ditka to go to the hospital. ``He was fighting us, not necessarily fighting us, but discouraging us from going to get help,'' Roland said. ``But you could tell he was obviously in dire need of help.'' Known for his fiery temperament as a player and coach, Ditka has spent 27 years in pro football and was accorded the game's highest honor by being inducted into the NFL Hall of Fame earlier this year. Ditka began his professional career as a tight end with the Bears in 1961, when he was named rookie of the year. He was named to the next five Pro Bowls. Ditka was traded to the Philadelphia Eagles in 1967 and then to the Dallas Cowboys, where he finished his playing career after 12 years. The native of Aliquippa, Pa., began his coaching career with the Cowboys and worked there nine years before being named head coach of the Bears in 1982. He led the Bears to the Super Bowl in 1985 and entered this season with a 61-27 mark, including seven post-season appearances. The Bears are 7-2 this season. AP881102-0144 AP-NR-11-02-88 1428EST r a AM-CowCrash 11-02 0172 AM-Cow Crash,0176 Truck Driver And Cows Killed In Crash BENTLEYVILLE, Pa. (AP) Three tractor-trailers collided, killing one driver and more than a dozen cows and setting off a series of accidents that virtually shut down a section of Interstate 70, state police said. Lewis Terrell, 33, of Strasburg, Va., was killed when his westbound tractor-trailer, which was hauling an undetermined number of beef cattle, sideswiped a garbage truck and overturned just east of the Bentleyville exit around 7 p.m. Tuesday, said Trooper Ike Mogle. The driver of the garbage truck escaped just before his vehicle burst into flames and was hospitalized with a concussion, Mogle said. An automobile carrier approaching from the opposite direction then hit the cattle truck, which had flipped into the middle of the interstate, Mogle said. The driver of the car carrier was not injured, authorities said. Bentleyville Fire Chief Walter Wisniewski said 15 to 20 cows were killed on impact or had to be destroyed. Traffic was backed up for several miles, police said. AP881102-0145 AP-NR-11-02-88 1432EST r a PM-AgentsShot 11-02 0230 PM-Agents Shot,0238 Man Convicted In Drug Agent Slaying Case PASADENA, Calif. (AP) A Taiwanese man was convicted of murder for helping set up a drug ripoff Feb. 5 that left two federal agents and two gunmen dead. Su Re ``Michael'' Chia, 21, was found guilty Tuesday of two counts of murder and one each of attempted murder, robbery and conspiracy. He could receive up to two consecutive life terms at sentencing Dec. 21. Drug Enforcement Administration agents Paul Seema and George Montoya were shot to death and a third agent was wounded after they attempted to make an $80,000 undercover heroin buy and were instead robbed and shot. In a shootout with backup agents, a 17-year-old man and a 27-year-old also were killed. Win Wei ``William'' Wang, 19, was wounded and was charged with murder. Investigators said the killers planned the double-cross robbery from the start and did not know they were dealing with DEA agents. Prosecutors said Chia delivered a gun, gave a ride to one of the killers and acted as a lookout. ``We were delighted,'' Deputy District Attorney Joe Martinez said of the verdict. ``We had to convince the jury that he was an aider and abettor and a conspirator. So we had to select a jury that could understand the complexities of the conspiracy laws.'' Defense attorney Brian Lysaght said he will appeal. AP881102-0146 AP-NR-11-02-88 1433EST r a AM-People 11-02 0812 AM-People,0844 People in the News LaserPhoto NY44 BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (AP) United Farm Workers President Cesar Chavez is out of the hospital after treatment for injuries suffered in a fall. Chavez, who has been recuperating from a 36-day, water-only fast this summer, was hurt Sunday when the handrail on his porch gave way, and he fell about eight feet to the ground. The union leader broke his wrist and bruised his head, chest and back, said his son Paul. The accident occurred at the Chavez home at UFW headquarters in Keene, about 125 miles north of Los Angeles. Chavez was released from Kern Medical Center on Tuesday, said nursing administrator Robin Donaldson. Chavez's fast was to protest the use of pesticides on California table grapes. He ended it Aug. 21. NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) Country music star Waylon Jennings has returned home to recuperate following a hospital stay in California for chest pains, a spokeswoman said. Jennings was hospitalized Oct. 24 when he experienced shortness of breath and chest pains during a show in Santa Ana, Calif. He underwent angioplasty, a procedure in which a balloon is passed through a blocked coronary artery to remove an obstruction, said Bridget Dolan, a spokeswoman for Jennings' booking agency. The singer was released from the hospital Thursday and went home the following day, she said Jennings, whose hits include ``Mammas, Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to be Cowboys'' (with Willie Nelson) and the theme to ``The Dukes of Hazzard'' TV show, missed two scheduled concerts. He is expected to resume his tour Nov. 6 in Mobile, Ala. For Release 3 p.m. EST, Time set by source TOKYO (AP) Economist Paul Volcker, former chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve Board, will be honored next week by the Japanese government with one of its highest honors, the Foreign Ministry announced Thursday. Volcker will receive the Grand Cordon of the Order of the Sacred Treasure, joining seven other foreigners and 16 Japanese in receiving the award. The government bestows the Grand Cordon annually for outstanding scientific or cultural contributions, and for promoting relations between the recipients' countries and Japan. Volcker is being honored for his contributions to stabilizing the economic and financial structure between the United States and Japan, the Foreign Ministry said. Another American, James Tobin, a 1981 Nobel Prize winner in economics, also will receive the Grand Cordon. The recipients are scheduled to be decorated by the Crown Prince Akihito at a ceremony next week in the Imperial Palace. LONG LAKE, N.Y. (AP) ``Gorillas In The Mist'' star Sigourney Weaver is building a country home in the Adirondack Mountains, but it won't be quite as rustic as her movie digs in Africa. Miss Weaver and her husband, director James Simpson, own 417 acres at the northern end of Long Lake, a 5{-hour drive from their home in New York City, and are putting up a three-story custom house there. The actress paid $140,000 in 1986 for the property, in one of the most sparsely populated areas of the eastern United States, according to the Watertown Daily Times. Her latest movie is the story of naturalist Dian Fossey, who was murdered at the African camp where she studied gorillas. MADRID, Spain (AP) Queen Sofia of Spain celebrated her 50th birthday Wednesday, joking in remarks to Spanish newspapers that she doesn't like birthdays ``and even less that the whole world knows I'm turning 50.'' The Greek-born queen, who married King Juan Carlos in Athens in 1962, said she is ``surprised that 26 years have gone by already and we are here in Madrid, happy, and with healthy children.'' Asked to remember the happiest days in her life, the queen said, ``The day of my wedding, the dates of birth of each of my children and the day I arrived in Spain.'' She and Juan Carlos have three children: Crown Prince Felipe, 20, a law student at Madrid's Autonomous University; Princess Elena, 25; and Princess Cristina, 22. Sofia became queen when Juan Carlos ascended the throne two days after the death on Nov. 20, 1975, of longtime dictator Gen. Francisco Franco. AMMAN, Jordan (AP) Jordan's King Hussein says he has decided to give up smoking once and for all, a newspaper has reported. Sawt Ash-Shaab, an Arabic-language daily, said Tuesday that Hussein, 53, told its reporters he had sworn off cigarettes as of Monday after decades of smoking. ``We are happy for our leader's wise decision, and we hope it will be imitated by the people,'' the newspaper said in a commentary. It said the monarch's decision will be regarded as part of a health ministry campaign to ban smoking in public places. The ministry faces an uphill battle in Jordan, where seemingly everyone smokes and cigarettes are routinely offered to guests as a sign of hospitality. AP881102-0147 AP-NR-11-02-88 1434EST r a PM-BRF--HospitalKidnapping 11-02 0127 PM-BRF--Hospital Kidnapping,0133 Police Searching for Newborn's Kidnapper LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) A woman in a nurse's uniform kidnapped a newborn from his mother's arms at a hospital, police said. Four-day-old Christopher Michael Jones, the son of Willie and Annette Jones, was abducted Tuesday from Doctors Hospital, police said. ``The mother was feeding the child a little after 10 last night and a women appeared in a nurse's-type uniform and told the mother than she needed the child to be weighed,'' said Lt. R.L. Jenkins. ``The mother suspected nothing ... and allowed the child to go off with the woman. The child hasn't been seen since.'' The abduction was discovered when a hospital employee came to the mother's room to get the baby, he said. AP881102-0148 AP-NR-11-02-88 1445EST r i AM-GulfTalks 11-02 0425 AM-Gulf Talks,0439 New Full Dress Session As Peace Talks Move Into Higher Gear ^By HANNS NEUERBOURG Associated Press Writer GENEVA (AP) Iran and Iraq held their second face-to-face peace talks in 24 hours Wednesday, and the U.N. secretary-general said the quickened pace showed a willingness by both sides to end their war. But statements from the Iranian and Iraqi foreign ministers made clear there has been no narrowing of positions. Foreign ministers Ali Akbar Velayati of Iran and Tariq Aziz of Iraq agreed Tuesday to meet face-to-face in all future sessions to speed up the negotiations. The talks are aimed at consolidating a truce that went into effect Aug. 20 after both sides accepted a U.N. Security Council cease-fire resolution. Until now, the talks had been mostly conducted in an indirect fashion, with U.N. Secretary-General Javier Perez de Cuellar and his mediating team shuttling between the two delegations seated in separate rooms. Perez de Cuellar said the change was a ``very good sign.'' Velayati and Aziz did not talk to reporters as they arrived for the joint session at the European U.N. headquarters. Earlier, Aziz renewed Baghdad's call for an exchange of war prisoners to proceed immediately. After meeting with the president of the International Committee of the Red Cross, Cornelio Sommaruga, Aziz said the international community should pressure Iran to agree to the prisoner exchange, independent of what happens in the talks. Iran, through a delegation spokesman, reiterated its demand that such an exchange should come in the framework of the talks. Spokesman Morteza Sarmadi said priority should be given to withdrawal of the forces to internationally recognized boundaries. Troops are only a few yards apart at some points. Definition of the common border is the main stumbling block in the talks, which began Aug. 25. Iran and Iraq are pledged to begin repatriation of war prisoners ``without delay'' after cessation of hostilities. The International Committee of the Red Cross oversees its implementation. In a note to both countries Oct. 4, the Red Cross asked Baghdad and Tehran to facilitate an agreement on the exchange by providing complete lists of the prisoners they hold and proceeding with repatriation of the sick and wounded. The Red Cross has registered 50,182 Iraqi prisoners in Iran and 19,284 Iranians in Iraq. It estimates that the number of unregistered prisoners is at least 20,000 to 30,000 in both Iran and Iraq. A U.N. report compiled in July said the number of prisoners in Iraq may be close to 35,000 and in Iraq up to 75,000. AP881102-0149 AP-NR-11-02-88 1446EST r i AM-BRF--YouthFestival 11-02 0162 AM-BRF--Youth Festival,0167 Pyongyang Says Preparations Smooth For World Festival TOKYO (AP) North Korea said Wednesday the 13th World Festival of Youth and Students, to be held in its capital of Pyongyang next year, will be a high-level function magnificent in scale and content. The world festival, held every four years, is the largest political, art and sports festival among communist and Third World countries. The last festival was held in Moscow in 1985. ``It is the party's intention and idea and the unanimous desire of our people to hold the 13th World Festival of Youth and Students on a high level,'' said Minju Chosun, Pyongyang's official newspaper, in an editorial carried by the Korean Central News Agency's English service. It said North Korea's citizens are ``proud and honored to host an international function magnificent in scale, content and character.'' The festival's theme will be ``anti-imperialist solidarity, peace and friendship,'' it said. Other details of the festival were not given. AP881102-0150 AP-NR-11-02-88 1503EST r w US-SovietRadar 11-02 0438 US-Soviet Radar,430 Negotiators Fail To Resolve Dispute Over Siberian Facility By BARRY SCHWEID AP Diplomatic Writer WASHINGTON (AP) U.S. and Soviet negotiators failed Wednesday to settle their dispute over a Siberian radar facility, and the Reagan administration warned it may take steps to unravel the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile treaty. After Soviet experts outlined their views at a meeting in Geneva, the State Department demanded that the installation at Krasnoyarsk be dismantled and its equipment destroyed. ``Unfortunately, the Soviet experts did not have any new proposal,'' department spokesman Charles E. Redman said in giving an account of the session. In two reports to Congress, the administration charged the Soviets with violating the ABM treaty by constructing a radar facility that could be used to organize a national defense against missile attack. The theory behind the treaty is that if both sides were unable to mount a defense they would hesitate to launch an attack. Otherwise, their territory and populations would be open to devastating retaliation. The Geneva session was held at the Soviets' request and indicated a settlement might be possible. Viktor P. Karpov, the foreign ministry's senior arms control specialist, had said in July that the Soviets would dismantle the Krasnoyarsk radar if the two sides resolved their differences over the 1972 treaty. ``We had hoped they were prepared to meet U.S. concerns about the radar,'' Redman told reporters. ``... We listened to what they had to say. Unfortunately, the Soviet experts did not have any new proposals.'' As a result, the spokesman said, the United States reserved its right under international law ``to take appropriate and proportionate responses'' to the Soviet violation. ``We have not foreclosed the option of declaring that violation a material breach,'' he said. Such a declaration could lead to U.S. nullification of the ABM treaty, which many arms control specialists consider to be a landmark in deterring nuclear war. Administration officials were sharply divided last spring on whether to threaten the Soviets with the declaration. Eventually, President Reagan decided on a postponement while encouraging Moscow to dismantle the Krasnoyarsk radar. Even some of the administration's sharpest critics consider the facility in violation of the treaty. But they say the United States is engaged in questionable radar operations itself in Britain and in Greenland. ``The Krasnoyarsk radar is a violation of the ABM treaty,'' Redman said. ``We've made it clear that violations must be corrected without delay.'' The spokesman added: ``Based on what we heard today, we continue to believe strongly that the U.S. criteria can only be met by dismantlement of the radar and destruction of the transmitter and receiver.'' AP881102-0151 AP-NR-11-02-88 1507EST r a AM-Brites 11-02 0718 AM-Brites,0749 Bright & Brief^ SHELBYVILLE, Ind. (AP) Hickory, dickory, dock. The mice are eating the pot. The Shelby County Sheriff's Department says a gang of rodents has infiltrated the agency's storage room and pilfered bags of marijuana kept as evidence for upcoming trials. Authorities believe the perpetrators are mice seeking refuge from the cold. It's not the first time this has happened, said Sheriff Rick D. Isgrigg. ``But this year is the worst,'' he said. The rodents have chewed through several 29-ounce and 1-pound bags of marijuana. ``They're playing havoc with the stuff,'' Isgrigg said Tuesday. ``From all indications, they must be rolling in it.'' The mice have discriminating tastes, however. They've passed up a bag of potato chips held as evidence in a grocery burglary, in this area southeast of Indianapolis. Because the pests refuse to rat on each other, Isgrigg has placed mounds of rodent-killer in the 20-by-25-foot property room. ``We have to nip this in the bud _ or nip it in the bag,'' the sheriff said. WADSWORTH, Nev. (AP) Now that he's captured, if the legendary ``16-foot Wadsworth gator'' could talk he might tell these residents east of Reno a couple of things. First, he's a South American caiman who's only 3 feet long and 10 pounds. Second, he likes cheeseburgers much better than the chicken bait that's been set out for him as lures in the Truckee River where's he's been vacationing for the past few weeks. Nevada Game Warden Steve Albert took custody Tuesday of the caiman, a reptile cousin of the alligator. Albert said he would try to find a new home for the caiman in a zoo or aquarium. The reptile was first spotted in the river Oct. 14 and was probably dumped there by someone who tired of it as a pet, Albert said. Since the first sighting, Wadsworth residents had believed that the reptile was an alligator. The town's storytellers eventually talked the legendary beast up to a 16-footer. The state Department of Wildlife became involved and set chicken meat bait traps along the river, but to no avail. But last week, Robert Lester, 22, of Sparks and John Warner, 26, of Reno captured the caiman while fishing for trout. Warner said he kept the caiman in his bathtub and fed it cheeseburgers hoping to make him a pet, even though that's illegal in Nevada. But Warner finally decided to give up the caiman and collect a $500 reward a Reno businessman had put up for the ``Wadsworth gator.'' Eddie Floyd, a University of Florida alumnus, said he offered the money because the alligator is the mascot of the university's sports team. Floyd paid the reward Tuesday then immediately gave up custody of the caiman to wildlife officials. ``I can't take it back to Florida because there are no Florida Fightin' Caimans,'' Floyd lamented. ``But I'm glad it's OK just the same.'' DALTON, Ga. (AP) Every time Don Anderson steps up to a game on the North Georgia Fair midway, some needy or sick child can start looking for a new stuffed animal. Anderson has gotten so good at the games, he wins a new toy just about every time he toes the line at the ring toss or milk can game. Anderson has won an average of 50 stuffed animals each year at the North Georgia Fair. This year, he won 78. Many of the green frogs, purple pandas and brown bears from this year's fair are strewn around the Anderson home in Dalton. Most are awaiting auction at the Dalton Shrine Club, over which Anderson presides. Proceeds from the auction are donated to the Scottish Rite Children's Hospital in Atlanta. Other stuffed toys will be donated directly to children at the hospital. The remaining stuffed animals will become Christmas presents for needy families in the Dalton area. Anderson, the 40-year-old co-owner of a carpet outlet, got hooked on playing midway games when he and his family visited Opryland in Nashville, Tenn. Playing a game called Whack-A-Mole, he found he could wield a cleaver and bash the mechanical ``moles'' with ease. ``I have quick reflexes,'' he said. He estimated he spent $150 to $160 playing the games this year. ``He'd rather do this than go on vacation,'' his wife said. AP881102-0152 AP-NR-11-02-88 1513EST r i AM-Nepal-US 11-02 0154 AM-Nepal-US,0158 Nepalese Academy Honors American Educator KATMANDU, Nepal (AP) The Royal Nepal Academy will bestow its highest honor to an American for his work in improving education in Nepal, it was reported Wednesday. Hugh Bernard Wood, 79, of Dillamook, Ore., will receive the Birendra Pragyalankar award for his 30 years of ``special contributions'' to developing modern education in this Himalayan kingdom, the RNA news agency said. Wood, through his articles and other activities, has aided aided Nepal's education system and brought the remote nation to the attention of the outside world, the news agency said. Wood will receive the award at a ceremony at a date yet to be set. The award has no cash prize. The academy annually gives its Birendra Pragyalankar award to people who make contributions to Nepal in language, literature, culture, arts and sciences. Previous recepients include Christoph von Heimendorf of Britain and Tony Hagen of Switzerland. AP881102-0153 AP-NR-11-02-88 1501EST u w AM-Economy Bjt 11-02 0694 AM-Economy, Bjt,690 Productivity on the Rise Despite Bad Second Quarter By MATT YANCEY AP Labor Writer WASHINGTON (AP) The nation's productivity rose by an annual rate of 1.3 percent from July through September, the government said Wednesday, reversing a second quarter decline when new employment had outpaced increases in goods and services. But analysts cautioned that the long-term trend of anemic productivity growth offers little hope for lifting Americans' standard of living or increasing U.S. competitiveness overseas. Output of goods and services by non-farm businesses rose at an annual rate of 2.8 percent in the third quarter, while the number of hours worked increased only 1.5 percent, the Labor Department said. But the over-the-year productivity improvement has been only 0.8 percent, the government said. Revised figures showed that productivity dropped 2.4 percent in the second quarter _ much worse than the 1.4 percent decline estimated previously. ``Despite the strong growth of the economy over the past year, there's still no significant change in a the weak trend in productivity that we've seen since 1973,'' said Larry Chimerine, chairman of the WEFA Group, a Bala Cynwyd, Pa., economic consulting firm. ``Productivity growth averaging 1 percent a year remains this country's major economic problem,'' he said. ``Until we get it on a stronger upward trend, we're not going to see any increase in real wages or in our international competitiveness.'' Unit labor costs rose at an annual rate of 4 percent in the second quarter on hourly wage and benefit increases averaging 5.4 percent annually. Last year, businesses were able to restrain their labor cost increases to only 3.1 percent, with a 3.8 percent increase in hourly compensation to workers. Roger Brinner, an economist for Data Resources Inc. of Lexington, Mass., said Americans can expect to see a pattern in the near future in which productivity gains offset only a small portion of recent increases in wages. ``It confirms that our core inflation rate has moved up, locked in at 4 percent and probably is headed to 5 percent unless OPEC (the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries) dissolves,'' Brinner said. Manufacturers, which account for one-fourth of the nation's economic output, continue to fare much better that businesses generally in both improving their productivity and in keeping a lid on labor costs. Productivity in the nation's factories rose at an annual rate of 4.3 percent in the second quarter on a 6.5 percent boost in the volume of goods coming off assembly lines with only a 2.1 percent increase in hours worked. Factory wages and benefits rose at a slower 4.6 percent annual rate when compared with those of all workers in private industry, enabling manufacturers to restrain their labor cost increases to only 0.3 percent in the third quarter and 0.7 percent over the past 12 months. After accounting for inflation, factory workers have 0.3 percent less buying power for each hour of work than they had a year ago, while workers in private industry in general have 0.7 percent more buying power, the Labor Department said. Bruce Steinberg, an economist for Merrill Lynch, said the manufacturing productivity gains are the payoff to the mergers, acquisitions and leveraged buyouts that have wreaked havoc on some parts of the economy. ``There were a lot of corporate bureaucracies that needed a lot of slimming,'' he said. ``As a result, manufacturing is the most vital part of the U.S. economy this year and its productivity growth in the 1980s has been superior to the three previous decades.'' Steinberg, however, noted that the export boom and wave of capital spending that has helped spur manufacturing's rebound the past two years show signs of slowing down. The Commerce Department, for example, reported Wednesday that orders to U.S. factories dropped 1.9 percent or by $4.4 billion in September after rising by 3.2 percent in August. And orders for non-defense capital goods, a key indicator of business investment plans, fell by 10 percent to $34.9 billion for the month. New home sales also fell a dramatic 7.8 percent in September _ the biggest decline in 16 months _ to seasonally adjusted annual rate of 659,000 units, the Commerce Department said. AP881102-0154 AP-NR-11-02-88 1658EST r i AM-Vietnam-MIAs 11-02 0495 AM-Vietnam-MIAs,0508 Vietnam To Return Remains That May Be U.S. MIAs By PETER ENG Associated Press Writer BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) A Vietnamese official said his nation on Thursday will turn over to the United States 23 sets of remains that may be those of Americans missing from the Vietnam War. A U.S. Embassy official confirmed Wednesday that remains would be handed over, but put the number at 21. The remains include the two sets that U.S.-Vietnamese teams recovered during last month's unprecedented joint field investigations in northern Vietnam, Tran Viet Tan, consul general of the Vietnamese Embassy in Bangkok, said Wednesday. The U.S. official spoke on condition of anonymity. Sources said Vietnam has given the United States a list of at least nine names associated with the remains. A U.S. military team is to receive the remains in a ceremony at Noi Bai Airport in Hanoi, Vietnam's capital. They will be loaded onto a military plane for the flight to Honolulu, where an Army laboratory tries to confirm the preliminary analyses done by the Vietnamese. Thursday's return would be among the largest since the January 1973 Paris Peace Accords ended U.S. military involvement in the war. The communists defeated the U.S.-backed South Vietnam government in April 1975. Maj. Dan Trout, a spokesman for the U.S. Pacific Command, said that since the Paris accords, the United States has received the identified remains of 196 missing personnel, including 168 from Vietnam, 26 from Laos and two from China. That leaves 2,387 Americans missing in action in Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia. In August 1987, Vietnam's foreign minister, Nguyen Co Thach, and a special U.S. presidential envoy, retired Gen. John W. Vessey, reached agreement to hasten cooperation on the MIA issue. Trout said the United States has identified 25 missing Americans among the 77 remains Vietnam has returned since the agreement. The most recent handover was of 25 remains on July 13. U.S. officials said they were pleased with the quickened pace of progress on the MIA issue. But Ted Sampley, head of the National Steering Committee for American War Veterans, on Wednesday accused the Vietnamese of using turnovers for political ends. ``They are timing it for the presidential election,'' he said in a telephone call from the United States. The committee, a private lobbying group, has accused Washington of pursuing only the remains of the dead while covering up purported evidence of Americans still held prisoner in Indochina. U.S. and Vietnamese experts are winding up their second joint field investigation, Trout said. He said the seven U.S. military experts are to return to Bangkok Thursday after the 10-day probe of areas west of Hanoi. Trout said the teams were inspecting U.S. warplane crash sites and other areas to try to resolve ``discrepancy cases'' _ those in which the United States says there is evidence that Vietnamese authorities have information on the servicemen's fate. Most American losses in northern Vietnam were airmen shot down during bombing runs. AP881102-0155 AP-NR-11-02-88 1659EST r i AM-Algeria 11-02 0507 AM-Algeria,0526 Gov't Releases Nearly 700 People on Eve Of Referendum By SYDNEY RUBIN Associated Press Writer ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) Nearly 700 people arrested during last month's riots were set free Wednesday, the eve of a national referendum destined to alter the country's political landscape. Thursday's referendum, if approved, would introduce reforms promised by President Chadli Bendjedid after six days of October rioting left 176 people dead by official count. More than 150 people were injured and 3,000 arrested in violence prompted by unemployment, shortages of food and housing, and a declining standard of living in this North African nation of 25 million people. The government said 1,500 people previously had been released, including a large number of children picked up during the demonstrations throughout Algeria, a country about three times the size of Texas. Earlier this week, authorities said the 1,500 still in prison would be freed Wednesday. By evening the Justice Ministry had announced several separate releases totaling 694 people. A Justice Ministry spokesman reached by telephone said the rest would be let go during the day, but could not say when. Algeria's state-controlled economy has been stricken by the decline in the price of oil, the resource that accounts for about 95 percent of Algeria's export earnings. Bendjedid has said Algeria must change the way it is governed before it can enact the economic reforms needed to diversify the economy. The referendum, if approved, would change 14 articles of the constitution. Algeria's sole legal political party, the National Liberation Front, has controlled every aspect of national life since independence from France in 1962. The goal of the reforms appears to be separating the party from the day-to-day workings of the government by granting new powers to the country's premier and making him answer for his policies to the National Assembly. The referendum, if approved, would change 14 articles of the constitution. Voting in the referendum began in some far-flung regions of southern Algeria Wednesday. The rest of the country's 12 million eligible voters go to the polls Thursday. Political observers say Bendjedid's next move will be to open up parliamentary elections to non-party candidates, although probably not to other parties. Until now, all candidates in local and national elections had to be nominated by the ruling party. In a speech Tuesday commemorating the Algerian war of independence against France, Bendjedid said the series of reforms when taken together will assure ``the participation of all society, without violence or anarchy.'' The party is scheduled to meet Nov. 27-28 to consider other unannounced reforms. Voters return to the polls twice next year, first to approve the changes made by the party congress and then in February to elect a new president. Bendjedid is expected to be the only candidate on the presidential ballot. In the past few months he has effectively neutralized his opponents within the party's old guard. In a blow to hardliners Saturday, Bendjedid fired Mohamed Cherif Massaadia, considered the No. 2 man in the party and a leader of anti-reform forces. AP881102-0156 AP-NR-11-02-88 1700EST r w AM-HomeSales 11-02 0642 AM-Home Sales,590 New Home Sales Suffer Largest Drop Since May 1987 With AM-Economy Bjt By MARTIN CRUTSINGER Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) Sales of new homes suffered their steepest plunge in more than a year in September, a 7.8 percent decline that analysts blamed in part on the slowing economy. The Commerce Department said sales of new single-family homes dropped to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 659,000 units in September, down from an August sales pace of 715,000 units. It was only the third sales decline this year and the biggest monthly setback since a 10.9 percent drop in May 1987. Analysts said the decline had been expected, given the fact that overall economic growth is slowing in the second half of the year. Sales of existing homes also fell during the month of September, dropping 2.2 percent to an annual rate of 3.63 million units. Economists said both new and existing home sales had been bolstered in previous months by fears among potential buyers that interest rates would continue rising. ``There was a lot of anticipatory buying going on in June, July and August because of people's expectations that interest rates would keep on rising,'' said Richard Peach, an economist with the Mortgage Bankers Association. Peach said some of those sales actually were borrowed from the fall as people rushed to close deals before rates moved higher. In fact, mortgage rates have retreated somewhat in recent weeks as inflationary fears have eased in financial markets because of signs that economic growth is slowing. The Veterans Administration announced Monday it was cutting the rate on VA mortgages by one-half percentage point to 10 percent because of the recent trend toward lower rates. Surveys show lenders in some regions of the country are offering conventional 30-year, fixed-rate loans at below 10 percent, the first time they have dipped to those levels since last spring. But economists said they did not expect rates to remain at these levels for long. They predicted that further credit tightening moves expected by the Federal Reserve after the election would push rates higher. Peach said he expected fixed-rate mortgages would hit 11.75 percent by late next year. David Seiders, chief economist for the National Association of Home Builders, said while he saw rates rising as well, he did not think the increase would be enough to send the housing industry into a slump. Instead, he predicted new home sales would decline to about 635,000 units in 1989, down only about 5 percent from the level he is forecasting for this year. The big September sales decline was accompanied by a jump in prices. The median price for new homes was $118,900, 8.1 percent higher than the August sales price of $110,000. The September median price, which means half the homes sold for more and half for less, was 11.2 percent higher than a year ago, when the nationwide median was $106,900. The average sales price also rose, climbing 4.5 percent to $146,300 in September. The sales decline was led by a huge 27.8 percent plunge in sales in the South, where sales were down to an annual rate of 216,000 units. Analysts were puzzled by the size of the decline, predicting the figure might be revised upward in coming months. Sales in the Northeast dropped 12.7 percent to an annual rate of 89,000 units. The September sales pace was a steep 23.3 percent below the sales level of a year ago, indicating, analysts said, that the sales boom has cooled in that region of the country. Sales in the West bucked the national trend, rising by a sharp 17.3 percent to an annual rate of 258,000 units, reflecting booming conditions in the California real estate markets. Sales in the Midwest were up by a more modest 1.1 percent to an annual rate 96,000 units. AP881102-0157 AP-NR-11-02-88 1701EST r i AM-Egypt-Trial 11-02 0349 AM-Egypt-Trial,0359 Egypt's Revolution Trial Adjourned for Two Months CAIRO, Egypt (AP) Eighteen men charged with terrorist acts, including murder, against U.S. and Israeli diplomats pleaded dinnocent Wednesday. The trial was adjourned for two months to give attorneys time to prepare. Twenty men are charged in the case, but the two most prominent defendants _ a son and a nephew of former President Gamal Abdel Nasser _ left Egypt in 1987. No pleas were entered for them. Eleven defendants, including Khaled Abdel Nasser, son of the late president, are charged with forming the clandestine Egypt's Revolution group with the intent to murder. The indictment also accuses them of murder, of undermining Egypt's security and of damaging its relations with the United States and Israel. If convicted, they could be sentenced to death. The other defendants, including Khaled's cousin, Gamal Shawky Abdel Nasser, are charged with complicity in the alleged acts. They could receive sentences up to life imprisonment, which under Egyptian law is 25 years. At least 50 defense lawyers listened while Ragaa Araby, the assistant attorney general, read the charges to the 18 defendants. The accused stood in barred cages in the large courtroom, a converted conference hall. After hearing defense motions in the three-hour session, the three-man court adjourned the trial until Jan. 1, 1989, to give lawyers time to read case files. The court also said it would issue summonses for the missing Nassers and for witnesses. Thirteen lawyers represent the first defendant, Mahmoud Nour Din Sayed Ali Suliman. A former Egyptian foreign service employee, he is charged with organizing and heading Egypt's Revolution and with participating in all the attacks. Charges against the 20 were filed in February and stem from four attacks on Israeli and U.S. diplomats. Two Israelis were killed and six were wounded in shootings between 1984 and 1986. Two American diplomats were wounded in an attack in May 1987. Egypt's Revolution admitted all the attacks in communiques that opposed Egypt's 1979 peace treaty with Israel, criticized the United States and professed the pan-Arab ideology nurtured by the late president. AP881102-0158 AP-NR-11-02-88 1516EST u p AM-Bush 11-02 0609 AM-Bush,600 Bush Says His Election Would Be `Mainstream Mandate' With AM-Political Rdp Bjt By TOM RAUM Associated Press Writer GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) Republican George Bush said Wednesday that if he is elected next week, it would represent a ``mainstream mandate'' from voters who rejected a leftist political philosophy of Democratic rival Michael Dukakis. Republican National Chairman Frank Fahrenkopf, who was traveling with the vice president through Midwestern battleground states, spoke openly of the prospects of Bush's election by a landslide on Nov. 8. ``The way it is going now, there is that possibility,'' he said, cautioning that Bush cannot afford to take any state or any public opinion poll for granted in the final days before the balloting. Addressing a boisterous rally of 5,000 people in former President Ford's hometown, Bush poked fun at Dukakis engaging in what he called ``a media blitz, free media'' as the campaign drew to a close. ``It seemed like he appeared on every television show except `Wheel of Fortune','' Bush said jokingly. ``You see, he was afraid that Vanna might turn over the L word.'' Vanna White is a hostess on the popular TV game show. At campaign rallies in Michigan and Illinois, Bush tried repeatedly to paste the ``L word'' or liberal tag on the Democratic nominee and portray him as far removed from the mainstream of traditional American values. ``I represent the mainstream, the mainstream (views) and the mainstream values,'' Bush said. ``If I win, it will be a mainstream mandate. That's what this election is about.'' The GOP nominee was introduced by Ford, who assailed Dukakis ``an insult to the memory of Harry Truman'' and ``an image of George McGovern, Walter Mondale and Jimmy Carter'' _ three Democrats who suffered big election losses to Republican presidential candidates. Bush also made one of his rare public mentions of running mate Sen. Dan Quayle, R-Ind., during the campaign. He said Quayle, like steel, had been tempered by fire. ``My young running mate has been through the fire, and his head is up and his chin is high,'' Bush said. Earlier, in the affluent Chicago suburb of Prairie View, Ill., Bush told a lively rally of 4,000 people in a high school gymnasium that he had ``heard the voice of America'' in his campaign travels and that he had ``big dreams'' about America. He said a ``great divide'' separated his and Dukakis' views, which he characterized as ``way out on the left side of the polical spectrum.'' Bush said he shared ``the values of the working men and women in this country.'' Noting that the students in the audience were receiving an ``outstanding education,'' Bush promised greater support for the federal Head Start program for needy preschool children. Bush campaign aides were heartened by Chicago newspapers polls showing him with a lead of six to nine percentage points over Dukakis in Illinois, which has 24 electoral votes, and by another survey indicating he was ahead by six points in Michigan, which has 20 electoral votes. Fahrenkopf said daily GOP tracking polls showed that for the past few weeks, Dukakis could claim between 35 percent and 38 percent of the vote. There is a ``base Democratic vote'' of 40 percent, Fahrenkopf said, and Dukakis had been below that for some time. Fahrenkopf did not use the word ``landslide'' but said if Bush's standing holds up across the country, a landslide victory is possible. Spokeswoman Sheila Tate said the campaign was also satisified with the decision of The Washington Post not to endorse either candidate. She said Wednesay's rallies were an effort to ``shore it up and fire up the troops.'' AP881102-0159 AP-NR-11-02-88 1713EST r a AM-ApartmentsDemolished 11-02 0201 AM-Apartments Demolished,0207 Vacant Apartment Buildings Used By Drug Dealers Demolished DALLAS (AP) Three vacant and dilapidated apartment buildings said to be havens for drug dealers have been demolished, marking the end of a one-year campaign by Dallas police. Bulldozers demolished a 24-unit complex, a 10-unit building and a duplex Tuesday. ``We started trying to do something about these places a year ago today,'' said Lt. David Goelden, a police patrol supervisor. ``They've been a haven for drug dealers to smoke and sell their dope. We can't keep closing our eyes to this,'' he added. Joe Johnson, who owns 100 apartment units in the same neighborhood, said he, too, was happy to see the buildings demolished because of the drug traffic. Johnson said it took repeated calls from him, neighbors and police officers to persuade the city to order the buildings demolished. Demolition of dilapidated, vacant structures that provide cover for drug dealers is a tactic increasingly being used to combat drug-related crime in other cities, including Houston, Miami, New York and Los Angeles. Goelden conceded that tearing down the residences might only push the dealers to other locations, but he said police also will work on those places. AP881102-0160 AP-NR-11-02-88 1721EST r a AM-SearsTower 11-02 0588 AM-Sears Tower,0608 Auctioneer Proposes Public Auction for Sears Tower By DAVID DISHNEAU AP Business Writer CHICAGO (AP) Donald Trump claims he's not interested in the Sears Tower, and the Japanese are wary of owning anything so symbolic of America. But they'd all be there if a public auction were held, says a man who wants to wield the gavel. Real estate auctioneer Joel Zegart is proposing that Sears, Roebuck and Co. sell the world's tallest building at auction, claiming that the nation's largest retailer would get the best price that way. Sears announced Monday it would sell its famed 110-story headquarters tower as part of a corporate restructuring designed to boost profits. The 14-year-old building, which rises 1,450 feet above the downtown Loop, has been valued at up to $1.8 billion. Even those who say they're not interested _ like New York real estate magnate Trump, several Japanese real estate firms, and JMB Realty Corp., which owns Water Tower Place, the city's glitzy downtown shopping complex _ are just playing coy, he believes. ``I think it's a smokescreen,'' Zegart, president of JBS & Associates Inc., said Wednesday of the many denials among those seen as the most likely bidders for the building. ``I think a lot of people are interested and they just aren't showing their cards yet.'' Sears spokesman Douglas Fairweather said the company had received ``a number of inquiries'' following its announcement, but he wouldn't reveal the identities of the interested parties. Nor would Fairweather comment on the auction idea. ``I don't want to laugh on the record,'' he said. Fairweather said the sale, which is being handled by Goldman, Sachs & Co. in conjunction with Sears' own Coldwell Banker real estate and Dean Witter Reynolds financial units, would be negotiated privately with selected prospective buyers who would be invited to submit bids. The skyscraper would continue to serve as corporate headquarters for Sears, although the 8,000-employee Sears Merchandise Group would be moved to smaller, less expensive facilities over the next several years, leaving only about 600 Sears workers in the tower. Zegart, whose firm specializes in auctions of large investment properties, said a public auction open to all would generate tremendous interest and result in a sale at the highest price Sears could hope to receive. He said he would start the bidding at $800 million. Zegart, comparing the one-of-a-kind Sears Tower to the Mona Lisa, said an auction of the building could be as lucrative as the 1987 auction of Vincent van Gogh's ``Sunflowers'' was to the seller in that case. Japan's Yasuda Fire and Marine Insurance Co. stunned the art world when it paid $40 million for ``Sunflowers'' in March 1987; later in the year, an unidentified bidder paid even more for another van Gogh. ``The Sears Tower is a building that you'll never see reproduced again,'' Zegart said. ``You're buying a piece of Chicago when you buy the Sears Tower. It's the gem of the downtown. It's history, it's a landmark, it's known around the world.'' Several Japanese firms say those are precisely the qualities that make them wary. ``Buying such a building is not the same as buying `Sunflowers,''' Tokyo-based investment analyst Masahiko Muranaka told the Chicago Tribune. ``This is like buying a piece of America's heart.'' The Trump Organization, which was also seen as a likely bidder for the tower, ``is not interested in the Sears building,'' said spokeswoman Norma Foerderer. And neither is JMB, one of the nation's largest real-estate invesment firms, said spokeswoman Marion Jack. AP881102-0161 AP-NR-11-02-88 1728EST r i AM-Israel-Results 11-02 0112 AM-Israel-Results,0135 Results of Israel Election With AM-Israel, Bjt JERUSALEM (AP) Israel army radio's projection of seats in the new 120-seat Knesset, or parliament, based on results from 99.9 percent of the nation's 4,840 polling stations in parliamentary elections: THE RIGHT: 39 _ Likud bloc 3 _ Tehiya 2 _ Tzomet 2 _ Moledet THE RELIGIOUS: 6 _ Shas 5 _ National Religious Party 5 _ Agudat Israel 2 _ Torah Flag THE LEFT: 38 _ Labor Party 3 _ Mapam 5 _ Citizens Rights Movement 2 _ Shinui Center Movement ARAB-ORIENTED: 5 _ Hadash-Communist 2 _ Progressive List for Peace 1 _ Arab Democratic Party AP881102-0162 AP-NR-11-02-88 1550EST u w AM-FactoryOrders 11-02 0466 AM-Factory Orders,450 Factory Orders Declined in September With AM-Economy Bjt By MARTIN CRUTSINGER Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) Orders to U.S. factories for manufactured goods fell 1.9 percent in September, reflecting the volatility of demand for jet aircraft, the government said Wednesday. The Commerce Department said orders for durable and non-durable goods fell to $222.6 billion in September, $4.4 billion below the August level. Through the summer, factory orders each month have been buffeted by rising and falling levels of demand for aircraft. August orders had risen a sharp 3.2 percent because of a jump in the transportation category, which includes aircraft. Without the volatile transportation sector, total orders would have risen a more modest 0.9 percent in August and would have declined 0.5 percent in September. The manufacturing sector has been one of the stars of the economy this year as U.S. factories have benefited from a boom in export sales. However, many economists believe this strength is beginning to ebb and they are predicting slower overall economic growth for next year. But Commerce Undersecretary Robert Ortner said that even with the orders decline in September, the backlog of unfilled orders rose, indicating production should remain strong in coming months. ``A one-month drop in orders after such a strong expansion is not very meaningful,'' Ortner said. ``The order books are still expanding and there is no better incentive for increasing production and employment than a fat order book.'' In September, transportation orders fell 9.8 percent to $31.3 billion. Orders for aircraft dropped by 11.5 percent, while orders for military ships and tanks, a smaller category, also declined sharply. The overall defense category fell by 12.5 percent to $7 billion in September, but some analysts suggested that this was a statistical quirk related to the close of the government's fiscal year. They predicted defense orders would resume rising in coming months. Discounting defense, total orders would have dropped by 1.5 percent, the biggest setback in the civilian category since a 2.9 percent drop in January 1987. The key category of non-defense capital goods, considered a good indicator of industry investment plans, fell 10 percent to $34.9 billion, but still remained 18 percent higher than a year ago. This sector has provided much of the momentum for economic growth this year as industries have boosted investment to meet increased demand from an export boom. Orders for durable goods, items expected to last three or mores years, fell 3.2 percent to $118.9 billion. This was a slight improvement from a preliminary report last week that had put the decline at 4.1 percent. Orders for non-durable goods dipped 0.5 percent to $103.7 billion, reflecting declines in orders for chemicals and petroleum products. Shipments of manufactured goods dipped a slight 0.1 percent in September to $221.4 billion. AP881102-0163 AP-NR-11-02-88 1738EST r i AM-Iran-US 11-02 0334 AM-Iran-US,0343 Thousands Gather at Former U.S. Embassy; Chant `Death to America' NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) Thousands of Iranians chanting ``Death to America!'' rallied Wednesday in the compound of the former U.S. Embassy in Tehran on the eve of the anniversary of its seizure by militant students, a news agency said. Followers of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini stormed the embassy on Nov. 4, 1979, and held 52 U.S. diplomats hostage for 444 days. The rally was held two days early because this year's anniversary falls on Friday, the Moslem sabbath, Iran's official Islamic Republic News Agency reported. IRNA said the demonstrators chanted slogans against Britain, the Soviet Union and Israel, and burned an effigy of Uncle Sam and the U.S. flag in the compound of what Iranians call ``Laneh Jassoussi,'' or ``the den of spies.'' On Sunday, Iran's parliament declared Nov. 4 ``the day of the campaign against global arrogance,'' the Iranians' phrase for the United States. That date is also important in Iran's revolutionary calendar. On Nov. 4, 1963, Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi exiled Khomeini and on that date 15 years later, hundreds of the shah's opponents were killed or wounded in Tehran when troops fired on demonstrators. The news agency said Wednesday's rally was led by religious and parliamentary figures. The rally began at Tehran University. Demonstrators then marched to the walled compound in central Tehran. Leaders of the demonstration read out an eight-point resolution declaring that U.S. support for the shah's pro-Western government, the freezing of Iranian assets worth billions of dollars in the United States and Washington's anti-Iranian policies ``will never be forgotten.'' The resolution accused the United States of aiding Iraq in the 8-year-old gulf war and declared that U.S. naval attacks on Iranian vessels in the gulf before the Aug. 20 cease-fire, and particularly the shooting down of an Iranian airliner July 3, killing all 290 people aboard, ``will be remembered.'' Parts of the wreckage of the Iran Air Airbus A300 were displayed during the demonstration, IRNA reported. AP881102-0164 AP-NR-11-02-88 1656EST r a AM-AvtexFibers-NASA 11-02 0518 AM-Avtex Fibers-NASA,0532 Morton Thiokol Says 10 Shuttles Can Be Launched, Even if Avtex Closes With AM-Space Shuttle By DIRK BEVERIDGE Associated Press Writer FRONT ROYAL, Va. (AP) Despite the pending shutdown of the sole supplier of a fiber used in space shuttle rocket nozzles, the maker of the shuttle motors said Wednesday at least 10 more shuttles can be launched as planned. ``We have enough material on hand or on order for 11 flights out of our current contract of 13,'' Morton Thiokol Inc. Aerospace Group spokesman Rocky Raab said from Ogden, Utah. ``But the number will be 10 now, since we've flown Discovery.'' The 10 flights are scheduled to be made through December 1989, Raab said. Morton Thiokol and other aerospace contractors, along with NASA and the Department of Defense, were talking with Avtex Fibers Inc., officials said. Avtex, based in Valley Forge, Pa., announced this week it will close its plant here Thursday. ``I've never had a job where they do you like this. No warning, no nothing. You find out on your own,'' said Deanna Green, who said she learned about the plant's pending closing Monday from friends. The move would put 1,300 people out of work and choke off the only supply of a rayon fiber used in rocket nozzles. ``Practically every project we have uses it in the nozzle,'' Raab said. ``It's safe to say billions of dollars of projects.'' Other Morton Thiokol projects that use the rayon fiber include the small ICBM, the Peacekeeper intercontinental ballistic missile and the HARM and Standard tactical missiles, Raab said. Morton Thiokol was trying to determine Wednesday the overall impact to each of its government contracts if the plant does close. ``We're still trying to pull all that together,'' Raab said. The fiber earmarked for shuttle nozzles will not be transferred to any of the defense rockets, he said. NASA, the military and aerospace contractors initially found it difficult to determine how much of the fiber is on hand, because it is handled by three more layers of contractors who weave it and treat it for heat resistance before it's formed into rocket nozzles. NASA officials have said the talks with Avtex are aimed at ensuring the supply of the fiber. The company's chairman, John N. Gregg, has not returned repeated phone calls from The Associated Press over the last several days. A NASA spokesman at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., confirmed Wednesday that talks were under way, but said he could provide no details. ``I really don't know what the discussions are leading to,'' Dave Drachlis said. ``I know the government and Avtex are discussing options and looking at what could be done.'' Another NASA spokesman, Jerry Berg, has said keeping Avtex's rayon fiber operation in business was one possibility officials could be exploring. Avtex spokesman John Kelly in New York has said the Front Royal plant is the only Avtex facility equipped to make the fiber. The necessary equipment could not be moved to Avtex's plant in Lewistown, Pa., which the company is keeping in operation, Kelly said. AP881102-0165 AP-NR-11-02-88 1744EST r i AM-India-Carbide 11-02 0373 AM-India-Carbide,0384 Judge Withdraws From Bhopal Hearing, Says Owns Shares In Company By NILOVA ROY Associated Press Writer NEW DELHI, India (AP) A Supreme Court judge who owns shares in Union Carbide Corp.'s Indian subsidiary withdrew Wednesday from hearing an appeal on whether the firm should pay interim relief to victims of the Bhopal gas leak. ``I thought it was proper to let the court know that I hold shares, and I also thought it proper to withdraw myself from the case,'' Justice Madhukar Hiralal Kania told The Associated Press. ``I wanted to withdraw because something may be said later,'' he said. He was replaced by Justice N.D. Ojha. The Supreme Court is hearing an appeal of a lower court's order directing the Danbury, Conn.-based company to pay interim relief. More than 3,100 people died and 20,000 were seriously affected by toxic methyl isocyanate gas that leaked from a pesticide plant in the central Indian city of Bhopal on Dec. 3, 1984. The plant belonged to an Indian subsidiary of Union Carbide. ``I was told that my holding shares has nothing to do with the case, but I thought I should not be a party to it (case),'' Kania said by telephone. He refused to say how many shares he holds, but Press Trust of India news agency said it was ``small.'' The agency did not give specifics. Outside the court in New Delhi, about 100 victims silently protested the court's decision to hear the appeal. They sat behind huge placards showing dead and ailing victims of the gas leak. In 1986, the Indian government filed a $3 billion civil suit against Union Carbide, claiming the leak was caused by negligence. Union Carbide said the disaster was a result of sabotage by a disgruntled employee. A district court hearing the suit last year ordered Union Carbide to pay $269 million to victims of the disaster as interim relief. The company appealed to the High Court of Madhya Pradesh state, which lowered the payment to $192 million. A five-judge panel Supreme Court panel headed by Chief Justice Raghunandan S. Pathak on Tuesday began hearing appeals by Union Carbide against the payment and by the Indian government against the lowering of the amount. AP881102-0166 AP-NR-11-02-88 1745EST r i AM-Korea 11-02 0376 AM-Korea,0390 Radical Students Stage Anti-Government Demonstrations By PAUL SHIN Associated Press Writer SEOUL, South Korea (AP) Thousands of radical students staged campus rallies or battled police Wednesday to demand the arrest of former President Chun Doo-hwan on corruption charges. National police director Cho Jong-suk issued a statement warning against the student activism and said authorities would ``harshly deal with anybody found involved in illegal rallies and demonstrations.'' Police released no figures, but local news reports said about 6,000 students from 20 universities took part in various anti-government protests in Seoul and elsewhere. No arrests were reported. Anti-government demonstrations have been escalating in recent weeks. Radicals have threatened to raid Chun's house in Seoul on Thursday, National Students Day. About 4,000 police surrounded Chun's house and began checking passers-by. Thousands more police were deployed in the capital after authorities were told that radical students might try to occupy major government offices and foreign diplomatic missions. Student leaders said they organized ``save-the-nation suicide squads'' to assault Chun's house with firebombs and homemade explosives. Major street protests were planned near Chun's house, they said. The threats came on the eve of President Roh Tae-woo's departure on an 11-day trip to Malaysia, Indonesia, Australia and Brunei. Roh told legislators Wednesday his government will increase efforts to ferret out all corruption and irregularities allegedly committed under Chun's seven-year tenure. The president said he would oppose any political revenge against his predecessor. Local newspapers, quoting unnamed senior government officials, said some of Chun's family members might be arrested on corruption charges before Roh returns home from the overseas trip Nov. 14. Despite continuing government investigations of past corruption and irregularities, critics argue that the Roh adminstration is reluctant to divulge alleged corruption involving Chun, his family members and associates. Roh and Chun, both former army genrals, have been close friends since they were classmates at Korea Military Academy in the 1950s. Roh succeeded Chun, who stepped down at the end of a seven-year term in February. Chun has come under public fire for his alleged misuse of power and involvement in financial and other scandals. One of his brothers, Chun Kyong-hwan, has been sentenced to seven years' imprisonment for taking bribes and embezzling millions of dollars of official funds. AP881102-0167 AP-NR-11-02-88 1748EST r p AM-BRF--Star-Bulletin-Dukakis 11-02 0115 AM-BRF--Star-Bulletin-Dukakis,120 Honolulu Newspaper Endorses Dukakis HONOLULU (AP) The Honolulu Star-Bulletin on Wednesday endorsed the Democratic presidential ticket of Michael Dukakis and Lloyd Bentsen. The newspaper, in an editorial, said Dukakis and Bentsen ``present a more concerned approach to the nation's unfinished business than do their Republican opponents.'' ``We worry that the Bush campaign is an indication of how he would lead the country,'' the newapaper said. ``He has said he wants to preside over a kinder, gentler nation. Yet we have seen in his campaign appeals to the harsher instincts.'' The Star-Bulletin, a Gannett newspaper, said it was the first time ``in modern memory'' that it has endorsed a Democrat for president. AP881102-0168 AP-NR-11-02-88 1905EST r p BC-US-Pres-Sum 11-02 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. AP881102-0169 AP-NR-11-02-88 1908EST r p BC-US-Senate-All 11-02 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 AP881102-0170 AP-NR-11-02-88 1908EST r p BC-US-Gov-All 11-02 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 AP881102-0171 AP-NR-11-02-88 1915EST r i AM-Germany-France 11-02 0336 AM-Germany-France,0349 Mitterrand, Kohl to Discuss Soviet Ties at 52nd Summit By NESHA STARCEVIC Associated Press Writer BONN, West Germany (AP) Chancellor Helmut Kohl will brief French President Francois Mitterrand on his recent talks in the Kremlin when they meet here on Thursday and Friday. Relations with Moscow and a common policy toward the Soviet Union are likely to top the agenda for the 52nd French-German summit, according to West German officials. Kohl visited Moscow last month for wide-ranging talks with Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev. Mitterrand is scheduled to visit Moscow later this month. West German government spokesman Friedhelm Ost said Kohl will give Mitterrand an extensive briefing on his talks with Gorbachev. West German Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher is a leading proponent of closer relations with the Soviet Union, stressing that West Europeans should ``take Gorbachev at his word.'' European Economic Community plans to lift many internal trade barriers in 1992 will also be a main topic of the French-German talks. Foreign policy initiatives, including plans to open a joint embassy in Mongolia, will also part of the consultations. Kohl and Mitterrand, who hold talks regularly several times a year, also met Tuesday in Aachen, when they received the Charlemagne Prize, a distinction awarded for achievements in fostering European unity. Speaking at the Aachen ceremony, Kohl called for closer cooperation between West Germany and France in formulating a ``joint European policy'' toward the Soviet Union and its European allies. Kolh said ``the new developments in the East have opened opportunities that are filling us with hope.'' The two leaders will also discuss projects leading to the creation of a single market within the 12 EEC member countries. Proposals for a single European currency and a European central bank have run into opposition from the fiercely independent Bundesbank, West Germany's influential central bank. Bundesbank chief Karl Otto Poehl has recently voiced fears that a European central bank could fall under too much government influence. France is a strong supporter of more European monetary integration. AP881102-0172 AP-NR-11-02-88 1605EST u i AM-Israel-Arabs 1stLd-Writethru a0653 11-02 0834 AM-Israel-Arabs, 1st Ld - Writethru, a0653,0849 Arabs Gloomy About Israeli Vote; Egypt Will Continue Peace Efforts With AM-Israel Bjt Eds: SUBS 7th graf ``There is'' to CORRECT from `artifice' to `iron fist' By JOHN RICE Associated Press Writer AMMAN, Jordan (AP) Arab nations saw the apparent victory of right-wing parties in Israel's elections as a setback for peace, but Egypt said Wednesday it will continue seeking a path to stability in the Middle East. The swing to the right in Israel gave Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir and his Likud bloc the chance to form a government with the aid of small religious parties, which gained seats in the election. Likud and the rival Labor Party have been in a fractious ``national unity'' coalition since 1984. Jordan's foreign minister, Taher Masri, told The Associated Press: ``We think such a government will be a blow to the efforts of peace, especially at this time when everyone _ the two superpowers, the world at large _ is becoming more flexible about reaching the basis for a peaceful settlement.'' Before Tuesday's election, Jordan, Egypt and the Palestine Liberation Organization had expressed indirect support for Labor, led by Foreign Minister Shimon Peres, and its leftist allies. Peres has said he would accept an international conference on the Middle East, which Arab nations demand, and is willing to trade some occupied territory for peace. Shamir opposes a conference and vows never to give up the West Bank and Gaza Strip, which Israel captured from Jordan and Israel in 1967. PLO leader Yasser Arafat said the election result ``makes no difference'' and the Palestinian uprising in Israel's occupied territories would continue. ``There is no difference in my opinion between Peres and Shamir,'' said Arafat, who was in Rome for a meeting with Italian Foreign Minister Giulio Andreotti. ``Shamir is using the iron fist and (Defense Minister Yithzak) Rabin with Peres is using the same iron fist, and don't forget that during the whole last period we are facing the two parties in the same cabinet.'' A commentary distributed by Wafa, the PLO news agency, called the election result ``a fatal blow for peace'' and declared: ``We expect more intransigence, hate and terrorism with a Likud government.'' Said Kenaan, a West Bank businessman who supports the PLO, declared: ``It's obvious Israelis don't want peace, but we will hit back. The moderate voice in the Palestinian camp is finished.'' Hanna Siniora, editor of the pro-PLO daily Al Fajr, said: ``The Palestinians will now only intensify their efforts to end the occupation and achieve national rights.'' Palestinians living in the occupied territories began a rebellion against Israeli rule Dec. 8, 1987, that has cost the lives of 10 Israelis and more than 300 Palestinians. The election focused on the uprising and how to achieve peace with the Arabs. ``The Likud program is built on illusions,'' said Ahmed Abdul-Rahman, a spokesman at PLO headquarters in Tunisia. ``It promises Israelis both security and the continuation of the occupation, while the facts have proved that Israel will not have peace as long as it continues the occupation.'' Foreign Minister Esmat Abdel-Meguid of Egypt said in Cairo, however, that the outcome ``represents the will of the Israeli voters ... and it is natural that we deal with any new government they choose. Egypt also is anxious to emphasize the need for action to carry on with the peace process to achieve stability in the region.'' Egypt, under the leadership of President Anwar Sadat, is the only Arab nation to have made a peace treaty with Israel. The treaty was signed in 1979 and assassins who opposed it killed Sadat in 1981. Syria's state radio said: ``The results of the elections are not in favor of just and lasting peace in the Middle East, nor are they in favor of settling the differences between Likud and Labor on the international peace conference and on the future of the occupied territories.'' Mohammed Milhem of the PLO executive committee said in Amman a Likud government would be even tougher on protesters in the occupied lands, where the PLO hopes to establish a Palestinian state, and reaction to the bloodshed might bring peace closer. The former mayor of Halhoul in the West Bank, who was deported in 1980, said Wednesday: ``With Shamir I think there may be more chances for peaceful settlement than (with) Peres. He's going to escalate. He's going to kill more people, deport more people'' and the international community might ``do something about it.'' ``The government of Shamir is an evil, but this evil may do more good than Peres,'' Milhem said. Many Jordanians spent the night tuned to Israel's radio and television for election results. Among them was Carlos Dimes, who represented Bethlehem in Jordan's parliament before King Hussein severed administrative ties to the occupied territories last summer. ``The Palestinians should keep on fighting to win the intefadeh ... and never wait for the Israeli and U.S. elections to achieve that for them,'' he said. AP881102-0173 AP-NR-11-02-88 2005EST r p BC-US-House-All 9thAdd 11-02 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 AP881102-0174 AP-NR-11-02-88 2011EST r p BC-US-House-Winners 9thAdd 11-02 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 winn