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 he