AP881103-0001 AP-NR-11-03-88 0000EST r a PM-Lottery 11-03 0049 PM-Lottery,0051 By The Associated Press Here are the winning weekly state lottery numbers picked Wednesday: MASSACHUSETTS Wednesday Megabucks: 04; 10; 14; 15; 26; 32. NEW YORK Wednesday Lotto 54 Game: 12; 28; 35; 42; 44; 51. Supplementary 14. RHODE ISLAND Grand Lot Game: 0-3-7; 0-5-7-3; 6-2-7-4-8; 4-0-1-8-9-5. AP881103-0002 AP-NR-11-03-88 0001EST d a PM-BRF--HeartlessBurglary 11-03 0159 PM-BRF--Heartless Burglary,0163 Surgeon Can't Operate After Thief Takes Tools CORAL GABLES, Fla. (AP) A burglar who stole a heart surgeon's instruments from a rented car has put the doctor out of operation for as much as three months. Among the tools stolen from Dr. Beethoven Brown was a custom-fit pair of magnifying eyeglasses that provide closeups of small blood vessels. ``Basically, it is extremely difficult to see the coronary arteries without them,'' Brown said Tuesday. ``Therefore it is impossible to work without them.'' Having a new, individually fitted set of the $1,200 glasses made could take three months, Brown said. Meantime, he will have to restrict himself to nonsurgical treatment and rely on colleagues to perform operations. ``It's depressing,'' Brown said. The customized glasses, contained in a wooden box with his name on it, are no good to anyone else, he added, saying he will gladly take them back at his Miami office, no questions asked. AP881103-0003 AP-NR-11-03-88 0003EST r p PM-LandslideLingo 11-03 0807 PM-Landslide Lingo,750 Bush, Dukakis Well Acquainted With Landslides With PM-Political Rdp Bjt By NANCY BENAC Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) Political pundits disagree on how lopsided an election must be to qualify as a landslide, but seasoned candidates George Bush and Michael Dukakis each could write a chapter in the book of landslide lore. Both men in the past have buried their share of opponents and been buried themselves. Which of their House, Senate and gubernatorial races can be classified as landslides _ and what it will take to claim a landslide on Tuesday _ depends on which analyst is doing the analyzing. William Schneider, a Washington-based political analyst, said Democratic and Republican candidates generally can count on getting at least 40 percent of the popular vote without doing much of anything. It's the dogfight for the middle 20 percent that makes or breaks a landslide, he says. ``Sixty percent is earthshaking, 55 percent gives you a landslide and you can get a solid majority of the electoral vote with just 52 or 53 percent of the popular vote,'' Schneider said. Stephen Hess, a senior fellow in government studies at the Brookings Institution, believes anything outside the ``47th- and 53rd-yard lines'' in the popular vote is a landslide. New York Gov. Mario Cuomo's standards are a bit more lax. ``I believe I have defined a landslide as 52 percent (or more),'' he said last week as he predicted Dukakis would win on Tuesday but ``maybe not by as large a landslide as I had figured.'' Richard A. Brody, a political scientist at Stanford University, says the definition of a landslide varies from election to election, and is determined partly by how well a candidate does in comparison with expectations. ``In my characterization, I would say a landslide was an unexpectedly large share of the popular vote for a given candidate,'' Brody said. ``... It's a term of art and people will attribute to it whatever they wish.'' The Dorsey Dictionary of American Politics doesn't play the numbers game, instead defining a landslide as ``a decidedly lopsided political victory, one in which the opponent is metaphorically buried in a landslide.'' It notes that Texan Lyndon Johnson earned the sarcastic moniker ``Landslide Lyndon'' when he was elected a senator by a majority of just 87 votes out of a million cast. Bush and Dukakis have been on both ends of lopsided returns. Bush won his 1966 run for the House with a 57 percent to 43 percent victory over Democrat Frank Briscoe in Texas, won re-election without opposition in 1968, and reveled in the 1980 and 1984 triumphs of the Reagan-Bush tickets. He was on the other end in two Senate races, in 1964 losing to Democrat Ralph Yarborough by a 56-44 percent margin and in 1970 falling 54-46 to the man who now is Dukakis' running mate, Lloyd Bentsen. In Democratic Massachusetts, Dukakis beat his GOP opponents for the governorship by margins of 69 percent to 31 percent in 1986, 60-37 in 1982, and 54-42 in 1974. But in 1978, he was stunned when Edward King defeated him 51-42 in the Democratic primary. King went on to beat his GOP opponent by a 53-47 margin _ which may or may not be a landslide, depending on whose definition is used. Bush's double-digit lead in current polls could translate into a landslide _ if the numbers hold. In presidential politics, even a slim lead in the popular vote can translate into an Electoral College bonanza since each state awards all its electoral votes to the popular vote winner even if the candidate wins by just a hair. John White, a former chairman of the Democratic National Committee, noted that Reagan won a modest 51 percent of the popular vote in 1980 to Jimmy Carter's 41 percent, but garnered 489 electoral votes to Carter's 49. ``Under the theory of one man, one vote, or one woman, one vote, it is not fair, but that's the way the law is,'' he said. Hess says the measuring stick for Electoral College landslides is calibrated on the bigtime losses of the past. ``Alf Landon, Barry Goldwater, Fritz Mondale _ they are the losers in landslides. ... Those are the compared-to's,'' he said. Those guys got buried. 1936: Landon was out-polled 61 percent to 37 percent and got eight electoral votes to Franklin D. Roosevelt's 523. 1964: Goldwater lost 61-39 to Johnson and collected 52 electoral votes to Johnson's 486. 1984: Walter Mondale went down 59-41 to Ronald Reagan and claimed just 13 electoral votes _ 10 from his home state of Minnesota _ to Reagan's 525. George McGovern would feel right at home in that crowd _ he was defeated by Richard Nixon by a 61 percent to 38 percent margin and won 17 electoral votes to Nixon's 520. AP881103-0004 AP-NR-11-03-88 0014EST r w PM-Scotus-DrugTests Bjt 11-03 0700 PM-Scotus-Drug Tests, Bjt,700 Drug Tests Called Illegal `Periscope' into Private Lives LaserPhoto WX6 By JAMES H. RUBIN Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) The Supreme Court is studying government drug-testing programs, which are being challenged in two key cases as an unlawful ``periscope'' into the private lives of innocent people. The court is expected to announce by July whether testing programs for many railroad and Customs Service employees violate their privacy rights. The two testing cases mark the first time the high court has confronted the constitutionality of drug testing in the American workplace. The justices were urged by the Reagan administration Wednesday to uphold the drug tests. Attorney General Dick Thornburgh personally argued part of the administration's case, underscoring the importance attached to the issue. But Thornburgh stumbled a few times when the justices asked him about details of the tests for railway workers. ``I'm not going to palm myself off on this court as an expert,'' Thornburgh said. He had difficulty answering questions about which railroad workers were required to undergo the tests. Thornburgh last argued before the high court in 1977 when he headed the Justice Department's criminal division. ``This is a case about railway safety,'' he said in defending mandatory blood and urine tests for railroad workers after accidents or rules violations. He said the case was about ``the hazards created by use of drugs and alcohol by those in charge of trains.'' While Thornburgh encountered some problems Wednesday, his opponent in the case also faced sharp questioning. Lawrence Mann, an attorney for the railway workers, said the drug tests are unconstitutional because they are incapable of proving on-the-job impairment. For example, he said, the tests can show residue from a drug that may have been taken ``by someone 60 days ago in the privacy of their home.'' Justice Antonin Scalia asked if it weren't ``reasonable for the railroad to want to know'' if someone responsible for train safety has ``cocaine traces'' in their system. The idea, Scalia continued, ``is to prevent someone using cocaine from driving the train the next time.'' Solicitor General Charles Fried, the Reagan administration's top courtroom lawyer, defended the Customs Service program in which urine tests are required for anyone applying for a promotion or transfer to a job involving drug enforcement. Fried noted that critics of the drug tests call them a ``periscope'' probing the lives of people who are not suspected of wrongdoing. But, Fried said, ``there is rather special, urgent and symbolic significance'' in assuring the public that an agency responsible for preventing drug smuggling has a drug-free workforce. ``The Customs Service is indeed entitled to take a fine filter to show to itself, its workers and the public that (workers) are not involved in drug use,'' he said. While few Customs Service workers have tested positive for drugs, Fried said there may have been many who were scared off from applying for key jobs because they knew drug use would be exposed. Lois Williams, representing the Customs Service employees, said forcing workers to provide a urine sample while a test supervisor waits outside a stall is a ``humiliating invasion of privacy.'' She added that ``innocent persons have a great deal of reason to be apprehensive'' about the program. Ms. Williams said the tests will turn up drugs used legitimately with a doctor's prescription, and will force workers to justify using the medication to their superiors. The eventual rulings by the court will not deal generally with drug tests for private employees. But the decisions could have an important psychological impact on whether businesses will demand that their workers undergo such tests. Tests conducted by federal, state or local governments could be affected directly by the court's action. In the railroad case, the Federal Railroad Administration issued regulations in 1985 aimed at alleviating ``a significant safety problem'' caused by alcohol and drug use among employees. The government said that from 1972 through 1983, railroad accidents linked to drug or alcohol abuse killed 42 people, injured 61 and caused some $19 million in property damage. A federal appeals court struck down the tests for railway workers. A different federal appeals court upheld tests for Customs Service workers. AP881103-0005 AP-NR-11-03-88 0033EST r p PM-Bush-Byrne 11-03 0566 PM-Bush-Byrne,560 Slain Cop's Badge Becomes Campaign Totem With PM-Political Rdp Bjt By MITCHELL LANDSBERG Associated Press Writer NEW YORK (AP) Matthew Byrne thinks his son, Eddie, would have cast a vote for George Bush on Tuesday _ if he had lived to vote. Instead, the slain police officer has provided Bush with something more powerful: a symbol. Byrne, 22, was killed last February, a casualty of the war against illegal drugs. Now his police shield, which his father presented to Bush last month, has become a potent totem for the vice president's campaign. Again and again, Bush has pulled the badge out of his breast pocket during speeches, held it aloft for the crowd to see and told the story of how Matthew Byrne gave it to him. Of all the honors he has received over the years, Bush says, ``none means more than this.'' Matthew Byrne, 54, a cop turned lawyer, isn't troubled that Bush is getting political mileage out of his son's death. ``I don't have a problem with that,'' Byrne said in a telephone interview. ``Eddie does stand as a symbol of the terrible consequences of drugs ... and we don't feel that (Bush) is exploiting his name.'' Edward Byrne, a rookie police officer, was shot to death in his patrol car on Feb. 26 as he guarded the home of a witness in a drug case. The brazenness of the attack shocked the Police Department, which deployed massive forces in an effort to track down the killers and crush the drug trade in the neighborhood where the killing occurred _ South Jamaica, Queens. It also galvanized the Byrne family. Within hours of the shooting, Matthew Byrne was appearing in public to challenge political leaders to ``put your money ... where your mouths are'' to fight the drug trade. With donations they received in Eddie's memory, the Byrnes helped form a foundation _ the Patrolman Edward R. Byrne Substance Abuse Fund _ that makes grants to organizations involved in drug education, prevention and rehabilitation. And Matthew Byrne has continued to speak out _ in schools, before civic groups and law enforcement associations _ against illegal drugs. ``We've had to come to grips with the terrible loss,'' the elder Byrne said. ``But what we as a family decided to do was to take a very negative event and try to turn it into something positive.'' Byrne has criticized past efforts to fight drug abuse, blaming Congress, not the Reagan administration. However, he did praise Congress for recently passing the Omnibus Drug Bill, which provides money for drug treatment, education and enforcement. The bill also permits the death penalty for drug-related killings. Although Byrne insists that the death penalty is not the sole basis for his support of Bush, it is obviously important. He calls Michael Dukakis' opposition to the death penalty ``a disgrace.'' Byrne said he has been a registered Democrat for 37 years and supports Democratic Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan's bid for re-election. But he will split the ticket at the top and believes his son would have done the same. ``I would say that if Eddie were alive today, he would support the views taken by Vice President Bush as opposed to Michael Dukakis,'' he said. Nonetheless, he conceded that his son's political views were not fully formed. After all, he said, ``He was only 22 years old.'' AP881103-0006 AP-NR-11-03-88 0101EST r p PM-MailOrderCampaign Bjt 11-03 0741 PM-Mail Order Campaign, Bjt,730 Leaflet Tactics Range From The Pig-Headed To The Just Plain Mean By RICHARD L. VERNACI Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) The picture shows a grinning George Bush wearing a hat that looks like a pig's head, and alongside the headline reads: ``Would you want your sister to date this guy?'' The picture and headline are on a flier prepared for the Michigan AFL-CIO. The leaflet is part of the quiet and sometimes vicious trench warfare going on in the states outside the control of the campaigns and the national parties. A fund-raising letter asks Republicans in North Dakota, where 96 percent of the population is white, to imagine life in 1989 with Jesse Jackson as secretary of state. In Michigan, a flier titled ``Democratic Leaders-Republican Lies'' being distributed by the state Democratic Party shows three photographs of Bush's ``friends:'' Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini, Panama's Manuel Noriega _ and Republican vice presidential candidate Dan Quayle. Michigan Democratic Chairman Richard Weiner said the flier was produced because of Republican attacks on Democratic presidential nominee Michael Dukakis over the Massachusetts prison furlough program. ``We are handing it out in large quantities,'' Weiner said of the flier, which was supposed to raise questions about Bush's judgment. ``I think any reasonable person who reads that knows what the point of this article is,'' he said. North Dakota GOP Chairman Layton Freborg said that he raised the hypothetical image of a ``Secretary of State Jackson'' to draw attention to him as a liberal, not to appeal to racial prejudice. ``We did not pick Jackson because he was black,'' Freborg said. ``We picked Jackson because of his liberal philosophy, and we didn't think that would wash too well in North Dakota.'' Under federal election law, the state parties can spend unlimited sums of money on fliers, mailings by volunteers, buttons and other such traditional tools of the trade. And then there are the mailings by special interest groups, such as labor unions, anti-abortion organizations and others who support one presidential candidate or another but are not formally affiliated with a campaign or political party. The scope of the effort is difficult of gauge because there are so many groups in so many different places. Democratic and Republican officials can say little more than that it is big. The edge belongs to the Republicans because they got into computerized mailings years before the Democrats. ``Through dint of experience, and experience in direct mail is gathered from being able to spend money on it, the Republicans are able to basically flick a switch, whereas in a lot of cases the Democrats are building the machine,'' said Bob Boorstin, deputy national field director for the Dukakis campaign. ``I assume it's much bigger because it's a presidential election year,'' said John Grotta, deputy director of Victory '88, the Republican National Committee's program to help state parties conduct such efforts. ``We really don't know what is going on out there.'' The Dukakis campaign has tried to keep track of the material sent out on its behalf, but the volume of the task makes it hard to keep up. ``There are hundreds and thousands of pieces of literature produced during an election year, and we have tried to review them,'' Boorstin said. For the presidential campaigns, much of what is being said for them and about them in the states is home grown, sometimes regrettably so. In Maryland, a GOP fund-raising letter mailed out several weeks ago has been repudiated by the Bush campaign and brought calls for the resignation of state Republican Chairman Daniel Fleming from his own party's candidates. The letter ran a picture of Dukakis and one of Willie Horton, a convicted murderer who escaped while on a Massachusetts prison furlough and raped a woman in Maryland. ``Is this your pro-family team for 1988?'' the letter asked. In Illinois, another GOP leaflet, also on the prison furlough issue, issue, was denounced as ``garbage'' by Democrat Michael Dukakis and even drew a letter of protest from convicted mass murderer John Wayne Gacy, who the leaflet said would be eligible for a weekend pass from prison if he had committed his crimes in Massachusetts. ``I think what happens is you have a lot of local people doing mailings, and they sometimes step out of line, whether they're a Jesse Jackson liberal or a Bush conservative,'' said Richard Viguerie, who helped the Republicans pioneer use of direct mail. AP881103-0007 AP-NR-11-03-88 0105EST r p PM-Quayle 11-03 0628 PM-Quayle,630 Quayle Tries To Explain Abortion Stance With PM-Political Rdp Bjt EDs: Prenoon lede uncertain; first event in South Carolina at 11:40 a.m. EST. By MERRILL HARTSON Associated Press Writer OWENSBORO, Ky. (AP) Sen. Dan Quayle, a staunch foe of abortion, spoke approvingly of a post-rape medical procedure considered by many in the field of gynecology as a way to terminate a pregnancy. Faced with the hypothetical question of whether he would oppose abortion for a rape victim, Quayle on Tuesday repeated his longstanding position that he would allow termination of pregnancy only to save the mother's life. But then Quayle said he would accept a post-rape emergency medical procedure that he said is aimed at preventing conception from taking place. He was referring to a procedure known as dilation and curettage _ D-and-C _ a scraping and cleaning of the victim's uterine lining. Dr. Robert Shesser, an expert in emergency medicine at The George Washington University Medical Center, said this procedure is not normally the first-resort option for physicians treating rape victims. ``It is not standard in the immediate post-rape procedure,'' Shesser said, explaining that the D-and-C would likely be used only if doctors determined that the woman was impregnated by her attacker. Quayle refused to acknowledge, under questioning by reporters, that an abortion in fact would occur if fertilization of an egg by a sperm cell had taken place by the time the D-and-C procedure was used. Shesser said that doctors far more frequently give rape victims arriving for treatment a kind of ``morning after'' pill aimed at chemically destroying the ability of a fertilized egg to grow in the uterus. Speaking of the D-and-C procedure, he said that ``we do not do that in the immediate post-rape period'' of 36 to 48 hours. The Republican vice presidential candidate, who campaigned in Tennessee and Kenucky, was attending a private GOP breakfast here today before flying to Greenville, S.C., to appear at a rally and mix with voters at a drive-in theater. Quayle was to round out the day with a speech at Oklahoma State University in Stillwater. Quayle conceded later Wednesday that the D-and-C procedure ``happens very seldom'' but said no one should question his opposition to abortion. He said he had voted for a constitutional amendment to reverse the landmark Roe vs. Wade Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion and that he had voted against legislation authorizing the use of federal money to pay for abortions. Of the D-and-C procedure, however, he said that ``I don't perceive that happening, right after a rape, as being tantamount to abortion.'' ``I think it really is nit-picking because of the votes that we have had'' against abortion, the Republican vice presidential candidate said. ``You're getting into all sorts of very difficult, sensitive areas that I don't have all the answers to.'' Leonard Dinger, a spokesman for the National Right-to-Life Committee, said he had no problem with Quayle's statements. ``Our position is that there are certain medical procedures that can prevent conception within 24 hours of that (rape) taking place,'' he said. ``If conception has taken place, and they would be killing that life, we would oppose it.'' Quayle said that while he personally opposes abortion except to spare a mother's life, he accepts that existing federal law permits a woman to have one. Quayle campaigned in Tennesee and a heavily Democratic part of western Kentucky Wednesday, telling a Republican rally at an Owensboro airport hangar that he wants conservative-minded Democrats to ``come home'' to the GOP. He also said that the Democratic ticket had tried to distort his and George Bush's position on gun control, and charged that Democratic nominee Michael Dukakis doesn't believe in the constitutional guarantee of a citizen's right to bear arms. AP881103-0008 AP-NR-11-03-88 0122EST r p PM-ConnecticutSenate Bjt 11-03 0839 PM-Connecticut Senate, Bjt,830 Weicker Strikes Back At Democratic Challenger, But Remains Deadlocked By CHRISTOPHER CALLAHAN Associated Press Writer HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) Sen. Lowell P. Weicker Jr., suddenly battling for his political life in a race that many thought just weeks ago would be a walkaway, is flooding Connecticut's airwaves with a series of ads striking back at his aggressive Democratic challenger. But Weicker's assault _ one he all but promised he would never launch _ has not yet brought the third-term Republican back to safety, according to a new poll that shows a virtual deadlock with a high number still undecided. Joseph I. Lieberman, 46, the state's soft-spoken Democratic attorney general who has matched the incumbent's spending dollar for dollar, trailed Weicker, 57, by one point _ 38-37 percent _ in a Hartford Courant poll released Tuesday. The survey, which had a margin of error of three percentage points, mirrored a poll released two weeks ago that showed the combatants with 39 percent each. That survey transformed the race, energizing Lieberman and putting Weicker on the defensive. The most telling information from the recent poll was the number of undecided voters _ 25 percent in the last full week of a well-publicized, statewide campaign. The undecided bloc was less than half of that at the same point in 1982 in Weicker's race against Democrat Toby Moffett, then a popular, four-term congressman. The Lieberman camp is euphoric over the poll results, which the Democratic challenger said was ``more than we originally thought possible.'' ``For a three-term incumbent, after 18 years, to be in trouble as deep as he is in a week before the election clearly shows the people of Connecticut believe it's time for a change,'' said Marla Romash, issues and communications director for Lieberman. But G. Donald Ferree, director of the poll, said the news is not all cheery for Lieberman. ``It's been a loss of support for Weicker rather than a conversion into the other camp,'' Ferree said. Each candidate blames the other's negative TV ads for the large number of undecided voters. They say the attack ads have distorted records and positions, confusing voters. Media consultant Carter Eskew began creating attack ads for Lieberman early on, including a series depicting Weicker as a bear who slept through votes while collecting thousands in speaking fees. But Weicker, who had a solid double-digit lead in polls through the summer, said he would resist the temptation to retaliate. ``I hope two things happen when the election votes are counted. No. 1, Lowell Weicker would have won, and No. 2, it will be the first nail in the coffin of the negative campaign that has become the vogue in America,'' Weicker said just days before the first poll showed his big lead had evaporated. A week later, he was on the air with his own series of ads denying Lieberman's charges and attacking the Democrat's state Senate attendance record and votes on taxes and drug sanctions. Weicker campaign manager Jay Malcynsky said the ads are clarifying the record. The media war is the chief contributor to the campaign's record-setting spending: Weicker plans to spend about $2.8 million and Lieberman anticipates spending $2.5 million. At that rate, the campaign will be the costliest in Connecticut political history. While the video sniping likely is adding to the confusion, the candidates' positions on issues _ strikingly similar on many and seemingly reversed in roles on others _ undoubtedly has added to voters' hesitation to back a candidate. Weicker, known as a maverick who bolts from the GOP rank-and-file on a range of social and foreign policy issues, has built one of the most successful political careers in Connecticut history by forging a delicate base of Republican voters, independents and Democrats swayed by his leadership role on civil rights and other social issues. This year he has won endorsements from the AFL-CIO, the National Organization for Women and a state nuclear freeze group. Although he has never lost a campaign in his quarter-century political career, a 3-2 Democratic voter advantage in the state makes Weicker's re-election bids inherently risky. ``You could run a blank face in Connecticut as a Democrat with a well-funded campaign and it puts the Republican in a position of having one foot in the grave and the other on a banana peel,'' Malcynsky said. Lieberman, in trying to punctuate the differences between himself and Weicker, has attacked the senator variously from the left and right, often sounding like the Republican facing a Democratic incumbent. He accuses Weicker of wanting to raise taxes, says he is too close to Cuban leader Fidel Castro and criticizes his opposition to a moment of silence in public schools. But Lieberman must walk a political tightrope, luring conservatives while keeping liberal Democrats in line. The Lieberman strategy is to hold Democrats, split the independent vote and capture conservative Republicans such as National Review Editor William F. Buckley Jr., who would rather have anybody else _ even a Democrat _ in office. AP881103-0009 AP-NR-11-03-88 0131EST r w PM-WindShear 11-03 0501 PM-Wind Shear,490 FAA Awards Contract For Wind Shear Detectors By H. JOSEF HEBERT Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) Raytheon Co. won a $180 million contract from the Federal Aviation Administration to install special radar equipment to detect wind shears at major airports beginning in the early l990s. A wind shear is a sudden change of wind direction that causes a powerful downburst of air much like water gushing from a faucet. The air gust is enough to drive a jetliner into the ground when it is landing or departing. The Transportation Department announced the contract Wednesday and said the ``Doppler'' radar will give air traffic controllers and pilots a significant safety improvement. Powerful wind shears called microbursts have been the cause of at least five airline accidents that claimed more than 500 lives in the last 15 years, including the l985 crash of a Delta Air Lines jet that killed 137 people near Dallas. FAA spokesman Fred Farrar said no final decision has been made on where the radars would be installed. Agency officials previously have said the 47 airports would be those with the highest traffic levels and a history of wind shear problems. The FAA also said it has an option for 55 additional radars at other airports, costing another $100 million, in the event that it receives final approval from administration budget planners and Congress to expand the program. ``The terminal Doppler system has a greater potential for realizing safety gains than perhaps any other individual item of equipment (in the FAA's air traffic modernization program),'' said Transportation Secretary Jim Burnley in a statement. FAA Administrator Allan McArtor said the introduction of the radar along the approach and departure paths of major airports is ``a major step'' in providing controllers and pilots with better and quicker adverse weather warnings. Last summer in a 60-day test program at Denver's Stapleton Airport, a Doppler radar prototype detected 47 strong shears within five miles of the airport and more than 200 over the entire area of its coverage, officials said. Under the multi-year contract, Raytheon's Equipment Division at Wayland, Mass., will provide the first terminal Doppler radar to the FAA's Technical Center in Atlantic City, N.J., in the fall of l991 with the first radar for airport delivery in late l992, the FAA said. The FAA has had mechanical wind monitoring equipment at many major airports for a number of years, but experts have said the equipment cannot cover along the entire approach and takeoff paths used by jetliners and, therefore, is of minimal benefit. The wind monitors were in use at the Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport when a Delta Air Lines Lockheed L-1011 encountered a powerful microburst during an approach Aug. 2, 1985 causing it to crash and kill 137 people. The mechanical monitors also were at the New Orleans airport on July 9, l982 when a Pan American World Airways jet encountered a wind shear as it took off. The Boeing 727 crashed, killing 153 people. AP881103-0010 AP-NR-11-03-88 0137EST r w PM-Soviets-Soybeans 11-03 0116 PM-Soviets-Soybeans,110 Soviets Buy More US Soybeans WASHINGTON (AP) The Soviet Union has bought 250,000 metric tons of U.S. soybeans for delivery in the 1988-89 marketing year that began Sept. 1, the Agriculture Department says. Although the department provided no further details, the sales _ equal to about 9.18 million bushels _ were the first announced Soviet purchase of U.S. soybeans for 1988-89 delivery. The Soviet Union bought more than 830,000 tons of soybeans and 1.3 million tons of soybean meal in 1987-88. Soybean prices at the farm averaged $7.71 per bushel in mid-October, according to USDA. That would put the farm value of the latest sale, announced on Wednesday, at about $71 million. AP881103-0011 AP-NR-11-03-88 0142EST r w PM-MentalSurvey 11-03 0462 PM-Mental Survey,430 Third Of Americans Will Suffer Mental Or Drug Abuse Disorder By PAUL RECER AP Science Writer WASHINGTON (AP) Mental illness or substance abuse will affect almost one in three Americans at some point during their lifetimes, according to a federal survey of mental health in the United States. The survey, released Wednesday by the National Institute of Mental Health, found that more than 15 percent of those interviewed in five U.S. cities experienced a mental or substance use problem during the month prior to the study. It also found that mental and emotional disorders were most common among the younger age groups, and that men were more likely than women to have substance use and antisocial behavior problems. Women, the survey showed, had higher rates for affective disorders, such as depression, anxiety, and disorders of somatization, or mental states that are reflected by physical symptoms. Published in the November issue of the Archives of General Psychiatry, the survey involved interviews with more than 18,500 persons, aged 18 or older. The interviews were conducted in five cities: New Haven, Conn.; Baltimore; St. Louis, Durham, N.C., and Los Angeles. Each person surveyed was asked if he or she had experienced symptoms of a mental or substance abuse disorder during the past month, the past six months, or at any time in life. The results showed that 15 percent reported symptoms of a disorder during the month prior to the survey, and 32.2 percent reported a disorder at some point in their life. For the six months prior to the survey, 19.1 percent reported a disorder. The most common mental disorders reported were so-called anxiety and affective disorders. Anxiety would include phobias and panic. Affective disorders would include depression and manic-depression. For anxiety, the one-month rates were 7.3 percent, and for affective disorders the one-month rate was 5.1 percent. Abuse of alcohol and drugs were reported by 6.8 percent of the group under the age of 45. Severe cognitive impairment, such as Alzheimer's disease, was more common among the aged, ranging from 2.9 percent for those 65 to 74, up to 15 percent for those over 85. Substance abuse was 6.3 percent among men, compared to 1.6 percent among women. The rate for those aged 18 to 24 was highest, at 6.8 percent, and for men in that age category the rate was 9.3 percent. The rate remained high among men throughout life, not dropping below 2 percent until after age 65. Among women aged 18 to 24, the substance use rate was 4.5 percent, but it dropped dramatically among women after age 25, to 1.1 percent, and continued to fall later in life. The report said that the U.S. survey results are similar those found in other developed nations. AP881103-0012 AP-NR-11-03-88 0142EST r w PM-SecurityStudy 11-03 0449 PM-Security Study,450 Security Report: Leaky Bucket Should Be Replaced, Not Patched WASHINGTON (AP) The Defense Department's personnel security system relies almost entirely on background investigations and does little on-the-job monitoring after a clearance is issued, according to a critical review. The report by the federally funded Rand Corp. also criticizes the way the department is using a new research center set up to investigate more potent defenses against spies. Instead of seeking new methods of safeguarding the nation's secrets, it said, the research center is focusing on improvements to current procedures. It likened that to producing ``patches ... for a leaky bucket that gets a new patch with every new espionage case.'' The Rand report says that what is needed instead is ``a new bucket.'' The 84-page study does not offer specific recommendations of its own for changing the military's approach to document classification, background checks and employee security. But it does attack ``a personnel security program (that) has been based almost entirely on background investigations for the granting of clearances.'' ``On-the-job monitoring and education have been relatively minor efforts by comparison,'' the study notes. ``Other than `debriefings,' the program has no provisions for personnel whose clearances have ended.'' The Rand Corp., headquartered in Santa Monica, Calif., is a federally funded think tank that frequently performs special studies involving security issues for the Defense Department and individual armed services. Its review of the Pentagon's Personnel Security Program, requested by the deputy under secretary of defense for policy, was completed in September and just recently published. The team of three Rand investigators was asked to review the work plans at the new Personnel Security Research and Education Center. The center was established at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, Calif., in the aftermath of the Walker family spy scandal. That scandal, which involved three Navy men from the same family, has been called one of the most damaging cases of espionage in U.S. history. The spy ring funneled Navy submarine secrets to the Soviet Union for about 20 years. ``While those who are responsible for personnel security may reasonably hope that technology and adequate funding will aid them in the future, the adverse trends are all too apparent,'' the study said. It said those adverse trends include the military's increasing reliance on computers; legal and societal trends that favor more litigation and less government secrecy; a change in the motivation of spies ``from ideology to avarice,'' and a huge increase in the types of things that must be safeguarded. ``The only secrets on a battlefield were once maps and messages, but even the circuit boards or microchips in a projectile may be secret today,'' the study noted. AP881103-0013 AP-NR-11-03-88 0143EST r w PM-FTC-Silicone 11-03 0369 PM-FTC-Silicone,360 FTC Seeks To Block Silicone Joint Venture By LAURIE ASSEO Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) A proposed merger of two major corporations' silicone operations likely would harm competition, the Federal Trade Commission said as it threatened court action to block a joint venture. The federal agency said Wednesday it would seek a court injunction if General Electric Co. and Union Carbide Corp. decide to go ahead with the proposed merger. GE spokesman Jack Batty did not say what the two companies planned to do, but he said they had told the FTC they would not proceed with a joint venture without first notifying the federal agency. ``GE disagrees with the initial decision of the FTC regarding the proposed joint venture of Union Carbide Silicones and GE Silicones,'' Batty said. ``We remain committed to working with the FTC to resolve any existing issues, since we feel the planned merger is good for both companies and for U.S. industry.'' A Union Carbide spokesman was unavailable for comment Wednesday evening. The proposed joint venture ``is likely to diminish actual or potential competition in a number of different product markets,'' the FTC said in a statement. The federal commission said it voted 4-0 Tuesday to authorize its staff to ask a federal district court to grant a preliminary injunction blocking the venture if the two companies go ahead. FTC spokeswoman Anna Holmquist Davis said the commission would go to court only if it appeared the joint venture would be carried out. GE, based in Fairfield, Conn., is the second-largest seller of silicones worldwide, and it owns silicone-producing plants in New York and the Netherlands. Union Carbide, based in Danbury, Conn., ranks third in U.S. silicone production and sixth worldwide. The largest silicone producer is Dow Corning. Silicones are used in a wide variety of products ranging from Fiberglas to foam and auto wax. GE Silicones spokesman Gregg Bronk said GE and Union Carbide are strong in different areas of silicone production and thus complement each other. The two companies plan to share equally in ownership and management of the joint venture, he said. Total sales of all silicone products in the United States were about $1.1 billion in 1986. AP881103-0014 AP-NR-11-03-88 0143EST r w PM-Reagan-MedicalWaste 11-03 0367 PM-Reagan-Medical Waste,370 President OKs Medical-Waste Control Bill WASHINGTON (AP) Legislation signed by President Reagan directs the Environmental Protection Agency to draw up a plan to track infectious medical wastes such as those that washed up on Atlantic Coast beaches last summer. White House officials on Wednesday announced that Reagan had signed the bill. The president was campaigning for Vice President George Bush in Wisconsin at the time. In a statement, Reagan was quoted as calling the bill ``an important step forward in the protection of our environment because it will ensure that those who generate, handle or dispose of medical waste are accountable, and it will encourage proper handling and disposal of such potentially dangerous waste.'' The tracking system for medical waste initially would apply to only 10 states: Connecticut, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Illinois, Wisconsin and Minnesota. The program, however, could become national in scope because any other state could decide to have its medical waste covered by the plan and gain authority to act against incoming waste not meeting the tracking requirements. Congress acted after waves of used syringes, vials of AIDS-infected blood and other hospital waste washed up on beaches along the East Coast, Lake Michigan and Lake Erie during the summer. The waste became a health problem, closing some beaches because of the threat of hepatitis and other diseases. The new law requires EPA to set up a system to track dangerous waste from hospitals, labs and clinics to its disposal. Blood, hypodermic needles, scalpels and surgical and laboratory waste that had been in contact with infectious agents all would have to be tracked. The materials would have to be segregated from other medical waste and documented to make sure they reached a proper disposal facility. Lawmakers had accused EPA of failing to use its regulatory authority to resolve the problem. In 1978, the agency announced plans to regulate medical waste, but six years later it said it lacked evidence that the wastes were causing enough harm to justify regulations. Instead, EPA released a package of advice to hospitals on handling and disposal. Since then, the agency has formed a task force to re-examine the issue. AP881103-0015 AP-NR-11-03-88 0144EST r a PM-Wendy's-Aliens 11-03 0276 PM-Wendy's-Aliens,270 Company Is First To Admit Violating Illegal Aliens Act EDS: DavCo and Kirstien are cq ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) A franchise operator of Wendy's fast food restaurants is the first company to admit violating a 1986 law against hiring illegal aliens, officials say. U.S. District Court Judge Claude M. Hilton on Wednesday fined DavCo Food Inc. of Crofton, Md., $60,000 plus $100 in special assessments. DavCo is the Wendy's franchise operator in the Washington-Baltimore area. As part of its guilty plea, the company agreed to bring its employment practices into compliance with the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986, federal officials said. Ronald Kirstien, DavCo president, said he was glad to have the issue settled. ``It dragged on too long for us,'' he said. ``We cooperated fully with the investigation. They (federal officials) will even help us in replacing these employees.'' William J. Carroll, district director for the Immigration and Naturalization Service, said the investigation began in May when an agent went to a Wendy's restaurant in Vienna, Va., in response to a citizen complaint that illegal aliens were employed. Agents initially were refused permission to talk to the workers, Carroll said. A search warrant was obtained and the agents arrested 13 illegal aliens, Carroll said. Four more illegal aliens were arrested at another DavCo-operated restaurant in Arlington, Va., in June, Carroll said. A Justice Department statement said it was the first guilty pleading under the new law. Maximum penalties against employers include a $3,000 fine per illegal alien and six months in prison. U.S. Attorney Henry Hudson said his office has placed an increased emphasis on the prosecution of immigration violations. AP881103-0016 AP-NR-11-03-88 0159EST r a PM-PersistentPicketer 11-03 0339 PM-Persistent Picketer,0354 Picketer Celebrate's 20th Anniversary By LARRY LOPEZ Associated Press Writer PHOENIX (AP) Harold Bates celebrated his first 20 years of almost daily picketing at the state capitol by showing off a collection of his signs and cutting a cake. ``He stands for everything that is right before God Almighty without compromise,'' Bates said in a news release announcing Wednesday's celebration. ``For Truth, Justice & The Bible,'' the cake proclaimed. Only a couple of people attended the affair. Bates' targets have included churches, schools, politicians and movies. He says he has picketed in five states, worn out ``probably 20 to 30 pairs of shoes'' and carried thousands of signs and cartoons. The 64-year-old retiree estimates he averages 30 hours of picketing a week _ 31,200 hours, or nearly four years out of the last 20. He's been so busy, in fact, that Wednesday's celebration was actually a month late. Bates said his picketing at the capitol began Oct. 1, 1968, after officials refused to let him withdraw his children in protest over the teaching of evolution. Although he had belonged to the Church of the Nazarenes for 32 years, he soon split with them as well over ``what I thought was favoritism to evolution'' and began to picket churches and other sites. His only two arrests were on the church's property, he added. To date, Bates estimates, he has stood with more than 2,700 28-by-44-inch picket signs, 1,000 smaller signs and 500 full-color cartoon boards. Dozens were on display Wednesday, and he keeps others at his home. The signs are dense with words, some supporting former Gov. Evan Mecham, others attacking such diverse targets as Jesuits, abortion and the movie ``The Last Temptation of Christ.'' In addition to picketing, Bates has found time to run for office three times, all of them unsuccessfully. ``We would all do well to never take for granted our precious and priceless freedoms, including freedom of speech,'' he said, undeterred by the long hours when no one stops to talk. AP881103-0017 AP-NR-11-03-88 0032EST u i PM-Italy-SurrogateMom Bjt 11-03 0759 PM-Italy-Surrogate Mom, Bjt,0785 Unique Surrogate Mother Case Lifts Veil Off Artificial Procreation An AP Extra By STEPHEN R. WILSON Associated Press Writer ROME (AP) The case of a 20-year-old woman who served as a surrogate mother for her own mother has lifted the veil off a thriving business of artificial procreation in Italy and spurred demands for tighter controls on the practice. The case, possibly the first of its kind in the world, has also raised difficult ethical questions and provoked protests from doctors, politicians and the Vatican. And while Italy has no laws governing surrogate motherhood, the episode has prompted a criminal investigation to determine which of the two women was registered as the legal mother of the child. The affair involves a woman who carried to term the artificially inseminated egg of her 48-year-old mother. The egg was fertilized by the sperm of the daughter's 35-year-old stepfather and implanted in her uterus. The arrangement was disclosed in an Oct. 21 program on state-run RAI television. The two women and the man appeared on the show with their faces concealed to protect their identities, and their names have not been revealed. The young woman gave birth to a boy at a Rome clinic days after the program was broadcast, newspapers reported. Initially, newspapers and some doctors expressed doubts over whether such an episode occurred. But most became believers when a Rome gynecologist, Severino Antinori, said he performed the procedure. The mother, who had three children by an earlier marriage, explained on the program that her new husband wanted to have children but that she was advised by doctors not to have more babies because of a uterus condition. The couple went to Antinori, who proposed they adopt a child. But, after consulting among themselves, the family members returned and proposed the daughter act as surrogate mother. The RAI program immediately touched off a debate in medical and religious circles over the ethical issues, including whether the woman who gave birth is the child's mother or sister. ``By his act, Antinori has shattered the meaning of the words father, mother, child and even grandchild,'' said Eolo Parodi, president of the Italian Doctors' Federation. On Oct. 29, the Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano denounced the case in a front-page editorial. ``The young woman was painfully used as an object,'' the paper said. ``She was used for nine months as an incubator, a prisoner of the egotism of the mother and of the detestable techniques.'' The gynecologist defended himself and the family. ``The uterus was not rented, but only donated, like a kidney, for free,'' Antinori, 43, told Italian newspapers. ``Genetically, the situation is very clear: the ovule is that of the mother, the sperm is that of her husband, and the uterus is that of the daughter who agreed to lend it.'' ``It's time for civil society to face up to the problems raised by the new biotechnologies without hypocritically burying one's head in the sand,'' he said. The case raised the question of who is the child's legal mother. According to Italian law, the woman who gives birth must be registered as mother, but the older woman said on the program she planned to declare herself the mother. A state prosecutor has opened an investigation to determine whether the law was violated, a crime punishable by five to 15 years imprisonment. In the United States, a landmark February ruling by the New Jersey Supreme Court in the so-called Baby M case outlawed surrogate motherhood for pay. The court granted custody of a child born under contract to the natural father, but restored parental rights to the mother. A lower court later granted the mother, Mary Beth Whitehead-Gould, gradually expanded, unsupervised visitation with the child. The outcry over the Italian case has led to the first widespread public examination in the country of artificial procreation, including the more ordinary techniques that have been growing in popularity in recent years. Luigi La Ratta, president of the Italian Association for Demographic Education, a non-profit organization that deals with family planning issues, said there are 50 public and private sperm banks in Italy today. La Ratta said 15,000 to 20,000 Italian women visit his association's clinics each year with sterility problems. ``We have gone from sperm banks, which by now no one even blinks an eye at, to egg transplants, to test-tube babies and now to the surrogate mother-sister,'' La Ratta said. Health Minister Carlo Donat-Cattin said he has asked the ministry's bioethics commission to devise recommendations for regulating artificial procreation. AP881103-0018 AP-NR-11-03-88 0038EST u a PM-Names 11-03 0959 PM-Names,0999 Names In The News LaserPhoto NY14 HACKENSACK, N.J. (AP) Roscoe Orman, who plays the father figure ``Gordon'' on ``Sesame Street,'' has been ordered by a judge to pay support for a child he fathered out of wedlock, a lawyer said. Orman, 42, of New Jersey appeared last week before Superior Court Judge Conrad Krafte, who ordered the actor to repay $5,000 for welfare support the child received in Oregon, where she lives, said Mitchell Steinhart, a lawyer for the Bergen County Board of Social Services. A judge had told Orman in April to pay $200 a month in child support after blood tests confirmed he was the father of the girl, Steinhart said. Orman's lawyer, Barry Zotkow, described him as a devoted family man who had ``a moment of indiscretion'' three years ago. He said his client arranged last spring to pay the support, and he blamed computer problems for the delayed payments. The girl's mother was a masseuse at a licensed massage parlor and met Orman in 1985 after he requested a massage during a promotional tour for the popular PBS show, Zotkow said. JUPITER, Fla. (AP) Actor Burt Reynolds plans to do a good deed for Palm Beach County, where he grew up, by setting episodes of a new series here in a move that could boost the local economy. Reynolds, who lives in this Palm Beach County resort town, plans to return to prime-time television in ``B.L. Stryker,'' a series of six two-hour episodes. Reynolds plays a Vietnam veteran and retired New Orleans vice cop who returns to his home in West Palm Beach. He and Tom Selleck, of the old ``Magnum, P.I.'' series, are the executive producers. With each of the episodes budgeted at $4 million, the county economy could get a hefty infusion during the next six months. ``We hope to leave a lot of that (the series' budget) here,'' he said Tuesday. ``There are an enormous amount of vehicles that we have to lease, there's always greenery you have to get, there's furniture you have to rent. ... The list goes on and on.'' NEW YORK (AP) Zubin Mehta says he is tired of his administrative duties as music director of the New York Philharmonic and will leave the job when his contract expires in three years. Mehta, who has held the post since 1978, said he wants to pursue ``other artistic endeavors'' that require less administrative work. Mehta, 52, who is also music director of the Israel Philharmonic, announced his decision Wednesday to the 106-member orchestra after pondering his contract renewal for several months. Stephen Stamas, president of the orchestra corporation, said he regretted Mehta's decision. ``The search for a successor will begin shortly,'' he said. OSAKA, Japan (AP) Through a haze generated by a smoke machine, Michael Douglas marched down the old marble halls of a government office building in his first film role since winning the Academy Award for best actor. In ``Black Rain,'' an international thriller that Paramount Pictures began filming here Monday, Douglas plays a tough New York City cop who's supposed to deliver a Japanese killer to police in Japan. But the killer escapes at Osaka Airport, and Douglas must find him. Douglas, who won his Oscar for his portrayal of a slimy power baron in ``Wall Street,'' told reporters that movies are ``an international language'' and he hoped the film will deepen ties between the United States and Japan. PENSACOLA, Fla. (AP) A minor fire was extinguished by automatic sprinklers in the hotel room of rock star George Michael, but the singer apparently wasn't there at the time, authorities said. The fire broke out in the bathroom of the 15th floor room at the Pensacola Hilton early Tuesday, about four hours after Michael finished a concert across the street at the Pensacola Civic Center, said Fire Capt. Barney Beasley. He said it was unclear what caused the fire and that no damage estimate was avialable. NEW YORK (AP) Actress Cheryl Hartley is quitting the nude Broadway musical ``Oh! Calcutta!'' next week after her record-breaking 5,000th performance in the show. ``When I signed my first contract 11{ years ago for `Oh! Calcutta!' it was for one year. I was hoping I would finish the year. I never dreamt I would go on to be in a Broadway show more than anyone else,'' Ms. Hartley said in a statement Wednesday. She is leaving to write and appear in a one-woman show as well as to undertake other projects, according to her publicist. In addition to the Broadway performances of the musical, she has appeared in ``Oh! Calcutta!'' in Israel, Norway, Argentina, Denmark, Brazil and Chicago. Eds: A version moved on sports wire. LAKE FOREST, Ill. (AP) Chicago Bears coach Mike Ditka was described in good spirits at a hospital after suffering a mild heart attack following his daily workout at the football team's training camp. The 49-year-old Ditka was in serious but stable condition Wednesday in the intensive care unit of Lake Forest Hospital, said Dr. Jay Alexander, a staff cardiologist. Alexander said he expected Ditka would recover completely, ``barring anything unforseen.'' But he said he may not allow Dikta _ known for his type A personality and sidelines temper tantrums _ watch the TV broadcast of his National Football League team's game Sunday against Tampa. But that was the most serious change Alexander proposed. ``He may want to make some adjustments in his stress levels and a few other things, but I certainly wouldn't advocate that he find another job,'' Alexander said. Ditka, who was given medicine for a blocked artery, would require hospitalization for at least a week, Alexander said. AP881103-0019 AP-NR-11-03-88 0209EST r a PM-Switch-HitLawyer 11-03 0379 PM-Switch-Hit Lawyer,0389 Foreman Of Jury That Convicted Man Of Murder Is Man's Retrial Lawyer HOUSTON (AP) The attorney representing a man in his third capital murder trial brings unique insight to the case _ he was the foreman of the jury that convicted the man and sentenced him to death nearly 10 years ago. ``At first blush, I said he can't do that,'' attorney Wes Hocker said after State District Judge Woody Densen appointed him Tuesday as attorney for John Charles Zimmerman. ``But after I thought about it and asked some legal scholars about it, I found I really don't have a conflict of interest,'' Hocker said. ``I've never heard of such a thing, but there's no impropriety.'' Hocker served as jury foreman in Zimmerman's second trial for the kidnapping, rape and fatal stabbing of his 10-year-old niece. The verdicts in the first and second trials were overturned. Zimmerman, 41, had written a letter asking the court to name Hocker to represent him. ``A defense attorney's function is to protect every one of his client's rights regardless of guilt or innocence,'' Hocker said. ``It's not the judge's or the lawyers' place to judge. It's the jury's.'' Hocker said Zimmerman approached him through his law partner, Robert Morrow, who worked with one of Zimmerman's attorneys in the 1979 retrial. During that trial, prosecutors presented letters Zimmerman wrote to his wife, Sherry, in July 1977 while he was held on charges of killing Ramona Ann Abner of Jacinto City on March 24, 1977. Zimmerman's mother-in-law found the letters, in which he described committing the crime, and secretly sent them to the slain girl's mother, who gave them to investigators. In April, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals threw out Zimmerman's conviction and ordered a new trial, ruling that the letters were confidential communication between husband and wife and should not have been admitted as evidence. Hocker said his role as a juror may give him an advantage in defending Zimmerman in the trial, which is scheduled to begin next year. ``I've sat in judgment of him with 11 others,'' the attorney said. ``Maybe I can find some insight into what the jurors are thinking. I've heard what they thought while back there (deliberating). I'll have that little something.'' AP881103-0020 AP-NR-11-03-88 0149EST r w PM-CubanVideos 1stLd-Writethru a0417 11-03 0586 PM-Cuban Videos, 1st Ld-Writethru, a0417,560 Secret Cuban Films Document Crime, Disillusionment Eds: SUBS 4th graf pvs, bgng The second, to delete extraneous words; picks up 5th graf, Freedom House By GEORGE GEDDA Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) Theft is so rampant at state enterprises in Cuba that ``1 million police'' couldn't stop it, according to a secret documentary produced by Cuban security forces for the island nation's leaders. Copies of the crime documentary and another on the alienation of Cuba's young people were smuggled out of the island by a defector. A screening of the two documentaries, produced by the National Revolutionary Police in 1986, was held Tuesday evening under the sponsorship of Freedom House, a New York-based human rights group. The second documentary concludes that many of Cuba's young people are alienated, lack revolutionary fervor and complain that recreational facilities are often run down, non-existent, off-limits or inaccessible. Freedom House said the tapes were smuggled out of Cuba by Juan Antonio Rodriguez Manier, a major in Cuban intelligence who defected to the West in January 1987. The extent of crime at state enterprises was such that the documentary on that issue concluded with an observation by Defense Minister Raul Castro that ``1 million police'' couldn't resolve the problem without additional accounting controls. President Fidel Castro has publicly acknowledged that crime is a major problem. The documentary shows Castro saying in a speech that a ``fierce struggle'' is needed to wipe out crime. ``Socialism can't permit this cancer to corrode it, that this cancer devour it,'' he said. The documentaries were intended for viewing by high party and government officials as a means of dramatizing the magnitude of criminal activity and how efforts to inculcate Cuban youth with revolutionary values have fallen short. The documentary on crime showed repeated instances of how employees at state enterprises were able to take advantage of lax accounting to steal cash or goods. Most of the testimony was provided by convicted criminals but there was no indication of how they were caught. One convict spoke of how he was able to make off with 224 cases of coffee worth 67,200 pesos. Under Cuba's exchange rate, the peso is worth slightly more than a dollar. Another witness said he was able to pocket about 100 pesos a day in daily receipts from the enterprise where he worked. He kept up the activity for three years. Yet another said he was able to steal fabric for women's clothes and leather for shoes in a gambit that appeared to require little planning or imagination. A security guard was posted at the warehouse where the goods were kept but he was deaf, the convict said. Several Cubans responsible for taking daily cash proceeds from their respective enterprises to banks for deposit said they routinely undertook the trips alone, either on foot or by bus, without protection. In the second documentary, Cuban youths complained to interviewers that the best beaches often are reserved for tourists and that transportation to the seashore is difficult because of a shortage of buses. Cuba's television fare was described as ``garbage'' and there were scenes of a Havana amusement park which was in a state of almost total disrepair. ``Who is the president of Cuba?'' one young man was asked. A perplexed look crossed his face. ``Armando Dorticos, no?'' he answers, not realizing that Dorticos was a former president, that his first name was Osvaldo and that he died several years ago. Castro is the current president. AP881103-0021 AP-NR-11-03-88 0107EST u a AM-GoodSamaritan 2ndLd-Writethru a0809 11-03 0675 AM-Good Samaritan, 2nd Ld - Writethru, a0809,0689 Man Faces Weapons Charge After Rescuing Woman Eds: New throughout to UPDATE with discovery that Samaritan gave false name, had drug-dealing conviction. No pickup. By RONALD POWERS Associated Press Writer NEW YORK (AP) A ``good Samaritan'' who shot two muggers, killing one of them, as they beat and robbed a screaming woman on a Brooklyn street was arrested hours later Wednesday on a weapons charge, police said. Clovis Fearon, 31, who was praised by friends and neighbors throughout the day for rescuing 43-year-old Gertrude George from her attackers, initially gave his name as Anthony Dixon. After he was identified at his late-night arraignment on a gun charge, police discovered he was a convicted drug dealer. Fearon pleaded guilty in February 1987 to third-degree criminal sale of a controlled substance, punishable by up to seven years in prison, said Assistant District Attorney Starlet Jones. He failed to appear for his sentencing and an arrest warrant was issued in March 1987, the prosecutor said. At his arraignment Wednesday before Criminal Court Judge Joseph Silverman, Fearon pleaded innocent to a felony charge of criminal possession of a weapon, and bail was set at $500. But he remained held on the 1987 warrant. The gun charge carries a prison sentence of up to seven years, authorities said. Fearon stepped in to help Ms. George when he heard her screams from his apartment, police said. ``His actions, of course, were not criminal in any way in my mind _ except for the possession of the gun,'' police Inspector Edward Cappello said before Fearon's record was known. One of the two men shot by Fearon was arrested for robbery, assault and criminal possession of stolen property; the other was found dead a block away clutching the woman's jewelry in his hand, said Cappello. Both suspects had arrest records; the man who died had three robbery charges, authorities said. Fearon was inside his apartment at about 1 a.m. when he heard a commotion outside and saw two men attacking Ms. George, who lived on the same street, Cappello said. Ms. George was assaulted as she returned home from her shift as a nurse at St. Clare's Hospital, one of two jobs she holds, police said. Fearon, a chef at a restaurant, came out of his house with an unlicensed .38-caliber handgun and fired three shots, hitting each man once in the back as they stood over Ms. George, said Cappello. ``I was just screaming, `Don't kill me,' because I thought that was what they were going to do, kill me,'' Ms. George told reporters. ``At one point I thought I was going to die.'' She described Fearon, whom she had never met before, as a ``decent young man'' and ``a good citizen.'' ``He's the only one after I was being robbed and choked ... he was the only one who came to my assistance,'' she said. ``I don't think he shot him to kill him, but unfortunately the shot was fatal.'' She said it was difficult to feel bad for her attackers. ``It could have been me dead,'' Ms. George said. ``The guy that died showed me no mercy. He was very, very rough. He jumped me from the back. He squeezed me by the throat, burst the chain off my neck while the other man was searching my pockets.'' Cappello identified the dead man as Raymond Plowden, 25. Ms. George's watch and gold chain were found in Plowden's hand, the inspector said. Timothy Lewis, 25, was arrested shortly afterward when he went to a hospital for treatment of his gunshot wound. Although a police spokesman initially characterized Fearon as ``a good Samaritan,'' Cappello, before learning of his criminal record, refused to call him a hero: ``I don't want to characterize him in any way.'' Cappello said Fearon, whose car was recently burglarized, complained to police at the scene about crime in the Flatbush neighborhood. Ms. George was cut and bruised on her face but did not require medical treatment, authorities said. AP881103-0022 AP-NR-11-03-88 0110EST u i BC-Maldives-Attack 2ndLd-Writethru 11-03 0449 BC-Maldives-Attack, 2nd Ld-Writethru,a0446,0460 URGENT Gunmen Reportedly Capture President In Attack On Palace Eds: LEADS with nine grafs to UPDATE with reports president, two cabinet ministers captured. Picks up 9th graf pvs, `Gayoon was ...' COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) Gunmen on Thursday stormed the presidential palace in Male, capital of the Indian Ocean archipelago nation of Maldives, according to reports reaching Sri Lanka. The president was reported captured. United News of India said President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom, 50, who was re-elected to a third five-year term in September, was seized along with two of his senior Cabinet ministers. The news agency attributed its report to Maldivian residents in Colombo who had been in touch with friends and relatives in Male. UNI quoted them as saying about 20 Tamil-speaking men wearing military uniforms attacked the palace at 4:30 a.m. and gunfire was heard. That the attackers spoke Tamil was an indication they were not Maldivians. Tamil is the language of ethnic minority groups in Sri Lanka and India. The Maldivians, who are mostly Moslem, speak Divehi, which is akin to the Sinhalese language of Sri Lanka's ethnic majority. Maldives, 400 miles southwest of Sri Lanka and India, consists of 1,200 low-lying coral islands, only 200 of which are inhabited by the estimated 190,000 people. A senior Sri Lankan government official said a resident of the Maldives telephoned him from Male and gave him the news of an assault on the palace. The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, did not identify his informant and gave few details. Officials at the Maldivian High Commission in Colombo, also speaking on condition of anonymity, said they had heard the same report but had not been able to reach their capital by telephone to confirm it. The Sri Lankan government official quoted his informant as saying the attackers spoke Tamil. Gayoom was scheduled to visit New Delhi this week, but his trip was canceled without explanation. In New Delhi, a spokesman for India's Foreign Affairs Ministry said he also had heard reports of an assault on the presidential palace in Male but could not confirm them. The spokesman, who commented on condition of anonymity, said Gayoom had been scheduled to arrive in New Delhi two days ago but the trip was canceled late last week. He said no explanation was given. The Maldivian diplomats in Colombo said they were aware of some unrest in their homeland, but they gave no details. Maldives was under British protection from 1887 until independence in 1965. The island chain, twice the size in area of the state of Washington, is hot, humid and affected by seasonal monsoons. Its economy depends mostly on tourism and shipping. AP881103-0023 AP-NR-11-03-88 0231EST r i PM-BRF--PuertoRico-Bomb 11-03 0135 PM-BRF--Puerto Rico-Bomb,0138 Obscure Group Takes Responsibility For GE Blast SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) An obscure nationalist group has claimed responsibility for a bombing that damaged a General Electric Co. office, saying it was protesting ``Yankee corporations that contaminate'' Puerto Rico's environment. Police said a homemade bomb exploded early Tuesday outside the GE building in downtown San Juan. No one was hurt. The group called a news agency Wednesday, telling them where to find a communique claiming responsibility. The organization calls itself the Pedro Albizu Campos Revolutionary Forces, named after a Puerto Rican nationalist of the 1930s. FBI spokeswoman Alina Bloom said, ``There is such a group known to the island.'' She said the bureau was ``still in the process of investigating the bombing, but not necessarily in regard to this group.'' AP881103-0024 AP-NR-11-03-88 0236EST r p PM-NewYorkPoll 11-03 0179 PM-New York Poll,170 Embargoed for Release at 7 a.m. EST; time set by source Dukakis, Bush Nearly Even in New York BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) Democratic presidential nominee Michael Dukakis held a slim lead over Republican George Bush in New York in a new poll published today. The Buffalo News statewide poll showed Dukakis with a 48-44 percent advantage in New York, which ranks second in the country with 36 Electoral College votes. The newspaper's poll had Dukakis leading by 49 percent to 40 percent three weeks ago. The latest survey of 806 registered voters was conducted last Friday and Saturday and had a margin of error of plus or minus four percentage points. ``New York could go either way on Election Day,'' the Washington-based Political Media Research Inc. said in a statement accompanying the poll. ``Since September, Bush has cut Dukakis' lead by more than half,'' the poll analysts said. ``The Empire State has long been considered a strong one for Dukakis, but he has failed to build on the lead he enjoyed earlier this year.'' AP881103-0025 AP-NR-11-03-88 0241EST r a PM-SovietArt Bjt 11-03 0828 PM-Soviet Art, Bjt,0853 First Emigre Artist Invited Back To Moscow To Show His Work Eds: Mihail cq. By CATHERINE CROCKER Associated Press Writer NEW YORK (AP) A Soho loft was the scene of a historic moment in Soviet art this week when Mihail Chemiakin was invited to be the first emigre visual artist to return to his homeland for an exhibition devoted solely to his work. When he returns to the Soviet Union in March for his first visit since being exiled in 1971, Chemiakin will join the ranks of dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov and pianist Vladimir Horowitz, other emigres invited back to share their talent with their native land. Tair Salachov, the first secretary of the Union of Soviet Artists, arrived without fanfare Tuesday night at Chemiakin's studio loft, crammed with the art Soviet authorities had once found so objectionable that the artist was forced to live in an insane asylum for six months. Salachov's visit formalized the union's invitation to Chemiakin, whose Moscow exhibition has been in the planning stages since June. The show will open March 24 at the House of Artists, the union's exhibition space at the Tetyakov Gallery. Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev's policies of glasnost, or openness, and improved relations with the United States have made it possible for ``the two cultures to begin interaction,'' the union leader said. Chemiakin was chosen for the historic show, he said, because of ``the extraordinary scope'' of his work and the Soviet art community's admiration for him. Moreover, Salachov added, ``I like his art.'' The 47-year-old artist says he has ``mixed emotions'' about returning to Moscow. ``I'm not bubbling with enthusiasm,'' Chemiakin said in Russian as his associate Sarah deKay translated. ``The Russians should have woken up a long time ago.'' But, he added, ``If the policies of Gorbachev are going to continue, I would like to have more substantial contact with Russians, to restore and fill in the gaps of the art students there.'' Chemiakin, dressed in a camouflage jacket and black boots, escorted Salachov around the loft where he lives and works. Everywhere are examples of his insatiable creative energy _ illustrations he did for Dostoevsky's ``Crime and Punishment,'' authentic African masks that inspired the colorfully grotesque characters of his ``Carnival in St. Petersburg'' series, and sculptures of skulls that he designed and a fellow emigre artist executed. His paintings, which defy categorization, sell for up to $125,000. Skulls are a recurrent theme in Chemiakin's art. He currently is working on a triptych about the Holocaust: Each panel shows a dark skull with the name of a concentration camp _ Dachau, Buchenwald and Auschwitz _ emblazoned in red. ``I grew up amid skulls,'' Chemiakin explained. His father was a colonel in the Soviet army and after World War II was appointed commandant of the country's occupation forces in Konigsberg, the capital of East Prussia that today is the Soviet city Kaliningrad. ``Roaming with my young friends through destroyed Konigsberg, I would often come across half-mummified bodies. Naturally these images stayed with me,'' the artist wrote in a two volume book on his oeuvre entitled ``Chemiakin.'' In 1957, Chemiakin and his family moved to Leningrad, where he entered an art school for gifted children. His difficulties with the authorities began almost immediately; he was expelled from school. But he continued his artistic education on his own, copying the works of French and Dutch masters during his spare time as a mover at the Hermitage Museum. Soon, he grew restless with the dogmas of Socialist Realism and began to experiment with new ways of depicting Soviet life. His work was labeled ``an ideological diversion'' by Soviet authorities, Chemiakin said, and his ``exhibitions were closed down and often the works were confiscated.'' ``We were labeled psychologically abnormal people and so attempts were made to either hide us away in insane asylums _ which happened to me and which happened also to many of my friends _ or they tried to send us off even further away.'' Chemiakin was exiled from the Soviet Union in 1971. He lived in Paris until 1981, when he came to New York. He currently is seeking American citizenship. Salachov, an artist who has held government appointed positions in the art field since 1968, was philosophical about past Soviet intolerance for Chemiakin's art and his treatment by authorities. ``It was a different time,'' he said. The goal today ``is to support everything that has talent, because there are people on the right and people on the left. But everything that is truly talented as a new step we will support,'' Salachov said through an interpreter. Chemiakin is critical of the United States, where he says the art scene is controlled by big money. But he says he doesn't consider returning to his homeland to live. ``I'm glad I've found a second country. And I'm glad that on my poster for this exhibition that I will be identified as an American artist.'' AP881103-0026 AP-NR-11-03-88 0242EST r a PM-GallstoneTheft 11-03 0227 PM-Gallstone Theft,0231 Police Arrest Five In Missing Gallstones Case OMAHA, Neb. (AP) Police say they have broken up a theft ring that allegedly dealt in more than $11,000 worth of cow gallstones stolen since July at a meat packing plant. The gallstones, which are considered in the Orient an aphrodisiac, are the most expensive part of a cow, selling for more than $600 an ounce. Mike Sherman, president of the Cornhusker Packing Co., said Wednesday that the company sells the gallstones to a Japanese export firm. In a two-month period earlier this year the company sold 19 ounces for $13,000, Sherman said. Police on Wednesday charged four Omaha men with receiving stolen property valued at more than $1,000. A fifth Omaha man was charged Tuesday with theft by taking property valued at $300 to $1,000. Sgt. Charles Prokupek said four of the men are employees of Cornhusker Packing. The fifth is a local representative of Hyclone Laboratories, an Ogden, Utah, company that buys fetal calf blood from the packing plant, Sherman said. Sherman said the gallstones usually are collected by employees who work on the plant's kill floor and are supposed to be turned in at the office. The gallstones _ ranging in size from the tip of a pencil to an egg _ are sold to Japanese Export Co. of Minneapolis, he said. AP881103-0027 AP-NR-11-03-88 0243EST r a PM-Lites 11-03 0444 PM-Lites,0463 On The Light Side DAVIE, Fla. (AP) Next year, residents of this rural community dotted with ranches will be able to saddle up Trigger, trot past hitching posts and then order a Big Mac to go at a drive-through window. Bowing to popular demand, McDonald's will level its fast-food restaurant and replace it next May with a $1 million wood-and-brick outlet resembling a saloon. Franchise owner Mickey Maros said he was inspired to renovate the restaurant after increasing numbers of customers on horseback began showing up at his drive-through window. ``It sounds funny in 1988 to say that,'' Maros said. ``People think of south Florida as being so urban. Davie is so rural.'' After beating sand off their chaps, Davie cowboys will be able to water their horses in a corral out back, which will offer salt licks, hay and troughs of water. Maros said he hopes the new restaurant will draw more horseback customers by making them feel at home. But the newcomers may fuel demand for a different type of gadget for the restaurant's cleanup crew. ``I hope we have a need to buy more pooper-scoopers,'' Maros said. HENDERSONVILLE, Tenn. (AP) Seven-year-old Morgan Matlock will be off to see the wizard next year when she stars as Dorothy during Hollywood's 50th anniversary celebration of ``The Wizard of Oz.'' ``I'm going to meet all kinds of neat people,'' said the second-grader. She was chosen for the role while in Los Angeles last month appearing on the television game show ``Card Sharks.'' The television appearance was part of the $10,000 in prizes she won in September in the Miss Junior America Petite pageant in Orlando, Fla. ``I'm looking forward to meeting Liza Minnelli especially. Gosh, yes, I'll love that,'' Morgan said. Miss Minnelli is the daughter of the late Judy Garland, who starred in the in 1939 movie. The rights to the movie belong to the Turner Broadcasting Co., which is planning next year's golden anniversary celebration. Like Miss Garland, Morgan will sing as part of her role. She also will spend a month next summer studying acting as part of the ``career development'' program at Universal Studios. ``She has known that this _ being an actress _ was something that she's wanted to do since she was a baby,'' said her mother, Kelli Matlock. ``My husband and I didn't know what else to do but just go with the flow.'' Morgan said she is quite familiar with the tale of ``The Wizard of Oz.'' ``Oh, yes. I have the movie,'' she said. ``Since I'm going to be in the celebration, I watch it every chance I get.'' AP881103-0028 AP-NR-11-03-88 0250EST r a PM-HospitalKidnapping Bjt 11-03 0566 PM-Hospital Kidnapping, Bjt,0579 Mother Pleas For Life Of Premature Infant Kidnapped From Hospital By MELISSA CONTI Associated Press Writer LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) Fighting back tears, a mother pleaded publicly to an unknown kidnapper to return her premature infant, as authorities warned that the baby's life may be in danger and offered a $13,000 reward for his return. About two dozen detectives were working against time today to find the woman who posed as a nurse as she kidnapped Christopher Michael Jones from his mother's room at Doctors Hospital. Doctors said Wednesday a lack of proper medical care would endanger the 6-day-old boy's life. ``The baby's blood sugar can get very low and we were watching it carefully in the hospital. If it gets too low it can cause seizures or even death within a relatively short period of time,'' said Dr. Whit Hall. The baby, born Saturday, weighed 4 pounds and must be fed every three hours and kept warm because he is small, Hall said. Christopher's mother, Annette Jones-Thomas, 32, was ushered into a news conference in a wheelchair Wednesday with her husband, Willie Jones, 39, at her side, and delivered an emotional plea to her baby's kidnapper. ``Please, if you have my child, please return him,'' she said, fighting back tears as her hands fiddled nervously with a sheet of paper from which she haltingly read her statement. ``He needs medical attention and if you have him for the reason of taking his as your child and raising him and loving him, do what a good mother would do. Bring him to the hospital and let him get help.'' Mrs. Jones-Thomas, a secretary for the Arkansas Education Association, and her husband have two daughters, ages 8 and 5. The younger girl has cerebral palsy, according to co-workers and a neighbor. The mother said a young black woman dressed in a white pleated skirt and a white sweater entered her four-floor room Tuesday night and said she needed to weigh the baby. The child hasn't been seen since. Mrs. Jones-Thomas said she did not know the woman who took the baby, who has black straight hair and a growth on his right ear. A hospital nurse came into the room about 30 minutes later to take the baby to the nursery and discovered him missing, officials said. Police searched the area with dogs but found nothing, said Sgt. Larry Dunnington. The kidnapper was not wearing a nurse's identification tag, said hospital spokeswoman Jessica Szenher. Dunnington said authorities don't know how the woman entered or left the hospital. The kidnapper mostly likely wants either to sell the infant, get ransom for him or keep him for herself, said police Lt. R.L. ``Bert'' Jenkins. Dunnington said he believes the kidnapper is still in the state. He would not elaborate. Geri Frances Vaughters, a hospital technician, said she saw a woman fitting the description of the woman before the abduction. She said she saw a black woman wearing a white skirt and a white sweater in the waiting room of the coronary care unit of the hospital. Ms. Vaughters said she thought the woman was a visitor. Doctors Hospital has offered a $10,000 reward for the return of the baby; the Little Rock Children's Clinic, a group called Protecting Arkansas Children Together and the Little Rock Police Department's Crime Stoppers added another $1,000 apiece. AP881103-0029 AP-NR-11-03-88 0304EST r i PM-BRF--China-Smoking 11-03 0152 PM-BRF--China-Smoking,0154 China To Draft First Anti-Smoking Law BEIJING (AP) Officials of the world's top tobacco-consuming country have proposed restricting foreign cigarette imports and limiting the tar content of domestically-produced cigarettes, the official China Daily said today. The proposals, made by the State Tobacco Sales Monopoly Bureau, were announced in the national legislature this week along with Ministry of Public Health plans to draft China's first anti-smoking law, the daily said. The daily did not specify the possible scope of the law or when it might by completed. Some Chinese and foreign doctors estimate that if strong measures are not taken, 2 million Chinese will die annually of smoking-related causes by the year 2025. According to the Chinese Academy of Preventive Medicine, China has 250 million smokers, about a quarter of the population. It says 70 percent of Chinese suffer the ill effects of smoking if passive smokers are included. AP881103-0030 AP-NR-11-03-88 0310EST r a PM-NavyDolphins 11-03 0505 PM-Navy Dolphins,0517 Navy Denies Alleged Dolphin Training Abuses By DENNIS GEORGATOS Associated Press Writer SAN DIEGO (AP) The Marine Mammal Commission said it would look into allegations that Navy trainers beat and starved dolphins in a classified surveillance program, but a Navy spokesman denied the animals were mistreated. ``We don't punish mammals or any of the animals for not performing tasks, but we reward them (with food) for satisfactory performance,'' said Lt. Ken Ross, a Navy spokesman at the Pentagon. ``We aim to keep them as healthy as possible because they are very valuable to us.'' Ross was responding Wednesday to allegations by dolphin trainer Rick Trout, who this week told a meeting of marine animal trainers that he witnessed ``incidences of abuse, weight loss, corporal punishment and damage to animals after transport.'' Trainers also use ``very negative methods, including food deprivation, corporal punishment and other aversive techniques,'' said Trout, a civilian hired to work with the dolphins in San Diego, where they are trained by the Navy to help detect mines or enemy frogmen. Ross insisted that the program operated out of the Naval Ocean Systems Center was ``running smoothly,'' but he said an investigation will be conducted to ensure the animals are being cared for properly. ``Those are allegations we are checking,'' Ross said.``Our primary concern is the health and safety of the animals, and the treatment of all our animals is well within the Marine Mammal Protection Act. We never have and never intend to do anything that could bring harm to the animals.'' A veterinarian is always either present or on call during training, he said, adding that the Navy considered the program's dolphin mortality rate of 5 percent to be better than the species' mortality rate in the wild. Trout, who no longer works for the Navy, made his comments in an appearance before the International Marine Animal Trainers Association meeting in San Antonio, Texas. The Seattle Post-Intelligencer, citing unidentified sources, reported Wednesday that four of the Navy's three dozen dolphins have died during the past 18 months and that an undetermined number of others were blinded or crippled by abusive handlers. John Twiss, executive director of the Washington-based Marine Mammal Commission, said the Navy's dolphin training center ``met or exceeded all standards published by the animal and plant health inspection service of the Department of Agriculture'' in 1986. Nevertheless, he said the commission, which advises federal agencies on the handling of marine mammals, wants to find out if there is any truth to the allegations. ``We'll try to find out what is actually happening. We're certainly not going to disregard a story like this,'' Twiss said. Navy officials said they were aware of two dolphin deaths within the program in recent months and were checking the reports of additional deaths. One of the dolphins died while on assignment in the Persian Gulf last year from complications of a bacterial infection. The second died of unknown causes while on being trained near Indian Island off Washington state. AP881103-0031 AP-NR-11-03-88 0317EST r a PM-LiberaceHouse 11-03 0394 PM-Liberace House,0405 Entertainer's Home to be Auctioned By ROBERT MACY Associated Press Writer LAS VEGAS (AP) No buyers have come forward with the $2.8 million asking price for the showplace home of the late Liberace, so the property will be sold at auction next month. About 300 people have expressed interest in the home, said auctioneer Eric Nelson, standing in a barren living room of the home that was once the scene of some of this city's swankiest parties. Prospective buyers included movie stars, hotel-casino owners and people from Japan, Europe and Africa, he said without providing names. Since none of the prospects met the asking price, the home will be offered at auction Dec. 10, with proceeds going to the Liberace Foundation for the Performing Arts, Nelson said. The pianist, who died Feb. 4, 1987, of complications of AIDS, started the foundation to provide scholarships for art and music students at some 30 colleges and universities. One of the major features of the home is a giant master bedroom with a painting of the Sistine Chapel frescoes on the ceiling. The painting, by an Italian artist, took nearly two years to complete. Between two bedrooms, at the end of a marble, mirrored hallway, is a fountain and a sunken bathtub, with a painting of Liberace on the ceiling. Liberace reportedly invested $3 million in the home, creating a two-story property with 10,549 square feet of living space by attaching and renovating two houses in a middle-class neighborhood. By the time reporters toured the home Wednesday, however, it had been stripped of millions of dollars in memorabilia and decorations. Some of that property was sold at auction earlier this year in Los Angeles and the remainder is on display at the Liberace museum a few blocks from the home. ``There are a lot of fond memories in this place,'' said Dora Liberace, sister-in-law of the entertainer and head of the museum. ``There were a lot of fun times here. ``It bothers me today because you know it's so final.'' Mrs. Liberace said holiday parties are among her favorite memories. ``Those days were so fun, so light, so happy.'' The home is located two miles southeast of the Las Vegas Strip where Liberace arrived as a fledgling entertainer known as ``Walter Busterkeys'' and stayed to become one of the city's top attractions. AP881103-0032 AP-NR-11-03-88 0326EST r w PM-WashingtoninBrief 11-03 0375 PM-Washington in Brief,370 Pentagon Joins Battle To Replace Ozone-Damaging Chemicals WASHINGTON (AP) The Defense Department has formally joined a government-industry task force that is pledging to help find alternatives to a chemical that depletes the Earth's ozone layer. The Pentagon, considered one of the biggest U.S. offenders in its reliance on chlorofluorocarbon, or CFCs, said Wednesday it would support a program aimed at finding and testing alternatives to the chemical by April 1989. The task force is being led by the Environmental Protection Agency but includes representatives of the major companies that produce CFCs, electronics producers who rely heavily on the chemical and various military agencies. CFC compounds are used to clean metal parts in a variety of weapon systems. ___ Company To Donate Medicine To Treat River Blindness In 11 Countries WASHINGTON (AP) An American company is donating a new drug for the treatment of river blindness in 11 African countries and will provide the drug ``as long as it takes to eradicate this disease.'' Art Kaufman, a spokesman for Merck & Co., said on Wednesday that at least 250,000 people in West Africa will be treated beginning next year with the drug Mectiza. The 11 countries that will receive the initial shipment of the Merck drug are Benin, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Ivory Coast, Mali, Niger, Senegal, Sierra Leone and Togo. All are in West Africa. Kaufman said other countries may receive the drug later if treatment programs are approved by the committee of experts. ___ Government Won't Join Suit Alleging Northrop Fraud on B-2 Bomber WASHINGTON (AP) The Justice Department will stay out of a private suit by four Northrop Corp. employees who charge the company defrauded the government in the production of the B-2 Stealth bomber. Assistant Attorney General John Bolton, head of the Justice Department's civil division, said Wednesday that the department reviewed allegations in the suit and decided ``there is not a sufficient basis for it to enter the case at this time.'' The lawsuit says Northrop's Advance Systems Division falsely represented to the government that its cost schedule control system met contractual requirements and that Northrop submitted falsified reports on cost performance and other matters. Northrop has denied the accusations. AP881103-0033 AP-NR-11-03-88 0417EST r i PM-Salvador 11-03 0491 PM-Salvador,0507 Guerrillas Kill Six Soldiers; Police Storm Prison By MARCOS ALEMAN Associated Press Writer SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) Leftist rebels attacked army positions at a sugar refinery and a bridge, killing six soldiers and bringing to ten the armed forces death toll in two days of guerrilla operations. Meanwhile, Treasury Police commandos on Wednesday night stormed a prison where inmates had held three hostages for 45 hours. Authorities said three prisoners and a hostage were killed in the raid. The guerrilla raids Wednesday followed by hours a rebel mortar attack on national guard headquarters in San Salvador that left four dead and 37 wounded. Rebels attacked a sugar refinery nine miles north of the capital before dawn Wednesday, said the head of plant security, who identified himself only as Sgt. Sandoval. ``They attacked us with mortars and rifle fire, but they didn't destroy the machinery. They damaged the offices, and they killed four soldiers ... and wounded four others,'' he said. About the same time, rebels killed two national guardsmen in a 30-minute attack on a post at a nearby highway bridge, military sources said. In Washington, State Department spokesman Charles Redman said the guerrillas were mounting a coincident diplomatic effort in the region ``to portray themselves as somehow more moderate in their stance and more powerful than they really are.'' Redman said the attacks did not alter plans by Secretary of State George P. Shultz to attend a foreign ministers meeting of the Organization of American States in San Salvador in mid-November. Four soldiers were killed and 37 people, including seven civilians, were wounded in the national guard attack Tuesday, the largest rebel strike in the capital since January 1981. The national guard is part of El Salvador's armed forces and participates in counterinsurgency operations. About 65,000 people have been killed in the 9-year-old war, the majority of them civilians. The prison assault ended a standoff that began when three inmates jumped two guards and took their rifles at the prison in Quezaltepeque, 15 miles north of San Salvador. The assailants, along with three other inmates, demanded political asylum in Mexico in exchange for releasing the hostages, a nurse and two prison guards. Communications Minister Roberto Viera told reporters that about 100 prisoners not involved in the hostage-taking had tried to flee the prison, which was surrounded by troops. The attempted escape provoked the six hostage-takers, who threw a grenade and began shooting at the troops and fleeing prisoners, Viera said. ``When the rioters began firing, the special forces intervened,'' Viera said. Reporters on the scene saw the commandos blow open the doors of prison cells and toss tear gas grenades inside to force the prisoners out. Viera said three of the six hostage-takers and one of the guards they had held were killed. The nurse and the other guard were freed unharmed, while a prisoner not involved in the hostage-taking was slightly wounded, he said. AP881103-0034 AP-NR-11-03-88 0423EST r a PM-People-FogertySuit 11-03 0372 PM-People-Fogerty Suit,0382 Singer, Record Company Executive Square Off in Court Eds: `Zanz Kant Danz' is cq. By BOB EGELKO Associated Press Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) A lawyer accused a music company executive of filing a plagiarism suit in revenge against guitarist John Fogerty, whose 1985 solo album originally included two songs that the executive says libeled him. In a heated session Wednesday before a U.S. District Court jury, music executive Saul Zaentz called the accusation of retaliation a lie. He said he filed the plagiarism lawsuit against Fogerty after Doug Clifford, another member of Fogerty's Creedence Clearwater Revival band, came to him in January 1985 with a copy of Fogerty's newly released solo album and an earlier Creedence song. Fantasy Records, Creedence's label from 1967 to 1972, is suing Fogerty over ``Old Man Down the Road,'' the lead single on his comeback ``Centerfield'' album of 1985. The lawsuit contends the melody of ``Old Man'' was copied from ``Run Through the Jungle,'' a 1970 Creedence song written by Fogerty to which Zaentz's Fantasy Records owns the rights. Damages could reach $2 million based on sales of the single and album. Twice in Zaentz's brief testimony, he was accused by Fogerty's lawyer of filing the copyright suit in revenge against Fogerty for including one song originally titled ``Zanz Kant Danz'' and one called ``Mr. Greed'' on the 1985 album. Zaentz has filed a $142 million libel suit over the two songs and public statements by Fogerty. The suit is pending in Los Angeles. Fogerty changed the title of the first song to ``Vanz Kant Danz'' and later dropped the song from subsequent pressings of the album. Outside court, Malcolm Burnstein, a lawyer for Fantasy Records, said Clifford and another former Creedence member, Stu Cook, had been ``a little irritated at John for cutting into their record royalties by stealing the song.'' Cook and Clifford still get royalties from continuing sales of Creedence records, but Fogerty gave up part of those royalties in a contract agreement, Burnstein said. Zaentz, also a successful movie producer, and Fogerty, lead singer and songwriter for Creedence, have been feuding for more than a decade over royalties from the group's songs and other financial and personal matters. AP881103-0035 AP-NR-11-03-88 0427EST r a PM-SRPPlutoniumLeak 11-03 0692 PM-SRP Plutonium Leak,0715 14 Savannah River Workers Exposed To Plutonium AIKEN, S.C. (AP) Fourteen workers at the troubled Savannah River nuclear weapons plant were exposed to tiny amounts of plutonium outside buildings, and five went home with the potentially deadly contaminant on their shoes, officials said. The soles of their shoes effectively screened out any harmful radiation, and none of the workers' homes were found to have unusually high levels of radiation, plant officials said Wednesday. ``Approximately 120 small spots of contamination were found, most of which were found on the ground,'' said Becky Apter, a spokeswoman for Du Pont, which operates the plant for the U.S. Department of Energy. The ground contamination in the chemical separations area has been cleaned up but decontamination was continuing on the roof of one building, she said. However, officials said they did not know how the plutonium got outside the buildings in the area, or its exact source. The plutonium could have come from a building's stack, which vents the building's air filter system, or from improper handling of waste material or moving of nuclear material from one building to another, said Du Pont Health Protection Superintendent Bill Reinig. The amount of contamination was small _ about one microcurie. ``You could pick up all the spots, you could eat it all and you would still be less than 10 percent of the federal limit of plutonium in the body,'' Reinig said. Michael Lowe, a spokesman for the environmental watchdog group Greenpeace, charged that the Oct. 26 incident was just another indication of poor safety standards at the plant, located across the Savannah River from Augusta, Ga. ``Here's a good example of where normal procedures, which would be considered arguably safe, would be safe if the DOE was diligent with safety,'' he said. ``How many operations at Savannah River a day are performed that have the same institutional problems?'' The plant is the largest complex in the government's nuclear weapons production system. Its three reactors were the only ones in the nation still producing the major nuclear weapons materials, plutonium and tritium, before they were shut down by DOE in April for safety reasons. Some congressmen have expressed concerns over continuing health problems at Savannah River and other nuclear weapons plants. Last month, the Physicians for Social Responsibility called for the creation of a national medical board to assess the problems. At another plant, in Fernald, Ohio, state officials said Wednesday that more radioactive radium was released into the Great Miami River from uranium processing than earlier realized, increasing the potential health threat to nearby residents. After the Savannah River's Oct. 26 incident, workers conducted a survey and detected low levels of plutonium between two buildings, and on the roof of one of them, said Ms. Apter. Reinig said plutonium emits radioactive alpha rays, small amounts of which can be ``completely shielded by a thin piece of paper.'' ``The alpha (rays) can be stopped by the soles of the shoes,'' he said. ``Employees sustained no radiation dose. It doesn't become a hazard unless it is ingested into the body.'' He said there was ``no indication whatsoever'' that any of the material was ingested, and monitoring devices indicate no contamination was carried off the site in the air or water. Ms. Apter said Du Pont investigators checked 200 workers and found that nine who were on the site at the time had picked up contamination. They later found five more had picked up contamination but had gone home before it was detected. Their homes were checked, and no radioactivity was found, Ms. Apter said. In Ohio, the new information about the river contamination was in documents filed by the Department of Energy as part of the defense the department has prepared for National Lead of Ohio Inc., the plant's former operator, in a class-action lawsuit. ``It's definitely new stuff,'' said Graham Mitchell, a spokesman for the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency. Residents of the Fernald community filed the lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Cincinnati earlier this year, contending the operator allowed radioactive uranium dust to escape from the plant, damaging their health and property. AP881103-0036 AP-NR-11-03-88 0450EST u i PM-Britain-IRA 11-03 0553 PM-Britain-IRA,0576 House Of Commons Backs Ban On TV, Radio Interviews With IRA By MICHAEL WEST Associated Press Writer LONDON (AP) Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's government won House of Commons backing early today for its ban on British television and radio interviews with the IRA and 10 other militant groups in Northern Ireland. The 650-seat House rejected by 244 votes to 183 an amendment by the socialist opposition Labor Party seeking to condemn the ban as ``incompatible with a free society.'' But several members of Mrs. Thatcher's Conservative Party sided with Labor in criticizing the ban as damaging censorship. TV journalists at the British Broadcasting Corp. and commercial TV companies in London and Wales and journalists at the London headquarters of the BBC's World Service plan 24-hour strikes to protest the ban. The BBC World Service broadcasts to a worldwide audience of 120 million. The ban covers interviews with members and supporters of the outlawed Irish Republican Army, its legal political wing Sinn Fein and nine other groups in Northern Ireland, four of them Protestant. It applies only to face-to-face interviews and television and radio reporters remain free to cite the views of the 11 groups, provided they do so indirectly. The ban does not apply to newspapers or foreign television and radio services and will not apply during elections. Home Secretary Douglas Hurd, the Cabinet member responsible for law and order among other matters, imposed the ban on Oct. 19, using legal powers he possesses over broadcasting authorities. The ban did not require parliamentary approval but Hurd nevertheless promised a Commons debate on the issue. The debate began Wednesday night. The rejected Labor amendment said the ban was likely to help the guerrillas ``by providing them with the opportunity to argue that the government will not allow the wide expression of opinion which is essential to democratic debate and peaceful change.'' But Hurd said during the debate: ``Those who live by the bomb and the gun and those who support them cannot in all circumstances be accorded the same rights as the rest of the population.'' He added: ``We shall soon be putting to Parliament new and stronger measures of this kind, bearing in particular on the funds of terrorist organizations.'' He did not elaborate but the government has said it plans to introduce measures to enable authorities to seize the funds of guerrilla groups. The moves follow an upsurge of IRA attacks this year on British security forces in Northern Ireland, mainland Britain and continental Europe. The mainly Roman Catholic IRA wants to end British rule in predominantly Protestant Northern Ireland and unite the province with the mainly Catholic Republic of Ireland under socialist rule. Protestant militants oppose all talk of unity with the Republic. Conservative legislators who criticized the ban in the debate included Cyril Townsend. He said: ``The government in its haste has come forward with a measure that is going to damage our party and damage our country. This is a measure of censorship.'' Television journalists at the BBC voted Wednesday to join a one-day strike on Nov. 10 called by the National Union of Journalists. Journalists at commercial television companies in London and Cardiff in Wales and at the BBC World Service plan similar 24-hour strikes, but no date has been announced for the stoppages. AP881103-0037 AP-NR-11-03-88 0455EST r a PM-NorthSpeech 11-03 0504 PM-North Speech,0517 Oliver North Ignores Hecklers In Raucous Appearance By STEFAN FATSIS Associated Press Writer NEWTON, Mass. (AP) Oliver North, the stoic former Marine, ignored angry taunts, abusive banners and constant interruptions and praised the virtues of free speech in an address at Boston College. After a month of controversy over his scheduled appearance, North quipped Wednesday night about his $25,000 honorarium, hinted he might someday seek public office and claimed he voted for John F. Kennedy in 1960 _ when he was 17. The former National Security Council staffer, indicted for his role in the Iran-Contra affair, received a minute-long standing ovation and wild support from a crowd that jeered hecklers and chanted ``U.S.A., U.S.A., U.S.A.'' as police dragged demonstrators from a campus gym. ``In a previous occupation, I could have gotten combat pay for this,'' said North, who was protected by a phalanx of police. But he stared at his notes when a melee broke out in the crowd and was even-tempered when a protester yelled ``He's a drug-runner'' and another tossed a placard bearing a swastika and called North a fascist. ``I quite honestly resent the label of fascist,'' North said. ``My father was terribly wounded in the war against the fascists.'' There were no arrests, but police forcibly evicted six people from the crowd of about 4,000, who paid $7 each to hear North. Loud, organized protests and counterprotests preceded the speech at the normally tranquil Jesuit college. ``I welcome the fact that there are those with dissenting views and I welcome the fact that in this wonderful and blessed country of ours there is an opportunity to express those views,'' he said. ``In many of the countries which claim a great deal of support, to include Nicaragua, the same power of free speech is not given,'' North said to cheers. North, 45, is awaiting trial on 16 counts of conspiracy to defraud the U.S. government by selling arms to Iran and transferring the profits to the rebels fighting the overthrow the leftist Nicaraguan government. He said he has spoken in 30 states during the last four months to raise money for his defense, estimated to cost more than $1 million. With his voice cracking as it did during the televised Iran-Contra hearings in the summer of 1987, North, wearing a dark suit and red tie, quoted Thomas Jefferson, Winston Churchill and Kennedy _ ``the first president I was blessed to vote for.'' But North was born Oct. 7, 1943, which would have made him just 17, shy of the voting age, when Kennedy was elected in 1960. Taking questions from spectators _ but not reporters _ after his hourlong speech, North said his goals are ``to finish up this legal case, pay off the money from that and return at some point to the service of our country.'' North's $25,000 speaking fee provoked a storm of controversy. More than 1,500 people signed petitions against the payment, part of which came from a mandatory $41-per-student activities fee. AP881103-0038 AP-NR-11-03-88 0507EST r a PM-Obit-Shepley 11-03 0428 PM-Obit-Shepley,0441 James Shepley, Former President of Time Inc. NEW YORK (AP) James Robinson Shepley, who rose from reporter to president of Time Inc. and led it through a period of expansion in which the company launched Money and People magazines, has died. He was 71. Shepley, whose lived in Hartfield, Va., after retiring in 1982 from Time, died Wednesday of complications from cancer. at a clinic in Houston, Time announced. The announcement from Time Inc. described Shepley as a ``brusque but decisive manager'' who rose to the publishing company's top executive post despite a lack of formal business training. During his tenure as president from 1969 to 1980, the company started Money and People magazines, revived Life as a monthly after suspending it as a weekly, bought the Book-of-the-Month Club and the American Television and Communications Corp. and developed Home Box Office as the first national pay television service. It also acquired Temple Industries and Inland Container, two forest products companies that were later spun off to Time Inc.'s shareholders. Born in Harrisburg, Pa., Shepley worked at the Harrisburg Daily Patriot, the Pittsburgh Press and United Press before being hired by Time magazine in 1942 as a correspondent in the Washington bureau. He was a war correspondent in both the Pacific and Europe during World War II, covering the assault on the Japanese in Burma and the Battle of the Bulge in Europe. He was commissioned an Army captain at the end of the war and was attached to Chief of Staff George C. Marshall, with whom he collaborated on the official report of World War II. In 1954, Shepley was co-author of ``The Hydrogen Bomb'' with Life correspondent Clay Blair Jr. In 1956, he interviewed Secretary of State John Foster Dulles for Life; the story made Page 1 news and introduced ``brinkmanship'' into the Cold War lexicon. As an executive, Shepley rose from assistant publisher of Life to publisher of Fortune and then of Time magazine before being chosen president of Time Inc. in 1969. After stepping down as president in 1980, he remained on the Time board as chairman of its executive committee, and also was chairman and chief executive officer of The Washington Star, which Time Inc. owned for three years. Shepley was a lifelong hunter, fisherman, aircraft pilot and sailor. He remained active on numerous corporate boards after his retirement. He is survived by his wife, the former Yvonne Hudson; two sons, six daughters and 15 grandchildren. A memorial service will be held at St. Alban's Church in Washington, D.C., Wednesday. AP881103-0039 AP-NR-11-03-88 0517EST u i PM-Korea 1stLd-Writethru 11-03 0642 PM-Korea, 1st Ld-Writethru,a0479,0660 Students Clash With Riot Police, Demand Arrest Of Former President Eds: LEADS five grafs with clash worst since summer, injuries reported. Picks up graf 4 pvs, `About 9,000 ...' By KELLY TUNNEY Associated Press Writer SEOUL, South Korea (AP) Thousands of radical students pelted riot police with firebombs and rocks today in Seoul and other cities, and demanded the arrest of former President Chun Doo-hwan on corruption charges. It was the worst political clash in Seoul since major anti-American protests last summer. Many police officers and students suffered cuts and other injuries from firebombs and rocks, but there were no overall figures. Police did not say if any protesters were arrested. In Seoul, about 3,000 students fought police in four areas near Chun's house in a fashionable residential suburb. Clashes were also reported in several provincial cities. ``Arrest Chun Doo-hwan. Punish (President) Roh Tae-woo,'' students in Seoul shouted as they hurled firebombs and repeatedly charged police despite a dense fog of tear gas. About 9,000 police were posted along streets and alleyways leading to Chun's house to repel the protesters. Police used tear gas whenever students tried to break through their lines. Traffic came to a standstill and most shops in the areas were closed as the fighting persisted for several hours. Many pedestrians wore gauze masks or put hankerchiefs over their noses to filter out the acrid tear gas. In front of Sogang University at the center of Seoul clashes, about 700 students, brandishing hundreds of firebombs, repeatedly charged about 500 riot police who were blocking their march. Police retaliated with tear gas. Firebombs exploded in showers of orange flames near or amidst columns of police, who deflected the missiles with shields and put out blazes with hand-carried extinguishers. Several blocks away, near the house of opposition leader Kim Dae-jung, another group of 500 students battled police with rocks and firebombs. Kim's house is about eight blocks from Chun's. In the southern city of Kwangju, about 2,000 students held campus rallies or took part in street protests to demand Chun be punished for alleged corruption and human rights violations. In Chunchon and Ansung in eastern and central South Korea, dozens of students also attacked with firebombs a police station and a government party office. No injuries or major damage was reported. News reports said thousands of students had held anti-Chun rallies on their campuses to prepare for a march on Chun's house. Fighting erupted at some schools as students tried to march out. Anti-government demonstrations have been escalating in recent weeks as radical students organized ``save-the-nation suicide squads'' and threatened to raid Chun's house to press for his arrest and punishment. The anti-Chun march was part of anti-government strategies by radical students, who are also calling for an ouster of President Roh. They argue that hte Roh government is dragging its feet on a probe of alleged corruption and other scandals involving the ex-president, his family members and associates. Roh and Chun, both former army generals, have been close friends since they were classmates at Korea Military Academy in the 1950s. Roh succeeded Chun, who stepped down following protests at the end of a seven-year term in February. Chun has come under public fire for his alleged misuse of power during his tenure. One of his brothers, Chun Kyong-hwan, has been sentenced to seven years in prison for taking bribes and embezzling millions of dollars worth of official funds. Former Seoul Mayor Yom Bo-hyon, a close confident of Chun, was also sentenced to a five-year jail term last month for taking bribes and illegally helping the business of some family members of the ex-president. Chun is also under investigation for his alleged role in militarily suppressing a 1980 civil uprising in the southern city of Kwangju that resulted in the deaths of about 200 people. AP881103-0040 AP-NR-11-03-88 0524EST r i PM-UN-Iran 11-03 0479 PM-UN-Iran,0492 U.N. Reports Large Number Of Executions in Iran After Cease-fire By PETER JAMES SPIELMANN Associated Press Writer UNITED NATIONS (AP) A U.N. report on human rights in Iran says ``a renewed wave of executions'' occurred about the same time the country's Islamic fundamentalist government agreed to a cease-fire with Iraq. A copy of the report to the General Assembly, obtained Wednesday, calls for continued scrutiny of Iran's human rights practices, citing executions of political dissidents and other reports of abuses. The first secretary of Iran's U.N. Mission, Amir Hossein Zamaninia, said the mission had seen the report and had no comment. U.N. special representative Reynaldo Galindo Pohl of El Salvador said in his report, ``A large number of prisoners, members of opposition groups, were executed during the months of July, August and early September 1988.'' The cease-fire putting at least a temporary halt to a war that since 1980 has left at least 1 million dead and injured was signed Aug. 20 by Iran and Iraq. Most of those executed since midsummer were said to be members of the People's Mujahedeen, an outlawed opposition group, but the report said about 20 belonged to such other opposition groups as the Tudeh party, a Marxist organization, and the People's Fedayeen. It did not say how many people had been put to death, but mentioned groups of executions cited in Iranian and other media from July through September that included 1,140 political executions and others for common crimes. The Washington office of the People's Mujahedeen said there has been ``a dramatic rise in political arrests, torture and executions in Iran'' since September. ``Specifically, in the last three months alone, more than 10,000 persons have been arrested and thousands executed on the charge of opposition'' to Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini's regime, said a statement by spokesman Aladdin Touran distributed at U.N. headquarters. The U.N. report notes that the executions followed a July 25-28 raid into Iran by National Liberation Army, the armed wing of the People's Mujahedeen. It said persecution of Bahai worshipers appears to have decreased, although Iran's attitude toward members of the faith has not changed. Bahais are denied the right to practice their faith in Iran, and cannot obtain higher education or work for the government. ``By July 1988, a number of Bahais including some prominent members of the Bahai community who had been arrested, allegedly because of their faith, were released from prison and some prison sentences were reduced,'' the report said. Galindo Pohl interviewed seven Bahais and nine sympathizers of the People's Mujahedeen who formerly lived in Iran in addition to obtaining written accounts and information from Iranian media, his report said. The report noted Iran's contention that Islamic law may not match every tenet of international law and its disagreement with the principle that ``adherence to international law is a must for every state.'' AP881103-0041 AP-NR-11-03-88 0552EST r a PM-People-Robinson 11-03 0142 PM-People-Robinson,0146 Singer-Songwriter Smokey Robinson Honored With ASCAP Founders Award LOS ANGELES (AP) Singer-songwriter Smokey Robinson received the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers Founders Award for his prolific career that produced such hits as ``You've Really Got A Hold On Me.'' Previous winners of ASCAP's highest award, which was presented Wednesday, include Bob Dylan, Stevie Wonder, and Jule Styne. Many of Robinson's most familiar hits were written for himself or other artists at Motown, where he was one of the key hitmakers during the 1960s. ASCAP President Morton Gould called Robinson ``one of the most prolific and influential figures in pop music.'' Among the hit songs that Robinson wrote, and in some cases, performed, are ``Shop Around,'' ``My Girl,'' ``The Tracks of My Tears,'' ``My Guy,'' ``Ooh, Baby, Baby,'' and ``The Way You Do The Things You Do.'' AP881103-0042 AP-NR-11-03-88 0556EST r a PM-GoodSamaritan 11-03 0577 PM-Good Samaritan,0593 Man Who Rescued Woman Was Convicted Drug Dealer By RONALD POWERS Associated Press Writer NEW YORK (AP) A convicted drug dealer who skipped his sentencing a year ago and lived as a fugitive was caught when his ``good Samaritan'' instincts led him to aid a neighbor who was being beaten and robbed, officials said. Clovis Fearon, 31, gave police a false name, Anthony Dixon, after he killed one attacker and injured another with his unlicensed gun early Wednesday in Brooklyn, rescuing 43-year-old Gertrude George. But after he was arrested on a gun possession charge, police learned his real identity and found an outstanding arrest warrant against him. Police said Fearon rushed out to help Ms. George when he heard her screams from his apartment early Wednesday morning. Ms. George lived on the same street but said later she did not know Fearon. ``I was just screaming, `Don't kill me,' because I thought that was what they were going to do, kill me,'' Ms. George said. ``At one point I thought I was going to die.'' Ms. George said Fearon was ``the only one who came to my assistance.'' ``His actions, of course, were not criminal in any way in my mind _ except for the possession of the gun,'' police Inspector Edward Cappello said before Fearon's true identity was revealed. Fearon's gun was found by police inside his apartment. The inspector said Fearon, whose car was recently burglarized, complained to police at the scene about crime in the area. At his arraignment Wednesday night before Brooklyn Criminal Court Judge Joseph Silverman, Fearon pleaded innocent to the gun charge and bail was set at $500. But he remained held on the outstanding warrant. Fearon had pleaded guilty Feb. 9, 1987, to third-degree criminal sale of a controlled substance, punishable by up to seven years in prison, said Assistant District Attorney Starlet Jones. He failed to appear for sentencing and a warrant was issued on March 23, 1987, the prosecutor said. Timothy Lewis, 25, of Brooklyn, one of the men shot by Fearon, was arrested for robbery, assault and criminal possession of stolen property. The other alleged bandit, Raymond Plowden, 25, of Brooklyn, was found dead a block from the scene clutching Ms. George's jewelry in his hand, said Cappello. Lewis escaped but was arrested a short time later when he arrived at Brookdale Hospital for treatment of his gunshot wound, police said. He was in stable condition there. Plowden had been arrested five times, including three times for robbery, and was wanted on a bench warrant at the time of his death, police said. Lewis had three previous arrests, two on drug charges, police said. Ms. George, a longtime resident of the Flatbush neighborhood, was attacked while she was returning home from her job as a nurse, one of two jobs she holds, police said. Fearon, a chef, came out of his house with a .38-caliber handgun and fired three shots, hitting each man once in the back as they stood over Ms. George, Cappello said. ``It could have been me dead,'' Ms. George said. ``The guy that died showed me no mercy. He was very, very rough. He jumped me from the back. He squeezed me by the throat, burst the chain off my neck while the other man was searching my pockets.'' Ms. George suffered cuts and bruises to her face but declined treatment, Cappello said. She later identified both suspects. AP881103-0043 AP-NR-11-03-88 0601EST r a PM-WPPSSTrial 11-03 0586 PM-WPPSS Trial,0606 Mistrial Request Denied In Nuclear-Plant Fraud Trial TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) Plaintiffs in a securities fraud trial involving a $2.25 billion municipal bond default that was the largest in U.S. history say they'll fight a $10 million settlement offer they consider ``chicken feed.'' Meanwhile, U.S. District Judge William Browning denied a request for a mistrial Wednesday by one of the four remaining defendants in the Washington Public Power Supply System case. The trial, which resumed Wednesday after a five-day recess, was to continue today. A $226 million settlement between the plaintiffs, mostly WPPSS bondholders, and most of the defendants was reached Monday. It includes contributions of $181 million from 14 public utility defendants, $35 million from the federal Bonneville Power Administration and $10 million from Washington state. Arthur Hoffer, chairman of a committee of bondholder plaintiffs, which also filed a separate class-action suit in Washington state court against the state of Washington for alleged negligence, said Wednesday in Seattle that his group would fight the state's settlement offer in the federal suit. The offer is contingent upon the dropping of the bondholders' state-level suit, which seeks $7.25 billion. Hoffer said Browning should not have jurisdiction to dismiss the state case. ``It's a different court, different defendants, different courses of action, different damages,'' he said. C. Richard Lehmann, treasurer of the bondholder committee, said bondholders were unhappy with Bonneville Power Administration's offer. Lehmann said they were ``quite happy'' with the $181 million offered by the utilities, but he called the other offers ``chicken feed.'' Four defendants remain in the trial: the Snohomish County (Wash.) Public Utility District, the sole remaining utility defendant; engineering firms Ebasco Services Inc. and United Engineers and Contractors Inc.; and financial adviser Blyth Eastman Paine Webber Inc. They are accused of conspiring to lie and hide information that might have discouraged potential investors of WPPSS municipal bonds that were used to build two nuclear power plants. The unfinished plants were scrapped in 1982 and WPPSS defaulted on the bonds a year later. On Wednesday, Chemical Bank attorney Thomas Barr played tapes of meetings by the seven-member participants committee that made decisions for the 88 utilities involved in the projects. The tapes from mid-1981 revealed the utilities feared that terminating the plants would drive some of the utilities into bankruptcy and that the committee discussed the merits of defaulting on the bonds. The trial was recessed Oct. 27, when Browning told the jury that efforts were under way that might shorten the trial. Before the trial resumed, Browning denied a request for a mistrial by the Snohomish County utility. Attorneys in the case refused to discuss the request, citing the judge's gag order. When the trial resumed, Browning told the 17 jurors that settlements had been reached but that the jurors should not infer anything from them. Browning reminded the jury who the remaining defendants were. He also reminded the panel that Chemical Bank of New York, a trustee for bondholders, was suing only the Snohomish County utility and that the class plaintiff representing more than 24,000 past and present bondholders had claims against all the remaining defendants. Browning had ruled before the trial begain Sept. 7 that no mention of settlements be made to the jury, even though key former defendants, including WPPSS itself, were no longer in the case but frequently were mentioned in opening statements and testimony. The trial was moved to Tucson because it was not felt an unbiased jury could be found in Washington state. AP881103-0044 AP-NR-11-03-88 0617EST r p PM-People-Black 11-03 0357 PM-People-Black,310 Former Child Star Wants USIA Post in Bush administration By PAUL PAGE Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) Former child star Shirley Temple Black, who has served Republican administrations in several diplomatic posts, says she wants to be head of the U.S. Information Agency if George Bush is elected president. The one-time darling of Depression-era movie fans auditioned for the part on a television interview broadcast today, saying her years in films and government have prepared her to run the United States' main voice abroad. ``I haven't told George Bush this yet, I should tell him before I tell you. But I would like to be the director of the United States Information Agency,'' Mrs. Black said in a taped appearance on the CBS News ``Nightwatch'' program. Mrs. Black, 60, lit up the dark days of the Great Depression as the nation's top box office star between 1935 and 1938. Her career began at age 3 and her curly hair and adorable smile brought her world fame and an Oscar by the time she was 6. She told an interviewer she wanted ``to sell you on this'' by pointing to her years in Hollywood and the second career she has built in Washington. She was a U.S representative to the United Nations under President Nixon and was Chief of Protocol and U.S. ambassador to Ghana under President Ford. ``I've had 57 years of the communications business, with all parts of the media. And I've had 19 years of government service in international relations and I would do a super job for you ... ,'' Mrs. Black said she would tell Bush. Mrs. Black, interviewed in Washington, said she has been helping train ambassadors due to for overseas posting by the State Department under President Reagan. She has also contributed ``a little'' money to Bush's Republican campaign effort. ``I have always been willing to serve, and I'll serve wherever I'm asked to serve. But I want it to be substantive. I don't like make-work,'' she said. The USIA, which spreads the official American government word to overseas audiences, is currently led by Charles Z. Wick. AP881103-0045 AP-NR-11-03-88 0622EST r a PM-MassExtinction 11-03 0623 PM-Mass Extinction,0641 Study Implicates Climate Change In Dinosaurs' Demise By LEE SIEGEL AP Science Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) Global cooling put dinosaurs and other creatures in jeopardy of extinction, says a study suggesting neither volcanic eruptions nor asteroids striking Earth could be the sole cause of a mass wipeout 66 million years ago. ``The climate was going through a severe change approximately 200,000 years before the mass extinctions,'' said University of California, Santa Barbara, geologist Lowell D. Stott, who presented the findings Wednesday at the Geological Society of America's annual meeting in Denver. Stott said he and his co-author, UCSB geologist James P. Kennett, believe the cooling trend ``may have made these organisms susceptible to events associated with an (asteroid or comet) impact or other phenomena,'' such as volcanic eruptions. The extinctions ``appear to have resulted from several things happening within a relatively short period of time,'' Kennett said. Many scientists believe the mass extinctions happened because eruptions or objects smashing into Earth sent enough dust and soot skyward to block out sunlight, plunging the planet into darkness and cold that killed foods many creatures needed for survival. The new study doesn't rule out either possibility, but shows Earth's climate started getting colder earlier, Stott said by phone from Denver. Stott and Kennett studied the amount of two forms of oxygen in tiny fossil seashells. They determined that ocean temperatures near Antarctica dropped 2 to 4 degrees about 200,000 years before dinosaurs and about two-thirds of other species died. ``Certainly this major change in climate must have had a significant effect on plants and animals living at the time,'' Stott said. ``However, it appears to be more of a contributing factor to, rather than a direct cause of, the extinctions.'' The theory that an asteroid or comet striking Earth triggered mass extinctions was first proposed in 1980 by a team of University of California, Berkeley, scientists led by Nobel laureate physicist Luis Alvarez. Many fossil experts countered that the mass extinction 66 million years ago occurred in a stepwise fashion, with the die-off stretching over a period of hundreds of thousands of years. That prompted the Berkeley team to modify the theory, saying the extinctions were caused by a shower of asteroids or comets over a longer period. A growing number of researchers support that theory, although others insist volcanic eruptions were responsible. Some say asteroid impacts could have smashed deep enough to trigger eruptions. Others dispute the impact and volcanic theories, arguing that gradual climate change coupled with changes in sea levels caused extinctions. The UCSB study suggests there may be truth to all the theories. No one knows what caused the cooling detected by Kennett and Stott. One possibility is that the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere declined, causing a ``reverse greenhouse effect'' in which less solar radiation was trapped by the gas, causing temperatures to drop. Another theory, Stott said, is that new seaways gradually opened and closed as the continents drifted. Resulting changes in ocean circulation could change global temperatures, he explained. It also is possible that ``an earlier impact before the big one that killed the dinosaurs was responsible both for cooling and for some extinctions that took place earlier,'' said astrophysicist Richard Muller, a member of Alvarez' team at UC-Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory. The idea that extinctions had multiple causes also is possible, Muller said by phone from Berkeley. Stott and Kennett detected ancient climactic cooling by studying the ratios of oxygen-18 and oxygen-16 in fossilized plankton shells taken from rocks beneath the Weddell Sea in Antarctica. The shells absorbed oxygen when the creatures lived. Oceans contains less oxygen-18 when the water is warmer and more when the water is cooler. AP881103-0046 AP-NR-11-03-88 0629EST r a PM-SmokelessCigarette 11-03 0554 PM-Smokeless Cigarette,0573 AMA Seeks to Halt Testing of `Smokeless Cigarettes' By SARAH NORDGREN Associated Press Writer CHICAGO (AP) The American Medical Association moved to stop sales of a new ``smokeless cigarette'' being marketed by R.J. Reynolds Co., saying the product is nothing more than a delivery system for the drug nicotine. The nation's largest medical association filed petitions in two states Wednesday in an effort to halt distribution of the product, called Premier. R.J. Reynolds countered with a news release saying the AMA was both inaccurate and hypocritical. ``Premier smoke substantially reduces many of the chemical compounds that the critics of smoking have been complaining about,'' Reynolds' release said. ``Reynolds finds it difficult to understand how the AMA can in good faith suggest that Premier be banned. ``Premier is a cigarette ... not a drug-delivery system, as the AMA has alleged.'' The AMA's legal challenge was filed in petitions in Arizona and Missouri, where the product is being test marketed. In April, the association petitioned the federal Food and Drug Administration to regulate Premier as a drug, although cigarettes currently are not regulated that way. That petition is pending. Premier contains nicotine, an ``addictive drug ... which has been implicated in cardiovascular disease, complications of hypertension'' and other medical problems, the AMA said. ``The scientific evidence is crystal clear about the adverse health effects of nicotine and carbon monoxide,'' Dr. Roy Schwarz of the AMA said at a news conference. The FDA currently does not regulate tobacco products unless they make a medical claim, spokesman William Grigg said. He said the AMA maintains in its FDA petition that Premier should be regulated because it makes ``an inherent health claim.'' The main difference between Premier and other cigarettes is that the tobacco in them is warmed, not burned, said Reynolds spokeswoman Maura Payne in Winston-Salem, N.C. She said the cigarettes contain a nicotine level of 0.4 milligrams and carbon monoxide ``at about the same level as a `lights' brand.'' The cigarettes also show a ``virtual elimination of sidestream smoke, or smoke off the lit end of the cigarette, the elimination of ash and no tobacco aroma,'' she said. But R.J. Reynolds, a subsidiary of RJR Nabisco, said it has treated Premier no differently than any other cigarette. The company began selling Premier in Tucson, Ariz., Phoenix and St. Louis around Oct. 1, but no date had been set for national distribution. Ms. Payne said the cost per pack would run about 25 percent higher than other cigarettes. Health officials in Arizona and Missouri said the issue in their states boils down to a question of jurisdiction. Dr. Robert Harmon, director of the Missouri Department of Health, said his state had been considering action against Premier for some time but he expected any decision was at least a week away. ``I agree that the product should be regulated as a drug and I wrote to the FDA on Feb. 25 asking it to do so,'' Harmon said. ``It is mainly a matter of state or federal jurisdiction.'' Joe Rowan, deputy director of the Arizona Board of Pharmacy, which received the AMA's petition, said the document ``has been taken to the state Attorney General's office.'' ``They will advise the board as to what action they can take or should take, if any,'' he said. AP881103-0047 AP-NR-11-03-88 0644EST r a PM-WeatherpageWeather 11-03 0504 PM-Weatherpage Weather,0517 Blustery Storm Exits Northeast As New Storm Enters Northwest By The Associated Press A blustery storm swept across Maine and began its exit into Canada today as another storm entered the Pacific Northwest, dumping rain and snow while whipping up winds. In the northeastern United States, rain and snow diminished as the low pressure system moved northward, leaving behind light rain from northern New England and upstate New York on Wednesday evening. In New York earlier Wednesday, as many as 20,000 customers were without electricity after a snowstorm dumped a foot or more of snow on parts of the Adirondack Mountains, a utility spokesman said. Meanwhile, in the Pacific Northwest, the cold front brought rain from the northern and central Pacific Coast to the northern Rockies. In Oregon, northern coastal areas were hit with high winds. Gusts of 98 mph were recorded at Cape Blanco, 74 mph at Gold Beach, 61 mph at Astoria and 47 mph at Salemn and North Bend. In the higher passes of the Olympic and Cascade mountains of Washington, at least 8 inches of snow was possible today. Snow was also reported in the mountains of central Idaho. The Colorado Rockies and Yellowstone National Park, Wyo., were lightly dusted with snow, while northeastern Texas and southwestern Arkansas received a few showers and thunderstorms. Today's forecast called for a few thunderstorms over southern Florida and the lower Mississippi Valley; widespread showers from the northern Pacific Coast to the northern and central Rockies, widely scattered showers from eastern portions of Montana and Wyoming; snow over higher elevations of the Rockies; snow in the mountains of northern New England; and gusty winds over the northern Rockies. High temperatures were forecast in the 50s over the Pacific Northwest and from the northern Plains through the Great Lakes to New Jersey and southern New England; the 40s over northern New England and northern Minnesota; the 80s across much of Florida, Louisiana, Texas and southeast New Mexico; the 90s over southern Texas; the 80s and 90s over the desert Southwest, and the 60s or 70s throughout much of the nation. Temperatures around the nation at 2 a.m. EST ranged from 27 degrees at Oscoda, Mich., to 77 degrees at Homestead, Fla. Other reports: _East: Atlanta 53 cloudy; Boston 42 cloudy; Buffalo 34 fair; Charleston, S.C. 46 fair; Cincinnati 36 fair; Cleveland 31 fair; Detroit 29 fair; Miami 75 cloudy; New York 46 windy; Philadelphia 43 fair; Pittsburgh 34 fair; Portland, Maine 39 partly cloudy; Washington 45 fair. _Central: Bismarck 32 fair; Chicago 40 fair; Dallas-Fort Worth 62 fair; Denver 43 partly cloudy; Des Moines 43 fair; Indianapolis 39 fair; Kansas City 50 fair; Minneapolis-St. Paul 41 partly cloudy; Nashville 44 fair; New Orleans 61 foggy; St. Louis 47 fair. _West: Albuquerque 45 fair; Anchorage 16 fair; Las Vegas 61 fair; Los Angeles 63 cloudy; Phoenix 69 fair; Salt Lake City 55 showery; San Diego 62 cloudy; San Francisco 59 partly cloudy; Seattle 52 rain. _Canada: Montreal 37 rain; Toronto 32 fair. AP881103-0048 AP-NR-11-03-88 0648EST u i PM-Vietnam-MIAs 11-03 0562 PM-Vietnam-MIAs,0578 Vietnam Returns 23 Sets Of Remains By PETER ENG Associated Press Writer BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) Vietnam today turned over to a U.S. military team what it believes are the remains of 23 Americans unaccounted for from the Vietnam War, a U.S. spokesman said. It was one of the largest such turnovers. A U.S. military honor guard solemnly saluted as the remains, in coffins draped with folded U.S. flags, were loaded onto a Hercules C-141 transport plane during a short ceremony at Hanoi's Noi Bai Airport, Maj. Dan Trout said. The plane left the Vietnamese capital for Guam, en route to Honolulu. There, the U.S. Central Identification Laboratory will try to confirm the preliminary analyses done by the Vietnamese, said Trout, spokesman for the U.S. Pacific Command. Trout said the remains included 21 sets the Vietnamese found in their own searches and the two sets that U.S.-Vietnamese teams recovered during unprecedented joint field investigations near Hanoi from Sept. 25 to Oct. 5. The Vietnamese provided a list of some names and information on the remains, Trout said without elaborating. Sources said earlier that Vietnam has given the United States a list of at least nine names. Today's return was among the largest since the January 1973 Paris Peace Accords ended U.S. military involvement in a war that claimed 58,000 American lives. The communists defeated the U.S.-backed South Vietnam government in April 1975. Trout said that since the accords, the United States has received the identified remains of 196 missing persons, including 168 from Vietnam, 26 from Laos and two from China. That leaves 2,387 Americans missing in action, or MIA, in Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia. In August 1987, Vietnam's foreign minister, Nguyen Co Thach, and a special U.S. presidential envoy, retired Gen. John W. Vessey, reached agreement to hasten cooperation on the MIA issue. Today's turnover brought to 90 the number of suspected remains Vietnam has provided since the Thach-Vessey agreement. So far, the U.S. laboratory has identified 25 set of remains as those of missing Americans. Also today, seven U.S. military specialists returned to Bangkok after winding up a second joint field investigation with the Vietnamese. They were to have inspected U.S. warplane crash sites and other areas west of Hanoi during the 10-day project, Trout said. ``They didn't run into any serious weather problems,'' Trout said. ``They did not find any specific remains this time.'' He said that as with the first joint investigation, the teams were trying to resolve ``discrepancy cases'' _ those in which the United States says there is evidence Vietnamese authorities have information on the servicemen's fate. These includes cases of airmen captured but never returned. Most American losses in northern Vietnam were airmen shot down during bombing runs. Vietnam had for years refused repeated requests for the field investigations. U.S. officials said they were gratified by the recent cooperation on the issue, long subjected to emotional bickering between the two countries. But Ted Sampley, head of the National Steering Committee for American War Veterans, on Wednesday accused the Vietnamese of using turnovers for political ends. ``They are timing it for the presidential election,'' Sampley said in a telephone interview from the United States. The committee, a private lobbying group, has accused Washington of pursuing only the remains of the dead while covering up purported evidence of Americans still held prisoner in Indochina. AP881103-0049 AP-NR-11-03-88 0705EST r a PM-VietVets 11-03 0238 PM-Viet Vets,0245 War Vets To Build Hospital in Vietnam EUREKA, Calif. (AP) A dozen Vietnam War veterans will return to Vietnam and build a health clinic on a 14-acre former military compound near Ho Chi Minh City, says the leader of a veterans' group. ``A lot of people didn't think we were serious, but we're going,'' Fred Champagne, leader of the Veterans Vietnam Restoration Project, said in this northern California city Wednesday. Champagne said he and Ross von Arx returned 10 days ago from a series of meetings with Vietnamese officials and that a formal letter of approval soon followed. The letter from Vietnamese Foreign Minister Nguyen Co Thach gives the Humboldt County group permission to send a 12-member team of veterans to build the clinic. Champagne said the Vietnamese government has offered the former military facility at Vuing Tau on the Vietnamese coast and a beach house at no cost. ``Our own State Department has given us permission and clearance for the project,'' he said. The United States has no formal relations with Vietnam. Plans call for the first veterans team to arrive in Vietnam the second week of January, said Champagne. Members of the group will meet in San Francisco on Saturday to map out a fund-raising campaign and determine who will go to Vietnam, Champagne said. ``We've got 10 weeks to raise $50,000,'' the amount neeeded to build the clinic, he said. AP881103-0050 AP-NR-11-03-88 0710EST r a PM-RishTrial 11-03 0347 PM-Rish Trial,0356 Rish Convicted Of Kidnap, Murder Of Small By ROBERT LEE ZIMMER Associated Press Writer KANKAKEE, Ill. (AP) A jury took less than two hours to convict a 26-year-old woman of murder and kidnapping for helping her boyfriend abduct prominent businessman Stephen Small and bury him alive. The swift conviction of Nancy Rish on Wednesday should end a ``terrible nightmare'' for Small's family since his kidnapping in 1987, said prosecutor Michael Ficaro. Small suffocated in a homemade box before his family could pay a $1 million ransom. Daniel Edwards, 31, with whom Ms. Rish lived in nearby Bourbonnais, was convicted in May of murder and kidnapping, and was sentenced to death. Ms. Rish faces a maximum sentence of life in prison without parole, said prosecutor Michael Ficaro. A presentencing hearing was scheduled for Dec. 6. Ms. Rish cried as the jurors filed from the crowded courtroom after delivering their verdict to Kankakee Circuit Judge John Michela. The jury had deliberated for only one hour and 40 minutes after a nine-day trial. ``I am very disappointed that this jury didn't consider the case longer,'' said defense attorney Vincent Paulauskis. ``I think there was reasonable doubt.'' Paulauskis contended that Ms. Rish had no idea what Edwards was plotting, and that Edwards' real accomplices have not been apprehended. Ficaro, however, said there is no evidence anyone else helped with the kidnapping. In his closing arguments, Ficaro told jurors that Rish was the ``actress'' and ``accomplished liar'' her boyfriend needed to lure Small from his home so he could be abducted. Small, 40, member of a prominent media family and great-grandson of a former Illinois governor, was kidnapped Sept. 2, 1987 and buried in the coffin-like box in a remote area between Kankakee and the Indiana border. His body was unearthed two days later. Ficaro said it was Ms. Rish who called Small to get him out of his house while Edwards waited in the garage to kidnap him. She pretended to be a police officer reporting a burglary at a building Small was restoring, he said. AP881103-0051 AP-NR-11-03-88 0713EST r a BC-Quotes 11-03 0153 BC-Quotes,0157 Current Quotations By The Associated Press ``Please, if you have my child, please return him.'' _ Annette Jones-Thomas, mother of Christopher Michael Jones, a 6-day-old premature infant who was kidnapped from a hospital in Little Rock, Ark. ``I don't know for a fact that the Stalin archives haven't been destroyed. I do know that some very important documents have disappeared.'' _ Yuri N. Afanasyev, director of Moscow's State Historical Archives Institute, saying the Hitler-Stalin pact that helped precipitate World War II has disappeared along with other documents from the Soviet Union's national archives. ``I have always believed that an accused person is innocent until proved guilty. I wish the rest of America agreed with me.'' _ Tobacco heiress Doris Duke, after agreeing to put up $5 million bail for Imelda Marcos, referring to the way the U.S. government has treated the former Philippine first lady and her husband. AP881103-0052 AP-NR-11-03-88 0722EST r a PM-`Sweet'Deal 11-03 0415 PM-`Sweet' Deal,0427 Nothing Was What It Seemed To Be As Drug Deal Goes Sweet, Not Sour DALLAS (AP) Federal narcotics officers were poised to make the biggest cocaine bust ever in Dallas, but it turned out the white powder they confiscated was for baking, not snorting. And the elderly man who attempted to pull off the drug deal wound up in custody and in the hospital instead of being in the money, said Phil Jordan, who is in charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration's Dallas office. It turned out that the 100 kilograms of cocaine the man was attempting to sell to DEA agents posing as drug dealers was 220 pounds of flour and sugar, Jordan said. ``We found out he wasn't selling the real thing, and he found out we were the real thing,'' said Jordan said. Jordan said he expects that state charges will be filed against the man accusing him of attempting to sell substances misrepresented as drugs. It is a felony under Texas law to attempt to sell any substance represented to be illegal drugs. Jordan said the 71-year-old man suffered an ``anxiety attack'' after learning the men were agents and not drug dealers and was hospitalized with chest pains. He was listed in serious condition today at St. Paul Medical Center. ``He's lucky he was dealing with law enforcement rather than a vicious criminal drug element,'' Jordan said. ``The underworld doesn't take kindly to fraud. ``If he'd been dealing with the Cubans, the Jamaicans or the Colombians, he wouldn't have lived to tell his story to the judge,'' Jordan said. The deal began a month ago, Jordan said, when a man approached an undercover DEA agent and asked if the agent was interested in buying 100 kilos of cocaine. DEA officials decided the man might be serious because one of his associates had recently been arrested with five kilos of cocaine, Jordan said. The man was arrested after he produced the substance in an airport parking lot at Love Field. A quick field test of the white substance revealed that it was sugar and flour. The man had offered to sell the bogus drugs at $18,000 per kilo, making the entire buy worth $1.8 million, he said. It wasn't a total loss, Jordan said. ``Well, we got the flour and sugar just in time for the holidays,'' he said. ``After we use it as evidence, we plan to donate it to one of the area food banks.'' AP881103-0053 AP-NR-11-03-88 0728EST r a PM-CableTVNominees 11-03 0430 PM-Cable TV Nominees,0441 HBO Shows Dominate Nominations For ACE Cable TV Awards LOS ANGELES (AP) The HBO program ``The Vietnam War Story'' received the most acclaim as Home Box Office dominated the nominations for the 10th annual ACE Awards for cable TV programming. ``The Vietnam War Story,'' a 30-minute dramatic anthology series, won 18 nominations Wednesday for the awards, which will be presented in January. ``Mandela,'' an HBO drama based on the life of South African black activist Nelson Mandela, received eight nominations. The HBO drama ``The Man Who Broke 1,000 Chains'' also received eight nominations. ``The HBO Comedy Hour Live'' garnered seven nominations. Six each went to Showtime's ``It's Garry Shandling's Show,'' and ``The Race for the Double Helix'' on the Arts & Entertainment Channel. HBO received 114 of the 324 nominations this year, more than the next five cable programmers combined. Arts & Entertainment was second with 32 nominations, followed by Showtime with 23, Cable News Network with 20, the Disney Channel with 18, USA Network with 15, the Discovery Channel with 14, and Superstation TBS with 13. Individual nominations went to such stars as Danny Glover and Alfre Woodard for their roles as Nelson and Winnie Mandela in ``Mandela;'' Tate Donovan, Todd Graff, Wesley Snipes and Cynthia Bain for ``The Vietnam War Story;'' and Roseanne Barr, Garry Shandling, Robert Townsend, Robin Williams, Billy Crystal, Whoopi Goldberg and Jane Alexander. The ACE awards will be presented during a live broadcast Jan. 15 over 10 of the largest basic-cable networks. The ceremonies will originate from the Wiltern Theatre in Los Angeles. The craft awards will be handed out at a dinner the night before in Beverly Hills. The awards are made by the National Academy of Cable Programming, a division of the National Cable Television Association. In September, cable shows and performers participated in the Emmy awards for the first time, but the cable industry said it would continue its own awards program. ``The Vietnam War Story'' was nominated as best dramatic series, along with USA Network's ``Ray Bradbury Theatre'' and HBO's ``Tanner '88,'' a dramatized spoof of the 1988 presidential campaign. ``The Vietnam War Story'' also picked up three directing nominations, four writing nominations, two for photography and one each for art direction and makeup. ``Mandela'' was nominated as best movie or miniseries, as were ``The Man Who Broke 1,000 Chains,'' Disney Channel's ``Jean Shepherd's Ollie Hopnoodle's Haven of Bliss,'' A&E's ``After Pilkington'' and A&E's ``The Race for the Double Helix.'' ``Mandela'' also received nominations for directing, writing, costume design, film editing and original score. AP881103-0054 AP-NR-11-03-88 0731EST r i PM-DuchessofYork 11-03 0376 PM-Duchess of York,0383 Duchess Of York Returns To Britain And Her Baby After Six Week Break LONDON (AP) The Duchess of York returned to London today after six weeks in Australia, carrying a toy koala bear as a present for the 12-week-old baby girl she left behind in Britain. The 29-year-old duchess arrived at London's Heathrow Airport with a white fluffy toy bear under her arm. She smiled at waiting photographers but said nothing before she got into her Jaguar car and took the wheel to drive into London. The baby, Princess Beatrice, stayed in Britain with a nanny while the duchess, the former Sarah Ferguson, was in Australia with her husband, Prince Andrew, second oldest son of Queen Elizabeth II. Andrew, 28, a Royal Navy helicopter pilot, will remain with his ship, the guided-missile destroyer HMS Edinburgh, and is not expected back in Britain until Dec. 16. The couple had a narrow escape from serious injury Wednesday in Fremantle, western Australia, when a steel cable securing the Edinburgh to the dock snapped as they were saying goodbye. The duchess _ on the dock chatting with Andrew, who was on the lower deck of the ship _ was whisked to safety by a security man who saw the cable about to snap less than three yards from where she stood. Andrew and other crew members ducked for cover as the cable lashed back like a whip and smashed into the ship's hull. The duchess flew from Britain to Australia on Sept. 21 on her own and met up with Andrew there for the couple's 10-day official tour to help celebrate Australia's bicentennial. When Andrew returned to his ship, the duchess extended her stay in Australia to have more time with him, traveling from port to port to meet his ship. She also visited relatives in Australia and the British domestic news agency Press Association said she comforted her elder sister Jane over the reported breakup of her marriage with Australian farmer Alex Makim. British tabloids criticized the duchess for spending so much time away from her baby, who was born on Aug. 8. The duchess and Andrew shrugged off the criticism and Buckingham Palace, as is customary, refused to comment on the issue. AP881103-0055 AP-NR-11-03-88 0739EST r a PM-AssaultParole 11-03 0199 PM-Assault Parole,0206 Man Who Left Toddler In Outhouse Pit May Be Paroled DENVER (AP) A man who abducted a 3-year-old girl in front of her home, sexually assaulted her and left her in an outhouse pit was scheduled to be paroled early next year after serving less than half of a 10-year sentence. The imminent parole of Robert Thiret, 26, has stirred some controversy here, where sentiment against him ran so high that he wore a bulletproof vest when he appeared in court in 1984 to plead guilty to attempted murder and sexual assault. Ed Gruninger Jr., an uncle of the victim, Lori Poland, and a law enforcement officer for 12 years, said he doesn't think anyone's happy with the parole scheduled for March 13. ``But there is nothing we can do about it. I just hope he has learned a lesson and stays away from our family.'' Lori was discovered in an outhouse pit in Stapleton Mountain Park three days after her abduction. The Poland family later sued Thiret and won a $2.4 million settlement. Thiret's parole from Canon City penitentiary is mandatory under Colorado law, which allows time off for good behavior in prison. AP881103-0056 AP-NR-11-03-88 0803EST u i PM-Philippines-Ship 11-03 0548 PM-Philippines-Ship,0566 Coast Guard Clears Shipping Company In 1987 Maritime Disaster By CLARO CORTES Associated Press Writer MANILA, Philippines (AP) A shipping company that was ordered closed after one of its ships sank in 1987 with thousands of people aboard and another went down during Typhoon Ruby was cleared of blame today in the 1987 tragedy. A 69-page coast guard report blamed the December 1987 disaster on the 630-ton oil tanker Vector, which collided with the passenger ship Dona Paz off Mindoro island. More than 3,000 people are believed to have died. The Dona Paz was owned by Sulpicio Lines, whose passenger operations were suspended by the government on Wednesday after another of its vessels, the Dona Marilyn, sank Oct. 24 during Typhoon Ruby, killing at least 76 people. In the report, Pio Garrido, coast guard commandant, said a board of inquiry found the Vector at fault because it lacked qualified crew and equipment and had sailed without valid licenses. ``The operation of the MT Vector was not only risky but unlawful for want of the requisite licenses and certificates for her vessel and her officers,'' the report said. ``MT Vector and her registered owners are adjudged solely at fault and responsible for the collision.'' Sulpicio Vice President Vicente Gambito praised the coast guard report. ``We welcome this opportunity to vindicate the idea that our ships are unsafe and there is something patently wrong with our ships,'' he said. On Wednesday, President Corazon Aquino ordered Sulpicio's passenger services suspended while the government inspects its crews and ships. Sulpicio, which operates 22 passenger and cargo vessels, accounts for 20 percent of domestic sea traffic among the country's 7,200 islands. But Gambito said today that Sulpicio had still not received the suspension order and was operating normally. In its report, the coast guard said the Vector rammed the Dona Paz on the port side, immediately knocking out the engine and generator. Oil from the tanker ignited and the two vessels disappeared in a huge fireball. Only 26 people survived, all but two from the Dona Paz. Only two junior crewmen from the Vector were rescued. The coast guard said the Vector had a steering defect and sailed without a certificate of inspection. The ship had no radio operator and its radio license had expired nearly 18 months earlier, the report said. It also found that the ship's master, who was killed, did not have the required Chief Mate License and that there was no lookout on duty on the Vector's bridge when the collision occurred. Mrs. Aquino's order suspending Sulpicio came nine days after the 2,855-ton Dona Marilyn sank during Typhoon Ruby with about 500 people aboard. The two accidents prompted calls from the press and Congress for tougher enforcement of maritime safety regulations and for investigations into the seaworthiness of the inter-island fleet. Meanwhile, the search for victims of the Dona Marilyn sinking continued today. Like the Dona Paz, it has been difficult to determine the number of victims because of confusion over how many people were aboard. The Dona Marilyn sailed Oct. 23 from Manila. After it sank 300 miles southeast of Manila, 161 passengers and 39 crewmen were rescued. Gambito said at least 76 people were confirmed dead but only 54 bodies had been recovered. AP881103-0057 AP-NR-11-03-88 0845EST r a PM-ZZZZBest 11-03 0286 PM-ZZZZ Best,0295 Former ZZZZ Best Whiz Kid Says the Mob Will Kill Him By LINDA DEUTSCH Associated Press Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) Barry Minkow, the fallen whiz kid of Wall Street, says he's as good as dead for testifying about a purported mob takeover of his ZZZZ Best carpet cleaning company. ``I've got two choices, 500 years or death by the mob,'' he shouted from the stand Wednesday at his fraud trial. ``Now I'm going to talk. My life's over. They're not going to let me live.'' In more than a week on the stand, the 22-year-old who started his business at 16 in his parents' garage has portrayed himself as a helpless puppet of organized crime figures. On Wednesday, he snapped at Assistant U.S. Attorney Gordon Greenberg, who questioned his version of events. ``The only proof, Mr. Greenberg, is going to be when they kill me five years from now,'' Minkow exclaimed. ``Then you'll believe me.'' Minkow said a mobster visited him in prison before he took the stand, kissed him on both cheeks and warned: ``Say the right thing or I'll kill you.'' ``I don't think anyone on earth could protect me if they wanted to kill them (my parents) or me,'' the defendant said. ``You can't hide from these guys.'' The government contends that despite his age, Minkow was a clever con man who bilked investors out of some $25 million. He faces 57 charges of securities, credit card and mail fraud. Minkow's company, once a hot item on Wall Street, was built on fraudulent claims of huge contracts for carpet restoration work. He has admitted lying, manipulating funds and defrauding investors. Ten defendants have pleaded guilty to fraud charges. AP881103-0058 AP-NR-11-03-88 0855EST r a PM-FranklinExecution 1stLd-Writethru a0483 11-03 0600 PM-Franklin Execution, 1st Ld - Writethru, a0483,0613 Texas Executes Killer Whose Appeals Had Halted The State's Executions Eds: SUBS 4th graf, `Franklin was ...' to CORRECT that Texas execution total now 28, sted 27. By MICHAEL L. GRACZYK Associated Press Writer HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) Donald Gene Franklin, whose appeal halted executions in the state for more than nine months, was put to death early today for abducting and murdering a nurse 13 years ago. Franklin, 37, made no final statement before a lethal injection was administered at the Texas Department of Corrections' Wall Unit. Franklin stared at the death chamber ceiling and coughed several times as drugs flowing through needles inserted into his arms took effect. He was pronounced dead at 12:30 a.m., six minutes after doctors began administering the injection. Franklin was the second person executed this year in Texas, which leads the nation with 28 executions since the U.S. Supreme Court restored capital punishment in 1976. He was the 102nd person executed in the United States since then. Franklin spent 12{ years on death row, and had three trials and at least five execution dates. His own attorney once described him as therawford, said today. ``I feel really relieved. I feel I can be at peace and Peggy can be at peace.'' At the time of the execution, she said, she was looking at a picture of her daughter. ``It's been a long hard day,'' she said. ``It's been a very, very long 13 years.'' Franklin's hopes for a reprieve were blocked late Wednesday when the U.S. Supreme Court voted 7-2 to refuse him a stay. The nation's highest court had granted Franklin a stay in October 1987 to consider his challenge of Texas' capital punishment law. His attorneys argued that the law does not say how much weight a jury should give to a defendant's mitigating circumstances. The challenge put a halt to executions in Texas after Jan. 7, when Robert Streetman, 27, was put to death for murdering a woman in a $1 burglary. In June, the nation's highest court voted 6-3 to reject Franklin's challenge. Franklin spent his final day in a small cell next to the death chamber, and was visited by his parents. In 1975, Ms. Moran's disappearance from a San Antonio hospital prompted a highly publicized citywide search. Five days after her abduction, she was found in a vacant lot, nude, bleeding from multiple stab wounds and barely alive. She died later in a hospital. Franklin was on parole for a rape conviction when he was arrested about four hours after the abduction, but consistently denied any involvement in Ms. Moran's disappearance. ``He just told me he was framed for something he didn't do,'' a fellow death row inmate, Johnny Penry, said Wednesday. Witnesses provided the license plate number of a car speeding away from the hospital. The car was Franklin's. Police also found the nurse's belongings in his garbage can and blood found on his clothing matched Ms. Moran's. ``This is a case I use as the classic circumstantial evidence case,'' said Bill Harris, a Bexar County district attorney who handled Franklin's case. ``We had overwhelming evidence. It's an appropriate case for the death penalty and he's an appropriate subject.'' ``The worst part, in my mind, is that Franklin is the most hated man in San Antonio, at least in recent history,'' said Allen Cazier, who defended Franklin at his third trial. AP881103-0059 AP-NR-11-03-88 0916EST u i PM-Algeria 1stLd-Writethru 11-03 0563 PM-Algeria, 1st Ld-Writethru,0577 Algerians Vote In Election That Could Change One-Party Rule Eds: New thruout to UPDATE with early election results, those arrested in earlier riots released. No pickup. ^By SYDNEY RUBIN Associated Press Writer ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) A month after 176 people died in anti-government riots, Algerians voted today on political reforms that would shift power away from the single party that has ruled for 26 years. The referendum to modify 14 articles of the constitution was proposed in October after youths rioted in the streets of Algiers and other cities to protest shortages of food and jobs. Lower living standards are blamed on the dropping price of oil, Algeria's chief export. First reported results were of absentee ballots cast by Algerians living in southern France. The Algerian Consulate in Marseille said nearly 90 percent of those voting favored constitutional change. It announced results of 41,039 yes to 3,532 no, with 1,126 people casting ``null'' ballots _ a form of abstention. ``It's the beginning of change,'' 34-year-old businessman Joubi Wacer said after voting at a school in Bir Mouradais neighborhood. ``After this, things will be different. At least we hope so.'' Under clear blue skies, several elderly, veiled women walked to vote at the Bir Mouradais school. Men milled in the courtyard, smoking and discussing political changes their country seems to be experiencing. In remote southern parts, nomads traveled long distances to cast their ballots. President Chadli Bendjedid soothed the unrest by promising a greater role in decision-making to people outside the National Liberation Front. As this North African country's only legal party, it has ruled since Algeria's independence from France in 1962. Today's voting appeared calm. There were no indications of heightened security in Algiers, the capital where soldiers and police fired on demonstrators last month. Officials set the nationwide death toll from a week's rioting at 176. But other reports say three times as many people died. The Justice Ministry announced today that it released on Wednesday all 3,357 people still held after being arrested during the rioting. That figure was much higher than the 1,500 previously believed to remain in jail, but there was no immediate explanation for the discrepancy. Algerian television showed film of dozens of young men emerging from El Harrach prison near Algiers into a crowd of families and supporters who patted them on the backs or shook their hands. Because most vote-counting is computerized in Algeria, nearly complete results were expected before midnight. State radio said an estimated 25 percent of those eligible voted within three hours of the polls opening. More than 90 percent of Algeria's 12 million eligible voters have turned out in past elections. Bendjedid's proposal to shift power out of the hands of the party is ``extraordinary, a veritable revolution for Algeria,'' said Kamel Belkacem, publisher of the pro-reform weekly newspaper Algerie Actualite. Provisions before voters would make subtle but important changes separating government from the party. The constitution would say the president ``incarnates the unity of the nation,'' replacing wording that he ``incarnates the unity of the ... party and the state.'' Another change would allow the president to shift unspecified powers to the premier, who would in future answer to the People's National Assembly, Algeria's parliament. If independent candidates eventually are elected to parliament, this would separate the day-to-day working of the government from party control. AP881103-0060 AP-NR-11-03-88 0918EST r a PM-VesselFire 11-03 0234 PM-Vessel Fire,0242 Three Feared Dead in Barge Explosion SOLDOTNA, Alaska (AP) A crewman knocked to the deck by three explosions aboard a barge carrying thousands of gallons of fuel lowered himself by a rope and waded 100 feet ashore, but three other men were missing, officials said. ``There doesn't appear to be very much hope for any survivors,'' said State Trooper Cpl. Mike Marrs. The cause of Wednesday's explosions and fire was not known, the Coast Guard said. The first explosion occurred as the captain and the engineer were changing over to another generator in the engine room, Marrs said. Stephen M. Hobbs, the first mate, said an explosion knocked him down in the wheelhouse, at the front of the vessel, according to Dan Gregory, a fire battalion chief. ``When he looked back, all he saw was fire ... the intense radiant heat forced him off the ship,'' Gregory said. Hobbs was in good condition. The barge, owned by Motor Vessel Constructor Co. in Homer, had 20,000 gallons of gasoline and 36,000 gallons of diesel fuel below decks, Marrs said. A tanker truck that was aboard had been hired to shuttle fuel to holding tanks at a crude-oil processing facility operated by Marathon Oil Co. The crew had pumped 1,000 gallons of gasoline into the truck before the explosion, Marrs said. Missing were the captain, the engineer and a fuel-truck driver. AP881103-0061 AP-NR-11-03-88 0923EST d a PM-BRF--Professor'sDeath 11-03 0136 PM-BRF--Professor's Death,0139 Professor's Death Ruled A Suicide COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) A classics professor who received Ohio State University's highest teaching award plunged 12 stories to his death from a parking garage in an apparent suicide, police said. John Vaughn, 41, taught a class in mythology that attracted hundreds of students and sometimes had a waiting list. A parking attendant saw Vaughn pacing the top floor of the garage Wednesday and approached to see if he needed help, said manager Charles Bruns. Without a word, Vaughn took off his coat, sat on a ledge and fell backward, the attendant reported. Vaughn received an alumni award for distinguished teaching in 1981, one of eight professors so honored that year, university spokesman Steve Sterrett said. Franklin County Coroner William Adrion tentatively ruled the death a suicide. AP881103-0062 AP-NR-11-03-88 0937EST d a PM-BRF--PlaneCrash 11-03 0092 PM-BRF--Plane Crash,0094 FAA Trio Dies As Jet Crashes, Burns LIGONIER, Pa. (AP) A jet carrying three Federal Aviation Administration officials testing an airport guidance signal crashed and exploded, killing everyone aboard, officials said. The pilot reported engine problems Wednesday, seconds before the twin-engine Jet Commander 21 went down in a wooded area near here. The plane took off from Allegheny County Airport south of Pittsburgh and was testing an electronic signal emitted by a system that guides pilots into Westmoreland County Airport, FAA spokesman Robert Buckhorn said in Washington. AP881103-0063 AP-NR-11-03-88 0956EST r a PM-FlagTrial 11-03 0200 PM-Flag Trial,0207 Black Lawmaker's Trial For Protesting Confederate Flag In Recess MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) Thomas Reed's trial over an attempt by the head of the Alabama NAACP to rip the Confederate battle flag from the state Capitol is in an indefinite recess, and a verdict might not come for weeks. ``It might be after the first of the year,'' said defense attorney Ernestine Sapp. The state representative's non-jury trial began Wednesday, but Judge Craig Miller declared a recess later in the day because he had other cases scheduled. Reed and 13 other black legislators were arrested and charged with criminal trespass Feb. 2 after grabbing a fence around the Capitol and annoucing they would rip down the Confederate flag, which they contend is a symbol of racism. Miller granted a prosecution request Wednesday to try each legislator individually, beginning with Reed. Reed, 60, in 1970 became one of the first two blacks this century to win a seat in the Assembly. He is not up for for re-election next week. He was convicted of extortion Sept. 30 in an unrelated case, and a court ordered his removal from office upon sentencing. No sentencing date has been set. AP881103-0064 AP-NR-11-03-88 0957EST r i PM-Marcoses 11-03 0363 PM-Marcoses,0374 Manila Newspapers Praise U.S. Prosecution of Marcoses Eds: BusinessWorld in penultimate graf is correct. By ROBERT H. REID Associated Press Writer MANILA, Philippines (AP) Newspapers today hailed the U.S. prosecution of Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos, but some saw it as a warning that Washington can turn on an ally if that serves American interests. Others said American indignation should have been aroused in 1972 when Marcos declared martial law, jailed thousands of political opponents and allegedly began plundering of the Philippine treasury. The commentaries appeared after American tobacco heiress Doris Duke on Wednesday put up $5 million for the former Philippine first lady to secure bail on racketeering charges. U.S. District Judge John Keenan postponed Marcos' arraignment pending results of a medical examination. The former Philippine president claimes he is too ill to travel to New York from Hawaii, where he has lived since his ouster in a popular-military revolt in February 1986. ``The Marcoses will find that American justice cannot be trifled with as Marcos trifled with justice,'' columnist Vicente Albano Pacis wrote in the Philippine Daily Inquirer. Foreign Secretary Raul Manglapus disclosed to reporters Wednesday that the United States asked Manila two months ago to waive immunity for Marcos as a former head of state. ``The government gave permission,'' Manglapus said. Malaya, another daily, noted the Reagan administration strongly supported Marcos until the final days of his 20-year rule. The indictment should serve as a warning to President Corazon Aquino, it said. ``They (Americans) have the power over the fate of other governments like the Marcoses' and presumably that of Mrs. Aquino, the big brother who can discipline, punish or destroy anybody who becomes a threat to them or their interests,'' the paper said. Columnist Ninez Cacho-Olivares wrote in the newspaper BusinessWorld that the boos and catcalls hurled at Mrs. Marcos outside a federal court in New York were reminiscent of ``old, barbaric days of the Romans.'' ``Today, the American media make fun of her,'' she wrote. ``But where were the indignant crowds in 1972? ... The American media as well as American officials were in the early days all praise for Marcos and his wife Imelda.'' AP881103-0065 AP-NR-11-03-88 0958EST r a PM-Deaths SUB a0506 11-03 0158 PM-Deaths, SUB, a0506,0159 Eds: SUBS first item to fix typo in `who' in 2nd graf. James Shepley NEW YORK (AP) James Robinson Shepley, who rose from reporter to president of Time Inc. and led it through a period of expansion in which the company launched Money and People magazines, died Wednesday. He was 71. Shepley, who lived in Hartfield, Va., after retiring in 1982 from Time, died of complications from cancer at a clinic in Houston, Time announced. During his tenure as president from 1969 to 1980, the company also revived Life as a monthly after suspending it as a weekly, bought the Book-of-the-Month Club and the American Television and Communications Corp. and developed Home Box Office as the first national pay television service. Born in Harrisburg, Pa., Shepley worked at the Harrisburg Daily Patriot, the Pittsburgh Press and United Press before being hired by Time in 1942 as a correspondent in the Washington bureau. AP881103-0066 AP-NR-11-03-88 1014EST r a PM-SakharovVisit 11-03 0195 PM-Sakharov Visit,0201 Soviet Physicist Expected in Boston Sunday BOSTON (AP) Dissident and Nobel laureate Andrei Sakharov reportedly is expected to arrive in Boston on Sunday for his first trip outside the Soviet Union. The two-week visit to the United States may include a stay at Massachusetts General Hospital to be examined for possible implantation of a pacemaker, the Boston Globe said today, citing unidentified sources. Two of Sakharov's stepchildren live in Boston suburbs. The 67-year-old physicist is credited with developing the Soviet Union's hydrogen bomb. He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1975 for defending human rights. Sakharov was banished to internal exile in Gorky, about 250 miles from Moscow, in 1980. His wife, Yelena Bonner, was banished there in 1984. They were released in 1986 by Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, and the recent announcement that Sakharov would be allowed to travel to the United States was seen as another sign of Gorbachev's easing of restrictions on human rights. Sakharov's trip is to promote the newly formed International Foundation for the Survival and Development of Humanity, the first private foundation allowed to operate with full legal status in the Soviet Union. AP881103-0067 AP-NR-11-03-88 1026EST u i BC-Maldives-Glance 11-03 0392 BC-Maldives-Glance,0401 Maldives at a Glance By The Associated Press Here are some facts and figures on the Maldives. THE PEOPLE _ Almost all of the country's 182,000 people are Sunni Moslems, the mainstream sect of Islam. The Maldivians were once Buddhists but converted to Islam in the 12th century. Today Islam is the state religion, and liquor is forbidden except on islands reserved for foreign tourists. The people are descendants of Veddas, Sinhalese and Dravadians from India and Sri Lanka, and Arab and Negro settlers. The official language is Divehi, an ancient form of the Sinhalese spoken today in Sri Lanka, but English is widely used. The literacy rate is 83 percent, one of the highest in South Asia. THE LAND _ The nation is an archipelago of about 1,200 coral islands and about 800 islets in the Indian Ocean. Only 210 of the islands are inhabited. The country lies 500 miles southwest of Sri Lanka and about the same distance south of India. The islands lie close to the oil tanker shipping lanes from the Persian Gulf. The nation is 175 square miles, and the total area including lagoons is 20,000 square miles. Most of the islands are less than a mile long. Only two islands are three miles long. THE HISTORY _ The Maldives was a hereditary sultanate until 1968 when it was declared a republic. The islands were under British colonial rule from 1887 until independence in 1965. In 1968, Sultan Ahmed Farid Didi was replaced as leader by his prime minister, Ibrahim Nasir, who subsequently was named president. In 1978 Nasir surprised his countrymen with an announcement that he would retire after 21 years as prime minister or president. Maumoon Abdul Gayoom was elected to succeed Nasir and was re-elected in 1983and 1988. THE GOVERNMENT _ The president is the head of state and is elected by universal suffrage every five years. Gayoom has sought to steer policy of non-alignment with the superpowers. As transport minister before becoming president, he led a successful campaign to prevent the Soviet Union from leasing an old British air base in the Maldives. THE ECONOMY _ Fishing accounts for 23 percent of the gross domestic product, while tourism accounts for 17 percent. Coconut, millet and fruits are grown. Per capita income is $475 a year. AP881103-0068 AP-NR-11-03-88 1027EST r i PM-Iran-Iraq 11-03 0301 PM-Iran-Iraq,0311 Iran Charges Iraq Using POW Issue To Delay Withdrawal GENEVA (AP) Iran today accused Iraq of using humanitarian issues to delay withdrawing its troops from Iranian territory and said all war prisoners could have been repatriated by next week if Iraq had cooperated. Iran's foreign minister, Ali Akbar Velayati, was reacting to Iraqi allegations that Iran was delaying the exchange of prisoners of war. Iraq has offered to release its more than 30,000 prisoners if Iran would do the same. The two sides have been at war since September 1980. In refusing to accept an immediate exchange of prisoners, Iran said it already has agreed in principle to a U.N. proposal that links the prisoner exchange to military disengagement. Velayati said that because of continued Iraqi occupation of Iranian territory, hundreds of thousands of Iranians continue to be homeless. He spoke to reporters after meeting with the president of the International Committee of the Red Cross, Cornelio Sommaruga. Velayati renewed Iran's offer to release immediately all sick and wounded prisoners as well as civilian detainees ``on a reciprocal basis.'' A U.N. cease-fire resolution calls for the countries to withdraw forces ``to internationally recognized boundaries without delay.'' Dispute over the definition of their common border has been stalling peace talks, which began Aug. 25. Iran claims that 400 square miles of Iranian territory are still occupied by Iraqi forces. ``It is indeed regrettable that Iraq has turned the humanitarian issue into a diplomatic tool to cover up and prolong its occupation of Iranian territory,'' Velayati said in a prepared statement. ``Had Iraq accepted the original timetable for implementation of resolution 598, all POWs would have been released and repatriated by this coming Tuesday,'' he said. Iraq claims that Iraqi territory of unspecified size is held by the Iranians. AP881103-0069 AP-NR-11-03-88 1030EST r i PM-Palau-President 11-03 0283 PM-Palau-President,0291 Early Returns Indicate Four-Man Race For Presidency By HOWARD GRAVES Associated Press Writer KOROR, Palau (AP) Four men, including incumbent Thomas O. Remengesau, were locked in a close battle in early election returns tonight to become this Western Pacific island state's third elected president. With 13.5 percent of Wednesday's vote counted, two state governors, Roman Tmetuchl and Ngiratkel Etpison, held slim leads over Remengesau and traditional High Chief Yutaka M. Gibbons. Three other candidates in the field of seven, the largest number to seek the office since constitutional government was adopted eight years ago, lagged far behind. Election officials said 8,000 votes remained to be counted in Palau, with some 600 absentee ballots expected from Guam, Hawaii and Saipan. After 14 hours of hand counting 1,501 paper ballots, the unofficial totals among the top four vote-getters were: Tmetuchl, 428, or 28.5 percent; Etpison, 364, 24.2 percent; Gibbons, 246, 16.4 percent, and Remengesau, 196, 13 percent. Remengesau, 55, has been in office less than three months. He is filling out the unexpired term of Lazarus Salii, who died Aug. 20 from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head. This is Remengesau's first run for the presidency. Tmetuchl, 62, a wealthy businessman, and Gibbons, 44, were unsuccessful candidates for president in 1980 and 1984, both of which were won by Jaruo I. Remeliik. Salii succeeded Remeliik, who was assassinated in 1985. Epitson, 63, a wealthy businessman, is making his first run at national office. Palau, a string of tiny, isolated islands 600 miles east of the Philippines and 4,500 miles southwest of Hawaii, is the world's largest trusteeship, established in 1947 by the United Nations. The United States administers its affairs. AP881103-0070 AP-NR-11-03-88 1032EST u i PM-Israel 3rdLd-Writethru a0518 11-03 0770 PM-Israel, 3rd Ld - Writethru, a0518,0789 Shamir's Likud Bloc Bargaining With Orthodox Parties Eds: Subs 2 grafs for 3rd pvs, ``Labor and...'' to UPDATE with Labor considering ousting Peres. Pickup up 4th graf pvs, ``Prime Minister...'' By DAN IZENBERG Associated Press Writer JERUSALEM (AP) Leaders of the National Religious Party today ruled out a coalition with the left-leaning Labor Party and said they preferred joining a government headed by the right-wing Likud bloc. The move by the five-seat party boosted Likud's chances of forming a government without Labor, its main rival. Likud took a narrow victory in Tuesday's parliamentary elections over Labor, which today appeared increasingly pessimistic over its chances of forming a government. Labor sources today said party officials are considering ousting Shimon Peres as its leader because of the party's poor showing. Labor and Likud need the support of the religious parties, kingmakers despite their small size, to control a majority of seats in parliament. The right-oriented Orthodox parties advocate banning practices favored by Israel's secular majority. Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir, the Likud leader, today opened coalition talks with two secular right-wing parties. The Tzomet (Crossroads) and Moledet (Homeland) parties, which each won two seats, call for the annexation of the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip. Moledet also demands the ouster of the 1.5 million Palestinians living in the occupied lands, a policy its refers to as ``transfer.'' Likud officials have said Moledet's expulsion platform could be an obstacle to it joining a Likud-led coalition. The Moledat leader, former Gen. Rehavam Zeevi, said after meeting with Shamir and other Likud leaders that he would not insist that ``transfer'' be adopted as government policy if the party joined the government. ``There is a 99.9 percent chance for a Likud-led government,'' Zeevi told reporters. Peres, the foreign minister, met today with Labor's leftist allies Mapam, which won three seats; the Citizens' Rights Movement, which won five; and Shinui which won two. Likud and parties to the right won 46 seats while Labor and parties to the left won 48, fewer than the 61 needed to form a government. The Orthodox religious parties won 18 seats, an increase of four. The Orthodox community in Israel has been growing steadily because of a high birthrate and immigration. In contrast, the number of secular Israelis, always a large majority, has been dropping steadily because of a lower birthrate and emigration. Likud leaders said the Orthodox parties had an affinity for the Likud. ``We all feel clearly that we should go (into the government) together,'' Cabinet minister Moshe Katzav of Likud's negotiating team said after talks with religious leaders. Leaders of the National Religious Party said they ruled out joining a Labor-led coalition after disagreeing with Labor on foreign policy issues Wednesday. The religious party supports annexing the territories and increasing Jewish settlements, and opposes Labor's plan to hold peace talks with Arab states within an international conference. ``It looks like talks with the Labor have collapsed,'' Cabinet minister Yosef Shapiro of National Religious Party told Israel radio, adding that the party was much closer to Likud. ``I don't think there's a wide basis for continuing talks,'' agreed Rafi Edri, a member of Labor negotiating team. The Orthodox are demanding a long list of religious legislation including an amendment to the ``Who Is a Jew'' law stipulating that only Orthodox rabbis may convert non-Jews. The small religious parties have often battled with the Israeli's secular majority during the state's 40-year history. Avraham Shapira, a legislator for Agudat Israel, told Israel Television his party would ban movies and soccer games on the Jewish Sabbath, from sundown Friday to sundown Saturday. The issue of films and soccer games on the Sabbath has been a source of great tension among religious and secular Israelis, provoking clashes outside movie houses last year. During the election campaign, Labor pledged to oppose changing the ``Who Is a Jew'' law because it would undermine the status of thousands of people in the United States and other countries who were converted to Judaism by Conservative or Reform rabbis. Likud is not saying how far it is willing to go in embracing Orthodox demands. But it has in the past said it would support the amendment to the ``Who Is a Jew'' law. Likud governed the last four years with the leftist Labor Party in an uneasy coalition, but both sides indicate no such power-sharing is now in the offing. Palestinian leaders have sharply condemned the election outcome. More than 300 Palestinians and 10 Israelis have died in the nearly 11-month-old uprising against Israeli rule in the occupied lands. AP881103-0071 AP-NR-11-03-88 1040EST r i PM-Austria-Attack 11-03 0287 PM-Austria-Attack,0297 Firebomb Destroys Monument Recalling Nazi Terror VIENNA, Austria (AP) A firebomb thrown by a young man riding a bicycle today destroyed a controversial monument built by a German-American sculptor to recall Nazi terror in the southern Austrian city of Graz, police said. Local radio and newspaper reporters said the wooden monument, put up in the city center three weeks ago for an exhibition, has been defaced before. Graz was a Nazi stronghold when Austria was incorporated into Adolf Hitler's Third Reich in 1938. The obelisk by German-American sculptor Hans Haacke was built around a pillar honoring the Virgin Mary. The wooden obelisk, covered with a cloth bearing the Nazi eagle emblem, recalled a ``pillar of victory'' put up by the Nazis in 1938 near the Virgin Mary pillar. Unlike the Nazi monument, Haacke's structure had at its foot a list of the number of Jews, gypsies, prisoners and political opponents murdered by the Nazis in Styria province, of which Graz is the capital. Previous attacks on the monument prompted city authorities to guard the monument at night, police said. But the guard failed to stop the pre-dawn firebomb attack. A young cyclist was seen racing from the scene after he hurled the firebomb at the structure, setting it afire. Police said the monument was destroyed, and some damage spread to the pillar honoring the Virgin Mary. Peter Vujica, director of the ``Styrian Autumn'' arts festival for which the monument was built, told Austrian radio the attack was ``regrettable.'' ``There is some kind of crisis of confidence in a town when a memorial becomes an object of shame,'' Vujica said. ``But I hope Graz will not get the label `Nazi city' again. It isn't.'' AP881103-0072 AP-NR-11-03-88 1050EST u i PM-Poland 3rdLd-Writethru a0534 11-03 0750 PM-Poland, 3rd Ld - Writethru, a0534,0767 Thousands Chant For Solidarity As Thatcher Visit's Slain Priest's Grave LaserPhoto NY6 Eds: New thruout to UPDATE with ceremony at priest's grave, Mrs. Thatcher meeting with Jaruzelski. No pickup. By MAUREEN JOHNSON Associated Press Writer WARSAW, Poland (AP) Crowds chanted ``Solidarity! Solidarity!'' today while British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher laid a wreath at the grave of a pro-Solidarity priest who was slain by state police. The ceremony, on the second day of an official visit, marked the British leader's most open demonstration of sympathy toward opponents of Poland's communist government. Immediately afterward, she began her first meeting with the Communist Party chief, Gen. Wojciech Jaruzelski. Earlier, Mrs. Thatcher met with Poland's prime minister but did not respond to his appeal for Western aid to help Poland's economy, an aide said. Mrs. Thatcher's silence apparently reflected her cool response to general suggestions, initiated by West Germany last month, that West European governments give unconditional aid. The wreath-laying came during a hectic day of official talks and sightseeing. Mrs. Thatcher's three-day visit is the first by a British prime minister to this Soviet bloc country. About 2,000 people packed the graveside near the St. Stanislaw Kostka Roman Catholic Church. The church is a stronghold of the banned Solidarity trade union federation and the parish of the Rev. Jerzy Popieluszko. He was slain in 1984 by four secret policemen who were later imprisoned. Their hands raised in a V-for-victory sign, the Solidarity salute, the crowd broke into a traditional hymn, ``God Watches Over Poland,'' after Mrs. Thatcher placed the wreath of roses, lilies and irises on the tombstone. She also spoke with Popieluszko's parents, Marianne and Wladyslaw. ``We are extremely grateful that she found the time to come here,'' said Mrs. Popieluszko. ``We know that deep in her heart she has been with our beloved son. We know she supports people suffering in Poland.'' Church stewards held Solidarity banners. A giant red-and-white banner hung from the church railings declared, ``Solidarity was and will be.'' Since her arrival Wednesday, Mrs. Thatcher has been greeted warmly by Poles. Security police shoved back crowds who thronged Mrs. Thatcher while she toured a market of state-owned stalls today. Shoppers reached out and kissed her hand, a teen-ager pushed an autograph book at her, and several women wept with emotion as hundreds in the market cried ``Bravo!'' and ``Maggie, Maggie, Maggie!'' Earlier, Mrs. Thatcher met with Prime Minister Mieczyslaw F. Rakowski. A British official said Rakowski complained that Poland's $39 billion foreign debt is ``like a noose round our necks'' and appealed for Western help. ``The prime minister did not respond,'' said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity. The prime ministers also met Wednesday. The British view is that the International Monetary Fund _ to which Poland has appealed _ and the Paris Club of leading Western creditor nations should decide on debt rescheduling and other aid and make it strictly conditional on austerity package of economic reform. Before meeting Rakowski, Mrs. Thatcher went to Warsaw's Victory Square and laid a wreath on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. A small crowd watched in icy temperatures in light snow. She later watched an emotional film of the Nazi invaders razing Warsaw during World War II in reprisal for a popular uprising. On Wednesday, Jarulzelski issued a veiled warning to the British leader not to interfere in Poland's tense politics. ``I hope Mrs. Thatcher will allow us to tackle our own problems in a sovereign way, using our own methods and instruments,'' he said in a British television interview. It was the first official warning to the Conservative Party prime minister, hailed by Polish government leaders for her rigorous economic policies and by Solidarity for her anti-communist views. In the Baltic port of Gdansk, where Mrs. Thatcher planned to travel Friday for a meeting with Solidarity leader Lech Walesa, nearly the entire 10,000-member workforce of the Lenin Shipyard rallied Wednesday. The workers vowed to fight the government's decision to close the yard where Solidarity was born during a 1980 strike wave. Mrs. Thatcher will be the first Western leader to make the trip to meet Walesa at his headquarters in Gdansk. The government said Monday it planned to close the Lenin Shipyard on Dec. 1 for economic reasons, though Walesa called the move an attempt to weaken Solidarity. The yard would be the first large enterprise shut down in a new goverment attempt to revive a limping economy. AP881103-0073 AP-NR-11-03-88 1100EST r a PM-BabySwap 11-03 0323 PM-Baby Swap,0335 Amended Lawsuit Filed In Baby Swap Case WAUCHULA, Fla. (AP) A Pennsylvania couple who claim they lost their daughter in a hospital baby-swap 10 years ago now say they won't necessarily seek custody of the Florida girl they believe is theirs, their lawyer says. In an amended lawsuit filed Wednesday in state court, Ernest and Regina Twigg of Langhorne, Pa., said they still want a judge to order a genetic test to determine the biological parents of 9-year-old Kimberly Mays of Sarasota. The suit omits a previous contention that the child lacks a stable home life. The girl lives with her father, Robert W. Mays. Her mother is dead. Because of the amended lawsuit, a hearing set for Friday on the original request for a blood sample from the girl was postponed. No new date was set. The amended suit will streamline the proceedings, according to John Blakely and William Post, attorneys for the Twiggs. ``We did not make any allegations that we felt were unnecessary'' for the judge to decide whether or not to order the genetic test, Blakely said. The original suit, filed in October, said the Twiggs would seek custody of Kimberly if she proved to be their biological daughter. But Blakely said Wednesday that the Twiggs want to find the girl first and then investigate her lifestyle before deciding, on the basis of what they believe is the child's best interest, whether to seek custody. Mays last month insisted he is Kimberly's real father and will not give up the child under any circumstances. The Twiggs filed a $100 million federal lawsuit in September against Hardee Memorial Hospital, three doctors and a nurse, alleging their healthy daughter was switched shortly after birth with a child with a heart defect. The child raised by the Twiggs, named Arlena, died in August. A genetic test conducted in the summer proved she was unrelated to either Twigg. AP881103-0074 AP-NR-11-03-88 1102EST r a PM-Schools-Beepers 11-03 0170 PM-Schools-Beepers,0175 New York Schools Ban Beepers in Drug Curb Effort NEW YORK (AP) Student drug dealers in the city's schools will no longer be able to receive messages on their beepers. Schools Chancellor Richard R. Green said Wednesday that all beepers would be confiscated beginning this week but that no other penalty would be imposed. Several other big-city districts, including Baltimore and Detroit, have also curbed or banned student use of the devices. ``Telephone paging devices, known as beepers, are often used in connection with drug trafficking and drug sales,'' Green said in a memo to the Board of Education. The board's safety office issued a directive two years ago instructing its security staffs to bring any student with a beeper to the principal's office to find out why the student had it. Green's memo said it was time to expand that directive. Victor Herbert, head of the board's high school division, said many high schools already had banned beepers, some as long as three years ago. AP881103-0075 AP-NR-11-03-88 1103EST r i PM-Turkey-BusCrash 1stLd-Writethru a0493 11-03 0148 PM-Turkey-Bus Crash, 1st Ld - Writethru, a0493,0147 29 People Die In Bus Crash Eds: New throughout to UPDATE with 29 dead. No pickup. SAKARYA, Turkey (AP) A bus collided with a truck on a fog-bound stretch of the Istanbul-Ankara highway today, killing 29 passengers, including a Japanese and 10 Iranians, authorities said. The 18 other victims were Turks, and two Iranians and eight Turks were injured, said Sakarya prosecutor Ercivan Tumay, who is in charge of the case. The semi-official Anatolia news agency earlier had put the death toll at 26, saying most of the victims were Japanese and Iranian. Tumay said in a telephone interview that the accident occurred when two trucks were trying to pass on the highway about 6 a.m. The bus was headed for Istanbul. The trip began Wednesday in the eastern city of Erzurum near the Iranian border, Tumay said. AP881103-0076 AP-NR-11-03-88 1102EST u p PM-Bush 3rdLd-Writethru a0543 11-03 0824 PM-Bush, 3rd Ld-Writethru, a0543,820 Bush Denies Racism Underlies Campaign Tactics Eds: INSERTS new graf after pvs 13th graf bgng, Speaking two, on Bush comments at Columbus rally; should stand for PM cycle. By RITA BEAMISH Associated Press Writer COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) Republican George Bush branded as ``grossly unfair and untrue'' today suggestions that his campaign tactics were racially motivated, and rejected attacks on running mate Dan Quayle's civil rights record. The vice president vowed during an interview on NBC-TV's ``Today'' show to ``leave the tired baggage of bigotry behind.'' Bush heatedly denied that his relentless attacks on Democratic rival Michael Dukakis over the Massachusetts prison furlough program had racist overtones in citing the case of Willie Horton Jr., a convicted black murderer who escaped from a 1986 furlough and raped a white Maryland woman. ``There is no bigotry,'' the GOP nominee said in the live half-hour interview. ``I oppose that furlough program ...'' ``But to go out as my opponent did ... and try to assign me something that is not in my heart, this charge of racism, is grossly unfair and untrue,'' Bush said. Bush did not directly challenge interviewer Bryant Gumbel's statement that Quayle's civil rights record was ``terrible.'' Gumbel asked Bush whether voters would be getting the Bush who supported early civil rights legislation in Congress or the one who selected Quayle, ``who has a terrible civil rights record.'' ``You're going to get both,'' Bush said, ``because I stand by my record on Dan Quayle and I don't like these attacks on his integrity or his civil rights or anything else.'' Bush called himself a man who ```was out front for civil rights and I will be again.'' He added: ``I don't have one ounce of bigotry in my body, nor does my running mate.'' The vice president said that ``even though a lot of civil rights leaders automatically endorse whoever the Democratic candidate is, I think most of them know in their hearts that I am a decent, honorable person who cares about race relations and will leave the tired baggage of bigotry behind.'' On the economy, Bush said spurring economic growth was his answer to reducing the federal budget deficit and fulfilling his promises to boost spending for some government programs without cutting defense outlays or raising taxes. Speaking two days after the government reported another sluggish performance by the econoy in September, the vice president said his proposals would be made possible by future economic growth at a 2.8 percent rate. ``I hope it will grow at even more, and if it does you've got tremendous revenues coming into the federal government,'' he said. Later, addressing a rally in downtown Columbus before he flew to Chicago, the GOP nominee said he was discounting the polls and political pundits ``who are telling us what we think.'' He said ``it's the people who will decide'' the outcome of next Tuesday's balloting. As national polls showed him holding onto a double-digit lead over the Massachusetts governor, a hoarse-voiced and buoyant Bush insisted Wednesday that he was campaigning all-out until the election. ``Ys things look pretty good nationwide, but I'm going to out-hustle that liberal governor,'' he told a high school rally in Lansing. The rest of his schedule today called for rallies in Illinois, Ohio and New Jersey, all significant electoral-vote states where the race is close. Press Secretary Sheila Tate said the campaign was keeping its strategy options open but for the most part Bush will hold a series of rallies in battleground states, and will stress some of the themes that he outlined in a wide-ranging speech Tuesday at Notre Dame University. On Friday, the campaign will begin airing two new commercials nationwide _ both positive spots rather than attack ads _ with Bush talking about ``the reasons he's running for president,'' said campaign manager Lee Atwater. On Wednesday, Bush stumped in Illinois and Michigan at three raucus rallies, two of them at high schools. Illinois has 24 electoral votes, Michigan 20. Bush stole Dukakis' ``On your side'' slogan when he talked about differences between himself and the Democrat. At the rally at Lansing Catholic Central High School, Bush told the students to tell their parents ``George Bush is on your side of the Great Divide.'' Bush said the differences between him and Dukakis ``are as deep and wide as the Great Divide,'' another term for the mountain watershed known as the Continental Divide. ``And I represent the mainstream, the mainstream views, the mainstream values, and they are your values and my values and the values and values of the vast majority of the American people,'' Bush told a rally in Grand Rapids, Mich., where he was introduced by former President Gerald Ford. ``If I win the election, it will be a mainstream mandate,'' he said. Despite his consistent lead in the polls, Bush tells each audience that he is running like he's 10 points behind. AP881103-0077 AP-NR-11-03-88 1105EST r i PM-Germany-France 11-03 0187 PM-Germany-France,0191 Mitterand In West Germany For Talks With Kohl BONN, West Germany (AP) French President Francois Mitterrand arrived in Bonn today for two days of talks with West German leaders expected to focus on forging a joint diplomatic policy toward the Soviet bloc. After Mitterrand's plane landed at Cologne-Bonn Airport, he left for the federal chancellery in Bonn for talks with Chancellor Helmut Kohl. He was also slated to meet with President Richard von Weizsaecker and attend a dinner being held in his honor at Schaumburg Palace in Bonn. During their talks, Kohl and Mitterrand were to discuss a wide range of topics, including initiatives toward more European economic cooperation and joint diplomatic efforts with the Soviet bloc. Kohl was also expected to brief Mitterrand on his recent talks with Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev and other Kremlin officials. Relations with Moscow and a common policy toward the Soviet Union were to top the agenda for the 52nd French-German summit, according to West German officials. Kohl visited Moscow last month for wide-ranging talks with Gorbachev. Mitterrand is scheduled to visit Moscow later this month. AP881103-0078 AP-NR-11-03-88 1113EST r w PM-NaylorResigns 11-03 0389 PM-Naylor Resigns,390 Naylor to Resign as Farm Credit Chief By MIKE ROBINSON Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) Frank Naylor will resign as chairman of the Farm Credit Administration effective Nov. 10, an agency spokesman said today. The 49-year-old Naylor plans to announce at a luncheon Friday his departure from the regulatory agency to join a newly formed Washington consulting company, Agri-Credit Inc., spokesman Bill Hendrix said. Naylor was named to head the Farm Credit Administration in May 1986 when the Farm Credit System was in the throes of fearsome financial crisis that saw $4.8 billion in loans turn sour in just one year. The money crisis that swept over rural America in the 1980s has frequently been pinpointed as the culprit, along with slack management that locked the system into high overhead and capital costs. Since then, the network has returned to the black and regained a measure of stability, in part because of legislation that opened the door to an overhaul of the system and provided it with a $4 billion line of credit with the federal Treasury. But the system of 24 major banks and more than 1,000 local lending institutions, a bulwark of U.S. agriculture since its founding in 1912, has shrunk from a loan portfolio of $80 billion to one of $50 billion. The $2 billion Federal Land Bank in Jackson, Miss., closed because of insolvency. Naylor has been an official in four Republican administrations. During the Carter administration, he held a position at the Sacramento, Calif., Federal Land Bank. He was appointed by President Reagan as head of the Farm Credit Administration's three-member board after a stint as undersecretary of agriculture for small community and rural development, a post that placed him in charge of the Farmers Home Administration. He represented the Reagan administration when Congress drew up 1985 legislation that tightened federal regulation of the Farm Credit System and transformed the Farm Credit Administration from a sort of unofficial lobbying agency for the system into an arm's-length regulator. More extensive legislation approved in 1987 has spawned a so-called ``Farmer Mac'' secondary market in farm real estate loans under which banks and insurance companies are able to sell debt to investors. Hendrix said U.S. Agri-Credit would provide training, consulting and other services to commercial bankers interested in entering the secondary market. AP881103-0079 AP-NR-11-03-88 1114EST r a PM-AvtexFibers-NASA 1stLd-Writethru a0517 11-03 0559 PM-Avtex Fibers-NASA, 1st Ld - Writethru, a0517,0569 Supplier of Shuttle Fiber To Close Plant Today Eds: LEADS with 6 grafs to ADD quotes from company spokesman, indicate talks continuing today; PICKS UP 5th graf pvs, `On Wednesday ...'; SUBS 7th graf, `But the ...' to change Peacekeeper to MX missile. By DIRK BEVERIDGE Associated Press Writer FRONT ROYAL, Va. (AP) Avtex Fibers Inc. today began closing its plant today as the government worked to avert the shutdown of the sole supplier of rayon yarn used in space shuttle rocket nozzles. Morton Thiokol Inc., the maker of space shuttle motors, said Avtex had produced enough of the yarn for the next 10 shuttle launches. ``Employees are being released from their jobs as their jobs are completed,'' Avtex spokesman Nick Nichols said from Washington. ``People will be working for the next couple of days to shut it down and secure it. ``Production, for all intents and purposes, is stopping today. By midnight tonight, production will cease,'' he said. Morton Thiokol was talking today with Avtex, as were NASA, the Pentagon and other contractors, in hopes of finding a way for production to continue uninterrupted. No details were available on the talks today. Avtex, based in Valley Forge, Pa., announced this week it was closing its plant here today, idling 1,300 workers. It said it suffered big losses because of the Challenger disaster, which grounded shuttle flights for 2{ years. On Wednesday, Morton Thiokol said it had determined enough of the fiber was already made for shuttle launches through December 1989. ``We have enough material on hand or on order for 11 flights out of our current contract of 13,'' said Rocky Raab, a Morton Thiokol spokesman in Ogden, Utah. ``But the number will be 10 now, since we've flown Discovery.'' But the spokesman could not say how much of the fiber was available for numerous military rockets the compnay produces, including the small ICBM, the MX missile and the HARM and Standard tactical missiles. ``Practically every project we have uses it in the nozzle,'' Raab said. ``It's safe to say billions of dollars of projects.'' Once Avtex makes the fiber, it is processed by three further layers of contractors who weave it and treat it to make it heat-resistant before rocket makers assemble it into nozzles. Avtex chairman John Gregg did not immediately return telephone queries about the progress of his company's talks with the government. ``I really don't know what the discussions are leading to,'' said Dave Drachlis, a spokesman at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala. ``I know the government and Avtex are discussing options and looking at what could be done.'' Neither contractors nor the government could say how long it would take to certify another manufacturer for the fiber if that were necessary. Avtex spokesman John Kelly in New York said the company could continue production only at the Front Royal plant. Avtex's other plant, in Lewistown, Pa., lacks the equipment, and the machinery in Front Royal cannot be moved, he said. Cheap imports and environmental problems had taken their toll for years on Avtex, Front Royal's dominant employer. On Wednesday, Avtex was hit by a $19.68 million lawsuit in which Virginia Attorney General Mary Sue Terry alleged the plant violated state water discharge levels 1,968 times over the past eight years. AP881103-0080 AP-NR-11-03-88 1131EST u p PM-Dukakis 3rdLd-Writethru a0526 11-03 0853 PM-Dukakis, 3rd Ld-Writethru, a0526,840 Dukakis Says He's `Sprinting For The Finish Line' Precede PHILADELPHIA Eds: Top 11 grafs new with Dukakis speech; pickup pvs 4th graf bgng, That assessment; DELETES last 3 pvs grafs bgng, Aides kept, to tighten. By DONALD M. ROTHBERG AP Political Writer FAIRLESS HILLS, Pa. (AP) Democratic nominee Michael Dukakis, declaring he is ``sprinting for the finish line'' in the presidential election, proposed today a federal, state and local alliance to combat drug use in the nation's schools. At a town meeting at Pennsbury High School in Bucks County, Dukakis said his proposed alliance ``will set for its goal drug-free schools in the 1990s in every community in the United States.'' Earlier, in an interview on the ``CBS This Morning'' television show, the Massachusetts governor insisted that up to 30 percent of the voters remain undecided with only five days remaining until Election Day. In an effort to overtake Republican presidential rival George Bush, Dukakis has focused heavily on combating drugs. He lambasted Bush on Wednesday for saying he would not automatically cut off foreign aid to nations that fail to cooperate with U.S. efforts to stem the flow of illegal drugs. Dukakis shifted the focus today to the need for comprehensive measures to discourage drug use, especially among young people. He outlined a program that would include drug education starting in kindergarten and creation of community advisory councils to coordinate local efforts. The Democratic nominee said he would advocate making such councils ``permanent, not just something to do this year.'' They would include educators, parents, children and leaders of business, sports and the media. He also called for special grants targeting ``high-risk kids and high-risk communities.'' A fact sheet distributed by Dukakis aides said the program would have a federal commitment of $400 million. In his TV interview earlier today, Dukakis claimed that ``we are either tied or moving ahead'' in the major states essential to his hopes of scoring an upset victory over Bush. That assessment is contradicted by many public opinion polls which suggest that Dukakis still has a lot of ground to make up. On his 55th birthday, the Massachusetts governor was hammering away at Bush on the issue of drugs which he said marked a clear difference between him and Bush. As for the tougher tone of his rhetoric, Dukakis said he had been ``a little too restrained, perhaps,'' earlier in the campaign. Voters are ``taking a very strong second look at me,'' he said. Dukakis often has compared the presidential campaign to a marathon race. ``This one is going to go down to the wire,'' he said today. ``... We're sprinting for the finish line and we hope and expect that we're going to win.'' At rallies Wednesday in Chicago and Philadelphia, Dukakis quoted Bush as saying he wouldn't strip U.S. foreign aid from countries that refused to cooperate in efforts to stem the flow of drugs. ``I'll be damned if I'll let those countries send their poison into the United States of America,'' he said, using unusually strong language. ``I'll say to foreign leaders, if you're prepared to work with us, we'll work with you,'' he went on to the cheers of partisan crowds. ``But if you're against us don't expect a dime from American foreign aid.'' Bush spokesman Mark Goodin, responding to Dukakis' comments, said the Democratic nominee has distorted the GOP nominee's position on the issue. ``The vice president would never hesitate to use aid as a lever on the war on drugs,'' Goodin said. Dukakis also returned to two of his favorite themes, the link between Bush and Panamanian ruler Manuel Antonio Noriega and Bush's plan to put his vice president, Indiana Sen. Dan Quayle, in charge of the war on drugs. The Democratic candidate said he would tell foreign leaders, ``If you think you can do to Mike Dukakis what Noriega did to George Bush, if you think we're going to risk our children's lives by putting somebody like Dan Quayle in charge of the war against drugs, then you're in for a big surprise on January 20, 1989.'' After a rally in Pittsburgh, Dukakis told reporters, that Bush was offering people ``a lot of talk and very little action.'' ``I don't think Mr. Bush is serious about the war against drugs,'' he said. At nearly every stop for two days, crowds sang ``Happy Birthday'' to the candidate who turned 55 today. His wife, Kitty, had planned to be with him for his birthday, but she was hospitalized in Minneapolis, recovering from a respiratory infection. Aides said she hoped to join him on Friday in Chicago. With time running out for his campaign, Dukakis was dogged by national polls released earlier this week showing him trailing Bush by up to 13 points. Dukakis told crowds to ignore the polls and encouraged them by saying that ``this is one election where millions of people are going to be looking and thinking and listening and they're not going to be making up their mind until very close to the moment when they go into that polling booth.'' AP881103-0081 AP-NR-11-03-88 1136EST u p PM-PoliticalRdp 2ndLd-Writethru a0547 11-03 0977 PM-Political Rdp, 2nd Ld-Writethru, a0547,980 Dukakis Says He's Catching Up; Bush Defends Civil Rights Record Eds: Updates with Dukakis appearance, new ads, subbing 6 grafs for grafs 9-15 pvs, With the ... he asked. ^By WILLIAM M. WELCH Associated Press Writer Michael Dukakis, contending he's catching up in major states, said today he's ready for a dash to the finish line as voters take ``a very strong second look at me.'' Front-runner George Bush defended his campaign against suggestions of racism. Five days from the election, the Democratic governor of Massachusetts and the Republican vice president took advantage of invitations to appear on morning network television programs to press their cases. On NBC's ``Today,'' Bush was asked about Democratic suggestions that his campaign had a racist tinge in that his speeches and commercials have emphasized the case of a black Massachusetts convict who escaped while on furlough and attacked a Maryland couple. ``There is no bigotry,'' Bush said. ``I oppose that furlough program ... but to go out as my opponent did ... and try to assign me something that is not in my heart, this charge of racism, is grossly unfair and untrue.'' ``I don't have one ounce of bigotry in my body, nor does my running mate,'' he said. ``Even though a lot of civil rights leaders automatically endorse whoever the Democraitc candidate is, I think most of them know in their hearts that I am a decent honorable person who cares about race relations and will leave the tired baggage of bigotry behind.'' Dukakis, in an interview on ``CBS This Morning,'' shrugged off national polls showing him well behind, saying that ``we are either tied or moving ahead'' in major states he needs to score an upset victory. He said 20 percent to 30 percent of voters have not finally decided for whom to vote, and he contended that as decision time nears they ``are taking a very strong second look at me.'' Dukakis, celebrating his 55th birthday today, said, ``This one is going to go down to the wire. ... We're sprinting for the finish line and we hope and expect that we're going to win.'' Later, in Fairless Hills, Pa., Dukakis outlined a proposal for a federal, state and local alliance to combat drug use in the nation's schools. At a town meeting in Pennsbury High School, he said his President's Alliance Against Drugs ``will set for its goal drug-free schools in the 1990s in every community in the United States.'' He called for community advisory councils to coordinate local efforts, including educators, parents, children, business, sports and media leaders, with special grants targeting ``high-risk kids and high-risk communities.'' With the race for the White House down to less than a week, the campaigns were bringing out their final TV ads, including one in which President Reagan asks viewers to ``vote Republican up and down the ticket to continue the change we began in 1981.'' The Democrats contend in a new ad that they are the party of average working people while under the Republicans millions of U.S. jobs were ``shipped to workers overseas.'' Dukakis, in Chicago on Wednesday, assailed the Republicans' recent claim on Harry Truman's memory. ``Have they no shame?'' he asked. With Democrat Dukakis taking full advantage of national television interview invitations, Bush tossed another barb loaded with ``the L word,'' or liberal label. ``It seemed like he appeared on every television show except `Wheel of Fortune,''' Bush joked. ``You see, he was afraid that Vanna might turn over the L word.'' Vanna White is hostess on the popular game show. Still, Dukakis' television apperances prompted Bush to accept several of his own, including 30 minutes live on NBC's ``Today'' show today. The campaign grew more heated for the vice presidential candidates. Democrat Lloyd Bentsen blasted Bush for selecting Dan Quayle as his running mate. The choice, Bentsen said in Illinois, showed ``a real disdain, disregard for our country.'' Quayle found himself caught up anew in a controversy over abortion. While he ardently opposes abortion, even in cases of rape, Quayle told questioners he had no quarrel with a medical procedure known as dilation and curettage, or D-and-C, and said it would prevent conception if performed soon after rape. The medical procedure is considered by many in the field of gynecology as a means of terminating a pregnancy. Questions about abortion have hounded Quayle in recent days, particularly following his suggestion to a 12-year-old girl that she should go ahead and give birth in a theoretical situation in which she was raped by her father and became pregnant. Dukakis, with fatigue from his frenetic pace showing in his voice, campaigned with Jesse Jackson in Philadelphia late Wednesday night where the former Democratic candidate received a rousing reception. Dukakis, introduced by Jackson, sparked the crowd at Martin Luther King High School when he stressed his anti-apartheid theme. ``Nelson Mandela is still in jail and Manuel Noriega is still running Panama. It's time that changed,'' Dukakis said. He earlier unleashed some of his harshest rhetoric yet, blasting Bush for anti-drug efforts and saying a day before that he would not necessarily halt aid to nations that refuse to cooperate with U.S. anti-drug effort. ``If you're against us, don't expect a dime of American foreign aid,'' Dukakis said. ``I'll work with other countries, but I'll be damned if I will allow those countries to send their poison into the United States of America,'' Dukakis said. ``Maybe (Bush) thinks there are other things more important than the future of our children. ... I say you have to draw the line somewhere.'' Bush spokesman Mark Goodin, responding to Dukakis' comments, said the Democratic nominee has distorted the GOP nominee's position on the issue. ``The vice president would never hesitate to use aid as a lever on the war on drugs,'' Goodin said. AP881103-0082 AP-NR-11-03-88 1136EST u a PM-CadetsStricken 4thLd-Writethru a0548 11-03 0590 PM-Cadets Stricken, 4th Ld - Writethru, a0548,0605 Police Cadet Dies Six Weeks After Collapsing in Training Eds: LEADS with 8 grafs to UPDATE with attorney general calling for inquest; PICKS UP 9th graf pvs, `The director ...' By MICHELLE LOCKE Associated Press Writer BOSTON (AP) A police recruit who collapsed from heat stroke and dehydration Sept. 19 on the first day of boot camp-like training at an academy in Agawam has died, officials said today. Timothy M. Shepard, 25, of Pittsfield died late Wednesday, said Susan Ruth, a spokeswoman for Presbyterian-University Hospital in Pittsburgh. At the family's request, the hospital withheld word of his death until today. The cause of death awaited a coroner's report, Ms. Ruth said. Shepard was the sickest of the 16 cadets in a class of 50 who were hospitalized with exhaustion and dehydration following a grueling regimen of pushups, confusion drills and punishment laps under the direction of State Police drill instructors. Ten other cadets also suffered kidney ailments. Attorney General James Shannon today called for an inquest into Shepard's death, saying the family is entitled to a full explanation of his death. The Pittsfield Police Department recruit had lapsed back into a coma and underwent surgery for a blood clot on the brain Monday, five weeks after undergoing a liver transplant. ``The family is obviously devastated. He came so close to making it,'' said Michael D. Hashim, the lawyer for the Shepard family. Hashim called for the indictment of two State Police officers at the academy, saying the death was ``a clear-cut case of involuntary manslaughter.'' Last month, Shannon investigated the program and declined to bring charges. The director of the state Criminal Justice Training Council resigned Wednesday and his replacement immediately abolished the grueling training. ``We can never allow what happened at Agawam to happen again,'' said Peter W. Agnes Jr., who was appointed interim director upon the resignation of Gary F. Egan. The program's ``modified stress training'' combines constant exercise and unexpected situations during training and was partially blamed for the dehydration suffered by cadets that led to the illnesses. Shannon investigated after cadets reported they were pushed to the limits of their endurance with hours of laps, pushups and other exercises the first day of class on just a few small cups of water. He found the training was a ``massive failure'' that was to blame for the kidney ailments suffered by 26 cadets. Shannon said he would not prosecute but that the chief of the agency responsible for the training should resign or be dismissed. Shepard was hospitalized in critical condition after collapsing on a running track and underwent a liver transplant a week later. He gradually emerged from the coma and his condition was upgraded to serious last week, but he still was unable to breathe on his own or speak. Just two days before his relapse, Shepard wrote a note to his pregnant wife, Holly: ``I made it.'' The couple married in June. Friends remembered the young man, who had dreamed of being a police officer, as having a way with youngsters. ``He was just so nice, I couldn't see him arresting people,'' said James Mooney, executive director of the Pittsfield Boys' Club. His wife recalled how Shepard had run in a park near their home, borrowed law books from friends in the Police Department and practiced shooting so he could be ready for the training. ``He wanted to be tops at the academy,'' she said. ``He wanted to graduate No. 1 in his class.'' AP881103-0083 AP-NR-11-03-88 1140EST u p PM-HouseRaces 1stLd-Writethru a0419 11-03 0939 PM-House Races, 1st Ld-Writethru, a0419,890 Costs of House Campaigns Keeps Rising, But in Rural Kentucky ... Eds: SUB 11th graf to add Democratic control bgng ``Alexander says...; SUB 20th graf to CORRECT Lowey title to assistant secretary of state bgng ``The New York... By ALAN FRAM Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) Late last week, volunteers for Democrat Anna Eshoo finished door-to-door delivery of 110,000 copies of a video she produced as part of her $800,000 campaign for a House seat from California's Silicon Valley. At around the same time and nearly a continent away, 79-year-old Rep. William H. Natcher found a parking spot without a meter for his car in Franklin, Ky., clambered out and began the kind of campaigning he knows best: visiting the community's shops and talking to people on the street. Natcher, a Democrat and 35-year veteran of the House, as usual expects to spend about $5,000 in this year's re-election bid, all of it his own money. And he's expected to defeat Republican Martin Tori, a 48-year-old businessman who plans to spend $100,000. That kind of a race is a rarity among House campaigns, and while Eshoo's is the other extreme, it's closer to the norm in Congress these days. The San Mateo County supervisor plans to pour $800,000 into her campaign against Republican Thomas Campbell, a Stanford University law professor who will invest $1.1 million in the race, making this one of the most expensive of the 435 House contests. Campbell defeated Rep. Ernest Konnyu in the Republican primary, the only incumbent to lose such a contest this year. ``The amounts are outrageous, but our viability is tested out by how much money you raise,'' says the 45-year-old Eshoo. ``This is not the way it should be, but it's one of those unfortunate facts of life.'' Indeed, while the cost of living tripled between 1974 and 1986, the average cost of a House campaign increased nearly five-fold, from $53,384 to $260,032. Incumbents, who have a much easier time attracting contributions, outspent their challengers by an average of $334,223 to $124,739 two years ago, while each candidate for an open seat shelled out an average of $436,847. Everyone expects the amount to increase once again this year, and with it the money solicited from special interest groups and individuals. Herbert Alexander, a political science professor at the University of Southern California who specializes in campaign financing, says the mushrooming costs are caused by ``the professionalization of politics,'' a growing use of expensive technologies like computers and direct mailings and of lawyers, pollsters and other professionals. Alexander says the will to spend these amounts of money comes from candidates who increasingly see politics as lifelong careers. Well-stocked treasuries increasingly translate into re-election; very little movement is expected in the 255-177 Democratic-Republican split in the House. Three seats are vacant. ``Their ambitions are to stay in the House for 20 years, or to move up to the Senate or a governorship,'' he said. ``They want job security.'' In the Eshoo-Campbell 12th district race, the financial stakes have skyrocketed despite both candidates' decisions not to use television advertising, an expensive proposition in the San Francisco Bay area. Eshoo's video cost her $134,000, and she's spending most of the rest of her money on direct mail _ a widely used technique in California _ telephones, computers and a staff of 23 paid workers. Campbell is relying heavily on direct mail, radio advertising, computers and telephones, and has a smaller paid staff of 15. ``This is a very expensive district to get a candidate well-known,'' says Ronald Smith, a consultant to Campbell. ``He started out with zero name recognition.'' Other candidates have used videos before, but Eshoo's aides say no campaign tapes have ever been as widely distributed. They say with 80 percent of the district's residents owning VCR's, the novelty of the idea is likely to entice many voters to watch the cassette, which features the candidate talking and is called, ``Anna Eshoo Challenges the Sacred Cows.'' Campbell workers say their polls show that Eshoo has received little help from the tapes. ``It was a cute gimmick, but for that money she could have bought some nice television,'' sniffs Smith. The most expensive campaign in the country is being waged 200 miles to the south, where seven-term GOP Rep. Robert Lagomarsino, 62, is facing a spirited challenge from Democratic state Sen. Gary K. Hart, 48, in the state's 19th district. Each candidate was well-known when the race began, and each plans to spend about $1.2 million in a campaign that is relying heavily on television advertising and direct mail. Other expensive House races, according to campaign finance documents, are in: _The New York 20th district, where two-term GOP Rep. Joseph DioGuardi plans to spend about $1 million against former New York Assistant Secretary of State Nita Lowey, who has raised $747,000. _The Nebraska 2nd, an open seat where Republican Jerry Schenken, a pathologist, has spent $821,000 and Democratic former state Sen. Peter Hoagland has spent $600,000. _The Indiana 3rd, where GOP Rep. John Hiler has raised $689,000 and Democratic lawyer Tom Ward has garnered $403,000. No race this year is expected to eclipse the total $3 million that Rep. Matthew Rinaldo, R-N.J., and Democratic challenger Adam Levin spent in 1982. But Natcher says that from the lectures he gives entering House freshmen every two years, there's little doubt that campaign expenditures will keep rising. ``This last time, when I told them they should leave the money alone, I could tell by the expressions on their faces that they didn't agree with me,'' he said. AP881103-0084 AP-NR-11-03-88 1142EST u i PM-Israel-Peres 2ndLd-Writethru a0545 11-03 0466 PM-Israel-Peres, 2nd Ld-Writethru, a0545,0475 Labor Party Leaders Reportedly Seeking Peres' Ouster Eds: Adds 2 grafs after 5th graf pvs, ``But Peres...'' to UPDATE with reax from Peres aide. Pickup 6th graf pvs, ``Peres has...'' TRIMS from bottom. By ALLYN FISHER Associated Press Writer JERUSALEM (AP) Top Labor Party officials are considering ousting Shimon Peres as party leader because of Labor's poor showing in parliamentary elections, party sources and published reports said today. Five Israeli newspapers and Israel radio said as many as five ranking leaders in the left-leaning party have discussed a party shake-up in private consultations. A party official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, confirmed the reports and said Peres was under fire primarily for spearheading a campaign which focused too closely on his own personality and the need for an international peace conference. Shlomo Avineri, a political scientist and Labor activist, also confirmed the criticism of Peres. If the party doesn't head Israel's next government, ``there is going to be a groundswell in Labor to get rid of Peres,'' Avineri said in a telephone interview. An aide to a Labor minister who demanded anonymity said: ``There are voices in the party that believe the time has come for Peres to go.'' But Peres aide Yossi Beilin, who is also a newly elected legislator, denied that Peres' leadership is threatened. ``Certainly there is disappointment after the elections and some soul-searching,'' Beilin told Israel Television. ``I don't think there is any challenge to Peres' leadership. We have no other leader.'' Peres has led the party through four elections, losing three times and managing a tie in the 1984 parliament balloting. Some party members believe he has acquired a loser's image as a result. Election results gave Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir of the right-wing Likud bloc, which outscored Labor 39 seats to 38, a clear advantage in getting a majority of 61 seats in Israel's 120-seat Knesset, or parliament. Likud and parties to the right won 46 seats, while Labor and parties to the left won 48. The Orthodox religious parties won 18 seats, and have indicated a greater willingness to join a Likud government than one formed by Labor. Fueling the anti-Peres atmosphere was a report in the independent Hadashot daily that Shamir would consider forming a joint government with Labor only if Peres and his deputy, Cabinet Minister Ezer Weizman, are replaced. However, another Labor official said arranging a reshuffle and overcoming Peres' expected resistance would take too long and not be concluded before Likud built a coalition on its own. News reports have suggested Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin could replace Peres. Rabin, who served as prime minister from 1974-77, is more popular among right-wing Israelis because of his tough policies in suppressing the 11-month-old Palestinian uprising in the occupied territories. AP881103-0085 AP-NR-11-03-88 1143EST r a PM-NaziAllegations 11-03 0228 PM-Nazi Allegations,0234 Documents: Man Accused Of War Atrocities Was Guard In U.S. Army Eds: Edgars is cq. ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) A Minneapolis man accused of taking part in the execution of thousands of Latvians during World War II worked for the U.S. Army in West Germany after the war, the government disclosed in court documents. A lawsuit filed by the U.S. Justice Department alleges that Edgars Inde, 79, belonged to a unit known as the Arajs Commando, which executed 13,000 Latvians, most of them Jews, in 1941 after Nazi Germany invaded Latvia. The suit seeks to revoke Inde's citizenship, the first step toward deportation, for allegedly lying about his wartime activities when he came to the United States after the war. After the suit was filed Aug. 22, Inde denied having killed Jews. Documents related to the suit, filed Wednesday in U.S. District Court, said he was hired by the Army's Military Labor Service as a civilian guard in 1947 and worked for the Army until 1949, the year he came to the United States. He and his family moved to Minneapolis in 1952, and Inde became a citizen in 1955. The commando unit to which Inde is accused of belonging was formed in 1941 after Nazi Germany invaded Latvia, a onetime independent country that had been absorbed by the Soviet Union in 1940. AP881103-0086 AP-NR-11-03-88 1146EST u p PM-Bentsen 1stLd-Writethru a0429 11-03 0514 PM-Bentsen, 1st Ld-Writethru, a0429,490 Bentsen Hopes To Stir `Bubba' and `Yellow Dogs' Eds: SUBS pvs 4th graf bgng, The trip today, to CORRECT spelling to Sulphur instead Sulfur. By STEVEN KOMAROW Associated Press Writer LONGVIEW, Texas (AP) Lloyd Bentsen was hoping to round up support for Michael Dukakis and himself during a bus tour of East Texas, where Democrats abound but tend to be conservative. Bentsen knws the ticket is behind in the polls and struggling. To deliver his home state and its 29 electoral votes, he needs to bring in East Texas by a wide enough margin to offset Republican strength to the West in Dallas and the Texas panhandle. ``East Texas is right at the core of any Democratic strategy you have,'' said Joe O'Neill, Bentsen's chief of staff. Bentsen and Dukakis have both already visited the area, and the Democrats contend they've been making progress. The trip today includes stops in Longview, Mt. Pleasant, Paris and Sulphur Springs. To help get out the crowds, the senator planned to have at his side movie actor Rob Lowe and country music singer Gary Morris, an East Texas native. ``We're doing the maximum saturation of East Texas we can do in a day,'' he said. Traditionally Democratic, the area is full of voters known as ``yellow dogs'' because of the saying that they'd vote for a dog if it were a Democrat. But the area is also conservative, especially among the younger white voters and recently pundits have been referrng to that group as the ``bubba'' vote. The rural 1st Congressional District, which makes up the heart of the area, gave Ronald Reagan 61 percent of the vote in 1984. Democrats are confident Dukakis will do better, but the campaign has been hurt there by Republican advertising that paints the Massachusetts governor as soft on crime and defense, and in favor of taking people's guns away. Bentsen has been fighting those claims every day, calling them distortions and lies. ``I wouldn't be on the ticket with a fella who'd take my shotgun away,'' he said, reminding crowds that he's a quail hunter _ a pun aimed at George Bush's running mate, Dan Quayle. Bentsen has been stepping up his attacks on Quayle again lately. Campaigning in Illinois, Ohio and West Virginia on Wednesday, Bush blasted at Quayle at every stop. ``I'd like to have George Bush here and ask him ... `Did you pick the very best person?''' he said at a rally in a steel plant at Massillon, Ohio. Democratic polls indicate the Indiana senator remains an issue that could turn a close election in their favor, said Tad Devine, a senior adviser to Dukakis who has been coordinating the Bentsen half of the ticket from the Boston headquarters. Devine was traveling with Bentsen this week to aid in the campaign's efforts to get maximum television exposure for Bentsen. The Dukakis campaign considers him a major asset and took the unprecedented step last weekend of buying five minutes of network television time for a statement by their vice presidential pick. AP881103-0087 AP-NR-11-03-88 1156EST u a PM-MarcosBail 1stLd-Writethru a0469 11-03 0833 PM-Marcos Bail, 1st Ld - Writethru, a0469,0853 Prosecutors Threaten to Jail Marcoses on Contempt of Court Charges Eds: LEADS with 8 grafs to UPDATE with prosecutors threatening to find Marcoses in contempt, hearing scheduled; Picks up 4th graf, `I am ...'; No time available for hearing. LaserPhoto NY33 By JOHN M. DOYLE Associated Press Writer NEW YORK (AP) Federal prosecutors today threatened to seek contempt of court charges against Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos for failing to provide fingerprints, palm prints and handwriting and voice samples. A hearing was scheduled today before U.S. District Judge John Walker, who could order the former Philippine president and first lady jailed. Walker previously had ordered the couple to comply with the requests contained in subpoenas issued earlier this year by the grand jury that indicted them on charges of looting the Philippine treasury of more than $100 million. A federal appeals court late last month upheld Walker's decision that the Marcoses no longer have head-of-state immunity and must honor the subpoenas. On Wednesday, tobacco heiress Doris Duke said she put up Mrs. Marcos' $5 million bail on the racketeering charges because she is ``disgusted, embarrassed and ashamed'' with the way the U.S. government has treated the Marcoses. Virtually all of the couple's assets are frozen or otherwise tied up in litigation. ``I have always believed that an accused person is innocent until proved guilty. I wish the rest of America agreed with me,'' Miss Duke, 75, said in written response to questions submitted by the Daily News. Miss Duke, once called ``the richest girl in the world,'' said she would gladly testify as a character witness for the Marcoses, whom she said she considers her ``dear friends.'' ``I am disgusted, embarrassed and ashamed of my country's mistreatment of Imelda and her ailing husband, Ferdinand,'' Miss Duke wrote. ``Why should America spend millions and millions of dollars prosecuting two people who for a generation have been our closest allies, including our Pacific outpost against communism?'' A lawyer for Miss Duke, Donald Robinson, said Wednesday the wealthy recluse posted the bond ``because she knows that Mrs. Marcos didn't commit any crimes.'' Miss Duke, who has a 2,700-acre estate in New Jersey, pledged more than $5 million in municipal bonds on behalf of Mrs. Marcos. A lawyer for Mrs. Marcos said she planned to visit with Miss Duke through the weekend even though she would be free to return to Hawaii as soon as the bail paperwork was completed. U.S. District Judge John F. Keenan loosened travel restrictions for Mrs. Marcos _ previously confined to the New York area _ allowing her to travel between New York City and Newport, R.I., where Miss Duke has a mansion. Once the bail documents are signed, Mrs. Marcos will be allowed to travel anywhere in the United States. Her husband, however, cannot leave the island of Oahu without permission of the Justice Department, under a prior restriction. Lawyers said Miss Duke's bonds would be worth between $5.3 million and $5.4 million depending on market fluctuations. The exact types of bonds were not revealed. ``It was Miss Duke's idea to help,'' Robinson said after Wednesday's hearing conducted by Keenan. Mrs. Marcos, 59, who has been staying in an $1,800-a-day suite at the Waldorf Towers, did not attend the hearing. ``Like President Reagan, Miss Duke regrets the indictment,'' the lawyer said, referring to the president's comment after the Marcoses' racketeering indictment was announced last month. ``Mrs. Marcos is extremely grateful and was tearful when she learned of the offer,'' Robinson added. Mrs. Marcos flew to New York from the couple's home-in-exile in Hawaii aboard Miss Duke's lavishly appointed private jet. Prosecutors said the bail documents would have to be signed by Miss Duke, Mrs. Marcos and a clerk of the court as well as Keenan. Mrs. Marcos attorney John J. Tigue said his client ``plans to visit with Miss Duke this weekend in New Jersey and perhaps in Newport. She then will return to her ailing husband.'' Marcos, 71, remained in Hawaii, where the couple have lived since their ouster in a popular uprising in 1986. Defense attorneys argued last week that he was too frail to make the 10-hour flight. Keenan postponed Marcos' arraignment pending an examination by a government physician. Assistant U.S. Attorney Charles LaBella said the examination was completed Monday but the physician's report is not ready. In a statement issued Wednesday through an aide, Marcos blasted the way the press has covered the case. The media, he said, have ``declared President Ferdinand Marcos guilty of several charges filed against him. Whatever happened to the time-honored legal maxim that anyone is presumed innocent unless proven otherwise?'' The Marcoses are charged with racketeering, accused of plundering $103 million from the Philippine treasury, funneling it to foreign bank accounts and using it to buy prime New York City real estate and art. Their eight co-defendants _ including Saudi Arabian financier Adnan Khashoggi _ remained at large outside the country, said LaBella. AP881103-0088 AP-NR-11-03-88 1206EST u a PM-SushiWorms 11-03 0245 PM-Sushi Worms,0251 Doctors Say Intestinal Worm Illness Confused with Appendicitis BOSTON (AP) Raw or undercooked fish such as sushi can cause a serious intestinal illness often mistaken for appendicitis, doctors warned today. The disease, anisakiasis, is caused by eating fish infested with larvae of worms known as anisakid nematodes. Cooking kills the worms. The doctors said about 50 cases of aniskaiasis have been reported in the United States, but ``this may be the tip of the iceberg.'' Drs. James H. McKerrow and Judy Sakanari of the University of California, San Francisco, and Thomas L. Deardorff of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration described the infection in a letter in today's New England Journal of Medicine. The doctors said the emergence of the disease was partly due to the popularity of sushi and sashimi and lightly cooked fish. Salmon and pacific snapper are most commonly implicated in the disease. Another factor, they said, is the increasing number of seals, sea lions, and other marine mammals that harbor the parasites in their stomachs. The animals expel worm eggs in their feces, which are then eaten by other sea creatures, including fish. People who eat wormy fish sometimes cough up live worms or feel the worm in their throats, a condition known as ``tingling throat syndrome.'' In more serious cases, the worms burrow into the wall of the stomach or the intestines. They are removed by a tube that is pushed into the digestive system. AP881103-0089 AP-NR-11-03-88 1213EST r p PM-Koop-AIDS 11-03 0190 PM-Koop-AIDS,0199 Koop Hits California Ballot Measure On Reporting Of Positive AIDS Tests SAN FRANCISCO (AP) A ballot measure that would force doctors and blood banks to report the names of people who test positive for the AIDS virus could set AIDS research back five years, the nation's top health official says. Surgeon General C. Everett Koop said Proposition 102 ``would drive people who could participate in drug trials away from research and underground.'' ``Everything we have done may step backwards five years,'' he said in Wednesday's San Francisco Examiner. The proposition will be on the ballot Tuesday along with a measure that would allow judges to order AIDS tests for persons accused of sex crimes. The newspaper also reported the results of a poll of 600 registered voters that found that 41 percent of Californians favor Proposition 102, 28 percent oppose it and 31 percent are undecided. The margin of error was 4 points. ``There's no one in public health who supports this measure,'' said Koop, who has spoken out against the proposition in the past. ``It is contrary to every principle of public health I know.'' AP881103-0090 AP-NR-11-03-88 1216EST r i AM-BRF--SierraLeone 11-03 0157 AM-BRF--Sierra Leone,0161 Parliament Extends State of Economic Emergency FREETOWN, Sierra Leone (AP) A six-month extension of a state of economic emergency began Thursday after Parliament voted to continue the measure. Under the regulations announced in November 1987, anyone convicted of economic crimes such as smuggling, fraud or mismanagement of public funds faces stiff penalties. Eighty of the 114 members of the legislature voted in favor of the extension Wednesday and 34 abstained. Last month, Vice President Abu Bakar Kamara put out an international appeal for emergency food aid following floods he said had put the West African nation in a ``desperate situation.' Kamara also has said the country expects a shortfall of 207,000 metric tons this year in its rice harvest. Rice is Sierra Leone's staple food. In May, 32 civil servants and banking officials were arrested and charged with engaging in irregularities that caused the state to lose money. Some have been convicted. AP881103-0091 AP-NR-11-03-88 1216EST r i AM-BRF--Japan-Military 11-03 0118 AM-BRF--Japan-Military,0121 2,000 Rally Against U.S.-Japan Military Exercise TOKYO (AP) About 2,000 people demonstrated Thursday outside a military training site in northern Japan against a joint U.S.-Japan exercise. A police official said there were no reports of clashes. He said 1,600 people, some carrying banners reading ``Stop Military Exercises,'' took part in the rally, which was sponsored by an organization affiliated with the Japan Socialist Party, the country's biggest opposition party. About 400 other people joined a protest backed by the Japan Communnist party. A defense official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said about 1,800 Japanese and 1,800 American soldiers are taking part in three-day maneuvers involving 27 tanks and 30 helicopters. The exercise began Wednesday. AP881103-0092 AP-NR-11-03-88 1221EST r w PM-Reagan-Vetoes 1stLd-Writethru a0432 11-03 0738 PM-Reagan-Vetoes, 1st Ld-Writethru, a0432,730 Eds: First 4 grafs new with response to criticism, picking up 2nd graf pfs, ``This bill Reagan Announces Pocket Vetoes of Wilderness, Indian Bills By CAROLYN SKORNECK Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) The White House today defended President Reagan's veto of a wilderness bill against Democratic charges that the action was politically motiviated. ``In all these kinds of environmental questions, tradeoffs have to be considered, and this was a case where the administration felt that for a variety of economic and environmental reasons, it was best not to designate this area as wilderness,'' presidential spokesman Marlin Fitzwater said. ``The Department of Agriculture had recommended a veto from the beginning, so there wasn'tf where we stood on it,'' the spokesman said. The bill would have designated 1.43 million acres of Forest Service land in much question o Montan as protected wilderness. The Forest Service is an agency of the Agriculture Department. ``This bill was vetoed for petty politics, and that's all,'' Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., said Wednesday night, shortly after the White House announced Reagan's pocket vetoes of the wilderness bill and a second measure establishing a corporation to provide development capital to Indian businesses. ``This is an affront to the people of Montana,'' Baucus said in a statemes is likely to find it difficult to fulfill campaign pledges. Despite a relative success in agriculture, Venezuela's economy has been hard-hit by persistently low prices of oil, the nation's major source of export revenue. Oil has plunged from a high of $30 a barrel in the 1970s to its current level of around $13. Current prices on world markets continue to slump, a sharp contrast to the market boom during Perez' first term, when he nationalized the oil industry. The slide in oil prices this year alone may cost the nation as much as $3 billion in revenue, nearly a third of the $10.7 billion originally expected. Coupled with a foreign debt of $35 billion, Latin America's fourth largest after Brazil, Mexico and Argentina, a continuation of this trend may pose a heavy political and social burden to the government to be installed in February. According to official statistics, real income for the average Venezuelan family has shrunk by 20 percent since 1982, when oil prices began to fall. While less than 1.5 percent of the population enjoys 35 percent of the nation's income, 40 percent do not earn enough to cover their basic nutritional needs, according to a Venezuelan Central University report. Perez and Fernandez agree that drastic changes must be implemented to reverse this trend. But while Perez proposes to expand public sector expenditures as a means to boost the economy, Fernandez says he would rely more on the private sector. Rather than emphasizing their differences, both Perez and Fenandez have devoted most of their efforts trying to discredit each other. Intense hostility kicked off the early part of the campaign when both candidates accused each other of receiving campaign money from drug traffickers. The exchange of accusations ceased only when the Supreme Electoral Council, which supervises the campaign, called on Perez and Fernandez to avoid injurious attacks. AD and COPEI have traditionally alternated in power, with AD winning over COPEI four out of six times in the 30 years of civilian rule. Both parties together totalled 90 percent of the vote in the 1983 elections, won by the AD's Jaime Lusinchi, now the incumbent president. Twenty-one other candidates also are in the running, covering a wide range of the political and social spectrum. One is a witch doctor, Romulo Abreu Duarte, who professes a fervent belief in the legendary goddess Maria Lionza, descended, her devotees say, from a Spanish conquistador and an Indian princess. Others include the former pro-Castro guerrilla leader Teodoro Petkoff of the leftist Movement toward Socialism, and Ismenia Villalba of the centrist Democratic Revolutionary Union. Aware of the overwhelming strength of AD and Copei, the minor parties are aiming instead to win some of the 229 congressional seats at stake. Both Villalba, the first woman to ever run for president in Venezuela, and Petkoff expect to improve their parties' congressional strength, now respectively 11 and 9 seats. The tiny Venezuelan Communist Party is running in a coalition led by Edmundo Chirinos, former rector of Venezuelan Central University. AD and COPEI stand to lose considerable legislative power if the minor parties make gains in the congressional balloting, analysts say. AP881103-0093 AP-NR-11-03-88 1222EST r i AM-BRF--Taiwan-China 11-03 0153 AM-BRF--Taiwan-China,0158 Taiwan to Let Mainland Chinese Visit Sick Relatives TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) The government will ease a travel ban to let residents of China visit sick relatives in Taiwan or attend their funerals, the Interior Minister said Thursday. Starting Nov. 9, Chinese from the mainland can apply to visit their parents, spouses or children who are gravely ill or seriously injured, said the minister, Hsu Shui-teh. Visitors wanting to attend funerals of close relatives also will be allowed here, Hsu told a news conference. He said those allowed in Taiwan will be permitted to stay two months. The Chinese Nationalist government and about 2 million supporters fled to Taiwan in 1949 after losing a civil war to Communist forces on the mainland. Nationalist authorities have banned all official contact with the Communist government in Beijing but last year eased a travel ban to let Taiwan residents visit relatives in China. AP881103-0094 AP-NR-11-03-88 1222EST r i AM-BRF--HongKong-Vietnam 11-03 0142 AM-BRF--Hong Kong-Vietnam,0145 Vietnamese Boat People Denied Asylum HONG KONG (AP) The government said Thursday that 40 Vietnamese who sailed into this British colony seeking political asylum recently did not qualify as refugees and will be detained pending repatriation. Only one person in a group of 41 boat people was deemed a political refugee qualified for resettlement, according to a government statement. The others may appeal the decision to send them back to their Communist homeland. Hong Kong recently adopted a new policy toward boat people in an attempt to stem the increasing number of arrivals. Vietnamese who sailed into the colony after June 16 and cannot prove they are fleeing political persecution are considered illegal immigrants subject to repatriation. More than 25,000 Vietnamese are in Hong Kong camps, including nearly 10,000 who arrived since the new policy took effect. AP881103-0095 AP-NR-11-03-88 1227EST r i AM-BRF--MushroomDeaths 11-03 0096 AM-BRF--Mushroom Deaths,0098 12 Die After Eating Mushrooms ADANA, Turkey (AP) Twelve members of migrant worker families have died after eating poison mushrooms picked in southern Turkey, doctors said Thursday. The doctors, from Cukurova University Hospital in Adana province, said the victims came to the hospital Monday, four days after eating the mushrooms. Six of the dead were children, said the doctors. Four people who had eaten the mushrooms were gravely ill, they added. The migrants, who came to the region to pick cotton, found the mushrooms in the countryside, Turkish news agencies reported. AP881103-0096 AP-NR-11-03-88 1228EST r i AM-China 11-03 0500 AM-China,0515 Party Leader Says Local Governments Have Too Much Power By JIM ABRAMS Associated Press Writer BEIJING (AP) Communist Party General Secretary Zhao Ziyang told foreign businessmen that China's economic reforms erred in giving too much power to local governments rather than to local enterprises, sources said Thursday. Zhao also said in a meeting Wednesday with 80 participants in an international business forum that there will be a slowdown in new contracts with foreign companies as China imposes austerity measures to cool off its overheated economy. The sources, who attended the meeting, said Zhao emphasized the tightening of economic controls, to last at least two years, will have no effect on China's long-term commitment to reform. Zhao, China's foremost advocate of rapid reform, said the process of decentralizing controls over the economy had gone off-course in giving power to local governments rather than local enterprises. ``He was very tough on local governments,'' the sources, speaking on condition of anonymity, said. ``He said China wanted to correct the situation.'' A key to China's retrenchment program is Beijing's attempt to regain controls over loans, project approvals and foreign trade that it has ceded to local authorities in the past decade as it switched from central planning to a market-determined economy. Provincial and municipal governments have ignored Beijing's orders to cut spending and lending, and that has led to an excess of new construction projects, severe raw material shortages, unsustainable industrial growth and an inflation rate of more than 20 percent. Zhao also emphasized the contracts of foreign businessmen in China won't be affected by government orders to cancel hundreds of construction projects and stop exports of some materials. Zhao said China badly needs foreign investment, but will limit it to priority areas of energy, transportation, agriculture and other infrastructure development. The sources, however, said that in the three-day annual meeting of the Swiss-based World Economic Forum, Chinese officials acknowledged that some contracts will be canceled. They said all exports of non-ferrous metals will be halted, and indicated that grain exports will also be affected. Foreign businessmen at the forum said the Chinese have already refused to respect some export contracts for non-ferrous metals. The sources quoted Zhao as saying that political and economic fluctuations are normal in all countries and that foreigners should ``stop thinking we are different from other countries.'' He gave as an example of political changes the U.S. presidential election to take place next week and the just-concluded elections in Israel. China's decision to put the brakes on some economic reforms led to speculation that Zhao might have been overshadowed by the more cautious Premier Li Peng as the nation's top decision-maker on economic matters. There has been no indication, however, that Zhao is in political trouble as a result of the economic problems. Zhao said the Communist Party's role as the ruling political group will not change, but there will be a change in style under political reforms aimed at separating party and government functions. AP881103-0097 AP-NR-11-03-88 1228EST r w PM-US-Maldives 1stLd-Writethru a0452 11-03 0282 PM-US-Maldives, 1st Ld-Writethru, a0452,270 With PM-Maldives Eds: Inserts 2 grafs with White House comment after 2nd graf pvs U.S. Reviewing Maldives Request For Help WASHINGTON (AP) The United States is reviewing a request from the government of Maldives for help to repulse a coup attempt, U.S. officials said today. A request for help was received by the U.S. Embassy in Sri Lanka, which represents the United States in the tropical island chain some 400 miles away, said the officials, who declined to be named. At the White House, spokesman Marlin Fitzwater said, ``The exact status of the situation on the ground is a little uncertain. We have not provided any direct assistance of any kind at this point. The Maldives are friendly to the United States and we generally support them, but in terms of this existing situation, it appears to be resolving itself.'' In response to a question, Fitzwater said there had been no indirect U.S. assistance, either. The United States is also consulting with India, which has received a similar request for help, the officials said. ``We are reviewing the situation and discussing options with the Maldives' friends, mainly India,'' said one official. He said the United States does not have a presence on the Indian Ocean islands and is therefore short of information about the armed attack on government offices in the capital of Male. Fighting appears to be continuing around the national police headquarters, but the presidential palace appears to be in government hands, with the president inside, the official said. He said the situation is ``confusing and fluid'' and the United States had not decided what kind of help, if any, it would offer. AP881103-0098 AP-NR-11-03-88 1230EST r a PM-`Cathy'Canceled 11-03 0259 PM-`Cathy' Canceled,0267 Newspaper Owner Puts `Vote For Bush' In Place of `Cathy' CULLMAN, Ala. (AP) A newspaper owner dropped the comic strip ``Cathy'' for criticizing George Bush and replaced it today with a pro-Bush ad. Bob Bryan, publisher and owner of The Cullman Times and the Athens News Courier, said Wednesday that he would pay for the advertisement on the comics page. Bryan said he ``just took the panel out that would have been `Cathy' and right where `Cathy' has been, put in big type `Vote For Bush.''' After today, he said, he will replace ``Cathy'' with another strip. The popular comic strip about a single working woman has been running politically flavored episodes for more than a week. In them, a friend of Cathy's is depicted as strongly criticizing the Reagan-Bush administration. Several newspapers pulled installments of the strip, and at least one other newspaper said last week that it was canceling ``Cathy'' altogether. Bryan said he believes the comic strip is no place for a political message. ``I wouldn't have wanted the cartoonist or syndicate to endorse Bush in the paper,'' he said. ``Cathy''' creator Cathy Guisewite said last week that ``it was in keeping with the strip to comment on women's issues that are at stake in this election.'' Alan McDermott, managing editor for Universal Press Syndicate, said Bryan had called to cancel ``Cathy.'' He said 30 to 40 other representatives of newspapers have contacted the Kansas City-based syndicate in the last two weeks to express concern about the comic strip's political turn. AP881103-0099 AP-NR-11-03-88 1232EST r i AM-BRF--Train-Corpse 11-03 0130 AM-BRF--Train-Corpse,0134 Murder on the Balt-Orient Express PRAGUE, Czechoslovakia (AP) Czechoslovak customs officials found the body of a woman apparently strangled on an international train traveling from Romania to East Germany, it was reported Thursday. The body of the woman, whose identity and nationality were being investigated by police, was found Tuesday on the Balt-Orient Express in the city of Decin, 75 miles north of Prague, according to the Slobodne Slovo newspaper. Despite the questionign of the passengers, the police still were looking for the killer whose ``reasons were probably of sexual nature,'' it reported. Another daily, Zemedelske Noviny, said the woman was between 18 and 25 years old. The Balt-Orient Express runs from Romania to East Germany, and is not the same as the famed Orient Express. AP881103-0100 AP-NR-11-03-88 1246EST r p AM-HomePortBattle 11-03 0509 AM-Home Port Battle,0520 San Francisco Voters to Decide Whether To Host Famed Battleship By JENNIFER McNULTY Associated Press Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) Voters next week will settle a four-year dispute over whether the city should open its golden gate to the historic battleship USS Missouri, on which Gen. Douglas MacArthur accepted Japan's surrender in World War II. Supporters, led by former mayor Dianne Feinstein, believe that serving as the home port for the 58,000-ton ship will bring San Francisco at least 5,000 new jobs, increase city revenues and revitalize the waterfront. Opponents, led by Mayor Art Agnos, argue that it could cost the deficit-plagued city millions while generating unwanted and possibly hazardous environmental consequences. Environmentalists fear that extensive port dredging to accommodate the ship could stir up deadly toxic wastes. Anti-nuclear activists charge the Missouri's weaponry would increase the likelihood of a nuclear accident, and gay rights advocates oppose the Navy's hiring practices. Agnos placed Measure R on the ballot requiring the federal government to foot the bill for keeping the Missouri at the old shipyard at Hunters Point. It also would require that 351 promised new jobs go to San Franciscans under union contracts. But Feinstein, who originally proposed the city as the Missouri's home port in early 1985, disagrees. ``It's a good deal to the city _ for an upfront investment of $2 million, the city brings in $200 million a year in ship repair, payroll and services,'' she said. Supporters of Feinstein's plan have placed a rival Measure S on the ballot instructing the city to implement Feinstein's non-binding 1987 agreement with the Navy to improve port facilities and requiring the city to process and approve all actions necessary to carry out the agreement, including the allocation of $2 million to pay for dredging. She and her allies fear that if approved, Measure R would send the Navy elsewhere. Indeed, Navy Secretary William L. Ball III has rejected Agnos' terms, saying there is ``no way in which the Navy could proceed with the Missouri homeporting were such a plan adopted by the city.'' But Agnos has said the city is ``serious about wanting the Navy ... in a way that works for San Francisco. The current plan works only for the Navy.'' He called Feinstein's agreement a ``one-sided, sweetheart deal . .. that doesn't guarantee one job for San Francisco and doesn't guarantee one dollar for San Francisco.'' Feinstein counters that Agnos is philosophically opposed to basing the Missouri in San Francisco, despite public opinion polls showing a majority of residents favoring the plan. A public vote is ``the only way'' to get the plan back on course, said Feinstein, adding, ``When I left office, I thought it was all set.'' ``Most of us who are native San Franciscans want to do our share, we want to do our part to provide a strong defense,'' she said. ``This is not a patriotic issue,'' insisted Agnos. ``It's not a good business deal for the local taxpayer who is being asked to foot the bill.'' AP881103-0101 AP-NR-11-03-88 1247EST r w PM-US-IsraelProspects 1stLd-Writethru a0415 11-03 0799 PM-US-Israel Prospects, 1st Ld-Writethru, a0415,780 WASHINGTON TODAY: Israeli Election Results Don't Help US Peace Bid Eds: Subs 15th graf pvs, That ``means, to CORRECT Said'd title By RUTH SINAI Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) Both George Bush and Michael Dukakis have promised vigorous attempts to revive stalled Arab-Israeli peace talks, but the next president will face either a hardline Israeli government or a stalemated one. The Israeli elections Tuesday appear to have handed a narrow victory to the right-wing Likud bloc, which got one seat more in Parliament than the Labor Party of Foreign Minister Shimon Peres. Likud is trying to form a coalition government with a bloc of religious and ultra-nationalist parties. If that doesn't work, Likud may invite Labor to join the government as a junior partner, replicating the current government which has been paralyzed by internal conflict. Either way, the elections, which were viewed as referendum on the future of the Israeli-occupied territories, failed to give the liberal Labor Party a clear-cut mandate to negotiate peace with the Arabs. Peres, backed by the United States and moderate Arab governments, campaigned on a platform of relinquishing some lands in return for peace. ``The Israelis have obviously circled their wagons,'' said Fouad Adjami, a scholar at the School of Advanced International Studies of Johns Hopkins University. The 11-month Palestinian uprising in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip pushed voters to the right, precluding an opening for peace, he said. Likud spokesman Binyamin Netanyahu, formerly Israeli ambassador to the U.N., rejects such bleak predictions. Speaking from Israel on NBC, Netanyahu appealed to the next American president to support direct talks between Israel and the Arabs on autonomy for the 1.3 million Palestinians in the occupied territories. Likud leader Prime Minister Yitzgak Shamir ``is sensitive to U.S. desires and he will try to offer some ideas for peace talks,'' said Middle East analyst Joyce Starr. ``But this won't succeed in the long run because he's not willing to consider giving up lands for peace,'' she added. Starr is a researcher at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, an independent think tank. Both the Bush and Dukakis proposals on Arab-Israeli peace have been vague. Dukakis has talked about sending a special emissary to push the sides to the negotiating table. Bush has never been specific but his aides have indicated he would continue Reagan administration policy. That policy, formulated by Secretary of State George Shultz, called for Arab-Israeli talks under the auspices of the superpowers. But despite four shuttles by U.S. officials to the region this year, the Shultz plan encountered tough opposition from the Likud, the Palestine Liberation Organization and several Arab governments. It now appears dead. Bush is likely to support any Israeli initiative for the sake of preventing an irreversible freeze of the peace process, analysts say. ``If Likud comes forward with sincere proposals, Bush will want to work with them. He doesn't want confrontation,'' said Martin Indyk, director of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, a Washington think tank. Whichever candidate comes to power in Washington, clashes with a Shamir administration are virtually certain in view of a Likud promise to quash the Palestinian uprising once and for all. That ``means more brutality, more Palestinians killed, more _ probably _ expulsions, perhaps even the idea of some attempt at a mass transfer of Palestinians out of the West Bank and Gaza,'' said Edward Said, a professor of English at Columbia Univerity and a member of the Palestine National Council, which is the PLO's parliamentary arm. The Reagan administration has repeatedly chastised Israel for its harsh tactics against the Palestinians. Massive expulsions or a higher Palestinian death toll are unlikely to be tolerated in Washington, said Indyk. ``On the other hand, if the measures aren't horrendous and they come within a framework of a Likud peace proposal, the U.S. may be more tolerant,'' he added. A right-wing government will also seek to augment Jewish settlements in the occupied territories. The settlements have been anathema to past U.S. administrations. The next U.S. president will also face a dilemma with the PLO. Its parliamentary arm is scheduled to meet in Algeria later this month amid predictions that it will announce recognition of Israel and call for an independent Palestinian state side-by-side with the Jewish one. ``If that happens, the Americans will have to talk to the PLO because they will have met our conditions for dialogue, and that, too, is a potential clash with Israel,'' said Ms. Starr. Likud rejects any dialogue with the PLO, which Palestinians view as their only representative but which Israel views as a terrorist organization. EDITOR'S NOTE Ruth Sinai has covered Middle East affairs for The Associated Press from Israel and Washington for the past six years. AP881103-0102 AP-NR-11-03-88 1247EST r a PM-CocaineLumber 11-03 0193 PM-Cocaine Lumber,0202 Tsalickis Guilty of Smuggling Cocaine in Hollowed Lumber TAMPA, Fla. (AP) A man has been convicted of trying to smuggle 7,300 pounds of cocaine into the United States inside hollowed-out picnic-table lumber. After eight hours deliberation, a federal jury Wednesday found 61-year-old Michael J. Tsalickis of Tarpon Springs guilty in what federal officials said was the second-largest cocaine seizure on record. He faces a maximum term of life in prison at sentencing Jan. 17. ``I am innocent. I'm going to ask for a retrial,'' Tsalickis said. Federal prosecutors maintained Tsalickis and two Colombian companions were operating on behalf of the Cali Cartel, a Colombian drug organization. Tsalickis was found guilty of conspiring with the two Colombians to smuggle the cocaine into St. Petersburg by hiding it inside cedar boards on a freighter that arrived from Brazil on April 19. The Colombians await trial next week. The shipping paperwork identified the wood as lumber for picnic tables and other outdoor furniture. Tsalickis maintained he was acting as the purchasing and shipping agent for one of the Colombians, who told him he wanted the lumber to start a furniture business. AP881103-0103 AP-NR-11-03-88 1248EST r i AM-Soviet-Prisoners 11-03 0354 AM-Soviet-Prisoners,0365 Soviets to Change Political Prisoner Law by Year's End MOSCOW (AP) Soviet criminal law will be revised by the end of the year and then ``there will be no basis to speak about political prisoners,'' Foreign Ministry spokesman Gennady I. Gerasimov said Thursday. He would not state clearly, however, if all laws used to prosecute people for their political beliefs would be repealed. Nor would he say whether all current political prisoners will be freed. West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl said last week Soviet officials told him in his meetings in Moscow that all political prisoners would be freed by the end of the year. ``There was nothing new in discussions with the West German chancellor on that issue in Moscow,'' Gerasimov said. When asked directly if that meant the prisoners would not be freed by the end of the year, he simply repeated that Kohl was told nothing new. ``The attempts to interpret our explanations as a `concession' to Western pressure are groundless,'' he continued. Members of the Western alliance reportedly have demanded that all Soviet political prisoners be released as a condition for concluding the current security talks in Vienna, and for an international humanitarian conference in Moscow. Gerasimov denied Western reports of 200 to 250 political prisoners in the Soviet Union and said that as of Thursday, only 11 people still were being held under the four laws involved in Western complaints. There are another 25 ``insane people not condemned because they were sent for compulsory medical treatment.'' Gerasimov said that as of Thursday, two people are in prison and five are in internal exile under Article 70, which bans anti-Soviet agitation and two people are in prison under Article 190, which bans anti-Soviet slander. He said two people are incarcerated under Article 227, which bans criminal offenses under the pretext of practicing religion, and no one is imprisoned under Article 142, which requires the separation of church and state. Justice Minister Boris Kravtsov said Monday that Article 190 is to be repealed and Article 70 will be narrowed under the pending revision of the criminal code. AP881103-0104 AP-NR-11-03-88 1249EST r i PM-KooStark-Libel 1stLd-Writethru a0589 11-03 0446 PM-Koo Stark-Libel, 1st Ld-Writethru, a0589,0455 Actress Wins Damages Over `Affair With Prince' Libel Eds: Subs 2 grafsfor 5-6 grafs pvs, ``Ms. Stark...her husband.'' to ADD more on Stark's husband and his business. Pickup 6th graf pvs, ``Ms. Stark...'' LONDON (AP) American actress Koo Stark, a former girlfriend of Prince Andrew, won $534,000 in libel damages today from a newspaper that falsely implied she had an adulterous affair with the prince after her marriage. A High Court jury unanimously found that two articles printed in the tabloid Sunday People newspaper on successive weekends in December 1985 had defamed the 32-year-old actress. The jury also awarded Ms. Stark undisclosed costs against the newspaper's publisher, Robert Maxwell. Ms. Stark said during the three-day trial that the newspaper was wrong to allege she had kept secret dates with the prince or that she felt a ``lingering love'' for him after her marriage in August 1984 to Timothy Jeffries. She testified she met the prince, Queen Elizabeth II's second son, only once after her wedding and on that occasion was accompanied by her husband, heir to the Green Shield trading stamp business, reportedly worth $85 million. Ms. Stark said the allegations implied she was deceiving her husband and having an adulterous affair. Her lawyer, Desmond Browne, told Judge Michael Davies that articles had been published at a time when Ms. Stark was experiencing difficulties in her marriage. He said Ms. Stark had been feeling ``wretched'' about her marriage and was hoping for a reconciliation. But the ``cruelly damaging and wholly untrue'' newspaper stories dashed all hope of that, he said. The couple has since separated but are not divorced. Her lawyer said the newspaper had used a headline ``Secret Dates AFTER She Wed.'' He said that by putting the word ``after'' in capital letters, the newspaper had deliberately given emphasis to the author's insinuation that she was deceiving her husband. ``The Sunday People in publishing all this smoke was playing with fire and it was Miss Stark who got burned,'' Browne told the court. The Sunday People did not defend the truth of their articles but denied they were defamatory. The judge ordered that all except for $88,000 of Ms. Stark's damages be retained by the court pending an appeal by the newspaper. Ms. Stark, who once starred in a soft-porn movie, created world headlines in Octover 1982 when she and Prince Andrew slipped out of Britain under false names to vacation together on the Caribbean island of Mustique. She won ``substantial'' undisclosed libel damages in March when another newspaper falsely claimed her supposed reaction in 1986 to the prince's new girlfriend, Sarah Ferguson, whom he later married. AP881103-0105 AP-NR-11-03-88 1254EST r w AM-ExportLicenses 11-03 0313 AM-Export Licenses,310 US Would Help Allies Computerize Export Licensing By CARL HARTMAN Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) The Commerce Department, demonstrating its new computer system for export licensing, said Thursday it wants to help Japan, West Germany and other allies develop similar technology for keeping strategic goods from flowing to communist nations. Commerce Undersecretary Paul Freedenberg said ``The Japanese have lagged on this but now they're interested,'' and that almost all other major allies had inquired as well about the advanced licensing system. Freedenberg demonstrated a new optical character reader which scans typed applications for export licenses and automatically stores them in a computer. Licensing officials can then call up the information on their desk terminals, and grant or deny the licenses. Their decisions also go into the computer, so that U.S. Customs officials can easily find out if a particular shipment has been licensed and can be shipped, whether or not they have the actual paperwork in hand. Freedenberg said $90 to $100 billion worth of U.S. exports each year are strategic goods subject to licensing, out of total exports of $220 billion. A Commerce Department statement said the new system will be able to process 1,200 licenses a day instead of the current 400. Michael E. Zacharia, assistant secretary for export administration, has been on a trip to explain U.S. willingness to help computerize other countries' systems. ``Their business people complain of red tape and long delays, just like ours do,'' he said. ``If we can help them speed things up they're more likely to back us in our number one job: preventing really strategic goods from being diverted,'' Zacharia said. According to the department, it took 60 days on average to process a U.S. license application in 1984, and 17 days last year. The department is trying to bring the average down to 14 days for 1988. AP881103-0106 AP-NR-11-03-88 1249EST u i PM-Quake-Salvador 1stLd-Writethru a0565 11-03 0359 PM-Quake-Salvador, 1st Ld-Writethru, a0565,0366 Precede WASHINGTON Strong Quake Off Salvadoran Coast Eds: New thruout to UPDATE with details, report of second quake. No pickup. SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) A strong earthquake today off the coast of El Salvador terrified residents of the capital and shook much of Central America, but no damage or casualties were reported. Thousands of people ran into the streets of San Salvador, where an earthquake two years ago killed 1,500 people and injured 20,000. In Guatemala, the National Emergency Committee was put on alert and was checking for damage or injuries, especially in western Escuintla Province, nearest the epicenter. Readings on the 8:47 a.m. quake varied. The U.S. Geological Survey in Golden, Colo., said it measured 6 on the Richter scale. The monitoring center at the University of Costa Rica said it measured 6.5 on the Richter scale. The center in Costa Rica said the ground shook for at least 30 seconds in San Salvador. The Geological Survey said the quake was centered in the Pacific Ocean about 60 miles off El Salvador. The 1986 quake was centered in the capital, which is 25 miles from the coast. It struck on Oct. 10, measured 7.5 on the Richter scale and left tens of thousands homeless. The Institute of Seismology at the University of Costa Rica reported a second temblor registering 4.8 on the Richter scale shook San Salvador at 9:19 a.m. The institute said the second quake also shook Santa Ana, San Salvador's second largest city, 25 miles northeast of San Salvador. The Richter scale is an open-ended gauge of energy released by an earthquake as measured by ground motion recorded on a seismograph. A quake with a magnitude of 4 can cause moderate damage in a populated area, a quake of magnitude 5 considerable damage, a magnitude 6 quake severe damage, one of magnitude 7 widespread, heavy damage and a magnitude 8 quake is a ``great'' earthquake capable of tremendous damage. The Costa Rican seismological center said the quake was along a fault line that runs from Mexico to the border between Costa Rica and Panama on the Pacific Ocean. AP881103-0107 AP-NR-11-03-88 1254EST r i AM-France-AIDS 11-03 0219 AM-France-AIDS,0226 Gov't To Boost Budget For AIDS Research, Education PARIS (AP) France will its triple its budget for AIDS research and quadruple spending on education aimed at preventing spread of the disease, the government said Thursday. Health Minister Claude Evin announced the program after a Cabinet meeting, and said the government intends to ``mobilize every French man and woman'' in the fight. ``AIDS should no longer be considered a disease that only concerns what are called `marginal' populations,'' Evin was quoted as saying in the daily Le Monde. ``In three years, AIDS will cause more deaths in France than traffic accidents.'' The Health Ministry said it expects 4,000 deaths from acquired immune deficiency syndrome next year in France and about 8,000 in 1990. Last year there were 9,855 traffic deaths here. Evin said France will devote about $25 million to AIDS research, three times the amount budgeted this year. For education on AIDS, spending will increase to about $16 million next year, up from about $4 million. An extra $70 million will be provided to hospitals to cover the cost of treating AIDS victims, he said. The government also plans to establish a National AIDS Council of about 15 members to recommend further action and an agency to coordinate actions by different government departments against AIDS. AP881103-0108 AP-NR-11-03-88 1258EST r a AM-Robles-Parole 11-03 0269 AM-Robles-Parole,0276 Parole Denied For Convict in `Career Girl Murders' ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) The man whose conviction for the 1963 ``Career Girl Murders'' led to the abandonment of New York state's death penalty has been denied parole a third time, officials said Thursday. Edward Elwin, executive director of the Division of Parole, said a three-member panel unanimously denied Richard Robles' parole application Wednesday and Robles was informed a few hours later. Robles can apply for parole again in November 1990. Robles, 45, began serving a life sentence in 1965 for the murders of Janice Wylie, 21, and Emily Hoffert, 23, in their Manhattan apartment. Robles said he was in the process of turning around his life after years of of drug abuse and burglary and was committing ``one last burglary'' to get ``necessities'' for his family when he entered the women's apartment, which he said he thought was vacant. But Miss Wylie was there, and he raped her at knifepoint, according to police. He bound and robbed Miss Hoffert when she walked in, authorities said. Robles said he killed the women after Miss Hoffert vowed to remember him for police. George Whitmore Jr., then 19, admitted to the killings in a confession that was later said to have been coerced by police. Whitmore was exonerated when Robles was arrested in January 1965. The conduct of the police and the possibility that Whitmore could have been executed was a significant factor in the Legislature's 1965 decision to do away with the death penalty for most killings. Subsequent court decisions invalided the rest of New York's capital punishment statute. AP881103-0109 AP-NR-11-03-88 1258EST u i PM-Maldives 10thLd-Writethru 11-03 0777 PM-Maldives, 10th Ld-Writethru,a0598,0799 URGENT Coup Attempted In Maldives, 12 Reported Killed Eds: Leads with 4 grafs to UPDATE with Indian troops leaving for Maldives, ADDS White House comment. Pickup 5th graf pvs, ``The attackers...'' By DEXTER CRUEZ Associated Press Writer COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) About 150 foreign gunmen trying to overthrow the Maldives government today battled loyalist troops, and at least 12 people were reported killed. India rushed in soldiers to help the government, sources said. Indian defense and home ministry sources said the paratroopers took off from south India after nightfall. The sources spoke on condition of anonymity. The Press Trust of India news agency said earlier that India had three warships ``ready to sail'' to the neighboring Maldives, where President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom appealed to India and the United States for help. In Washington, White House spokesman Marlin Fitzwater said officials were reviewing the request. ``The Maldives are friendly to the United States and we generally support them, but in terms of this existing situation, it appears to be resolving itself,'' he said. The attackers arrived in the capital, Male, by boat before dawn and attacked the presidential palace. Ahmed Abdullah Aziz, the Maldivian high commissioner in Sri Lanka, said the Maldivian government had beaten back the attackers. ``The government is in full control of the situation,'' he said. However, residents of Male, a city of 55,000, said sporadic gunfire continued through the day. By nightfall, foreign gunmen were in control of part of Male, according to Western diplomats in Colombo who spoke on condition of anonymnity. A Sri Lankan government official in Colombo said at least 12 people were killed and 22 injured in clashes after the attack. The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said he received the information from the Sri Lankan High Commission in Male. Western diplomats in Colombo, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said loyalist troops were in control of the capital, but they said attackers held the radio and television station. An Indian Foreign Ministry spokesman in New Delhi said reports from the Indian High Commission in Male indicated the attackers were Sri Lankan. The official said the attackers captured several senior Maldivian officials, including two members of Gayoom's Cabinet. ``The situation is still sketchy,'' he said. A tropical island chain that is home to 190,000 people, the Maldives are 400 miles southwest of Sri Lanka and India. India is the regional power and does not want to see the current balance upset. It has thousands of troops in Sri Lanka to try to quell a war by militant Tamils. Edward Moss, deputy chief of mission at the U.S. Embassy in Colombo, said Maldivian officials contacted the United States, Britain and other countries for help. He did not say if the officials requested military intervention. In Washington, State Department spokesman Charles E. Redman said the Reagan administration has been in touch with India about the coup attempt. Another U.S. official, who demanded anonymity, said: ``We are reviewing the situation and discussing options with the Maldives' friends, mainly India.'' Aziz said the raiders spoke Tamil but that he did not know who was behind the attack. Tamil is not spoken by Maldivians. It is the language of ethnic minorities in Sri Lanka and India. A Sri Lankan military official said former President Ibrahim Nasir was believed to be behind the attempt to overthrow Gayoom, who defeated Nasir in the 1978 election and won a third five-year term on Sept. 23. The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said Nasir sent an agent to Sri Lanka to recruit Tamil militants to stage a coup. He said Nasir moved to Singapore after 1978 and his followers tried in 1980 to overthrow Gayoom. A Sri Lankan pharmacist in Male said she had rushed medicine to a government hospital to treat people injured in the attack. Electricity was cut off in Male and no civilians were on the streets, she said, speaking on condition of anonymity. The Maldives' airport was closed and all flights were turned back, according to officials in Sri Lanka and the Maldives. ``Male is like a dead city,'' said Sri Lanka's high commissioner in the Maldives, Mohammad Ali. He said the trouble began about 4:30 a.m. with a loud explosion, followed by exchanges of gunfire. Several residents of Male said they were staying off the streets because of uncertainty. The first reports to reach the outside world said the gunmen had captured the presidential palace and taken Gayoom prisoner, along with National Security Minister Ilias Ibrahim and Presidential Affairs Minister Abbas Ibrahim. Gayoom, 50, has charted a course of non-alignment for the remote republic. AP881103-0110 AP-NR-11-03-88 1307EST u p PM-Reagan Sub a0425 11-03 0060 PM-Reagan, Sub, a0425,30 WASHINGTON, to update with Reagan appearance at fund-raiser, sub 3rd graf: Today, Reagan ... Durenberger, R-Minn. Today, Reagan was back in Washington but still on the campaign trail, driving to a hotel near the White House where he appeared at a closed fund-raising event on behalf of Sen. David Durenberger, R-Minn. On Friday, 4th graf AP881103-0111 AP-NR-11-03-88 1322EST r w AM-Cuba-Thievery 11-03 0619 AM-Cuba-Thievery,590 Cuban Documentary Says Theft A `Cancer' On Nation By GEORGE GEDDA Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) Huge quantities of cash and merchandise are stolen each year from state enterprises in Cuba because of lax security procedures, according to a secret Cuban documentary that was smuggled out of the island by a defector. The tape concludes with an observation by Cuban Defense Minister Raul Castro that ``1 million police'' could not solve Cuba's crime problem without additional accounting controls. The principal theme of a second government documentary is that many of Cuba's young people are alienated, lack revolutionary fervor and complain that facilities for recreational activities are too often run down, non-existent, off-limits or inaccessible. A screening of the two documentaries, produced by the National Revolutionary Police in 1986 and intended for government and party officials, was held this week under the sponsorship of Freedom House, a New York-based human rights group. The director of Freedom House's Washington office, Frank Calzon, said he has no doubt that the tapes are ``legitimate videos made by Cuban police. No one would have the capacity to make such films except the Cuban police.'' Calzon said the tapes were smuggled out of Cuba by Juan Antonio Rodriguez Manier, a major in Cuban intelligence who defected to the West in January 1987. Raul Castro, brother of President Fidel Castro, summed up his feelings about the crime issue in brief remarks shown at the end of the presentation. Flanked by fellow Communist Party members, Castro said the tape was ``more illustrative than 100 speeches'' about the problem because it aired the comments of the convicted criminals themselves. The present system, he said, ``invites delinquency.'' President Castro has publicly acknowledged that crime is a major problem. The documentary shows Castro saying in a 1986 speech that a ``fierce struggle'' is needed to wipe out crime. ``Socialism can't permit this cancer to corrode it, that this cancer devour it,'' he said. The documentary on crime showed repeated instances of how employees at state enterprises were able to take advantage of lax accounting procedures to steal cash or goods. Most of the testimony was provided by convicted criminals but there was no indication of how they were caught. One convict spoke of how he was able to make off with 224 cases of coffee worth 67,200 pesos. Under Cuba's exchange rate, the peso is worth slightly more than a dollar. Another witness said he was able to pocket about 100 pesos a day in daily receipts from the enterprise where he worked. He kept up the activity for three years. Yet another said he was able to steal fabric for women's clothes and leather for shoes in a gambit that appeared to require little planning or imagination. A security guard was posted at the warehouse where the goods were kept but he was deaf, the convict said. Several Cubans responsible for taking daily cash proceeds from their respective enterprises to banks for deposit said they routinely undertook the trips alone, either on foot or by bus, without protection. In the second documentary, Cuban youths complained to interviewers that the best beaches often are reserved for tourists or that transportation to the seashore was impossible because of a shortage of buses. Cuba's television fare was described as ``garbage'' and there were scenes of a Havana amusement park which was in a state of almost total disrepair. ``Who is the president of Cuba?'' one young man was asked. A perplexed look crossed his face. ``Armando Dorticos, no?'' he answers, not realizing that Dorticos is a former president, that his first name was Osvaldo, that he died several years ago and that the current president is Fidel Castro. AP881103-0112 AP-NR-11-03-88 1323EST r i AM-BRF--Skinheads 11-03 0146 AM-BRF--Skinheads,0150 15 Skinheads Sentenced For Race Attack BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) Fifteen ``skinheads'' were sentenced Thursday to stiff jail terms for a racial attack on 10 Cuban workers at a streetcar stop in Budapest, a newspaper reported. A youth identified as Andras Dudas, ringleader of the attack after a punk rock concert April 24, received three years, four months in strict-regime prisons on charges of ``grievous bodily harm and racist incitement against foreign workers,'' the newspaper Esti Hirlap said. Six of his associates received jail terms ranging between 2{ and 3{ years on similar charges, the newspaper said. Eight minors were given suspended sentences. The Cubans suffered cuts and bruises. The youths confessed to being ``skinheads pervaded by extreme nationalist and racist views,'' the newspaper said. The jail terms were especially stiff because of the charge of incitement to racial hatred, Esti Hirlap added. AP881103-0113 AP-NR-11-03-88 1324EST r p AM-BRF--Koop-AIDS 11-03 0164 AM-BRF--Koop-AIDS,0170 Koop Blasts California AIDS Measure SAN FRANCISCO (AP) A California ballot measure that would force doctors and blood banks to report positive AIDS-test results would discourage people from participating in research, U.S. Surgeon General C. Everett Koop said. ``It would drive people who could participate in drug trials away from research and underground,'' Koop said. ``Everything we have done may step backwards five years.'' Proposition 102 is ``contrary to every principle of public health I know,'' Koop said in Wednesday's San Francisco Examiner. The proposition will be on the ballot Tuesday along with a measure, Proposition 96, that would allow judges to order AIDS tests for people accused of sex crimes. In a poll of 600 registered California voters, 41 percent favored Proposition 102, 28 percent opposed it and 31 percent were undecided, the newspaper said. Proposition 96 was favored by 47 percent and opposed by 28 percent, with 25 percent undecided. The margin of error was four percentage points. AP881103-0114 AP-NR-11-03-88 1325EST r p PM-AbortionAd 1stLd-Writethru a0478 11-03 0588 PM-Abortion Ad, 1st Ld - Writethru, a0478,0600 Senate Candidate's Ad Showing Bloody Fetus Prompts Calls, Controversy Eds: INSERTS one graf after 11th graf pvs, ``I am ...' with Wolfe saying he'll continue to run the commercial but will drop committee's name. By JILL WILSON Associated Press Writer CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) The national Republican Senatorial Committee ordered a U.S. Senate candidate to yank a campaign commercial that shows a bloody fetus side by side with Senate Majority Leader Robert Byrd. Byrd, D-W.Va., said Wednesday that GOP challenger Jay Wolfe's television advertisement was ``contemptible'' and ``an outrage.'' ``It sensationalizes a very serious issue just for the sake of political shock value,'' Byrd said. The 30-second spot, which prompted complaints from viewers, opened with a closeup of a bloody fetus, then showed a picture of Byrd next to that of the fetus. Wolfe, a first-term state senator, defended the commercial. When asked if it upset viewers, Wolfe responded, ``I was upset when I realized what was going on (with abortions). I think it's in poor taste that (Byrd) has ... consistently voted for abortion.'' Byrd said the commercial distorted his record on abortion, adding that he believes federal funding for abortions is warranted in cases of rape or incest or where the life of the mother is endangered by the pregnancy. The commercial listed as its sponsor the Republican Senatorial Committee, but the group, the political arm of the U.S. Senate Republican leadership, denied any involvement. Committee spokesman Tom Mason said Wolfe was not authorized to broadcast the ad with committee funds. ``It's the only ad ... that we've refused to pay for,'' Mason said. ``That should tell you what we think of it. We talked to the campaign and told them to pull the ads.'' ``I think the ad is disgusting, deplorable and never should have been run,'' said Summersville Mayor Steve LeRose, a member of the state Republican committee. ``I am against abortion except in the case of a life-or-death situation to the mother. ... But to have a political ad show a fetus like this is totally disgusting to me and, I'm sure, to many people in the state.'' Wolfe said he will continue to run the advertisement but drop the senatorial committee's name and replace it with his own. Several television stations said they received calls from viewers and referred them to Wolfe's campaign office. ``People were irate. They said it was rather a disgusting ad,'' said Ruth Damron, a receptionist at WOWK-TV in Huntington. Stan Siegal, general manager of WBOY-TV in Clarksburg, said his station received 50 to 75 telephone calls from viewers since the ad began running Monday. ``They're mostly upset with the content of the commercial and second, they generally ask, `Would you control what time it airs so children don't see it?' The general public does not understand TV stations have no control over what the ads say,'' he said. Wolfe said he wrote the ad copy. He said he received about 60 calls from around the state during the past two days ``both for it and against it.'' He said he spent more than $100,000 running seven ads, including the one on abortion. He said about 80 percent of the money came from the Republican Senatorial Committee. Bill Green, an attorney for the National Association of Broadcasters, said federal law forbids stations from censoring the content of political advertisements in which the candidate appears. He also said stations cannot be held liable for the contents of such an ad. AP881103-0115 AP-NR-11-03-88 1326EST r a PM-StarvingCattle 11-03 0122 PM-Starving Cattle,0130 Dead and Dying Cattle Discovered On Ranch FORNEY, Texas (AP) An estimated 3,000 malnourished cattle and the carcasses of 50 that starved to death have been discovered on a ranch. Kaufman County Sheriff Robert Harris said authorities were trying to identify the owner, who could face charges of animal cruelty. Harris' office began rounding up the animals today for a veterinarian to determine which can be saved. Some of the cattle discovered Wednesday were so malnourished they could not walk. ``Their ribs were showing,'' Harris said. ``A lot of them were completely down. Some can't even see _ they're starved so much that they're blind.'' He said workers on the ranch had no feed for the animals. AP881103-0116 AP-NR-11-03-88 1328EST r a AM-WeaponsPart 11-03 0227 AM-Weapons Part,0232 Man Charged With Trying To Ship Part To Iran COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) A federal grand jury has indicted an Iranian national on charges he tried to ship a component of a U.S. missile system to Iran, officials say. Ali Reza Yousefi, who was fired from his job as a Rock Hill city engineer after his Oct. 19 arrest, was indicted Wednesday on three counts that include trying to mail the part, conspiracy and making false statements on an application for a passport. Yousefi, 45, is being held without bond. He is accused of trying to export a cathode assembly for a Klystom Tube, part of the tracking and targeting system of the Hawk missile. U.S. Customs officials said it was believed the package was destined for Iran because the part could only fit Hawk missiles sold to Iran before the fall of the shah in 1980. The indictment also charges that Yousefi, whose business visa expired two years ago, stated on a passport application that he had been in the United States since July 1969 and was a naturalized U.S. citizen. The charges are the result of a misunderstanding, said Jack Swerling, Yousefi's attorney. He said Yousefi believes he'll be found innocent. Yousefi could face up to 20 years in prison and a $1.5 million fine if convicted of all the charges. AP881103-0117 AP-NR-11-03-88 1328EST r i AM-BRF--ZooBomb 11-03 0132 AM-BRF--Zoo Bomb,0135 Discovery of World War II Bomb Closes Frankfurt Zoo FRANKFURT, West Germany (AP) Workers digging a subway tunnel unearthed a U.S. World War II bomb beneath the Frankfurt Zoo, forcing the popular site to be closed as experts disarmed the device, officials said Thursday. The 1,100-pound bomb had two functional detonaters and was defused at the site by demolition experts, Hesse state officials said. It was found Wednesday night 19 feet underground by workers constructing a new subway tunnel beneath the zoo, the statement said. After the bomb was defused, it was removed by crane and taken away for destruction, the officials said. Thousands of old bombs and other ammunition have been found and destroyed by demolition experts throughout West Germany since the end of the war. AP881103-0118 AP-NR-11-03-88 1329EST r w AM-MilitaryHealth 11-03 0330 AM-Military Health,320 Pentagon Turning to Military Hospitals to Treat Dependents By NORMAN BLACK AP Military Writer WASHINGTON (AP) The Pentagon, hoping to contain the cost of its health insurance plan for dependents and retirees, has approved 21 projects aimed at expanding the capacity of military hospitals to handle such patients. The approvals, given by Assistant Defense Secretary William Mayer, will allow Army and Air Force hospitals in 12 states to expand facilities or hire additional nurses and other staff to provide more surgical, obstetrics, gynecology, cardiology and psychiatry services. Similar Navy projects are now under consideration. The Pentagon estimates the new projects will cost the two services $14.6 million, but that the Defense Department will still save $13.9 million compared with the cost of paying civilian hospitals to treat the patients under the Civilian Health and Medical Program of the Uniformed Services, an insurance program. Military hospitals are required to serve dependents and retirees on a space-available basis, giving first priority to men and women on active duty. ``These projects are expected to generate savings of approximately $14 million by returning nearly 1,000 admissions and 20,000 outpatient visits to military treatment facilities,'' the Pentagon said. The hospitals receiving approvals _ some of which have more than one project planned _ include Eisenhower Army Medical Center, Fort Gordon, Ga.; William Beaumont Army Medical Center, El Paso, Texas; DeWitt Army Community Hospital, Fort Belvoir, Va.; Walson Army Community Hospital, Fort Dix, N.J.; Darnall Army Community Hospital, Fort Hood, Texas; Ireland Army Community Hospital, Fort Knox, Ky.; Patterson Army Community Hospital, Fort Monmouth, N.J., Irwin Army Community Hospital, Fort Riley, Kansas, and Winn Army Community Hospital, Fort Stewart, Ga. Also, the USAF Hospital at Elmendorf Air Force Base, Alaska; the USAF Hospital at Tinker AFB, Okla.; the USAF Hospital at Hill AFB, Utah; the 380th Strategic Hospital at Plattsburgh AFB, N.Y.; the Ehrling Bergquist USAF Regional Hospital at Offutt AFB, Neb., and the AFSC Regional Hospital at Eglin AFB, Fla. AP881103-0119 AP-NR-11-03-88 1333EST r a AM-MillionaireMaker 11-03 0461 AM-Millionaire Maker,0474 Beckley Says He's `Out Of Gas,' His Company Ordered Liquidated DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) Self-proclaimed ``millionaire maker'' Ed Beckley is pulling out of Iowa and not contesting the court-ordered liquidation of his real estate marketing company. Beckley made millions in the mid-1980s by selling real estate on television programs that carried inspirational testimonials and promises of financial freedom. But Beckley Group Inc. found itself awash in claims for refunds after instituting a six-month, money-back guarantee. In 1987, the company sought court protection from creditors while it tried to reorganize its finances under Chapter 11 of the federal bankruptcy code. The company still lost $601,000 last year, and it pulled its programs off the air two weeks ago in what turned out to be an unsuccessful shift to direct-mail marketing of its courses. The Iowa attorney general, on behalf of consumers, asked that the case be converted to Chapter 7, a liquidation, and the shutdown was approved in federal bankruptcy court Wednesday with Beckley's consent. ``I'm sort of a battler, but I'm out of gas here,'' said Beckley, a California native who in 1985 joined the transcendental meditation movement in Fairfield, the home of Maharishi International University. ``I'll leave Iowa peaceably, get a little rest and try to figure out what I'm going to do,'' he said. Beckley said he is writing a book about spiritual and financial wealth. The court action means the assets of Beckley Group will be sold to pay claims of creditors. But Donald Neiman, a lawyer for Beckley, said it's unlikely the company will be able to repay 10,000 customers seeking $2.6 million in refunds. The Iowa attorney general's office still is suing Beckley for consumer refunds, and the bankruptcy court trustee said he looking into possible action to recover $2.4 million Beckley owes the company. Terry Gibson, a lawyer for the trustee, said officials are particularly interested in $455,000 in stock and real estate transfers made to Beckley's wife. Beckley said those transfers were made before the first signs of trouble at Beckley Group and denied that he tried to shield his wealth from the courts. Beckley earned $7.2 million from the company in 1985 and 1986, but said most of that is gone. He said he violated one of his own real estate principles by allowing others to manage his investments and wound up losing $3.5 million. He also said he put $1.7 million back into the company. Beckley blames himself for his company's collapse, but contends the attorney general's office ruined the chances for the company's recovery and the repayment of its customers. ``They were intent on crucifying ... me,'' Beckley said. ``We are not bad people, we are not criminals. I felt like we were treated as such.'' AP881103-0120 AP-NR-11-03-88 1337EST r w AM-US-SovietRadar 11-03 0428 AM-US-Soviet Radar,420 US Weighs Options In Dispute With Soviets Over Radar Facility By BARRY SCHWEID AP Diplomatic Writer WASHINGTON (AP) Soviet refusal to destroy a disputed Siberian radar facility is prompting the Reagan administration to consider expanding strategic weapons programs, U.S. officials said Thursday. Among the steps being weighed are reversing the planned dismantling of three Poseidon nuclear submarines, deploying a limited ballistic missile defense and speeding up the testing of space weapons, said the officials, who spoke only on condition of anonymity. They said a decision was expected within two weeks. ``The jury is still out,'' an official said. In the meantime, William F. Burns, director of the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, plans to begin briefing members of Congress on Friday on failure to resolve the dispute with the Soviets. Acting on a request from the White House last summer, the options were prepared by the Pentagon and are being circulated to the State Department, the arms control agency and other U.S. offices for their recommendations. On Wednesday, U.S. and Soviet technical experts in Geneva discussed the radar installation at Krasnoyarsk, Siberia, and a Soviet proposal to construct a space institute there. The U.S. group, headed by Burns, had no objection to the idea of an institute but said the Krasnoyarsk facility had to be dismantled. After the Soviets refused, State Department spokesman Charles E. Redman said the United States may take ``appropriate and proportionate responses'' or declare Krasnoyarsk a ``material breach'' of the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty. That would be a first step toward abrogating the arms control accord. ``Unfortunately, the Soviet experts did not have any new proposal,'' Redman said Wednesday in giving an account of the session. In two reports to Congress, the administration charged the Soviets with violating the ABM treaty by constructing a radar facility that could be used to organize a national defense against missile attack. The theory behind the treaty is that if both sides were unable to mount a defense they would hesitate to launch an attack. Otherwise, their territory and populations would be open to devastating retaliation. The Geneva session was held at the Soviets' request. Viktor P. Karpov, the foreign ministry's senior arms control specialist, had said in July that the Soviets would dismantle the Krasnoyarsk radar if the two sides resolved their differences over the 1972 treaty. ``We had hoped they were prepared to meet U.S. concerns about the radar,'' Redman said. ``... We listened to what they had to say. Unfortunately, the Soviet experts did not have any new proposals.'' AP881103-0121 AP-NR-11-03-88 1346EST r w AM-BRF--Shultz-OAS 11-03 0074 AM-BRF--Shultz-OAS,70 Shultz Will Attend Meeting in Salvador WASHINGTON (AP) Secretary of State George P. Shultz will attend the opening session of the annual Organization of American States foreign ministers meeting Nov. 14 in El Salvador, the State Department announced Thursday. Spokesman Charles Redman said Shultz will address the meeting and will meet informally with other foreign ministers. He will fly to El Salvador and return to Washington on the same day. AP881103-0122 AP-NR-11-03-88 1356EST r i AM-Afghanistan 11-03 0564 AM-Afghanistan,0584 Pakistan Says it Shot Down Afghan Warplane By BRYAN WILDER Associated Press Writer ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) Pakistan said it shot down an intruding Afghan warplane Thursday inside its borders, and Afghanistan said Pakistani jet fighters downed two aircraft in Afghan territory. Western diplomats also reported Thursday that communist forces fired six missiles at Afghan guerrillas near the border. The stepped-up activity in the 10-year-old Afghan war follows Wednesday's capture by guerrillas of a key Afghan frontier post and the introduction by Soviet forces of new long-range missiles. Neither Afghanistan's Soviet-backed government or Pakistan acknowledged the other's claims of border air battles, but both lodged official protests. It was not clear whether they were reporting on the same attacks. The Pakistani government said a U.S.-built Pakistani F-16 shot down a Soviet-made Su-22 fighter-bomber Thursday morning when two Su-22's penetrated 10 miles into Pakistan's North-West Frontier province. The Pakistani government said an Afghan pilot was captured and was being questioned. Pakistan television showed film of the wreckage near the village of Thal, about 160 miles west of Islamabad. However, Afghanistan's official Radio Kabul later said Pakistani F-16s shot down an Afghan reconaissance jet in the morning and a training jet in the afternoon. The Afghan report, monitored in Islamabad Thursday night, said both attacks came near the city of Khost, about 12 miles inside Afghanistan. It did identify the type of Afghan planes involved. Khost is about 36 miles southwest of the Pakistani village of Thal. The Afghan radio said the communist authorities protested to Pakistan over the alleged Pakistani downing of the planes inside Afghanistan. Pakistan's Foreign Ministry summoned the Afghan charge d'affaires and launched a ``strong protest'' about the Pakistani claims of an air incursion, officials said. The ministry later summoned Soviet Ambassador V.P. Yakunin to protest this week's deployment of the new missiles and other advanced aircraft and weapons in Afghanistan, Pakistani television said. Western diplomats in Islamabad reported that communist forces have fired at least six new Soviet SS-1 missiles at guerrilla positions close to the boundary. The official Soviet news agency Tass reported that Soviet-Afghan forces fired a ``powerful missile'' Wednesday night at a guerrilla base near the border. Late Wednesday, the guerrillas claimed they captured the town of Tokram from government forces after two days of fighting. Afghan guerrillas said they gained control of about 24 miles of the road leading west to the besieged city of Jalalabad in Afghanistan's Nangarhar province. Despite the raging civil war between the guerrillas and Soviet-Afghan forces, Pakistan had allowed non-military goods to pass through its territory to Torkham, at the foot Pakistan's Khyber Pass. However, guerrillas announced Thursday they were closing the road to commercial traffic, which could cause shortages of basic commodities in Jalalabad and Kabul, the Afghan capital. The United States, which backs the guerrillas along with Pakistan, has complained over the Soviet introduction of advanced aircraft and weapons in Afghanistan. The State Department called it a dangerous escalation of the war and a violation of a U.N. accord that provides for a Soviet troop withdrawal. In April, the Soviet Union agreed to remove its troops from Afghanistan by Feb. 15, 1989. Moscow met its pledge to withdraw the first half of it forces by Aug. 15, according to U.N. observers, but no major units have left since then. The Soviets intervened in Afghanistan in December 1979. AP881103-0123 AP-NR-11-03-88 1431EST r i AM-Europe-Soviets 11-03 0535 AM-Europe-Soviets,0556 West Europeans Meeting With Soviets To Discuss Possible Trade Pact By SALLY JACOBSEN Associated Press Writer BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP) West European nations began a round of talks Thursday with the Soviet Union to expand economic ties, but a top European official said the West would move cautiously. ``We should not throw away 30 years of cautious approach with Eastern Europe just in a wave of sudden optimism (or) a wave of naivete,'' said Willy De Clercq, the top trading official of the 12-nation European Economic Community. ``I don't think it's our feeling to do that,'' he said. Thu trading bloc opened two days of discussions with a Soviet delegation led by Ivan Ivanov, vice president of the Soviet state commission for foreign economic affairs. The meetings, described as exploratory talks, are designed to get a feeling for what each side would like to see in any agreement later worked out in negotiations. During previous contacts, the Soviets indicated they would be interested in an agreement with the wealthier European countries covering a wide variety of areas, including high technology. The transfer of such sensitive technology to Moscow is tightly controlled. ``They asked for everything,'' De Clercq said in an interview before the talks. ``It is a question if the community can accept or will accept .. so broad a cooperation that is very likely going to be asked.'' De Clercq said an agreement with the Soviet Union could cover cooperation in the environment, energy, transportation and exchange of information and statistics. West European businessmen are interested in gaining greater access to the Soviet marketplace, he said. The trading bloc, also known as the Common Market, generally works out agreements with other countries that lead to greater trade. But the Soviet Union has limited products that West European countries would be interested in buying. De Clercq said any serious negotiations on such a pact likely would not take place until next year at the earliest. The Common Market nations imported $15.2 billion in goods from the Soviet Union in 1987 and had exports totaling $10.7 billion, according to EEC figures. The improved East-West relationship has raised some concern that Moscow will gain access to high technology that could improve its military might. ``There is this concern about transfer of technology,'' said Alfred H. Kingon, U.S. ambassador to the European Economic Community. ``We all feel strongly that whatever is happening in Eastern Europe could be used to our mutual advantage,'' he said. The export of sensitive Western technology such as supercomputers is controlled by the 16-nation Coordinating Committee for Multilateral Export Controls, which maintains a list of items embargoed for export to the Soviet bloc. The discussions with the Soviets are the latest in a series recent trade talks the community has held with the East. In June, the Common Market signed a declaration establishing official relations with the 10-nation Soviet-led socialist economic bloc, called the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance. In September, the Common Market signed a trade and economic cooperation agreement with Hungary and recently finished negotiations on a trade accord with Czechoslovakia. Common Market members are Britain, Ireland, Denmark, France, Belgium, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Germany, Spain, Portugal, Italy and Greece. AP881103-0124 AP-NR-11-03-88 1407EST u p AM-GenderGap Bjt 11-03 0582 AM-Gender Gap, Bjt,600 Bush Reinforces Male Gap by Depicting Dukakis as Soft on Crime, Defense By RITA BEAMISH Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) Polls indicate men like George Bush better than Michael Dukakis, a gender gap that analysts say Bush has successfully reinforced by depicting the Democrat as soft on crime and defense. Much has been made of the other gender gap _ the one that finds women favoring Democrats over Republican presidential candidates _ but polling data also shows that men have a distinct set of standards by which they measure the two candidates. Houston-based Republican pollster Lance Tarrance said Bush struck a chord among male voters with television advertisements that attacked Dukakis. ``Men tend to be far more concerned with preserving the status quo. Men also can be appealed to on so-called macho issues, such things as national defense and the crime issues,'' Tarrance said. The attacks seem to have driven home with male voters, because ``They make a stronger decision on who they don't want ... women make a stronger decision on who they do want,'' Tarrance said. He said men also were suspicious of Dukakis because they sensed ``there was more to Dukakis than he was letting us know,'' and they did not know what that something was. In addition, Bush tapped into a male penchant for a more structured analysis of things that made them lean away from what they saw as a lack of national experience on the part of Dukakis. ``Experience really counts strongly with men,'' Tarrance said. The very fact that Bush put Dukakis on the defensive for weeks and thus was able to set the agenda for the campaign gave him status as a strong leader, a factor which also attracted men, said Ethel Klein, associate professor of political science at Columbia University. ``Men really don't think he's strong,'' she said of Dukakis. ``Every time Michael Dukakis has had a chance to define himself, he's let Bush define him.'' She cited Dukakis' now-famous tank ride, following a drumbeat of soft-on-defense attacks from Bush. Klein said Bush ``put the Democrats in a me-too position. He's been on the offensive all along,'' and that was a strong message that men liked. In recent polls both men and women favor Bush over Dukakis, but the margin for men is greater. The latest ABC News-Washington Post poll showed Bush preferred by 56 percent of men, 40 percent of women. The most recent CBS News-New York Times survey put Bush's advantage among men at 56-39. Pollster Louis Harris said men seem to be drawn to Bush in large part because he is the only alternative to Dukakis, whom Bush has succeeded in portraying negatively. ``What Bush did was to make it reactive against Dukakis, because Bush doesn't have the same inspirational qualities that Ronald Reagan has. Reagan was able to inspire men. Now men are able to react against Dukakis,'' said Harris. Political analyst William Schneider, however, contended that the male penchant for Bush is really just a reflection of a pattern that has emerged for several years now. ``It has to do with the image of the parties,'' and the role of government in people's lives, he said. ``Women support a protective government,'' identified with the Democrats, while men agree more with the Republican push to shrink government, he said. ``It has very little to do with Bush and Dukakis and a great deal to do with the direction the parties have moved in.'' AP881103-0125 AP-NR-11-03-88 1437EST r a PM-DanceBan 11-03 0180 PM-Dance Ban,0187 Dance Is Still On In Purdy JOPLIN, Mo. (AP) The town of Purdy waltzed ever closer to its first school dance in a century. A federal appeals court refused to block a Purdy High School homecoming dance planned for Dec. 10, William Fleischaker, an attorney for the students and parents who successfully challenged the district's ban on dancing, said today. Earlier this year, a federal judge in Springfield struck down the ban, saying it unconstitutionally promoted religious values. The Purdy School Board appealed the decision to the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in St. Louis and asked it to stay the judge's ruling in order to prevent a dance from taking place while it considers the appeal. But Fleischaker said the court denied a stay Monday. ``There's no way the appeal will be decided between now and then (Dec. 10),'' he said. ``So we'll be moving forward, and they (school officials) have indicated they will cooperate.'' Schools Superintendent Sheldon Buxton this morning said he had not yet been informed of the appellate court ruling. AP881103-0126 AP-NR-11-03-88 1412EST u p AM-Quayle'sTransformation 1stLd-Writethru a0631 11-03 0799 AM-Quayle's Transformation, 1st Ld-Writethru, a0631,780 Quayle Shows Qualms About No. 2 Status Eds: SUB 20th graf bgng ``While he...'' to CORRECT to Indiana University By MERRILL HARTSON Associated Press Writer EVANSVILLE, Ind. (AP) Sen. Dan Quayle is settling uncomfortably into his role as loyal No. 2 to George Bush, grousing about a lack of national media coverage and sudden schedule changes dictated by headquarters. He acknowledged that whatever George Bush wants, George Bush will get. Even when that meant Quayle will await the presidential election returns in Washington instead of his hometown of Huntington, as first planned. ``I'm learning. I'm a quick study,'' he told reporters Tuesday night. Quayle related that Bush thought one of the two should be in Washington on election night, but the candidate at the top of the ticket was determined to watch the returns back in his adopted Texas. ``If he wants to be in Houston, he'll be in Houston,'' Quayle said. ``I've got a lot of friends in Washington, so I'll go there.'' Through the last week of the campaign, Quayle repeatedly voiced the Republican gospel about not taking victory for granted. But he also dealt with questions about what kind of vice president he would be. ``I think my role will be very much like George Bush's role,'' he said. ``The way he served Ronald Reagan was helpful to the implementation of his policies.'' ``My image is not important. What's important is George Bush's image.'' The transformation of Quayle has been marked. He groaned to reporters this week that he cannot get national media exposure. ``Put me on the air,'' he exhorted a network television producer. This, from the politician who three months ago suffered through the most negative campaign publicity since Gary Hart. Ironically, as Quayle voiced irritation with his lesser-light role, Bush campaign aides and even some Quayle staffers rejoiced that the controversial Quayle of August had graduated to the position of ordinary vice presidential candidate. ``It indicates that he is now campaigning in about the mode we have always learned to expect from vice presidential candidates,'' said Mitch Daniels, a former Reagan White House political director who is constantly at Quayle's side on the campaign trail. ``Traditionally, no No. 2 candidate attracts regular national coverage, but they're always news in all but the biggest media markets.'' Quayle, nevertheless, complained about last-minute schedule changes dictated by Bush campaign headquarters in Washington. And the man who sought to avoid reporters in the torrid days of August, amid heavy questioning about his past, now took pains to be accessible to the press. When the Bush campaign bumped South Bend, Ind., from Quayle's schedule Tuesday, because the vice president was appearing at the University of Notre Dame, the senator used the spare time to host a luncheon for traveling reporters. Besides canceling the appearance in South Bend, Quayle had to call off a planned trip to Missouri and North Carolina, and he traveled to South Carolina instead. Not all of the campaign schedule changes were keyed to presidential vote-getting strategy. Quayle aide Lanny Wiles said, ``It's a kind of dartboard technique. ... The last week of the campaign, if you over-commit (to appearances) you leave ill will, so you leave room on your schedule so you can add on. It's always been that way.'' But Wiles then said the major aim of Quayle's South Carolina appearance was to help a Republican trying to wrest from a Democrat a congressional seat once held by Gov. Carroll Campbell. ``You know, Carroll is a good friend of George Bush's,'' he said. Quayle took all of this in stride, even with his complaints, telling an audience in Jeffersonville, Ind. at one point ``that schedule of mine changes every minute. Wherever that plane, `Hoosier's Pride' goes, I'll be right on it.'' Daniels said that Quayle has been spending his days in small towns and some out-of-the-way spots, not to hide him but to appeal to voters in less populated areas. ``He's a small town guy, just like Ronald Reagan (a Dixon, Ill. native),'' Daniels said. ``The Republican Party is a party of the small town.'' While he tries to stymie any urge for more national attention and big-city campaign galas, Quayle says he's surmounted questions about the circumstances under which he joined the Indiana National Guard at the height of the Vietnam War in 1969 and questions about his academic performance at Depauw University and Indiana University law school. Quayle said that while he believes some of the reporting about his past was reckless and irresponsible, news reporters ``had a very short time to examine me, ... a hurry-up, rush situation. So it's not their fault.'' To those who may harbor lingering doubts about his fitness for high office, he says, ``Give me a chance.'' AP881103-0127 AP-NR-11-03-88 1517EST r a BC-AIDS-Stats 11-03 0221 BC-AIDS-Stats,0243 CDC Statistics On U.S. AIDS Cases ATLANTA (AP) Here are the latest statistics on acquired immune deficiency syndrome in the United States, as reported this week by the national Centers for Disease Control: Number of Cases Total cases reported since June 1981: 76,932. Cases, year to date: 26,507. Total deaths: 43,177, or 56 percent of all cases. Transmission Categories Homosexual or bisexual males: 47,068, or 61 percent. Intravenous drug abusers: 14,844, or 19 percent. Homosexual male and drug abusers: 5,464, or 7 percent. Heterosexual cases: 3,271, or 4 percent. Transfusion or blood cases: 2,074, or 3 percent. Hemophilia patients: 794, or 1 percent. Children of parents with AIDS or at risk: 948 or 1 percent. Undetermined transmission cause: 2,469, or 3 percent. Age and Race Childhood cases (under age 13): 1,218, or 2 percent. Cases among whites: 44,435, or 58 percent. Cases among blacks: 20,246, or 26 percent. Cases among Hispanics: 11,543, or 15 percent. Cases among Asians or Pacific Islanders: 461, or 1 percent. Cases among American Indians or Alaskan natives: 80, or 0 percent. (NOTE: These statistics are through Oct. 31 and have been rounded to the nearest whole percent. Cumulative totals are for AIDS cases reported since June 1981, and include 75 cases subsequently found to have occurred prior to that date.) AP881103-0128 AP-NR-11-03-88 1416EST u p AM-DuelingParties 1stLd-Writethru a0634 11-03 0070 AM-Dueling Parties, 1st Ld-Writethru, a0634,040 Parties' Ads Hitting Final-Week Pitch Eds: Subs lead to fix grammar By JILL LAWRENCE Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) The Republican National Committee entered the final phase of a $9 million media drive Thursday with a televised message from President Reagan, while the Democratic Party launched two pocketbook Populist appeals to conclude its more modest TV effort. As Election 2nd graf a0634 AP881103-0129 AP-NR-11-03-88 1518EST r a AM-People 11-03 0899 AM-People,0935 People in the News Eds: First item for release at 6 p.m. EST LaserPhoto NY44 NEW YORK (AP) Burt Lancaster, who celebrated his 75th birthday this week, says blockbuster movie stardom may be past, but first-class roles are still available. ``I look for certain special things to come along,'' Lancaster says in an interview in this weekend's Parade magazine. It may be ``a little cameo now and then, or a big picture ... big in a sense of the role it offers,'' he said. An example, he said, is his part in ``Rocket Gibraltar,'' a movie about a family gathering to celebrate a man's 77th birthday. ``But you have to recognize that you're not the young leading man or the box-office star you used to be, and the picture is not going to sit on your shoulders 100 percent,'' he said. ``It's a natural diminution of power, energy, things of that kind, and the realization that new people are coming up who will take the spotlight. You have to step aside for them.'' __ ZURICH, Switzerland (AP) _ East German figure skating star Katarina Witt debuted as a professional in the U.S.-owned Holiday on Ice show, where she will draw record pay on a nine-week tour. Witt, 22, was featured as an Indian princess Wednesday night in a production based on Jules Verne's novel ``Around The World In 80 Days.'' The show also will play Vienna, Stockholm and two West German cities, Dortmund and Munich between now and February. Show officials confirmed that the two-time Olympic champion will get the highest fee ever paid but said reports that the fee to her and the East German sports federation would total $3.8 million were exaggerated. Witt is the first skater from communist East Germany to join a Western ice revue, show spokesman Ernesto Sartori said. She and her coach designed her own segments, including two solo spots in the 2{-hour show. Witt retired from competition after winning her second Olympic gold medal at the Calgary Winter Games last February. She has said she intends to take acting lessons and is undecided on whether to continue as an ice revue performer after her first season. LOS ANGELES (AP) Singer-songwriter Smokey Robinson, crafter of a jukebox full of hits since the 1960s, has received the highest award of the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers. Robinson, who first received prominence with Motown records during the 1960s as lead singer of the Miracles, received ASCAP's Founders Award on Wednesday for a prolific career that produced such hits as ``You've Really Got A Hold On Me,'' ``Ooh, Baby, Baby'' and ``The Tears of a Clown.'' Previous winners of the Founders Award include Bob Dylan, Stevie Wonder, and Jule Styne. ASCAP President Morton Gould called Robinson ``one of the most prolific and influential figures in pop music.'' Other Robinson-penned hits, many of which he sang himself, are ``Shop Around,'' ``My Girl,'' ``The Tracks of My Tears,'' ``My Guy,'' and ``The Way You Do The Things You Do.'' PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) President P.W. Botha's youngest son, Rossouw, was hospitalized after a snake bit him Thursday during a naval training exercise, military headquarters said. The 19-year-old sailor was bitten by a mountain adder and was in stable condition at a military hospital near Cape Town, the headquarters said. The mountain viper's bite is not fatal, but can severely weaken a victim for a week or more and cause temporary impairment of vision, according to an expert quoted by the South African Press Association. Defense headquarters said Botha was bitten during a training exercise in mountains overlooking False Bay, on the eastern side of the Cape Peninsula. MADRID, Spain (AP) Conductor Jesus Lopez Cobos announced his resignation Thursday as musical director of the Spanish National Orchestra, citing unreconcilable differences with the management. Lopez Cobos said he gave notice that he planned to resign Sunday, after a leading Spanish newspaper quoted several administrators of the state-run orchestra as saying he devotes too little time and energy to his duties. The conductor said he would step down Jan. 30 after fulfilling remaining contractual obligations, and would focus on his other posts as Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra music director, general music director of the Berlin Opera and director of a chamber music group in Switzerland. Lopez Cobos, 48, who has directed the Spanish orchestra for eight years, rejected charges that the orchestra had performed poorly in recent concerts because of insufficient rehearsal. ``I have tried my best to improve the national orchestra and chorus, artistically and socially, even when it worked to the detriment of my professional career outside Spain,'' he said. The conductor said 100 orchestra members had signed a statement supporting him. __ HIGHLAND PARK, Mich. (AP) _ Lee Iacocca, the flamboyant chairman of Chrysler Corp., marked his 10th anniversary with the nation's No. 3 automaker in an uncharacteristic style _ quietly. Iacocca and his staff noted the anniversary Wednesday with a modest party in his office, company spokesman Tony Cervone said. ``It was a quiet celebration. There was no surprise party,'' he said. At the party was a cake in the shape of a minivan, one of the most popular vehicles in the Chrysler stable. Iacocca, who frequently appears on company advertising, became Chrysler's president in 1978 after he was fired as president of Ford Motor Co. AP881103-0130 AP-NR-11-03-88 1520EST r i AM-Soviet-Jews 11-03 0476 AM-Soviet-Jews,0492 Official: Soviet Jews Not Ready to Take Part in World Jewish Congress MOSCOW (AP) A Soviet official said Thursday that Soviet Jews won't be participating in the World Jewish Congress any time soon, although ``initial contacts'' have been made. Foreign Ministry spokesman Gennady I. Gerasimov also said the Soviets will allow private teaching of Hebrew, once punished as a crime in the Soviet Union. Gerasimov was commenting on Wednesday's announcement by an official of the World Jewish Congress that Soviet officials had agreed to allow the teaching of Hebrew and permit the country's 1.8 million Jews to participate in the international organization. A working knowledge of Hebrew is considered an essential part of the religious instruction given to every Jew, but Soviet laws on the books bar the private teaching of religious subjects to anyone under 18. Gerasimov told a government news briefing that Hebrew has been taught as a foreign language at Moscow, Leningrad and Tbilisi universities and now private instruction would be allowed. The Foreign Ministry spokesman said Soviet Jews are just beginning to organize within the country. Gerasimov said officials of the international Jewish group were told by Konstantin Kharchev, chairman of the government's Council for Religious Affairs, that such groups now have ``only initial contacts with the World Jewish Congress and it was too early to speak about possible developments.'' Elan Steinberg, executive director of the World Jewish Congress, said Thursday that ``we have overcome the unwillingness'' of Soviet authorities to allow Soviet Jews to participate in the international body. He said Soviet Jews have no national organization yet that could affiliate with the umbrella group, which represents Jewish groups from 70 countries whose combined Jewish populations total 11 million to 12 million. On Wednesday, following talks with Soviet officials, Steinberg said Soviet authorities had agreed ``that the Soviet Jewish community can participate in the activities of the World Jewish Congress.'' He said at the time that the exact form of participation remained to be worked out. Steinberg also said the teaching of Hebrew would be allowed again. The unsanctioned teaching of Hebrew was once treated here as a criminal offense, and several Jewish activists went to prison for giving unauthorized instruction in the language. They included Josef Begun, who was allowed to emigrate to Israel this year. However, an agreement signed by the Ministry of Culture to establish the first Jewish cultural center in the Soviet Union in more than 50 years says the building may be used in its ``second phase'' for classes in Hebrew and Yiddish, Steinberg said. At Thursday's briefing, Gerasimov also said that 15,700 Soviet Jews received permanent exit visas in the first nine months of 1988. In October, Jewish emigration from the Soviet Union reached an 8{-year high, with 2,473 Jews allowed to leave, according to the Geneva-based Intergovernmental Committee for Migration. AP881103-0131 AP-NR-11-03-88 1522EST r i AM-Maikovskis 11-03 0368 AM-Maikovskis,0380 Government Defense Visa For Man Suspected Of War Crimes By GIRARD C. STEICHEN Associated Press Writer BONN, West Germany (AP) The government on Thursday defended its decision to issue an entry visa to a former U.S. resident accused of war crimes, saying the man had valid travel documents and was not charged in the United States. Boleslav Maikovskis was detained Oct. 19 in Muenster, where he was living while awaiting a decision on a request for political asylum in West Germany. He is being held in prison while war crimes prosecutors investigate the allegations against him. Before coming to West Germany in November 1987, Maikovskis, 84, had lived in Mineola, N.Y. ``This man possessed a valid passport that allowed him re-entry into the United States,'' Foreign Ministry spokesman Reinhard Bettzuege said. ``Mr. Maikovskis was issued a visa of limited duration based on the validity of his passport. He had requested entry to pursue legal matters,'' Bettzuege added. Bettzuege said he did not know details of Maikovskis' legal matters. The Soviet Union in 1965 sentenced Maikovskis to death in absentia for his alleged role in burning down a village and helping murder more than 130 people in the Latvian village of Audrine. The United States began deportation proceedings against him in 1976, but they were held up by several appeals. His last appeal was denied by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1986. Maikovskis' visa was issued by the West German consulate in New York, Bonn officials said. West German government sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity, noted that U.S. officials had not seized Maikovskis' passport and had not brought charges against him. ``At the time of departure, Maikovskis was free to come and go as he pleased to the United States,'' said a government source. ``If U.S. officials had really wanted him that badly, they could have easily gotten him long before he left the country,'' the source told The Associated Press. Last month, the U.S. Justice Department's Office of Special Investigations said it had lost track of Maikovskis and had just discovered he had left the country. Maikovskis was granted a visa based on a passport issued by the Latvian government in exile. AP881103-0132 AP-NR-11-03-88 1522EST r a AM-SchoolWalk 11-03 0510 AM-School Walk,0523 5-Year-Old Must Walk to School While Older Brother Gets A Bus MILWAUKEE (AP) Janet Kiesner's 5-year-old son must walk to the same school his older brother goes to by bus because of a district policy designed to keep down costs. ``It's so dumb. I'd never have enrolled him (in kindergarten) . .. if I had known this would happen,'' said Kiesner, who doesn't drive. ``But now he loves it and I don't want to pull him out.'' Her son Joey is not permitted to take the bus because the Milwaukee Public Schools System prohibits the busing of children in its kindergarten classes for 4-year-olds if the youngsters live less than a mile from school. Older pupils, including those in kindergarten for 5-year-olds, get bus service. The problem, according to Richard F. Wenzel, assistant director of transportation for the district, is state law. It requires that if bus transportation were provided for pupils in 4-year-old kindergarten, it would have to be offered to all children in that age group. ``That would include 4-year-olds at day-care centers all over the city as well as to five miles outside the city,'' Wenzel said. ``There would be quite a financial impact.'' ``If it's too hazardous for a 5-year-old or my third-grader to walk, certainly it's too dangerous for a 4-year-old,'' said a frustrated Kiesner, whose 8-year-old son gets bused to the same school. She said she walks a neighbor's daughter, a 5-year-old kindergarten pupil, to her bus stop each day, waits for the bus to pick up the girl and then walks her younger son about six blocks along a busy city street to get him to the same school. ``To put one little kid on that bus and then have to walk my own child up to the same school seems ridiculous,'' Kiesner said. ``It's not like I'm asking for a special bus. It already stops right here and there's plenty of room,'' she said. School officials said they would like to bus Joey, but they are restricted by the school board's policy. And even though Joey has turned 5, he is still covered by the policy because he remains enrolled in 4-year-old kindergarten. The board has directed Superintendent Robert S. Peterkin to review the district's student assignment process, but Peterkin said no changes are likely to be made until 1990-91. School officials said there are two options for Kiesner. She can select another school farther from her home. According to Wenzel, busing is provided to youngsters in 4-year-old kindergarten if they attend a school more than a mile from home and their attendance enhances the school's racial balance. But Kiesner said she wants to keep her two children in the same school. ``I feel better knowing he (Joey) is in the same school with his brother.'' The second option, Wenzel said, is for Kiesner to negotiate a private contract with the bus company. A bus company spokesman estimated such a contract would cost about $2.50 a day. ``That's beyond my budget. I couldn't afford that,'' Kiesner said. AP881103-0133 AP-NR-11-03-88 1425EST u a PM-MrsAmerica-Sex 1stLd-Writethru a049 11-03 0249 PM-Mrs America-Sex, 1st Ld - Writethru, a049,0251 Some Contestants Complain About Sex Survey and Bikinis Eds: LEADS with two grafs to CORRECT wording of question; PICKS UP 3rd graf pvs, `Pageant president ...' LIHUE, Hawaii (AP) Three contestants in the Mrs. America pageant have complained about being given a survey to fill out on their love lives. According to Mrs. Alabama Diane Gamble, Mrs. Wisconsin Gale Coleman and Mrs. North Carolina Connie Hedrick, the survey included such questions as ``Can you be in love with two men at the same time?'' and ``Outside of the bedroom, where is the most unusual place you have had romance with your husband?'' Pageant president David Marmel said he had not seen the survey, adding that they were used in the past to find out types of products used by contestants for the product-marketing purposes of pageant sponsors. Marmel said the women were not obliged to answer the questions. The three contestants also complained Tuesday about the use of bikinis, saying the skimpy attire was degrading for a pageant featurng mothers and professional women. ``How is it going to look for my fellow workers to see me bumping and grinding in a bikini on national television? It's demeaning, said Mrs. Gamble, a marketing director for an engineering firm. Only single-piece suits were used in state contests leading to the national pageant, she said. Jennifer Kline, 21, of Minnesota, won the pageant that ended Sunday and was televised Tuesday by ABC. AP881103-0134 AP-NR-11-03-88 1439EST u i AM-Korea 11-03 0483 AM-Korea,0501 Riot Police Clash With Youths Demanding Ex-President's Arrest By C.W. LIM Associated Press Writer SEOUL, South Korea (AP) Thousands of students demanding the arrest of former President Chun Doo-hwan clashed with riot police Thursday in one of the worst street protests in recent months. President Roh Tae-woo, on an overseas trip, said he was not troubled and hoped political turmoil in his country would end ``in the not-too-distant future.'' ``I am not much worried about the student protests. Their complaints will eventually disappear in a huge melting furnace of democratic political reforms,'' Roh told reporters aboard a plane which took him to Malaysia, Australia, Indonesia and Brunei. Police said more than 20,000 students from 80 colleges took part in anti-Chun campus rallies or street protests in Seoul and a dozen provincial cities on Thursday, national students' day. They accused the former president of corruption and violating human rights. About 50 students were arrested, mostly in Seoul, said police. They gave no injury figures, but said some youths and policemen suffered cuts and burns. In Seoul, about 5,000 students threw firebombs at 9,000 riot police who blocked their march to Chun's house in a fashionable residential district. Police in armored vans retaliated by firing barrages of tear gas. Many pedestrians and residents cried with pain and choked in a dense fog of the acrid gas. Traffic came to a halt and most shops in the area closed as the fierce fighting continued for several hours. All but a handful of protesters were kept well away from the house. Four youths came within 50 yards of Chun's home and exploded two crude homemade plastic explosives. The four were arrested by police before they escaped. The students' anger appeared centered on the former president, but they also berated his successor. ``Arrest Chun Doo-hwan. Punish (President) Roh Tae-woo,'' they shouted. It was the worst political clash in Seoul since major anti-American protests in the early summer. In about a dozen other provincial cities, including Pusan, Chunchon, Suwon and Ansung, protesters threw firebombs at a police sub-station, a prosecutor's office and a government party building. No injuries or major damage were reported. Anti-government demonstrations have escalated in recent weeks with radical students organizing ``Save-the-Nation Suicide Squads'' and threatening to raid Chun's house to press for his punishment. With public sentiment against Chun, his opponents have been pressing for his arrest. The general antipathy has spilled over to Roh, who critics say has been slow to investigate the corruption charges. Roh and Chun, both former army generals, have been close friends since they were classmates at Korea Military Academy in the 1950s. Roh succeeded Chun, who stepped down at the end of a seven-year term in February. Chun also is being investigated for his alleged role in putting down a 1980 civil uprising in southern Kwangju city. About 200 people died in the military crackdown. AP881103-0135 AP-NR-11-03-88 1745EST r a PM-BRF--BusShooting 11-03 0092 PM-BRF--Bus Shooting,0092 Bus Driver Critical After Being Shot PORT ARTHUR, Texas (AP) A school bus driver was shot in the head and critically wounded today after dropping off her riders at an elementary school, and a 10-year-old passenger was taken into custody, police said. Russell Jean Hampton, 40, was taken to St. Mary's Hospital. She was found slumped over the wheel of the bus, which had run off a road, and had a wound in the base of the skull from a small-caliber handgun, said police Lt. J.W. Fontenot. AP881103-0136 AP-NR-11-03-88 1956EST r i AM-Vietnam-US 11-03 0523 AM-Vietnam-US,0540 Vietnam Returns Remains Of U.S. MIAs By PETER ENG Associated Press Writer BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) Vietnam returned Thursday what it believes to be remains of 23 Americans missing from the Vietnam War, a U.S. spokesman said. A military honor guard saluted solemnly as the remains, each in a metal casket covered with a folded U.S. flag, were loaded onto a U.S. Air Force C-141 transport plane on the sun-baked tarmac of Hanoi's Noi Bai Airport, said Maj. Dan Trout. It was among the largest turnovers since the January 1973 Paris Peace Accords ended U.S. military involvement in the war, in which 58,000 Americans died before the communists defeated the U.S.-backed South Vietnam government in April 1975. The caskets were flown out of the Vietnamese capital en route to Honolulu, where the U.S. Central Identification Laboratory will try to confirm preliminary analyses by the Vietnamese. Trout, spokesman for the U.S. Pacific Command, said Vietnam provided a list of some names and information on the remains, but he had no other details. Sources said earlier that Vietnam has given the United States at least nine names. Trout said among the remains are those of 21 troops the Vietnamese found in their own searches and two soldiers recovered during the first joint field investigation near Hanoi Sept. 25-Oct. 5. Another American military team returned to Bangkok on Thursday after completing the second joint field investigation with the Vietnamese to determine what happened to U.S. airmen lost in northern Vietnam. Trout said since the Paris accords, the United States has received the identified remains of 196 missing people, including 168 from Vietnam, 26 from Laos and two from China. That leaves 2,387 Americans missing in action in Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia. In August 1987, Vietnam's Foreign Minister Nguyen Co Thach and a special U.S. presidential envoy, retired Gen. John W. Vessey, agreed to hasten cooperation on the issue. Thursday's turnover brought to 90 the number of suspected remains Vietnam has provided since then. From them, the U.S. laboratory so far has identified 25 missing Americans. Seven U.S. military specialists returned to Bangkok after the joint field investigation during which they inspected U.S. warplane crash sites and other areas near Hanoi, Trout said. ``They did not find any specific remains this time,'' he said. During the 10-day project, two joint teams searched areas, many of them mountainous, in Son La, Ha Son Binh and Hai Hung provinces. As with the first joint investigation, they were trying to resolve some of the 70 compelling ``discrepancy cases'' where the United States says there is evidence that Vietnamese authorities should have information, including on airmen who were captured but never returned. Most American losses in northern Vietnam were airmen shot down during bombing runs. Thach previously gave Americans until the end of November to complete such investigations and repeated hopes the United States will provide more help in resolving Vietnam's own humanitarian problems. Hanoi is eager for development aid from Washington. U.S. officials say they hope the joint projects will break down some of the deep mistrust that has marked dealings on the issue for many years. AP881103-0137 AP-NR-11-03-88 1956EST r a AM-FakeAchilles 11-03 0528 AM-Fake Achilles,0543 Fake Achilles Head Probably 20th-Century Copy LOS ANGELES (AP) A marble head of Achilles once displayed at the J. Paul Getty Museum as a 2,300-year-old work of art was probably made this century by a student working from a plaster model, an official said. The head, removed from view at the museum in October 1987 because the museum believed it to be a fake, was probably copied from a cast taken from a head on display at the National Archaeological Museum in Athens, said Getty curator Marion True. The head was apparently also rejected as a fake in the early 1930s by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, according to letters found at the Met last year by a curator researching a different subject. ``The letters were just one more element in the whole detective process. This correspondence was an important component,'' Lori Starr, a spokeswoman for the museum, said Thursday. Ms. True said a painstaking study of the marble head by scientists and art experts had answered many of the questions surrounding the head of Achilles, a mythological hero slain by an arrow to his heel. ``The head has always been a problem, but it's one thing to say a thing is false and quite another to prove it,'' she said. `If you condemn something, you have to support your argument.'' Questions remain, however, including whether the museum was knowingly misled by Parisian art dealer Michel de Bry, who sold the piece to the Getty in 1979 for an undisclosed price. Published reports placed the head's value at around $2.5 million. De Bry has been unavailable for comment. ``The museum has taken the necessary steps to return the head to the seller,'' said Ms. Starr, refusing further comment. For now, though, she said the bust was in storage. The marble head had been dated 350-340 B.C. and was believed to have been created by the Greek sculptor and architect Skopas as a temple decoration depicting a Trojan War scene. Many scholars had believed that the head, and another titled the ``Head of Achilles'' in the Greek museum, came from the same studio, probably the same artist or the artist's assistant, and from the same monument. But when placed side-by-side, the Getty head and the Greece museum head proved to be too similar. Cross-section measurements of many parts of the two heads were within a millimeter of each other, said Jerry Podany, conservator of antiquities at Getty. ``It's an incredibly impressive copy,'' he said. Getty officials don't know who crafted the phony Achilles head, but plaster casts were a popular teaching tool in the late 19th century and early 20th century. Ms. True said that the precise workmanship leads her to believe the head was made in the early 20th century. Other evidence proving the head to be a fake were scientific tests on the marble that found the Getty head was made of an entirely different kind of marble than the Greek museum piece, said Ms. True. With a $2.1 billion endowment from oil baron J. Paul Getty, the Malibu museum is the richest art institution in the world. AP881103-0138 AP-NR-11-03-88 1449EST u p AM-NevadaSenate 11-03 0786 AM-Nevada Senate,770 Nevada Senate Battle Remains A TossUp By BRENDAN RILEY Associated Press Writer CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) By rights, Chic Hecht ought to be on the ropes. The Republican senator has committed numerous verbal gaffes, been down by double digits in the polls and _ as Democratic challenger Richard Bryan loves to point out _ been designated the least effective member of the Senate. So why is this race, with less than a week to go until the Nov. 8 election, one of the most hotly contested in the nation? ``His survival has been even more spectacular than the Alaskan whales,'' says Jann Olsten, director of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, the party's Senate campaign arm. Hecht has climbed back to a virtual dead heat with Bryan, according to recent polls. The incumbent has been spending heavily on advertising and has brought in President Reagan to take advantage of his state's heavily Republican character. Reagan made a whistle-stop visit to Reno this week, and Bryan conceded it would give Hecht a ``bump'' of a few percentage points. But he still predicted he would win the tight race. There had been a brief lull in the acrimony that had surfaced early in the campaign, including references to Bryan's sex life and Hecht's intelligence. But there were new accusations of lies and distortions during a final debate this week. Hecht raised allegations that Lt. Gov. Bob Miller, who would take over as governor should Bryan win the Senate seat, was linked to organized crime figures. The outraged governor in turn accused Hecht of ``McCarthyism, naked and blatant,'' and called the remarks ``character assassination in the worst way.'' He challenged Hecht to provide specifics. Hecht declined, saying he based his statement on a newspaper article that reported Miller had talked to people later exposed as organized crime figures. Hecht, 59, complained earlier in the campaign about news accounts citing his verbal miscues. He once referred to a nuclear repository to be located in Nevada as a ``nuclear suppository.'' And in a TV interview last week he mixed up the meanings of the words ``overt'' and ``covert'' in describing his Army intelligence experience: ``Overt is what I did. That means you're undercover.'' Hecht is a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee. And one Bryan ad pointed out that a Senate staff poll had ranked his opponent at the bottom of the 100-member list for effectiveness. Bryan, 51, has sought to distance himself from Michael Dukakis despite his earlier endorsement of the Democratic presidential nominee. He says he supports the old liberalism of Franklin Roosevelt and John F. Kennedy but calls himself a progressive rather than a modern political liberal. Hecht says Bryan, by entering the Senate race, deserted voters who elected him to a second four-year term as governor in 1986. As part of the criticism, the Hecht camp continues to incorrectly say Bryan would be the first Nevada governor to quit in mid-term to get a U.S. Senate seat. Bryan repeatedly criticized Hecht for canceling a northern Nevada debate. However, Bryan did much the same thing in his successful 1982 challenge of then-Gov. Bob List. Hecht outspent Bryan more than 2-to-1 during most of October, according to federal reports filed by the two candidates. Hecht said he spent nearly $1 million from Oct. 1 to Oct. 19, while Bryan spent just over $416,000 in the same period. In addition to the heavy spending and the Reagan visit, Olsten's Washington-based GOP campaign committee began airing new ``generic'' television ads in the closing week of the capaign. The spending blitz prompted Bryan to file a Federal Election Commission complaint against Hecht in one case, to stop the American Medical Association from spending more than $100,000 on Hecht's behalf. But Hecht aides said the AMA political action committee spending was independent of their campaign and charged Bryan was engaged in ``untruths'' to say Hecht and the AMA were trying to buy the election. Also a potential boost to Hecht was George Bush's overwhelming lead in the state, but Bryan campaign chief Sam Singer said Nevadans won't blindly follow a GOP ticket down the line. Endorsements were mixed. The largest newspapers in the state were divided, with the Las Vegas Review-Journal going for Hecht and the Reno Gazette-Journal backing Bryan. Hecht, a Las Vegas businessman, upset Sen. Howard Cannon in 1982 after the incumbent was bloodied during a tough primary fight. Cannon testified just before the election in the trials of then-Teamsters president Roy Lee Williams and mob figure Allen Dorfman. Bryan, also from Las Vegas, served in the state Legislature and also as attorney general prior to his successful bid for governor in 1982 and re-election in 1986. AP881103-0139 AP-NR-11-03-88 2023EST r a AM-SpoletoFestival 11-03 0287 AM-Spoleto Festival,0296 Festival Unveils 1989 Program By BRUCE SMITH Associated Press Writer CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) The popular Colla Marionettes from Italy return to the Spoleto Festival U.S.A. next season in a festival that will offer selections from the traditional to the avante-garde. Officials announced Thursday the lineup for the 13th annual festival, which includes a production of Mozart's ``The Marriage of Figaro,'' a new production of the rarely performed opera ``La Straniera'' by Bellini and the premiere of a dance-theater production by Laurie Anderson. ``The 1988 festival set an extraordinarily high standard,'' festival General Manager Nigel Redden said. ``It was a stepping off point for 1989 and I think 1989 will do it one better.'' The dance program includes a new work, ``Tango-Orfeo,'' by choreographer-director Graciela Daniele and Argentine tango composer Astor Piazzolla. Dance offerings also include the young dance company ISO, the Trisha Brown Company and the Bill T. Jones-Arnie Zane & Co. group. The Westminster Choir will perform Mozart's ``Requiem'' at the festival which will be Joseph Flummerfelt's last as choral director after 13 years with Spoleto. The theater offerings include a one-man show by Paul Zaloom who takes a satirical look at contemporary life. The marionettes, who performed before sold-out houses at the 1987 festival, also will return. A major theater production will be announced later, as will the festival jazz and visual arts programs, Redden said. There are no offerings from composer Gian Carlo Menotti, the festival's artistic director, but Redden said Menotti is ``working on something for the 1990 festival.'' Redden added Spoleto will continue the recent trend of producing more of its own productions and offering premieres. The Spoleto Festival U.S.A. runs May 26 through June 11, 1989. AP881103-0140 AP-NR-11-03-88 1959EST r i AM-Poland-Talks 11-03 0488 AM-Poland-Talks,0504 Walesa Says No Talks with Government For Now With AM-Poland-Thatcher, Bjt By DEBORAH G. SEWARD Associated Press Writer GDANSK, Poland (AP) Solidarity leader Lech Walesa said Thursday that no climate exists for talks with authorities, and he won't reply to a government proposal for a meeting until Britain's prime minister ends her visit. Walesa said at a news conference that he received a letter from Interior Minister Gen. Czesalaw on Wednesday. The letter invited Walesa to meet to remove obstacles to convening long-promised talks between the government and representatives of the outlawed Solidarity trade union movement. It was the first time Kiszczak approached Walesa directly about setting up a meeting. Their previous three meetings since Aug. 31 were arranged by mediators. The state-run PAP news agency said Kiszczak proposed a meeting to discuss ``the number and list of participants ..., the question of chairing the debate and the sequence of speeches, press coverage and time length'' of the proposed talks. Though he has not formulated his reply due to preparation for a meeting with Prime Minster Margaret Thatcher, Walesa said he was interested to meet Kiszczak to discuss ``important issues.'' At St. Brygida's Church, where Mrs. Thatcher will dine with Walesa and other Solidarity leaders Friday, workers put up a giant Union Jack and a sign saying ``Solidarity Gdansk Welcomes Mrs. Thatcher.'' Walesa said he would repeat Solidarity's position that the composition of his team to the talks is not open to discussion. ``If there are other subjects than our internal and personnel problems, important problems, then I am ready to take up talks on those subjects at any time. But talks cannot concern our internal affairs,'' he said. Government objections to longtime Solidarity advisers Jacek Kuron and Adam Michnik delayed the start of the talks, which the authorities first proposed during a strikes in August. Walesa ended the strikes, Poland's worst labor unrest in seven years, after the government promised the talks and said they would include discussion of Solidarity's future. Kiszczak's letter came two days after the government announced it would close the Lenin Shipyard, where Solidarity was formed, for financial reasons. The decision, made by Prime Minister Mieczyslaw F. Rakowski, appears to have soured Solidarity's attitude toward the government. But Walesa, an electrician at the Gdansk shipyard, said Solidariy was still eager for the talks. ``There is no climate for the round table, but we want it very much. We are ready at any moment,'' he said. Walesa said Solidarity was a catalyst for reform and it favored reforming the economy, but he said, ``What happened to the shipyard is unclear and illogical and it is simply a political mistake.'' The Solidarity leader is on unpaid leave from the shipyard dealing with union business. He said if the yard closes, he will work in a shipyard somewhere else, because his years in the yard were ``the most beautiful of my life.'' AP881103-0141 AP-NR-11-03-88 2031EST r p AM-Schwarzenegger-Bush 11-03 0263 AM-Schwarzenegger-Bush,260 Movie He-Man Puts Muscle Behind GOP Ticket CHICAGO (AP) When George Bush decided to put some real muscle behind his campaign, he got a boost from one of the world's most well-known he-men, Arnold Schwarzenegger. Schwarzenegger traveled on the campaign trail with Bush on Thursday, giving a 1988 twist to the 1984 campaign and advertising question, ``Where's the beef?'' The world-class bodybuilder and star of action movies revved up rally audiences with his introduction of Bush as ``a real live American hero.'' Noting his bad-guy role in the futuristic movie, ``The Terminator,'' Schwarzenegger told a boistrous high school audience here and a Columbus, Ohio, rally earlier in the day: ``I only play The Terminator in my movies. But when it comes to America's future, Michael Dukakis will be the real terminator.` He also noted his political differences with his wife, television news personality Maria Shriver, who as a niece of Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., and the late President John Kennedy is a member of the family that epitomizes the liberal Democratic tradition. ``It is true that I have different political views from my wife,'' Schwarzenegger said. But he said that was not a problem. ``Everything is just fine, especially since I got used to sleeping in the garage,'' he quipped. Schwarzenegger, an Austrian immigrant, has long supported Republicans and conservatives. He said when he became a U.S. citizen, he chose the GOP because ``the choice was clear.'' A beaming Bush happily raised arms with Schwarzenegger at the end of the rallies, and said the bodybuilder embodies the immigrant spirit. AP881103-0142 AP-NR-11-03-88 1959EST r a AM-CadetsStricken 11-03 0680 AM-Cadets Stricken,0700 25-Year-Old Cadet Dies Six Weeks After Collapsing at Police Academy By TRUDY TYNAN Associated Press Writer PITTSFIELD, Mass. (AP) A police academy cadet has died six weeks after he and two dozen other trainees fell ill from rigorous exercises, and his family's lawyer urged Thursday that the instructors be charged with manslaughter. Timothy Shepard, 25, died late Wednesday at a Pittsburgh hospital where he had undergone a liver transplant operation. He was in a coma for two weeks, then emerged, only to lose consciousness again Monday. Doctors removed a blood clot from his brain but could not stem the hemorrhaging. An autopsy was scheduled and a formal state inquest into the death is planned, state Attorney General James Shannon said Thursday. Flags were lowered to half-staff in Pittsfield. The family's attorney, Michael D. Hashim, described the Shepards as devastated. ``He came so close to making it,'' Hashim said. Just four days before Shepard died, he had written his pregnant wife of five months, Holly: ``I'm going to make it.'' Hashim said the state troopers who oversaw the cadets' training at the Agawam academy should be indicted. ``I believe we have a clear-cut case of involuntary manslaughter here,'' Hashim said. ``They ignored conditions that placed the cadets in harm.'' Cadets' reports of hours of exercise on only a few cups of water sparked at least four state reviews. Shannon announced last week at the end of his investigation that the Agawam academy was ``a massive failure.'' The investigations have begun a shakeup of the agency that runs the state's regional police academies and supervises training for other law enforcement groups. The director of the state Criminal Justice Training Council resigned Wednesday and his replacement immediately abolished so-called stress training, a grueling program of intentionally confusing orders, verbal abuse and demanding exercise that was blamed in part for the cadets' dehydration and exhaustion. Sixteen cadets were hospitalized during their first week at the academy, where state troopers trained recruits for police departments in western Massachusetts. Half the class of 50 suffered kidney ailments because of the training regimen, according to Shannon's report. On Thursday, he said Hampden District Attorney Michael J. Ryan had agreed to conduct an inquest into Shepard's death. ``The Shepard family and the public are entitled to a full explanation of Mr. Shepard's death,'' the attorney general said. He said he did not believe he had evidence to bring criminal charges, but hinted that the inquest could lead to an indictment. ``There are potentially different legal consequences when death occurs,'' he said. Gov. Michael S. Dukakis said in a statement: ``Nothing can make up for the Shepard family's loss, but they should know that the circumstances of this tragedy are of great concern to me. This administration is already moving swiftly to do all we can to ensure that it never happen again.'' Shepard was pronounced dead at 11:20 p.m. Wednesday at Presbyterian-University Hospital in Pittsburgh. Word of the death was not released until Thursday at the family's request. Shepard never regained the strength to breathe and speak on his own after falling unconscious on a running track Sept. 19, but he communicated with his family in writing. Shepard's wife, who maintained a vigil at the hospital with his parents, recalled last week how he had run laps to prepare for the academy and borrowed law books from friends. ``He wanted to be tops at the academy,'' she said. ``He wanted to graduate No. 1 in his class.'' Friends and co-workers raised $10,000 for the young man voted Youth of the Year by the Pittsfield Boys' Club in 1981. His medical bills exceeded $330,000, according to Mayor Anne Wojtkowski. ``He was a kid with intestinal fortitude who wasn't a quitter,'' said James Mooney, executive director of the Boys' Club. ``He stood right up against the training and it killed him. He even showed his fortitude by clinging to life as long as he did. He never gave up. We've got to straighten out that system so young fellows don't have to go through that.'' AP881103-0143 AP-NR-11-03-88 2032EST r i AM-Michener 11-03 0392 AM-Michener,0402 Author's First Book about Canada to Benefit Canadian Writers Eds: All dollar figures U.S. By SOLL SUSSMAN Associated Press Writer TORONTO (AP) James Michener will use Canadian royalties from ``Journey,'' his first novel about Canada, to establish a fund for promoting the nation's fiction writers and their work, his publisher said Thursday. Judy Brunsek of McClelland and Stewart said ``Journey,'' just arriving in bookstores, should earn $164,000 in royalties the first year. A $8,200 prize will be awarded annually to a piece of Canadian short fiction selected from about 25 to 30 small literary journals across the country. It and others chosen by a literary jury will be published as a volume each year, with the first scheduled for 1989. In an interview with the Toronto Star, Michener was quoted as saying he felt it improper to ``barge in here and publish a book and take royalties out of the country.'' ``Journey'' is set in the Klondike in 1897-99, during the gold rush, and tells of four Englishmen and an Irishman who travel to the Canadian Northwest. Ms. Brunsek said the 220-page book began as part of ``Alaska,'' one of Michener's sprawling bestsellers, but was cut to bring the length down to 868 pages. ``He gets attached to his characters and decided he had read enough to perhaps expand it,'' she said in a telephone interview. ``Because it was set in Canada, he felt very strongly about getting published in Canada.'' ``He called us one day,'' she said, laughing. ``We couldn't quite believe it. ... We of course jumped at the chance.'' Plans are for ``Journey'' to be published in the United States next year by Random House, the author's American publisher. U.S. royalties will not be affected by the Canadian arrangement. The 81-year-old author agreed to the plans for a short-fiction prize during a promotional visit to Toronto earlier this week. He and Pierre Berton, whose popular histories of northern Canada figured in the research for ``Alaska,'' made a joint appearance Monday night. Michener was quoted by the Star as saying he was ``caught up'' by the story of the five men in the portion cut from ``Alaska'' and ``became intensely interested in what would have happened to them.'' He said his next long novel will be about the Caribbean and probably will be published in 1990. AP881103-0144 AP-NR-11-03-88 2036EST r i AM-Mozambique 11-03 0298 AM-Mozambique,0306 Mozambique Rebels Ambush Train From South Africa MAPUTO, Mozambique (AP) Rightist rebels ambushed a passenger train en route from South Africa to Maputo, killing eight people and injuring 38, Mozambique's national news agency AIM reported Thursday. State radio blamed Wednesday's attack on ``forces within South Africa'' trying to wreck an ongoing peace initiative between Marxist-ruled Mozambique and South Africa. In South Africa, Foreign Minister Pik Botha condemned the bombing and reiterated that his government no longer supports the guerrilla Mozambican National Resistance. In a statement, Botha said South Africa is opposed to violence as a means of settling the Mozambique conflict. AIM said the train hit a land mine 30 miles northwest of Maputo then was fired on by rebels, who have waged a hit-and-run insurgency since 1977. President Joaquim Chissano's government contended South Africa violated a 1984 non-aggression pact and continued to aid the guerrillas. But relations between the neighbors have improved. Chissano and South African President P.W. Botha held a summit meeting in September and Pik Botha last month opened new offices for Pretoria's trade mission in Maputo. A Radio Mozambique commentary said unspecified elements in South Africa were helping the rebels in attempts to destroy the peace initiative. ``The forces that command banditry, at whatever level they are to be found within South African society, are telling us through the explosions of these mines, the rattle of these machine guns, that they do not want peace and cooperation between Mozambique and South Africa,'' the radio said. ``They want war, death and destruction.'' Mozambican sources in the past have suggested a possible split within the South African government regarding Mozambique, with relatively moderate Foreign Affairs officials favoring rapprochement and some military officers wanting covert aid for the rebels to keep Mozambique weak. AP881103-0145 AP-NR-11-03-88 2039EST r i AM-Germany-Asylum 11-03 0415 AM-Germany-Asylum,0431 Lawmaker Urges West Germany Reject Asylum Requests By NESHA STARCEVIC Associated Press Writer FRANKFURT, West Germany (AP) A conservative politician on Thursday urged the government to deny political asylum to refugees from Eastern Europe and deport them. The suggestion by Bavarian Interior Minister Edmund Stoiber drew immediate rebukes from other politicians and added fire to a nationwide debate on whether liberal asylum rules should be restricted. Stoiber said asylum seekers from countries like Poland and Hungary ``generally were not politically persecuted'' and only came to West Germany in search of jobs. He said asylum laws should be changed so that ``economic'' refugees from Eastern Europe can be sent back at West German borders. A record influx of people seeking asylum has stretched West Germany's social services. On Thursday, Frankfurt Airport opened a $1.4 million building to house 200 asylum seekers. Although West Germany rarely officially grants asylum to Soviet bloc refugees, they are in most cases allowed to remain in the country and usually given internationally accepted travel documents. ``We must reconsider this policy toward the East in light of political changes there,'' Stoiber said, referring to Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev's drive for reforms. He also noted Sweden recently announced it will stop giving asylum to Soviet citizens. Anke Fuchs, a leading member of the opposition Social Democrats, called Stoiber's statement ``irresponsible.'' ``There is no place for appeals to lower insticts of many people,'' said Ulrich Irmer, a lawmaker of the government coalition Free Democratic party. The political debate began when a senior Social Democratic official suggested in October that ethnic Germans arriving from the Soviet Union and other East European countries should be treated in the same way as other asylum seekers. Oskar Lafontaine, a leftist deputy chairman of the Social Democrats, was criticized even by party colleagues. The West German government has been urging Soviet bloc countries to allow more ethnic Germans to leave for many years. The ethnic Germans automatically receive German citizenship when they arrive. Third World immigrants seeking asylum, however, often face a long and uncertain battle to get residence and work permits. More than 132,400 ethnic Germans arrived in the first nine months of this year from the Soviet Union, Poland and Romania. The number of newly arrived ethnic Germans was 51,900 at the same time last year. Federal officials say they recevied 68,285 asylum applications from Jan. 1 to Sept. 30, more than double the number of 36,869 during the same period last year. AP881103-0146 AP-NR-11-03-88 2040EST r a AM-AIDSmuggling 11-03 0332 AM-AID Smuggling,320 US Official Pleads Guilty to Smuggling By ANITA WOMACK Associated Press Writer ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) An employee of the Agency for International Development pleaded guilty Thursday to charges he used his diplomatic passport to illegally transport jewelry from Hong Kong to India. David Devin, 44, a project development officer for Asia and the Near East, pleaded guilty to a charge of misuing his diplomatic passport following negotiations between his attorney and prosecutors. Officials said Devin purchased gold in Hong Kong and took it to India, where gold imports are prohibited except for certain licensed dealers and refiners. They said the proceeds were transferred out of India to the United States, where Devin purchased real estate in Seattle, Wash. U.S. Customs officials confiscated about $29,800 in cash and $3,424 in wholesale jewelry, which Devin agreed to forfeit. U.S. District Judge Claude Hilton released Devin was released on personal recognizance bond pending sentencing next Feb. 10. He could receive between six months and one year in prison. Devin, of Annandale, Va., has been placed on administrative leave from his $63,434-a-year job, AID officials said. However, Mary O'Mara, an AID investigator, said action to formally dismiss Devin should soon be completed. AID officials said Devin traveled to Hong Kong twice and purchased gold worth about $112,000. Jewelers in Hong Kong partially financed the gold purchases. Devin then left for India, using his diplomatic passport, and delivered gold to the Indian jewelers. Officials said Devin persuaded a fellow employee who was assigned to the AID in India to pick up about $40,000 of the money and deliver it to Devin in Washington. The AID employee who allegedly assisted Devin is under investigation, but has not been charged, authorities said. They said officials were alerted to Devin's smuggling scheme when he asked another employee to take a package from India to the United States. The employee became suspicious about what the package contained, opened it and discovered a large amount of cash. AP881103-0147 AP-NR-11-03-88 2040EST r i AM-CrystalNight 11-03 0239 AM-Crystal Night,0245 Jewish Leader Appeals for Calm Amid Dispute over Crystal Night BERLIN (AP) The leader of West German Jews said Thursday a dispute over whether he should address parliament on the 50th anniversary of a Nazi pogrom should not cloud the memorials to its victims. ``In no way should the somber weight of (Crystal Night) be overshadowed by partisan bickering and personal self-interest,'' said Heinz Galinski, head of the German Jewish Council. Galinski made the remarks after a leader of Frankfurt's Jewish community accused him of trying every means to address parliament. The Bundestag, the lower house of parliament, declined to invite Galinski to address a special Nov. 10 session marking the anniversary of Kristallnacht, when Nazi thugs ransacked Jewish property and synagogues. The pogrom got its name meaning ``Crystal Night'' because of the shards of glass that littered the streets after the rampage. Opposition Greens legislators had called for the Bundestag to invite Galinski, but the motion was rejected on procedural grounds. Galinski said Thursday he was ``drawn into the embarrassing discussion.'' The main Kristallnacht anniversary ceremony in West Germany will be in Frankfurt on Nov. 9 and will be attended by President Richard von Weizsaecker and Chancellor Helmut Kohl. Extensive ceremonies are planned throughout the country to mark the pogrom in which dozens of people were killed during the night of Nov. 9-10, 1938. More than 250 synagogues and 7,500 businesses were destroyed. AP881103-0148 AP-NR-11-03-88 2042EST r i AM-Nigeria 11-03 0200 AM-Nigeria,0207 Nigerian Politicians Arrested For Holding Illegal Meetings LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) Intelligence police said Thursday they are interrogating 25 politicians arrested during an illegal meeting. An officer who spoke on condition of anonymity said the men had held other meetings, apparently to plot strategy for next year when a ban on political activities will be lifted. The officer said detectives arrested the men Tuesday at a Lagos club and probably will charge them. He did not name the politicians but said they included two former national officers of Unity Party of Nigeria and members of the Nigeria People's Party and National Party of Nigeria. Under former President Shehu Shagari, the National Party formed the country's last civilian government. Shagari was ousted in a 1983 coup and the country's 50-plus political parties were outlawed. Babangida, who seized power from another military ruler three years ago, has promised to allow political activity from mid-1989 in preparation for a return to civilian rule in 1992. But he has said only two parties will be allowed when the military relinquishes power. This oil-rich West African nation, the continent's most populous, has suffered seven military coups since its 1960 independence from Britain. AP881103-0149 AP-NR-11-03-88 2043EST r i AM-SriLanka 11-03 0254 AM-Sri Lanka,0263 Strike Disrupts Life in Srl Lanka By PATRICK CRUEZ Associated Press Writer COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) A nationwide strike called Thursday by Sinhalese militants to mourn the deaths of three university students closed stores and stranded thousands of commuters. Heavily armed troops escorted a few government-operated buses packed with commuters. The government imposed a six-hour curfew beginning at 11 p.m. Wednesday to counter the strike call, which it said was part of a plot to disrupt general elections. In a statement, the government warned ``subversive elements'' would try to disrupt normal life Thursday as a ``forerunner to a planned attempt to disrupt the presidential and parliamentary elections and deny people the right to vote.'' Presidential elections are scheduled for Dec. 19, and parliamentary elections are due by August 1989. The militant Sinhalese People's Liberation Front called Thursday's strike through posters on walls urging people to protest about three university students allegedly tortured to death by the son of a government legislator. One of the biggest state newspaper chains, Associated Newspapers of Ceylon, ignored Front demands it stop publication. The communist newspaper Aththa bowed to the threat and did not publish. The Front is the vanguard of a Sinhalese backlash against a July 1987 peace accord to end the five-year Tamil separatist war. Since then, the government has blamed the Front for more than 500 assassinations. The radicals contend the accord makes too many concessions to mainly-Hindu minority Tamils, who say they are discriminated against by the majority Buddhist Sinhalese. AP881103-0150 AP-NR-11-03-88 2043EST r i AM-China-Animals 11-03 0269 AM-China-Animals,0277 10 Species Face Extinction in China, Report Says BEIJING (AP) Ten rare species of animals, including the Asian elephant and the black gibbon, will disappear from China in 40 years if the population keeps growing at its current rate, the World Wildlife Foundation says. The foundation's report said that because China must concentrate on providing food, clothes and shelter for its growing population, it lacks the funds to protect endangered species. The report, quoted by the overseas edition of the official People's Daily, said other animals facing extinction are the argali, a wild sheep; Huanan tiger; Northeast tiger; Bactrian camel; crest ibis; black neck crane; Chinese alligator and globefish. Some of the animals exist outside China. China is the world's most populous nation. It has 1.08 billion people, and the population is expected to be at least 1.25 billion by the end of this century. The Wildlife Foundation report noted that many endangered species live in isolated areas inhabited mainly by minority nationalities, who are exempt from the nation's strict family planning policies and are using more and more natural resources. Some rare animals, including the giant panda and the golden monkey, are caught and killed, it said. Chinese experts say there are now fewer than 1,000 pandas living in the wild in several areas of southwest China. The Wildlife Foundation has spent $4 million over the past eight years to help the Chinese protect pandas. The report said wild animals have almost been wiped out in isolated areas of the Qinghai-Tibet plateau of western China as a result of increases in population and livestock. AP881103-0151 AP-NR-11-03-88 2045EST r w AM-DC-Congress 11-03 0512 AM-DC-Congress,500 D.C. Sues To Stop Congressional Order on Gay Rights By RICHARD KEIL Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) The District of Columbia Council filed a lawsuit against the federal government Thursday, claiming that a congressional order changing a city statute on gay rights is unconstitutional. Sen. William Armstrong, R-Colo., attached an amendment to the city's spending bill for the current fiscal year directing the city to allow religiously affiliated educational institutions to deny certain rights to gay student organizations. Should the city fail to comply with this order, all federal and local funds would be frozen after Dec. 31. ``We have been placed upon the horns of a dilemma by the Armstrong amendment,'' the 13 members of the council said in a statement. Noting that each member has sworn to uphold the Constitution, ``we feel that we would violate this oath if we were to adopt the language directed by the Armstrong amendment.'' The lawsuit was filed in U.S. District Court only after city officials were unable to persuade Armstrong to withdraw the measure, council chairman David Clarke said. The suit seeks a preliminary injunction against the cutoff of district funds while the matter remains in litigation. Under federal law, the city's budget must be approved by Congress. The suit claims the amendment violates First Amendment prohibitions against governmental establishment of religion and abridges First Amendment protection of free speech and association by authorizing discrimination against gay student groups. The suit also charges that the amendment violates the council members' right to free speech by requiring them to vote to enact the amendment. ``Never before has Congress been so coercive in dealing with a state or local government,'' said attorney Michael Greenberger, who helped prepare the lawsuit. ``Here they're saying, in effect, `If you don't do this one little thing, your government is down the drain.''' Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, who chairs the Senate appropriations panel that reviews the city's budget, has advocated legal action against the federal government. ``I would encourage the district government to seek legal redress (from enforcing the Armstrong amendment),'' Harkin stated in a letter to Clarke dated Oct. 7. ``In my opinion ... this provision raises legitimate constitutional questions about the rights of District of Columbia Council.'' The district's non-voting House delegate, Walter Fauntroy, said the lawsuit was the only action available to the city. The suit ``is the legitimate exercise of the right of any local government within the United States to seek redress through the judicial branch when a significant legal question is at stake,'' Fauntroy said in a prepared statement. Mayor Marion Barry Jr. was out of the country and not immediately available for comment. The city's human rights office had found Georgetown University discriminated against gay groups by not providing them rooms and meeting space. The Roman Catholic school agreed earlier this year to provide the groups meeting space and access to student funds only after two courts had upheld the city's finding. The university has stated it will abide by the agreement with the city, despite the congressional action. AP881103-0152 AP-NR-11-03-88 2051EST r i AM-UN-Cambodia 11-03 0482 AM-UN-Cambodia,0498 U.N. Assembly Urges Vietnamese Withdrawal from Cambodia By PETER JAMES SPIELMANN Associated Press Writer UNITED NATIONS (AP) The General Assembly voted overwhelmingly Thursday to approve a resolution calling for Vietnam to withdraw its troops from Cambodia, the 10th straight year it has done so. U.S. Ambassador Vernon A. Walters told the Assembly that ``Vietnam's illegal occupation of Cambodia remains the root cause of the conflict in Cambodia today.'' Walters said an ``essential element of any political settlement is the removal of Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot'' and his lieutenants who presided over the deaths of 2 million Cambodians from 1975 to 1978. Applause rippled through the hall after the 122-19 vote was announced. There were three abstentions. Vietnamese Ambassador Trinh Xuan Lang said the resolution continues ``to distort the realities in Kampuchea,'' the Cambodian capital, and does not stress strongly enough that the Khmer Rouge must be barred from power. China'a ambassador, Li Luye, said the ``Vietnamese authorities continue to prolong their gross violation of the sovereignty of Kampuchea and violation of the rights of its people.'' China is the main supplier of the Cambodian resistance coalition, which also receives U.S. aid. The Soviet Union backs Vietnam and the government it has installed in Cambodia. Walters called for internationally supervised, free elections by the Cambodian people. He also called for an international monitoring and peacekeeping force to oversee Vietnam's troop withdrawal and the disarming of all Cambodian factions, particularly the Khmer Rouge. The U.S. envoy said that for the first time in nearly 10 years of Vietnamese occupation, ``there is reason for cautious optimism regarding Cambodia's future.'' He cited Vietnam's announcement in May that it would withdraw 50,000 of its 130,000 troops from Cambodia by the end of the year; a meeting in Jakarta, Indonesia, among Cambodian factions, the Vietnamese and Southeast Asian nations; and talks between Chinese and Soviet vice foreign ministers in Beijing in late August. But Walters said that there have been few concrete signs of a major movement of Vietnamese forces out of Cambodia. The resolution sponsored by the Association of South-East Asian Nations calls for international supervision to make sure there is no return to the ``universally condemned policies of a recent past.'' Cambodia's seat in the 159-member General Assembly is shared by an anti-Vietnam resistance coalition that includes the Khmer Rouge, now led by Khieu Samphan. The other members of the resistance coalition are non-Communist forces led by former Cambodian head of state Prince Norodom Sihanouk, and followers of former Prime Minister Son Sann's Khmer People's National Liberation Front. Son Sann said Wednesday the Cambodian government should dissolve and merge with the three resistance partners in a transitional government. He said the Vietnamese have been using ``genocidal'' tactics such as moving peasants from their villages and using them to clear minefields near the border. He said 70 percent of them contracted malaria. AP881103-0153 AP-NR-11-03-88 2052EST r a AM-SovietArchivist 11-03 0673 AM-Soviet Archivist,0690 Much of Soviet Past Buried in Archives; Key Papers Gone, Top Historian Says LaserPhoto NY8 By JEAN-CLAUDE BOUIS Associated Press Writer NEW YORK (AP) Much of the Soviet Union's state archives, the repository for memories long denied to the Soviet people, remain closed to scholars even during this era of glasnost, says the man who trains the nation's historians. ``The process of democratization and accessibility of the archives is going very slowly, much more slowly than any of us want,'' said Yuri N. Afanasyev, director of Moscow's State Historical Archives Institute since 1986 and a confidant of President Mikhail S. Gorbachev. Afanasyev, whose institute has 270 professors and 4,500 students, also said in an interview that key documents, including the Stalin-Hitler pact that helped spark World War II, have disappeared from the national archives. ``I don't know for a fact that the Stalin archives haven't been destroyed. I do know that some very important documents have disappeared,'' he said. ``For instance, the (Hitler-Stalin) pact and the secret protocols that go with it have vanished. They're simply not in the Soviet archives,'' Afanasyev said. He was referring to the 1939 non-aggression accord that freed Nazi Germany to invade Poland and led to the Soviet seizure of Polish territory and the takeover of the Baltic republics of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. The Soviet Union has traditionally denied the existence of the pact's protocols because they would raise embarrassing questions about the historical basis for Eastern European boundaries. The Soviets, however, have recently suggested the original protocols and maps, copies of which were discovered in Nazi archives and published in the West, might have been lost. For many Soviets, the first opportunity to learn the details of the pact came in an article in Sovietskaya Rossiya, one of the Soviet Union's largest newspapers, in August, following widespread independence demonstrations in the Baltic republics. The 54-year-old Afanasyev, a vocal advocate of glasnost or selective openness, was asked about other state papers covering Stalin's conduct of the war, the Great Terror of the 1930s, the collectivization of agriculture, and the famine and purges that killed millions. ``There is no basis for assuming that the archives are untouched and undamaged. After all, a regime that murdered millions of people certainly wouldn't hesitate to destroy a piece of paper,'' said Afanasyev, a member of the Communist Party since 1961. Afanasyev did not say when he believed the documents had disappeared. Asked about the possibility of archives being shredded nowadays, he said it would be ``very difficult,'' and that he knew of ``nothing to sound an alarm about.'' ``I am the victim along with all other historians. I stand with those who suffer from the hardship of lack of access,'' said Afanasyev, who has kept a high profile by writing unprecedented critical items in the mainstream Soviet press. In a much-discussed letter to the editor in Pravda this summer, he questioned some of the fundamental notions in the current system of Soviet socialism. He also has pushed for the rehabilitation of Soviet ``non-persons'' such as Leon Trotsky. Afanasyev also is a proponent of perestroika, the restructuring of Soviet society, which has included efforts to discredit the Stalinist regime and many aspects of its brutally imposed command economy. ``The trouble is that in archives, as in many other things in the Soviet Union, the dominant theme seems to be uncertainty and vagueness,'' said Afanasyev. ``You can't talk about perestroika until we know what we want to restructure. We have to have an exhaustive, complete picture of what the reality is,'' said Afanasyev. ``For the moment, archives are mostly inaccessible _ I mean, the interesting parts,'' Afanasyev. Some of those interesting parts, he added, are accessible only in the United States. The interview with Afansyev, who also is a specialist in French history, was conducted partly in Russian with the help of an American translator and partly in French. Afanasyev traveled to about a dozen U.S. universities last month to discuss expanding their exchange programs with his institute. AP881103-0154 AP-NR-11-03-88 2100EST r i AM-Germany-France 11-03 0238 AM-Germany-France,0246 Kohl, Mitterrand Agree To Work Closely In Policies Toward The Soviet Union By GIRARD STEICHEN Associated Press Writer BONN, West Germany (AP) Chancellor Helmut Kohl and visiting President Francois Mitterrand of France agreed Thursday their countries should work more closely in developing policies toward the Kremlin, Kohl's spokesman said. ``The two underlined the enormous importance of stronger cooperation in this area for the development of relations with countries of the Warsaw Pact,'' Kohl spokesman Friedhelm Ost told reporters. In an 80-minute meeting with Mitterrand, Kohl described his recent summit in Moscow with Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev, Ost said. Mitterrand is scheduled to visit Moscow later this month. Kohl also said West Germany supported France's efforts to reduce its trade deficit, Ost said. The spokesman said West German advisers will help with these efforts, but he did not elaborate. The West German chancellor also spoke with French Premier Michel Rocard, according to Ost. Kohl and Rocard, discussed obstacles that remain to the European Economic Community's plans for removing trade barriers within its borders by 1992, as well as environmental protection and cooperation in high-technology areas, Ost said. Mitterrand and Rocard, accompanied by other French officials, arrived at Bonn-Cologne airport Thursday to begin two days of talks with West German leaders. Mitterrand also met with President Richard von Weizsaecker. On Thursday night, Mitterrand attended a dinner in Bonn held in his honor at the Schaumburg Palace. AP881103-0155 AP-NR-11-03-88 2001EST r i AM-Israel-Settlements 11-03 0411 AM-Israel-Settlements,0424 Jewish Settlers Vow to Build New Settlements With AM-Israel, Bjt By LOUIS MEIXLER Associated Press Writer JERUSALEM (AP) The Jewish settlers movement said Thursday it plans to set up 50 more communities in the occupied territories and urged the political parties likely to form Israel's new government to endorse their proposal. Spokesmen for the Gush Emunim settlers' movement, or Bloc of the Faithful, also said the group was ready to set up four new communities within days in the occupied Gaza Strip. The government must approve all new settlements in the Palestinian-dominated West Bank and Gaza Strip, which Israel has occupied since the 1967 Middle East war. More than 130 settlements have been established so far, but only 11 have been set up in the four years that Israel has been governed by a coalition of the right-wing Likud bloc and the left-leaning Labor Party. Palestinans launched an uprising in the occupied lands Dec. 8 against Israeli rule and have vigorously opposed Jewish settlements in their territories. More than 300 Palestinians and 10 Israelis have died in the uprising. Likud won 39 seats to Labor's 38 in parliament elections Tuesday, and is expected to form a new coalition government with smaller right-wing and religious parties that support more settlements. Gush Emunim representatives met Wednesday with right-wing and religious political parties likely to join Likud in the new government. ``We explained to them nicely that in the comming days we're going to create settlements'' in the Gaza Strip, Menahem Beit Halahmi told army radio Thursday. He is spokesman for several existing settlements in Gaza. The settlers also said they were ready to establish seven new communities in the West Bank, said a Gush Emunim representative who spoke on condition of anonymity. The 11 settlements are part of the group's three-year plan to build 50 new communities in occupied lands, he said. The plan was unveiled in meetings with leaders of the Moledet, Tehiya and Tzomet nationalist parties and the National Religious Party, the representative said. A settlers' group statement said the talks resulted in agreement that the settlement issue would be brought up by the smaller parties with Likud. Yitzhak Rath, a spokesman for the National Religious Party, said the issue would be brought up in meetings with Likud. In Gaza, 2,500 Jewish settlers live in 19 settlements, and about 70,000 Jewish settlers live in 114 West Bank settlements. About 1.5 million Palestinians live in the occupied lands. AP881103-0156 AP-NR-11-03-88 2102EST r i AM-Australia-Heroin 11-03 0234 AM-Australia-Heroin,0242 Australia Giving Drug Addicts Free Heroin in AIDS Experiment CANBERRA, Australia (AP) Doctors will give free heroin to a group of drug addicts in an experiment to prevent the spread of AIDS, the National Health and Medical Research Council said Thursday. The council has approved the trial provision of prescription heroin in single-use syringes for a number of ``carefully selected'' intravenous drug users, said Tony Basten, chairman of the council's liaison committee on acquired immune deficiency syndrome. The experiment will begin next year. Basten said Australia had two years at the most to stop AIDS spreading from intravenous drug users and their sexual partners to the community at large. The study's results are expected to help decide whether Australia should move toward fighting AIDS by permitting legal prescription of limited amounts of drugs. ``If we get it wrong then we are going to be like New York City where 85 percent of intravenous drug users are infected,'' Basten said. He estimated 1 percent to 3 percent of intravenous drug users in centers like Sydney were infected with AIDS. He said recreational users posed the greatest threat as, unlike addicts, they were difficult to reach with educational messages. The details of the study had not been decided but would be finalized as a matter of urgency, he said. Australia has reported more than 1,000 AIDS victims, half of whom have died. AP881103-0157 AP-NR-11-03-88 1602EST u w AM-US-Afghanistan 11-03 0585 AM-US-Afghanistan,570 US Accuses Soviets Of Firing Scud Missiles At Afghan Rebels By BARRY SCHWEID AP Diplomatic Writer WASHINGTON (AP) The Soviets have fired SS-1 Scud missiles on Afghan rebels in an escalation of the war in Afghanistan, the State Department said Thursday. The attack, involving six to eight missiles, was carried out in the Nangaraq region near the border with Pakistan, spokesman Charles E. Redman said. He gave no estimate of the damage or of casualties. Repeating an earlier warning, Redman said: ``If the introduction of this weaponry is an attempt to intimidate Pakistan, then Moscow should know that Pakistan enjoys our full support. The use of this weapon represents a further escalation in the level of violence.'' The spokesman said U.S. diplomats in Moscow had registered their concern at the Soviet foreign ministry and Deputy Secretary of State John C. Whitehead complained Wednesday to Soviet Ambassador Yuri V. Dubinin. The arrival of new Soviet missiles in Kabul had raised U.S. concern about Pakistan's security and whether there would be a delay in the second stage of the Red Army's withdrawal from Afghanistan. The SS-1 Scud rockets were displayed in the Afghan capital after Undersecretary of State Michael H. Armacost complained to Dubinin on Monday about sending long-range TU-26 Backfire bombers into combat there for the first time. The Soviets are backing the Afghan government against U.S.-armed rebels in a war that has raged for nearly nine years. On Aug. 15, the Soviets completed the pullout of more than half the 100,000 troops that had fought alongside the pro-Moscow government. The remaining troops must depart by Feb. 15 under an agreement signed in Geneva last spring. The Soviets hinted recently that the second stage would begin Nov. 15, but a U.S. official said earlier this week that it might be delayed. The official, who demanded anonymity, also said the United States would ensure that the rebels had an ``adequate'' arsenal, although missiles to match the Scuds probably would not be provided through Pakistan. Two Scud-B missiles, which have a range of about 175 miles, were displayed in Kabul on Tuesday. It was not clear how many of the mobile weapon the Soviets had shipped to Afghanistan. U.S. weapons to the guerrillas are delivered through Pakistan, which also has given sanctuary to millions of Afghan refugees. The Afghan news agency, in a dispatch Tuesday, accused Pakistan of instigating attacks by ``extremist'' guerrillas on population centers and demilitarized areas. ``This is why a new kind of weapon, mainly long-range missiles with a great destructive power, was adopted for service by the Afghan army,'' the Afghan general staff said. ``The missiles will be used to stop the criminal activities of the extremist group,'' the dispatch added, without referring specifically to the Scud-B. Gennady Gerasimov, the spokesman for the Soviet foreign ministry, said at a news conference last month in New York that Pakistan's support for the rebels could have ``unpredictable'' consequences. ``We don't want to be specific,'' he said. But he left open the possibility that the withdrawal of Soviet troops might be suspended. Redman said Thursday that ``the use of new aircraft and Scud missiles is not consistent with Soviet assurances that they would not undertake offensive operations during the withdrawal period except in defense of their own forces.'' He said the introduction of new weapons into the war does not contribute to the political solution the Soviets had promised to pursue. He said the missiles were fired from Kabul on Tuesday and Wednesday. AP881103-0158 AP-NR-11-03-88 1607EST u p AM-Bush 11-03 0648 AM-Bush,630 Bush Says He's Got ``Not an Ounce of Bigotry'' on Race With AM-Political Rdp Bjt By TOM RAUM Associated Press Writer CHICAGO HEIGHTS, Ill. (AP) George Bush rejected allegations of racial overtones in his campaign as ``grossly unfair and untrue'' Thursday while looking beyond the election to appeal for a closing of political wounds. Bush also suggested he could balance the federal budget by 1992 while resisting tax raises and increasing federal spending by $100 billion over five years. In an interview on NBC's ``Today'' program and in campaign appearances, Bush spoke of a need for national unity after the election. ``I think the country will come together immediately behind whoever wins this election,'' he told NBC in a 25-minute interview from Columbus, Ohio. ``I would work my level best if I'm elected to heal any wounds that might be there.'' And he later told a downtown crowd of several thousand in Columbus, ``This country will be together once this election is over.'' But that didn't stop Bush from continuing a stinging assault on Democrat Michael Dukakis as he campaigned through delegate-rich industrial states in the Midwest in the closing days of the race. ``The liberals look at your paychecks the way Colonel Sanders looks at chicken,'' Bush said, referring to the fast-foot chicken franchise chain. He told a jammed rally in a wooden-roofed high school field house in this southwest Chicago suburb that Dukakis was ``outside the mainstream.'' The rally was attended by about 3,000 persons, most of them students. Because of poor acoustics, many of Bush's words were difficult to hear. In the ``Today'' interview, Bush rejected Democatic suggestions of racism in his campaign's repeated mention of Willie Horton, a black murder convict who attacked a white Maryland couple after failing to return from a weekend furlough from a Massachusetts prison. ``I don't have an ounce of bigotry in my body nor does my running mate,'' Sen. Dan Quayle of Indiana, Bush said. ``To go out and try to accuse me of something that is not in my heart, this charge of racism, is grossly unfair and untrue. And everybody that knows me knows it's untrue,'' Bush said. He called attacks on Quayle ``a lot of smoke and frenzying of bluefish out there going after a drop of blood in the water.'' Bush also defended Quayle indirectly at the rally in Columbus, saying, ``No one on the Republican side is running away from any other candidate. We are one ticket, representing the mainstream.'' Traveling with Bush on Thursday's campaign stops was actor-body builder Arnold Schwarzeneger, who told audiences: ``My movies are just fiction. I only played the `Terminator' in the movies. But when it comes to the American future, Michael Dukakis would be the real terminator.'' The race in Illinois, with 24 electoral votes, is considered a tossup, while polls show Bush ahead in Ohio. The vice president was also to attend a rally later Thursday in Hackensack, N.J. He planned campaign stops on Friday in Connecticut and Ohio. In the TV interview, Bush defended anew his proposal for a ``flexible freeze'' as a way of eliminating the nation's federal budget deficit by 1991-92. The proposal calls for holding increases in spending to the level of inflation. Bush's proposal assumes economic growth of about 3 percent a year and a reduction of interest rates by at least 2 percentage points. ``You can grow by $100 billion in spending over the next five years, and if my economic model is correct, still get the deficit down,'' Bush said. Many economists have challenged Bush's contention that the budget could be balanced without some form of tax increase. ``I am challenging the conventional wisdom that you need to go raise taxes,'' Bush said. He said he would reject a tax increase even if one was proposed by a blue-ribbon bipartisan commission now studying the deficit. AP881103-0159 AP-NR-11-03-88 1608EST u i AM-GulfTalks 1stLd-Writethru 11-03 0488 AM-Gulf Talks, 1st Ld-Writethru,a0636,0502 Iran, Iraq Hold Face-to-Face Meeting, But Without Ministers Eds: LEADS with 10 grafs with talks over for day, more scheduled Friday. Pick up 8th graf pvs, ``Reporters asked...'' GENEVA (AP) Experts from Iran and Iraq met for the first time Thursday to discuss technical details of the U.N.-mediated Gulf peace talks, a development U.N. Secretary-General Javier Perez de Cuellar called ``a good sign.'' The meeting included experts from the two countries and the United Nations, said U.N. spokeswoman Therese Gastaut. She refused to say what type experts. Absent were Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Velayati, his Iraqi counterpart Tariq Aziz, and Perez de Cuellar, who has been mediating. Jan Eliasson, the U.N. special representative to the talks, refused to disclose details of the 2{-hour meeting. ``We have today entered into detail into certain important matters. This is progress, that you enter into detailed discussions,'' said Eliasson. A member of the Iranian team, Sirous Nasseri, who is Iran's ambassador to Geneva, said the two sides discussed withdrawal to internationally recognized boundaries and the question of freedom of navigation. Eliasson said the talks would continue Friday with Perez de Cuellar meeting separately with Velayati and Aziz. Asked if this represented a departure from Perez de Cuellar's announcement Tuesday that future meetings would be face-to-face, Eliasson replied: ``I think it should be seen as an advantage that one has both possibilities, both separate meetings and plenaries, and we certainly envisage the possibility of continued plenary meetings.'' ``There is simply a need to discuss matters directly with the ministers'' sometimes, he said, but he refused to elaborate. The talks are aimed at implementing a U.N. Security Council resolution calling for a cease-fire in the 8-year-old war. A fragile truce has been in effect since Aug. 20. Reporters asked Perez de Cuellar whether it was a bad sign that the experts were meeting without the ministers. ``No, it's a good sign,'' he said. Also Thursday, Iran charged Iraq was using humanitarian issues to delay withdrawing from Iranian territory. Velayati, speaking after a meeting with officials of the International Committee of the Red Cross, was answering an Iraqi charge that Iran was delaying the repatriation of prisoners of war on both sides, estimated by the United Nations to number at least 100,000. Velayati reiterated that POW repatriation must come under the terms of the U.N. cease-fire arrangement. He renewed Iran's offer to release immediately all sick and wounded prisoners as well as civilian detainees ``on a reciprocal basis.'' Iraq proposed last month that the two sides immediately begin a POW exchange, independent of the U.N. talks. In a separate development, a new U.N. report expresses concern about reports of ``a renewed wave of executions'' in Iran just before and immediately after Tehran accepted the cease-fire. The report to the General Assembly calls for continued U.N. scrutiny of Iran's alleged execution of political dissenters and other reported abuses. AP881103-0160 AP-NR-11-03-88 2108EST r a AM-EasternCocaine 11-03 0220 AM-Eastern Cocaine,0227 Customs Fines Eastern, But Doesn't Seize Plane MIAMI (AP) The U.S. Customs Service fined Eastern Airlines $1 million Thursday for allowing 68 pounds of cocaine to be shipped on one of its flights but agreed not to seize the plane involved. The cocaine was discovered Monday aboard Flight 972 from Colombia hidden in an unmanifested box of ground coffee in the baggage compartment, said Customs spokesman Cliff Stallings. No arrests have been made. Customs levied a fine of $1,000 per ounce of the illegal drug, or just over $1 million, Stallings said. The cocaine shipment was the second found aboard an Eastern flight from Colombia in as many weeks, but in this case, Eastern can keep the plane unless it balks at paying the fine, Stallings said. ``Customs, at the present time, is not seizing the 727, since Eastern appears to be making serious efforts to improve its security measures against drug smuggling,'' Stallings said. The improvements include a council to work with Customs on security, he said. Eastern spokesmen did immediately return calls seeking comment. Last week Customs seized an Eastern L-1011 and fined the company $896,000 after 56 pounds of cocaine were found in an unmanifested mail bag. The plane was released after Eastern posted a bond for the value of the fine. AP881103-0161 AP-NR-11-03-88 2109EST r a AM-AvtexFibers 11-03 0609 AM-Avtex Fibers,0623 Fiber Plant Closes, Threatening NASA's Rayon Supply, Idling 1,300 Workers By DIRK BEVERIDGE Associated Press Writer FRONT ROYAL, Va. (AP) Avtex Fibers Inc. officials met with defense contractors Thursday as the company shut down its plant here, threatening the supply of a rayon fiber crucial to NASA's space shuttle and leaving 1,300 workers without a job. John N. Gregg, Avtex chairman, was in Utah to meet with officials of the Morton Thiokol Inc. Aerospace Group, which manufactures the shuttle's rocket boosters, as well as other defense contractors, said Rocky Rabb, a Morton Thiokol spokesman at the company's Ogden, Utah, headquarters. He said the meeting in Salt Lake City ``involves many of the companies and users. There were about 14 different companies invited.'' Raab said he did not believe representatives of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration were at the session. Avtex announced the closing of the world's largest rayon factory on Monday, blaming foreign competition and environmental regulations. Avtex was the government's sole sanctioned supplier of rayon. The rayon fiber produced by the Front Royal plant goes through several layers of contractors before it is formed into the engine nozzles of the shuttle and a variety of tactical missiles. NASA has said it has enough of the material in the supply line for the next 10 shuttle flights. Raab said enough fiber was available through February for Morton Thiokol's Standard missile. Morton Thiokol is working with Hercules Inc. on the submarine-launched Trident D5 missile, and enough fiber is available for production to continue through mid-1989, Raab said. Fiber supplies are adequate for Air Force deployment and testing plans on the Peacekeeper intercontinental ballistic missile, Raab said. Officials in this northern Shenandoah Valley town of 11,000 said the community would survive the loss of 1,300 jobs at the manufacturing plant, because its economy has evolved dramatically from the days when it was a one-company town. But workers said the plant closing came as a shock. ``About the only thing they told us was to come down and get unemployment benefits,'' said Billy Fields, 42, whose 16-year career at Avtex came to an abrupt end this week. ``My last shift was Tuesday evening. Right now, I'm just going to file for unemployment.'' ``I think they should have given us more of a notice,'' said Fields' wife, Diane, who worked eight years for Avtex, which is based in Valley Forge, Pa. ``I didn't know anything about it until my husband came home and told me about it.'' Town Manager Brackenridge Bentley said he believes Front Royal will prosper as a combination of a factory town, if several plants employing 200 to 300 people can be lured in, and as a bedroom community for the thriving Washington, D.C., metro area about an hour's drive to the east. Front Royal began diversifying seven years ago, when a Du Pont plant opened, employing 350 people. It is already becoming a bedroom community, with some 600 to 700 single-family homes under construction. Bentley and other area officials also hope any new industry they attract will be cleaner than Avtex, which had a history of environmental and safety problems. The company was hit Wednesday by a $20 million lawsuit, in which Virginia Attorney General Mary Sue Terry alleges a host of environmental problems were caused by the plant. Bentley said area employers already are advertising for displaced Avtex workers, though the new jobs will likely pay lower wages, involve a longer commute and offer fewer benefits. An Avtex spokesman in Washington said production at the plant ended Thursday, but an undetermined number of employees would stay on to shut down the plant. AP881103-0162 AP-NR-11-03-88 2011EST r i AM-Sakharov-Rights 11-03 0300 AM-Sakharov-Rights,0308 Sakharov Demands Human Rights Guarantees in New Laws With AM-Sakharov-Family MOSCOW (AP) The pending Soviet legal reforms should include clear guarantees of human rights, Andrei Sakharov says in a magazine article to appear Friday. Sakharov, who was released from internal exile just two years ago for his own support of human rights, writes in the Soviet magazine New Times the new criminal code should clearly state that ``criminal prosecutions for beliefs and non-violent actions stemming from them are intolerable.'' The official Tass news agency reported on the article in a dispatch Thursday. Soviet officials have been quoted in recent days as saying the draft legal reform will eliminate at least one of the laws now used to prosecute political prisoners. Sakharov also said the new laws should be ``in keeping with international norms,'' an apparent reference to the human rights agreements signed by the Soviet Union that Western countries say it has ignored. These include the Helsinki agreements and a United Nations covenant. The scientist, who won a Nobel Peace Price for his efforts on behalf of Soviet human rights, further argues that the law-governed state promised by President Mikhail S. Gorbachev should mean that everyone is subordinate to the law, Tass said. That is a clear objection to a provision of both current Soviet law and a draft reform that grants immunity from prosecution to members of the Soviet parliament. A law-governed state means first of all ``the primacy of law. All hierarchy, all government bodies, all persons, no matter what high posts they may hold, are equal to all citizens before the law,'' Tass quoted Sakharov as saying. The news agency report also says Sakharov touched upon freedom of assembly, freedom in choosing one's country of residence, and citizens' rights to monitor state decisions. AP881103-0163 AP-NR-11-03-88 2118EST r i AM-India-Bus 11-03 0150 AM-India-Bus,0155 Bus Accident Kills 18 NEW DELHI, India (AP) A bus skidded into a deep ravine in eastern India on Thursday, killing 18 people, a news agency reported. It was the second fatal bus crash in as many days in India. Several other people were hospitalized in Thursday's crash, the United News of India said without elaborating. The accident occured near Kurseong, about 750 miles east of New Delhi. The bus was on its way from the town of Darjeeling to Siliguri. Both towns are in West Bengal state. On Wednesday, a bus driver trying to negotiate a curve covered by a landslide lost control of the vehicle and it plunged into a gorge north of Jammu, killing all 65 people aboard. The bus was bound for Kishtwar and had started its journey in Jammu, winter capital of Jammu-Kashmir state, about 375 miles north of New Delhi. AP881103-0164 AP-NR-11-03-88 1639EST u w AM-BrainStudies 11-03 0865 AM-Brain Studies,880 For Release at 6:30 p.m. EST Scientists Search For Cellular Basis Of Learning and Addiction By PAUL RECER AP Science Writer WASHINGTON (AP) Scientists believe they are finally beginning to unravel the marvel of natural chemistry by which the human brain stores and recalls its trove of facts and sensations. Whether the agony of childhood piano lessons, the warming smell of Mom's apple pie, or mundane essentials like phone numbers and zip codes, they all trigger chemical changes in brain cells called neurons as the mind absorbs new information or stimulation, research has shown. And experiments have also demonstrated differences in blood flow and chemistry between healthy brains and those affected by disease or drugs or genetic disorders. But precisely how the experiences and knowledge of a lifetime are stored for instant recall among the billions and billions of brain cells, and how that process is disrupted by disease or drugs, are questions only now beginning to yield to research. Why do some people learn more quickly than others? Why are some talented in music, or in math, or in the ability to hit a baseball thrown at 95 miles an hour, while others are not? What is the cellular difference between ``smart'' and ``dumb?'' How does drug addiction affect the brain? These are among the hundreds of mysteries that scientists in laboratories all over the world are struggling to answer, said Daniel L. Alkon of the laboratory of molecular and cellular neurobiology at the National Institutes of Medicine. ``There is still much about learning and memory and how it works that we simply don't understand,'' said Alkon. ``There are a lot of different views (in the field) and we are not always in agreement.'' Alkon was one a series of experts who spoke at a seminar sponsored by Science, the journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, in connection with a special issue of the magazine released on Friday. In his laboratory, Alkon has used snails and rabbits to demonstrate some of the chemical changes in a portion of the brain called the hippocampus. He said the studies shows that certain stimulations can trigger the discharge of a protein called C-kinase in a specific portion of neurons, hippocampus cells shaped vaguely like a tree. The chemical change was demonstrated, said Alkon, using a Pacific sea snail called the hermissenda. In a laboratory, a snail was stimulated by first light and then rotation. At first the snail reacted, by drawing up, only when his cage was rotated. But eventually, the snail associated the light with the rotation and would react to the light alone. Other snails received the same stimulation, but in a different pattern. They did not associate the light with the rotation. An analysis of the neurons in the brain of the first snail, said Alkon, showed that C-kinase was deposited in the branches of the cell. In snails that were not taught to react to the light, he said, there was no change in the C-kinase deposition. Experiments with rabbits, using lights and puffs of air, produced a similar finding, Alkon said. It is believed, he said, that the C-kinase also causes the branches of the neuron cell to narrow, perhaps a sign of a stored memory. ``It is clear that C-kinase activation can elicit long-lasting changes in a cell,'' and may play a role in the creation of a memory, Alkon said. Another speaker, Michael Kuhar, a researcher at the National Institute on Drug Addiction, said that scientists have discovered how cocaine affects the brain and why it is the most addictive drug known. Kuhar said that cocaine acts in the limbic section of the brain, the portion that is associated with emotions and the sense of pleasure. The brain acts to give a feeling of pleasure or well being when a neurotransmitter protein called dopamine moves across a synapse, which is a gap between two neurons. The dopamine is released on one side of the synapse, leaps to the receptor side and delivers an impulse. The dopamine is then released by the receptor and returns to its original side of the synapse. This release ends the reaction. Kuhar said studies have shown that cocaine attaches itself to the receptor side of the synapse and blocks the return of dopamine, causing the reaction, which is a sense of pleasure, to continue until the cocaine is metabolized. The action initially, he said, is a ``great rush'' because the dopamine causes the impulse in the synapse to keep firing, time after time. ``The pleasure pathways are hyperstimulated,'' Kuhar said. But when the cocaine actions halts, there is a shortage of dopamine and the user experiences a steep letdown and a strong impulse to use more of the drug to restimulate the pleasure pathways. Thus, the cellular basis for a cycle of addiction is reinforced. ``Cocaine is the most powerful reinforcer known,'' said Kuhar. He said crack cocaine, which is smoked or injected, delivers more of the drug to the synapse and gives a much quicker and more intensive ``rush.'' But afterward, there is also a quicker and steeper letdown and a greater impulse for re-use. AP881103-0165 AP-NR-11-03-88 2120EST r a AM-SupermarketFire 11-03 0461 AM-Supermarket Fire,0477 Man Who Spent 10 Years in Jail Is Granted a New Trial By VERA HALLER Associated Press Writer NEW YORK (AP) A man who spent 10 years in prison for a fatal supermarket fire was released Thursday when a lawyer, working for free after he became convinced of the man's innocence, persuaded a judge to set aside the verdict. Eric Jackson, 31, gasped and then smiled when state Supreme Court Justice Joseph Slavin granted him a new trial on arson and murder charges in the deaths of six firefighters. ``Our prayers have been answered. Justice is for real,'' said his brother, Phillip Moore. Jackson's five children and stepchildren, ages 5 to 16, also were in the courtroom. His eldest son cried. Slavin said he decided to set aside the verdict after reviewing boxes of documents from the district attorney's office and discovered a memo that may have helped clear Jackson and which was not turned over to the defense during his first trial. ``He's been in jail for pretty much 10 years. In my opinion, he has a very good chance of not being convicted at a new trial,'' the judge said. Assistant District Attorney Michael Gore said he would appeal the ruling. Jackson was sentenced to 158 years in prison after being convicted of arson and six counts of murder in connection with the fire Aug. 2, 1978, at a Waldbaum's supermarket in Brooklyn. Six firefighters fell to their deaths in the burning supermarket when the roof collapsed. Jackson's attorney, Robert Sullivan, had helped represent widows of the firefighters in civil suits. He said he decided to represent Jackson without pay after discovering information in the civil cases that pointed to his innocence. ``When I read all the evidence, I found that the district attorney had held back evidence; two, that the fire was accidental and not an arson; and three, that Jackson had been railroaded,'' Sullivan said. The March 1979 memo cited by Slavin, written by an assistant district attorney, Michael Gary, to another assistant, said that a fire marshal told investigators that there were four separate fires that day at the supermarket and that the fourth fire was the one that caused the roof to collapse, the memo said. According to Sullivan, he has evidence from a police investigator that the fourth fire actually was an electrical fire, not an arson fire. Sullivan also cast doubt on a confession presented by the prosecution at the first trial. He said Jackson had denied any involvement in the supermarket fire but did tell investigators that he set a fire in 1976 at another Brooklyn store. No one was hurt in that fire. Slavin, who released Jackson on his own recognizance, scheduled pretrial proceedings Dec. 12. AP881103-0166 AP-NR-11-03-88 2139EST r w AM-ForcedLanding 11-03 0402 AM-Forced Landing,370 NTSB Says TWA Jet's Landing Gear Jammed After Wheel Replacement By DAVID FOX Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) Part of the landing gear on a TWA airliner was replaced by inadequately trained mechanics hours before the gear jammed, forcing an unscheduled stop at Scott Air Force Base in Illinois, a government report said Thursday. However, the report by a National Transportation Safety Board investigator did not blame either Trans World Airlines or any individuals for the Aug. 22, 1987, mishap that left three people with minor injuries. ``This report is just a finding of fact,'' NTSB spokeswoman Drucella Andersen said. ``We have yet to issue a report which will determine the probable cause of the accident.'' TWA spokesman Bob Blattner in St. Louis said company officials had no immediate comment on the investigator's report. The Boeing 767 with 181 people on board was en route from San Francisco to St. Louis International Airport when its flight crew discovered the right main landing gear would not lower into place. After attempts to dislodge the gear, including a dipping maneuver intended to shake it loose, the pilot decided to avoid the crowded St. Louis airport and land at the base a few miles across the Mississippi River near Belleville, Ill. The plane landed safely on two of its three landing gears and skidded down the runway with its right engine touching the ground. One passenger sprained an ankle while being evacuated using emergency slides and two others were treated for other minor injuries, the NTSB said. According to the investigator's report, TWA maintenance workers at San Francisco had replaced a tire and the brake assembly on the failed landing gear early on the morning the airplane left for St. Louis. ``The examination of the right main landing gear after the gear-up landing revealed the brake rod separated from the brake torque arm and had ... jammed over the top of the gear door pad,'' the report said. It said the workers who replaced the wheel and brake, both experienced aircraft mechanics licensed by the Federal Aviation Administration, told the NTSB they complied with the procedure outlined in the maintenance manual for Boeing 767 aircraft. ``However, company training records showed that neither mechanic had been trained or instructed as to the `differences' in procedures of changing the wheel-brake assembly on the Boeing 767 and other Boeing airplanes,'' the report said. AP881103-0167 AP-NR-11-03-88 2143EST r w AM-BRF--Soviets-Soybeans 11-03 0111 AM-BRF--Soviets-Soybeans,100 Soviets Buy More Soybeans WASHINGTON (AP) The Soviet Union has bought 535,000 metric tons of U.S. soybean meal for delivery in the 1988-89 marketing year that began on Oct. 1, the Agriculture Department said Thursday. Earlier this week, the Soviets bought 250,000 tons of soybeans for 1988-89 delivery, the first of the new season. Although no further details were announced, the meal sales could have a value of more than $120 million, based on average USDA market estimates of around $225 per ton in the current marketing year. The Soviet Union bought more than 830,000 tons of soybeans and 1.3 million tons of soybean meal in 1987-88. AP881103-0168 AP-NR-11-03-88 2144EST r w AM-Lyng-EEC 11-03 0421 AM-Lyng-EEC,400 Outgoing Ag Secretary Lyng Plans Last Trade Talks With EEC By DON KENDALL AP Farm Writer WASHINGTON (AP) Agriculture Secretary Richard E. Lyng said Thursday that he will go to Europe later this month for ``one last series of meetings'' on trade problems with the European Economic Community. Lyng, who said he will leave the secretary's position Jan. 20 with the outgoing Reagan administration, will be in Brussels around mid-November with U.S. Trade Representative Clayton Yeutter and chief U.S. agricultural trade negotiator Daniel Amstutz. No firm dates have been set, however. International trade, particularly involving the EEC and Japan, has been at the top of Lyng's list of priorities all long, he said in an interview. And that includes negotiations under the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade. Lyng said the difficult parts of GATT negotiations ``relate to the attitudes and problems with Japan, particularly on rice,'' and the EEC _ primarily concerning its Common Agricultural Policy, high support prices and export subsidies. One of the most immediate and pressing problems Lyng hopes to address in his talks with EEC officials is the 12-nation bloc's determination to ban imports of meat containing traces of growth-promoting hormones beginning Jan. 1, 1989. ``They're insisting they're going to implement that ban on Jan. 1,'' Lyng said. ``That would be a very serious problem for us.'' U.S. livestock interests have estimated an EEC ban would cost $130 million a year in lost trade. The Meat Industry Trade Policy Council, which includes a number of farm, business and commodity organizations, has asked the Reagan administration to use authority under the new trade law to cut off meat imports from the EEC if the Jan. 1 ban goes into effect. Lyng said also he and Yeutter, along with other U.S. trade officials, will attend the special meeting of the 96 member countries of GATT, which will begin Dec. 5 in Montreal, Canada. After the next administration takes over on Jan. 20, Lyng, 70, said he plans to take it easy. ``We have no plans to move (from the Washington area), but we haven't made a commitment to stay where we are,'' he said. ``Have no plans whatsoever.'' What about starting up again in the consulting business, which Lyng was in just before he became secretary in March 1986? No plans for that, either, he said. Although there may be some ``special part-time jobs'' that come up from time to time. ``I really want to take life at a much slower pace,'' Lyng said. AP881103-0169 AP-NR-11-03-88 2145EST r w AM-BRF--TurkeysandHams 11-03 0100 AM-BRF--Turkeys and Hams,100 Thanksgiving Goodies Said Plentiful WASHINGTON (AP) Holiday shoppers will find ``adequate supplies'' of turkey and ``plenty'' of ham, the Agriculture Department said Thursday. ``Prices will likely be higher for turkey and lower for ham than last year,'' the department's Economic Research Service said. ``Cold storage stocks of turkeys on Oct. 1 were 11 percent below the record level of 1987 and will be drawn down further by holiday demands and a fourth-quarter production under last year's level.'' Pork production is up about 9 percent this year, the agency said in a new outlook report. AP881103-0170 AP-NR-11-03-88 2145EST r w AM-Morrell-Safety 11-03 0380 AM-Morrell-Safety,370 Lawmakers Call on Financier to Upgrade Meatpacker Safety By MIKE ROBINSON Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) Eleven senators, following similar action by 90 House members, called Thursday for Cincinnati financier Carl Lindner to upgrade worker safety at the John Morrell & Co. meatpacking plant in Sioux Falls, S.D. ``If the guarantee of safe working conditions for any Morrell worker is denied the conditions for all of our nation's meatpacking workers are threatened,'' the senators' letter to Lindner said. It was mailed one day after 90 House members sent a similar request concerning Morrell, the nation's fifth largest meatpacker, which last week was fined $4.3 million for conditions at the plant. It was the largest fine against a single employer in the 17-year history of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration. Lawmakers asked Lindner, chairman of Cincinnati-based American Financial Corp., which owns Morrell, to take a more active safety role at the plant, which has been the target of a union safety campaign for more than a year. Calls to Lindner's office were referred to Morrell Chairman Milton Schloss, who said in a telephone interview from American Financial offices that ``this is a John Morrell matter and I'm the one in charge of John Morrell and know the most about it.'' Schloss said Lindner ``has taken a highly active role through me and has been kept informed completely through me.'' ``All the details of what we have done have been given to OSHA and completely ignored. Period. So I don't know what else I could do,'' he said. ``Some of those congressmen have gotten a letter from me explaining what we have done,'' he said. But he said he ``received no response whatever.'' ``I'd be happy to talk to every single one of them to explain what we have done if they'd be interested in listening,'' he added. The House letter was circulated by Reps. Frank Horton, R-N.Y., and Fortney ``Pete'' Stark, D-Calif., and in the Senate by Sens. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, and Paul Simon, D-Ill. Other senators signing the letter were Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass.; Lowell R. Weicker Jr., R-Conn.; John Kerry, D-Mass.; Howard M. Metzenbaum, D-Ohio; Donald W. Riegle Jr., D-Mich.; Terry Sanford, D-N.C.; Christopher J. Dodd, D-Conn.; Carl Levin, D-Mich.; and John Stennis, D-Miss. AP881103-0171 AP-NR-11-03-88 2146EST r p AM-BRF--START-Candidates 11-03 0108 AM-BRF--START-Candidates,100 Both Candidates Say They Will Work With Senate Oversight Group WASHINGTON (AP) Each of the presidential candidates have pledged that if elected, he will appoint a member of his transition team to work with U.S. nuclear arms control negotiators, senators who chair an oversight group said Thursday. The promises by Vice President George Bush and Gov. Michael Dukakis were made in response to requests from the Senate arms control observer group. Sen. Claiborne Pell, D-R.I., co-chairman of the group, said the pledges will help the ongoing U.S.-Soviet effort to work out a treaty making deep reductions in the superpowers' stockpile of long-range atomic weapons. AP881103-0172 AP-NR-11-03-88 1656EST u a AM-SakharovFamily 11-03 0633 AM-Sakharov Family,0650 Sakharov Coming to Boston on First Leg of U.S. Visit By ALAN COOPERMAN Associated Press Writer NEWTON, Mass. (AP) The stepchildren who kept the fate of Andrei D. Sakharov known to the world during his years of internal exile in the Soviet Union are scrambling to prepare for his first visit to the West. Sakharov is expected to arrive in Boston on Sunday for a two-week trip to receive medical treatment, meet a granddaughter born here and promote the International Foundation for the Survival and Development of Humanity. The 67-year-old Nobel laureate is a member of the board of directors of the foundation, formed in January by Soviet and American scientists and educators to foster arms control, environmental protection, international development and human rights. Sakharov is expected to travel without his wife, Yelena Bonner. But he will start the trip by visiting two of her children who live in Boston suburbs. ``We have started to prepare food for him, but we don't know exactly what he'll want,'' Mrs. Bonner's son-in-law, Efrem Yankelevich, said Thursday. ``There's a lot to be done, especially preparing his schedule.'' Yankelevich said Sakharov will go to Massachusetts General Hospital for a cardiological examination and possible implantation of a heart pacemaker, a procedure that usually requires a two-day hospital stay. From Boston, he plans to travel to New York and Washington, but the dates of his visits to those cities remain uncertain, relatives said. Yankelevich said Sakharov hopes to be in Washington on Nov. 15, when the Soviet physicist is expected to receive the $50,000 Albert Einstein Foundation Peace Prize for 1988. But the personal highlight of the trip, Yankelevich said, probably will be Sakharov's first meeting with Alexandra Semyonova, the 4-year-old daughter of stepson Alexei Semyonov and his wife, Elizaveta Alekseyeva. Sakharov went on hunger strikes to win permission from Soviet authorities for his wife to come to the United States for medical care and for Miss Alekseyeva to come here to marry Semyonov. For his defense of human rights in the Soviet Union, Sakharov received the 1975 Nobel Peace Prize. Five years later, in January 1980, he was banished to Gorky, a city closed to Westerners. His wife also was banished there in August 1984. Both were released in December 1986 by Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev. Sakharov is expected to be accompanied during part of his visit by Yevgenii Velikhov, vice president of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, and Roald Sagdeev, director of the Soviet Space Research Institute. Velikhov is chairman of the International Foundation for the Survival and Development of Humanity, which is headquartered in Moscow and has offices in Washington and Stockholm, Sweden. Sagdeev is a foundation director. The foundation is about to embark on a worldwide fund-raising drive with a goal of about $10 million for the first year, said its American vice chairman, Jerome Wiesner, president emeritus of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Wiesner said the foundation's purpose is to support research on ``what I call the modern diseases of the world _ generated by technology, population growth, nuclear weapons and so on _ that require cooperation by a number of countries in order to do something about them.'' The foundation's first board of directors meeting outside of the Soviet Union is scheduled for Nov. 13-17 in Washington. Sakharov is expected to attend at least part of the five-day session. Other American board members include Armand Hammer, chairman of Occidental Petroleum; the Rev. Theodore Hesburgh, president emeritus of the University of Notre Dame; Robert S. McNamara, a former U.S. secretary of defense; and John Sculley, chief executive officer of Apple Computer Inc. Gina Cella Harty, a spokeswoman for the foundation, said it is the first non-profit, non-governmental international organization to operate with full legal status in the Soviet Union. AP881103-0173 AP-NR-11-03-88 1700EST u w AM-Shuttle-Shortages 11-03 0607 AM-Shuttle-Shortages,590 NASA Mulling Study of Shuttle Parts Supply By HARRY F. ROSENTHAL Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) The National Aeronautics and Space Administration, confronting a critical shortage of a key material for the second time this year, is planning a part-by-part study of shuttle supplies to spot such troubles in advance. NASA was taken by surprise this week when the company that makes the rayon yarn used in space shuttle rocket nozzles announced it was closing its plant in Virginia. The Avtex Fibers facility is the only one in the country producing the yarn. NASA faced a similar crisis in May when the Henderson, Nev., plant of Pacific Engineering and Production Co. was destroyed in an explosion and fire. The plant was one of only two producing ammonium perchlorate, the oxidizer in the solid fuel that powers the shuttle's booster rockets. No one at NASA headquarters or at the agency's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., would say Thursday how many other materials used for shuttle flights have only a single supplier. However, sources who declined to be identified said shuttle program boss Richard Truly was concerned enough to order a thorough study to identify other critical parts with only one supplier. Rockwell International Corp. builds the shuttle at its Palmdale, Calif., plant but depends on more than 250 subcontractors for various systems and components. The presidential commission that investigated the Challenger disaster criticized the space agency for not having enough spares on hand, which fostered a practice of borrowing parts from one shuttle for use on another. That problem has not been completely solved. After the flight of Discovery last month, engineers found evidence of a leak in one engine. They had to borrow an engine from shuttle Columbia to prepare Discovery for its next mission. The impact of the fuel and nozzle problems won't be felt for more than a year. An allocation board that included the Defense Department, NASA and other government agencies met recently to divide up ammonium perchlorate production. ``We have been allocated sufficient quantities for nine flight sets,'' said Rocky Raab, spokesman for Morton Thiokol in Utah. ``The allocation board meets again in early 1989 to make additional allocations, so presuming Pepcon (Pacific Engineering) gets the plant going again in early or mid-1989 that would mitigate that situation.'' Only the late-November flight of Atlantis remains this year and there are seven more missions scheduled for 1989. The ammonium perchlorate manufacturer is rebuilding its plant in Henderson and has broken ground for a new facility for finishing work in Cedar City, Utah. ``Presuming everything goes as planned, our concerns about the fuel are minimized,'' Raab said. It is too soon to know what will be done about Avtex which began closing its plant at Front Royal, Va., on Thursday and letting its 1,300 employees go. ``Production, for all intents and purposes, is stopping today,'' said Avtex spokesman Nick Nichols. ``People will be working for the next couple of days to shut it down and secure it.'' Morton Thiokol, NASA, the Pentagon and other contractors were talking with Avtex in hopes of finding a solution to the shutdown. Raab said Thiokol had enough material for 10 flight sets. ``It's a possibility that rayon might be available elsewhere, but it has to be a qualified source,'' he said. Rayon is the root stock for what ends up as carbon phenolic, a fireproof material that lines the inside of the booster nozzle. The same cloth is used to make nozzles for MX missiles, small intercontinental missiles and the Trident II system. ``You can't force somebody to manufacture some product,'' Raab said. AP881103-0174 AP-NR-11-03-88 2149EST r w AM-BRF--ShipContract 11-03 0122 AM-BRF--Ship Contract,120 Navy Awards $243 Million Ship Contract to National Steel WASHINGTON (AP) The Navy on Thursday awarded a $242.8 million contract to the National Steel and Shipbuilding Co. for a new combat supplies ship. The contract won by the San Diego, Calif.-based firm calls for work on the new vessel to be completed by June 1992. It was awarded Thursday by the Naval Sea Systems Command. The ship, part of the so-called AOE-6 class, will be 753 feet long, 107 feet wide and displace about 48,500 tons when fully loaded. The ship is designed to carry fuel, ammunition and stores for carrier battle groups and has the speed and armament to remain in convoy with the combat ships. AP881103-0175 AP-NR-11-03-88 2322EST r a AM-ChildShot 1stLd-Writethru a0654 11-03 0315 AM-Child Shot, 1st Ld-Writethru, a0654,0321 First-Grader Shot to Death at Home Eds: Leads with 5 grafs to UPDATE with medical examiner ruling death a homicide, picking up 4th graf pvs, `The pistol ....' Adds 2 grafs at end with police to forward results of investigation to DA's office. AUSTIN, Texas (AP) A woman trying to move a revolver out of the reach of her three young children shot and killed her 7-year-old daughter, police said. Rochell Porter was shot once in the left cheek with a .25-caliber pistol Wednesday. She died at Brackenridge Hospital shortly afterward. Travis County Medical Examiner Robert Bayardo on Thursday ruled the death a homicide. ``Homicide merely means that a person's life has been taken by another,'' Bayardo said.``But this was very reckless. The girl was shot at very close range.'' The ruling, he said, ``indicates a higher degree than just accidental death.'' The pistol was on a table when the girl's mother, Ulene Porter, 37, was getting Rochell and her 9-year-old sister ready for school, said Sgt. Don Bredl. A 2-year-old girl also was at home when the shooting occurred, he said. Police spokesman C.F. Adams said Ms. Porter told investigators one of the girls moved an ashtray that nudged the gun, prompting her to take the pistol away. She told officers she was turning around with the gun in her hand when it fired once. ``Her mother's just very crushed, understandably so,'' Adams said. ``She had a handgun because of problems she's had in the past with burglars and prowlers and the like.'' Two burglaries and eight domestic disturbances had been reported to police from an apartment where the woman lived until recently. Police plan to forward the results of their investigation to the Travis County district attorney. ``The facts, details remain the same,'' Adams said. ``We're not going to go out and arrest the woman.'' AP881103-0176 AP-NR-11-03-88 1734EST u a AM-Transplants-Alcoholics 1stLd-Writethru a0696 11-03 0806 AM-Transplants-Alcoholics, 1st Ld-Writethru, a0696,0821 Alcoholics Benefit from Liver Transplants Eds: INSERTS new 4th graf with general transplant survival rate; INSERTS 2 grafs after 8th graf pvs, `The authors ...,' with case of man who died after abstinence period required; SUBS 10th graf pvs, `All but ...,' to add one drinker from the Pittsburgh group, one from Denver. For Release 5:30 p.m. EST. By A.J. HOSTETLER Associated Press Writer PHILADELPHIA (AP) Alcoholics with acute liver disease should not be required to stop drinking to become eligible for liver transplants, because they are as likely to benefit from the procedure as anyone else, researchers said. ``To the extent that objections to liver transplantation are moralistic, these undermine the modern understanding of alcoholism including the recognition that this is a treatable disease, not a vice,'' the researchers said in a report in Friday's Journal of the American Medical Association. Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh and Veterans Administration Medical Center in Pittsburgh reviewed cases of 56 patients with alcoholic cirrhosis who received liver transplants in Pittsburgh and Denver from 1963 to June 1987. Thirty-five of the patients survived six months or longer. In general, 70 percent of patients with other forms of liver disease who receive a transplant survive at least one year. Alcoholic cirrhosis occurs when a person's liver no longer can remove toxic substances, such as alcohol, from the blood. About 20 percent of chronic alcoholics suffer from this disease. Although only a small number of alcoholics would qualify for liver transplants because of other ailments, those who do qualify stand a good chance of surviving, the researchers said. ``Since 1980, the results with alcoholic patients have been as good as in adult patients with a broad spectrum of other (liver) diseases,'' they said. ``In fact, the results have been better than with diseases that can recur in the transplanted liver,'' such as type B hepatitis, cancerous liver tumors, or Budd-Chiari syndrome, in which the liver's blood vessels are malformed. The researchers, led by Dr. Thomas Starzl of the University of Pittsburgh, said criticism over treating alcoholic cirrhosis with liver transplants is based on the mistaken view that alcoholism is a moral failure. The authors said they wanted to compare the merit of liver transplants against the criticism. The authors said no patient was required to stop drinking to receive a liver transplant. They argue that such a waiting period would be medically unsound or even inhumane as it would allow the patient's medical condition to deteriorate and reduce the patient's chances of survival. In one such case, described in a commentary written by three researchers from the National Council on Alcoholism and published in the journal in March, a young alcoholic man was twice denied Medicaid funding for a liver transplant, despite being sober for six months. The decisions were based on a Michigan Department of Social Service requirement mandating a two-year period of abstinence before transplantation. The decision was challenged in court and overturned, but the young man died before the transplant could be arranged. Of 41 Pittsburgh alcoholics in the study, 34 patients had stopped drinking before they were admitted to the hospital. Seven continued drinking until admission to the hospital. Three of those died and four were alive after 22 to 26 months. All but two of the 56 alcoholics who received new livers no longer drank after the operation, the researchers said, noting that the two ``appeared to resent what had been done while they were in a coma or mentally incompetent.'' One was from the Denver group, the other from the Pittsburgh patients. Wanda Bond of the United Network for Organ Sharing, which runs the federal Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network, said 1,159 livers were transplanted last year. Very few hospitals require alcoholics to stop drinking in order to become eligible for liver transplants, said Thelma Thiel, a spokeswoman for the American Liver Foundation. But she said the foundation has expressed concerns about the lack of a required period of abstinence prior to receiving a donated liver because of the fear that the alcoholics would continue drinking and damage their transplanted livers. She said researchers must continue investigating the successful use of transplants to treat alcoholic cirrhosis. Dr. Allan Wolkoff, a researcher specializing in liver function and a professor of medicine at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, said previous consensus statements issued by the National Institutes of Health have mentioned concerns about the use of liver transplants as a form of treatment for alcoholic cirrhosis without requiring abstinence. The illness' side effects _ bleeding, salt retention and blood pressure problems _ can increase the risks of surgery and lower the life expectancy of a transplant recipient, he said. Wolkoff said the ``potentially important'' Pittsburgh study could represent a ``changing of minds'' on the use of liver transplants. AP881103-0177 AP-NR-11-03-88 2044EST r a AM-MedicalStudentDepression 11-03 0612 AM-Medical Student Depression,0631 Researchers: More Than 10 Percent of Medical Students Suffer Depression By MARK PERKISS Associated Press Writer CHICAGO (AP) At least 12 percent of students at one large medical school showed major symptoms of depression, says a new study of the stresses on future doctors. ``The spring of the second year of medical school appeared to be the most distressing period,'' said the study, published in Friday's Journal of the American Medical Association. The four-year study involved a class of 121 students at Rush Medical College in Chicago. It was conducted by David Clark, associate professor of psychiatry at the school, and Peter Zeldow, associate professor of psychiatry at Chicago's Northwestern University Medical School. ``The study documents what many medical educators have long assumed, which is that medical school is a depressing place to be if you're a medical student,'' Zeldow said Thursday. The two researchers said depression in students was caused, in part, by the stresses involved in attending medical school. ``It's just a pressure cooker, and if we dropped any cross-section of the population into it they would get depressed,'' Clark said. But the type of people who go to medical school is also a factor. ``The qualities that make you a conscientious, fanatical student have a cost,'' Clark said. ``The majority of medical students are quite unhappy or miserable, whether they are suffering from depression or not,'' Zeldow said. He added that ``there's no doubt that medical schools themselves are part of the problem _ that the curricula they provide are too dense with information. There's no doubt inadequate attention is paid to the emotional needs of the students.'' At any point in students' four years in medical school, at least 12 percent of the doctors-in-training show signs of depression, the study said. The authors emphasized that the study did not use official medical diagnoses of depression, and said that they couldn't say whether surveys at other medical schools would necessarily show similar findings. The authors found no significant differences between the percentage of men and women medical students showing symptoms of depression. At the end of the second year, the figure of those showing symptoms of depression rises to about 25 percent, and then it recedes, Zeldow said. ``There's something wrong if medical school can't make it fun and exciting,'' Clark said. ``It's the joylessness in their education that I'm worried about.'' By contrast, only about 5 percent of the U.S. population suffers from depression, the researchers said. ``Depression in the students is not likely to affect patient care because medical students have so much supervision,'' Zeldow said. ``They have interns, residents and attending physicians looking over everything they do,'' But the two researchers differed on whether depression suffered by medical students would influence the care they give patients when they become practicing physicians. ``If a medical student is treated badly and a student's emotional needs are ignored during training, then there is a greater chance they will ignore the psychological needs of their patients,'' Zeldow said. But in an interview, Clark said there was no evidence that students who suffer from depression while in medical school ``will have depression when they're in practice.'' The study used questionnaires filled out by students and evaluated by using a scale known as the Beck Depression Inventory, a 21-item measure of symptoms of depression, the researchers said. The symptoms of depression found in students included sleep disturbance, pessimism, sense of failure, suicidal wishes and loss of sex drive, the study said. Students who were very depressed were more likely to drop out of medical school regardless of how well they were doing academically, the study said. AP881103-0178 AP-NR-11-03-88 1744EST u i AM-Maldives 1stLd-Writethru a0694 11-03 0843 AM-Maldives, 1st Ld-Writethru, a0694,0870 URGENT Mercenaries Try Coup; Indian Paratroopers Arrive To Help President Eds: New material and editing throughout, UPDATING with Indian troops arriving in Male, situation reported under control, details. CORRECTS throuhgout to Nasir on second reference, sted Ibrahim. No pickup LaserPhoto DEL2, LaserGraphic NY27 By SHARON HERBAUGH Associated Press Writer COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) Foreign mercenaries tried to take over the Maldives and Indian paratroopers spread out early Friday in Male, the capital, to aid embattled President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom, Maldivian officials said. Two officials reported Gayoom was safe and one added: ``The situation is under control. Everybody is all right.'' A senior Sri Lankan government official said at least 12 people were killed and 22 wounded when about 150 mercenaries attacked Male, a city of 55,000 people, before dawn Thursday. The hired attackers were thought to be Tamils from Sri Lanka, about 400 miles east of Maldives in the Indian Ocean, diplomatic sources in Colombo said. Maldivian officials said shooting died down after the Indian troops arrived. A senior Sri Lankan military official said former President Ibrahim Nasir of the Maldives was behind the attempt to overthrow Gayoom, who succeeded Nasir in 1978 and was re-elected to a third five-year term Sept. 23. Maldives has a population of about 189,000, most of them Sunni Moslems, spread across a 500-mile chain of small, low-lying coral islands known for fishing and glistening tourist beaches. The Maldivian officials, contacted by telephone from New Delhi, spoke on condition their names not be used. A Maldivian police official said Indian paratroopers were deploying in Male. Some mercenaries fled by boat, a Maldivian security official said. He said he saw Indian troops in the streets of Male but he did not know what happened to any remaining mercenaries. A Western diplomatic source in Colombo said his reports indicated the mercenaries inflicted heavy grenade and bullet damage on government buildings before the Indians arrived. The raiders apparently came ashore from fishing trawlers before dawn Thursday and attacked military headquarters next to the presidential palace. Press Trust of India said 1,600 Indian paratroopers were sent after an emergency meeting of the Cabinet political affairs committee and three Indian warships also headed to Male. Diplomats in Colombo and New Delhi said before the Indian soldiers arrived that Gayoom's troops were in general control of Male but the attackers held the radio and television stations and the Islamic College. Two large military aircraft thought to be Indian troop transports landed at the Maldives airport on Hulule Island, next to Male Island, two diplomats in Colombo reported. Indian government sources in New Delhi said the paratroopers flew from bases in south India about 475 miles northeast of Male. The sources in both the Indian and Sri Lankan capitals spoke on condition of anonymity. Gayoom appealed for help to India, the United States and Britain. Britain said it was considering the request for help. In Washington, the State Department denied reports that a U.S. Navy carrier group was steaming in the direction of Male. Ahmed Abdullah Aziz, the Maldivian ambassador to Sri Lanka, said the mercenaries spoke Tamil. A Western diplomat said they were recruited from the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, the largest Tamil guerrilla group waging a separatist war in Sri Lanka. The Tamils, mainly Hindus, claim discrimination by the majority Sihalese, who are mostly Buddhists. India, the region's main military power, has had tens of thousands of soldiers in Sri Lanka for 15 months in an attempt to disarm the guerrillas under a peace agreement. India has become involved because it is a regional power and because of its own large Tamil population in the south. The military official who spoke of involvement by Nasir said the former president's followers mounted an unsuccessful coup in 1980. Nasir moved to Singapore after retiring from the presidency in 1978. ``Foreign invaders speaking Tamil invaded the capital of Male in an attempt to overthrow the legally constituted government of the Maldives. Their attempt failed,'' Aziz, the Maldivian ambassador, said at midafternoon Thursday. Several senior Maldivian officials, including at least two Cabinet ministers, were taken hostage but Gayoom and his closest advisers escaped, Western diplomats said. Heavy fire continued for about four hours until government troops ordered the attackers to surrender, the diplomats said. They refused and sporadic gunfire continued throughout the night. Electricity was cut off in Male and most people stayed off the streets, several Male residents said when reached telephone. ``As long as we stay indoors, it seems safe,'' said a Sri Lankan pharmacist in Male. The Maldives consist of 1,200 coral islands and 800 islets, but only about 140 are inhabited. Fine beaches and clear water teeming with tropical fish have made the archipelago a magnet for tourists, mostly from Western Europe and Japan. Tourists generally do not stay on Male, where strict Islamic rules apply. The government has set aside special islands where visitors can wear scanty costumes and drink the alcohol forbidden to Maldivians. The Maldivians display mixed Sinhalese, Dravidian and Arab traits. AP881103-0179 AP-NR-11-03-88 1821EST u i AM-Israel 2dLd-Writethru a0675 11-03 0706 AM-Israel, 2d Ld - Writethru, a0675,0721 Shamir Rejects Demands For Annexation, Expelling Palestinians Eds: LEADS with 8 grafs to UPDATE casualty figures and include revised seat totals. PICKS up 8th pvs: `Leaders of the...' LaserPhoto JRL2 By KARIN LAUB Associated Press Writer JERUSALEM (AP) Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir refused demands by possible coalition partners Thursday to annex the occupied lands and expel Palestinians from them, but he supports more Jewish settlements, an aide said. The United States considers such settlements in the West Bank and Gaza Strip an obstacle to peace between Israel and its Arab neighbors. Violence continued in the occupied territories, where a rebellion that began Dec. 8, 1987, has cost the lives of 10 Israelis and more than 300 Palestinians. Israeli soldiers blew up three Palestinian houses Thursday and sealed another, and 11 Palestinians were reported wounded by army gunfire. Sources in the Labor Party said Foreign Minister Shimon Peres might be dumped as leader after the center-left party's poor showing in Tuesday's general election. Critics say the Labor campaign focused too closely on Peres' personality and his support for an international conference on Middle East peace, an Arab demand that stirs controversy in Israel. Shamir's right-wing Likud bloc, which has been in a tenuous ``national unity'' government with Labor since indecisive 1984 elections, opposes a conference and wants to retain all the lands captured in the 1967 war. Peres has expressed willingness to trade some land for peace. Likud won 40 seats in the 120-member parliament, one more than Labor, according to revised official figures that added one seat to each party's total. Likud seeks to end its coalition with Labor and form an alliance with small religious and rightist parties. Labor also has courted religious parties, but its chances for a coalition are considered slim. Leaders of the National Religious Party, which has five seats, on Thursday ruled out a coalition with the Labor Party and said they preferred joining a government headed by the right-wing Likud bloc. The 73-year-old prime minister expressed confidence Thursday that he could form a government. ``I can't give an exact date, but I hope it won't take long,'' he said on Israel television. He completed a first round of coalition talks Thursday after meeting with the Moledet (Homeland) and Tzomet (Crossroads) parties, which want to annex the occupied territories. Ech has two seats in the Knesset, as Israel's parliament is called. Moledet also demands the expulsion to Arab countries of the 1.5 million Palestinians living in the territories. Party leader Rehavam Zeevi, a retired general, calls the policy ``transfer.'' ``Shamir clarified that the idea of transfer will not be included in the guidelines of the next government,'' said Yossi Ahimeir, the prime minister's aide. ``The concept is rejected by the Likud.'' Zeevi said he would join a Likud government even without acceptance of his platform. Ahimeir said Shamir also told Tzomet and the right-wing party Tehiya that annexing the West Bank and Gaze would violate the 1978 Camp David accords that led to the 1979 peace treaty with Egypt. The accords call for negotiations on Palestinian autonomy and the final status of the occupied lands. Shamir agreed, however, that a government led by Likud would increase Jewish settlement in the occupied territories dramatically, Ahimeir said, and ``the only restraint will be economic considerations.'' The Jerusalem Post quoted Tehiya sources as saying a settlement boom would crush any peace moves based on Palestinian autonomy, making formal renunciation of the Camp David accords unnecessary. Gush Emunim, a settlement movement, said Thursday it plans 50 new settlements in the next three years and may start building 11 this month. About 70,000 Jews now live in 131 settlements in the West Bank and Gaza. Israeli media speculated about Cabinet posts in a Likud coalition and generally agreed that Moshe Arens, a hard-liner allied with Shamir, was the leading candidate for defense minister. Ariel Sharon, a former defense minister, wants the job again but speculation was that he would become police minister and strengthen border police units in the occupied territories. During the campaign, Sharon said security forces should form special squads to ``eliminate terrorists and rioters.'' Shamir said he has neither chosen ministers nor approached candidates. AP881103-0180 AP-NR-11-03-88 2205EST r p AM-VoterRegistration 11-03 0460 AM-Voter Registration,430 New Study Indicates Voter Registration Is Down This Year WASHINGTON (AP) The percentage of the voting-eligible public that is registered this election cycle is down 2.2 percent from 1984, according to a private study released Thursday that said Republicans have gained while Democrats have lost. The study projects a national registration of 129,483,000, or 70.9 percent of the voting-eligible population, compared with 127,500,000, or 73.1 percent, four years ago. Based on the results, as well as other indications of low public interest in the campaign, the authors of the study predicted that voter turnout next Tuesday would decline below 52.5 percent, making it the lowest since the 51.1 percent of 1948. Voter participation in 1984 was 53.1 percent. The percentage of registered voters drops when new registrations fail to keep pace with the growth in the country's voting-age population, or with the deaths of registered voters or with the number of voters who move and fail to re-register. The study, based on preliminary registration figures from 30 states and the District of Columbia, was conducted by the Committee for the Study of the American Electorate, a non-partisan group that monitors voter participation. The study said that from 1984 to 1988 the Republican Party's share of the voting-eligible public in 16 of the states studied increased 2.1 percent to 24.4 percent. That brought the number of GOP registered voters in those states to 16,050,098, compared with 13,764,907 in 1984. The Democratic share, meanwhile, dropped 2.3 percent to 35.9 percent, for a total of 23,630,915 registered voters in the 16 states, compared with 23,579,425 in 1984. Republicans made gains in 11 states and the District of Columbia, headed by Louisiana with an increase of 3.3 percent. Democrats recorded losses in 13 of the 16 states, adding significantly to their rolls only in the District of Columbia, up 3.1 percent. ``If there is a trend in these figures, it seems the GOP is picking up strength in the South at the expense of the Democrats,'' Curtis Gans, director of the committee, wrote in his summation. Only three states reported gains in registration this year: Nevada, up 5.5 percent; Arizona, up 4.5 percent; and Virginia, up 0.2 percent. The other 27 reported declines, with Alaska leading at 11 percent. While there was less money and less effort directed at voter registration than in 1984, the study said, several states have liberalized their registration laws. ``It is becoming abundantly clear that the erosion in the quality of our politics, made evident by this year's campaign, is undermining the citizen's will to vote,'' Gans said. The 40-year declining trend in voter participation, interrupted briefly in 1984, makes the United States the democracy with the lowest participation in the world, he said. AP881103-0181 AP-NR-11-03-88 2324EST r w AM-InfantMortality 11-03 0236 AM-Infant Mortality,210 Black-White Infant Mortality Rate Gap Widens, Group Says WASHINGTON (AP) The gap between the mortality rate for black and white infants born in the United States continues to widen, a children's advocacy group said Thursday. The Children's Defense Fund, basing its study on data released by the National Center for Health Statistics, a federal agency, said it found a black-white infant mortality ratio of 2.02 in 1986, the most recent year for which figures were available. The findings mean a black baby was more than twice as likely to die in infancy as a white baby. That compared to a 1.96 ratio in 1985 and 1.69 in 1940. It added that, while the death rates among black and white infants for non-preventable birth defects was virtually identical, black babies were far more likely to die of preventable causes such as inadequate prenatal care. They were four times more likely to die of prematurity and low birth weight, three times more likely to die of pneumonia, influenza and homicide and two times more likely to die as a result of newborn and maternal complications, infections and accidents, the fund said. Overall, the U.S. infant mortality rate declined slightly from 10.6 deaths per 1,000 live births in 1985 to 10.4 in 1986. The mortality rate for black infants in 1986 was 18 per 1,000 births and, for white infants, 8.9 per 1,000 births. AP881103-0182 AP-NR-11-03-88 2205EST r i AM-Chile 11-03 0361 AM-Chile,0373 Church Urges Gestures Of Reconciliation in Chile SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) The Roman Catholic Church in Chile urged both the military government and the opposition on Thursday to make some gestures of reconciliation to ensure a smooth transition to democracy. In a written statement, Monsignor Carlos Gonzalez, president of Chile's Bishops Conference, suggested that government gestures could include: _Speeding up trials of political prisoners. _``A real reform'' of the political police force, which has been widely accused of torturing prisoners. _``Claryfing so many facts that have not yet been duly explained to the nation's public opinion'' _ a reference to human rights violations that occurred after the military took power in a bloody 1973 coup headed by Gen. Augusto Pinochet, now president. _Ending the 1{-year internal exile imposed last month on the nation's two top labor leaders for calling an illegal general strike last year. ``I submit these facts as gestures that would help in promoting a climate of peace that we all desire,'' Gonzalez said. He said the opposition should recognize the economic achievements under the Pinochet government, but added, ``It must also be accepted that the social distribution of the economy requires policies that take into account in a wider manner the dignity and the respect that workers deserve.'' Gonzalez said gestures are needed following the Oct. 5 referendum, in which voters rejected a military proposal that Pinochet, who has ruled since the coup, remain in power until 1997. ``It is not good for the country to ignore the referendum and believe that everything remains unchanged,'' the prelate said. ``Signs and gestures of rapprochement are needed from both sides.'' Under the 1980 constitution, the Pinochet defeat in the referendum makes an open presidential election mandatory in December 1989, with the president and army commander handling over power to the winner in March, 1990. The opposition has asked a dialogue with the military on proposed constitutional changes, including an earlier departure of Pinochet from power. Pinochet has rejected opposition demands. ``One fact that can be drawn from the referendum is that Chileans want to follow a pace of respect, dialogue and peace,'' Gonzalez said in his statement. AP881103-0183 AP-NR-11-03-88 2209EST r p AM-DukakisExcerpts 11-03 0302 AM-Dukakis Excerpts,300 Quotes From The Democratic Candidate With AM-Political Rdp Bjt By The Associated Press Here are excerpts from Michael Dukakis' campaign appearances Thursday. In front of Philadelphia City Hall: ``We're coming on strong all across this country. We're coming on strong here in Pennsylvania... ``I know the Republicans are trying to do a little celebrating, they're already popping their champagne corks in their penthouses. I meant to tell them something, we're the ones who are going to be celebrating on the 8th of November and we're going to be celebrating with a bottle of beer and a cheesesteak. ... ``I'm working and I'm for working with other countries. ... But if they don't want to work with us, I'll be damned if I'll let them get away with running those drugs into this country and poisoning our children. ``I'll tell foreign leaders, if you're prepared to work with us, we'll work with you. But if you're against us, don't expect a dime in foreign aid. ... ``If you think you can do to Mike Dukakis what Noriega did to George Bush, if you think that we'll risk the lives of our children and their futures and the futures of our communities by putting Dan Quayle in charge of the war against drugs, then you're going to be in for a very big surprise on Jan. 20, 1989. ``The difference between George Bush and me is this: his administration has cut deals with foreign drug runners, I'm going to cut aid to foreign drug runners.'' At a Newark airport rally: ``Like another son of New Jersey (Bruce Springsteen), I was born to run and born to win.... ``I know Boston Harbor is polluted. So is the Republican campaign. The difference is I'm cleaning up Boston Harbor.'' AP881103-0184 AP-NR-11-03-88 2325EST r a AM-JewishGravestones 11-03 0489 AM-Jewish Gravestones,0508 Age-Old Gravestone Art Ban Sparks Lawsuit By Jewish Families SAN FRANCISCO (AP) Leon Rader, an artist whose canvas is a gravestone, says the art he brought from the Ukraine to the city in 1980 made him popular for years among Soviet Jews who emigrated to the San Francisco Bay area. Now he says he's stunned and angered that his age-old art has been banned by what may be the city's only Jewish funeral home. Rader, who learned his craft from an old master back in Chernovtzy, engraves delicate, life-like portraits of the deceased on gleaming black granite headstones. ``This is a Russian Jewish tradition,'' said Ella Portnoy, whose aunt Lia Solganik died last January. ``When you come to the cemetery, that's how you want to see them, the way you want to rememeber them,'' she said. Portnoy and the family of another deceased emigre sued Sinai Memorial Chapel; Eternal Home Cemetery; and Sinai director Gene B. Kaufman, charging them in Superior Court with grave desecration. They are seeking $1 million in damages. Eternal Home's policy is set by Sinai, a spokeswoman said. The Associated Press could not reach Sinai attorney William E. Joost for comment on Wednesday. Rader, however, said Sinai officials told him the ban was because it is against Jewish religion to have graven images. Photographs of the deceased are allowed to be placed into the tombstones. Rader, a tall, talkative man with a rich Russian accent, called the ban ``unbelievable.'' Rader learned sculpture and painting at an art academy in the Soviet Union, later working in an ``artists' factory'' painting giant canvasses of Lenin and Marx and other murals glorifying the workers' revolution. Later, he studied gravestone art with ``an old master working in a cemetery at Chernovtzy, in the Ukraine, near the Romanian border. ``You cannot learn this from nobody,'' Rader said. ``This technique is a secret technique. To do this, you have to be an artist. ``You have to know the material. ... Granite does not forgive a mistake,'' he said. Rader came to the city in 1980 and in 1984 opened Art Stone Monuments, his business located near Colma, a community of graveyards south of San Francisco. The dispute began this fall when Rader installed an engraving of a popular member of the Russian Jewish emigre community despite the ban. According to attorney Richard A. Canatella, Sinai officials were angry and visited Rader's shop to inspect gravestones for Solganik who died in January at 74, and Simyon Flek, who died in April at 57. Despite protests by the family that they would use the required stone, cemetery workers dug up huge foundations for gravestones at the head of both graves. Rader said the Torah teaches that the soul of the dead resides at the grave for 11 months. ``They disturbed her peace,'' said Portnoy, as tears formed in her eyes. ``I can't even talk about it,'' she said. AP881103-0185 AP-NR-11-03-88 2327EST r a AM-GoodSamaritan 11-03 0523 AM-Good Samaritan,0541 Judge Denies Bail for Man Who Rescued Woman By VERA HALLER Associated Press Writer NEW YORK (AP) A man who rescued a woman from two muggers by killing one and wounding the other was ordered held without bail Thursday on an outstanding warrant for a 1987 drug conviction. ``He's a drug seller and he has a gun,'' said state Supreme Court Justice Joseph Slavin. ``I'm not going to let him out.'' ``To certain portions of the populace he's a hero, to me he's a routine bench warrant,'' the judge added. Clovis Fearom, 31, bowed his head as a court officer handcuffed him and led him out of the Brooklyn courtroom. Fearom had told police his name was Anthony Dixon after he came to the rescue of 43-year-old Gertrude George early Wednesday in the Flatbush section of Brooklyn. His true identity and the outstanding arrest were discovered through fingerprints taken after he was charged with illegal gun possession because the gun he used on the attackers was not licensed. It turned out that Fearom had pleaded guilty on Feb. 9, 1987, to third-degree criminal sale of a controlled substance. He failed to appear for sentencing and a warrant was issued on March 23, 1987. His attorney, Paul Asher, made an emotional plea to Slavin, asking that Fearom not be incarcerated. ``This is a man who risked life and limb to save a woman. That's the appropriate focus of this case,'' Asher said, addng that Fearom had been a law-abiding citizen of late and had a job as a chef at a Brooklyn restaurant. But Slavin angrily disagreed. ``He's violated his trust to me by not returning for sentencing,'' the judge said. ``He's not getting out, period.'' Slavin noted that when he scheduled the man's original sentencing date in 1987, he warned him that failure to appear would result in a two-to-six-year prison sentence. Fearom had been promised a sentence of five years probation if he appeared for sentencing. The judge said he would sentence Fearom in three weeks after a probation report is prepared. According to police, Fearom was inside his apartment at about 1 a.m. Wednesday when he heard a commotion outside and saw two men attacking Ms. George. Ms. George, a longtime neighborhood resident, was returning home after work as a nurse at St. Clare's Hospital in Manhattan, police said. Timothy Lewis, 25, of Brooklyn, one of the men shot by Fearom, was arrested for robbery, assault and criminal possession of stolen property. The other alleged bandit, Raymond Plowden, 25, of Brooklyn, was found dead a block from the scene, still clutching Ms. George's jewelry. Lewis escaped but was arrested a sh