AP881030-0001 AP-NR-10-30-88 2357EST r p PM-PresidentialHorserace Bjt 10-30 1138 PM-Presidential Horserace, Bjt,1100 Bush Moves Uneasily Toward Electoral Triumph as Dukakis Gains By DAVID ESPO AP Political Writer WASHINGTON (AP) George Bush is the overwhelming yet uneasy leader in the race for the White House as the presidential campaign enters its final week, with Michael Dukakis making late gains that have Democrats dreaming of a comeback, according to an Associated Press survey of the 50 states. The survey shows Bush leading in states with 359 electoral votes, even though he has not yet locked up the 270 that would assure him of victory. Dukakis' total is far smaller _ 78 votes. Nine states with 101 electoral votes are tossups, Illinois, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin among them. The AP survey indicates Bush has maintained Republican strength in the South and Rocky Mountain West, while Dukakis has failed to accomplish the same in the industrial states. The survey was based on polls as well as interviews with politicians and political analysts around the country. ``We're spending all our time in states that should be his (Dukakis') base ... and he's spending none of his time in states that should be our base,'' says top Bush strategist Lee Atwater. ``That's a campaign manager's dream.'' Yet Democrats said a late-campaign surge has brought Dukakis to within striking distance in states such as California, Ohio and Texas, and said he has gained elsewhere, as well. ``Dukakis is clearly behind. But I think he's closing the gap,'' said Michigan Sen. Don Riegle. ``There's still a lot of people who haven't made up their minds.'' Riegle is expected to win an easy re-election himself, and says, ``I think the Democrats can still win nationally.'' The candidates will spend much of the final nine days in states such as California, Ohio, Michigan, Illinois, Pennsylvania and Ohio, and Atwater claimed, ``If we win any one of them George Bush will be elected.'' That assumes Bush holds Texas, where Democratic vice presidential nominee Lloyd Bentsen is camping out in hopes of a home-state upset. Democrats in several key states say Dukakis' more aggressive late-campaign style presents opportunities for a turnaround, and has given lifelong Democrats a reason to take a second look at the race. ``There's a lot of movement out there,'' said Francis O'Brien, an adviser to the Massachusetts governor. Republicans and Democrats alike say Bush forged his lead on his ability to depict Dukakis as an unreconstructed liberal. Dukakis' recent improvement is attested to by private polling in both parties, and laid in part to Dukakis' recent populist campaigning and perhaps a process of loyal Democrats ``coming home'' as the Nov. 8 election approaches. In television interviews last week, Dukakis attempted to portray his views and his values while lambasting Bush and the Republicans for distorting his record as governor of Massachusetts. Bush confidently turned down network interview requests before agreeing to appear on morning talk shows this week. ``What Michael Dukakis failed to do after the (Democratic) convention was define who he is and what he was going to do,'' said Pat Shea, co-chairman of the Democratic campaign in Utah. ``The thing I fear most is complacency,'' said Keith McNamara, Bush's chairman in Ohio, a key state where Republicans have poured resources and staked Bush to a lead. Several nationwide polls, including recent private soundings for both campaigns, give Bush a national advantage in the range of eight to 10 points. But when translated to the Electoral College, Bush's advantage grows. The AP survey showed that Bush has built a solid core of support in the customarily Republican regions of the South and Rocky Mountain West. His lead in states such as Arizona, Florida and Nevada could be as high as 20 to 30 points. Bush also leads in several key battleground states _ including Ohio, Texas, California, New Jersey and Michigan _ but party surveys over the past several days suggest nationwide gains for Dukakis. Other key states are tossups, including Illinois, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Missouri, Vermont, Oregon, Washington and Montana. Among more traditionally Democratic states, Maryland is tilting in Bush's favor. Dukakis appears to have a solid lead in home-state Massachusetts, although his campaign has decided to air radio advertisements to firm up his support. He also is rated the narrow favorite in Democratic New York and in Republican Iowa. Despite the improvement, the AP survey indicated that Dukakis has failed to establish anything resembling a solid Democratic core of support, and state after state that appeared strong for him during the summer and early fall has moved into or closer to Bush's column. ``I know Bush has got the inside track right now and I don't know if we can turn that around or not,'' said Kentucky House Speaker Don Blandford. Bush is running extremely strong in the South. ``It's well over,'' University of Virginia political analyst Larry Sabato said in words describing his own state but which also apply to the region. ``The Reagan Democrats have become Bush Democrats,'' said Louisiana pollster Susan Howell. ``Unless Dukakis and the Louisiana Democrats can call the Bush Democrats home in the last week, Louisiana will be won for the Republicans by white Democrats voting for George Bush.'' By region: _ Bush has been leading in California, the nation's biggest state with 47 electoral votes, although there as elsewhere Democrats claim late gains and a formidable organization designed to maximize their vote. Oregon and Washington are tossups while the remainder of the West is in Bush's column, according to the survey. However, Bush visited Montana and South Dakota last week in a bid to protect them from the Democrats, and Dukakis appears to have closed the gap in Colorado. _ In the Midwest, Iowa and Minnesota are leaning in Dukakis' direction, but are far from secure, while the Democrat has lost his edge in Wisconsin, now a tossup. Bush is highly favored in the remainder of the farm belt. The industrial Midwest includes states that figured to decide a close election. Bush's lead has narrowed in Ohio, where Democratic chairman James Ruvolo insisted last week Dukakis had a chance to win. The vice president also leads in Michigan. Illinois is close, while Missouri _ the weakest state for Bush in his Super Tuesday primary sweep _ is a tossup. _ The Northeast, traditionally a strong Democratic region, has the most close races, providing a good barometer on how well Bush has carried the fight. New York aside, both sides claim an advantage in Pennsylvania. Dukakis' home region of New England may even prove to be a land of opportunity for Bush, according to the survey. He is regarded as the prohibitive favorite in New Hampshire, and appears to be leading in Connecticut and Maine. Vermont is rated a tossup and Democrats say they will carry Rhode Island even though recent polls produce contradictory results. AP881030-0002 AP-NR-10-30-88 2357EST r p PM-Horserace-List 10-30 0448 PM-Horserace-List,440 With PM-Presidential Horserace Bjt WASHINGTON (AP) Here is a state-by-state look at the George Bush-Michael Dukakis matchup, based on an Associated Press survey. Electoral College votes are in parentheses. Alabama (9) _ Bush solid in Dixie. Alaska (3) _ Bush advantage. Arizona (7) _ Bush with a big lead. Arkansas (6) _ Bush advantage but one to watch. California (47) _ Bush has narrow advantage but Dukakis gaining. Colorado (8) _ Bush ahead. Connecticut (8) _ Bush leads in a close race. Delaware (3) _ Bush advantage. District of Columbia (3) _ Dukakis solid. Florida (21) _ Bush way ahead, Buddy MacKay fights for Dem Senate seat. Georgia (12) _ Bush advantage but Sen. Sam Nunn active for Dukakis. Hawaii (4) _ Dukakis advantage. Idaho (4) _ Bush leads. Illinois (24) _ A tossup in key battleground state. Indiana (12) _ It's Bush@Quayle. Iowa (8) _ Dukakis leads in traditionally Republican state. Kansas (7) _ Bush lead is soft in Dole state. Kentucky (9) _ Advantage to Bush, but tightening. Louisiana (10) _ Advantage to Bush, despite Bentsen efforts. Maine (4) _ Bush advantage. Maryland (10) _ Shaky Bush advantage based on gun control initiative. Massachusetts (13) _ Dukakis has moved to bolster his lead. Michigan (20) _ Bush advantage but Dukakis gaining. Minnesota (10) _ Narrow advantage for Dukakis. Mississippi (7) _ Bush solid; GOP Lott leads for Dem Senate seat. Missouri (11) _ Tossup. Montana (4) _ Tossup. Nebraska (5) _ Bush ahead; parties fight over GOP Senate seat. Nevada (4) _ Like Nebraska, Bush ahead; fight over GOP Senate seat. New Hampshire (4) _ Bush advantage in Dukakis' neighboring state. New Jersey (16) _ Bush visits often to protect advantage. New Mexico (5) _ Bush leads. New York (36) _ Dukakis leads narrowly; Cuomo vows Dem will win. North Carolina (13) _ Bush leads in Dukakis' best Southern state. North Dakota (3) _ Bush advantage. Ohio (23) _ Bush opened up big lead, now much tighter. Oklahoma (8) _ Leans Bush, Bentsen active in neighboring state. Oregon (7) _ A tossup in the Northwest. Pennsylvania (25) _ Tossup. Rhode Island (4) _ Dukakis territory, but not safe. South Carolina (8) _ Bush territory, and safe. South Dakota (3) _ Leans Bush. Tennessee (11) _ Dem governor says Bush leads. Texas (29) _ Bush leads, but Bentsen hasn't given up. Utah (5) _ Bush advantage. Vermont (3) _ Close. Virginia (12) _ Bush despite Dem takeover in Senate race. Washington (10) _ Tossup, both presidential and Senate. West Virginia (6) _ Dukakis gains make it a tossup again. Wisconsin (11) _ Dukakis lost his edge, now tossup. Wyoming (3) _ Bush. AP881030-0003 AP-NR-10-30-88 2358EST r p PM-NewYorkSenate 10-30 0445 PM-New York Senate,440 Moynihan Coasting in Senate Race Against Little-Known Republican By KIM I. MILLS Associated Press Writer NEW YORK (AP) Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan isn't running for re-election. He's walking. The New York Democrat is far ahead in the polls, has campaign money to burn and is facing little-known lawyer Robert McMillan, who has bare-bones support from his own Republican Party. If Moynihan is worried about anything in this campaign, it's breaking the record he set when he ran in 1982. That year, running against Florence Sullivan, a Brooklyn assemblywoman, Moynihan carried 50 of New York's 62 counties, the first Democrat to do so since Martin Van Buren. ``I lost Orleans County by just six votes,'' he said recently, still sounding galled. Indeed, Moynihan hasn't had a bruising campaign since the 1976 Democratic primary when he went head-to-hat with Bella Abzug, whom he beat by 10,000 votes out of 916,000 cast. Ask Moynihan today what he thinks of McMillan, and he says, ``Which one?'' At first, you think he's kidding. Then he reaches into his back pocket and pulls out his wallet, which contains a laminated card on which are typed the names of the six candidates running for his seat. Among them is a James P. McMillen, the candidate of the Libertarian Party. The others are running on even more obscure lines, ranging from the Independent Progressive to the Workers World parties. Asked again what he thinks of Bob McMillan, Moynihan says only, ``He's running a very negative campaign.'' McMillan has called Moynihan a liar and incompetent, accused him of being a lousy boss who presides over a chaotic office, and charged that the senator's morals are ``mixed up.'' Moynihan's response has been no response at all, a sober tactic he credits to his wife, Elizabeth, who is running his campaign. Moynihan heads into the final week of the campaign with a seemingly unassailable lead in the polls as he seeks a third term in Congress. A survey released last week by the Marist College Institute for Public Opinion showed Moynihan ahead 67 percent to 20 percent with 13 percent undecided. ``His campaign is just the untouchable campaign,'' said campaign spokesman Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. ``There are several campaigns like that around the country and his is one. It can't be hurt by anything.'' Moynihan's overwhelming advantage has been virtually unchanged for months as McMillan's underfunded and underpublicized campaign has never really gotten on track. ``Where do we stand? We stand still under that heavy rock we've been pushing uphill for the past several months,'' McMillan campaign spokesman Robert Allen said. ``We've got only one way to go _ that's up.'' AP881030-0004 AP-NR-10-30-88 0015EDT r p AM-TimePoll 10-30 0132 AM-Time Poll,0134 Bush Reportedly Holding Steady Lead Over Dukakis in Time Poll NEW YORK (AP) Vice President George Bush has maintained a steady lead over Democrat Michael Dukakis, according to a report of a Time-Yankelovich Clancy Shulman poll. The poll results, scheduled to be published by Time magazine Monday and printed in early Sunday editions of The New York Times, showed Bush leading Dukakis by 50 percent to 40 percent. The poll was based on telephone interviews with 1,096 probable voters across the country on Tuesday and Wednesday and had a margin of error of plus or minus three percentage points. The results were similar to a Time-Yankelovich Clancy Shulman poll conducted Sept. 27 and Sept. 28, which showed the Republican ticket leading by 48 percent to 41 percent. AP881030-0005 AP-NR-10-30-88 0017EDT r i AM-Nicaragua-Rebels 10-30 0204 AM-Nicaragua-Rebels,0211 Nicaragua Says Nine Killed By Rebels MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) Rebels ambushed a bus near the Honduran border Saturday and killed nine people, including two children and a pregnant woman, the Defense Ministry reported. A brief communique said a Sandinista army official was also among the dead and three civilians were wounded in the attack. It said 20 rebels, known as Contras, opened fire on the bus at 9:30 a.m. about 10 miles northeast of San Juan del Rio Coco in the northern province of Madriz. The report gave no additional details but other communiques said three Sandinista soldiers were killed in two rebel attacks and accused Honduran troops of firing at Nicaraguan army positions. A Third Army bulletin said Honduran troops fired machine guns and mortar shells at Sandinista positions in Murupuchi, 140 miles north of Managua and close to the border with Honduras. It did not mention any casualties but said that ``during October, Honduran troops have attacked military border installations on 21 occasions.'' The other reports said three soldiers were killed in two ambushes by rebels in Jinotega province more than 100 miles notheast of Managua. No details were given and the communiques did not mention rebel casualties. AP881030-0006 AP-NR-10-30-88 0027EDT u a AM-CourtScuffle 2ndLd-Writethru a0653 10-30 0336 AM-Court Scuffle, 2nd Ld-Writethru, a0653,0342 Sharpton, Juanita Brawley Held Eds: SUBS 8th graf to CORRECT that adviser, aunt and eight others pleading innocent sted guilty. NEW YORK (AP) Two lawyers for a black teen-ager who claimed she was raped by six white men were released Saturday and the girl's adviser and aunt pleaded innocent to misdemeanor charges stemming from a courtroom brawl. Seventeen people were arrested after the scuffle broke out Friday at Brooklyn Criminal Court. Sixteen court officers and two demonstrators sustained minor injuries. The incident occurred after the Rev. Al Sharpton, the New York black activist who is advising Tawana Brawley, and several co-defendants and supporters refused to leave the courtroom following a hearing on contempt charges stemming from a Sept. 29 demonstration. At the hearing, Criminal Court Judge Michael Nadel denied a motion from Sharpton's lawyer to dismiss charges, despite a threat that the group would refuse to leave the room unless he granted it. The Sept. 29 demonstration, which tied up traffic in violation of a court order, was organized to protest a grand jury finding that Miss Brawley had made up her story of abduction and rape. Attorneys William Kunstler and C. Vernon Mason and five others were released Saturday. ``At this point, we have deferred prosecution pending a further investigation,'' said Glenn Goldberg, spokesman for District Attorney Elizabeth Holtzman. Sharpton, Juanita Brawley and eight others pleaded innocent late Saturday to a variety of misdemeanor charges, Goldberg said. All except Ms. Brawley, the teen-ager's aunt, were released on their own recognizance at the arraignment before Criminal Court Judge Stephen Fisher, Goldberg said. Ms. Brawley was ordered held on $1,500 bond or $250 cash, he added. The next court date was set for Nov. 17. Sharpton faced charges of unlawful assembly and third-degree criminal trespass, said Goldberg. Juanita Brawley faced charges of criminal impersonation for allegedly giving a false name to police, he said. The other eight faced charges including disorderly conduct, harassment, third-degree attempted assault and resisting arrest. AP881030-0007 AP-NR-10-30-88 0033EDT u p AM-PresidentialEndorse 4thLd-Writethru a0649 10-30 0648 AM-Presidential Endorse, 4th Ld-Writethru, a0649,650 New York Times Endorses Dukakis, Bush Picks up Denver, Seattle Papers Eds: INSERTS 5 grafs after pvs 9th graf bgng ``It concluded: ...'' to add endorsements from three additional newspapers. By The Associated Press The New York Times and the Star Tribune of Minneapolis endorsed Democrat Michael Dukakis for president in their Sunday editions while Republican George Bush picked up support from the Denver Post and the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. The St. Paul (Minn.) Pioneer Press Dispatch, meanwhile, endorsed both candidates, saying its editorial board was divided on which would make the better president. The Times said the most urgent job for the next president will be ``getting America out of hock'' from the Reagan administration deficits. ``Who's likely to do it better? The answer tips a closely balanced scale _ to Michael Dukakis,'' the New York newspaper said. It credited the vice president with being the ``clear winner'' as far as running an effective campaign. But in evaluating the candidates' experience and personality, it said Bush's selection of Sen. Dan Quayle of Indiana as a running mate was ``a blunder that, for this test, forces a clear preference for Mr. Dukakis.'' On the issues, the Times said Bush ``merits the edge'' on foreign policy questions while Dukakis ``at least recognizes that national security depends on economic strength.'' The New York newspaper said both candidates are better men than the images that have been projected in a ``sour, superficial, misleading campaign'' and that ``America is likely to be well served if either man is elected.'' The Denver paper complained that both Bush and Dukakis were ``presenting their worst faces to the American people.'' It concluded: ``Americans are forced to choose between two good men running two bad campaigns. After wiping away the mud from both candidates, The Post believes George Bush is the better choice.'' Despite saying its enthusiasm for the Democratic candidate had waned during the campaign, the Philadelphia Inquirer endorsed Dukakis. ``Mr. Dukakis' shortcomings as a campaigner, to be sure, raise legitimate concerns about his ability to inspire people as president, which is why our enthusiasm has waned,'' the paper said in Sunday's editions. ``Even so, on the basis of who he is, what he's done and where he's likely to lead us, Mr. Dukakis remains the better bet.'' Meawhile Bush picked up backing from the Detroit News. ``He may not be an ideal candidate, but in our opinion, he's far and away the better of the two,'' the newspaper said. The Sunday Oregonian of Portland, Ore., the state's largest newspaper, also backed the GOP nominee. The Seattle Post-Intelligencer wrote of the vice president: ``While we disagree with a number of George Bush's approaches to national problems, we believe him to be an intelligent and competent man who will work diligently on behalf of the nation's most vital interests.'' It said the high point of the Dukakis campaign was the Democratic nominee's acceptance speech in Atlanta in July, but ``since then it has been mostly downhill.'' The Star Tribune headlined its endorsement, ``For president: narrowly, Michael Dukakis.'' The editorial said ``questions about the presidential qualities of each candidate have grown. Voters are left to guess which, if elected, could provide better answers over the long run. Our guess is Michael Dukakis.'' The St. Paul paper, meanwhile, said that contributing to the dilemma of its divided eight-member editorial board ``was a sense of profound disgust about the negative tone of this campaign.'' ``It's not that both George Bush and Michael Dukakis are unacceptable,'' the Pioneer Press Dispatch said. ``What is closer to the truth is that we find ourselves divided on who would make the better president.'' Also Sunday, Kentucky's two largest papers, The Courier-Journal of Louisville and the Lexington Herald-Leader, endorsed Dukakis. In Florida, the Orlando Sentinel and the Miami Herald endorsed Bush while The Daytona Beach News-Journal praised Dukakis. AP881030-0008 AP-NR-10-30-88 0039EDT r a AM-VonBulow-Auction 10-30 0281 AM-Von Bulow-Auction,0290 Auction Believed to Be Von Bulow Collection Brings $11.56 Million NEW YORK (AP) English furniture, oil paintings and other furnishings reportedly belonging to Claus and Sunny von Bulow sold for a total of $11.56 million in a two-day auction that ended Saturday, Sotheby's reported. Nearly 500 people filled the auction room for Saturday's session to bid on everything from Old Master paintings to silver and rugs. Sotheby's had estimated the sale would fetch between $6 million and $7.5 million. On Saturday alone, bidders put up $6,718,350, establishing a new record for any auction of English furniture, said George Read, director of the English Furniture Department at Sotheby's. ``This auction was a classic example of a great collection achieving remarkable prices,'' he said in a statement. For example, the largest group of Samuel Dixon embossed paper bird pictures, circa 1750, sold for $630,100, exceeding the high estimate by more than $500,000. An anonymous American dealer bought a rare George III rosewood commode for $880,000. It was expected to bring about $500,000. In all, 93 percent of the items offered were sold. The auction had been advertised merely as ``Property from a Private Collection,'' but The New York Times reported that the material belonged to the von Bulows. Claus von Bulow has been living in Europe since he was acquitted in 1985 in a retrial of charges that he twice tried to murder his wife with insulin injections. Mrs. von Bulow has been in an irreversible coma since suffering a seizure eight years ago. The offerings were said to include furnishings from Clarendon Court, the von Bulows' mansion in Newport, R.I., and pieces from the couple's Manhattan apartment. AP881030-0009 AP-NR-10-30-88 0048EDT u i AM-Hirohito 10-30 0323 AM-Hirohito,0333 Hirohito Loses Large Amount Of Blood, Given Emergency Transfusion By ERIC TALMADGE Associated Press Writer TOKYO (AP) Emperor Hirohito discharged the largest amount of blood through the night since he fell ill last month, forcing doctors to administer an emergency transfusion, a palace spokesman said Sunday. The 87-year-old emperor suffered his largest discharge since falling ill and received 2.94 pints of blood in a single emergency transfusion lasting until Sunday morning, Kenji Maeda, Imperial Household Agency spokesman, told reporters. ``What we had feared occurred,'' Maeda quoted chief court physician Akira Takagi as saying. But he added that doctors were able to deal with the crisis and had returned to normal procedures. Maeda did not say how much blood the monarch lost, but the discharge and transfusion are the largest since the ailing monarch vomited blood Sept. 19 and was given 0.86 pints immediately after. Maeda said the emperor began bleeding from his bowels at about 9 p.m. (8 a.m. EDT) Saturday, but that as of 10 a.m. Sunday (9 p.m. EDT Saturday), the discharges subsided. He added that the emperor's systolic blood pressure plummeted to less than 100 ``for a short time,'' but that Hirohito was not in shock and remains conscious. By Sunday morning the emperor was awake and resting, Maeda said. The transfusions brought the total amount of blood Hirohito has received in the 42 days that he has been bedridden to 30.7 pints. Maeda also said palace doctors believed that along with blood which had accumulated in Hirohito's abdomen, some of the discharge was from fresh internal bleeding from the area of the upper intestine, where he underwent bypass surgery last year. Palace officials have refused to confirm or deny news reports that the emperor has cancer. Hirohito, the world's oldest living monarch, is being fed intravenously and has not eaten any food except for a few spoonfuls of porridge since the onset of the crisis. AP881030-0010 AP-NR-10-30-88 0058EDT r a AM-GangSweep 10-30 0206 AM-Gang Sweep,0210 Police Hit Streets For Second Night of Gang Sweep LOS ANGELES (AP) Police combed the streets of the city's south side Saturday in the second night of a weekend sweep aimed at curbing rampant gang violence and drug dealing, officials said. The 200-member anti-gang task force made 156 arrests the previous night, including 98 suspected gang members, Officer Richard Dulgerian said. They also seized 21 vehicles and four guns, he said. Twenty-five adults and seven juveniles were arrested for felonies, Dulgerian said. Other arrests involved driving under the influence, curfew violations and outstanding misdemeanor warrants. Officers issued 171 traffic citations and conducted 583 field interviews during the night. The police sweeps began earlier this year following a Good Friday shooting in which one person was killed and 12 were injured. Police Chief Daryl Gates vowed to crack down on gangs and keep city streets safe for residents. ``The mission of the task force is to seek out and arrest gang members for any violation of the law, to serve as a reassurance to the citizens of South Central L.A. and to fulfill Chief Gates' commitment to eliminate gang activity in the city of L.A.,'' said Officer Don Lawrence, a department spokesman. AP881030-0011 AP-NR-10-30-88 0146EDT u a AM-MarcosArraignment 3rdLd-Writethru a0627 10-30 0787 AM-Marcos Arraignment, 3rd Ld-Writethru, a0627,0806 Imelda Marcos Says She Won't Flee PRECEDE Honolulu Eds: LEADS with 6 grafs to UPDATE with Mrs. Marcos arriving in San Jose. Picks up 3rd graf pvs, `Before leaving...' DELETES 13th graf pvs, `Government officials...' to conform. By CHRISTINE DONNELLY Associated Press Writer SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) Former Philippines first lady Imelda Marcos arrived here Saturday night for a brief stopover on her way to New York, where she is scheduled to be arraigned on racketeering charges. The private jet carrying Mrs. Marcos landed at 9:55 p.m. PDT at the San Jose Jet Center, a facility for private aircraft at the San Jose International Airport. Mrs. Marcos disembarked and was led away by a police motorcade to an undisclosed location. Earlier, government officials said they expected Mrs. Marcos to visit her daughter, Irene Araneta, in San Francisco. The jet was being refueled and was scheduled to depart at 3 a.m. PST Sunday, officials at the jet center said. Earlier Saturday in Honolulu, Mrs. Marcos had invited federal officials to join her on the borrowed luxury jet to prove she would not flee rather than fly to New York for arraignment on racketeering charges. Mrs. Marcos arrived at the Honolulu airport in a black limousine and got aboard the plane without any comment to reporters. She was accompanied by an entourage of about 10 people. Before leaving for the airport, Mrs. Marcos kissed and hugged her husband, former Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos, who was brought out of the couple's hillside estate in a wheelchair. Both were seen wiping away tears in the parting that was video recorded by Marcos aides. ``There are rumors that once airborne and out of radar range, I might flee out of the United States,'' Mrs. Marcos said in a statement issued late Friday. ``In order to assure everybody of our destination, I am inviting the FBI, Federal Aviation Administration and the INS (Immigration and Naturalization Service) to have their men accompany us in the plane.'' But a U.S. attorney said the government trusted her to appear for Monday's hearing. John Bartko, a Marcos attorney, flew to Honolulu early Saturday so he would be with Mrs. Marcos for her first trip out of Hawaii since being exiled here nearly three years ago. ``That's why I came, so we could do everything to assure the U.S. government she will be there,'' Bartko said. ``Any apprehension about her not meeting her legal obligation is totally unfounded.'' Mrs. Marcos and her husband were indicted Oct. 21 on charges that they looted more than $100 million from their country and used it to buy New York real estate, artwork and other objects. Defense lawyers persuaded U.S. District Judge John F. Keenan that Marcos, 71, was too frail to make the long flight. His arraignment was postponed at least until a government physician examines him. Marcos fled to Hawaii in February 1986 after a military-civilian revolt catapulted Corazon Aquino to power, ending Marcos' 20-year rule. Defense lawyers said Mrs. Marcos, 59, would plead innocent. U.S. Attorney Dan Bent said no federal officials would escort Mrs. Marcos on the private Boeing 737-300, in a luxury configuation for just 19 passengers, that tobacco heiress Doris Duke loaned for the 5,000-mile trip. ``Until she does otherwise, we must assume Mrs. Marcos will appear as summoned,'' Bent said. He refused to say how prosecutors would ensure her plane would not stray. In New York, suites were booked at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel for the Marcos entourage, which includes a nurse, secretary, lawyers and several friends, Trinidad said. ``I am grateful to the members of the Filipino-American community in New York and surrounding areas for their concern for my privacy and security,'' said Mrs Marcos. ``At the same time, they insist I stay at the Waldorf Astoria at their own expense. To all of them, a million thanks.'' Although Marcos aides refused to detail Mrs. Marcos' plans in New York, an associate said she planned to shop and entertain old friends. As Philippine first lady, Mrs. Marcos was known for her lavish parties at the Waldorf and elsewhere in New York City, but Bartko said she now has other concerns. ``Her real concern is that she also hasn't left her husband's side for three years and she's very concerned about his health,'' Bartko said. ``She's going to meet her legal obligation, but I just don't see her having a gay old time in New York City.'' Indicted with the Marcoses was Saudian Arabian financier Adnan Khashoggi, who is accused of acting as a front for Marcos to help divert assets and hide his ownership of real estate and art. No court date for his appearance was scheduled. AP881030-0012 AP-NR-10-30-88 0221EDT u a AM-People-Field 2ndLd-Writethru a0657 10-30 0361 AM-People-Field, 2nd Ld-Writethru, a0657,0368 Sally Field Aboard Merv Griffin-Owned Jet That `Totals' Other Planes Eds: SUBS 2nd graf to CORRECT Field's age to 41, sted 46. ASPEN, Colo. (AP) A private jet carrying two-time Oscar winning actress Sally Field and her family aborted takeoff and ran into two parked jets Saturday, but only minor injuries were reported, authorities said. Field, 41, was en route to Burbank, Calif., with her husband, film producer Alan Greisman, 41, her 11-month-old son, Sam, and her mother, Margaret O'Mahoney, said Pitkin County sheriff's spokesman Steve Crockett. The Challenger jet, belonging to entertainer Merv Griffin, aborted takeoff about 2 p.m., and ran into two private jets parked on a ramp at the county airport, Crockett said. The jet lost power as it tried to take off, never left the ground and veered to the right, said Jeff Lumsden of the sheriff's office. ``The plane skidded across a grass infield and struck two parked jets, ripping the nose gear out of one jet, a G-2, and coming to rest in the middle of the second jet, which is a Jet Star, pushing it back to the fence,'' said Crockett. The jet had flown to Aspen after taking Griffin and actress Eva Gabor to Griffin's Monterey, Calif., ranch earlier Saturday, said Warren Cowan, a publicist for both Griffin and Gabor. The jets hit by Griffin's plane belong to entertainment personality Burt Sugarman and Marty Raynes, the son-in-law of oilman Marvin Davis, said Cowan. ``According to Merv, his plane and maybe the others have been totaled,'' the publicist said. Field, who won Academy Awards for her performances in ``Norma Rae'' and ``Places in the Heart'' and whose latest film is ``Punchline,'' later departed with her family on a commercial flight to Denver, Crockett said. She and her husband own a home overlooking this mountain resort town. The pilot and co-pilot were treated for cuts and bruises at Aspen Valley Hospital, Crockett said. A flight attendant was not injured. Landings and takeoffs were delayed for 15 minutes until fuel spilled in the accident was mopped up. Crockett said National Transportation Safety Board investigators would look into the incident. AP881030-0013 AP-NR-10-30-88 0752EST u i BC-Hirohito 2ndLd-Writethru a0665 10-30 0253 BC-Hirohito, 2nd Ld-Writethru, a0665,0262 Emperor's Blood Pressure Improves After Transfusion Eds: New thruout to UPDATE with emperor's blood pressure improving. No pickup. ^By ERIC TALMADGE Associated Press Writer TOKYO (AP) Doctors administered another emergency blood transfusion to Emperor Hirohito on Sunday evening to battle an alarming drop in his blood pressure, a palace spokesman said. After the transfusion, Hirohito's blood pressure rose to 120 over 50 from the dangerously low 84 over 34 level in the early evening, the spokesman said. A systolic blood pressure of under 100 for a sustained period of time can cause permanent brain damage. The latest transfusion raised to 31.54 pints the amount of blood Hirohito has received since he fell ill last month. The Imperial Household Agency spokesman, Kenji Maeda, told reporters that doctors administered the transfusion to battle the drop in blood pressure. He quoted doctors as saying Hirohito's condition improved after the transfusion and that the 87-year-old monarch was conscious. Maeda would not say whether the emperor was in critical condition. The blood pressure reading of 84 over 34 was the lowest reported by the palace since Hirohito became ill 42 days ago. The emperor's blood pressure dropped to that level after he lost a large amount of blood in his bowels on Saturday night and Sunday morning. Hirohito, the world's oldest living monarch, is being fed intravenously and has eaten little solid food since the onset of the crisis. Palace officials refuse to comment on reports that the emperor has cancer. AP881030-0014 AP-NR-10-30-88 1039EST u a BC-MarcosArraignment 10-30 0224 BC-Marcos Arraignment,0229 Imelda Marcos Arrives to Face Arraignment Eds: Top Planned After Arrival in New York City NEWARK, N.J. (AP) Former Philippines first lady Imelda Marcos was greeted here Sunday by about 40 supporters, who said racketeering charges filed against her and Ferdinand Marcos represented a betrayal by the U.S. government. Mrs. Marcos, who landed in a private jet away from reporters' and supporters' views, immediately left for New York City, where she is scheduled to be arraigned Monday on charges she and her husband looted more than $100 million from the Philippines. It was the first time Mrs. Marcos had left Hawaii since she and her husband fled the Philippines nearly three years ago. Before leaving for the airport, Mrs. Marcos kissed and hugged her husband, who was brought out of the couple's hillside estate in a wheelchair. Both were seen wiping away tears in the parting that was video recorded by Marcos aides. Mrs. Marcos and her husband were indicted Oct. 21 on charges that they looted more than $100 million from their country and used it to buy New York real estate, artwork and other objects. Defense lawyers persuaded U.S. District Judge John F. Keenan that Marcos, 71, was too frail to make the long flight. His arraignment was postponed at least until a government physician examines him. AP881030-0015 AP-NR-10-30-88 1120EST r i AM-BRF--LongHop 10-30 0090 AM-BRF--Long Hop,0091 African Winds Reportedly Blow Locusts To Britain PLYMOUTH, England (AP) Locusts from the Sahara have turned up in southwest England after they were carried by storm winds, an expert said. The locusts were found in Plymouth, Truro and the Isles of Scilly, having traveled at least 1,500 miles from the North African desert, David Curry, keeper of natural history at Plymouth City Museum, said Saturday. Locust infestations in northern Africa this year posed serious threats to food supplies in areas already hit hard by drought. AP881030-0016 AP-NR-10-30-88 1121EST r i AM-MassWedding 10-30 0375 AM-Mass Wedding,0388 Wedding For 13,000 Members of Unification Church By KELLY TUNNEY Associated Press Writer SEOUL, South Korea (AP) More than 13,000 brides and grooms in the Unification Church were married Sunday in a mass wedding complete with matching bridal gowns and bouquets, a day after the couples were introduced. The ceremony matched 6,516 couples, 4,000 of them Japanese marrying Japanese and the remainder marriages between people from the United States and more than a dozen other nations. Many couples did not speak the same language. The Rev. Sun Myung Moon, founder of the South Korean-based church, matched the couples personally, a church spokesman said, and purposely chose to unite more than 2,000 Japanese and Koreans ``to heal and spiritually cleanse bad feelings left over from the Japanese colonial rule of Korea.'' Moon told the newlyweds: ``You will overcome international barriers to create one world of the heart and a blessed race for the future.'' In unison, the grooms lifted the veils of the brides and the brides and grooms took identifical gold rings from small silk pouches to place on each other's fingers. There was no kiss. The couples are counseled to live together 40 days without sharing the same bed. Yonhap, the South Korean news agency, reported that South Korean hotels were complaining they had no business from the wedding. ``The church feels a marriage is not just for personal physical satisfaction,'' explained Bernard Quandt, of Bad-Kreuznach, West Germany. Quandt was matched to a Korean woman and married in a mass wedding in 1982. This was the first mass wedding by the church since the 1982 ceremony, when about 6,000 couples were united. Only a few smaller group weddings have been held since, said Quandt, a teacher in the church seminary. The ceremony was held in a giant warehouse of a church-owned soft drink plant at Yong-in village, south of Seoul. The words of speakers were translated into Korean and Japanese. Ruka Nun-ira, a 31-year-old from Ghana, married Kurokawa Akemi from Japan. He said they will live in Seoul where he is attending school. Ruka isn't concerned they cannot communicate much, except in smiles. He said he ``made a choice and I trust the church. We'll figure it out.'' AP881030-0017 AP-NR-10-30-88 1121EST r i AM-StandsCollapse 10-30 0138 AM-Stands Collapse,0140 Grandstand Falls, 75 Injured LE CREUSOT, France (AP) A grandstand erected for a variety show collapsed, injuring about 75 people, police said. The cause of the accident Saturday night in this city 200 miles southeast of Paris was not immediately known. Investigators said they were not sure if the stand had been overloaded or improperly set up. About 20 people were admitted to local hospitals for treatment of broken bones and severe bruises. None was in serious condition. Another 55 were treated at the hospital in Le Creusot and released. About 3,000 people attended the show at Jean Garnier stadium, where two grandstands were built. One of the temporary grandstands collapsed about 10 p.m., before the appearance of singer Julie Pietri, the main attraction. The show was stopped after the accident, police said. AP881030-0018 AP-NR-10-30-88 1123EST r a AM-GentlemanBandit 10-30 0216 AM-Gentleman Bandit,0222 FBI Arrest Man Suspected of 38 Bank Robberies In Four States SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) FBI agents have arrested a fugitive accused of being the so-called ``gentleman bandit'' who robbed 38 banks in four states. Robert Hal Brame, 34, was arrested Friday evening after eight agents wrestled the armed man to the ground outside his girlfriend's apartment, the FBI said. Brame had told his girlfriend that he would never be taken alive, said Terry Knowles, special agent in charge of the FBI's Sacramento office. He escaped two years ago from the Durham Penitentiary in North Carolina where he was serving an 18-year sentence for kidnapping, attempted murder and assault on a law enforcement officer. Brame was arrested on suspicion of robbing seven banks in Florida, Arkansas and California, Knowles said. In all, he has been identified as a suspect in 38 robberies in those states and Georgia, Knowles said. ``There has been some consideration to putting him on the 10 Most Wanted list,'' Knowles said. The ``gentleman bandit'' earned his nickname because he usually wore a three-piece business suit, he said. The FBI had suspected that Brame was in Sacramento for about a month, Knowles said. Agents had been watching the homes of relatives and his girlfriend, whom Knowles declined to identify. AP881030-0019 AP-NR-10-30-88 1123EST r a AM-BRF--GracelandChristmas 10-30 0134 AM-BRF--Graceland Christmas,0136 Graceland Gets All Decked Out MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) Elvis Presley's mansion, Graceland, will be decked out for the holidays with a $500,000 display including 40,000 lights and a 60-foot tree. Graceland operators say they hope the display will become a regional attraction. It will run from Nov. 25 through Christmas Eve, project designer John Brandano of Syracuse, N.Y., said last week. Organizers began with Presley's own traditional life-size Nativity scene and blue lights lining the driveway. They are adding horse-drawn carriage rides around the mansion grounds, animated characters, larger-than-life wire sculptures of Memphis attractions covered in white lights, bands, singers and Santa Claus, of course. The project is expected to pay for itself within two years and then generate enough profit for expansion, said Graceland executive director Jack Soden. AP881030-0020 AP-NR-10-30-88 1124EST r i AM-BRF--Britain-Dons 10-30 0158 AM-BRF--Britain-Dons,0162 Cambridge University Updates Rule Book To Remove Sexism CAMBRIDGE, England (AP) Cambridge University dons have voted to eliminate sexist language from their historic rule book. They voted 348-260 on Friday night to end the use of male pronouns to denote members of both sexes in the university's Statutes and Ordinances. The dons _ heads, tutors and fellows of the colleges _ voted that ``she,'' ``her,'' and ``herself'' be added to ``he,'' ``his,'' and ``himself'' entries in the book. A lobby of 92 academics led the call for the change. Opponents argued that traditional language should not be changed just to satisfy modern standards. They also objected to the cost of amending the 1,152-page book, which may be as much as $17,600. There were no women at the university when the Statutes and Ordinances was translated from the original Latin into English in the 1850s. Women now account for nearly half of the university's population. AP881030-0021 AP-NR-10-30-88 1124EST r i AM-BRF--AbortedTakeoff 10-30 0137 AM-BRF--Aborted Takeoff,0140 Jumbot Jet Aborts Takeoff After Hitting Animal NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) An Air Madagascar Boeing 747 carrying more than 200 people aborted takeoff Sunday after it apparently hit an animal. Robert Weller, an Associated Press reporter who was aboard, said the airliner blew tires when the pilot slammed on the brakes at Nairobi's airport. He said the passengers left the aircraft and walked to the airport terminal 100 yards away. Smoke was pouring from the brakes on one of the wheels and fire trucks went out to the plane to cool it down. No one appeared to be injured. Weller said crew members quoted the control tower as saying the plane hit an animal, probably an impala. The Boeing had flown in from Paris and was taking off for Antananarivo, capital of Madagascar. AP881030-0022 AP-NR-10-30-88 1124EST r i AM-Britain-Teachers 10-30 0375 AM-Britain-Teachers,0385 Teacher Doesn't Know LONDON (AP) Many British schoolteachers have trouble spelling, can't do a simple sum and don't know West Germany's capital, according to a survey published Sunday. The Sunday Times commissioned a general knowledge survey of 308 teachers in primary, junior high and high schools nationwide and reported three-quarters of them could not spell ``embarrass,'' ``satellite'' and ``harassment.'' ``Almost all made mistakes over the 16 simple questions on current affairs, geography, spelling, maths, science, history and literature,'' said the weekly, which commissioned the telephone survey from Market Opinion and Research International. ``The results of this survey would be laughable if they were not so devastating,'' said Peter Dawson, general secretary of the Professional Association of Teachers. The Sunday Times said a press officer at the Department of Education also had difficulty spelling the three test words and could not do the percentage question. The Sunday Times said the results of the survey might help explain its poll two ago, which found that one in six British adults could not find Britain on a map, half did not know how to read a railway timetable and two-thirds could not spell ``embarrass.'' One in five of the teachers surveyed did not know King John signed the Magna Carta and 15 percent didn't know that ``The Canterbury Tales'' was written by Geoffrey Chaucer, the father of English poetry. Sixteen percent, including 22 of the 171 math and science teachers queried, were unable to answer when asked: ``What is 15 percent of 10 pounds sterling?'' (answer: 1.50 pounds) Eleven percent of the teachers could not say how many millimeters are in a meter (1,000) and one in 24 thought the Rev. Ian Paisley, the militant and much publicized Northern Ireland Protestant politician, was a Roman Catholic. One in five did not know Warsaw is the capital of Poland, 27 percent did not know that Bonn is the capital of West Germany, and 47 percent did not know that Kabul is the capital of Afghanistan. Forty-two percent got all three capitals right. The reporter who wrote the story got everything right except the one about the Magna Carta, traditionally regarded as the basis of English liberties. He said he had no idea who signed it. AP881030-0023 AP-NR-10-30-88 1125EST r i AM-Pope-Cuba 10-30 0179 AM-Pope-Cuba,0184 Vatican Appoints New Envoy To Havana VATICAN CITY (AP) Pope John Paul II has appointed a new Vatican envoy to Cuba amid signs of improving relations between the Roman Catholic Church and the Marxist nation. Monsignor Faustino Sainz Munoz, 51, a senior adviser on the Vatican's Council for Public Affairs, was named Apostolic Pro-Nuncio in Havana, according to a Vatican statement Saturday. He replaces Archbishop Giulio Einaudi, 60, who since August 1980 held the Havana post that has the diplomatic standing of an ambassador. The Spanish-born Sainz Munoz entered the Vatican's diplomatic service in 1970 and served in Senegal and Scandinavia. In 1983 he joined the Council for Public Affairs, equivalent to the Holy See's foreign ministry, and specialized in relations with Eastern Europe. During a visit to the Vatican by Cuban bishops in August, the pope noted ``positive signs'' in church-state relations in Cuba but said more needs to be done ``so the church can carry out its evangelical mission freely and effectively.'' Catholics account for about 40 percent of Cuba's 10.2 million people. AP881030-0024 AP-NR-10-30-88 1126EST r i AM-Carlucci-MiddleEast 10-30 0160 AM-Carlucci-Middle East,0165 Carlucci Discusses Arms with Jordanians AMMAN, Jordan (AP) U.S. Defense Secretary Frank Carlucci wound up military talks with government officials Sunday on the first part of his three-nation Middle East tour. Lower-ranking officials usually represent Washington at the annual discussions of how the kingdom uses American military aid. ``The secretary wanted to come to Jordan to underscore to all how important we consider our relations with Jordan,'' said a U.S. official, who spoke on condition of anonymity. This year, Jordan received about $26.5 million in U.S. military grants and $1.8 million for training. The figures have dropped from more than $100 million in credits and grants five years ago. Carlucci met Saturday with King Hussein and Sunday with Prime Minister Zaid Rifai. Details of the talks were not made available. The U.S. defense chief was due in Egypt on Monday for talks with government officials there. Israel will be the last stop on his tour. AP881030-0025 AP-NR-10-30-88 1126EST r i AM-NorthernIreland 10-30 0293 AM-Northern Ireland,0300 Woman Dies In Evacuation After Bombing of Police Station BELFAST, Northern Ireland (AP) An elderly woman died of a heart attack while being evacuated from her home after a bomb attack on a police station, police said Sunday. Four missiles were fired from launchers mounted on a truck at the heavily fortified Royal Ulster Constabulary station in the village of Roslea in County Fermanagh late Saturday night, but police said they believe only two exploded. A police spokesman, who by custom was not identified, said there were no injuries to police and the station, near the border with the Irish Republic, appeared to be only slightly damaged. The woman, who was in her mid-70s, collapsed as she was being evacuated from her house near the police station. She was not identified. The area was sealed off Sunday as police checked for further devices, and several families were not allowed to return home, the spokesman said. No group claimed responsibility for the attack, but suspicion fell on the Irish Republican Army which has carried out similar attacks on police stations. The IRA is fighting to end British rule in Northern Ireland and unite the mainly Protestant province with the overwhelmingly Roman Catholic Irish Republic. Elsewhere, army explosives experts defused two large bombs in Tyrone and Fermanagh. The biggest, with 700 pounds of homemade explosives, was found on a road between Pomeroy and Stewartstown in Tyrone, police said. The experts also found 330 yards of command wire, used by terrorists to trigger bombs from a distance. The second device _ 200 pounds of explosives and shrapnel inside two beer kegs _ was discovered on the Fermanagh-Donegal border at Belleek with a command wire stretching for 385 yards, the spokesman said. AP881030-0026 AP-NR-10-30-88 1130EST r a AM-People 10-30 0980 AM-People,1012 People in the News LaserPhoto NY44 NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) Randy Owen, lead singer for the country band Alabama, remembers the poorer days of his boyhood when all his family had to eat one winter was peas and okra. ``We grew a lot of gardens and crops,'' Owen, 38, said in a recent interview. ``One story my mother always tells me is that one year when I was small, all we had to eat was okra and peas. She'd canned a whole bunch of that stuff, so all we ate for lunch and dinner was okra and peas. ``We went to these people's house and they asked me what I wanted to eat. I said, `Peas and okra.' That's all I'd had that winter.'' Owen said the hard times of his youth make him especially grateful for the fans who pay to attend the band's road shows. ``Not a lot of rich people like country music,'' he said. ``As a percentage, most of the people that come to our concerts are women and, in a lot of cases, they're a single parent, trying to raise their kids, going to college, holding down a job and living on the very fringe.'' MADRID, Spain (AP) The four members of Irish rock group U2 received the gold medal of the city of Madrid from Mayor Juan Barranco in a ceremony before the premiere of their concert movie ``Rattle and Hum.'' Barranco on Saturday praised the group's musical ability and artistic sensibilities and described the medal as a ``symbol of the gratitude and friendship of the people of Madrid, who are always appreciative of altruistic causes.'' The group arranged for proceeds from the premiere of the movie at the Gran Via Theater to go to Amnesty International, the London-based human rights group. U2's frontman and singer Bono told the mayor the group chose the city as the site for the film premiere because ``Madrid is a very open city, musically interesting, and we all feel very good when we are in Madrid.'' EAST LANSING, Mich. (AP) Actor and former professional football player Charles ``Bubba'' Smith says acting is tougher than tackling quarterbacks. ``Football has never been tough. No, I don't think it has anything to do with size,'' Smith said. ``(Acting) is more of a mental drain. You go through the same process _ in football you remember the plays, in acting you remember your lines.'' Smith, 43, is now working on ``Police Academy 6,'' after starring in the original move and every sequel since. ``They told me they were going to do 10. I said `Please do,''' said Smith, who also has done some beer commercials. The 6-foot-7 defensive end-turned-actor on Saturday returned to his alma mater, Michigan State, which awarded him a plaque from the school's sports Hall of Fame. Smith led Michigan to the Big Ten football championship in 1965. ``You know I've been in Super Bowls, I've played in big games, but nothing has stayed in my mind like college,'' Smith said. ``It was the greatest time of my life. And most people, if they would drop their ego, they would say the same thing. College is the last time you can be away from home and not worry about bills.'' LONDON (AP) A single Spitfire from the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight flew over St. Clement Danes church Sunday as Queen Mother Elizabeth unveiled a statue to World War II hero Lord Dowding. Dowding, who died in 1970 at age 88, was commander in chief of the Fighter Command throughout the Battle of Britain but was never honored with an official statue. ``It is a matter of surprise and concern or perhaps even shame that no memorial has been raised,'' said Air Chief Marshal Sir Christopher Foxley-Norris, chairman of the Battle of Britain Fighter Association. The statue, outside St. Clement Danes, the Royal Air Force church on London's famed Strand, was paid for by many former pilots and by a public appeal. ``But for his victory, the war would probably have been lost in 1940,'' Foxley-Norris said during the unveiling. ``If he had not won his victory in 1940, there would be no other statues or memorials in this capital city.'' The 88-year-old mother of Queen Elizabeth II, whose late husband, King George VI, had sought recognition for Dowding in 1942, agreed. ``He was a wartime leader to whom this country owes so much,'' she said as she unveiled the statue. NEW DELHI, India (AP) The king of Bhutan will marry his four wives in a public ceremony Monday, nine years after the union was consecrated in a private ceremony, the government of the tiny Himalayan kingdom announced. The marriage of King Jigme Singye Wangchuck to Ashi Dorji Wangmo, Ashi Tshering Pem, Ashi Tshering Yandon and Ashi Sangye Choden, all sisters, will take place at a Buddhist temple in Punakha Dzong, the seat of the ancient capital of Bhutan, Foreign Minister Dawa Tshering said Sunday in New Delhi. During the hourlong ceremony, the king's eldest son, 8-year-old Prince Jigme Gesar Namgyal Wangchuck, will be formally designated as heir to the throne. Only about 200 members of the royal family, senior Buddhist lamas and monks have been invited, he said. ``This is a national event,'' Tshering said. ``I can't imagine it would be of much interest to the outside world.'' Bhutan, known as ``The Land of the Thunder Dragon,'' is a picturesque mountainous country surrounded by India and China. The government has tried in recent years to limit its 1.5 million people to outside influence by imposing stiff tourist fees and granting only about 2,500 visas a year. The 35-year-old king and his four wives, ranging in age from 23 to 29, were married in a simple, private Buddhist ceremony in 1979. They have four sons and four daughters. AP881030-0027 AP-NR-10-30-88 1134EST r w AM-Ramstein-Medical 10-30 0565 AM-Ramstein-Medical,550 Study Praises Medical Response To West German Air Tragedy By NORMAN BLACK AP Military Writer WASHINGTON (AP) Military medical teams responded quickly and professionally after the August air show tragedy at Ramstein Air Base in West Germany, suggesting Pentagon efforts to improve readiness are working, a study says. A study team reported the first Army Medevac helicopter landed at the scene just four minutes after one of the Italian stunt team jets cart wheeled into a crowd, a study team said. Within less than two hours, more than 270 victims had been evacuated from the scene and were receiving medical care, the team said in a report to Dr. William Mayer, assistant defense secretary for health affairs. The accident occurred when three Italian jets collided during an air show Aug. 28, and one of them plunged into the crowd and exploded in flames. Sixty-nine people died either at the scene or later as a result of injuries and burns. All three pilots were among the dead. The study team lauded the medical response. ``To expect people to be suddenly faced with a mass casualty event _ most for the first time in their lives _ and completely clear a disaster scene within 96 minutes without any error is humanly impossible,'' the team said. ``But we identified no instance where anyone was harmed by negligence or error.'' The study team also lauded West German medical professionals and the manner in which American and German emergency teams worked together, saying any difficulties that arose were minor and ``did not affect the rescue effort.'' The team said it was ``highly impressed by the professionalism and effectiveness of the combined German and American response to the disaster,'' and added, ``It appears the victims were managed efficiently and effectively.'' Army Lt. Col. Thomas Hawks, one of six officers ordered by Mayer to study the air show disaster, said, ``Their performance was phenomenal.'' Last week, a special inquiry commission blamed the disaster on pilot error. The collision occurred as the team's ``solo'' pilot was trying to fly through a heart-shaped formation made by the other two planes. ``The cause of the midair collision between the solo pilot and two other planes from the Italian stunt flying team Frecce Tricolori has been determined to have been human error by the solo pilot,'' the report said. Mayer, who was recruited by former Defense Secretary Caspar W. Weinberger to upgrade the military medical system, has worked for several years to improve emergency response times and to deploy more mobile and emergency medical gear in the field. He has demanded that commanders of medical detachments emphasize ``war-time readiness,'' not just the peacetime business of treating servicemen and their dependents. By coincidence, the medical personnel assigned to the base clinic at Ramstein had staged an emergency exercise just two months before the disaster, working with an Army helicopter unit from the nearby Landstuhl Regional Medical Center, the study team found. Following those exercise procedures, the first casualties from the air show were taken to the Ramstein clinic by ambulance. When the clinic filled, about 70 patients were automatically sent by air to Landstuhl, the team said. When Landstuhl filled, German authorities smoothly directed the flow of patients to several civilian hospitals in the region, the study said. ``We identified no significant mistakes in the medical management of this crisis,'' the team concluded. AP881030-0028 AP-NR-10-30-88 1135EST r a AM-Brites 10-30 0386 AM-Brites,0398 Bright & Brief WARREN, Mich. (AP) Overweight and proud of it, members of the National Association to Aid Fat Americans are holding their annual Midwest conference and seeking to dispel the idea that pudgy people can't be happy. The association's events include a full-sized fashion show, a low-impact aerobics session, an indoor pool party, a hug therapy session and a Halloween dance. ``I never met so many fantastic ladies who are happy with themselves,'' said Lorrie Tabar, a Cleveland truck driver. She ended a lifetime of dieting and joined the group last week after seeing two spokeswomen on television. The founder of the association, William Fabrey, says full-figured people should have the right to enjoy themselves without being hassled about their waistlines. ``I felt there was crying need for some voice in the U.S. to say that your worth is not measured by the size of your waistline,'' Fabrey said. ``It has been an uphill fight because we live in a society that worships thinness.'' ``People who wouldn't dream of joking about ethnic groups or women think nothing of deriding fat people,'' said Sally E. Smith, the group's executive director. WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (AP) _ Halloween is Jayne Ware's time to howl, so to speak, because it's about the only time of year she finds a big audience for talk about her line of work: ghostbusting. The vanity license plate on her van says ``GHOSTBUS,'' and her business card says ``Granny Ghostbuster'' alongside `Parapsychologist.'' For most of the year, Mrs. Ware says she does serious investigation at the request of people who have ``unexplainable happenings'' in their buildings. But around Halloween, ``people usually expect me to make a fun thing out of it, so I go along with the idea,'' she said, laughing. ``These are about the only two weeks of the year I talk about `ghosts.' The rest of the year, during research and for lecture purposes, I prefer to call them `energies' or `vortexes.''' Monday night, she will be the most popular Halloween figure in existence to her 2- and 5-year-old grandchildren, as ``Granny Ghostbuster'' can tell spook stories to really make their hair stand on end. ``It's like a vacation from the serious work. I take time to enjoy the popular conception of ghosts and haunted houses,'' she said. AP881030-0029 AP-NR-10-30-88 1136EST r i AM-BRF--Greece-Blast 10-30 0099 AM-BRF--Greece-Blast,0101 Bomb Blast Damages Tax Office, No Injuries IRAKLION, Crete (AP) A bomb thrown by an unidentified man damaged a building containing this island's central tax offices Sunday but caused no injuries. Police blamed the attack on a left-wing terrorist group. No one claimed responsibility, but the group, the Revolutionary Popular Struggle, has taken credit for several hundred bomb blasts in Athens and other Greek cities in the past decade, and it often targets tax offices. The explosion Sunday damaged a two-story building where the tax office is located, said a police spokesman who demanded anonymity. AP881030-0030 AP-NR-10-30-88 1142EST r i AM-Hirohito 10-30 0209 AM-Hirohito,0216 Ailing Emperor Stable After Blood Pressure Plummets By TERRIL JONES Associated Press Writer TOKYO (AP) Doctors stabilized the vital signs of Emperor Hirohito on Sunday after the ailing monarch's blood pressure fell dangerously low, a palace spokesman said. Doctors gave the 87-year-old Hirohito nearly a pint more blood Sunday after he received three pints overnight, spokesman Kenji Maeda said. ``His fever, pulse and blood pressure indicate that his condition warrants a certain amount of concern,'' Maeda quoted chief palace physician Akira Takagi as saying. ``What we had feared occurred,'' Maeda quoted the doctor as saying about Hirohito's huge loss of blood overnight. He did not elaborate. He also did not say if the emperor's condition was critical. Another palace official refused to comment. Since Hirohito fell ill Sept. 19, he has received 31.5 pints of blood, about three times the normal amount in his body. The weekend transfusions were the heaviest the emperor has needed since Sept. 19. Domestic news media have said he is suffering from cancer of the pancreas, but palace officials have refused to comment on those reports. Hirohito, the world's longest-reigning monarch who took power in 1926, has eaten almost no food since he fell ill. He is being fed intravenously. AP881030-0031 AP-NR-10-30-88 1147EST r i AM-Italy-Bombs 10-30 0332 AM-Italy-Bombs,0344 Bombs Damage Church, School in Northern Italy BOLZANO, Italy (AP) Bombs exploded early Sunday outside a church and a school in attacks police blamed on German-speaking separatists in Italy's ethnically troubled Alto Adige region. No injuries were reported. Police said the explosion at San Giuseppe Church in Appiano, six miles outside Bolzano, severely damaged the main altar, windows and furnishings. The blast caused an estimated $740,000 in damage to the church, which dates back to 1800 and mainly serves the tiny Italian-speaking minority in the town of 10,000 people near the Austrian border. Police said the bomb was put on a window sill at the back of the church. It was the first time a church has been targeted in the separatist bombing campaign in the region, also known as South Tyrol. Police said they found a leaflet at the site signed by the Ein Tirol separatist group. The leaflet, written in German, called on local residents to demand a plebiscite for an independent Tyrol and criticized the bishop of the Bolzano diocese for favoring a mixed ethnic population. In the other attack, which occurred about the same time, a bomb went off outside a school for Italian speakers in Bolzano. Police said the device, hidden in a plastic container, severely damaged about a dozen cars and smashed windows of the school and surrounding buildings. Although no leaflet was found outside the school, police blamed the attack on the separatist movement. Sunday's attacks brought to 23 the number of bombings in the Alto Adige region this year. The attacks have caused considerable property damage but no serious casualties. The violence stems from tensions between the Alto Adige's 300,000 ethnic Germans and 125,000 Italians. The region was taken from Austria at the end of World War I. The German-speaking majority wants priority in obtaining government jobs and more control over local broadcasting. Another goal is the right to have trials conducted in German. Extremists want an independent Tyrolian state. AP881030-0032 AP-NR-10-30-88 1205EST u p AM-Candidates-ForeignPolicy Bjt 10-30 0964 AM-Candidates-Foreign Policy, Bjt,950 Campaign '88: Bush, Dukakis Differ on Reasons For Soviet Shifts Eds: Another in a series on the presidential hopefuls and the issues. By CHRISTOPHER CONNELL Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) Republican George Bush is running for president on his extensive foreign policy credentials and on the strength of the Reagan administration's triumph in signing a nuclear arms treaty with the Soviet Union. Democratic nominee Michael Dukakis, who cannot match his rival's experience, instead attacks Bush's judgment and challenges the administration's right to claim any credit for the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan or the end of the Iran-Iraq war. Dukakis supports the negotiated ban on medium-range nuclear missiles and endorses the goal of a 50 percent reduction in long-range missiles in U.S.-Soviet talks at Geneva. But he attributes the Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces treaty to Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev's recognition of his country's economic failures, not to President Reagan's military buildup and get-tough stance toward the Soviets. Both presidential candidates would be certain to press ahead with arms control talks and try to build on the momentum achieved in the four Reagan-Gorbachev summits. Although Dukakis has accused the Reagan administration of mishandling Middle East policy and waiting until the twilight of its term to seek a breakthrough there, neither Dukakis nor Bush has spelled out any major initiatives to bring the Arabs and Israelis together. Both have assured Israel of continued U.S. support. Dukakis has endorsed shifting the U.S. Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, a move that administration officials fear could undermine progress toward an Arab-Israeli settlement. But in such troublespots as Nicaragua and South Africa, Dukakis is committed to changing the policies adopted by Reagan and championed by Bush. Bush supports renewed aid to the Contra rebels in Nicaragua. Dukakis calls Reagan's Central-American policies ``a fiasco'' and vehemently opposes Contra aid, favoring instead the diplomatic peace plan of Costa Rican President Oscar Arias. On South Africa, Dukakis promises to press for tougher international sanctions against the apartheid regime. Bush says further sanctions would only hurt black workers. Dukakis also opposes U.S. aid for the South African-backed rebels in Angola. The Democratic nominee says the United States should work with its allies and through international organizations rather than go it alone. He has said the NATO allies and Japan must bear a larger share of the common defense. Bush, a former ambassador to the United Nations, says, ``You've got to understand that it is only the United States that can stand for freedom and democracy around the world, and we can't turn it over to the United Nations or other multilateral organizations.'' Bush cites the INF treaty, the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan and the tentative end of the Iran-Iraq war as vindication of the administration's ``peace through strength'' philosophy. For the vice president, that means pressing ahead with development and eventual deployment of Star Wars, or the Strategic Defense Initiative, which Dukakis once ridiculed as a fantasy. It also means pounding Dukakis for opposing both the mobile MX and Midgetman missiles. ``The Soviets are modernizing. They continue to modernize. And we can't simply say, `We've got enough nuclear weapons. Let's freeze','' Bush said. Dukakis favored a nuclear freeze in the early 1980s when the Reagan administration persuaded nervous allies in Western Europe to accept Pershing II and cruise missiles to counter the Soviet's own medium-range weapons. The governor has said the 13,000 nuclear weapons in the U.S. arsenal and the 9,000 stockpiled by the Soviets are enough to blow each country up ``forty times over.'' But Dukakis supports the Stealth bomber, which rolls off the assembly line in a few weeks, and backs the new generation of nuclear missiles for the Trident submarine. Bush has said his approach toward the Soviet Union ``would avoid swings between unjustified euphoria and exaggerated pessimism.'' Dukakis speaks of trying to ``drive the agenda with the Soviet Union'' instead of following Gorbachev's lead. Bush has visited 74 foreign countries as vice president. He was envoy to China and director of central intelligence as well as ambassador to the United Nations. ``I don't think we should risk turning over the leadership and security of this free world of ours to a man with literally no experience in foreign affairs,'' Bush told voters in South River, N.J., recently. ``It's not the length of your resume,'' counters Dukakis. ``It's your strength, it's your values, the quality of the people you pick. It's your understanding of the forces of change in a sweeping new world.'' Dukakis has questioned Bush's judgment in not trying to block the arms-for-hostages deal with Iran. He says Bush must share the blame for dealing with Panamana's military leader, Manuel Noriega, now under indictment for alleged involvement in drug trafficking. He criticized Bush for once toasting ousted Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos for ``your adherence to democratic principles.'' Dukakis supports a mutual ban on testing and deployment of anti-satellite weapons and a prohibition of all underground nuclear tests. Bush supports the administration's controversial, broad interpretation of the anti-ballistic missile or ABM treaty, a move intended to leave room for testing Star Wars. Dukakis favors the original, narrow interpretation. Bush says he wants the world to adopt and enforce a total ban on chemical and biological weapons. Dukakis scoffs at that, saying that Bush cast tie-breaking Senate votes in favor of resuming production of chemical weapons. Bush has accused Dukakis of opposing the U.S. invasion of Grenada in 1983 and the 1986 strike against Libya. The Democrat denies the charge. Dukakis hedged his support on both occasions. He said the Grenada invasion was justified if the lives of American students were at stake, and the Libyan raid was proper if its aim was to hit terrorist bases and not to assassinate Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi. AP881030-0033 AP-NR-10-30-88 1209EST r a AM-ParkwayDeaths Bjt 10-30 0618 AM-Parkway Deaths, Bjt,0637 Deaths Of Two Woman Off Parkway Overlook Leads To Murder Charges By PAUL NOWELL Associated Press Writer LINVILLE FALLS, N.C. (AP) Chestoa View, a scenic overlook jutting out from the Blue Ridge Parkway in the mountains of North Carolina, has become the focal point of a murder case full of contradictions and intrigue. Did Jim Gibbs, a hardworking father of three, push his wife, Helen, and another woman hundreds of feet to their death Oct. 17? Or is Gibbs a victim in his time of grief, an innocent man charged with murder for an accident? ``I can't see a shred of evidence against him,'' said Gibbs' younger brother, Gerald Gibbs. ``He adored that woman. With God as my witness, I never heard a cross word between them.'' But authorities said Gibbs' account of what happened is full of holes. That includes his explanation that the three adults left five children alone at their motel and went to Chestoa View to take photos of the sunset. ``If he wanted a sunset picture he wouldn't be taking them facing east,'' said Howard Parr, chief ranger for the parkway for the National Parks Service. ``We also were suspicious how this guy was at a loss to explain what happened just before they fell.'' Sheriff Bobby Haynes said Gibbs, 37, of Fayetteville, was arrested after ``things didn't add up.'' The couple had been having marital problems and a $100,000 life insurance policy had been taken out on Mrs. Gibbs last spring, he said. Gibbs' lawyer, Ronnie Mitchell, acknowledged problems in the 10-year marriage but said that the couple had reconciled and that the insurance was Mrs. Gibbs' idea. ``I don't know who the beneficiary is,'' he said. Initial reports indicated Mrs. Gibbs, 31, and her friend, Susan Haire, 32, of Ladson, S.C., died in an accident. Their bodies were found 150 feet and 300 feet below the overlook. Gibbs, who also was found about 150 feet down, told investigators he had his back turned and was setting up his camera when one of the women apparently slipped over the two-foot wall and pulled the other one with her. Gibbs said he fell while trying to rescue the women and was hospitalized overnight, but Parr said he suffered only minor cuts and bruises. ``If he had fallen 100 feet like he claimed, he would have been hurt a lot worse than he was,'' the ranger said. Two tourists who were at the overlook that evening told a ranger they heard voices from the darkened gorge below. They said they heard a woman scream, ``Oh, my arm!'' and then heard a man's voice, said Ranger J. Russ Whitlock. After five days, police charged Gibbs with murder. The state will seek the death penalty, said Assistant District Attorney Mike Edwards. Gibbs, who is being held without bail, maintained his innocence when he was taken to jail. ``I swear to God I didn't do it,'' he said. ``I don't know what happened. You're all wrong. You're crazy. I didn't do it. I tried to help my wife.'' During a bail hearing Wednesday, about 30 relatives packed the courtroom in an unsuccessful effort to win his release. Mrs. Gibbs' mother, a sister and a brother also were present. They declined to be interviewed. Several of Gibbs' co-workers and friends said he was a dedicated and loving husband and father who never missed a day of work in nearly 19 years at a tire plant. Mrs. Gibbs was a nurse at a Veterans Administration hospital. ``Our families spent a lot of time together,'' said Debbie Baylor, who like Mrs. Haire attended nursing school with Mrs. Gibbs. ``They were a warm, loving family.'' AP881030-0034 AP-NR-10-30-88 1209EST r w AM-Congress-Indonesia 10-30 0283 AM-Congress-Indonesia,270 Nearly Half of Congress Signs East Timor Letters WASHINGTON (AP) Nearly half the members of Congress asked Secretary of State George Shultz on Sunday to use his influence in solving the 13-year armed conflict in the Indonesian territory of East Timor. Forty-seven senators and 182 House members from both parties signed letters drawn up by Sen. David Durenberger, R-Minn., and Rep. Tony Hall, D-Ohio. The letters cite continuing human rights abuses in East Timor, including the torture of Timorese under interrogation by the Indonesian military and the transfer of political prisoners to the capital of Jakarta. They also note that international human rights organizations have been denied access to the region and the Roman Catholic Church has been intimidated. ``By sending this letter now, my colleagues and I want to ensure that the East Timor tragedy receives increased attention, both from the Reagan administration and its successor,'' Durenberger said in a statement. The Senate letter, signed by 33 Democrats and 14 Republicans, praises Shultz for raising the issue of East Timor, a former Portuguese colony, with Indonesian officials over the past six years. But it adds, ``We believe the continuing military conflict in the territory and any renewed shortages of food and medical supplies warrant the careful attention of the United States.'' The House letter notes Indonesia's role in seeking an end to the Vietnamese occupation of Cambodia and says, ``We believe it is appropriate for a similar effort to be made regarding East Timor.'' Indonesia invaded and annexed East Timor in 1975. Hall said about one-fifth of East Timor's original population of 700,000 have died as a result of the invasion and later military operations in the territory. AP881030-0035 AP-NR-10-30-88 1221EST u p AM-SecondGuessing Bjt 10-30 0730 AM-Second Guessing, Bjt,740 Democrats Already Second-Guessing Dukakis As Doomed Candidate By DONALD M. ROTHBERG AP Political Writer WASHINGTON (AP) Even as Michael Dukakis insists there is time to score an upset in the Nov. 8 balloting, many Democrats already are second-guessing his campaign strategy in anticipation of another national election defeat. ``After the election this may be the campaign considered the worst managed in this century,'' said Democratic Sen. Terry Sanford of North Carolina. Like many people in his party, Sanford insisted he thought Dukakis still had a chance to defeat Republican nominee George Bush, but he didn't sound overly optimistic. ``I'd bet money on it,'' he said of the chances of a Dukakis upset. ``But I wouldn't bet my law license on it.'' Other prominent Democrats have urged Dukakis openly for weeks to sharpen his responses to Bush's steady attacks. ``Dukakis has really got to take off the gloves,'' said Sen. Sam Nunn of Georgia. ``He's got to defend himself. ... I wouldn't have been a punching bag on some of these issues.'' Democrats have lost four of the last five presidential elections, and current polls point to the likelihood that Dukakis will make it five of six. Even Dukakis recently conceded he didn't get his message out clearly enough and was too slow in responding to negative commercials from the Bush campaign. ``There's no mystery about why they put those ads on. They have done damage. There's no question about that,'' he said during an interview on ``CBS Evening News.'' He said he responded ``but perhaps more subtly than I should have or than (running mate) Lloyd Bentsen suggested. Why? Because I'm fundamentally a positive person.'' On the stump as he headed into the final week of the campaign, Dukakis proclaimed, ``There is time to do it.'' ``They're running a beautiful campaign right now,'' said Ed Martin, executive director of the Texas Democratic Party. ``But a proper campaign for three months has been compressed into three weeks.'' Among those in the ranks of the second-guessers was New York Gov. Mario Cuomo, who told reporters he thought the Dukakis campaign had failed to figure out a general election strategy. ``They did so well by the end of the Democratic convention, they said, okay, now we'll take it easy, get some rest, take our breath,'' Cuomo said. ``The other guy started landing jabs and uppercuts and picking up points and then they look at the card with three rounds to go and now you're down six rounds to three.'' ``Every campaign has a jillion things go wrong with it,'' said John White, a Texan and former Democratic Party chairman who backed Jesse Jackson for the presidential nomination. ``And if you're behind, everybody points them out.'' To many Democrats, the biggest problem with the Dukakis campaign has been a lack of experience in national politics among his top advisers. The men running the Bush effort have experience dating back to the Gerald Ford campaign in 1976 and, in the case of media adviser Roger Ailes, to Richard Nixon's campaigns before that. They all played major roles in Ronald Reagan's 1980 and 1984 campaigns. By contrast, no one in the Dukakis campaign had a decision-making role in any presidential campaign prior to Walter F. Mondale's 49-state landslide loss to Reagan in 1984. ``Our timing has just been terribly off,'' said White. ``In August nothing happened, so we started August work in September, September work in October.'' He attributed that to inexperience. ``We do not have any historical memory,'' he said. ``Every campaign is a brand new one, we bring in brand new people.'' ``They tried real hard to re-invent the wheel, and when they ended up it wasn't even round,'' said Boston advertising executive Dan Payne of the Dukakis campaign staff. Payne produced some of Dukakis' commercials during the Democratic primaries. ``I don't want to do a post-mortem until there's a mortem,'' said Mark Siegel, a political consultant and member of the Democratic National Committee. ``I don't think this patient is dead. I think a little sick.'' Added Siegel: ``I don't want to be critical of the campaign (but) there were a lots of things some of us would like to have seen done differently. We would have liked the campaign to take the initiative from the outset, to define instead of defend, to put Bush on the defensive.'' AP881030-0036 AP-NR-10-30-88 1223EST r i AM-SexCharges 1stLd-Writethru a0689 10-30 0179 AM-Sex Charges, 1st Ld-Writethru, a0689,0179 Actor, Radio Manager Arrested In Child-Sex Probe Eds: CORRECTS to South African Broadcast Corp., sted Association, in 3rd graf pvs, ``The arrested...'' Pickup 4th graf pvs, ``The Sunday...'' JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AP) A well-known television actor and a program manager for the state-controlled radio have been arrested and charged in connection with a child-sex ring, police said Sunday. The men were arrested in Johannesburg on Saturday and were released on bail pending a court appearance Monday. The arrested men were Don Lamprecht, a leading Afrikaans-speaking actor who is a star of a television series, and Tinus Esterhuizen, program manager for the South African Broadcast Corp.'s overnight radio show. They were charged with sodomy, indecent assault and possession of pornographic material. The Sunday Times, a national newspaper, said Lamprecht provided the voice for an animated squirrel who, in government-funded television ads, had been urging South Africans to vote in last week's municipal elections. The newspaper said the arrests of up to a dozen other prominent figures in the entertainment world were expected. AP881030-0037 AP-NR-10-30-88 1234EST r i AM-BRF--Fire-USBase 10-30 0160 AM-BRF--Fire-US Base,0163 Fire at US Marine Camp, No Injuries Reported TOKYO (AP) A fire on a shooting range at a U.S. Marine base on Okinawa burned 30 acres of woodland before it was brought under control Sunday night, a Japanese fire office said. U.S. military officials were not immediately available for comment. But the Japanese official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said there were no reports of injuries from the fire at Camp Hansen. He said the fire began Saturday night on the south ridge of the mountain in Camp Hansen, which is used for rifle and howitzer practice. The fire spread to adjacent ridges, but U.S. military helicopters dropped chemicals on the blaze and it had almost burned out by Sunday night, he said. The Kyodo News Service said a lack of rain had left the area very dry and the fire may have spread after it set off unexploded shells left on the range. AP881030-0038 AP-NR-10-30-88 1256EST u p AM-NegativeCampaigns 1stLd-Writethru a0694 10-30 0834 AM-Negative Campaigns, 1st Ld-Writethru, a0694,820 Nobody Likes Negative Campaigns, But It Works Eds: SUBS pvs 23rd graf bgng, The 1984, to CORRECT 2nd sentence to read two years instead four years later. By JILL LAWRENCE Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) No one admits to liking it or even being influenced by it, but it works. That's why candidates from the presidency down are running negative campaigns. ``It's sort of like television. Everyone deplores it yet people watch it,'' says Andrew Kohut, president of the Gallup polling organization. ``They don't like negative campaigning. But they have to take their cues about these candidates from what's being offered.'' Negative campaigns are nothing new. ``I'm sure that in elections for the Roman Senate, people criticized their opponents,'' says Democratic pollster Harrison Hickman. What is relatively new is the television ``attack ad,'' a media tool that reinforces and magnifies a candidate's campaign rhetoric. These ads sometimes allow him to be a soft-spoken candidate while impersonal narrators trash his rival in 30-second spots on the TV screen. ``Delivering the message through television is much more effective than going out on the stump and calling the other guy a scoundrel,'' Kohut says. The memorable scenes produced by Republican George Bush's TV campaign include prisoners passing through a revolving door and a harbor filled with floating trash _ attack ads against Democrat Michael Dukakis about prison furloughs and Boston Harbor pollution. ``The endless images of prisoners coming through turnstiles into your living room are much more powerful than anything Bush can say on the stump in a 15-second news clip,'' says Kathleen Hall Jamieson, a University of Texas professor and specialist in political communications. Dukakis began fighting back only after weeks of leaving Bush's TV assaults unanswered. Political scientist Larry Sabato says Dukakis made a misjudgment that could prove fatal in an era when ``an attack unanswered is an attack agreed to.'' Besides his tough, negative TV ads, the vice president has attacked the Massachusetts governor personally for his membership in the American Civil Liberties Union and his veto of a bill that would have required teachers to lead their classes in reciting the Pledge of Allegiance. Bush doesn't sound damagingly strident because ``it all looks positive,'' Jamieson said. ``He frames it as a defense of the country against a dangerous enemy.'' The upshot is that in the battle between Dukakis and Bush to define the Democratic presidential nominee, the GOP candidate seems to be winning. Said Hickman: ``Last spring Dukakis was an empty vessel and the Dukakis campaign, through free press and paid advertising, was trying to pour crystal clear water into that vessel. At the same time, the Bush campaign was trying to pour ink into it. It obviously changed the color of the water.'' Moreover, he said, ``negative campaigning probably helped Bush overcome his wimp image, and not responding probably made people think Dukakis is passive.'' Negative campaigning, however, can backfire. Jamieson cites the classic case of a 1966 ad against Ronald Reagan in his first bid for governor of California. The ad said Reagan was a movie actor who had played many roles. ``This year he wants to play governor. Are you willing to pay the price of admission?'' it asked. ``What a stupid ad in a community that earns its living by entertaining,'' Jamieson said. ``The Republicans thought it was so effective they paid for time and aired it themselves.'' Negative campaigning is rampant on the Senate trail as well this year. The New York Times said in an editorial that the race in New Jersey ``has frequently looked more like mud-wrestling than a contest for the U.S. Senate.'' In Minnesota, Sen. David Durenberger and Democratic challenger Hubert H. Humphrey III are trying to negotiate a cease-fire after exchanging a barrage of TV attacks. Nebraska Senate candidate Robert Kerrey is scoring with an ad featuring an animated clay figure that attacks GOP Sen. David Karnes' assault tactics. Unlike academics and politicians who bemoan the sorry state of campaigning, Hickman says negativity is inevitable and not necessarily bad. ``Why shouldn't voters find useful information in this?'' he asks. ``Part of what you want to find out is, how does a candidate comport himself when he's under fire. ... An election is an adversarial proceeding. Voters understand that.'' But Sabato, a University of Virginia professor, says voters can reach their limits with negative campaigning, and register their protests in the polls. ``Once they do that, you'll be surprised how quickly the consultants turn to positive ads,'' Sabato said, citing two Senate races in North Carolina to prove his point. The 1984 contest between Jesse Helms and James Hunt was bitter and expensive. Two years later, the race between Terry Sanford and James Broyhill had a ``civilized, upbeat tone,'' Sabato said. ``Their polling kept showing that people were reacting strongly to the negatives that were run,'' Sabato said. ``They were hearing, `If I see one more negative ad, I'm voting against the candidate who airs it'.'' AP881030-0039 AP-NR-10-30-88 1256EST r a AM-BuildingExplosion 10-30 0243 AM-Building Explosion,0249 Eleven Slightly Hurt When Missouri Building Explodes JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) An explosion early Sunday leveled a downtown building and severely damaged two adjacent apartment buildings, injuring 11 people, authorities said. The explosion, about two blocks from the state Capitol, also broke windows in a number of downtown stores and was felt by residents several miles away. Police patrolled downtown streets to prevent looting. ``I heard a very big explosion and all the lights went out,'' said Joyce Kelley, who lived in one of the apartments and got out safely with her 10-month-old daughter. ``I started yelling `Fire!' because I knew there were other people in the building.'' Authorities suspected natural gas triggered the blast that blew out plate glass windows three blocks away and flattened the two-story building, which housed the Missouri Association for Social Welfare, a private advocacy group, said Sgt. Ralph Robinett of the Missouri State Highway Patrol. Fires that broke out in small apartment houses on either side of the building were brought under control about two hours later. Police said 13 people occupied units in the apartment buildings. Eleven were treated at hospitals for cuts and other minor injuries, police said. Seventeen of 18 huge plate-glass windows in a Food Barn supermarket about three blocks away blew out. ``We just feel fortunate it wasn't in the middle of a busy day when there were lots of customers around,'' said store manager Russell Warson. AP881030-0040 AP-NR-10-30-88 1300EST r i AM-Soviet-Space 10-30 0291 AM-Soviet-Space,0302 Soviet Officials Won't Hurry in New Bid to Launch Shuttle MOSCOW (AP) Scientists will not rush another attempt to launch the Soviet space shuttle, which was grounded 51 seconds before blastoff because of problems with ground equipment, a newspaper report said Sunday. Komsomolskaya Pravda, quoting Air Force Maj. Gen. Vladimir E. Gudilin, said the next effort to put the craft into orbit would likely take place after the Revolution Day holiday Nov. 7. However, Gudilin was quoted as saying, ``We're ready to try again quite soon.'' ``You must not forget that our launch is experimental, that there hasn't been any other like it,'' he said. ``Does a child learning to walk not fall? ``In the situation that arose _ which of course was emotionally unpleasant __ there is a rational grain: accumulating experience.'' The launch of the unmanned shuttle, named Buran, was postponed Saturday after a computer sensed that an equipment platform had not pulled far enough away from the giant Energiya booster rocket. The computer automatically stopped the countdown. The Soviet official said all systems would be checked while technicians refill rockets with liquid fuel, the newspaper reported. Unlike the first flight of the U.S. shuttle Columbia in 1981, the Soviet craft will be unmanned, flying on an automated guidance system. Plans for its first flight call for it to make two orbits around Earth and return to a concrete landing strip eight miles from the launch site. The huge booster rocket, which can lift a payload of more than 100 tons, has been used only once before. On a test flight in May 1987, its payload failed to reach orbit. Soviet officials said the problem stemmed from the guidance system rather than the booster rocket. AP881030-0041 AP-NR-10-30-88 1313EST r i AM-Spain-Kidnapping 10-30 0211 AM-Spain-Kidnapping,0219 Basque Separatists Free Hostage MADRID, Spain (AP) Basque separatists released a businessman early Sunday after holding him hostage for more than eight months, police said. The separatists drove Emiliano Revilla, 60, a real estate investor in Madrid, 200 yards from his home and freed him about 2 a.m., police said. Revilla's daughter Margarita told reporters her father ``was exhausted but in good health.'' She refused to comment on Spanish news reports that the family paid a multimillion dollar ransom to win Revilla's freedom. Two men and a woman armed with guns kidnapped him near his home on Feb. 24. The separatist group ETA claimed responsibility. After the kidnapping the government suspended talks with exiled ETA leaders in Algeria. The talks were aimed at ending the group's violent campaign for independence. ``There can be no contacts as long as violence continues,'' the government said when it called off the talks. ETA, an acronym for Homeland and Liberty in the Basque language, has been fighting since 1968 for independence for three northern Basque provinces. The group has claimed responsibility for killing more than 600 people, mostly soldiers and police officers. ETA also has extorted what it calls ``revolutionary taxes'' from Basque businessmen and kidnapped them to win ransom money. AP881030-0042 AP-NR-10-30-88 1350EST r a AM-AlaskaQuake 10-30 0225 AM-Alaska Quake,0230 Strong Earthquake Rattles Alaska HOMER, Alaska (AP) A strong earthquake awakened residents early Sunday but no damage or injuries were reported, the Alaska Tsunami Warning Center reported. The temblor measured 5.1 on the Richter scale of ground motion. It struck at 1:33 a.m. about 60 miles northwest of Homer, said Paul Whitmore, a geophysicist at the center. ``A lot of people felt it in Anchorage and Palmer,'' Whitmore said. ``That area that it occurred in is a farily common area for earthquakes.'' But since the quake was so early in the morning, the center received few calls about it, Whitmore said. ``I woke up sometime in the night because I felt my house shaking,'' said Stan Porter, a Federal Aviaion Administration official at the Homer flight service station. ``But that's just part of life up here,'' he said, adding that he rolled over and went back to sleep. The Richter scale is a measure of ground motion as recorded on seismographs. Every increase of one number means a tenfold increase in magnitude. Thus a reading of 7.5 reflects an earthquake 10 times stronger than one of 6.5. An earthquake of 5 on the Richter scale can cause considerable damage in a populated area, 6 can be severe and a 7 reading is a ``major'' quake, capable of widespread heavy damage. AP881030-0043 AP-NR-10-30-88 1404EST r i AM-Tutu 10-30 0546 AM-Tutu,0567 Tutu Visits Blacks Threatened With Eviction With LaserPhoto PORT NOLLOTH, South Africa (AP) Archbishop Desmond Tutu on Sunday prayed with and encouraged blacks threatened with eviction from this fishing town, hundreds of miles from the nearest area where they can live legally. The church service concluded a two-day visit by the Anglican leader to a windswept, treeless plain outside Port Nolloth, about 400 miles north of Cape Town. About 500 blacks live in 90 tents in the remote town. ``God is on your side, and God cannot ultimately be defeated,'' Tutu told the congregation. ``That is why those who oppress you have already lost.'' The tent dwellers, who were served with eviction notices in January, are fighting the order in court. Under South Africa's segregation laws, blacks have no legal right to live in this sparsely populated region called Namaqualand, which stretches along the Atlantic Coast to the border with South-West Africa. The nearest official black township is in Upington, more than 300 miles east. Tutu arrived Saturday on his first visit to the desolate camp whose residents collect water in barrels and use portable outhouses. About 100 women, some with babies on their backs, led the black archbishop and his wife, Leah, through the rows of tents. While Tutu conferred with community leader Lingington Sonqishe in a corrugated metal shack, a crowd outside sang in praise of Tutu and Oliver Tambo, president of the outlawed African National Congress guerrilla group fighting apartheid. Under apartheid, South Africa's 26 million blacks have no voice in national affairs, which are controlled by the 5 million whites. Tutu, winner of the 1984 Nobel Peace Prize for his campaign against the policy of segregation, said he was dismayed at the living conditions but impressed with the determination of the residents. ``I want to express admiration for the people here, at the extraordinary resilience and the strength of their commitment to stand for their rights,'' Tutu said. ``One is humbled, really, to see how people refuse to be manipulated and intimidated.'' Many of the Port Nolloth blacks, who work in mines or with the fishing industry, have been in the area for 10 years. Initially, they lived with mixed-race people in a shantytown that was demolished. The mixed-race population was given new housing, while most of the blacks fled to South-West Africa, which is ruled by South Africa. Authorities there forced them back into South Africa in 1986, and the blacks believed the government was going to allow them to stay permanently. A legal battle has been waged since then, with the next court session scheduled Nov. 9. ``They were given the promise that they would have houses built for them,'' Tutu said. ``The town council is reneging on that promise. Their only sin is that they have black skin.'' If the tents are demolished, Sonqishe said, the residents would live outdoors ``like monkeys and baboons. Then the whole world will see the suffering.'' Tutu's visit to Port Nolloth was covered by crews from Independent Television Network and Visnews, two London-based television news agencies. ITN's bureau chief, Mike Wills, said security police seized the film when it arrived at a small airport near Johannesburg Sunday afternoon. The officers said they were acting under state-of-emergency regulations, Wills said. AP881030-0044 AP-NR-10-30-88 1406EST r i AM-Vietnam-Storm 10-30 0154 AM-Vietnam-Storm,0159 Floods In Vietnam Killed 100 People, Radio Says BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) Heavy rains and flooding in central Vietnam this month killed 100 people and left half a million homeless, the official radio reported Sunday. The Voice of Vietnam, monitored in Bangkok, said the storm also destroyed 1.25 million acres of rice fields and heavily damaged 620,000 acres of other crops. It said 28 people were missing. Efforts to help flood victims were under way, said the broadcast, which gave no other details. Each year, tropical storms cause considerable damage to agriculture and loss of life in Vietnam, one of the world's poorest nations. Earlier Vietnamese radio reports said prolonged rains and flooding occurred in a 625-mile stretch from Thanh Hoa to Phu Khanh provinces, pulling down thousands buildings. Water levels of four rivers reached record levels before the rains stopped Oct. 18 and the floodwaters began receding, the reports said. AP881030-0045 AP-NR-10-30-88 1438EST r i AM-Iran-USEmbassy 10-30 0179 AM-Iran-US Embassy,0182 Iran Parliament Marks Day of U.S. Embassy Takeover NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) The Iranian Parliament voted Sunday to name Nov. 4, the anniversary of the takeover of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, Day of the Campaign Against Global Arrogance Led by the United States. The Islamic Republic News Agency did not give details of the vote. Islamic radicals took over the embassy Nov. 4, 1979, nine months after Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini's overthrow of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. Fifty-two Americans were held hostage 444 days. IRNA, monitored in Nicosia, said Nov. 4 is an important day in the history of the Islamic revolution in Iran. On that date in 1963, Khomeini was exiled by the shah. He continued his opposition from abroad until his triumphant return Feb. 1, 1979. On the same date in 1978, an opposition demonstration by students and others at Tehran was put down violently by the shah's armed forces. The embassy takeover was described by the agency as ``the takeover of the espionage den by the Moslem Students Following the Imam's Line.'' AP881030-0046 AP-NR-10-30-88 1445EST r a AM-Lovers'Deaths 10-30 0392 AM-Lovers' Deaths,0404 Two Jilted Boyfriends Die Falling From Apartment Buildings By CHARLES J. GANS Associated Press Writer CHICAGO (AP) Two jilted men died in separate weekend accidents in which they fell from apartment buildings while trying to climb in to see their girlfriends, police said Sunday. Dale Moll, 33, a North Side businessman, fell 16 stories Saturday morning while attempting to use television cables on the roof of a high-rise to rappel down to the window of his girlfriend's 15th floor apartment, said Detective Tom Johnson. Less than a half-hour later, Robert Harris, 25, fell from an eighth-story ledge while trying to get into his apartment after his girlfriend locked him out following an argument, said Patrolman Joseph Mescall. ``I don't think any girl is worth it to climb that high,'' Mescall said. Moll, who owned an artificial sun-tanning business, was pronounced dead on arrival at Northwestern Memorial Hospital. Harris suffered massive internal injuries and died early Sunday after undergoing surgery at Cook County Hospital, said Aaron Cunningham, a hospital administrator. Police said Moll went to his girlfriend's apartment building after she did not answer his telephone calls Friday evening and Saturday morning. ``Their relationship had been in an estranged state for some time and she hadn't been seeing him,'' Johnson said. Moll went to the roof of the high-rise and tried to climb down television cables to gain access to his girlfriend's apartment. She wasn't home at the time, Johnson said. Police said Moll stopped at a 16th floor apartment and swung away when a woman inside screamed, and then the cable snapped. ``The woman became alarmed and started screaming,'' Johnson said. ``He (Moll) said, `I'm sorry I have the wrong apartment,' or something like that. Then she looked out the window and observed him lying on the ground. ``It appears that he was trying to climb down hand over hand and rappel, but the cable snapped because it was not made to support that weight.'' Johnson estimated the victim weighed at least 170 pounds. In the second accident, Harris' girlfriend kicked him out of his apartment at a West Side housing complex run by the Chicago Housing Authority, Mescall said. Harris then went next door to a vacant apartment and climbed out on the window ledge, then fell while trying to get into his apartment, Mescall said. AP881030-0047 AP-NR-10-30-88 1446EST r i AM-Iran-Executions 10-30 0216 AM-Iran-Executions,0222 Rebels Claim 20 Dissidents Executed In Iran NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) Iranian rebels said Sunday that authorities in Iran have executed 20 dissidents in recent days by firing squad or hanging. The Iraqi-based Radio Mujahed, run by the opposition group Mujahedeen Khalq, said three dissidents were hanged in the city of Zanjan, 160 miles west of Tehran. Three Mujahedeen members were hanged in the provincial capital of Hamadan in western Iran, the report said. Thirteen others were shot by firing squad in Mashhad in northwest Iran and one was shot in the western city of Arak, the radio report said. There was no independent confirmation of the report. But Iran's official media, monitored in Nicosia, has reported that scores of ``counterrevolutionaries and Iraqi spies'' have been publicly executed in the last three months. The Iraqi-based Mujahedeen, who seek to topple Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini's fundamentalist government, claim that nearly 2,000 dissidents have been executed and thousands arrested since August. The radio said the executions and arrests were being carried out because the Tehran authorities ``fear being overthrown by the Iranian opposition.'' Over the last 18 months, Iranian authorities have publicly acknowledged that the opposition force was becoming a problem. Some Iranian leaders publicly have called for the execution of all Mujahedeen prisoners without trial. AP881030-0048 AP-NR-10-30-88 1453EST r a AM-WhalesLetter 10-30 0221 AM-Whales Letter,0227 Third-graders Thank Gorbachev For Freeing Trapped Whales LOVELAND, Colo. (AP) The plight of whales trapped by Arctic Ocean ice got worldwide attention, and the part played in their rescue by two Soviet icebreakers got the special attention of members of a third grade class. ``I feel sorry for every living creature that has to go through this,'' said Lisa DeLack, a third-grader at Centennial Elementary School in Loveland. Lisa convinced her teacher and school principal that the Soviets deserved some thanks for their help in freeing two California gray whales off the north coast of Alaska. A third whale disappeared and was presumed dead. ``I saw the whales and the Russians helping and I thought it was very nice of them to do it,'' Lisa said. So she and her classmates penned their appreciation on blue-lined school paper, some illustrated with drawings of whales. Their letters were sealed in an envelope and mailed to Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev in Moscow. Centennial principal Sam Simonetta says it's natural for the children to respond to animals, be they pets or wild creatures thousands of miles away. `They like them and they're concerned about them,'' Simonetta said. ``When someone came in and was willing to help our country, it made these kids feel real good about it,'' he said. AP881030-0049 AP-NR-10-30-88 1436EST u a AM-AccidentalLaunch Bjt 10-30 0700 AM-Accidental Launch, Bjt,680 Defense Contractors Support Nunn Proposal By BRYAN BRUMLEY Associated Press Writer SUNNYVALE, Calif. (AP) Defense contractors are eagerly studying Democratic Sen. Sam Nunn's suggestion for a ground-based system to protect against an accidental missile attack. At least two major California contractors ran to their drawing boards after Nunn, the Georgia chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, broached the idea last January as a limited alternative to Star Wars, the Reagan administration's proposal for a space-based anti-missile system. Nunn's proposal, the Accidental Launch Protection Systems, would resemble the Anti-Ballistic Missile defense system dismantled in the mid-1970s. Although the proposal has some support, the Pentagon's Defense Science Board placed little emphasis on it in a report last May and Nunn himself appears to have concluded that deploying a limited system would cause more problems than it would solve. Nunn has acknowledged that for the system to be effective it would be costly and may not be possible within the Anti-ballistic Missile Treaty. Nunn's plan offended those opposed to Star Wars, or the Strategic Defense Initiative. They argued any deployment of an anti-missile system would abrogate the 1972 treaty. But many defense contractors and other SDI backers support Nunn's plan because they think it may open the way to a more extensive anti-missile system, including space-based weapons. Congress has frozen Star Wars funding at about $4.1 billion. Edward Teller, the physicist credited with planting the idea for Star Wars with President Reagan in 1983, calls ALPS ``a valuable first step to show that we can put up something, to show what a system will cost.'' Some major defense contractors agree. They say a system to protect the continental United States from a limited ballistic missile attack could be deployed for about $10 billion. The Pentagon spends about $300 billion a year. Bob Willwerth, an engineer at Lockheed Missiles and Space Co. in Sunnyvale, said the entire continental United States could be protected from a limited attack if 100 anti-missile missiles were based at Grand Forks, N.D. The United States dismantled a similar system in Grand Forks in the mid-1970's because it was deemed ineffective. The Soviets have a 100-missile anti-ballistic missile system around Moscow, permitted under the ABM pact. Engineers at Lockheed and at the McDonnell Douglas Astronautics Co. in Huntington Beach say existing surveillance, tracking and command systems are nearly adequate to operate a 100-missile anti-missile system. ``Roughly two-thirds of what you need is already in place,'' said Willwerth, pointing at a chart that shows satellites and communications links already used to warn of a Soviet attack. Lockheed has a contract to develop the Exoatmospheric Reentry-Vehicle Interceptor System (ERIS) that would strike enemy warheads before they reenter the atmosphere to begin their final descent. The system has been designated by the Pentagon as the one most likely to be used in the first phase of Star Wars should the United States decide in the 1990s to go ahead with the space-based anti-missile system. McDonnell Douglas has developed another system to intercept warheads after they entered the atmosphere. Although the system has not been accepted as part of the first phase of the Star Wars project, McDonnell Douglas engineers are pushing it as a possible key component for ALPS. McDonnell Douglas's system is known as High Endoatmospheric Defense Interceptor (HEDI). Dean Hofferth of McDonnell Douglas estimates it would cost about $10 billion to build an ALPS system of 70 ERIS and 30 HEDI missiles at Grand Forks. But Hofferth said a single-site system such as one at Grand Forks could not protect the continental United States from an accidental attack, especially by submarines. Instead, McDonnell proposes five or six additional sites spaced along the Atlantic, Pacific and Gulf coasts with 60-70 ERIS and 60-70 HEDI missiles apiece, costing an estimated $3 billion per site. That would violate the AMB treaty, which limits each superpower to a single site with 100 anti-missile missiles. A single site, said Hofferth, would be overwhelmed by an unauthorized launch by a single enemy commander. Soviet intercontinental ballistic missiles are deployed in batteries of about 10 missiles, which in the case of the heavy SS-18 missile, could carry 100 or more warheads. AP881030-0050 AP-NR-10-30-88 1457EST r i AM-Soviet-Deficit 10-30 0674 AM-Soviet-Deficit,0692 Chronic Soviet Deficit May Be a Surprise to Them An AP Extra By ANN IMSE Associated Press Writer MOSCOW (AP) The Soviet government's ability to slide budget deficits past the legislature for years could have been a result of simple ignorance. The huge bureaucracy that sets prices irrespective of supply and demand, and the virtual absence of any accounting system in state-run businesses, may have hid the size of the problem until Mikhail S. Gorbachev began implementing his economic reforms. Government officials acknowledged during a two-day session of the Supreme Soviet on Thursday and Friday that the budget has been running in the red for years. The $795 billion budget for 1989 passed Friday by the legislature contains a deficit $55 billion at the official exchange rate. But that may be just a guess. The Soviet Union has only recently discovered the concept of accounting for profit and loss. Finance Minister Boris Gostev said Thursday that ``so far, accounting is not yet reliable'' because many administrators don't understand modern management. Until recently, prices in the Soviet Union were set by the government, without regard to costs. The massive attempt to determine the real cost of everything in the country started in January. Actual price reform is still in the planning stages. Politburo member Alexander N. Yakovlev, Gorbachev's closest adviser on the Politburo, said last week that the economy turned out to be in worse shape than the leadership thought when it began the policy of perestroika, or reconstruction, three years ago. For decades, the Soviet Union has tried to ignore the law of supply and demand. The government set prices that were designed to nearly give away the basics of life _ a roof, heat, a bus ride to work, bread and cabbage _ and to charge a fortune for most everything else. An apartment could cost 25 rubles, or $40, a month. At the same time, a video cassette was priced at 70 rubles, or $110. The government was building expensive apartments, virtually giving them away, and losing money on each one. In factories, all prices were fixed by bureaucrats, and generations of managers didn't dare breathe the word ``profit.'' The result, according to Gostev's calculations, is 24,000 bankrupt businesses and a budget deficit. Now, he said, ``We have to learn how to live according to our incomes.'' Soviets also are discovering that capital has a cost. ``Enterprises functioning at a loss don't feel they are,'' Gostev said, because they are using funds generated by other businesses. Without market interest rates to ensure that capital investment is used either efficiently or not at all, the Soviets wound up with hundreds of half-finished construction projects and mounds of modern equipment lying unused in factory warehouses. State planning chief Yuri Maslyukov gave a hint of the problem when he said Friday that the government is giving up on hundreds of millions of dollars worth of unfinished farm buildings. Those projects, he said, will be written off _ another alien concept in the Soviet Union. Publicizing the deficit is a natural outgrowth of Gorbachev's policy of glasnost, or openness. But it clearly aids his program of perestroika by telling the public that waste, inefficiency and subsidies have a cost. That lays the groundwork for an expected reduction in those subsidies and for his newest drive, a demand for stringent cost-cutting in government agencies and the state-run businesses that still make up 99 percent of the economy. Even if the deficit estimate was accurate, translating it from rubles to dollars has little meaning. The ruble is not freely convertible to dollars. News stories typically use the official Soviet exchange rate, set at $1.61 to the ruble by the government. The black market rate is 20-25 cents to the ruble, which is closer but probably lower than a free-trade rate would be. At that rate, the Soviet deficit would be only $6.8 billion to $8.5 billion, but the entire Soviet government would be operating on only about $100 billion to $120 billion a year. AP881030-0051 AP-NR-10-30-88 1448EST u p AM-Canada-US Bjt 10-30 0709 AM-Canada-US, Bjt,0727 EDS: Retransmitting a0679 to fix category code. Heated Election Deflects Attention from U.S. Campaign An AP Extra By SOLL SUSSMAN_ Associated Press Writer_ TORONTO (AP) Canadians caught up in debate over a free trade pact with the United States are following a heated political race of their own and paying less attention than usual to the U.S. presidential campaign. What they do see south of the border is often dismissed as an excessive amount of media handling and too much superficial treatment of the issues. Canadians congratulated themselves after the debate series among the leaders of their three major parties by comparing the breadth of the discussions with the debates between the U.S. candidates. ``Canada's leaders were much more forthright, articulate and revealing of themselves than the candidates for the White House in the U.S. debates,'' the independent Globe and Mail newspaper said in an editorial. ``Issues received far more vigorous airings here within the limits of television.'' Six hours of debates between Prime Minister Brian Mulroney of the Progressive Conservative Party, Liberal Party leader John Turner and Ed Broadbent of the socialist New Democratic Party crystallized the free trade agreement with the United States as the campaign's dominant issue. Before Mulroney dissolved Parliament Oct. 1 to call the election, some concern was voiced that a November election could be complicated because voters might be distracted by the U.S. campaign. Instead, a once complacent political race, in which Mulroney appeared headed for easy victory, now is becoming among the most electric in memory. A survey by the Environics polling firm found that 74 percent of Canadians either watched the debates here or followed news reports about them. Polls have concluded that Turner easily won the debates, in which he accused Mulroney of selling out Canada in the free trade agreement. Anything less than a majority government for Mulroney in the Nov. 21 vote places in doubt the future of the agreement, which would eliminate tariffs and trade barriers between the two countries over a 10-year period. The U.S. Congress easily approved it this year, but Canada's Parliament has yet to act on it. If passed in Canada, the agreement would take effect Jan. 1. Some political analysts say the U.S. campaign between George Bush and Michael Dukakis is simply considered boring. They note that the contest slipped off the front pages in the United States in its middle weeks. ``There's no clear favorite for Canadians,'' David Eirikson, a political science professor at the University of British Columbia, said in a phone interview. ``They (Canadians) are busy with domestic affairs.'' A Gallup poll published by the Toronto Star in early October said 56 percent of Canadians were for Dukakis and 44 percent for Bush. The question asked the 1,039 Canadians surveyed was: ``Just suppose for a minute that Canadians were allowed to vote in a U.S. presidential election. If the U.S. election were held today, would you cast your vote for Republican George Bush or Democrat Michael Dukakis?'' The cornerstones of Canadian public opinion about government generally are based on such issues as health care, social services and other policies that would be to the left of the Republican Party. Dukakis also is known to provincial leaders from eastern Canada because of of his participation in regional forums. Quebec's premier, Robert Bourassa, has spoken well of the Massachusetts governor. Both U.S. candidates have pledged they would make improvements on acid rain, the other key issue troubling U.S.-Canadian relations. Michael Perley of the Canadian Coalition on Acid Rain said in an interview that either would be an improvement on the Reagan administration ``by a considerable margin.'' He said Dukakis' plan ``is the more detailed and the more savvy, if you like,'' while Bush is ``vaguer.'' But he added, ``We don't feel it's our place as a Canadian interest group to endorse anyone.'' Canadians often express dismay at the low voter turnout in the United States. ``Almost half of eligible American voters are expected to sit out next month's U.S. elections, putting the multimillion-dollar show-biz political campaigns in the category of a couch-potato sport,'' wrote Norma Greenaway, a Canadian Press correspondent in Washington. Canadian voter turnout has averaged 75 percent in the nine federal elections since 1962. AP881030-0052 AP-NR-10-30-88 1511EST r i AM-Israel-Election 10-30 0574 AM-Israel-Election,0596 Israeli Campaign Winding Up With Sharp Attacks With AM-Israel, Bjt By DAN HORN Associated Press Writer JERUSALEM (AP) A newspaper advertisement invoked the name of Adolf Hitler to attack the left-of-center Labor Party on Sunday in escalating political warfare before this week's election. Politicians made last-ditch efforts to sway undecided voters before parliamentary elections Tuesday. The latest polls showed Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir's right-wing Likud bloc and Foreign Minister Shimon Peres' Labor Party running neck-and-neck. The army sent extra troops to the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip to prevent any upsurge in violence caused by the elections. Underground leaders of the 10-month-old Palestinian uprising called for a general strike in the occupied lands on election day and asked Israeli Arabs to ``elect the voices of peace.'' Peres has backed the idea of exchanging occupied land for guarantees of peace. Shamir's Likud bloc rejects the idea. The uprising is the central issue in the campaign. The Hitler ad, which appeared in the daily Maariv, showed the words ``International Conference'' below a photo of Hitler meeting former British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain during the 1938 Munich Conference. Peres favors an international conference to achieve lasting peace between Israel and its Arab neighbors. Likud and other right-wing parties argue that such a conference would pressure Israel to accept an unfavorable settlement. The ad seemed to suggest that Israel would be selling out to very dangerous opponents if it made agreements at an international meeting. ``The Labor Party's competitors, first and foremost the Likud, have lost their sanity by giving a nation of Holocaust survivors such revolting propaganda,'' the Labor Party said in its statement. About 6 million Jews were killed in the Holocaust. Labor leaders asked the Central Elections Commission to ban such ads. Likud spokesman Danny Naveh said his party's members were not behind the ad, Israel radio reported. He said he knew who paid for it but refused to give the name. Maariv deputy editor Yitzhak Hayerushalmi said the newspaper will publish an apology for the ad Monday. He said someone in the advertising department ``messed up'' by failing to consult editors before publishing the ad. In radio commercials Sunday, Likud accused Labor of secretly planning a 70-percent tax hike after the elections. It also said a Labor victory would hurt Israel's Jews. One ad featured what it called a ``worried voter'' saying: ``If Shamir is elected, it will be a disaster _ a disaster for the Arabs! ``If Peres is elected, it will be a disaster for us.'' Peres, in his final campaign swing through southern Israel, lashed out at Likud for trying to frighten the public and told voters that an international conference would not endanger Israel. He criticized Likud's ``personal attacks'' during the campaign and vowed never to negotiate directly with the Palestine Liberation Organization. ``The PLO represents violence,'' Peres told reporters in Bersheba. ``It doesn't matter what the PLO says, it matters what they shoot.'' A survey by a Labor-aligned polling service, published Sunday, predicted the party and its leftist allies would win 63 seats in the Knesset, or parliament, to Likud's 57. The poll was based on interviews with 1,200 voters, including Israeli Arabs. A survey conducted by a Likud-affiliated service and published Sunday indicated the elections would end in a stalemate. Labor and Likud have shared power in an uneasy alliance since 1984, when neither party could form a majority coalition government after elections. AP881030-0053 AP-NR-10-30-88 1512EST r a AM-CampusRacism 10-30 0825 AM-Campus Racism,0849 New Racism Sparks Calls For Change At Universities Eds: Note language in 6th graf. By STEVE WILSTEIN Associated Press Writer STANFORD, Calif. (AP) The president of Stanford's Black Student Union spoke calmly, controlling her anger in the tumult of a protest against racism on campus. There's a dangerous link, she said, between racist terms scrawled on posters at Stanford, racial slurs at Smith College and a ``ghetto party'' at DePauw. ``These aren't isolated incidents,'' said Mary Dillard. ``And it's happening at Cornell, Pennsylvania, Harvard, Yale. There's something wrong with the best and the brightest.'' Officials of the nation's top universities are trying to figure out what is wrong and how to fix it, but the results so far have been disappointing. Stanford President Donald Kennedy, mindful of racist incidents last year, warned freshmen in his orientation address this fall that ``bigotry is out.'' Yet soon afterward two more racist acts shocked the campus. The first was the scrawling of the word ``niggers'' across a black fraternity poster. In the second, a poster of German composer Ludwig van Beethoven was altered so he appeared to be black after a fraternity house discussion about historic figures alleged to have some black ancestry. It takes A's, high test scores and other accomplishments to get into Stanford University, but as Dillard noted, ``there is an appalling ignorance among many students about other cultures and that leads to trouble.'' Ewart A.C. Thomas, a psychologist and dean of Stanford's School of Humanities and Sciences, notes ``there have been more overt acts of racism in this decade'' throughout the country. ``People have attributed it to policies coming out of Washington attacking civil rights legislation,'' he said. ``There might be more to it than that, but a tone set in Washington could increase the sense among people from underrepresented groups that their gains are now being assailed.'' ``In many ways Reagan's eight years ... have taken the shame out of racist behavior,'' said the Rev. Jesse Jackson, who spoke to 4,000 Stanford students on Friday. ``Students tend to follow in rhythm with the leadership.'' In recent incidents elsewhere, racial slurs were scrawled on notes slipped under a door and tacked onto a bulletin board at Smith College, and members of an all-white white fraternity at DePauw threw a ``ghetto party'' in which they scrawled racist grafitti on their house. Cheryl Taylor, vice chair of the Black Student Union, argues that many whites don't understand what is racist, ``so it still persists, in the country and on the campus. Stanford is not divorced from society.'' Despite its image and high tuition, its idyllic campus and links to the conservative Hoover Institution, 97-year-old Stanford is no longer simply a bastion for wealthy whites. Grants, scholarships and other sources help most students cope with the $20,000-a-year costs. Stanford stepped up admission of minority students 20 years ago, after the Civil Rights Act, and now more than one-third of its 6,457 undergraduate and 6,767 graduate students from every state and 100 foreign countries are non-white. Altogether, there are 1,378 Asian Americans, 739 blacks, 721 Chicanos, 170 Hispanics, 96 American Indians and 1,834 foreigners. ``Our diversity is a fundamental part of the education we offer,'' Kennedy said, but he acknowledged problems in bringing together people from different cultures. ``We are almost haunted by the fact that despite our best efforts, we are still vulnerable to the charge that forms of racism survive here,'' he said. Albert M. Camarillo, director of Stanford's Chicano Affairs Office and chairman of the Committee on Minority Issues, said ``some people with ethnocentric attitudes come to this kind of environment and feel threatened and want to act out their resistance to it.'' Many minority students complain Stanford is not doing nearly enough to fight bigotry. Most whites agree, but some argue that blacks are exaggerating the problems and object to branding the university as racist. Keith Archuleta, assistant dean and director of the Black Community Services Center, said there's something wrong with the structure at Stanford when ``most of the people of color who we have affirmative action for here are in the kitchens or cleaning the dorms.'' Camarillo's committee has been studying the problems on campus since last spring and is finalizing ``a very complex set of recommendations,'' he said. ``There are no easy answers,'' he said. ``We're talking about changes in the undergraduate curriculum, enhancement of ethnic studies, recruitment and hiring of minority faculty and staff, social interaction of minorities and non-minorities and student services.'' Meanwhile, Stanford students, faculty and administrators are getting an education in race relations. ``We have been alerting people, making them aware that there is racism on campus and that what happens here does not happen in a vacuum,'' Dillard said. ``This racism is a reflection of society, but it's also a reflection of the university's being irresponsible,'' she said. ``If you're an intellectual powerhouse, you've got to start pushing some intellectual power.'' AP881030-0054 AP-NR-10-30-88 1515EST r i AM-Yugoslavia-Suicide 10-30 0288 AM-Yugoslavia-Suicide,0297 Worker Desperate Over Low Wage Commits Suicide ZAGREB, Yugoslavia (AP) A factory worker desperate over his low salary set himself on fire and died, leaving behind written comments on the country's economic and social crisis, a newspaper reported Sunday. It was the third reported case of self-immolation related to the plummeting standard of living in Yugoslavia. Bogdan Predic, a 49-year-old worker from the northern city of Zagreb, doused himself with gasoline and set himself ablaze on the highway linking Zagreb with the northern city of Ljubljana, the daily Vjesnik said. It said the incident occurred Oct. 19. Miladin Kojic, a truck driver from Ljubljana, tried to help the burning man, the daily said. ``I stopped my truck and grabbed a blanket with which I beat the flames while another truck driver sprayed foam on him,'' Kojic was quoted as saying. An ambulance took Predic to a hospital, where he died several hours later. Several letters found near the scene of the suicide contained Predic's comments on the country's economic and social crisis, Vjesnik said. Predic worked in a rubber factory and earned about $52 a month, but two-thirds of his salary was withheld to pay a debt to a department store, the daily said. In two other incidents, a 58-year-old retired worker and a mechanic also set themselves on fire and died, citing the country's problems in their final letters, the Belgrade daily Borba reported. It did not say when or where the two incidents occurred or give the age of the mechanic. The average salary in Yugoslavia is about $100 a month and the annual inflation rate is 236 percent, accompanied by a 15 percent unemployment rate and a $21 billion foreign debt. AP881030-0055 AP-NR-10-30-88 1540EST r i AM-Malaysia-Politics 10-30 0319 AM-Malaysia-Politics,0334 Premier Offers Cabinet Posts To Political Opponents By HARI S. MANIAM Associated Press Writer KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad on Sunday offered Cabinet posts to two dissident members of his party who have tried to unseat him. Mahathir said Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah, a former trade minister, and former Deputy Prime Minister Musa Hitam could join his Cabinet as ministers without portfolio. There was no immediate response from the two politicians. ``Because we all wish for unity, and I believe we must be wholehearted in our efforts to restore unity, I make this announcement,'' the prime minister told 1,545 delegates attending a four-day party meeting of his recently formed New United Malays National Organization. Since the country won independence from Britain in 1957, all Malaysia's prime ministers have come from the original United Malays National Organization, formed in 1946. In April 1987, Razaleigh and Musa narrowly lost party elections in which they tried to unseat Mahathir and Abdul Ghafar Baba as party president and deputy president. In June 1987, Razaleigh's supporters sought to nullify the voting in court, alleging that illegal delegates from improperly registered party branches had voted. In February 1988, the High Court declared the elections void and ruled the party illegal. Mahathir formed the New United Malays National Organization on Feb. 16 and banned Razaleigh, Musa and their followers from membership, saying their actions had led to the old party being declared illegal. He reversed himself Oct. 15 and invited the opposition leaders to join the new party. Razaleigh and Musa refused, claiming Mahathir had filled key party posts with his own followers and prevented them from winning any positions in later elections. The United Malays National Organization has governed the country in a coalition with 12 other parties since 1957. The new party, the country's strongest, claims about 1 million members. The original party had about 1.4 million members. AP881030-0056 AP-NR-10-30-88 1541EST u a AM-DenverCleanAir Bjt 10-30 0516 AM-Denver Clean Air, Bjt,0530 Denver's Clean Air Campaign Kicks Off on Tuesday By DENIS SEARLES Associated Press Writer DENVER (AP) The Denver metropolitan area heads into its fifth annual Better Air Campaign on Tuesday trying to reduce carbon monoxide levels that are among the highest in the country and threaten its federal highway funds. The campaign, which runs in six counties through Jan. 31, seeks to get residents to cut back on wood burning and reduce the 3.5 million miles driven daily. It will be augmented by state-mandated use of cleaner-burning oxygenated gasoline between Tuesday and Feb. 28. The clean-air campaign aims to reduce average daily carbon monoxide levels in the mile-high metropolitan area by 15 percent to 19 percent. The oxygenated fuels program is expected to yield an additional 12 percent reduction. Last season's combined effort dropped Denver from first to seventh place on the Environmental Protection Agency list of worst cities for carbon monoxide pollution. ``We're hoping to get about a 10 percent drop in vehicle miles driven on a daily basis and also a 60 percent participation rate throughout the entire metro area on the wood burning part of the program,'' said Brad Beckham, director of the state Health Department's Air Pollution Control Division. ``If we can get that average daily level down ... we will go a long way toward meeting federal carbon monoxide standards,'' Beckham said. The federal sword hanging over the metro area's head is an EPA threat to cut off federal highway money if the guidelines are not met. EPA guidelines say carbon monoxide should not exceed 9 parts per million. In 1970, Denver's levels exceeded that level on 140 occasions. Last winter, Denver exceeded the level only 19 times, said campaign coordinator Anne Grady. ``They have not invoked the sanctions to the Denver metro area mainly because they think Denver is making reasonable progress in addressing that problem,'' Beckham said. The area's pollution problems are aggravated by the high, thin air, cold winters and temperature inversions, which trap carbon monoxide close to the ground. Automobile engines also work less efficiently at high altitude and emit dirtier exhaust. Last season's program achieved about a 17 percent reduction in carbon monoxide levels _ 10 percent from the no-drive portion and 7 percent from reduced wood burning, said Grady. The two-month oxygenated fuels program was credited with reducing carbon monoxide 8 percent to 9.5 percent. The estimated 1.6 million residents of the six-county area are being asked not to drive one day a week and to reduce driving through car pooling and busing. In addition, eight cities in the metropolitan area have mandatory bans on wood burning on high pollution days, and all area residents will be asked to curtail woodburning. A key factor will be the oxygenated fuels, which contain additives of grain alcohol or ether-based MTBE and made their debut for a two-month run here last Jan. 1. The fuels' oxygen content last time was 1.5 percent. This time, the oxygen content will be increased to 2 percent. Added oxygen makes the fuel burn more completely. AP881030-0057 AP-NR-10-30-88 1554EST r a AM-HairRevisited 10-30 0500 AM-Hair Revisited,0518 20th Anniversary Production of ``Hair'' To Open LaserPhoto CX1 By SARAH NORDGREN Associated Press Writer CHICAGO (AP) The Age of Aquarius has given way to the age of acquisition, and love is too busy being a buzz word to steer the stars. Perfect timing, organizers say, for a 20th anniversary production of ``Hair,'' a play that once symbolized everything '60s and young. ``This is the '80s antidote to `Rambo,''' said '60s guru Timothy Leary, brought in to help a young cast make sense of ``Hair'' two decades after it first transformed American theater. ``I think it's going to fill a real need.'' ``Hair,'' the ``American tribal rock musical,'' opened on Broadway in April 1968 and stayed there for 1,750 performances. The new production of the musical opens Tuesday at The Vic theater. The anti-war, anti-establishment message of the musical was a milestone in American theater 20 years ago, and also marked the Broadway debut of producer Michael Butler, who also brought ``Lenny,'' the story of comedian Lenny Bruce, to Broadway. Butler, the anti-establishment son of a wealthy Illinois family, stuck with ``Hair'' through most of the '70s, producing it across the United States and overseas. And he is back, producing and promoting the new run in Chicago. ``As far as I'm concerned, it's like going back to church,'' Butler said last week. ```Hair' is a very beautiful spiritual experience. ... I love working with the kids, I love the message.'' But the kids have changed. Many members of the current cast were still in diapers when protests rocked the streets of America and the original flower-power tribe sang of love and peace. ``I just thought it was all about drugs and something I had no desire to see,'' said 22-year-old actress Jamie Dawn Gangi, who plays the role of Crissy in the current $1 million production. Executive producer George Millman said the cast had to be taught what the era was really like. ``We talked to the cast a lot,'' he said. ``We find that it's difficult for them in that they can't feel it in the way that the people who lived it felt it.'' And Leary, who met with the cast several times earlier this month, helped. ``About one-third of the cast was very hip and knew what was going on, but about a third of them didn't have a clue,'' the 68-year-old Leary said from his Los Angeles home. ``I hung out with them. Some of them are quite naive about political and cultural aspects of the period. But I think they're catching on quickly.'' The new production, which Millman and Butler hope will spark spin-offs in other cities, has been changed slightly from the original. The setting is moved from New York to the riot-torn streets of the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago. Acoustics and choreography are a vast improvement over earlier attempts, producers say. This ``Hair,'' Leary says simply, is ``very much like the '80s _ high tech hippy.'' AP881030-0058 AP-NR-10-30-88 1558EST r a AM-FatalShooting 10-30 0269 AM-Fatal Shooting,0276 Man Charged In Killing Feared Dead Man's Family Was After Him BELLPORT, N.Y. (AP) A man who feared that relatives of a murder victim were coming after him for retribution telephoned police Sunday and confessed to the crime, and also asked for protection, officers said. Curtis Pete Anderson, 47, of Brookhaven Township on Long Island, was charged with second-degree murder in the shooting death of Leroy Hughes, 30, of Shirley, said Suffolk County police Officer Susan Romann. Hughes was shot at least twice in the upper torso in front of a delicatessen Saturday evening, Romann said. Police spokeswoman Linda Cicalese said the shooting occurred after Hughes opened his car door and brushed Anderson with it. Anderson and Hughes apparently had a continuing feud, she said. Hughes managed to walk about a block but then collapsed, she said. A passing motorist found him at an intersection and took him to Brookhaven Memorial Hospital, where he was pronounced dead, Romann said. Police became aware of Anderson's possible involvement in the shooting from interviews with eyewitnesses, and were trying to locate him when he dialed the 911 emergency number and told operators that he had killed a man, Romann said. Anderson also asked the operator to send police because he thought members of the victim's family were outside his residence, she said. ``Anderson claims he received phone calls saying there would be retribution from the family and he feared they would be on his way over to his house,'' Cicalese said. ``But there seems to be no credence to his belief that they were outside his residence.'' AP881030-0059 AP-NR-10-30-88 1606EST r a AM-IndianArtifacts 10-30 0248 AM-Indian Artifacts,0255 Residents Volunteer to Dig Up Their Past MORGAN HILL, Calif. (AP) Residents of a subdivision turned out to help dig up their past as archaeologists began sifting through tons of dirt at a building site where 4,000-year-old Indian tools have been found. ``It gives us a chance to look back and see part of our heritage,'' said Jeff McBride, a high school senior earning extra credit in his geology class by helping with the excavation. Alan Leventhal, director of the project under the auspices of San Jose State University, said the community is getting a chance to see things most have only heard about before. The volunteers began helping out Saturday and are expected to continue at the job for about a month. ``Most of them would never even get a look at an excavation and would hear about one only if there is controversy,'' he said. Some of the volunteers are Ohlone Indians, possibly descendants of the Ohlone tribe that used the site to harvest and prepare food. A bulldozer two weeks ago turned up several stone tools, including mortars and pestles and rocks used for scraping and drilling. The site is probably a half-day's walk from what was the nearest permanent Ohlone settlement and is in an area where the Indians would have found an abundance of acorns and game such as antelope and elk, Leventhal said. The ground work for 23 homes has been halted until the archaeology team finishes. AP881030-0060 AP-NR-10-30-88 1607EST r i AM-BRF--ShipFire 1stLd-Writethru 10-30 0144 AM-BRF--Ship Fire, 1st Ld-Writethru,a0682,0145 French Fishing Vessel Burns, Five Dead EDS: LEADS throughout to UPDATE with four sailors dead. No pickup. LA CORUNA, Spain, (AP) A French fishing vessel caught fire early Sunday, and port authorities said the captain and four sailors were killed. The ship left the port of this northwestern city Saturday after unloading its cargo, but it soon returned with engine problems. Authorities said the fire aboard the Valois killed captain Adrien Pinards and sailors Joseph Illary, Daniel Derrieu, Oliver Marel and Eiwan Heno. All were French, but their hometowns were not available. The four sailors were missing shortly after the fire started at 5:50 a.m. Authorities said their bodies were recovered Sunday afternoon after the fire was put under control. The ship's other five crew members were away from the vessel when it caught fire, officials said. AP881030-0061 AP-NR-10-30-88 1615EST r i AM-Soviet-Protest 1stLd-Writethru 10-30 0539 AM-Soviet-Protest, 1st Ld-Writethru,a0741,0552 Protesters Arrested On Anniversary Of Imprisoned Poet's Death EDS: SUBS 3rd graf, `Dissidents designated...' to CORRECT anniversary years. By MARK J. PORUBCANSKY Associated Press Writer MOSCOW (AP) Police arrested at least 50 people who gathered in Moscow and Leningrad on Sunday to demand freedom for hundreds of people they say are in prisons and psychiatric hospitals for their beliefs, a dissident said. The protests came just days after Soviet officials reportedly promised to release all political prisoners and after some members of the Supreme Soviet voted against tougher measures against public demonstrations. Dissidents designated Sunday _ the 16th anniversary of the death in prison of poet Yuri Galanskov _ as the day on which they would commemorate Soviet political prisoners. Leningrad police arrested 36 protesters who gathered near Kazan Cathedral along Nevsky Prospekt, said Yuri Mityunov, a spokesman in Moscow for the Democratic Union, which bills itself as an alternative to the Communist Party. ``They were arrested without basis _ for holding candles and reading poetry,'' Mityunov said in a telephone interview. At least 14 people were arrested in Moscow, he said. No violence was reported in either city. In Moscow, several hundred people milled across the street from Pushkin Square in the early evening, Mityunov said. Police and members of a new paramilitary force to control demonstrations used bullhorns to urge the crowd to disperse but did not interfere with the heated political discussions. One man, told by police to move off a step, proclaimed he had a right to stand there, marched in place and told a police officer, ``I'm going, I'm going.'' He was not forced to move. Mityunov said five members of the Democratic Union were arrested before they reached Pushkin Square, where they had planned to stage a demonstration. He said two of the arrested were still held, including one who raised a banner after most of the crowd left the area near the square. Mityunov said four other members of the Democratic Union who were arrested on their way to Pushkin Square appeared in court. Dissident sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said five members of the Initiative Group for Holding Demonstrations and Meetings also were arrested near Pushkin Square when they raised banners in support of political prisoners. Last week, West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl told reporters in Moscow after meetings with Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev that the Soviet Union promised to release within 10 weeks everyone regarded in the West as a political prisoner. The Soviet Union says it only considers a few dozen people political prisoners, but Western sources and dissidents estimate that several hundred people are in prisons, camps, psychiatric hospitals or exiled from their homes because of their beliefs. ``We have very little faith that all political prisoners will be freed,'' Mityunov said. ``There is a very big difference between what the authorities promise and what they actually do.'' On Friday, some members of the Supreme Soviet voted against decrees giving paramilitary forces broad powers to control demonstrations and requiring advance approval from authorities for public protests. Although the measures passed easily with 1348 votes, the 31 ``no'' votes were the first dissident votes in memory in the Supreme Soviet. AP881030-0062 AP-NR-10-30-88 1622EST r i AM-Obit-Leivaditis 10-30 0139 AM-Obit-Leivaditis,0144 Poet Tassos Leivaditis Dies At 66 ATHENS, Greece (AP) Tassos Leivaditis, one of Greece's leading poets, died Sunday of complications following intestinal surgery, a spokeswoman for Athens General Hospital said. He was 66. Leivaditis' first collection of poems, ``Battle at the Edge of the Night,'' was published in 1952. The third and final volume of his collected works was issued last year. Critics praised Leivaditis' prolific output of lyric poetry for its controlled emotions and lively imagery. ``I feel shocked at the loss of Tassos Leivaditis ... the government bows with respect before his contribution and his works,'' Premier Andreas Papandreou said. Culture Minister Melina Mercouri said Leivaditis ``was among the great Greek poets. He has secured an enviable position in our literature and a presence in our hearts.'' A state funeral was scheduled Tuesday. AP881030-0063 AP-NR-10-30-88 1646EST r i AM-BRF--China-Typhoon 10-30 0106 AM-BRF--China-Typhoon,0109 Thousands Evacuated After Typhoon Hits Hainan Island BEIJING (AP) More than 10,000 people were evacuated from portions of southern China's Hainan Island after a typhoon caused floods, an official report said Sunday. No casualties were reported in the storm, which hit the South China Sea island on Friday and Saturday. Flooding was reported in 46 villages, and soldiers helped move the residents to safer areas of the island, the Xinhua News Agency said. It said telephone lines to eastern and southern parts of the island were cut. About 180,300 acres of rice, rubber and other cash crops were damaged, the report said. AP881030-0064 AP-NR-10-30-88 1758EST r i AM-Soviet-Gorbachev 10-30 0448 AM-Soviet-Gorbachev,0462 Gorbachev Says He's Had Enough of Meetings and Slogans MOSCOW (AP) President Mikhail S. Gorbachev says he's had enough of meetings and sloganeering and that it's time for Soviet society to get down to work. Speaking to a gathering of the Young Communist League, or Komsomol, Gorbachev expressed his impatience with the slow pace of reform under his policy of perestroika, or restructuring. ``Society has been engaging in meetings for too long,'' he said Saturday. ``Meetings, slogans, and criticisms should be followed by acts which would set the policy and the entire potential of society into motion.'' Gorbachev's remarks were distributed late Saturday by the official news agency Tass. They appeared to signal the Soviet leader's impatience to get the country moving rather than any disenchantment with the more open atmosphere he has fostered. His policy of glasnost, or greater openness, has encouraged more open public debate and a wide-ranging re-evaluation of Soviet history and future prospects. At the same time, his efforts to reform the country's economy have not yet improved living standards for Soviet citizens, Gorbachev's stated goal. Gorbachev stressed to the young Communists, who were marking the 70th anniversary of their organization, that perestroika will work only if they work. ``What should be done for the processes of perestroika to gather momentum and unfold on a larger scale? It is essential to do concrete work in each work collective, in each town and village, relying on glasnost and democracy, on everthing which has democratized economic life, and on what is taking place in the political process of the country,'' he said. Gorbachev boosted his position in the Soviet leadership a month ago by assuming the presidency when Andrei A. Gromyko retired and by streamlining the Communist Party bureaucracy with his supporters in key positions. He said few oppose his reforms, but that the reforms are proceeding slowly because people are being asked to find new approaches and revive values forgotten in the corrupt and stagnant atmosphere permitted by his predecessors. Tass reported that in answer to questions, Gorbachev said the government is working on a law that will regulate the activities of volunteer societies and that it probably will be approved next spring. It is likely that independent political organizations like the People's Front movements that have sprung up in the Baltic republics of Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia would be included under such a law. Gorbachev said the question of Komsomol membership on the policy-making Communist Party Central Committee should be considered soon. In answer to another question, Gorbachev rejected procedures for regulating the social make-up of the Communist Party. The Soviet leader said an individual's ideas were much more important. AP881030-0065 AP-NR-10-30-88 1812EST r a AM-HolocaustCitation 10-30 0566 AM-Holocaust Citation,0584 Army Unit Honored For Liberating Nazi Concentration Camp By ALLEN G. BREED Associated Press Writer LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) An Army unit that liberated one of the Nazi regime's worst concentration camps during World War II was honored by the United States Holocaust Memorial Council. The citation was presented Saturday night at a reunion of former members of the 20th Armored Division, which liberated Germany's Dachau extermination camp on April 29, 1945. The idea for a citation came from Pat Goitein, of Peoria, Ill., the daughter of a division member, tanker Stanley Rea Ostler, who had hoped to attend the reunion at a Louisville hotel. But her father died Oct. 13 in North Muskegon, Mich., at the age of 75. ``I always knew what they (her father's division) did at Dachau,'' Mrs. Goitein said. ``When I heard they were having a reunion, I said, `Daddy, you guys were heroes.' I wanted to see them get an award from the Holocaust commission. I don't want people to forget.'' Dachau, established in 1933, was one of the first concentration camps the Nazis set up inside Germany. Ten miles from Munich, it was the site of about 3,500 brutal medical experiments. Thousands more Jews and political prisoners were executed or died of starvation and illness. U.S. forces liberated about 32,000 prisoners from the camp. Mrs. Goitein was born April 4, 1945, while her father's unit was on its way toward the camp. She said she and her father were working on the citation right up to his death. ``The last thing he said to me was, `Do you have any news?''' ``This business has been a very tricky and very personal thing,'' she said in a telephone interview last week. ``By the time he died, he knew we had it pretty well lined up, and that really made him happy.'' The proclamation, signed by President Reagan and Holocaust council Chairman Harvey Meyerhoff, was presented by Rabbi Robert Slosberg, president of the Louisville Board of Rabbis. Retired Army Col. James M. Snyder, the reunion's chief organizer, accepted the award Saturday night, then handed it to Fort Knox Chief of Staff Col. Donald W. Williams for submission in the Patton Museum at Fort Knox. Snyder, 74, a major at the time of the liberation, said the division was moving toward Munich when it came across the camp. ``I had no prior knowledge of it (the camp),'' he said. ``I don't know if anybody had.'' Snyder said the camp guards surrendered without much resistance. The division stayed long enough for the military government to take over the camp, then moved on to Munich. He said the GIs had little contact with the prisoners. ``They were in horrible shape,'' he said. Just after liberating the camp, the division met with an SS antitank group defending Munich and suffered ``a considerable number of casualties.'' The unit received a distinguished unit citation for the engagement. Sam Eskenazi, public affairs director for the Holocaust Council in Washington, said between 12 and 15 units liberated Nazi camps. Certificates of appreciation have been sent to these units, he said, and flags of the units have been collected. ``There will be a place of honor for these flags at the United States Holocaust Museum,'' he said. The museum, to be built near the Washington Monument in Washington, D.C., is expected to be opened in 1992. AP881030-0066 AP-NR-10-30-88 1833EST r i AM-GulfTalks 1stLd-Writethru a0703 10-30 0518 AM-Gulf Talks, 1st Ld-Writethru, a0703,0530 Gulf Talks Resume Monday, Priority On Disengagement Eds: SUBS grafs 2-3, `U.N...humanitarian grounds' with 3 grafs to UPDATE with 25 prisoners freed by each country. Pick up 4th pvs, `In a brief...' SUBS 16th, `Iraq has...' with number of Iranians released and DELETES 17th, which moved higher. By HANNS NEUERBOURG Associated Press Writer GENEVA (AP) U.N.-mediated peace talks between Iran and Iraq resume Monday in an effort to consolidate the precarious truce and disengage troops in the 8-year-old Persian Gulf war. U.N. Secretary-General Javier Perez de Cuellar flew to Geneva Sunday and said he hoped for substantive progress on an exchange of prisoners held by the two countries. Each country released 25 prisoners of war Sunday but still hold thousands of others. Iraq freed 25 disabled Iranian prisoners and they were flown to Tehran, the capital of Iran, aboard a plane chartered by the International Red Cross. Iran reciprocated immediately by releasing 25 Iraqi prisoners who boarded the same plane for the return flight to Baghdad, Iraq, according to Francoise Derand, a spokesman at the Red Cross office in Geneva. In a brief chat with reporters after his arrival, Perez de Cuellar said he hoped the meetings in Geneva would be ``if possible much more useful'' than the 10-day round early this month in New York. Perez de Cuellar last week named withdrawal of the forces as his first priority in the new negotiations. Urgency to his efforts was added by a report warning that forces ``remain in dangerous proximity'' after eight years of fighting that has killed or wounded an estimated 1.5 million. The report by the U.N. Iran-Iraq Military Observer Group warned of constant danger of renewed fighting between the two sides, whose soldiers are separated in some places by only 30 feet. A cease-fire has been in effect since Aug. 20. Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Velayati and his Iraqi counterpart, Tariq Aziz, have said no progress was made on the principal issue stalemating the talks since they began in Geneva Aug. 25 _ the delineation of a border between the two nations. Iran says a 1975 treaty set the border in the middle of the Shatt-al-Arab waterway, Iraq's only navigable outlet to the sea. Iraq, which rejected the treaty in 1980, demands sovereignty over the entire waterway. Other disputed stretches line the more than 800-mile-long frontier, according to U.N. sources. They say the discrepancies have impeded an exact definition of the ``internationally recognized boundaries'' to which the two countries are to withdraw under the U.N.-mediated cease-fire. The resolution calls for a permament cease-fire, withdrawal of troops to the pre-war border and the repatriation of POWs. Last month, 72 disabled Iraqis were freed by Iran and repatriated, the first such operation since the cease-fire. The Red Cross has registered 50,182 Iraqi prisoners of war in Iran and 19,284 Iranian prisoners in Iraq. The United Nations estimates Iran and Iraq hold a combined total of up to 105,000 POWs. Iraq has freed 638 war prisoners and Iran 790, including the 50 released Sunday, according to the Red Cross. AP881030-0067 AP-NR-10-30-88 1837EST r i AM-Chile 10-30 0414 AM-Chile,0430 Pinochet Says Foes My Try Again To Kill Him IQUIQUE, Chile (AP) President Augusto Pinochet, who survived a 1986 assassination attempt, said claims by the opposition that he is the only obstacle to restoring democracy may lead to another attempt on his life. Enemies ``are aiming at me; they have me in the sight,'' the official Orbe news agency quoted him as saying Sunday. On Saturday, Pinochet, 72, spoke to several hundred supporters in Inquique, 1,150 miles north of Santiago. In his first provincial tour since he lost an Oct. 5 referendum aimed at extending his 15-year rule to 1997, the right-wing army commander repeated his rejection of opposition demands that he leave office before his term expires. Opposition parties ``claim that I represent the only hurdle for the restoration of full democracy, and they are trying to separate me from the armed forces and isolating me,'' Pinochet said. ``I publicly warn that these attempts may lead even to my physical elimination,'' he said. Orbe quoted Pinochet as saying Sunday, ``I know they are aiming at me; they have me in the sight,'' when asked about his reference to a possible assassination attempt. But the news agency said he refused to elaborate. ``That would be disclosing to them what we already know,'' he was quoted as saying. On Sep. 7, 1986, Pinochet's motorcade was ambushed in the Andes foothills near Santiago. Five of his bodyguards were killed and 11 wounded. A leftist guerrilla organization claimed responsibility. In the referendum, Chileans rejected a proposal by Pinochet and the other military commanders that he remain in power until 1997. According to the 8-year-old constitution, the defeat forces Pinochet to call an open election, planned for December 1989. He must hand power to the winner in March 1990. But opposition leaders are pressing for constitutional changes, including a more speedy departure of Pinochet. They say his refusal to step down and allow earlier elections makes him the only obstacle to full democracy. In his speech Saturday, Pinochet again vowed not to yield to the opposition demands and said he will strictly follow the constitution. ``No democracy will be possible if we break the law,'' he said. Some opposition leaders have said a hard line by Pinochet is designed to provoke street demonstrations or other radical action that would justify repression. Pinochet took power in a 1973 coup that toppled the elected government of President Salvador Allende, a Marxist, who died in the takeover. AP881030-0068 AP-NR-10-30-88 1713EST u a AM-WeatherpageWeather 10-30 0441 AM-Weatherpage Weather,0451 Record Lows Around Great Lakes By The Associated Press Temperatures dropped to record lows Sunday around the Great Lakes, and rain fell over the lower Mississippi Valley. A cold air mass influenced much of the Great Lakes states, the middle and upper Mississippi Valley and the Ohio Valley. Clear skies and 3 inches of snow helped thermometers plunge to 2 degrees at International Falls, Minn., the perennial cold spot on the Canadian border. That was a record low for the city and the coldest official overnight low in the 48 contiguous states Sunday. The low of 20 degrees at Fort Wayne, Ind., broke the city's low temperature record for the date and tied the record for the month of October. Other records for Oct. 30 were 21 degrees at Chicago's O'Hare airport; 10 at Duluth, Minn.; 18 at Grand Rapids, Mich.; 18 at Jackson, Mich.; 13 at Madison, Wis.; 11 at Rochester, Minn.; 20 at South Bend, Ind.; and 18 at Toledo, Ohio. Early afternoon temperatures were only in the 30s in northern New England, the northern Appalachians, the Great Lakes, and the upper Mississippi Valley. The cold air flowing from the northwest over the warmer water of Lake Ontario generated ``lake effect'' snow near the lake's southern shore in New York state. Syracuse received 3 inches of snow in the six-hour period up to 1 p.m. EST. Showers and thunderstorms were scattered over southern Oklahoma, eastern Texas, the lower Mississippi Valley and western Tennessee. Much of the rainfall was light. Light rain and fog was over coastal Washington state. And showers were scattered over the Florida Peninsula. Temperatures around the nation at 2 p.m. EST ranged from 31 degrees at International Falls, Minn., and Saranac Lake, N.Y., to 92 at Palm Springs, Calif. For Monday, showers and thunderstorms were forecast for central and eastern Texas, the lower Mississippi Valley, the Gulf Coast region, northern Florida and the southern Atlantic Coast states. Rain also was forecast in western Washington state and extreme northwestern Oregon. Widely scattered showers were forecast for Upper Michigan. Highs only in the 30s were predicted in northern Maine; in the 40s and 50s over the Appalachians, southern New England, the middle Atlantic Coast, the Ohio Valley, the Great Lakes and the upper and middle Mississippi Valley; in the 50s from the coast of Washington state to western Montana; in the 80s over south-central Texas, the southern half of the Florida Peninsula and over the Rio Grande Valley; between 80 and 95 over the desert Southwest and inland valleys of California; and generally in the 60s and 70s over the remainder of the nation. AP881030-0069 AP-NR-10-30-88 1725EST u a AM-TielessTeacher 1stLd-Writethru a0706 10-30 0715 AM-Tieless Teacher, 1st Ld - Writethru, a0706,0729 West Virginia School In A Huff Over Ties That Bind Eds: Subs the 12th graf, ``The school board,'' to CORRECT by deleting reference to dismissal. LaserPhoto CN1 By KELLY P. KISSEL Associated Press Writer POINT PLEASANT, W.Va. (AP) Lots of guys don't like to wear ties, but for Bill Webb there is a principal _ as well as a school superintendent _ involved. The officials say the high school math teacher is insubordinate. Webb, who has been suspended three times and may lose his job for violating the school dress code, counters that it's not what you wear, but what and how you teach. He said officials ought to be more concerned about the biology classroom, a one-table lab where running water was installed just four years ago, or the men's faculty lounge, a former restroom where plywood paneling over the urinals is called a bench. ``We've spent over two months on a dress code issue that's not important, but we have not instituted a single new educational program for the students of Mason County,'' said Webb, a jeans-and-cotton-shirt man who also raises cattle. But how teachers look is important to county Schools Superintendent Charles Chambers. ``We expect our teachers to set a good example for our children. If you aren't going to follow the rules set by your school board, how can you expect your students to follow regulations?'' Chambers said. Webb, 46, has taught upper-level math at Point Pleasant High School for 20 years, often from college-level textbooks, and once wore a coat and tie so he could be distinguished from his students. ``As I've gotten older, I don't need to make that distinction, and I don't think I've had a tie on in 15 years,'' said Webb, who teaches 124 of the 695 students at the school in this rural, Ohio River county of 28,000. Students are more productive in a relaxed atmosphere, Webb said, explaining that going without a tie helps them relate to him. This year, in a memo given to teachers after they had signed their contracts, Chambers said every male faculty member would have to wear a tie in class. The first time Webb refused, he was suspended for four days with pay. The next time he was suspended for 11 days without pay. On Friday, he received another suspension for up to 30 days, beginning Monday. The school board on Nov. 7 will decide whether the latest suspension is with or without pay. Chambers said Webb is a good teacher and he would like to see him stay, but not unless he puts on a tie. Three teachers have filed grievances and others tried to make a mockery of the rule. They wore outlandish ties, some festooned with clowns, flowers or fish, but they gave way after the board issued written reprimands. Those who reluctantly comply wear black ribbons made by Webb's daughter and wife. Point Pleasant High School's accreditation by the North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools is evidence that appearance is no indication of what goes on inside, Webb said. ``Essentially, it said that in spite of the lack of facilities they thought we had an effective high school _ and it wasn't because we were wearing ties,'' Webb said, sitting on the bench in the faculty room that smells like the boys' bathroom it used to be. ``They didn't care what you looked like. They looked to see what you were doing with your kids,'' Webb said. ``People who normally lack the capacity to have authority in a classroom could wear a suit of armor and they still wouldn't be in control.'' Webb said he is willing to give up teaching and return to his Gallipolis, Ohio, farm. ``I'll probably do some work around home that's been needed done for some time, and draw unemployment for a while,'' Webb said. ``I'm not sure if I'll stay in education or possibly get a job in an industrial plant, or even maybe an outdoor job. I can run a bulldozer.'' Principal Michael Whalen said he's willing to let Webb go. ``You can always be replaced by somebody who can do a better job,'' Whalen said. ``Once you start thinking you're irreplaceable, you've got trouble.'' AP881030-0070 AP-NR-10-30-88 1840EST r a AM-JudgeIntervention 10-30 0433 AM-Judge Intervention,0448 Judge Intervenes in Cocaine Case of Friend's Stepdaughter, Paper Says SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) A municipal court judge intervened twice this year in other courts to free the stepdaughter of a wealthy friend in the Guggenheim family, a newspaper reported Sunday. Harbor Municipal Judge Calvin Schmidt countermanded the decisions by other judges who had decided that Terri Ann McMullen should post bail on cocaine possession charges, The Register of Orange County reported. Each time Ms. McMullen was freed by Schmidt, she became a fugitive and was arrested by authorities, the paper said. She is now in custody on $250,000 bail awaiting a preliminary hearing while various authorities investigate Schmidt's role in her case, the Register said. Ms. McMullen, 28, is the stepdaughter of M. Robert Guggenheim Jr., the great-grandson of turn-of-the-century industrialist Meyer Guggenheim, the paper said. Guggenheim and the judge are close friends and members of the same social club. They have also participated in the same charity functions, the Register said. Schmidt refused to comment. Guggenheim also refused to comment except to say, ``The situation is utterly ridiculous.'' The matter is being investigated by the district attorney and the state Commission on Judicial Performance, the newspaper said. Schmidt first released Ms. McMullen on April 4, after she was arrested in an Orange motel for alleged cocaine possession. Schmidt ordered her release after she signed a promise to appear in court. Records show she attended three hearings and then disappeared. Ms. McMullen was then arrested on Oct. 4 for investigation of shoplifting $13 in merchandise from a discount store. Police said they found 13 grams of cocaine in her purse. Schmidt ordered her freed on Oct. 8 against the recommendation of court officers. When Ms. McMullen missed an Oct. 20 court appearance on the Orange cocaine charge, Central Municipal Judge Richard A. Stanford Jr. ordered county marshals to arrest her again on a $250,000 bench warrant. When deputies on Oct. 21 went to locate Ms. McMullen, Guggenheim told them, ``I thought Cal Schmidt had taken care of these matters,'' according to a marshals' office report. Later that night, after Ms. McMullen had been arrested, she called her mother, Shirlee Guggenheim, from jail over a phone equipped with a speaker box. Mrs. Guggenheim said, ``I called Cal,'' according to the marshal's report. ``Don't say anything more, Mom, the phone is on a speaker box,'' the daughter said, according to the report. After Ms. McMullen's arrest, Stanford entered a message into her case file saying, ``Bail amount is not to be changed by any judicial officer, magistrate or judge.'' AP881030-0071 AP-NR-10-30-88 1841EST r a AM-FightingOdor 10-30 0290 AM-Fighting Odor,0298 Jacksonville Mayor: City Will Never Be 100 Percent Odor Free JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) Jacksonville will never be completely free of bad smells, its mayor admits a year after declaring war on the polluters that have given this city a malodorous reputation. ``I'd like to say we're going to be odor-free,'' Mayor Tommy Hazouri told The Florida Times-Union in a story published Sunday. ``What may be better said would be an odor-problem free city.'' A year ago, Hazouri said Jacksonville, saddled with a stinky reputation for years, would be odor-free in two years. He said significant progress has been made since then. ``We're winning the war,'' he said. ``We have attacked on all fronts.'' The city has been tougher on the industries that generate the unpleasant odors. A city envirnomental ordinance has been strengthened, citations have been issued against polluters, and several offenders have been taken to court. ``I couldn't ask for any more than what is being done _ short of putting out a magic wand and saying, `Odor, be gone!''' Hazouri said. However, the newspaper reported that the number of residents who have complained about odor has increased 91.7 percent in the past year. Jacksonville pollution officials say that finding doesn't signify that the odors are worse than before. Instead, they said, it indicates that the public is more aware of the problem and wants to help by reporting offenders. ``When I talk about `odor-free,' I wasn't trying to say we were going to be 100 percent,'' Hazouri told the paper. ``I'm not by any means backtracking on what I said.'' Although every effort is being made to reduce odor, industries can encounter equipment failures or weather conditions that create bad smells, Hazouri said. AP881030-0072 AP-NR-10-30-88 1804EST u a AM-WarOfTheWorlds 1stLd-Writethru a0733 10-30 0587 AM-War Of The Worlds, 1st Ld - Writethru, a0733,0599 Garrison Keillor Says Mass Manipulation Continues Today Eds: Subs 5th graf `Keillor ``Prairie...' to CORRECT to American sted National Public Radio. By JO ASTRID GLADING Associated Press Writer GROVERS MILL, N.J. (AP) The ``War of the Worlds'' radio drama about invading Martians unleashed widespread hysteria in 1938, but similar public manipulation is ``happening all the time'' today, says writer Garrison Keillor. Keillor, creator of the ``Prairie Home Companion'' radio series, said 1938 was an innocent age compared to the present, when some jaded, cynical writers and politicians abandon objectivity in order to entertain with shock value and fear. Keillor said his Uncle Jim, a gentle farmer who listened to a crystal headset radio in the bedroom of his Minnesota farmhouse, was his only relative who believed the broadcast 50 years ago Sunday and thought the world was ending. Uncle Jim was among up to 1 million Americans who believed the Halloween eve broadcast of Orson Welles' Mercury Theatre of the Air. Keillor's ``Prairie Home Companion'' series on American Public Radio included homespun reports on life in the fictional community of Lake Wobegon, Minn. Sunday ended a four-day celebration of the 50th anniversary of the ``War of the Worlds'' broadcast by the community randomly chosen as the setting for the invasion by scriptwriter Howard Koch. Closing events included a theatrical production of the broadcast. Keillor applauded the off-beat celebration. ``It's a case of a community who was such a victim of the media 50 years ago to have a chance to come back and exploit its victimization,'' he said. ``It's a form of justice that's so rare.'' Keillor joined a psychology professor and a historian Saturday to examine the question: ``Could it happen again?'' ``It's happening all the time,'' Keillor said. ``For my Uncle Jim, panic was an event, and for us it's a way of life.'' He cited the media's emphasis on entertainment, and its fascination with the bizarre and perverse. He noted Republican presidential candidate George Bush's campaign commercials that portrayed Democratic candidate Michael Dukakis as soft on crime by depicting criminals moving through a turnstile. Keillor said ``the engine of our politics'' has become fear of people who are different, of drugs, and of crime. ``Entertainers are after an effect. Journalists have another code of ethics, and so should politicians.'' They must be faithful to an objective reality, he said, adding that ``We have to insist on a difference.'' Keillor said the ``War of the Worlds'' play by Koch, who later won an Academy Award for ``Casablanca,'' was ``ethically very questionable.'' Howard Green, a state historian and expert on Depression-era history, said the broadcast worked because radio was a trusted and comfortable medium during tumultuous times. He said the stock market crash, the depression, technological leaps, the threat of war and Adolf Hitler's rise to power bred insecurity, fear and shame. ``There was fear, and there was radio,'' Green said. ``The radio was a source of comfort and security ... in an upside down, topsy-turvy, scary world.'' Joel Cooper, Princeton University's psychology chairman, said 1938 was a period of free-floating anxiety over economic and world events, and the broadcast provided a specific event to which people could respond with an exact emotion _ fear. He said the show included credible commentators and realistic news bulletins, allowing listeners to abandon critical judgment and believe. ``These are the same tactics used to sell us our toothpaste, our diet pills and our presidential candidates,'' Cooper said. AP881030-0073 AP-NR-10-30-88 1848EST r i AM-Pakistan-Bhutto 10-30 0329 AM-Pakistan-Bhutto,0339 Ms. Bhutto Begins Election Campaign KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) Benazir Bhutto, leader of the Pakistan Peoples Party, opened her campaign Sunday for the Nov. 16 elections for the National Assembly. She started her campaign in Karachi's Lyari slum district. ``We are going to win,'' she told a cheering crowd. ``The days of injustice to the poor will end on Nov. 16.'' The main opposition to Ms. Bhutto's party is the Islamic Democratic Alliance of nine center-right parties including the Pakistan Muslim League of former Prime Minister Mohammad Khan Junejo. Some of the alliance members are already on the campaign trail. Voters will elect 217 members to the National Assembly on Nov. 16. Three days later they will cast ballots for 460 members of the legislative assemblies of the provinces of Punjab, Sind, Baluchistan, and the North-West Frontier. The late President Mohammed Zia ul-Haq dissolved the National Assembly and provincial legislatures on May 29 and dismissed Junejo. He accused the legislators of incompetence and failing to uphold law and order. Zia, an army general who seized power in a military coup in 1977, was killed Aug. 17 in the crash of a C-130 transport plane. Among others killed in the crash were the U.S. ambassador and an American military adviser. Although sabotage was suspected, the cause of the crash is still under investigation. In the 1977 coup, Zia ousted Ms. Bhutto's father, Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, who was hanged two years later after being convicted of conspiracy in the killing of a political opponent. A caretaker government led by former Senate Chairman Ghulam Ishaq Khan took over after Zia's death and promised to carry out his policies including the elections. Zia declared that candidates in the elections had to run as individuals unaffiliated with any political party, but that was overruled by the Supreme Court on Oct. 2. It said candidates could run on party tickets, and that decision was expected to help Ms. Bhutto's party. AP881030-0074 AP-NR-10-30-88 1917EST u p AM-Dukakis 4thLd-Writethru a0773 10-30 1210 AM-Dukakis, 4th Ld-Writethru, a0773,1,100 Precede HANFORD, Calif. Dukakis Says ``Yes, I'm A Liberal' on California Train Tour EDs: INSERTS 2 grafs after 10 graf pvs, `That's the,' with additional Dukakis comment on liberals; EDITS for transition; INSERTS 2 graf after 25th graf pvs, `Well, I,' with Bentsen comment. By JOHN KING Associated Press Writer FRESNO, Calif. (AP) Michael Dukakis bragged Sunday about the liberal tradition, claimed that George Bush was ``dead wrong'' in saying Dukakis wanted to divide the country and challenged his rival to a debate on the eve of the election. ``I'm going to be a president who unites America,'' Dukakis told reporters during a daylong train trip through California's Central Valley. ``If he wants to talk about that, then I'd be happy to meet him face-to-face.'' That showdown, Dukakis said, could take place election eve during the hour of network television time purchased by the Democratic and Republican campaigns for last-minute appeals to voters. A moderator would be present but the candidates _ not reporters _ would ask the questions. Dukakis, convinced his campaign is surging in the waning days of the election contest, delivered an impassioned defense of liberalism, a subject he has largely ducked. ``We need a president in the tradition, yes the liberal tradition, of Franklin Roosevelt and John Kennedy,'' Dukakis told a depot rally in Hanford, a valley community surrounded by sprawling cotton farms. He repeated that call at similar rallies in Bakersfield and Fresno, adding former President Harry S. Truman to his list of liberal Democrats at those stops. At the Fresno news conference, Dukakis said he decided ``it was time to set the record straight'' after President Reagan said last week that if Truman was alive today he would support Bush and the GOP. Dukakis scoffed at Reagan's statement and said his fiscal conservatism and concern for children, health care, education, the environment and average families put him squarely in the mold of Roosevelt, Truman and Kennedy. ``That's the tradition of liberalism I grew up in,'' Dukakis said. ``That's the tradition I believe in. And I'm not going to let the Republican Party pervert that word and give it a meaning it doesn't have.'' In an interview with the ``MacNeil@Lehrer Newshour,'' Dukakis said he objected to the manner in which Bush has used the term to describe his opponent. ``A way which I think is very deliberately designed to suggest that I and people like me don't have a sense of values, that we're kind of permissive, that anything goes,'' he said in the interview taped Saturday and scheduled to air Monday night. Yet at the Sunday news conference, Dukakis refused to add less popular liberals _ George McGovern, Jimmy Carter and Walter Mondale _ to his list. ``I'm not going to go through a litany of people'' who share that tradition, Dukakis said when asked about the latter group of Democrats. He did, however, refer to a recent joint appearance with Carter. Dukakis drew large and enthusiastic crowds at each of the depot rallies, taking time during each to speak in Spanish to the large number of Hispanics in the crowds. As Dukakis adopted a more combative tone in his trip through California _ he promised an administration with ``more backbone'' than the current one _ his campaign also was fighting back with new ads attacking the Republican environmental record. One commericals shows two beachgoers wearing gas masks with an oil rig just offshore. Recent public opinion polls show Dukakis closing fast on Bush in several key states including California, a must-win state where Dukakis aides said an 11-point Bush lead a week ago has shrunk to a virtual tie. Nationwide, a Time magazine poll taken last week showed Bush maintaining a 10-point lead. But Dukakis aides said more recent tracking data showed the gap had narrowed to as little as six points. Assessing the campaign and its issues on NBC's ``Meet the Press,'' Sen. Bob Dole, R-Kan., a prominent Bush ally, suggested that the Republican nominee's hard-and-fast promise not to raise taxes may be unrealistic. Dole, a former GOP presidential primary opponent of the vice president, said he believed a federal budget can be worked out next year that could avoid increases in individual income tax rates. But he noted that Bush had made a sweeping vow not to raise federal revenues. ``That's going to be a hard thing to accomplish,'' said Dole, a former chairman of the tax-writing Senate Finance Committee. ``Maybe he can do it. I hope he can. I want to help him, and I'll be glad to support him and lead the effort. But I wouldn't say there's a 100 percent chance we can do it.'' Dole also was asked whether Bush was continuing to dodge questions _ which Dole had asked during his primary campaign _ about the Iran-Contra affair and U.S. relations with Panama's indicted military leader, Manuel Noriega. ``Well, I don't know,'' Dole said. ``I don't know what he does know. Only he knows, and maybe he'll tell us some day.'' Democratic vice presidential candidate Lloyd Bentsen, in a statement released by the Dukakis campaign, said Dole's comments reminded him of Bush's vow not to raise taxes. ``What he (Bush) really means is `Read my lips, I'll say what it takes to get elected,''' Bentsen said. Responding to Dole's comments about taxes, the vice president told reporters: ``He knows what I said and what I believe and I'm just going to do my best. But first, I want to win this election. That's the key.'' Bush attended a private mass at the residence of Cardinal John Krol and later visited Italian-American supporters in suburban Norristown. His chief of staff, Craig Fuller, said the Bush campaign will concentrate in its final week on states where the margin is close, including Ohio, California and Illinois. Unlike his boss, Fuller did not dispute that the race was narrowing, but he said it was not a matter for concern. ``I think it's to be expected as you get to the final days of the campaign that you're going to see some tightening in this race,'' Fuller said. ``But that's going to cause to us to work harder. We'll not allow ourselves to lose the edge we've had as a campaign team.'' Dukakis held Bush personally responsible for Republican campaign literature being circulated in Maryland that pictured Dukakis standing next to Willie Horton Jr., the convicted murderer who raped a Maryland woman and slashed her fiance after he escaped from a Massachusetts prison furlough. The fund-raising letter asks, ``Is this your pro-family team for 1988?'' Bush campaign chairman James A. Baker III, appearing on the CBS-TV's ``Face the Nation,'' repudiated the flier and said it was ``totally out of bounds and totally unauthorized.'' Baker said it was not Bush's fault. ``You cannot control every party organization throughout the country,'' he said. Bush planned to make several television appearances this week, including taping an interview with NBC's Tom Brokaw on Monday and appearing live on the NBC ``Today'' show on Thursday, said spokeswoman Sheila Tate. Baker said the campaign also is considering invitations for Bush and his vice presidential running mate, Sen. Dan Quayle of Indiana, to be interviewed by CBS anchorman Dan Rather. AP881030-0075 AP-NR-10-30-88 1920EST u a AM-Lottomania 4thLd-Writethru a0763 10-30 0833 AM-Lottomania, 4th Ld - Writethru, a0763,0855 Three Winning Tickets For Record $60.8 Million Jackpot Eds: SUBS lede with officials saying jackpot is world's largest. SUBS grafs 12-16, `Lottery spokeswoman ... Bob Taylor'' with 8 grafs to change pool participants' winnings to before-tax total, payoff will be made to one ticket holder and group will have to divide money itself. Pickup 17th graf pvs, `All these...' By STEVE GEISSINGER Associated Press Writer SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) Three tickets were sold with the six numbers needed to win California's $60.8 million lottery jackpot, the largest in the world, officials said Sunday. Each of the tickets is worth a third of the jackpot. A pool of 15 hospital workers in San Diego County jubilantly claimed Sunday that it held one of the winning tickets. However, lottery spokesman Bob Taylor said he could not confirm that until the ticket stub is verified, probably on Monday. The two other tickets with the six winning numbers were purchased in Westminster in Orange County and in Sacramento, Taylor said. Winners in those areas had not come forward. Workers at Fallbrook Hospital told The Associated Press they went together to purchase $600 worth of tickets. Carrie Dragon, a 38-year-old pharmacy technician, said she joined 13 nurses, lab technicians and other hospital employees, as well as a friend of one worker, in putting $40 each toward the tickets. She said all agreed they would split what winnings came from the ``Quick Pick'' tickets. ``Quick Pick'' means that the numbers were selected at random by one of the computerized lotto terminals. The tickets were purchased at a Circle K convenience store, she said. Lottery officials verified that the winning ticket in Fallbrook was purchased at a Circle K. The hospital workers in the pool held a party to watch Saturday night's drawing. ``The lady who found we had a winning ticket screamed,'' said Dragon. ``Everybody was just amazed. Then everybody started dreaming about what we were going to do with the money. ``I'm going to set up trust funds for my four kids and pay off bills,'' she said. ``But for Thanksgiving, we're all going to go to Hawaii, or some place like that.'' She said the ticket was placed in a bank vault. Lottery spokeswoman Susan Kossack said each winner will receive $20,296,175, a third of the $60,888,525 jackpot, in installments over 20 years. The installments will amount to $810,666 annually after taxes, she said. If verified, the hospital pool ticket would be worth more than $67,600 annually before taxes for 20 years to each of the 15 people. The lottery pays out only to a single winner, the person holding the winning ticket. Arrangements for dividing the money would be the responsibility of the group. Dragon said two hospital workers, Duff Stone and Charlie Jett, bought the tickets for the group. An unidentified woman who answered the telephone at Stone's home said reporters would have to wait to talk to the winners at a lottery office on Monday. The winning numbers selected in the televised Saturday night drawing were: 5, 20, 26, 28, 32, and 39. The bonus number was 3. The jackpot was the world's largest lottery prize, according to Taylor. The previous world record jackpot was $56 million in Spain's El Gordo lottery in 1983, according to Sam Valenza, publisher of Lottery Players magazine in Moorestown, N.J. But in Spain's lottery, players don't choose their numbers, which are already printed on tickets, and several winning entries are guaranteed in each of the five or six drawings held each year. The previous North American record was a $55.16 million jackpot in a Florida lottery last month. That prize went to a single winner. Saturday's California drawing climaxed a week of frenzied lotto ticket buying throughout the state, with gamblers wagering about $106 million, Taylor said. ``All these figures are records,'' Kossack added. Saturday's sales hit $39.5 million, officials said. At 6:32 p.m. Saturday, the high sales point, more than 86,000 tickets were being sold each minute. In the heaviest hour, from 5 p.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday, about 4.3 million of the $1 tickets were sold. The Saturday jackpot soared because on Wednesday, for the fourth consecutive time, nobody picked the six winning numbers between 1 and 49. Wednesday's $33.4 million jackpot was rolled over to the Saturday game and grew with each ticket sale. Residents of Nevada, which has legalized gambling but no state lottery, accounted for some of the sales, officials said. The busiest store Saturday was in the Sierra Nevada community of Truckee, 20 miles southwest west of Reno, Nev., with sales of $47,652. For the week, the busiest retailer was a store in Baker, 80 miles southwest of Las Vegas, that has only one lotto sales terminal but logged $162,014 in sales. Lottery tickets with five winning numbers plus the bonus number will pay $261,977 each to 29 players, while five numbers without the bonus will pay $3,742 each to 1,046 players, said Taylor. AP881030-0076 AP-NR-10-30-88 1937EST r a AM-TrailofTears 10-30 0422 AM-Trail of Tears,0432 Lack Of Cash Means Wagon Ride Over NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) A farmer representing Tennessee in the 1,000-mile Trail of Tears commemorative wagon train says he is having to drop out of the project because state officials failed to keep a promise of financial aid. State officials said no one promised any money. Norman Fowler, of Camden, said he returned home last week after entering Missouri because he simply couldn't afford to go on. ``The state said they would fund a Tennessee train, so I said I would do it,'' Fowler said. ``They kept saying to stay with it and the money would come, but it never did.'' The wagon train set out Sept. 17 from Red Clay, Tenn., for Talequah, Okla., to mark the 150th anniversary of the forced removal of Cherokee Indians from their homes in the East. By the journey's end, the train will have traveled through those states plus Kentucky, Illinois, Missouri and Arkansas. Luvenia Butler, executive director of the Tennessee Indian Commission, said Sunday no state official ever promised Fowler financial aid. ``He was a diabetic and he was getting sick and because there was no money, he physically wanted to come home,'' Butler said. ``No one on the behalf of the state of Tennessee has ever promised Norman Fowler a penny.'' She said one of the organizers of the project had promised Fowler the state would help. Fowler said he used about $2,000 of his own money and $1,000 in contributions, but needs about $8,000 to finish the journey, which is scheduled to end Dec. 3. ``I would like to rejoin them, and it's a shame Tennessee won't be represented,'' he said. ``But it gets expensive trying to keep up the wagon and animals, plus buying food and all.'' Felix Barnes of Nashville, national chairman of funding for the wagon train project, said he set up an account at Sovran Bank in Nashville to collect money for Fowler. ``It's unfortunate that he has to come home due to lack of funds after the governor of the state declared this year the year of the Native American Indian,'' Barnes said. ``Norman was losing $800 a week pay to do this and using his own money because he had pride in the project.'' Barnes said other wagoners periodically join the train, with as many as 40 wagons in the group at some times. He estimated that about 200 wagons would take part in the wagon train by the time the journey is over. AP881030-0077 AP-NR-10-30-88 1948EST r a AM-LotterySuit 10-30 0387 AM-Lottery Suit,0398 Winning Sisters Had Offered $1 Million, Attorney Says INDIANTOWN, Fla. (AP) Two sisters who shared a $31.5 million Florida Lottery jackpot have suddenly found themselves slapped with a lawsuit by the ex-husband of one of the women, and the man says all the money is his. Ellen Snipes and Maxine Johnson produced the winning ticket for the Oct. 22 drawing. They had made a weekly routine of playing the Lotto, contributing $5 each every week. But Lewis Snipes argues that he bought and paid for the winning Lotto ticket, and his attorney filed a suit Friday saying his client deserves the whole jackpot, the state's third-largest. The sisters, unnerved by the first legal battle over Florida Lotto winnings since the weekly drawing began last spring, have left Indiantown for security reasons, attorney Tim Morell said Saturday. He represents Mrs. Snipes and Mrs. Johnson and her husband Bill. By all accounts, Snipes coaxed his ex-wife into playing the game Oct. 22, picked numbers off her old paycheck stub and drove to a store to buy the tickets. His suit says he bought $15 worth of tickets for himself, then made a special trip to buy, with his own money, $10 worth of tickets for his ex-wife and her sister. Morell said Mrs. Snipes realizes her ex-husband was the driving force behind her multimillion-dollar windfall. The sisters offered Snipes more than $1 million, their attorney said, but he said the sisters did so out of gratitude, not legal obligation. ``He would have been a wealthy man. But that wasn't enough,'' Morell said. The Snipeses were married in 1980 and divorced in 1982, but friends and family say they remain close. As recently as Tuesday, when the Johnsons and Snipeses went to Tallahassee to verify the winnings, their relationship was amicable. But by the end of the week, Snipes' attorney, Andrew Coutant, had asked Martin County Circuit Court for an emergency order to stop distribution of the money until a settlement is reached. The first of 20 annual payments of $1,570,000 is scheduled to be wired to the First National Bank of Indiantown on Wednesday. ``It's frightening what happens when you get into this sort of thing,'' Morell said. ``You want your life to be the same. But that's just not the way it is.'' AP881030-0078 AP-NR-10-30-88 1951EST r p AM-BRF--DemocraticBreak-in 10-30 0170 AM-BRF--Democratic Break-in,160 Break-In At Building That Houses Vermont Dukakis Headquarters MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) Vandals broke into the building that houses the Vermont campaign offices of Democrat Michael Dukakis, and put up bumper stickers that said ``Smart Democrats Vote Republican,'' a campaign official said Sunday. The Dukakis campaign offices themselves were not entered, but 15 to 20 bumper stickers were put on walls in the halls, and posters were ripped down and cut in half, said state campaign head Andre Oliver. ``I don't think this type of thing is called for,'' Oliver said. ``In terms of negative campaigning, it certainly should be stopped.'' Oliver discovered the vandalism at the Burlington building early Sunday and discussed the incident with Bush campaign representative Steve Watson, who said the Bush campaign had nothing to do with it. Watson said he and Oliver agreed that sometimes it may be difficult to ``contain the enthusiasm'' of campaign volunteers. Watson said he and Oliver would urge their volunteers not to engage in such behavior. AP881030-0079 AP-NR-10-30-88 1953EST r a AM-People-Jackson 10-30 0089 AM-People-Jackson,0091 Michael Jackson Down With Flu, Will Miss Three Concerts TACOMA, Wash. (AP) Michael Jackson was forced to cancel three concerts this week because he's suffering from the flu, his publicist said Sunday. Michael Mitchell, the singer's publicist, said the decision to cancel the three shows at the Tacoma Dome was made on the advice of Jackson's physician and after consulation with Jackson's personal manager, Frank DiLeo. Tacoma Dome spokeswoman Diane Brignone on Sunday confirmed that the shows scheduled for Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday were canceled. AP881030-0080 AP-NR-10-30-88 2007EST r a AM-Devil'sNight 10-30 0434 AM-Devil's Night,0448 20,000 Detroit Volunteers Hit Streets to Quell Annual Devil's Night Fires DETROIT (AP) An army of 20,000 citizen volunteers joined city employees Sunday in patrolling the streets to combat the outbreak of arson that has become traditional here on the night before Halloween, dubbed Devil's Night. Elsewhere, fights broke out and beer cans flew during a two-day pre-Halloween festival in Carbondale, Ill., where police arrested nearly 200 people. The volunteer force, including members of 46 citizens band radio clubs, block clubs and other organizations, was twice as large as the group of volunteers deployed in the past few years, said Robert Berg, a spokesman for Mayor Coleman A. Young. The volunteers joined 750 Department of Public Works employees and 150 department heads, staff members and other mayoral appointees patrolling Detroit streets in city vehicles equipped with fire extinguishers, Berg said. ``They're not going to enter a burning building,'' Berg said of the city workers. ``But they can use the fire extinguishers to put out fires in Dumpsters and the like.'' A 6 p.m. to 6 a.m. curfew for children 18 and under took effect Saturday night and would continue through Tuesday night. Police picked up 278 minors Saturday night on curfew violation charges, Buck said. Last year, police arrested 496 youths who defied a similar curfew to wander the streets. The number of deliberately set fires during the Devil's Night weekend would not be available until Tuesday or Wednesday, Berg said. He said the Detroit Fire Department handles 65 to 70 fires on an average Saturday night. No arson-related arrests were reported Friday or Saturday, said Sgt. Christopher Buck, a police spokesman. The pre-Halloween arson binge first erupted in 1984 with 810 fires that killed one person and left dozens homeless. The number of fires has declined each year since then; last year 290 fires were started during the two-day holiday weekend. Young said he hoped the army of arson stoppers and anti-Devil's Night publicity would douse the dangerous tradition. Children wanting to go treat-or-treating Monday must be accompanied by a parent or legal guardian, police said. In Illinois, more than 15,000 people, including thousands of students from Southern Illinois University in Carbondale and other area colleges, roamed closed streets Friday and Saturday nights for the annual Halloween Festival Days, said Carbondale police Sgt. William Holmes. A total of 192 people, many in costume, were arrested by the festival's end at 4 a.m. Sunday. One stabbing was reported but the victim was not seriously injured, and most of the arrests were for underage drinking or reckless conduct, police said. AP881030-0081 AP-NR-10-30-88 2048EST r w AM-CompositionCompetition 10-30 0211 AM-Composition Competition,200 New York Man Receives Top Honors For Orchestral Composition WASHINGTON (AP) A New York man took top honors Sunday in an orchestral competition for American composers, winning $5,000 in the 11th annual Kennedy Center Friedheim Awards. Christopher Rouse of Fairport, N.Y., won first prize for his Symphony No. 1, commissioned for the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra and first performed in Baltimore last January. Ninety-six works had been submitted for the 1988 competition, of which the top four compositions were performed Sunday at the Kennedy Center Concert Hall. A three-member jury made its final rankings on the four entries after the performance. Second prize went to George Rochberg of Square, Pa., who was awarded $2,500 for his Symphony No. 6, commissioned for the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra by the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. Third prize of $1,000 was awarded to Stephen Paulus, of St. Paul, Minn., for his Violin Concerto, commissioned by the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. Fourth prize of $500 was awarded to Joan Tower, of New York City, for her ``Silver Ladders,'' commissioned by the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra. The awards are named for the late Arthur Friedheim, a pianist, composer and teacher, and were established by the Kennedy Center and the Eric Friedheim Foundation in 1978. AP881030-0082 AP-NR-10-30-88 2049EST r a AM-KegDeath 10-30 0260 AM-Keg Death,0267 Man Dies When Keg Explodes DANBURY, N.H. (AP) An empty beer keg thrown onto a campfire exploded Sunday, killing a man at his birthday party in the second such death reported this month. Chris John Widebech, who turned 21 on Friday, had been with more than a dozen friends from his hometown, Northborough, Mass., when the aluminum keg exploded at 12:45 a.m. and a piece struck him in the head, said Danbury Police Chief Stephen Corsetti. Widebech died at the scene. Nobody else was injured. Corsetti said the friends had gathered for the weekend at a cottage owned by Phillip Giroux, 26, of Northborough. His birthday also was Friday. ``The weekend was planned as a birthday celebration for the two individuals,'' Corsetti said. Corsetti would not say who put the keg into the fire. It wasn't Widebech, though he was standing near the fire and knew the keg was in there, Corsetti said. Some of the people at the party fled after the accident, but when police arrived 11 remained, three or four of whom were under 21 years old, Corsetti said. He said Giroux was charged with illegally providing them alcohol. A 22-year-old man was killed in Albany, N.Y., on Oct. 24 when a beer keg placed on a bonfire exploded. A piece of metal severed the spinal cord of Patrick Viola of Niskayuna, N.Y. In that case, officials said the fire caused a quart of beer that remained in the keg to boil, and steam and pressure built up until the keg exploded. AP881030-0083 AP-NR-10-30-88 2054EST r a AM-CruiseMissiles 10-30 0163 AM-Cruise Missiles,0167 Two Anti-Ship Missiles Successfully Launched POINT MUGU, Calif. (AP) Two Navy Tomahawk anti-ship cruise missiles launched from ships off Southern California during the weekend flew hundreds of miles to target ships and were recovered, an official said Sunday. A fully guided missile was launched at 2:45 p.m. Sunday, flew about 250 miles to a target hulk and went on to a recovery area on San Clemente Island,said Ray Lucasey, spokesman for the Pacific Missile Test Center. Another missile was launched at 2:50 p.m. Saturday and flew a similar mission against another target hulk, Lucasey said. ``They were successful in terms of their launching on time and recovery but we like to do in-depth studies of the launches before we determine whether the entire mission was a success,'' Lucasey said. The Tomahawk anti-ship missile can inflict heavy damage with its single conventional warhead. Its wide-area search capability enhances the ability to successfully target and attack enemy ships, Lucasey said. AP881030-0084 AP-NR-10-30-88 2100EST r i AM-Sweden-Palme 10-30 0381 AM-Sweden-Palme,0394 Criticize book about Palme assassination STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AP) Police on Sunday criticized a book written by a former police commissioner who once led the investigation into the assassination in 1986 of Prime Minister Olof Palme. The newspaper Expressen carried a report based on information from Hans Holmer's book ``Olof Palme Is Shot,'' which is scheduled for distribution soon. Holmer resigned as police commissioner late in 1986 during disputes with prosecutors about the fruitless search for Palme's killers. Formal inquiries claimed police blunders had hampered the investigation, and some prosecutors said the police commissioner had too much influence over the case. ``In a murder investigation it is necessary to have secret material,'' said Ingvar Eriksson, spokesman for the units now involved in the investigation. ``It makes it easier to check witness accounts,'' he said. ``Here we have material never published before. We would have preferred it if he had never written that book.'' Prosecutor Jorgen Almblad, who is participating in the investigation, said one problem with the book is it might give people the wrong idea about the status of the case. ``Holmer's book could make many believe that what he writes is actually what the investigation is concentrating on,'' Almblad told Swedish national radio. The Exressen account deals with a 30-hour period before Palme was shot to death while walking with his wife along a street in downtown Stockholm on Feb. 25, 1986. Holmer wrote about information given by people questioned in the case, with some identified by name. He describes a carefully planned plot by a small group and claims Palme was shadowed by a muscular blond man the day before the murder. According to Holmer, members of the group had been waiting for weeks for the right moment, and when Palme walked unguarded with his wife Lisbet to a theater, ``the conditions were perfect. They had two hours to plan the murder.'' Holmer wrote that a gunman and accomplices with walkie-talkie radios and escape cars were waiting as the Palmes left the the theater and the killer came up from behind them, shot the prime minister and fled down a dark side street. Police sources said recently investigators were following several leads, including the possibilty that an insane man operating along might have killed Palme. AP881030-0085 AP-NR-10-30-88 2125EST r i AM-Afghanistan 10-30 0635 AM-Afghanistan,0656 Afghanistan's President Seeks International Talks On Demilitarization MOSCOW (AP) The president of Afghanistan's Soviet-backed government called for an international conference to oversee the complete demilitarization of his country, which has been torn apart by a 10-year civil war, Tass reported. The Soviet news agency said President Najib, in a speech Saturday to the National Council, or parliament, also dismissed reports that he would step down soon. ``Taking into consideration that a large amount of various weapons have accumulated in the country over the 10 years of war, and with a view to establishing a lasting peace, such a conference can discuss the question of demilitarization of the republic of Afghanistan,'' Tass said in a dispatch late Saturday. Najib called for ``the gathering of all weapons available there and their transfer to the respective producer countries,'' Tass said. Najib requested that U.N. Secretary-General Javier Perez de Cuellar prepare for a conference. Najib's Soviet-back government is fighting U.S.-backed anti-Marxist insurgents operating from bases in neighboring Pakistan. In a separate report, Tass quoted the official Afghan news agency Bakhtar as saying 170 guerrillas were killed in recent fighting with government soliders. The Soviet Union sent soldiers to Afghanistan in December 1979, who replaced one pro-Soviet government with another and then remained to fight the insurgents. Under a U.N.-sponsored agreement signed in Geneva on April 14, the 100,000 Soviet soldiers are to be withdrawn by Feb. 15. Half the force was removed by Aug. 15. But the Soviet Union and Afghanistan accuse the United States and Pakistan of violating a pledge in the Geneva agreement to stop interfering in Afghanistan. Najib told the parliament his country would request an urgent meeting of the U.N. Security Council ``to consider the question of the threat to the territorial integrity and national sovereignty ... which has developed as a result of Pakistan's interference and violation of the Geneva agreements.'' An international conference also could ``endorse and consolidate Afghanistan's status as a non-aligned and neutral country,'' develop a program of economic and humanitarian aid and work out guarantees for the observance of human rights, Najib said. Tass said Najib ``strongly dismissed'' rumors that he would resign soon, saying he ``would never abandon the work for peace and security.'' Western diplomats have reported rumors in recent weeks that Najib might be forced to step down by the Soviets to pave the way for a government headed by a figure not connected with the ruling People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan. Soviet and Afghan officials have said they believe that a neutral political leader might encourage a truce with the Moslem insurgents, who have refused any power sharing deals with the Communists. Najib also reportedly is threatened from within his own party in the traditional rift between his urban Parcham wing and the rural Khalq which dominates the military. Tass quoted Bakhtar as saying government soldiers routed three bands of guerrillas in the area of Tur Kotal on Friday, killing 70 and wounding more than 100. Another 100 insurgents were killed in fighting in Kunduz and Nangarhar provinces, Tass said. It quoted Bakhtar as saying two American, five Pakistani and five people from unidentified Arab countries who were advising the rebels were killed. It did not elaborate. Insurgent groups have been stepping up pressure on provincial capitals and on the national capital Kabul itself as the Soviet soldiers withdraw and Afghan government forces are left to defend the cities. Shelling and rocket attacks have increased dramatically. U.S. officials in Washington said Saturday that the Soviet Union may be violating the Geneva agreement by deploying up to 30 high-performance MiG-27 ground support planes in western Afghanistan. The U.S. officials said the Soviet Union has pledged only to protect its own soldiers from attack, but that the MiG-27s can be used for offensive operations. AP881030-0086 AP-NR-10-30-88 2140EST r i AM-Angola 10-30 0329 AM-Angola,0338 Angolan Rebels Say They Killed Seven Government Troops And Two Cubans LISBON, Portugal (AP) Angola's UNITA rebels said Sunday they killed two Cuban and seven Angolan soldiers in a commando operation in the central city of Huambo. UNITA, the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola, said in a statement distributed in Lisbon that three workshops, three arms dumps and two fuel deposits were destroyed in the raid Wednesday. But the official Angolan news agency ANGOP, apparently referring to the same attack in a report monitored in Lisbon on Saturday, said a bomb planted by UNITA in Huambo on Wednesday killed two civilians and partially destroyed a house, two warehouses and a printing shop. UNITA, backed by South Africa and the United States, has been fighting since 1975 to force the Soviet- and Cuban-backed Angolan government to share power. UNITA also said it used a bomb Wednesday to destroy a train carrying arms in the southwestern province of Huila. It said 532 civilians held by government troops were freed in a rebel attack Tuesday in northern Malange province. In a separate development, the independent Portuguese weekly Expresso Saturday quoted an unidentified, well-informed source in the Angolan capital, Luanda, as saying South African forces were preparing a military operation against southern Angola aimed at recovering air supremacy in the region. The report said South African forces would be equipped with long-range artillery and sophisticated Lavi aircraft. It said South African forces lost superiority in the air when fighting Cuban-backed Angolan forces for the strategic southern town of Cuito-Cuanavale this year. The report could not be confirmed. South Africa forces, which have fought in southern Angola in support of UNITA, withdrew across the border into South African-ruled South-West Africa at the end of August as part of cease-fire agreement that emerged from U.S.-mediated peace talks among Angola, Cuba and South Africa. UNITA is not participating in the talks and is not a party to the cease-fire. AP881030-0087 AP-NR-10-30-88 2151EST r a BC-Theater 10-30 0623 BC-Theater,0636 John Patrick Shanley's `Italian American Reconciliation' Opens Off-Broadway Eds: No PMs planned; `the dreamer examines his pillow' CQ 3rd graf. By MICHAEL KUCHWARA AP Drama Critic NEW YORK (AP) Life with Janice meant heartache, screaming, bad food and a dead dog. Still, Huey Maximilian Bonfigliano wants an ``Italian American Reconciliation'' with his ex-wife, even after that last straw _ her shooting of his favorite pooch with a zip gun. It's also the title of John Patrick Shanley's promising if messy romantic comedy which opened Sunday at Manhattan Theater Club's Stage II. Shanley's plays always have generated more heat than light. Romantic warfare has been at the center of his ``Danny and the Deep Blue Sea,'' a dramatic apache dance that ends with two exhausted lovers; ``Savage in Limbo,'' a blue-collar battle in a Bronx bar, and ``the dreamer examines his pillow,'' a three-character struggle between a father, his daughter and her boyfriend. Shanley's latest effort takes place in a romanticized Little Italy where people always seem to be slurping minestrone and where Perry Como, Mario Lanza and Puccini play in the background. If you think the setting sounds a little like the movie ``Moonstruck,'' you're right. Shanley won an Oscar for his screenplay. Only ``Italian American Reconciliation'' doesn't have the steady hand of director Norman Jewison to guide it through its shakiest moments. The play focuses on Huey's attempt to win back Janice with the help of his best friend, Aldo Scalicki. Aldo serves as the play's narrator, bantering with the audience before the lights go down and explaining the dramatic situations before they happen. He's also one of the play's problems. He's more interesting than any of the people he is talking about, particularly because of John Turturro's winning performance that mixes macho and meekness. Huey is something of a cipher, while Janice is something of a psychotic. It's not the fault of actors John Pankow and Jayne Haynes that their characters simply are not as compelling and believable as the person who tells their story. There are other, better written plot complications. Before he can reconcile with Janice, Huey must dump Teresa, a pretty waitress who really loves him. Aldo thinks Huey should stay on with Teresa so he decides to seduce Janice himself. The attempted seduction is played out on a moonlit, ivy-covered balcony designed by Santo Loquasto. The scene provides Turturro with a great opportunity to display some terrific physical comedy. As Teresa, Laura San Giacomo possesses a sweetness that would seem to make her a clear winner in any contest with the shrewish and violent Janice. Teresa is guided in her dealings with Huey by her Aunt May played by a wonderful character actress named Helen Hanft. Shanley has an ear for argument. His banter is tough and often funny. He can make exasperation sound like fun. There is one blissful moment in the second act when Aunt May and Aldo discuss his fear of women. Characters and dialogue mesh for an inspired bit of lunacy as Aunt May tells him how to overcome his problem. But the author also directed the play, and he allows it to ramble, particularly in the opening scenes when Huey expounds on his romantic dilemma to Aldo. It doesn't work. And Janice's severity is never explained adequately. Shanley chalks up her troubles to her father _ the same source of Aldo's problems _ but the explanation is never convincing for such a strong-willed woman. There still is work to be done on ``Italian American Reconciliation.'' The playwright has created an affectionate and atmospheric tale of the search for love. But his searchers need to be more defined and persuasively drawn before it can be considered a complete success. AP881030-0088 AP-NR-10-30-88 2151EST r i AM-Salvador-Military 1stLd-Writethru 10-30 0478 AM-Salvador-Military, 1st Ld-Writethru,a0738,0491 Military Chief Steps Down, U.S. Advisers Like Replacement EDS: INSERTS two grafs after 9th, `The U.S.-backed...' to UPDATE with rebel leaders to meet archbishop on future peace talks. Pick up 10th pvs, `Blandon said...' By ANNIE CABRERA Associated Press Writer SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) The nation's top-ranking military commander, Gen. Adolfo Blandon, said he is stepping down. His replacement is a combat veteran popular with U.S. military advisers. Blandon said late Saturday that he will be succeeded by Col. Rene Emilio Ponce, a 41-year-old brigade commander. Ponce was singled out as an exceptional commander by four U.S. Army lieutenant colonels earlier this year in a Harvard fellowship analysis of the Salvadoran civil war. He has said victory in that war will go to those who gain the loyalty of the poor. ``We cannot think that solely by military means we are going to resolve this war,'' Ponce said this year. ``Even if we kill all the subversives, the problem will not end. Such deplorable socio-economic conditions would remain that it (insurgency) could easily revive.'' Blandon, 48, said he was appointed El Salvador's military attache in France, effective Nov. 1. Named head of the joint chiefs of staff in November 1983, he had been expected to step down by year's end. He made his announcement in a local television interview broadcast Saturday. He said his transfer ``is not related to the political situation. It is necessary to open spaces for new generations.'' The U.S.-backed government and leftist rebels are mired in an eight-year civil war. Rebel and government negotiators have met three times, most recently in October 1987, in an unsuccessful bid to negotiate a cease-fire. On Sunday, two rebel commanders arrived in Panama City for talks with Monsignor Arturo Rivera y Damas, the Roman Catholic archbishop of San Salvador, on the possible resumption of peace talks. Joaquin Villalobos and Leonel Gonzalez said they would meet on Monday with Rivera y Damas and Monsignor Emile Stehle of West Germany. Stehle has participated as an observer in previous government-rebel talks. Blandon said the command change ``isn't going to bog us down or slow us. Colonel Ponce is very qualified and capable.'' Ponce commands the 3rd Infantry Brigade and belongs to the ``tandona,'' a tight-knit block of officers who have consolidated control of the armed forces in recent months. The colonels, who graduated together from the national military academy in 1966, hold more than half the military's 36 command posts. Blandon will leave the nation with a legacy of a larger military. He increased its size to 50,000 troops and accompanied President Jose Napoleon Duarte in meetings with rebel leaders. At the request of U.S. military advisers, Blandon has increased use of small strike forces against guerrillas rather than sweeping offensives. More than 65,000 Salvadorans, mostly civilians, have been killed in the civil war. AP881030-0089 AP-NR-10-30-88 2158EST r a AM-GangViolence 10-30 0311 AM-Gang Violence,0323 Anti-gang Sweep Nets 365 Arrests During Weekend LOS ANGELES (AP) A police anti-gang task force arrested 365 people during the weekend and wounded a man who allegedly shot another person during a party attended by gang members, authorities said Sunday. Elder Marvin Hernandez, 22, struck by four of the 28 shots fired by police, was in critical condition at County-USC Medical Center, said hospital spokeswoman Norka Manning. Three officers responding to a shooting outside a party in the Rampart District about 10:45 p.m. Saturday found Hernandez allegedly shooting at a 17-year-old, said Detective Sid Nuckles. The teen-ager was treated for a minor wound, police said. It was not immediately known if Hernandez or the teen-ager were gang members but police said gang members attended the party. When Hernandez ignored orders to stop shooting, police opened fire, striking him in both hands, the abdomen and the right forearm, Nuckles said. In another incident, two men in a car fired at least six shots at a reputed gang member and a woman early Sunday, police said. The woman was taken to Martin Luther King Jr.-Drew Medical Center with a shotgun wound to the abdomen, said Officer Charles S. Walton. Her condition was unavailable. The man suffered minor injuries, Walton said. Of the 365 people arrested in the two-night sweep of the south-central area, 193 were reputed gang members, said Officer Richard Dugerian. ``This is definitely the most active gang area in the city,'' said Detective Vern King. ``Gang membership means social status here to some, and those are the ones we want to weed out.'' Officers impounded 36 vehicles and confiscated 10 guns, Dugerian said. Sgt. Clay Farrell characterized the sweep as successful. He said the task force action was not related to the Halloween weekend. ``These goblins don't need an excuse to do their mischief,'' he said. AP881030-0090 AP-NR-10-30-88 2212EST r i AM-Korea 10-30 0198 AM-Korea,0205 Students Throw Bombs Outside Former President's Home SEOUL, South Korea (AP) Sixteen radical students hurled homemade explosives and firebombs outside the home of former President Chun Doo-hwan at dawn Monday, injuring three policemen, police said. Police officials said the students, wielding metal pipes and wooden sticks, clashed with police who intercepted them while they approached Chun's residence in western Seoul. The officials said on condition of anonymity that the three policemen were taken to a hospital for serious injuries from fragments of the explosives. News reports said five students were injured, but the police officials said they knew of no student injuries. The radicals threw four homemade explosives and 20 gasoline bottle firebombs, but Chun's home was not damaged, the officials said. They said 12 students were arrested and that they claimed they belonged to a ``suicide squad'' formed to demand the arrest and punishment of Chun and his wife for alleged corruption during his seven-year rule. He left office in February. Anti-government students stepped up their demand for the arrest of the Chuns by holding demonstrations last week while the opposition-dominated National Assembly probed into the Chun family's allegedly illegal amassing of money. AP881030-0091 AP-NR-10-30-88 2250EST u i AM-Israel 9thLd-Writethru 10-30 0924 AM-Israel, 9th Ld-Writethru,a0798,0951 Palestinian Firebombing Kills Israeli Woman And Her Three Children EDS: SUBS 4th graf, `The deaths...' to ADD that this is largest Israeli death toll in single attack. By NICOLAS B. TATRO Associated Press Writer JERUSALEM (AP) Palestinians ambushed and firebombed a passenger bus in the occupied West Bank on Sunday night, killing an Israeli woman and her three children and injuring at least five other Israelis, the army said. An army communique early Monday said several Palestinians were arrested and soldiers were sweeping the area around Jericho, seven miles east of Jerusalem. A curfew was imposed on the biblical town of 6,000. Earlier, a Palestinian was killed and 21 others wounded in clashes between Israeli soldiers and Arab demonstrators in the West Bank and occupied Gaza Strip. The deaths raised the toll to 305 Palestinians and 10 Israelis killed in the Palestinian uprising against Israeli occupation. The bus attack caused the largest Israeli loss of life in a single incident since the violence began Dec. 8. The red-and-white bus was stopped by a barricade of stones on Jericho's outskirts, Israel radio said. Palestinians then hurled five firebombs at the bus, which was carrying about 20 people, most civilians. The bus was traveling from Tiberius on the Sea of Galilee to Jerusalem when it was halted about 8:15 p.m., the army said. Witnesses said it was engulfed in fire before the woman and her children, sitting in the rear, could be rescued. The army said the dead were from Tiberius. News reports said two of the children were infants. The army said five others were wounded, but Israel radio and the national news agency Itim said 11 Israelis were killed or wounded. The deaths, the worst shedding of Israeli blood since the Palestinian uprising began 10 months ago, came two days before Tuesday's Parliament elections. It could swing undecided votes to the right-wing Likud bloc of Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir, who has advocated a tougher line on dealing with the unrest. ``The murderous and criminal act is testimony to the trend towards more extremism on the part of the aggressors whose one desire is to kill and burn as many Jews as possible,'' Itim quoted Shamir as saying. Itim quoted Foreign Minister and Labor Party leader Shimon Peres, his election rival, as saying that such attacks unite the nation into ``one family.'' ``Neither terrorism nor violence will determine our path. We will determine our path,'' he said. ``Deeds such as tonight's tear at the heart and provide nothing in the way of hope or a solution.'' Israel radio broadcast an interview with a soldier aboard the bus it identified only as Sgt. Ron, 21. ``I heard the sounds of a woman. I approached her, and grabbed her with one hand. I said, `Come out with me.' She absolutely refused,'' said the soldier. ``She said, `But I have a baby, what about the baby.' After a few seconds, I realized that if I remained one more second (I would be killed). ... I escaped with the last bit of energy.'' Itim said the soldier, who suffered a burn on his ear, also was unable to rescue another infant. Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Dan Shomron rushed to the site, and soldiers combed nearby fields and citrus groves. Helicopters took the wounded to hospitals, where some were reported in serious condition. Extra soldiers have been deployed throughout the territories for fear the parliamentary elections would bring even more violence. Underground Palestinian leaders called a general strike Tuesday to coincide with the elections, and they joined Moslem fundamentalists urging another strike Wednesday. An army spokesman said a Palestinian teen-ager died when soldiers fired plastic bullets on youths demonstrating in the West Bank Christian village of Beit Sahur, the site of the fields where the Bible says shepherds first learned of the birth of Jesus. Village residents said Iyad Bishara Abu Sada, 18, was shot in the chest with a plastic bullet and died instantly. A second Palestinian was reported shot in the right arm. Rioters set fires, and troops declared the village a closed military area and ordered reporters out. Palestinians took to the streets of Bethlehem to protest the death. Women marched and chanted ``PLO, PLO, Israel no,'' and troops ordered rock blockades cleared from roads. In the Gaza Strip, 18 Palestinians ranging in age from 12 to 70 were shot by soldiers, hospital officials said. The army said it had reports of six woundings in the Gaza Strip and was checking the other reports. Two Palestinians aged 12 and 14 were wounded when Israeli troops fired on stone-throwers in the village of Salem near Nablus, the West Bank's largest city, Arab reporters said. They said the 12-year-old was shot in the head. Palestinians also said they found the body of a young Arab, shot in the head, in a water barrel Sunday in the West Bank village of Rujib. Soldiers opened fire there to put down rioting a day earlier and wounded at least six Palestinians. The army said it was investigating. Also Sunday, a military spokesman said Israeli troops in southern Lebanon shot and killed a Lebanese man in the mistaken belief he was a guerrilla. Israel radio said the dead man had been hunting foxes at night with a companion when he was shot Friday in Majdal Zoun. The village lies about 10 miles north of the Israeli border in the ``security zone'' Israel declared after it pulled most of its invasion forces out of Lebanon in 1985. AP881030-0092 AP-NR-10-30-88 2256EST r p AM-ChicagoMayoral 1stLd-Writethru a0817 10-30 0274 AM-Chicago Mayoral, 1st Ld - Writethru, a0817,0275 Timothy Evans, Protege of Harold Washington, Joins Mayoral Race Eds: Subs 2nd graf to CORRECT characterization of neighborhood. CHICAGO (AP) Alderman Timothy Evans, a protege of the late Harold Washington, returned to the spot where the city's first black mayor launched his campaign in 1982 to declare Sunday that he would run for mayor. ``Harold Washington stood on this very spot and made an announcement that would change Chicago forever,'' Evans said at a hotel in his South Side neighborhood. ``He looked out and saw a Chicago still in the grip of a powerful machine,'' Evans said of the mayor he served as floor leader in the City Council from 1983 until his death last year. ``He set out to destroy (the Democratic machine) at long last to bring reform to the city of Chicago. ``We are here today because together we ... still share the vision that he shared with this city, a vision based on principle, not on personality,'' Evans said. He is joining a crowded Democratic primary field that includes Aldermen Edward Burke, Lawrence Bloom, Danny Davis, former Alderman Aloysius Majerczyk, former parks chief Ed Kelly, and Eugene Sawyer, the acting mayor. Burke, Bloom, Kelly and Majerczyk are white. Davis, Evans and Sawyer are black. Sawyer and some others have been trying to convince black candidates that only one black should run. Sawyer was picked by his City Council colleagues last December to temporarily replace Washington, and voters in April will choose a mayor who will serve the last two years of Washington's four-year term. Primaries will be held in February. AP881030-0093 AP-NR-10-30-88 2305EST u a AM-Reagan 1stLd-Writethru a0775 10-30 0679 AM-Reagan, 1st Ld-Writethru, a0775,660 Reagan Vows Support For Israel Eds: SUBS 2nd graf to show speech was delivered. By SUSANNE M. SCHAFER Associated Press Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) President Reagan vowed Sunday that America will never forget the lessons of the Holocaust, pledging unswerving support for Israel and to ``use force'' against any threat of fascism. ``We must defend ourselves against the evil of totalitarianism,'' Reagan said in a speech to members of the Simon Wiesenthal Center at its annual awards banquet. ``We must remain strong and we must be willing to use force when we are under threat. This is a lesson that binds us still closer to the state of Israel, for the fact is, a strong Israel depends upon a strong America,'' Reagan said. ``An America that loses faith in the idea of a strong defense is an America that will lose faith in a nation at arms like Israel,'' Reagan said. Declaring that ``monsters'' were responsible for the Holocaust, Reagan said ``the mind reels from the enormity of the crime _ it begs to be set free from so terrible a fact, to wipe it from the memory. ``But people like Simon Wiesenthal have made us understand that we must not, we cannot, we will not,'' Reagan pledged. The organization was founded in 1977 and named after the famed Nazi-hunter. It is dedicated to preserving the memory of the Holocaust, through which millions of Jews died at the hands of Adolf Hitler's Nazis. The group presented Reagan with its 1988 Humanitarian Award in recognition of his commitment to Israel, his work in defense of human rights, on behalf of Soviet Jewry and the signing of the arms reduction treaty with the Soviet Union, the White House said. It also presented a separate and first-ever award to Nancy Reagan for her anti-drug abuse work among the nation's youth. In his address, Reagan lauded Wiesenthal, who was celebrating his 80th birthday at the event. Arrested by Nazi forces in 1941, Wiesenthal escaped twice from concentration camps and was liberated by American forces in 1945. He and his wife, Cyla, were the only two of 91 family members to survive the Holocaust, the White House said. ``But out of the ashes of the Holocaust there came a good thing, a great thing, called the state of Israel. And like Simon Wiesenthal, the animating principles of the state of Israel are justice and law tempered with compassion _ yes, the very principles of Judaism itself,'' Reagan said, adding, ``And we Americans, with our Judeo-Christian heritage, have no better friends than the people of Israel.'' Reagan, contending that his administration has made the ties that bind America and Israel ``warmer than they ever have been,'' also used the occasion to insert a political note. Contending that his administration has kept its pledge to make sure Israel retained ``its qualitative edge in the Middle East,'' Reagan noted that ``this record of friendship and fealty moved the Democratic mayor of New York City to say ... that our administration was the best friend Israel has ever had in the White House.'' Reagan did not refer to Mayor Ed Koch by name. The president also put in a call for a negotiated settlement to the Middle East's turmoil. ``That same strength and resolve _ coupled with diplomatic vision and a commitment to political reconciliation _ are essential if Israel is to help achieve a negotiated settlement among the war-weary peoples of the Middle East,'' he said. Reagan and his wife, who spent the weekend at their 688-acre Santa Barbara ranch, were remaining in Los Angeles on Monday. The president was scheduled to make some campaign commercials and attend meetings dealing with his presidential library. On Tuesday, Reagan renews his cross-country political travels on behalf of Vice President George Bush, making appearances in Fullerton and San Bernardino in California, and Reno, Nev., and flying on to Milwaukee later in the day. Before returning to Washington on Wednesday, the president also planned to address a Bush rally at Baldwin-Wallace College in Cleveland. AP881030-0094 AP-NR-10-30-88 2309EST r a AM-BRF--TrooperShot 10-30 0154 AM-BRF--Trooper Shot,0158 Trooper Found Dead in Patrol Car in Lake DILLON, S.C. (AP) A motorist Sunday found a state Highway Patrol trooper shot to death in his patrol car, which was partly submerged in a lake, authorities said. Trooper George Tillman Radford, 41, was shot once behind the head, said Dinah Widder, a spokeswoman for Patrol Capt. John C. Garrison in Florence. Radford stopped someone for a traffic violation about 10:45 p.m. Saturday, and was killed sometime after that, officials said. His body was found at 8 a.m. Sunday, but his gun and summons book were missing, said Garrison. ``He was a good, hardworking individual, dedicated to law enforcement. This is a very tragic situation, because when you kill a police officer, you're actually killing a part of society,'' Garrison said. ``It was a needless, senseless murder.'' An autopsy was being conducted as part of a State Law Enforcement Division investigation. AP881030-0095 AP-NR-10-30-88 2324EST r a BC-Dance 10-30 0437 BC-Dance,0455 1932 Balanchine Ballet Reconstructed by Joffrey Ballet Eds: No PMs planned By MARY CAMPBELL Associated Press Writer NEW YORK (AP) A remarkable reconstruction of a 1932 George Balanchine ballet from 1932 has been done for and by the Joffrey Ballet. It's as though pieces of a jigsaw puzzle carried to four continents were hunted down and put back together. However, on seeing ``Cotillon'' (The Ball) Sunday night at the City Center, the story of the reconstruction seemed more interesting than the ballet. It's a narrative ballet that presents incidents but doesn't tell a story, name any character or sustain one mood. Many of Balanchine's movement motifs in it were not carried into his later work. In the ballet, a young girl, Tina LeBlanc, is primping in the ballroom. A young man, the quicksilver Edward Stierle, comes in. They dance. Guests enter. Jerel Hilding, the master of ceremonies, rushes in late. When he's on stage, flirting or dancing, he looks simultaneously harried, dashing and goofy. Two men carry in a pole from which hangs a curtain. Glenn Edgerton enters. Women's white-gloved hands appear above the curtain. He's to choose a partner but a black-gloved hand _ Beatriz Rodriguez as Fate _ grabs him. She twirls around him in interesting variations. In a lesser choreographer, this would be just posturing. Balanchine also adds an undercurrent of menace. Five groups of three women dance in a wheel. The young girl tells fortunes by looking at gloved palms, sees an ominous one. The dance ends with the young girl dancing and two circles, the men and the women, going around her. Robert Joffrey, who died earlier this year, worked toward reconstruction of ``Cotillon'' for 10 years. It was one of three ballets that Balanchine created for the Ballets Russes when it was reorganized in Monte Carlo in 1932. Except for the Hand of Fate pas de deux, which Roman Jasinski had danced and later staged for the Tulsa Ballet Theater, it hadn't been danced since the early 1940s. Drs. Millicent Hodson and Kenneth Archer went to Indianapolis, Seattle, Los Angeles, Tulsa, Paris, Switzerland, England and Buenos Aires to talk with people and look at scrapbooks about conducting the Chabrier music, the steps, sequences, scenery, costumes, props, entrances and exits, hair styles, lighting, etc. Two amateurs had filmed parts of the ballet, one in New York, the other in Australia. So it was carefully pieced together. We're glad to have another Balanchine ballet in existence and wish we felt less ``so what'' about it. The company also danced ``The Dream'' and ``La Vivandiere Pas de Six'' on Sunday. AP881030-0096 AP-NR-10-30-88 1604EST r a AM-DigestBriefs 10-30 1109 AM-Digest Briefs,1157 By The Associated Press BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (AP) Democratic nominee Michael Dukakis, brimming with confidence in his surging candidacy, said Sunday he's got Republican rival George Bush on the run, while a Bush ally raised questions about the vice president's promise not to raise taxes. Kicking off a day-long train tour through California's Central Valley, Dukakis sounded more like a front-runner than an underdog. He predicted he would overtake Bush before the Nov. 8 election and, after weeks of being hammered by Republicans for being a liberal, he defiantly declared: ``Yes, I'm a liberal in the tradition of Franklin Roosevelt and and Harry Truman and John Kennedy.'' Recent public opinion polls show Dukakis closing fast on Bush in several key states including California, a must-win state where Dukakis aides said an 11-point Bush lead a week ago has shrunk to a virtual tie. WASHINGON (AP) Even as Michael Dukakis insists there is time to score an upset in the Nov. 8 balloting, many Democrats already are second-guessing his campaign strategy in anticipation of another national election defeat. ``After the election this may be the campaign considered the worst managed in this century,'' said Democratic Sen. Terry Sanford of North Carolina. Like many people in his party, Sanford insisted he thought Dukakis still had a chance to defeat Republican nominee George Bush, but he didn't sound overly optimistic. ``I'd bet money on it,'' he said of the chances of a Dukakis upset. ``But I wouldn't bet my law license on it.'' MANAMA, Bahrain (AP) The United States plans to withdraw its first warship from the Persian Gulf this week, U.S. sources said Sunday, in a move that reflects confidence in the Iran-Iraq truce. The sources said the vessel will leave barring a last-minute change in plans. It would be the first warship withdrawn since Iran and Iraq agreed to an Aug. 20 cease-fire in their eight-year war. The 3,600-ton missile frigate, the USS Rodney M. Davis, will be officially detached from gulf duty on Tuesday, said the sources on condition of anonymity. It will sail for its home port in Yokosuka, Japan, they said. In Washington, Pentagon spokesman Maj. Mike Stepp refused comment. NEW YORK (AP) Former Philippine first lady Imelda Marcos arrived by luxury jet and limousine along with her entourage Sunday to face arraignment on federal charges she and her husband looted their homeland of $100 million. Mrs. Marcos' flight aboard the borrowed private jet from Honolulu was the first time she had left the couple's home in exile since she and former President Ferdinand Marcos fled the Philippines nearly three years ago. In Manhattan, she remained in her limousine for several minutes before bodyguards could reach her to help push through a crowd of about 100 journalists for a 10-yard walk to the Waldorf Towers, where she will stay. WASHINGTON (AP) The Reagan administration is expected to relax some diplomatic and trade restrictions against North Korea early this week as part of a coordinated strategy with South Korea to ease tensions on the peninsula, according to U.S. officials. Although modest, the moves are believed to be the most extensive the United States has adopted toward North Korea since the Korean armistice was signed 35 years ago. An official announcement could come as erly as Monday. The officials said the U.S. trade embargo against North Korea, one of the tightest in the world, will be relaxed, possibly to remove the ban on the sale of U.S. medical supplies to North Korea. There also may be an easing on currency exchanges with North Koreans. BEIT SAHUR, Occupied West Bank (AP) Israeli troops shot and killed a Palestinian on Sunday, and hospital officials and Arab sources said at least 21 Palestinians were wounded by army gunfire in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Extra soldiers were deployed throughout the territories for fear Tuesday's national elections would bring more violence. Troops in black berets were seen moving into a girls high school in Bethlehem. The military didn't say how many extra soldiers were put on patrol. Underground Palestinian leaders called a general strike Tuesday to coincide with the parliamentary elections, and they joined Moslem fundamentalists urging another strike for Wednesday. HONOLULU (AP) Savings institution executives, enduring their worst losses since the Depression, face critical decisions next year that will determine the future shape of their industry. In the first six months of 1988, the nation's 3,048 S&Ls, lost $7.5 billion. By year's end, losses will almost certainly surpass the previous record of $7.8 billion, set in 1987. Amid the tide of red ink, 4,050 S&L executives and their spouses gathered in the palm-ringed resort hotels along Waikiki Beach for the 96th annual convention of the U.S. League of Savings Institutions, the industry's oldest and largest trade group. In the opening session Monday, executives will begin mapping strategy for 1989, when Congress will consider whether taxpayers must pay to bail out the S&L deposit insurance fund, which so far has been industry-funded. WASHINGTON (AP) In a decision dismaying to power companies throughout the country, the government has told a Wisconsin utility that planned repairs to a coal-burning power plant will subject it to strict air pollution standards for new plants. Utilities are worried becase they fear the decision, the first of its kind, potentially could apply to hundreds of plants. The Energy Department says the decision could jeopardize future power supplies, but environmentalists have praised the action. Wisconsin Electric Power Co. and the Environmental Protection Agency, which made the decision, are discussing whether plans for the repairs can be changed to avoid making the new-plant standards apply. The facility involved is the Wisconsin firm's Port Washington plant in suburban Milwaukee. LONDON (AP) Prince Charles took on the architectural establishment in his own television documentary and gained a powerful vote of confidence from ordinary citizens, newspapers, and even some architects. A newspaper survey showed that more than 75 percent of Britons agreed with the prince's views that many architects and developers ignore people's wishes and build ugly, characterless buildings that are unpleasant to live in. However, Bill Rodgers, director general of The Royal Institute of British Architects, responded Sunday that ``there is too much hypocrisy ... and we are not going to allow architects to be made scapegoats.'' Charles' maiden venture into television writing and performing was an outspoken and often humorous look at modern architecture, which he has ridiculed for years. He has angered leading architects and raised complaints that a member of the royal family has no business publicizing such views. AP881030-0097 AP-NR-10-30-88 1309EST r f AM-Louisville-Development Bjt 10-30 0761 AM-Louisville-Development, Bjt,0787 City Appears On Verge of Economic Recovery By TED M. NATT JR. Associated Press Writer LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) After losing ground to its neighbors, Louisville is finally shaking off the lingering effects of the last recession with the help of public and private investment. A recent survey of Louisville and 14 comparison cities shows that, for the first half of this year, the Louisville area has generated more high-paying jobs than other regional competitors. The list includes Indianapolis, Cincinnati, Nashville, Tenn., Richmond, Va., and Kansas City, Mo. ``Coming out of the recession, Louisville's growth was quite small relative to the other cities,'' said Paul Cooms, an economist with the Bureau of Economic Research at the University of Louisville, which conducted the survey. Indianapolis, for example, enjoyed a rapid renaissance as new hotels, skyscrapers and athletic facilities, such as the Hoosier Dome, gave the city a new vigor. Louisville, on the other hand, had a tough time overcoming the closed factories and lost jobs following the recessions. ``But in the last two to three years, Louisville has finally recovered strongly,'' Cooms said. ``Louisville is a good market, and people know it.'' ``I don't know how much you want to make out of two quarters of data, but certainly we've recovered well,'' Cooms said. Civic leaders agree. The most recent tangible evidence that the city is on the move, they say, was Saturday's dedication of the new national headquarters of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). Louisville won the headquarters at the church's 1987 assembly in Biloxi, Miss., by scoring a convention-floor upset over Kansas City, which had been recommended by the church's site selection committee. Louisville had been ruled out as a site until a local businessman offered to donate two turn-of-the-century warehouses worth $1 million on the city's waterfront. Community pledges of $7 million more were made to renovate the buildings, and the city offered a parking garage and rebuilt streets. In addition, major banks offered a $25 million revolving loan fund at favorable rates. Mayor Jerry Abramson said persuading the Presbyterians to come to Louisville showed ``people in this community that when we work together in a cooperative way we can compete with anybody at any level.'' That is the idea behind the Campaign for Greater Louisville _ a largely business-backed organization that has raised more than $10 million, and plans to strengthen and expand existing businesses, to create new local businesses and to attract outside business to the area. The campaign's first expenditure two months ago went toward the proposed $300 million expansion of Louisville's Standiford Field. Two new, parallel runways are to be built, displacing thousands of residents, as well as businesses and churches. ``I can't think of a more important economic-development step this campaign can take at this point in time,'' campaign chairman George N. Gill, president and publisher of the Louisville Courier-Journal, said then. Abramson, who is also pushing the airport expansion, believes another key to continued downtown development _ despite stiff competition from the suburbs and a stagnant population _ rests with providing incentives to counter a loss of federal aid. Local government, with the help of federal dollars, invested heavily in downtown from 1970 to the early 1980s. Now that federal support has dropped off, local government is concentrating on projects that support economic development and make downtown more attractive. And civic leaders have returned to the city's oldest and greatest asset _ the Ohio River _ as the major source of downtown revitalization. ``Administrations before me studied it and studied it. What we decided to do was take some risks and start to develop the waterfront,'' Abramson said. Now, hundreds of millions of dollars in new and planned construction are taking place within blocks of the river's edge. But Cooms said Louisville's continued growth is conditional upon the U.S. economy's continuing to expand and favorable exchange and interest rates. ``The average life of an economic recovery is only about four years, and we're now finishing the sixth year, so it should make some people nervous,'' Cooms said. One national survey said the population of the metropolitan area has declined from about 970,000 on Jan. 1, 1987, to about 966,000 on Jan. 1 of this year causing the area to slip from 48th to 50th place as a national market. That may not bode well for the city's ability to attract large companies and national advertising dollars, particularly if the slide continues because many decisions are made on the basis of a metropolitan area's ranking in the nation's top 50 markets. AP881030-0098 AP-NR-10-30-88 1310EST r f AM-Nordstrom-Shoppers Bjt 10-30 0703 AM-Nordstrom-Shoppers, Bjt,0733 Store Flies Top Shoppers In For Daylong Clothes Junket By NICHOLAS K. GERANIOS Associated Press Writer YAKIMA, Wash. (AP) The half-dozen high rollers who boarded the corporate jet and headed West for the glittering city with fast action weren't gamblers. They were shoppers. The junket didn't go to Las Vegas but to Seattle for a shopping spree at Nordstrom, an upscale clothing chain with a reputation for customer service. The flying shoppers breakfasted on fresh strawberries and orange juice and dabbed their wrists with samples of perfume as the small jet skimmed high over the Cascade Mountains. Nordstrom may have outdone itself with the all-expenses-paid jet flight for some of its best Yakima customers. ``What it did for me was reinforce the idea that I am shopping in the right place,'' said Charlene Franklund, one of the customers who made the Oct. 12 trip. ``I suggested they go to San Francisco next time,'' she added. ``I can go to Seattle anytime.'' But rarely in such high-flying comfort _ aboard a sleek 12-seater with a cabin attendant, plus taxi service from Boeing Field to downtown and a personal salesperson for the entire day. The shopping adventure included lunch beside Elliott Bay and gourmet cookies for the flight home. ``They really did treat us very nicely,'' Ms. Franklund said with a sigh. Seattle-based Nordstrom Inc. has made a splash in recent years with trendy stores and classy service that includes a hassle-free return policy. The company has 42 department stores, most of them on the West Coast, although it also operates in Utah, Virginia and is opening a store in New Jersey next spring. Most recently, Nordstrom made news by opening a $67 million, 336,000-square-foot store in San Francisco. In the fiscal year that ended Jan. 31, Nordstrom had sales of $1.92 billion and profits of $92.7 million. While Yakima has a 44,000-square foot Nordstrom store of its own, the selection can't compete with some of the huge Seattle stores. Some customers suggested the trip, and Yakima manager Juliana Dennis arranged for the 140-mile flight to the big city. ``They are customers that do come in frequently and spend a lot of money with us,'' Ms. Dennis said. She declined to say how much the shoppers spent but, despite the costs of the corporate jet, the elegant lunch and transportation in Seattle, ``it was worth the effort,'' she said. ``It benefited everyone,'' she said. ``Not only the customer but us as well.'' Originally a one-time trip, the company is now considering additional trips from Yakima because of customer demand, she said. The National Retail Merchants Association, in New York City, noted that some major department stores have programs to reward frequent shoppers. ``Some stores do bus people around,'' said spokesman John Gary, who added that Dallas-based Neiman Marcus is the only other department store they had heard of that flies customers to stores. ``It's done ad hoc from time to time,'' confirmed Jan Roberts, a spokeswoman for Neiman Marcus. It is fairly common for Nordstrom stores to organize bus trips for people from outlying areas. She said there were no spending minimums for those who went on the Seattle trip, and no invitations were issued. Customers only had to ask to be included, she said. The customers were accompanied by salespeople from the Yakima store, and the rack-full of clothing they selected was brought back on the plane to be rung up in Yakima, Ms. Dennis said. While royalty and movie stars may be used to jetliner shopping sprees, the average department store customer is not. Because of that, the company had hoped to keep the Yakima trips a secret, said corporate spokeswoman Kellie Tormey. ``We can't make it (trips) available to everyone,'' she said in a telephone interview from Seattle. ``This was a specific situation where the request came from the customers to do this thing. ``We're not going to be able to do it in every region,'' Ms. Tormey said, in declining to provide additional information. For Ms. Franklund, the flight was just a more convenient way to make a shopping trip she frequently makes anyway. ``I didn't spend any money I wouldn't have otherwise spent,'' she said. AP881030-0099 AP-NR-10-30-88 1520EST d f BC-US-OverseasInvestment 10-30 0282 BC-US-Overseas Investment,0291 Accord Between US And UAE On Protecting American Investments ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates (AP) The U.S. government-owned Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) has signed an accord with the United Arab Emirates for protecting overseas investments from political risks, officials said Sunday. The accord, approved after six years of negotiations, will allow OPIC to compensate American investors for losses caused by political crises, the officials said. The U.A.E., a member of the Gulf Cooperation Council, was the fifth of the GCC members to sign the accord after Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Oman and Bahrain. Kuwait, the sixth GCC member, also was expected to sign a similar agreement. The accord was negotiated by Robert C. O'Sullivan, assistant general counsel for claims at OPIC, and Donald A. Roberts, the first secretary for economics at the American embassy in Abu Dhabi. ``Such an agreement will break the psychological barrier preventing American investors from operating in the U.A.E.,'' O'Sullivan told The Associated Press. ``This is a proof of the friendly relations between the U.S. and the U.A.E.'' Since 1971, OPIC has served as the key U.S. agency for encouraging American business investment in developing countries through providing American investors with insurance against certain political risks, loan guarantees, direct loans to small business and cooperatives and a variety of pre-investment programs. ``All these are designed to reduce the perceived stumbling risks and blocks associated with overseas investment,'' O'Sullivan said. In the past 17 years, OPIC has settled about 215 insurance claims totalling $465 million. Its premiums are based on the nature of the investors' undertaking and the risk profile of the project, not on the country where the investment is launched, he said. AP881030-0100 AP-NR-10-30-88 1632EST u f AM-UtilityPollution 2ndLd-Writethru f0011 10-30 0858 AM-Utility Pollution, 2nd Ld-Writethru, f0011,0880 EPA Decision Could Trigger High Pollution Standards at Old Plants Eds: SUBS grafs 2-4 with 5 grafs to underscore decision's significance, picks up 7th graf pvs, ``This will...; DELETES 12-13th grafs pvs as redundant. By GUY DARST Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) In a decision dismaying to power companies throughout the country, the government has told a Wisconsin utility that planned repairs to a coal-burning power plant will subject it to strict air pollution standards for new plants. Utilities are worried because they fear the decision, the first of its kind, could apply to hundreds of plants. If so, utilities say they might have to close old plants, forgo needed repairs or incur huge expenses to meet the standards. The Energy Department says the decision could jeopardize future power supplies, but environmentalists say the federal government should have enforced the standards years ago to improve air quality. The Environmental Protection Agency's decision marks the first time the federal government has intervened in renovations at a coal plant. In the past, EPA has not become involved because state authorities administering the federal Clean Air Act have never brought such projects to the agency's attention. Wisconsin is the first to do so. EPA said the Wisconsin Electric Power Co.'s Port Washington plant near Milwaukee should be covered by new plant air standards because renovation work will result in an increase in current emissions of several pollutants, including sulfur dioxide, a major cause of acid rain. EPA administrator Lee M. Thomas said the agency is working on a policy to cover past renovations at coal plants since the Clear Air Act was written in 1971. ``The agency is considering what steps may be necessary'' to address previous projects, he said in a letter to the company. ``This will be setting a precedent for the entire country,'' said Bob Beck, environmental manager for the Edison Electric Institute, trade association for the nation's private utilities. Wisconsin Electric, which had planned to spend about $71 million to replace cracked steam drums, says the work is routine maintenance and should not trigger tougher air standards for new plants. Under EPA's pollution guidelines, it could cost the company $800 million to fix the plant, industry analysts say. Edwin R. Anthony, spokesman for the trade group, said the nation has 821 coal-fired generating units of which 360 are smaller than 200 mega-watts. ``My guess is that most of these (smaller) plants are over 35 years old,'' he said. Utilities are increasingly relying on ``life extension'' projects to keep old plants running. Plants with a tax life of 30 years can be used for 60 years with careful renovation. The Energy Department says as much as 25 percent of the nation's fossil fuel capacity is produced at plants that are older than 30 years. That number will jump to 90 percent in in 2010. Port Washington has five 80-mega-watt units between the ages of 38 and 53 years. The company would like to keep the plant running until 2010 instead of retiring the last unit in 1999. ``Obviously, it could throw a monkey wrench into our plans,'' said Wisconsin Electric spokeswoman Lisa Fox in Milwaukee. ``We need the capacity.'' J. Allen Wampler, assistant secretary of energy for fossil energy, wrote EPA its decision ``could result in aggravating an expected shortfall in electric generating capacity in the 1990s or, at best, in the construction of less economical methods of generating electricity.'' The most important air standard covers sulfur dioxide emissions, a principal raw material for acid rain. Port Washington now burns coal emitting 2.5 pounds of sulfur for every million BTUs provided. A new plant is limited to between 0.6 and 1.2 pounds and must remove 70 percent to 90 percent of the sulfur in the coal. As a practical matter, the only way for an old plant to comply with the standards is to install smokestack ``scrubbers,'' which industry analysts say could cost about $800 million at Port Washington. Wisconsin Electric Power Co. and the EPA are discussing whether plans for the repairs can be changed to avoid making the new-plant standards apply. Negotiators for EPA and Wisconsin Electric might be able to come up with a solution that would reduce air pollution while holding down costs. Ms. Fox declined to discuss specifics of the talks, but she confirmed that switching from coal to oil or gas is an option. David Hawkins, an attorney for the Natural Resources Defense Council, an environmental group, said any agreement that did not adhere to the air standards exactly might be vulnerable to legal challenge. Though utility sulfur dioxide emissions have been falling since the mid-1970s, environmentalists say they would have been reduced by more if utilities had replaced plants faster rather than extending their usage. Life extension ``wasn't even on the radar screen'' in 1979, when the current regulations were promulgated, said Hawkins, then the assistant EPA administrator in charge of drafting them. Hawkins said EPA ``is making the right call.'' He added, ``It's about time they put some life and teeth into the requirements'' that some renovation qualifies a plant as new. AP881030-0101 AP-NR-10-30-88 1710EST u f AM-Kraft 10-30 0045 AM-Kraft,0049 URGENT Philip Morris Cos. Inc. says Kraft Inc. has agreed to be acquired for $106 per share, or a total of about $13.1 billion, in what would be the biggest non-oil U.S. acquisition ever. An AMs story is being expedited. The AP AP881030-0102 AP-NR-10-30-88 2137EST d f PM-Dun-AirlineGuides 10-30 0448 PM-Dun-Airline Guides,0462 Dun & Bradstreet Selling Airline Guides To British Publisher Maxwell Eds: For Monday PMs. NEW YORK (AP) Dun & Bradstreet Corp. says it has agreed to sell its airline guides publishing business for $750 million cash to a company formed by British publisher Robert Maxwell, and has given Maxwell an option to purchase its travel agency business. The business publishing and market research company, which had announced in July that it was seeking a buyer for its Official Airline Guides and Thomas Cook Travel USA units, said Sunday it should realize a $450 million after-tax gain from the deal. Maxwell and Dun & Bradstreet stated in a news release that they expected to complete the deal by the end of this year. The Official Airline Guides business includes transportation and travel guides, travel magazines such as Frequent Flier, which has a circulation of about 350,000, and an on-line ticketing, reservation, schedule and fare information service. ``OAG is the world's leading information and related services provider to the travel industry,'' stated Maxwell, who already publishes the in-flight magazine for British Airways. ``OAG is the predominant provider of printed airline products in North America, with significant presence in other areas of the world.'' The Thomas Cook Travel division of the business is one of the nation's biggest travel agencies, with annual sales of $365 million, Dun & Bradstreet stated. Including Thomas Cook, Officials Airline Guides had operating income of about $65 million on revenue of about $180 million last year. Dun & Bradstreet, which also owns the Nielsen marketing and television research companies, Moody's Investors Service credit rating firm and Donnelley marketing and directory publishing businesses, has been acquiring and selling businesses in order to focus more on its key markets for information services. Dun & Bradstreet agreed to acquire IMS International Inc., a major market research concern, last February in a stock swap valued at $1.77 billion. The company also has announced plans to acquire Commercial Credit Co.'s American Credit Indemnity Co. business credit insurance subsidiary for $140 million, and Chase Manhattan Corp.'s Interactive Data Corp., a securities research firm for $140 million. Dun & Bradstreet posted a profit of $375.9 million, or $2.01 per share, on revenue of $3.13 billion during the nine months ended Sept. 30. Maxwell is engaged in a battle against corporate buyout powerhouse Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. over publishing giant Macmillan Inc., which has agreed to a $2.5 billion buyout by Kohlberg. Maxwell, who has a rival $2.6 billion offer for Macmillan outstanding, is challenging the Kohlberg deal in a Delaware court. Maxwell's international publishing empire includes trade magazines for U.S. agribusiness, scientific journals and British tabloid newspapers.