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Asbury Park PressFriday. December 26, 1986 B7 5 rescued, 6 crewmen die after tanker sinks in big seas Truce stands as Philippines has quietest holiday in years committee to watch "armed rightist extremists bent on sabotaging the truce." In a holiday message broadcast throughout the day by stale radio and television. President Aquino told her 55 million countrymen they could celebrate this Christmas "with greater pride than we have known." It was the nation's first Christmas since the overthrow last February of President Ferdinand E. Marcos in a largely non-violent revolt that ended his 20 years of authoritarian rule. "For.

in the triumph of democracy and the vindication of non-violence, we have prepared the fittest offering to the Prince of Peace whose birth we celebrate," Mrs. Aquino said. In a Christmas Eve midnight Mass at Manila Cathedral, Cardinal Jaime L. Sin said the message of peace was "especially true" this year. "It is our first Christmas after (the Marcos overthrow), our first Christmas in 17 years when the guns of revolution have been stilled and a truce, no matter how fragile, is in place," Sin said.

But jarmy Chief of StafT Gen. Fidel v. Ramos canceled leaves and ordered soldiers to remain in their garrisons as a precaution for today's 18th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of the Philippines. Fortich said local cease-fire monitoring committees were on alert for trouble on the anniversary, especially in "possible flashpoints" such as Luzon, the central Visayas islands and Mindanao. Government negotiator Teofisto Guingona urged the Communist Party and the rebel National Democratic Front to avoid any unusual demonstration on the anniversary that could outrage the public and lead the military to respond.

"While we long for peace during the Christmas season, we should not relax our vigilance," Ramos said in a statement. "The red alert is to ensure that we will not fall into the same fate suffered by Vietnam, Cambodia and Nicaragua." Rebel negotiators Antonio Zu-mel and Satur Ocampo said the guerrillas were committed to the cease-fire and urged the monitoring The Associated Press MANILA, Philippines Filipinos celebrated what was called the most peaceful Christmas in nearly 20 years yesterday, but the military was on alert because of the impending anniversary of the founding of the local Communist Party. The Armed Forces Command recorded no clashes between soldiers and the rebel New People's Army as the two sides apparently stood by the 60-day truce that began Dec. 10. President Corazon Aquino called the peaceful holiday a "triumph for democracy and the vindication of non-violence." Bishop Antonio Fortich, head of a national committee monitoring the truce, said Christmas 1986 was "the most peaceful in nearly 20 years" and "an initial triumph for the fragile cease-fire." Fireworks, parties and solemn Masses marked the beginning of Christmas in Southeast Asia's only Christian nation.

More than 80 percent of the Philippine's 55 million people are Roman Catholic. "The sea conditions were very rough following four days of gale-force winds and the position that the ship sank in was as far from land as it's possible to be in this part of the world," he said. "So I think there are five very lucky people." The five men were hauled up by a winch-equipped Lynx helicopter more than 12 hours after the Sudurland sank. Gudmundur Asgeirsson, president of the Nesskip Shipping Line, which owned the freighter, said the vessel was en route from Iceland to Murmansk in the Soviet Union with 19,000 barrels of herring when it sank 290 nautical miles northeast of Iceland. The ship had been hammered by heavy seas, hit by a big wave, and was listing badly when Capt.

Sigurdur Si-gurjonsson issued a Mayday call at 1 1:30 p.m. Wednesday. The ship sank shortly after midnight. Icelandic authorities picked up the S-O-S, and rescue planes and ships were dispatched from Scotland, Denmark, Norway and the Faroe Islands. Burnett said the first plane to reach the scene spotted flashing lights in the pre-dawn darkness.

He said eight people had made it into one of the freighter's life rafts, and the vessel's other raft went down with the ship. At daybreak, a Royal Air Force Nimrod reconnaissance plane dropped another raft, rations, water, flares and radios to the men. "The five people who were subsequently rescued transferred to the life raft which had been dropped because the one in which they abandoned the ship had a large hole," Burnett said. "It was from the life raft dropped by the Nimrod that they were picked up by the helicopter." The Nimrod, which remained over the scene most of the day and guided the Danish helicopter to the life raft, was replaced in late afternoon by a U.S. P3 patrol plane from the U.S.

Air Force Base at Keflavik in Iceland. The Sudurland, built in 1972 and purchased three years ago from a West German company, left the small town of Reydarfjordur on the east coast of Iceland on Monday. Asgeirsson said he bought the freighter to replace another ship that sank. The Associated Press REYKJAVIK, Iceland A helicopter hoisted five "very lucky people" to safety but six other crewmen died after an Icelandic freighter sank yesterday in rough seas in the north Atlantic, Britain's Royal Air Force said. Three crewmen went down with the Sudurland between Iceland and Norway and three others were dead in the life raft when a Danish coast guard helicopter arrived at the scene, said Lt.

David Burnett at the Royal Air Force's Kinloss base in Scotland. The five survivors of the 1 1 -member crew were flown to the Danish coast guard frigate Vaedderen, where the ship's doctor treated them for shock and exhaustion. Burnett said the frigate was heading to the site of the sinking to pick up the bodies in the raft. He said it would then go to Thorshaven in the Faroe Islands. Burnett said it wasn't known whether the three men in the raft drowned or died from hypothermia.

He said the water temperature was 37 degrees. 3 AFTER CHRISTMAS AS. CLEARANCES SA ALL LARRY LEVINE COATS ON lit i "tUBm liiHilsllliiliiS Subway service is resumed The Associated Press PARIS Subway service returned to normal yesterday as striking transit workers temporarily returned to work. But sharply reduced train service created chaos for holiday trav- elers and most ports were blocked. The subway drivers called Wednesday night for a "momentary suspension" of their strike during the Christmas holiday.

They struck four days ago over pay and working condi-, tions, and are to decide Monday on their next move. The state-run train authority said rail service was about 25 percent of normal holiday service. It said it would add more buses today, the ninth day of the strike, to ease travel between Paris and the provinces and the French Alps. In Grenoble, police dispersed about 100 striking railroad employees (j who were blocking a high-speed train. In Chambery, also in the Alps, a train remained blocked in the station last night by strikers.

The strike was called Dec. 18 by the French Democratic Federation ofiw Labor and the Autonomous Railroad Drivers Union and the Communist-'." led General Confederation of Labor to demand better working conditions and more pay. Any negotiations would likely be based on working conditions and 1988 salary scales. The railroad authority considers the issue of 1987 salaries ') resolved. On Monday, three small unions signed an agreement calling for slight wage increases next year.

But most railroad workers voted to continue the strike after negotiations broke down Tuesday, union officials said. The conservative government of Premier Jacques Chirac maintains pay increases must be strictly limited for government employees to control inflation and increase employment. Railroad drivers currently earn francs 1,845) monthly, while subway drivers average about 9,950 francs The unions have not made specific wage demands, but have voiced opposition to the government's plan to link salary increases more to merit ratings than senority. Dockworkers and merchant seamen, who struck Dec. 10, continued blocking most French ports yesterday.

The maritime workers are protest- ing plans to let foreign sailors crew certain French ships. On Monday, the government agreed to severely limit the number of ships that could do that, but the union wants the idea abandoned entirely. New oil minister is named in Saudi The Associated Press RIYADH, Saudi Arabia King Fahd has issued a decree officially naming Hisham Nazer the new oil minister, succeeding the ousted Ahmed Zaki Yamani. The official Saudi Press Agency also reported yesterday that the king told a university audience that he considered OPEC's target price of $18 a barrel for crude oil to be a mini- mum. Nazer, planning minister for more than two decades, was named acting oil minister Oct.

30 when Yamani was removed by the king. According to the decree, Nazer continues to oversee the planning i portfolio in the capacity of acting minister. Nazer, 54, made his debut on the world oil stage in Geneva earlier this month, when he represented Saudi Arabia at the conference of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries. Industry sources said Nazer was effective in persuading other OPEC ministers to lower the cartel's produc- tion ceiling to 15.8 million barrels a day, in thQ interest of boosting prices. SALE! origf 205 oriQf $169 hillj ur muoam ohuvi 1 EVERY LARRY LEVINE WOOL COAT -yy x'-r EVERY LARRY LEVINE SHORT WOOL JACKET Solids, checks and tweeds Double breasted styles Classic balmacaans Blouson styles All in fabulous colors "Intermediate markdowns taken.

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