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B6 The Sun TUESDAY, January 3, 1995 Former Somali leader Mohamed Siad Barre dies in exile Obituary ary school equivalency degree and going on to a military course at an army college in Italy. When Somalia gained inde- pendence in 1960, Siad Barre was appointed the new nation's army vice commander. Five years lat- er, he became commander-in- chief. After leading a coup on Oct. 21, 1969, Siad Barre blended Marxist doctrine, Somali traditions and Islamic precepts into some neighbors.

A tall, austere-looking man with a long face and hooded eyes often hidden behind dark glasses, Siad Barre kept power in a land of anarchic nomads by cunningly playing a myriad of squabbling clans off one another. Orphaned at 10, he scratched out a living as a shepherd before joining the colonial police force, where he rose to chief inspector, the highest rank possible for a Somali under Italian rule. Largely self-taught, he studied voraciously, gaining a second arsenal built up during Cold War courtships by the United States and Soviet Union. Drought and war caused a ramine that killed about 350,000 people in 1992 and prompted a U.S.-led mercy mission to protect aid supplies from armed clansmen. Two years later, 42 Americans and more than 100 U.N.

peacekeepers from other countries had been killed in clashes with clansmen loyal to the country's main warlords. The mission, the United Nations' bloodiest since the Korean War, ended the famine but raised questions about U.N. political involvement in such conflicts. The last peacekeepers are due to leave Somalia by March, having failed to stop the clan-based war that forced the original intervention. Siad Barre had asked to be buried in Somalia, and his son said the family was trying to arrange it.

A few sympathizers Monday visited Siad Barre's lavish home in Nigeria, where his arrival with scores of family members and associates three years ago prompted complaints from The Associated Press LAGOS, Nigeria Ousted Somali dictator Mohamed Siad Barre, who thrived during the Cold War but left his nation starving and in disarray when he was forced from power in 1991, died Monday in exile. Siad Barre, whose birth year has been given variously as 1912, 1919 and 1921, was diabetic and had been ill for some time, said a son, Dirie Barre. A Foreign Ministry official said the former president died en route to a Lagos hospital. The Nigerian government granted Siad Barre asylum in 1992, more than a year after he was forced from the Somali capital of Mogadishu during a siege by rebels opposed to his increasingly brutal 21-year reign. Siad Barre's departure left Somalia's 8 million people without a government and plunged it into anarchy.

Rival clans looted government buildings and helped themselves to Siad Barre's vast Obituaries actor Woody Strode dead at 80 Obituary Strode, 80, died in his sleep Saturday at his home, said his daughter, June Strode. He had been diagnosed with lung cancer a year ago, she said. The exact cause of death had not been determined. Strode, born in Los Angeles and educated at UCLA, parlayed his strapping frame into careers in professional football and wres House burns tling before breaking into acting in 1941. In the 1950s he was seen regularly playing musclemen in small parts.

It wasn't until 1960 that he was given a real opportunity to act when he landed the role of a soldier on trial for murder and rape in "Sergeant Rutledge," one of his best-known performances. He acted in many John Wayne movies, including a prominent part in "The Man Who Shot Lib mil 8 tion coordinator for the Cabrillo Marine Aquarium in in the Los Angeles area of San Pedro. The gray whales almost were wiped out before commercial whaling was outlawed in 1946. The population was 5,000 in 1947 and has grown to more than 23,000 today. The whale-watching season typically kicks off Dec.

26. Gray whales travel at about 3 to 5 mph during migration. They feed intensively in Arctic waters before making their pilgrimage and don't stop to feed on the way south, said Joe Cordaro, a wildlife biologist with the National Marine Fisheries Service. Three years ago, fewer whales than usual were being spotted off the California coast. Some scientists attributed the decline to increased commercial whale-watching boats that may have driven the animals farther from shore.

But the 1993 season was a good year for sightings, and this year is expected to be the same. Fire destroyed a home in the Hollywood Hills area of Los Angeles on Monday, but no injuries were reported, a fire department spokesman said. Ittookfirefighters just over an hourto extiguish the blaze. Twelve fire engines, one rescue truck and an observation helicopter were called to the blaze. Two adjacent buildings also suffered minor damage.

The cause of the fire is unknown. Whale-watching season arrives wnat ne canea scienuuc suaai- ism." His Somali Revolutionary' Socialist Party, created in 1976, 1 formed the executive branch of' government. Rodriguez, a native of Mexico, lived in San Bernardino County 10 years. Survivors include a son, Sal-vadore of San Bernardino; a rlanohtpr Tsahcl Menriez of Las Vegas; 25 grandchildren; and 88 great-grandchildren. A funeral service will be at 11 a.m.

today at Mt. View Mortuary: Burial will follow at Mt. View Cemetery. Mt. View Mortuary and Cem-' etery is directing.

JACK C.SCOTT Accounting business co-owner Jack C. Scott, 63, of Redlands died Sunday of cancer at home. Scott, a native of Bucklin, Wnn livoH in San Rpmarriinn County 33 years. He was a certified public countant and a partner in counting firm of. Rogers, Anderson, Scott.

He was a member of Bethany Reformed Church of Redlands, past-president of the San Bernardino Host Lions Club, the San Bernardino County Estate Planning Council and the Citrus Belt Chapter of Certified. Public Accountants. He served in the U.S. Navy five years. Survivors include his Janet; a son, craig oi Loma three daughters, Kim Gavin of Escondido, Sheri of Santa Bar-'-bara and Sarah of Redlands; hrnihor nolmnr pnrl ov hnth nf Orppnn- two sisters.

Doris-, mingerpiner oi aouin Carolina ,1 1 I and two grandchildren. i a i I iiiapci aci vilc will ai p.m. today at Bobbitt Memorial Chapel, 1299 E. Highland San Bernardino. Burial will follow at Hillside Memorial Park, 1540 Alessandro Road, Red-lands.

DORIS E.TEMPLIN Yucaipa resident Doris Eileen Templin, 64, of Yucaipa died Thursday at home. The cause of death is unknown, pending a doctor's report. 7 Templin, a native of Califor-- U1A, 1,1 1 1 Survivors include a son, James L.v. ana uona a. ot uecuanas; ner tpr I.

pnna lfp nt ncpnn three grandchildren; andx H.nnJnUilJ.n. iwu gi eat-gi cuiuuuiiui en. A memorial service will be at 11 a.m. Thursday at Mt. View Mortuary Chapel, 570 E.

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Tributes can be taxed to The Sun at (714) 885-8741 or sent to Assistant Metro Editor Rick Santos, The Sun, 399 N. San Bernardino 92401. fio66iu "MEMORIAL CHAPEL Foot Generations of rimily-Ovmed Service Robert J. Farrell Today 10:00 A.M. Mass of Christian Burial Our Lady of The Rosary Cathedral Betty Boughamer Today 1:00 P.M.

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Vermont Thursday 10:00 A.M. Chapel 1299 E. HlRhlnnd San Bernardino, CA rJfr- I Character Woody Strode, an actor who had roles in several John Wayne movies and had careers in football and wrestling, dies in his sleep. The Associated Press GLENDORA Woody Strode, the square-jawed and muscular character actor who had supporting roles in several John Wayne films, has died. Parents sue transplant firm over son's organs McClatchy News Service MODESTO A Tracy couple claims a transplant agency was negligent in managing their son's organ donation after his fatal injury on a Merced County golf course.

Johanna and Richard Costa claim in their lawsuit that the California Transplant Donor Network and a Modesto hospital ruled their son dead a day early, interrupting their chance to pray over him during last hours. A judge moved the case this month from Merced to Stanislaus County Superior Court, where it is set for trial in October. In the same Modesto court last February, a jury found the Donor Network liable for removing the eyes of an Atwater youth against the wishes of his parents. Richard Gregory Costa, 29, 'was golfing in Santa Nclla in November 1991 with a friend when they crashed their golf cart and Costa flew off. He was rushed to Memorial Medical Center in Modesto, where he survived on life support while his parents and 26 other relatives maintained a prayer vigil.

His parents allege in court documents that it was after midnight when the Donor Network nurse told them the surgeon wanted to see them. The doctor said Costa was dead. Costa's parents said the donor network agreed to pay his medical bills from that point on if the family agreed on donation. The plan was to take the organs within the hour. Family members said their goodbyes.

The next afternoon, Costa's sister called about recovering his remains, only to be told that a brain scan had later showed signs of life and organ removal was delayed, documents show. The family returned to the hospital that evening and stayed with Costa until midnight, 24 hours after they were first told he was dead. Finally confident he was dead, surgeons wheeled him in for organ removal. Costa's parents asked the court for actual and punitive expenses for alleged negligence in determining their son's death, informing his family, getting their consent for donation and in not telling them that organ donation did not go ahead immediately. The Transplant Donor Network denied liability in court documents.

Memorial Medical Center officials did not return a telephone call. Surgeons recovered Costa's organs at California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco. His liver went to a 47-year-old man from the Tuolumne area in Tuolumne County, and his heart to a 50-year-old man in Rodeo, Contra Costa County, according to a Donor Network letter. His corneas went to women in Berkeley and Walnut Creek, and his bones, tendons and cartilage were bound for other recipients. Last February, jurors awarded Jose and Carolene Archuleta $107,000 after they explained how their grief at the suicide of their 17-year-old son was compounded when they learned that the Donor Network removed his eyes for corneal transplants.

The cases surface at a time when the transplant industry is coping with reduced or static donations and a growing waiting list. PAULS. ABATIE Electrician Paul Sebastian Abatie, 66, of Las Vegas died Sunday of heart failure at Kaiser Permanente Medical Center. Abatie, a native of Houston, formerly lived in Fontana 32 years. He was an electrician.

He was a member of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, Local 477. Survivors include his wife, Emily; two daughters, Paula Abatie-Meyer of Chicago and Gina Abatie-Kane of Hesperia; his mother, Frances, a brother, Joseph, and a sister, Mary Ann Bearden, all of Houston; and three grandchildren. A memorial service will be at 3 p.m. Friday at Ingold Chapel, 8277 Juniper Fontana. Burial will be private.

ANTHONY GARCIA Hospital maintenance man Anthony Garcia, 42, of San Bernardino died Friday at home. The cause of death is unknown, pending a doctor's report. Garcia was born in San Bernardino and lived there a total of 28 years. He was a building maintenance worker at Kaiser Permanente Medical Center in Los Angeles. Survivors include his mother, Mary, and a sister, Fatima Drews, both of San Bernardino.

A memorial mass will be at 11 a.m. Tuesday at Our Lady of Guadalupe Catholic Church, 1430 W. Fifth San Bernardino. Inurnment is private. Dickey Mortuary in Fontana is directing.

ALMAF. MASTAIN Yucalpa resident Alma F. Mastain, 90, of Yu-caipa died Friday at Braswell's Yucaipa Valley Convalescent Hospital. The cause of death is unknown, pending a doctor's report. Mastain, a native of Iowa, lived in Yucaipa 40 years.

There are no survivors. Services will be private. Em-merson-Bartlett Memorial Chapel in Yucaipa is directing. ANTONIO F. RAMIREZ Redlands resident Antonio "Frankie" Francisco Ramirez, 21, of Redlands died Dec.

20 at home. The cause of death is unknown, pending a doctor's report. Ramirez was a lifelong Red-lands resident. He was a laborer for three years. Survivors include his parents, Francisco and Connie; two brothers, Daniel Almaraz and Robert; two sisters, Frances and Anna Sexton; and his grandparents, Steve and Annamae Albarran and Socorra Martinez.

All live in Redlands. Visitation will be from 4 to 8 p.m. with a prayer vigil at 7 p.m. today at Emmerson-Bartlett Redlands Chapel, 703 Brookside Ave. A mass of Christian burial will be at 10 a.m.

Wednesday at St. Mary's Catholic Church, 1214 Columbia Redlands. Burial will follow at Hillside Memorial Park, 1540 Alessandro Road, Redlands. FRANCISCA RODRIGUEZ Former San Bernardino County resident Francisca Rodriguez, 96, of Las Vegas died Thursday at Sunrise Hospital in Las Vegas. The cause of death is unknown, pending a doctor's report.

Mark MEMORIAL CHAPEL 1S25 N. WATERMAN AVENUE SAN BERNARDINO, CA 92404 (909)889-0173 Luz Slmental Mass: Tuesday, 9:00 A.M. Our Lady of Guadalupe Church 1430 W. 5th Street Luke Roberson Memorial Service Thursday, 11:00 A.M. Chapel Rogello C.

Rodriguez Graveside Service Friday, 10:15 A.M. Riverside National Cemetery erty Valance." Strode also appeared in "The Ten Commandments," "Pork Chop Hill" and "The Professionals." He had just completed "The Quick and the Dead" with Sharon Stone and Gene Hackman, June Strode said. Services will include full military honors for Strode's service in the Army, his daughter said. He will be buried in Riverside on an undetermined date. APWIREPHOTO Whale watchers can keep their eyes peeled for several characteristic whale behaviors.

For example, the behemoths can be counted upon to do some "spy-hopping" thrusting their heads out of the brine in what some believe is actually a way they orient themselves using coastal landmarks. "They're probably just getting a look around," Vogel said. Without a doubt, the whale will "blow" each time it emerges from the waves simply an exhale before new breaths are drawn. When winds are calm, the blow tends to create a heart-shaped mist from the whale's two nostrils. Gray whales also may "show some fluke," by lifting its fluke out into the air.

Sea lions often do this in order to warm themselves, but Vogel said it is unknown why whales do it. By far the most exciting and hardest behavior to spot is "breaching," when the whale hurls its body from the water, slamming down in a giant spray. loaded epic about the historic battle of "Midway." Fighters like the museum's F-104 and T-33 supplied aerial realism for "The Right Stuff." The museum also has an F-105 like the one flown by two Air Force stars of the television series "I Dream of Jeannie." Also at Castle is a giant B-36 Peacemaker bomber like the one James Stewart flew in the 1955 "Strategic Air Command." A World War II flier who remained active in the Air Force Reserve, Stewart looked right at home in the cramped B-36 cockpit. Portraying the legendary LeMay, ever-present cigar and all, actor Frank Lovejoy landed at Stewart's base in a C-47 workhorse transport. Castle has one of these, too.

Actor Harry Morgan, later of "MASH" stardom, portrayed a B-36 flight engineer in "Strategic Air Command." The interiors of most of Castle's relics still aren't restored to the realism of the exteriors. The many veteran fliers who visit Castle each month will have to be content, for now, with memories triggered by standing outside the mechanical giants aboard which they once trusted their lives. Al for air museum's 'movie stars' Los Angeles Daily News LOS ANGELES California gray whales are heading south to bear young in the warm lagoons of Mexico, and fanciers of the mammals say it is shaping up to be a prime whale-watching season. It is the first migration since the animals were removed from the federal endangered species list in June, after scientists determined their population is stable and growing. The whales, which average about 30 feet in length and weigh about one ton per foot, leave the Arctic each year for Baja California, where they bear calves before heading North again in March.

The round trip is the longest annual migration of any mammal. "You can't always expect that you're going to see wild animals on command. But this season from the early sightings looks to be a good season, especially since the population is increasing so much," said Steve Vogel, educa Face lift on tap McClatchy News Service ATWATER Before Castle Air Force Base in Merced County is closed for good in April, military officials want the historic aircraft they will leave behind at Castle Air Museum to look like the movie stars they once were. Master Sgt. Shayne M.

Meder and volunteers like retired B-52 pilot Charles Fink of Merced are part of the museum's revved-up restoration project. The museum's advantage of Air Force support, free admission and the use of the nearby military facilities will end in April. Before then, Meder and volunteers hope to have their stars sparkling like the day they entered the Air Force inventory. Standing beside the museum's B-52 Stratofortress, retired Lt. Col.

Fink recalled that as a young officer in the 1950s, he flew a B-52 on a record-setting nonstop flight around the world from Castle. Returning from that exploit, Fink got a medal from Gen. Curtis LeMay. Fink was a technical adviser when Hollywood stars Efrem Zimbalist Natalie Wood and Karl Maiden arrived at Castle to film "Bombers B-52." Cockpit scenes for the film were shot in Castle's flight simulator. "I did a lot of flying for 'Bombers B-52' flew the actual B-52 in the (simulated) emergency," Fink recalled.

B-52s were also featured in "Gathering of Eagles" with Rock Hudson and later in "Dr. Strang-elove." For "Gathering of Eagles" Fink flew a B-25 camera ship filming aerial scenes. Stratofortresses weren't the only Castle museum planes to star in films. World War II B-17 Flying Fortresses like the one near the museum coffee shop were the mainstays of "12 O'clock High" and "Memphis Belle." Mel Gibson flew a Vietnam era C-123 in "Air America." Actors Robert Wagner and Hudson portrayed F-86 Sabrejet pilots in 1950s Korean combat epics. Near the Castle museum gate is a B-25 with Lt.

Gen. James Doo-little's name below the pilot's window. Flying B-25s re-enacted Doolittle's famous 1942 Tokyo raid with stars Spencer Tracy and Van Johnson in "30 Seconds over Tokyo" and the 1960s star- 882-3761 9.