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spmy nonraiD Anderson founds 'difficult KM MM MAM 4 PpelyPesigm II Emm Fmasy Architecture Charles might like Fans meet soap characters Potbtch; 8F Tee We Lve, 1C Feature Page, 76' urn Miff Metro Fkial Tuesday Partly, cloudy. High 39. Low 10. February 27, 1990 For home delivery call 222-6500 25 cents Wednesday: Partly cloudy 1 LWvfti "I will honor my promises of achieving national reconciliation, because only then can we have ft peace and economic well-being." "We leave victorious because the Sandinistas -have sacrificed, spilled blood and sweat to bring Nicaragua something denied since 1821." Dura. Cmu Crunch time buries AAA in work-after lMPfflOTa era I i A i if, mew kid ourselves it will take big bucks," said Senate Minority Leader Bob Dole, R-Kan; "Nobody said democracy was cheap," said House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Dante Fascell, D-Fla.

However, others cautioned that with a growing line of potential new foreign aid recipients Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Panama and others it would be difficult to promise any quick, major grants. Fitzwater suggested the administration will seek more aid for the contras, the rebels who fought the Sandinista government. For related material, see Page 8A. icy By Darryl fears Free Press Staff Writer For AAA Michigan, Monday was just a wreck. The state's largest auto insurance company had smashed cars stacked up at its Detroit-area damage estimate centers, battered survivors of the weekend snowstorm that caused pile-ups on highways fromRpsevilletp Romulus.

With more than 3,400 claims filed by 4:30 p.m., business at Michigan AAA claim centers was 50 percent higher, than a normal Monday, said AAA spokeswoman Nancy Cain. She said it was the heaviest traffic jn five, "These numbers are going to go much higher when all is said and Cain said. "It's been an extremely busy day. Most of the cars have fender bender kind of things. There are tons of those." At the State Police post in North-ville, which handles most suburban freeway patrols, Sgt.

Harry Patton said he wasn't surprised by the numbers. He worked during the storm that brought 5 inches of snow, 48 m.p.L winds and near-zero temperatures. Patton took a call Saturday about an eight-car pileup on 1-96 at Dequindre in Warren that had turned into a 35-car mess when he arrived. By Sunday, Northville-based troop- ers had handled 66 weekend accidents, including one that involved a State Police cruiser rammed by a Southfield olice car. Troopers at the Detroit post reported 79 weekend ties.

Rich Glomb, a service manager for the Maaco auto body shop in Oak Park, said workers wrote 22 car damage estimates in less than five hours Saturday. They wrote another 45 estimates by 1 p.m. Monday. "It's been nonstop here," Glomb said. "I don't like the bad weather, but it definitely helps out business, A week of a good snow storm is going to increase by 0 percent our gross." Mag recasts womenVJife iti Romania weekend: (W 7 sj, Transfer of power is coalition next test Knight-Ridder Newspapers and Reuters At the White House and among Nicaraguan exiles in Miami, there was happiness.

Across Nicaragua, the reactions were as split as the election returns. And after President Daniel Ortega, the defeated candidate, promised a smooth transition of power, some began wondering about the strength of the 14-party opposition that united behind the candidacy of political neophyte Violeta Barrios de Chamorro. Ortega, who will become a member of the National Assembly, promised early Monday to turn over the govern-ment on April 25to Chamorro, thereby completing the first democratic transfer of power between rival parties in Nicaragua's history. Chamorro, leader of the National Opposition Union, known by its Spanish acronym UNO, scored a stunning victory Sunday in one of the most closely monitored general elections in Latin American history. With 82 percent of the precincts counted, Chamorro had 633,357 votes, or 55.2 percent, to 468,040, or 40.8 percent for Ortega, with the other 4 percent going to minor candidates, the Supreme Electoral Council said.

The coalition also won a majority in the National Assembly. Similar results came in municipal elections. Runaway inflation and the draft were on the minds of many voters. Barely a Nicaraguan family has escaped losing a member to the contra war, which has claimed 30,000 lives. "I confess that I feel very moved at this moment so important for Nicaragua," said Chamorro, 60.

"Now I will honor my promises of achieving national reconciliation, because only then can See NICARAGUA, Page 8A Presidential winner Violeta Chamorro, above, flashes a victory sign Monday after Nicaraguan elections. Opposition vice-presidential running mate Virgilio Godoy is at her side at a Managua news conference. Below, Rosario Murillo kisses her husband, defeated President Daniel Ortega. i i President George Bush wants to lift U.S. trade sanctions that have hobbled Nicaragua, his spokesman 'said Monday.

Marlin Fitzwater said removing, the sanctions, imposed in 1985, would be "a matter of first consideration." They prohibit the import of Nicaraguan goods to the United States and the export of most U.S. products to Nicaragua. Also, Nicaraguan ships and aircraft are barred from the United States. In Congress, there were immediate calls for aid to the new administration of Violetta Chamorro. "We must provide her new ivernment with aid, and let's not x) si 5 rpM ft LOU DEMATTEISReuters Coincidence shouldn't surprise; math researchers say it's the law Ar: Lottery twice in four months, the event was widely reported as an amazing coincidence that beat odds of one in 17 trillion.

But when carefully analyzed, it turned out that the chance that such an event could happen to someone somewhere in the United States was more like one in 30. It was an example of "the law of very large numbers," say the research-See COINCIDENCES, Page 4A BYGINAKOLATA New York Times Coincidences, those surprising and often eerie events that add spice to everyday life, may not be so unusual after all. After spending 10 years collecting thousands of stories of coincidences and analyzing them, two Harvard researchers say events that look extremely unlikely are almost to be expected. When a woman won the New Jersey 0v. 1 -v by Roddy Ray Free Press Europe Bureau BUCHAREST, Romania' While and Redbook have been telling -America about women who love too much, men who.won't fow up, swimsuit styles and safe in Romania have been getting treated to such, shame -less, tawdry topics as modem ways to increase cow produc' tion.

The February issue, of the magazine Femeia Romanian for Woman is due to hit the -streets any day, and heads sure ly will turn. Its cover, picturing a rather sultry woman with a mini-: skirt riding high on a thigh, touts -reports on "The Truth about Divorce," "The Woman and the. House," and simply "Fashion." By Western standards, a bit tame maybe, but then, you have to. understand what it was like until now. Before Nicolae and Elena Ceausescu were executed; in the December revolution, Femeia was a depressing and tragic comedy.

Editors were forbidden, to; emphasize many things a women's magazine arguably should; they were required torempha-. size things dull, stupid and vain. The Ceausescus' influence on 'i See ROMANIA, Page 4A Petersen hands over Ford's keys BY GREG GARDNER Free Press Automotive Writer Leaning over the hood of the Mazda-engineered 1991 Ford Escort, Donald Petersen handed the keys to Harold (Red) Poling, who will succeed him Thursday as chairman of Ford Motor Co. Petersen still has to show up for two days, but the ceremony at Ford's Wayne assembly plant Monday marked the symbolic end to his tandem leadership with Poling. Nearly a decade ago, when Petersen was named president and Poling was executive vice president of Ford's North American automotive operations, they celebrated the introduction of the first Escort, "I'm basically standing up here as a very interested shareholder," said Petersen, 63.

"Red knows I'll be as close as the nearest phone if he has an idea he wants to bounce off me." But he will not be looking over the 64-year-old Poling's shoulder. MARY SCHROEDERDetroft Free Press With retirement two days away, Ford Chairman Donald Petersen beams Monday. At a Wayne assembly plant ceremony, Petersen handed control of the corporation to Harold Poling. Television 5C Weather 7F 50 Plus 3C Volume 159, Number 293 1990, Detroit Free Press Lottery numbers MkhigM Monday 194 and 2826 Lotto jackpot $7 aiNioa Ohio Monday Lotto jackpot 603 and 6052 $3 anion Ann Landers 2C Bridge 7F Classified Index 5B Comics 6F Crossword Puzzle 6F Death Notices 3B Editorials Entertainment 5C Feature Page 7C Horoscope 7C Jumble 6D Movie Guide Obituaries 3B ScienceMedicine IF stock Markets 2E Ford expects a profit on what looks like an unprofitable venture. Story, Page IE.

Petersen, who is retiring to spend more time with his family, will not remain on Ford's board of directors as has his predecessor, Philip Caldwell. He has talked about doing something in education, but has not made a commitment. "The best advice I've had so far don't make a decision for at least five or six months. Otherwise, you'll be so busy you won't know you Will he sleep in Thursday morn- -ing? No such hick. He's off to Seattle to help with fund-raising at his alma mater, the University of Washington.

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