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People UP) Photo NEW MISS WORLD The new Miss World, Kimberly Santos of Guam, returned to her home on the American is- land Monday after accepting the title when Miss Germany, Gabriella Brum, decided to forego the honor. Title may be tarnished, but new 'Miss World' undaunted AGANA, Guam (UPI) Kimberly Santos, winner by default of the 1980 Miss World contest, came home to a rousing welcome Monday and said she was determined to do her best for the people of Guam "the best in the world." "Although it is a win by default, I am still very proud," said the 19- year-old brown-eyed beauty. "And I will do my best for you, the people of Guam the best people in the world." The new Miss World, a travel agency consultant and part- time model, learned of her victory while claiming her baggage at Los Angeles airport on her way home. "I heard my name paged and a Los Angeles reporter was on the phone asking me for my reaction to being named Miss World," she said. "I told him he must be joking but he suggested I pick up a newspaper.

"I did and, well, I read all about it." She had finished second in the Miss World contest in London last week but assumed the title when the original winner, Germany's Gabriella Brum, suddenly resigned. Acting Gov. Joseph Ada, a police honor guard, and the local youth club band turned out to welcome the new Miss World at the airport. Miss Blum, a leggy blonde, abdicated the crown amid disclosures that she had posed nude for pictures taken by her 52-year-old film producer boyfrierid. "I think that when you come imo the contest, you know there are certain moral standards," said Miss Santos, the daughter of a U.S.

serviceman stationed on Guam. "You chose to join the contest and you should uphold its standards." Nancy picks press secretary Robin Orr OAKLAND, Calif. (UPI) Robin Orr, 56, a newspaperwoman who has known Nancy Reagan since Ronald Reagan became governor of California in 1967, has been selected as the next first lady's press secretary. Ms. Orr, society editor and columnist at the Oakland Tribune-Eastbay Today, will join the White House staff Dec.

1, officials said Sunday. "I'm still in a state of shock," Ms. Orr said. "I'm thrilled. I've always been a Republican.

I believe firmly in everything that Reagan stands for. I feel privileged to be able to join the Reagan team and help to accomplish its goals." Ms. Orr has covered Mrs. Reagan since the first Reagan inaugural ball in California in January 1967. Ms.

Orr joined the Tribune in 1950 as teen-age editor and wrote a daily column for the women's section. She also wrote a society column and in 1963 was named society editor. Prince keeps 'em guessing LONDON (UPI) Prince Charles spent his 32nd birthday weekend with Lady Diana Spencer at the family's royal estate without answering the question Britons want to know did he pop the question to Lady Di? The 19-year-old Diana, who could become the next queen of England, said only that she "had a lovely weekend." "I cannot understand what you all are waiting for," Britain's most eligible bachelor said in jest to packs of reporters as he took the family Labrador for a walk Sunday, two days after his birthday and at the conclusion of his weekend at the Sandringham family home. A photographer, one of the many that staked out the estate in the English countryside, shot back: "We rather hoped that Friday would be a rather special day for you, sir." "So did everyone else; you will all know in due course," the prince said, laughing. Diana was whisked secretly into Sandringhmam Thursday in the back of an estate automobile to put reporters off track and was at the prince's private birthday party, even though the palace announced that only family members would attend.

Spain remembers old friend NEW YORK (UPI) American novelist-historian James Michener and Spanish pianist Alicia De Lar- rocha brought out the most glittering social assemblage of the New York season so far when they were given the Spanish Institute's gold medals for achievement this weekend at a dinner dance at New York's Hotel Plaza. King Juan Carlos of Spain sent his sister, Infanta Pilar, Duchess of Badajos, to pass out the awards honoring Michener for his oldie, "Iberia," and Mme. De Larrocha for her career as a brilliant pianist. As former ambassador to Spain, John Davis Lodge pointed out when James Michener Alicia De Larrocha he emceed the affair that more Americans have learned history from Michener than from anyone else. Personality glimpses John Curry, currently on Broadway in "Brigadoon," joins Peggy Fleming and an all-star skating cast Monday night at Madison Square Garden in the Superskates VII Olympic LJv Ullmann leaves for Africa next month as part of her job as Good Will Ambassador for UNI- CEF Yul Brynner will receive the first Sheltering Arms Childrens Service Award Larry Hagman was scheduled to perform Monday at the Royal Variety Show at the London Palladium.

Britain is batty over who shot J.R. Af Madrid conference West presses attack on Moscow MADRID, Spain (UPI) The United States accused the Soviet Union Monday of threatening peace by its invasion of Afghanistan and a massive military buildup unparalleled in world history. A blunt U.S. statement at the European security conference said Moscow has directly violated all principles of the 1975 Helsinki accords. But the Soviet Union must know that the United States and its allies will not concede military superiority, U.S.

delegation co-chairman Max Kampelman told the conference in a closed session. "The invasion of Afghanistan, no matter how it may be denied by verbal obfuscation, is a threat to peace and direct violation of the principles of the Helsinki Final Act," Kampelman said. Washington, he said, agreed to creasing economic and technological exchanges with Moscow to advance the process of peace as laid down by the agreement on detente. "Instead, we have seen those benefits distorted to stimulate more military aggression in support of national or ideological goals," he said. Kampelman said "the Soviet Union must understand that the United States and its allies will match its military effort.

"We are embarked on our program of renewed military strength because we have been forced to do so in the light of a massive military buildup unparalleled in world history," he said. Earlier Monday, Britain told the So- Nation Gov. Ella Grasso Connecticut governor suffers phlebitis attack HARTFORD, Conn. (UPI) Gov. Ella Grasso, who was operated on for cancer eight months ago, was listed in good condition Monday at Hartford Hospital where she was undergoing treatment for phlebitis in her left leg.

Mrs. Grasso, slowed since an April 3 hysterectomy to remove a cancer from her right ovary and subsequent radiation therapy, was expected to spend about 10 days in the hospital, her press secretary said Sunday. Larrye deBear said the 61-year-old governor was taken from the governor's residence to the hospital late Saturday night when she began having pains in her left leg. ft ft ft Social security tax rate, payment base both rise WASHINGTON (UPI) Wage earners will have to pay Social Security taxes on the first $29,700 of income next year $4,000 more than this year the governent said Monday. In addition the tax rate itself will jump to 6.65 percent, compared to the current 6.13 percent.

The changes, required by a law congress passed in 1977, mean that more Americans than ever will be paying Social Security taxes all year long, and will be paying at a higher rate. ft ft ft Mother dozes off, smothers infant son HAMBURG, N.Y. (UPI) Police say a 1-month-old baby boy was apparently smothered to death by his mother who fell asleep while breast feeding the child and accidentally rolled on top of him. Hamburg Town police said the baby, Brian Bull, was pronounced dead Sunday at Buffalo's Mercy Hospital. His mother, Donna Bull, 28, was treated for shock.

Police said the boy apparently smothered when his mother fell asleep while breast feeding him on a couch and rolled over on top of him. ft ft ft New Congress younger, but congressmen older WASHINGTON (UPI) Despite the influx of new faces that propelled the Republicans to power in the Senate, the new freshman class is older on the average than the newcomers of two years ago. But overall, the 18 new senators will drop the average age of the full Senate by two years, from 53.3 to 51.3. Soviets pour fresh troops into Afghanistan NEW DELHI, India (UPI) The Soviet Union has sent thousands of fresh troops into Afghanistan to support the estimated 85,000 already there fighting Moslem guerrillas, and to launch an offensive against insurgents and civilian refugees, a doctor traveling from Afghanistan said Monday. "We have not seen the Russians do this before.

I saw them gun down about 30 people who were traveling to the border. They were refugees even from the air you could see that," said the doctor, who asked not to be identified to protect his family still in Afghanistan. The doctor said he had performed hundreds of amputations in the last three weeks, mostly gangrenous feet of women and children who stepped on small, camouflaged anti-personnel mines scattered in the border regions as they fled to Pakistan. The doctor, who left his homeland Saturday, said an extra 25,000 Soviet troops have poured across the border for a final pre-winter offensive in four eastern provinces, in which thousands of civilians have died since the first week of November. He and other sources saw it as an effort to seal Afghanistan's eastern border with Pakistan to trap the insurgents inside the country and to halt assistance from across the border.

Other Afghan sources reported at least 25,000 new troops had recently arrived in Kabul, but diplomats who have reported heavy military convoy traffic into Kabul from the direction of the Soviet border in the last two weeks were unable to confirm that they carried military refinforcements. An estimated 85,000 Sovet troops have been stationed in the poverty-striken Asian nation since they were sent to back a military coup last December. viet Union it must withdraw its troops from Afghanistan if any progress is to be made at the European Security Conference. British chief delegate John Wilberforce also told Moscow in blunt terms that East-West confidence depends on an end to Soviet repression of human rights. "The fig leaf of fictitious interference by other countries has not, and cannot, cover the shame of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan," Wilberforce told the conference in a closed-door general debate.

"This attempted justification for the entry and continued presence of 80,000 Soviet troops in Afghanistan has taken in no one," he said. Soviet chief delegate Leonid Dyichev, replying immediately, said the "Afghanistan question has nothing to to do with our meeting." Wilberforce was the first Western speaker as the week of general debate got underway. He made it clear that the West intends to engage in plain speaking about Soviet violations of the 1975 Helsinki accords. There is time before the Madrid conference ends next March for Soviet troops to be withdrawn from Afghanistan, he said. the same cloud will hang over the end of this meeting as over its beginning," he said.

The 15 NATO nations have agreed in a private caucus on a strategy for the, week of debate how to criticize viet human rights violations, the invasion of Afghanistan and. massing both nuclear and conventional weapons directed at targets in Western Europe. Each nation was free to bring up arijr subjecjk'jiAhe debate provided it deals, Helsinki 'agreement tion rather than new proposals. Kansan loses bid to regain child WASHINGTON (UPI) The Supreme Court Monday rebuffed the bid of a Kansas woman to regain custody of a child she gave to her mother for adoption because she was underage and unmarried at the time the child was born. The justices let stand a previous nil-" ing that the mother, Kitty Louise Strouse of Wichita, had failed to challenge the adoption within the time allotted by state law.

Mrs. Strouse gave birth to Lori Gay Winter, now 12, when she was 17 years old and unmarried. For more than two years, Mrs. Strouse and Lori lived with her parents, Bette H. and Robert D.

Winter, who asked to adopt the infant. Mrs. Winter promised her daughter that she would return Lori if her daughter married an acceptable man. Mrs. Strouse consented to the adoption in November, 1971.

In February 1972, the final adoption decree was entered in Pottawatomie County, where Mrs. Winter resides. Mrs. Strouse then married a husband acceptable to her parents, and later testified that she asked for the return of her child before the adoption was finalized. She later testified that her mother put her off with excuses and told her to wait for a better time.

Shortly before the adoption was finalized, Mrs. Winter and her husband were divorced and Mrs. Winter gained custody of Lori. Mrs. Stouse then attempted to have the adoption decree set aside on grounds that her consent to the adoption was obtained by fraud.

She said her mother told her she never intended to relinquish the child. I In June 1976, the Oklahoma county: court set aside the adoption finding it had been obtained by frtbid; deceit and misrepresentation, and held the best interests of the child would; be returning her to her mother in Kansas." Mrs. Winter appealed to the Okla; homa Supreme Court, which the trial court on grounds the effort, to: set aside the adoption decree was after the statute of limitations had pired. The court said Mrs. Strouse had come aware of Mrs.

Winter's fraudu? lent intentions in releasing Lori in July? 1974 but did not file suit until after the one-year statute of limitations had ex? pired. FIRES (Continued from Page 1)' spokesman Jim Davids said the blaze was 30-percent controlled but burned out of control on the northern flank towards the Angeles National Forest. Nearly the entire population of the exclusive footill community of Bradbury was evacuated as 13 homes valued at $500,000 each literally exploded in flames and four others were damaged. In Duarte, 36 homes were destroyed and 24 were damaged. Four homes were destroyed in Duarte and 24 were damaged.

Most of the 15,000 residents of Bradbury moved out early Sunday. One of them, Dr. John Hervey, 47, suffered a fatal heart attack while trying to save his property. Two homes were lost in the Malibu area and two other were damaged, causing $500,000 damage before the flames were controlled. A canyon near the Pacific Palisades home where Ronald Reagan worked Sunday was ablaze, but the flames were controlled before they threatened the home of the president-elect.

The biggest fire was in southern Riverside County near Lake Elsinore, where more than 17,000 acres of steep terrain were burned by flames that TOUR (Continued from Page One) would be $200 to $300. 1 got a ticket at face value on the day of the game. "I learned when people say you can't do this or that maybe I'm learning the hard way, to form my own opinions." Why did he take off on the trip? "When I was a young kid we always had a subscription to National Geographic, and I'd see all the interesting places to go all across the country. Since my folks were teachers, we'd do some traveling, but it was always on a set deadline. I've always envisioned myself taking off like a free bird." Larson says the trip was even better than he expected.

As souvenirs, he brought back a collection of license plates including an autographed plate from Gov. George Wallace of Alabama, postcards and photographs. He left with a beard and long hair. Along the way, he shaved the beard, cut his hair and learned that a polite manner is the greatest asset in persuading strangers to give you a temporary job or let you use their parking lot as an overnight camping spot. Complainers can go Larson says he developed a deeper feeling for America on the trip.

Now he says those who complain too much about the country should be taken to the border and given the chance to leave. He says he is pretty conservative now, but hasn't really changed his mind about the "rat race" to accumulate possessions and wealth. "Most people want to invest in tangible things. With tangible things, you have to worry about where you're going to store it and get insurance. With travel, you've got something no one can take from you, and that's memories." spread at the rate of 1,500 acres hour Sunday.

Several exclusive near Lakeland Village were threat; ened. One house under was destroyed. In San Bernardino County, fire begatf just before noon in Carbon Canyon ani quickly spread over 10,000 acres and; moved into Orange and Los Angeles counties. Two homes in Carbon Canyon; were lost in the fire and about 5ft homes in the isolated village of Olindff were evacuated. Residents also were evacuated front the outskirts of Chino, where the winds were so strong they ripped an airport hangar off its foundation and blew over several private airplanes.

One firefighter was taken to a bank hospital for treatment of a cut lip; and two others suffered undetermined: injuries. A Burbank police officer was; treated and released for a foot injury: suffered when an onlooker ran over uV with his car. A resident in the SunlanoV area suffered third-degree burns; ofr both feet when he was trapped barefoot on a Burbank hillside. Several stretches of freeway closed because of the fires and hundreds of people sought shelter in Reef Cross emergency centers set up in high; schools and community centers. "The Salina Journal week and Sundays except Memorial, InC dependence and Labor Days, at 333 S.

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