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Sam Donaldson: talk-shou tiger 4,500 things all ij a in U.S. should Imoiv a 4D "Copyright 1987, TheTENNESSEAN Second class postage paid at Nashville, TN A Gannett Newspaper 4 Sections Volume 82, No. 81 Nashville, Tennessee Reds, Expos play at Greer Stadium 1G The TENNESSEAN Papal Mass No, it not the Yellow Brick Road Dow leap of 69.89 best ever Bond markets fuel historic 1-day gain disrupted by gunfire I Associated Press 1l 4 IMSiSrlM 4 in Robert Johnson Staff Interstate 440 interchanges Police attack protesters FRANCES D'EMILIO Associated Press SANTIAGO, Chile Pope John Paul II was conducting a "Mass of Reconciliation" yesterday when police directly in front of him opened fire on club-wielding anti-government protesters with guns, tear gas and water cannons. Witnesses said at least 20 people were injured, including a priest Police said 22 were injured, including 12 officers and two journalists wounded by gunfire. A young woman was seen bleeding, possibly from buckshot, although it was not clear what kind of projectiles the police were firing.

John Paul appeared shocked, pressing his hands to his forehead and gazing out at the crowd of 600,000 people in the Santiago park. Vatican security guards rushed to the altar, on which "I am Life" was written in Spanish. Some battles between police and hundreds of people protesting the military government took place only 50 yards from the pope, who skipped over parts of his prepared homily to end the Mass more quickly. Priests who had assisted the pope during the Mass came down from the altar to calm the crowd and to stop organized columns of masked protesters, many wielding clubs, who were provoking the disturbances. Policemen had to duck behind the papal altar to avoid flying rocks.

A green-uniformed trooper helped a black-robed nun up a ladder so she could flee the confusion The protesters virtually took over a section of the vast congregation, setting up barricades and causing disruption from the time John Paul appeared. Police vans circled the protest area, firing tear gas canisters. Priests on the platform wiped their eyes and children cried and choked. Women were seen falling to the ground, apparently because of the gas. The police added chemicals to the water in the water cannons to cause a burning sensation on contact with skin.

The Red Cross said it aided nearly 600 people, mostly tear gas victims. The wounded journalists were Maria Olga Allamand, a photographer for the leftist Chilean opposition magazine Anciiisis, and Hector Lopez, a Chilean camaeramaa Police said Lopez was hospitalized in grave condition. Protesters shouted slogans against the 13-year-old rule of President Augusto Pinochet, calling him and his secret police "murderers," and threw rocks at police. They set bonfires and the Fire Department was called in. "This is the time for pardon and reconciliation," said the weary-looking pontiff, who was halfway through a 6-day visit to Chile.

The church billed the appearance as a "Mass of Reconciliation" "The search for the common good requires the rejection of all forms of violence, from wherever it comes." Despite the pontiffs appeals, protests and violence have been daily occurrences. NEW YORK A rally on government bond markets spilled over onto Wall Street yesterday with stock prices closing higher and the Dow Jones industrial average setting another record. The Dow had the biggest one-day gain in its history 69.89 points to reach a new closing high, 2,390.34. The closely watched average, which reflects the performance of 3C blue chip stocks, has set closing highs 32 times since the current stock market rally began Jan. 2, rising 494.39 points from 1,895.95, or 26.1.

Advancing issues outdistanced decliners yesterday by a margin of about 3-to-l, with 1,209 stocks up, 413 down and 348 unchanged on the New York Stock Exchange. Volume totaled 213.39 million shares, against 182.95 million the previous session. The dollar edged higher against most major currencies in late trading yesterday as speculators worried they might have bet wrong on further declines bought dollars to close out their positions. Gold prices also were up after falling early in the day. At Republic National Bank, gold bullion was bid at $419.25 a troy ounce, up from $418 Thursday.

The market began the day on the down side, but a rally in the treasury bond market following the release of March unemployment figures carried over to stocks, and the upswing snowballed as the session wore on. "It really doesn't take much to get them rolling and then the dynamics of the market take over," said Hugh Johnson, sonior vice president of First Albany Corp. in Albany, N.Y. The unemployment rate fell slightly to 6.6 in March, the lowest level in seven years, the Labor Department announced. Despite the decline, the figure was weaker than investors had expected.

Because credit markets react favorably to negative economic news on the theory the Federal Reserve Board will not tighten credit in a sluggish economy bonds rose, and the stock market followed. Hildegarde Zagorski, a market strategist with Prudential-Bache Securities called the bond market rally "the excuse the stock market needed to continue its rally" after a pause earlier this week. Analysts also cited strength in the dollar on foreign exchange markets I Turn to PAGE 2A, Column 3 Cars, vans and pickups cruise along the newly opened section of 1-440, just west of Murphy Road. 1-440 finally more than a dream landscaping surrounding the highway as well as its "beautiful" noise abatement walls. "They caused some of these things to happen." Intense community debates centering on I-440's potentially negative impact on bordering neighborhoods became quite heated during the late 1970s, as plans for the so-called "outer loop" were being drawn up.

1 Department of Transportation officials and others saw the $178 million project as essential for improving traffic flow in the Metro area, while neigh RENF.E ELDER Staff Writer Cars flooded onto 1-440 after the last leg of the 72-mile loop was opened for traffic yesterday, marking an end to a quarter-century of debate and project delays. Key figures in the interstate project came together for opening ceremonies, which recalled the bitter controversy as well as its sometimes positive results. "The groups that opposed it made a contribution," said Gov. Ned McWherter, noting the elaborate borhood groups charged that locating the loop so close to town was a mistake. Construction was begun in 1981.

A 2.5-mile section between Interstates 24 and 65 has been open to traffic since 1985. "I still think it's too near downtown," said Moringo Lane resident Sophie Lowe, who joined yesterday's 1 1 a.m. festivities. "It should have been farther out." Lowe, spotting neighbor Joan I Turn to PAGE 2A, Column 4 I Turn to PAGE 2A, Column 3 I Baptist peace panel labors over report Formula for diversity in union escapes HIGH 48 low 28 See2B At 2 a.m. Sunday, April 5, most of the nation will switch to daylight saving time by moving clocks ahead one hour.

APPat Lyons Trooper kills Hickman man in traffic stop PHIL Will IAMS Stuff Writer CENTERVILLE, Tenn A Tennessee Highway Pa-trol trooper shot and killed a Hickman County man who apparently tried to run him down during a traffic stop last night, officials said. Trooper Henry Smith, a four-year veteran of the force, shot Billy Charles McDonald, 45, of Hickman County at 6:08 p.m. yesterday, said Tennessee Bureau of Investigation special agent Jerry Tenry. "Trooper Smith had stopped McDonald in a traffic stop, and it's believed that after the trooper got out of the car that McDonald then attempted to run the trooper down," Steve Watson, deputy director of the TBI, told the Associated Press. McDonald was driving a pickup truck, investigators said.

Smith shot McDonald, who lived on Highway 50 in the southeastern portion of the county, in the head with the trooper's .357 Magnum service revolver, Tenry said. "The trooper fired one shot at him and he was struck and fatally wounded," Watson said. The shooting occurred on Tottys Bend Road, two miles off Highway 50 and about three miles east of Centerville. It is a sparsely populated area of the county, and the TBI agent said there are no known witnesses to the shooting. Tenry declined to say whether McDonald was armed.

"The circumstances that led up to the shooting are still under investigation," said CapL W.C Amacher of the Highway Parrot "We womdnt able to comment mittee members this week pored over a 25-page preliminary report, agreeing on some points, parting ways over others, Fuller said. The two-day meeting at the SBC Building downtown divided its time over the political and theological dimensions of the controversy, a conflict that began in earnest in 1979 with the election of conservative president Adrian Rogers, a Memphis pastor and Peace Committee member. "Today we were hammering out a political premise what's appropriate and inappropriate politics in SBC life," Fuller said. "We acknowledge that politics is going to be there. You can't have a denomination of this magnitude without politics.

But we're looking at what's been inappropriate in the last seven to nine years and what's appropriate now and from this point on" Each side in the continuing dispute has accused the other of stooping to political rallying, networking and mud-slinging to drum up support Turn to PAGE 2A, Column 6 RAY WADDI.F. Religion Editor The Baptist Peace Committee labored yesterday over a draft of recommendations designed to restore peace to the Southern Baptist Convention, but failed to come up with a finished product The 22-member panel, which ended a two-day meeting here, sent the draft back to a subcommittee for more work before it offers recommendations on denominational politics and biblical theology at the SBCs annual convention June 16-18. "We're trying to determine how much diversity we can have and still have a legitimate basis for fellowship as a denomination," the Rev. Charles Fuller, Peace Committee chairman, said after the meeting. This week's meeting was the 14th since the committee was formed almost two years ago in an attempt to neutralize the escalating conflict between SBC conservatives and moderates struggling for power in the 115 million-member church body.

Made up of national spokesmen from both hostile camps, the com THIS SECTION Editorials. 6A National News Newsmakers 3A WorldNews 2A SECTION Metro State 1B Deaths 4B SECTION Sports 1C Baseball 1C Business 9C Classified 11C Deaths 10C Scoreboard 2C Stocks 8C SECTION Arts Leisure 1D Comics 60 Crossword 8D Horoscope 8D Television 4-5D DAYLIGHT-SAVING TIME returns tomorrow and to be on time move your clock forward one hour at bedtime tonight The change takes place at 2 am. Sunday, when clocks are moved to 3 a.m., making this the shortest weekend of the year. The time change comes three weeks earlier this year following a congressional vote in 1986. It applies to all the country except Hawait Arizona and parts of Indiana The Daylight Saving Time Coalition, representing businesses and associations, has lobbied for the 3-week-earlier time change and expects it to bring economic benefits to "exceed $4 billion annually" from increased sales and jobs, according to the coa-' litioru Clocks will be moved back aa hour Oct 25.

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