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NAL THE AIMMA MJEPUBLIC Final Edition 350 Copyright 1 990, The Arizona Republic Tuesday, February 13, 1990 Phoenix, Arizona 100th year, No. 271 Deposit another 3 digits, please Pupils say 'yes' Abstinence message backfires NEW RULES FOR CALLS calling-card calls. For dialing 1-555-1212 for directory assistance. jFor telephone-repair service for residences and businesses. For calls with the prefixes Use the "602" area code: For all in-state long distance and interzone calls now reached by dialing "1" first.

jFor all in-state calls preceded by a "O'-such as operator-assisted person-to-person, collect, third-party billed and In-state toll calls will require 602' in West plan By David Schwartz The Arizona Republic Callers statewide will be forced to dial three more digits when making toll calls under a plan by West Communications to prevent the company from running out of telephone prefixes. Calls that customers make by dialing "1" will have to be preceded by "1-602," West said. Arizona's area code also must be used for in-state calls for which a "0" must be dialed first, such as with collect calls and calls billed to third parties. The plan takes effect Thursday. However, calls still will get through without the 602 until July 1, when use of the area code will be necessary to complete a call.

The new dialing procedure will not affect existing telephone rates. "Arizona has been growing so much that we're beginning to exhaust the number of available prefixes," said By Mary Jo Pitzl The Arizona Republic The "just-say-no" approach to sex education backfired in a local program and actually resulted in more preteens saying "yes" to sexual activity, two Arizona State University professors report, The study indicated an increase in such sexual activity as French kissing and fondling among the sixth- and seventh-grade pupils enrolled in the "Success Express" program offered by the Maricopa County YWCA. Because of these "disturbing and perplexing' findings," ASU researchers F. Scott Christopher and Mark Roosa concluded that an abstinence-only approach won't go far in reducing teen-age pregnancies. "There hasn't been anything to See PUPILS, pageA2 Tom Garcia, the company's assistant vice president.

"This gives us some breathing room for at least the next few years." Stretching out the calls to 10 digits will allow the telephone company the technical flexibility to free prefixes it See AT SOUND, page A8 Keating launches offensive Asks for return of Lincoln Mandela promises fairness Tries to calm whites but backs force Udo WeltzThe Associated Press By Sam Stanton Republic Washington Bureau WASHINGTON Charles II Keating legal team opened its attack on the federal government Monday, charging that Lincoln Savings and Loan was in "atrocious" shape before Keating bought it and that he and Lincoln later fell victim to "hostile" federal regulators. Keating's attorneys, who hope to persuade a federal judge to return the thrift to Keating, presented testimony that Lincoln and its branches were poorly run money losers until Keating's American Continental Corp. bought it for $51 million in 1984. "They were run-down, they were dirty," American Continental President Judy Wischcr said of Lincoln's brant, offices. "The entire operation reflected its balance sheet.

It was a dying institution." She said that the thrift's former managers barely were competent to run Lincoln and that Lincoln offices still used manual typewriters and did not have automated teller machines when Keating purchased it. Hut when Keating tried to modernize and make the thrift profitable through new investment techniques, regulators became "hostile" and began harassing American Continental officials, Wischcr said. The testimony came during an unusual and colorful session in U.S. District Court" in which Keating and his team pulled out all the stops to get the judge on their side. Keating has filed a lawsuit seeking return of his thrift, charging that the government had no right to seize the-institution last April.

Wischer's testimony began with her introducing her 7- and 10-ycar-old daughters to Judge Stanley Sporkin, Sec KEATING, page A9 mw wwww cial markets tumbled Monday in apparent white reaction to Mandela's rc-cmcrgcncc. In Washington, President Bush expressed optimism Monday that South Africa's release of Mandela is a sign that the country is "at last" on the way to ending apartheid, but he showed no inclination to move quickly to lift U.S. economic sanctions. Bush noted at a news conference that the legislation imposing the sanctions against South Africa also prevents him from ending them until specified liberalizing measures are taken. The sanctions, imposed by Congress over President Reagan's veto in 1986, severely restrict U.S.

investment in South Africa and purchases of the country's-cxports. "I am absolutely excited to be out," Mandela told reporters in Cape Town before taking an evening flight to Johannesburg. He was released unconditionally Sunday. Mandela said negotiations between the ANC and the government could begin "very soon" if President Frcdcrik dc Klerk continues his peace initiative and makes further reforms. "The state of emergency has to be lifted in its entirety and political prisoners have to be released," Mandela told more than 200 journalists assembled on the lawn outside the official residence of Anglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu in Cape Town.

Andrics Trcurnicht, leader of the pro-apartheid Conservative Party, See MANDELA, pagcA9 Republic Wire Services JOHANNESBURG Nelson Mandela said Monday he seeks a South Africa that is fair to both whites and blacks, and he insisted that violence against apartheid is justified. The 71 -year-old black leader, enjoying his first full day of freedom after 27 years in prison, defended the policies of his African National Congress but said talks with the government could be held soon. In Mandela's hometown of Soweto, schools were deserted as thousands of pupils marched and danced in the streets, anticipating his return home. Mistakenly believing Mandela would arrive for a rally, tens of thousands of Sowetans crammed into a stadium, and dozens were injured in the crush. Hundreds of youths heading home from the stadium surrounded a police van and freed 13 prisoners inside, said Gen.

Herman Stadlcr, a police spokesman. He said the officers in the vehicle decided not to use their firearms, and no injuries were reported. The activists making arrangements for Mandela decided that he should not re-enter Soweto until today, when a massive welcoming rally was planned. Meanwhile, South Africa's finan A child cries in pain as he is crushed against the fence by a crowd in a soccer stadium in Soweto, South Africa. Tens of thousands crammed into the stadium Monday, dispersing only after learning that Nelson Mandela would remain in Cape Town for the day, where he and his wife, Winnie, visited with Archbishop Desmond Tutu (above) at his home.

HO wq Raymond PrestonThe Associated Press Why police officers are killing themselves Inside 4 they ended their lives, each with a bullet to the head. Although each had personal problems not related to their duties as officers, the tragedies underscore the frailties of a profession that has one of the highest suicide rates in the nation. "To say the problems associated with their jobs as police officers are not related to suicide is pure bull," said Edward Donovan, a retired Boston police officer who operates the only residential treatment center for active and retired law-enforcement officers. Lawmen take pressures of job home with them By David Cannella The Arizona Republic Police officers are more likely to die in their own living rooms by their own service revolvers than they arc to fall in the line of duty. Two Phoenix police officers in the early stages of their careers became suicide statistics recently when "It's a job that comes home with you, that stays with you every hour of the day.

The pressures of it can show in other areas, in divorce or drinking or drugs. It's all related to the job." Suicide ends the lives of police officers about twice as often as officers arc killed while wearing a badge, Donovan said. About 115 officers nationwide were killed in the line of duty last year, he said, adding that the total number of suicides was not available. Donovan admits that he, too, once was on the St-cJOB, page A 8 Farrakhan, in Valley, fears for blacks' fate Sec Page A5 Open-enrollment bill passes Senate panel See Page Bl Factions unite to push for paid King holiday Sec Page Bl 'Buster Douglas gets a champion's welcome See Page CI Today's prayer: Lord, help us establish strong family unity. Amen.

Today's chuckle: If your children can't follow in your footprints, maybe they can follow in your knee prints. Today's weather: Cloudy, windy at times; possible shower tonight. High 70, low 46. Monday: high 69, low 52; humidity, high 69, low 36. AI4.

Wcathcrlinc 957-8700 INDEX: FWTT HHW- I Some vehicle types fail emissions often 7 AiA 1 7 By Dee J. Hall The Arizona Republic Maureen Chiaramontc's 1984 Mitsubishi Mighty Max pickup truck failed its annual emissions test for the first lime last year. "It was like one-tenth (of a percent) off" the 1.2 percent carbon-monoxide limit, said Chiara-montc, of Phoenix. "It was so minute. We were really surprised." Chiaramontc took the truck to a dealer, who performed some inexpensive repairs.

It then passed. "I can't even figure out why the Mitsubishi failed," she said. "The other two years we had it, it passed," What she did not know was that the odds were slightly against her. The 1984 Mitsubishi Mighty Max failed emissions tests 54.5 percent of the time last February, compared with an average of 20 percent for all vehicles, a study for the state Department of Environmental Quality found. The study analyzed the failure rate for 24,589 cars and 9,350 vans, pickup trucks and minivans from the 1981-88 model years, based on Sec CERTAIN, page A 8 Life Leisure B5 BI3 B13 B13 C5 CL1 Astrology Bombcck Bridge Business Classified Scott AndorsenThe Associated Press A FAMILY'S COLD WAR An American-Soviet romance starts with shades of Dr.

Zhivago but ends in a bitter diplomatic and legal struggle for the Carver family. B5. Obituaries Puzzles Short Takes Ski report Solomon Sports Television B14 B13 137 A14 BI3 CI Bll Victoria BucknerThe Arizona Republic Joshua Ocampo performs an emissions test on a car in Phoenix. Arizona is the only state that checks emissions while vehicles' tires are spinning. Comics B12, CL6 DcarAbby H13 Fxlitorial A 12 Etc.

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