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REPUBLIC CITY, 1 1 The Arizona Republic 350 Copyright 1086, The Arizona Republic vTT SSSSSSil oddaird wimis; council incumbents aire leading Voters kill 3 of spending 4 issues to let they're going to fail, are not going to be a Cakewalk. "We're going to have more budget restrictions than we have had." Goddard and City Manager Marvin Andrews blamed the defeat of three spending propositions on too many ballot issues 19 in all and the confusion the large number caused. "Many people thought they called for a tax increase, but they really didn't," Goddard said. Nancy Martin of 1302 W. Sherman St.

said, "To tell you the truth, I didn't understand the proposi By DEBORAH SHANAHAN and ART THOMASON Arizona Republic Staff Phoenix voters appeared to be returning the majority of City Council incumbents to office in Tuesday's election but rejecting three of four propositions that would have enabled the city to exceed the state spending limit. In District 3, the only race without an incumbent, candidates Anne Lynch and Paul Johnson alternated leads all night, with Lynch slightly ahead in unofficial, incomplete returns with about half of the precincts reporting. Incumbents Mary Rose Wilcox, District 7, and Ed Korrick, District. from the state-spending lid. City officials have said that this proposition, 301, was needed to keep ahead of growth; without the exemption, the budget grows according to past population growth and inflation.

Charles Hill, the city's budget director, said Proposition 301 accounted for $65 million of the $82 'million that city officials said would lost by the 1989-90 fiscal year without voter-approved exemptions. The spending propositions to fail, 302, 303 and 304, were new Lynch lead slight in District 3 race against Johnson Mormon prophet Spencer Kimball dead at age 90 By PAM MANSON and ART TKOMASON Arizona Republic Staff Anne Lynch held a slight lead over Paul Johnson in the hotly contested District 3 Phoenix City Council race Tuesday night with three-quarters of the votes counted, but the race appeared to be too close to call. Neither Lynch nor Johnson had 50 percent of the votes cast in the north Phoenix district. The margin between them fluctuated and had been as small as 10 votes. If neither takes a majority of the votes cast in the district, they will face each other again in a Dec.

10 runoff election. Lynch, 43, and Johnson, 26, who -both ran unsuccessfully for the council seat in 1983, said they are prepared for a runoff. "I spent the last six months working my heart out," said Johnson, who lost in the 1983 primary. "I'm ready to do it for the next 30 days." Lynch, who lost a tight race to' Councilman Barry Starr in the 1983 general election, said she also was ready for a runoff. "I've been through this before," she said.

She lost by only 41 votes to Starr in 1983. The winner in the District 3 race will replace Starr, who did not seek re-election. The Johnson-Lynch race was the only council contest tinged with partisan politics. Phoenix exceed tions. I just voted for a few.

I came mainly to vote for (Mary Rose)' Wilcox." Yvonne Harris White of 305 W. Lynwood St said, "A lot of the. (propositions) seemed nit-picky. The council candidates and the mountain preserve (proposition) were the only issues that caught my eye." Voters, however, apparently were somewhat discerning, as they chose, by a narrow margin in early returns, to renew a proposition enabling te aviation, water, sewer and sanitation departments to be exempted CHUCKLE Drive-in banking was invented so that cars could see their-real owners. PRAYER We thank you, Lord, for granting us peace and renewed joy to sustain our lives.

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at his Westin Hotel Utah apartment of causes incident to age, church spokesman Don LeFevre said. He said Kimball's wife, Camilla, and a nurse were with him at the time. LeFevre said that he had no other details on the death and that Spencer W. Kimball Had been in a weakened condition since an operation Sept. 5, 1981.

rnnwm. 1 4 fSfrJf xS te 1 ft for city courts, which have been struck by wildly fluctuating caseloads caused by new state laws, such as a toughened drunken-driving statute, and for the anticipated loss of federal funds. Voters also appeared to be rejecting Proposition 102 that would have made council members eligible for the city's pension program, but favored Proposition 115 that would set permanent boundaries for the mountain-preserve parks. About a third of the city's registered voters were expected to turn out to choose a mayor and council members, who, in addition Goddard, A16 Election returns, A 16-17 Johnson, a contractor, drew strong support from Mayor Terry Goddard and Starr, both Democrats. Lynch, a Mountain Bell public-affairs executive, attracted such prominent Republicans as state House Majority Leader Burton Barr and U.S.

Sen. Barry Goldwater. Starr, stumping for Johnson on Tuesday at the Sunny High Precinct at Sunnyslope High School, 35 District 3, A16 2L-I Anne Lynch Beady tor a runoff, she says, "I've been through this before. legal-aid group on the Navajo Reservation filed the suit. The commission, after waiting 'more than five years to turn down the relocation claims of many Navajos, now is failing to grant appeal hearings within 30 days as required by federal regulations, Paisner said.

The suit seeks to force the commission to hold hearings every business day until all appeals are heard. "Just think how you would feel if you felt you were entitled to get something as major in your life as a house, you waited five years, then were denied," Paisner said. "Then they tell you you're going to have to wait, wait, wait until you can get your day in court before an impartial hearing officer." i Until Judge Paul Rosenblatt rules on whether to certify the case Navajos, A15 love affair 6, appeared headed for clear victories. In District 1, incumbent Bill Parks held about a 500-vote lead over challenger Judy Mack, with about one-fourth of the vote counted. Mayor Terry Goddard, who handily won a second term over challenger Mike Enriquez, bemoaned the apparent demise of three spending propositions.

"Weve had an exceptional spirit of cooperation from the City Council," Goddard said, "but the next two years, especially with the spending propositions looking like funeral arrangements were pending. He said Gordon B. Hinckley, Kim--ball's second counselor in the governing First Presidency, had been notified. Kimball, the 12th "prophet, seer and revelator" of the 5.8 million-member Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, had been in a weakened state since surgery Sept 5, 1981, his third operation in two years to drain blood and fluid from between his skull and brain, and had been confined mostly to his apartment Still, he attended most semiannual church conferences in recent years and rarely missed a weekly meeting in the Salt Lake Temple of the faith's governing First Presidency and Council of the Twelve Apostles. Kimball had last been seen in public at the Oct 6, 1985, semiannual conference of the church, which he did not address.

During Kimball's final years," day-to-day church affairs were administered by Hinckley. The first, counselor in the First Marion G. Romney, 88, is infirm' and confined to his home. Church presidents serve for life, and are the product of an apostolic' succession within the Council of the Twelve. If tradition holds, that body's president and most senior member, former U.S.

Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson, 86, will succeed Kimball once a pro forma vote of the Twelve is taken. Kimball, A2 communist countries, which lost nearly 1 million members after a summer of labor turmoil in 1980 gave birth to Solidarity. The union now is outlawed, and most of its leaders have been driven under-. ground. The government change, which the sources said was approved Tuesday at a Communist Party Central Committee meeting in Warsaw, is expected to be made public today at the inaugural session of the new Parliament Messner, 56, has been responsible for coordinating the economic-reform program 6ince Jaruzelski made him deputy premier in November 1983.

Jaruzelski, 62, became premier in February 1981 and Communist Party chief eight months later two months before the military crackdown. "Poland is the only communist officials, including a doctor, en the other, Yurchenko had his first face-to-face meeting with U.S. au-" thorities since he walked away from their custody over the weekend, after three months in the United States. Emerging from the meeting an hour later, he clenched his fists above his head like a victorious, boxer and said, "Yes, home," when asked whether he had assured U.S. officials that he wasn't being coerced into returning to his homeland.

State department spokesman' Gary Ulik Republic Paul Johnson, at the Hyatt Regency, says he's prepared for a runoff. Navajos in relocation file class-action suit Poland's leader stepping down; deputy premier is replacement Associated Press WARSAW Gen. Wojciech Jaruzelski, who crushed the Solidarity union with the steel fist of martial law, will resign as premier today to concentrate on his work as Communist Party chief, party and diplomatic sources said. Jaruzelski will be replaced as premier by Zbigniew Messner, deputy premier and a member of the party's ruling Politburo, according to sources, who asked not to be identified. Western diplomats said Jaruzelski, by deciding to step down as head of the government, is signaling the end of the Polish political crisis that led to the declaration of martial law and suppression of the free-union movement in December 1981.

They said the move also is designed to strengthen the party, the real power in this and other 'country in the world where the government was doing the governing rather than the party," one diplomat said. "It means Jaruzelski has decided the problem in Poland is no longer political but economic." Diplomats said that by relinquishing control over day-to-day governmental operations, he will be able to devote his attention to party' matters before next year's party, congress. Jaruzelski said nothing about his' plans in a speech to the Central Committee that was broadcast on 6tate television Tuesday, but he did refer to himself as the "until-now prime minister." He said he is "convinced that the new government will consistently continue the government's line that has been conducted up until now." "As the until-now prime minis- Poland, A6 Charles Redman said it appeared that Yurchenko's action "was a-personal decision." "The United States government has decided that Mr. Yurchenko's decision to return to the Soviet Union was made of his own free will and that he is now free to leave the United States," Redman said. The doctor determined there was no observable evidence that Yur-- chenko had been drugged, "which could affect his behavior, or that he was not competent to make his own decison to return to the USSR," Redman said.

The doctor made no- By ANDY HALL Arizona Republic Staff A conflict over the relocation of Navajos from land that has been allocated to the Hopis grew a bit broader Tuesday, when a class-action lawsuit was filed against the federal commission that was supposed to smooth the Navajos' movement to other areas. The suit was filed in U.S. District Court in Phoenix on behalf of more than 500 Navajo families that, according to the suit, are being denied their constitutional right to due process because the Navajo-Hopi Relocation Commission has rejected their requests for appeal hearings. The Navajos' attempts to obtain relocation benefits were rejected months ago, said S. Barry Paisner, managing attorney of the Chinle office of DNA-People's Legal Services Inc.

The privately funded 'security men stayed outside during the meeting. State Department officials had insisted that Yurchenko be interviewed in a "non-coercive environment" so they could be sure that the KGB official was not being pressured to leave the United States. Even before the interview, State. Department officials said they expected to find that Yurchenko indeed wants to go home. There was no immediate word on when' Yurchenko will leave the country, but CBS Ijjews reported Tuesday KGB defector's change of heart may be tied to ended direct physical examination of Yurchenko, he added, but was "completely satisfied." Arriving at department headquarters in darkness, Yurchenko' was accompanied by Soviet Embassy Minister-counselor Victor Is-akov and two other Soviet officials.

Yurchenko, considered by some to be one of the most significant Soviet turncoats in recent years and by others to be a double agent" planted to embarrass the CIA, had no comment as he entered the' building, wo carloads of Soviet night that a Soviet aircraft will i arrive at Dulles International Air- port outside Washington today to fly Yurchenko back to the Soviet jUnion. Yurchenko's request to return, home came at a news conference when he claimed that he had not defected Aug. 1 at the U.S. in Rome but, rather, had been snatched and drugged by the CIA. US.

intelligence sources, declined to be identified by name, said Yurchenko, who has a wife and yi Defect, A7m Republic Wire Services WASHINGTON KGB official Vitaly Yurchenko, who claims that' he was kidnapped and drugged at the hands of the CIA, may have defected to the West in part to be near a girlfriend in Canada and may' have returned to the Soviets because the affair turned sour, U.S. intelligence sources said Tuesday. Yurchenko was questioned by U.S. officials at the State Department on Tuesday to determine whether he really wants to return to the Soviet Union. With four Soviet diplomats on' cue side and sixate Department.