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KEPUBLIC mail CHASER! fry The Arizona Republic. 350 Copyright 1967, The Arizona Republic PHOENIX. ARIZONA 97TH 4" jmsmmm IIP YEAEN0.233, i Senators hang onto Iran report Ignore Reagan pleas to release findings Republic Wire Servlcee WASHINGTON The Senate Intelligence Committee, ignoring an appeal from President Reagan, on Monday narrowly rejected releasing report on its investigation of the ranian-contra affair. The committee leaders, Chairman David Durenberger, and Patrick Leahy, declined to characterize how the committee voted or why it rejected Reagan's request to make the contents of its 159-page report public. "The whole report is embarrassing to the administration, if you want to know the truth," Durenberger said.

"The one person who is going to be embarrassed is the president." Meanwhile, White House com-, munications director Patrick Buchanan told about 200 fellow conservatives at an "America's with Reagan" rally that critics of the Iranian-contra affair "are not after the truth, they're after Ronald Reagan." Senate Republican Leader Bob Dole of Kansas, who had urged the release of the Intelligence Committee report, said the panel voted 7-6 not to do that. Committee members said the Democrats would have needed at least some Republican support in the vote. Monday was the last day the panel was under Republican control. Democrats take over today as the 100th Congress convenes. Before the vote, Senate Democratic Leader Robert Byrd of West Virginia said it would be highly premature to release the report now because it has "very real gaps" and is "incomplete and inconclusive." Leahy, the committee's vice said the administration "would like a report that says they didn't trade arms for hostages and that no one in the administration was involved in diverting funds for the contras." "Now I can understand why they would want such a report," he said.

"But they are not going to get it." tunnamif i. -jm fjiir AP Evan Mecham takes his oath of office as at the Monday morning inauguration, Gor- Rottas as treasurer, C. Diane Bishop as the state's 17th governor from Supreme don swore in Rose Mofford as secretary of superintendent of public instruction and Court Chief Justice Frank X. Gordon. Also state, Bob Corbin as attorney general, Ray James McCutchan as mine inspector.

TUESDAY. JANUARY 6. 1987 First major snow hits N. Arizona Travel slowed; skiers and schoolkids elated Republic Staff Northern Arizona received its first major snowfall this winter as a cold Pacific Ocean storm raced across the state Monday, delaying travel but delighting schoolchildren and skiers. The National Weather Service issued travel warnings for the White Mountains, as well as the remainder of the central and northern mountains, and urged motorists to carry chains or use snow tires on roads above 5,000 feet.

National Weather Service officials said snow was expected to fall throughout much of Monday night but may begin to lighten by today. They also reported wind gusts of 20 to 30 mph, causing blowing and drifting snow. The same storm swept through Phoenix at about 5:30 a.m., dumping 0.11 inch of rain and causing electrical outages, as well as wind damage to some trees and businesses. Arizona Public Service Co. reported that for a period of time about 7,000 customers were without power because of snapped lines caused by 50-mph winds.

Phoenix police said that the short-lived storm caused few problems but added that siding was ripped off a tavern in central Phoenix and a transformer at Central High School was blown out. The transformer problem resulted in students' being excused for the day, although APS linemen were able to repair the problem after about an hour of work. About 16 inches of new snow was recorded at the Fairfield Snowbowl north of Flagstaff by Monday afternoon, and officials there said an additional foot was expected by this morning. "We had just about worn out the little snow we had this winter," said Dave Blann, the area's general manager. "This is like a new lease on life." Officials at Apache Sunrise Ski Area, east of Pinetop-Lakeside, reported 18 inches of new snow, and officials at the Alpine Lodge at Mount Lemmon, northeast of Tucson, reported 5 inches.

Apache Sunrise officials described skiing as "good to very good" with a 35-inch base of snow, mostly packed powder, but Alpine Lodge officials said they were well short of the 18-inch base needed to begin operations. In Flagstaff, traffic was reduced to a near standstill at about 6 a.m., and classes were canceled at 12 schools in the Flagstaff Unified School District. "A- smmmlUMmmm New governor declares war on drugs, porn By DON HARRIS and SAM STANTON The Arizona Republic Evan Mecham became Arizona's 17th governor Monday, saying he will call a special legislative session on the state budget and declaring war on drugs and pornography. He promised to take care of the poor and to find a way to install a justice of his choice on the state Supreme Court. Mecham also said that he will implement a voluntary drug-testing program for employees this spring and that he hopes the practice will spread to the private sector.

Arizona's first Republican governor in 12 years arrived at his inauguration 15 minutes early. Mecham, 62, took the oath. of office just before 10 a.m. under threatening skies as a chilly wind whipped through Capitol Mall. Mecham, who lost four previous campaigns for governor before win- Mecham, A8 lMSLJ Michael Ging Republic Former Govs.

Jack Williams, Raul Castro and ceremony of Evan Mecham as governor. The Bruce Babbitt (from left) witness the swearing-in ceremony took place Monday in a chilly wind. IS Today $1 trillion U.S. budget is unveiled by Reagan Students torch papers to assail Peking media White House spokesman Larry Speakes said the report, "is ready for release to the public. It is the most complete account thus far of how the president's policy concerning Iran was carried out and is the most complete compilation of available facts concerning the alleged diversion of funds to anti-Sandi-nista forces in Nicaragua." Also Monday, Senate Democratic leaders began circulating a resolution that will be introduced today create a Watergate-style select committee to investigate the affair.

The resolution will call for a final Iran, A9 Educational aid cut A6 More pay for Congress A6 fl CAP funding to rise B1 Arts escape budget ax C8 $107.8 billion, the sum required under the balanced-budget law. It includes no increases in general taxes but calls for a myriad of program cuts, fees for government services and sales of government assets a move that Democratic budget leaders complain is just an attempt to hide tax hikes. "This budget has as a major theme attacking the deficit," said James Miller, director of the Office of Management and Budget. "This budget doesn't exactly slay the dragon, slay the deficit dragon. Last year, our budget quenched the fire-breathing part of the dragon.

This time, we're going to throw Budget, AT smoothly. There was nothing out of the ordinary." Hutton's statement added that "the preliminary view of all specimens shows no suspicion of cancer." A malignant tumor and a section of Reagan's large intestine were removed during major surgery July' 13, 1985. In his colon checkups over Reagan, A2 Republic Wire Servlcee WASHINGTON President; Reagan sent the nation's first $1 trillion budget proposal to Congress on Monday, vowing to control "the deficit dragon" in fiscal 1988 while boosting military spending, cutting social programs and shunning a general tax increase. Democrats, however, were swift to criticize the $1,024 trillion pro- fiosal, challenging White House inancial calculations and calling for a rewrite of Reagan's plan. Sen.

Lawton Chiles, new chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, asked Reagan to call a "summit meeting" with congressional leaders to develop a united deficit-fighting strategy. He suggested that the plan might include a "deficit tax" or other revenue measures to help stem the red ink. Reagan's proposal lists receipts of $916.6 billion, leaving a deficit of a democratic government," Bao Tong, chief adviser to Prime Minister Zhao Ziyang, wrote in a commentary in the People's Daily newspaper. "Hasn't China eaten the bitter fruit of enough movements?" he wrote, an apparent reference to the 1966-76 Cultural Revolution during which student Red Guards tyrannized the country. An official tried to keep a student from setting fire to the first newspapers at the Peking University protest, but did not interfere further.

There were no police. Students on the third floor of one dormitory lowered a flaming banner composed of several newspaper pages pasted together and embla-, zoned with big, black Chinese characters with the slogan: "To hell with the Peking Daily" Around the bonfires, students Students, A4 Scientists home in on baby galaxy Could be four-fifths the age of creation By CARLE HODGE Arizona Republic Science Writer PASADENA, Calif. -Peering back ever closer to creation, astronomers think they have sighted a newborn galaxy for the first time. They described it Monday as thrice the breadth of our own galaxy, the Milky Way, and shinier than 100 million suns. Galaxies are "the building blocks of the universe," the scientists reminded an American Astronomical Society ses-, sion.

i Studying how they evolve should reveal more about how the cosmos came into being and whether it will shrivel eventually or expand forever. A huge haze of hydrogen has been found 71 billion trillion miles from Earth, that looks the way "a forming galaxy should look," Hyron Spinrad Spinrad, a University of California-Berkeley astronomer, led the group that detected it. Two telescopes in Arizona helped in the hunt. Galaxy, A2 Republic Wire Servlcee PEKING Hundreds of Peking University students, enraged by the state-run news media's criticism of pro-democracy demonstrations, tossed copies of the official Peking Daily into bonfires Monday and chanted, "Burn, burn, burn." As 300 to 400 students rallied around two bonfires on campus, other students threw down burning newspapers from nearby dormitory windows, drawing cheers from the demonstrators. Conservatives in the Communist Party and government have harshly criticized student protests that have been staged in at least 10 cities, but on Monday, high-ranking officials belonging to the reform-minded circle around top leader Deng Xiaoping spoke out for the first time.

"Creating 'movements' dols nothing to help the construction of Reagan OK Republic Wire Servlcee WASHINGTON President Reagan emerged from prostate surgery Monday in "excellent condition," joshing his doctors with "urological jokes" and showing no evidence of urinary-tract cancer, White House aides reported. White House spokesman Larry Speajkes said after the one-hour Dallas airport siege. B15. CHUCKLE 'Necessary evil: one we like too much to abolish. PRAYER You can give us contentment, Lord, when we come to you in prayer.

Thank you for giving us the peace we seek. Amen. WEATHER Partly cloudy south, scattered snow showers north. Highs 35 to 40 mountains, 55 to 60 deserts. Lows 15 to 25 mountains, 35 to 45 deserts.

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Ir1 an earlier report Monday, "He's taking no medication fol-. lowing surgery and has expressed no need," Speakes said. In a brief two-paragraph statement, Dr. John Hutton, the White House physician, said, "It was a very routine transurethral resection. "The procedure went very.