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STREET EDITION I Tme Amzona Republic Street Edition 350 Copyright 1989, The Arizona Republic Monday, July 17,1989 Phoenix, Arizona 100th year, No. 60 Radar-equipped team to flesh out legend Soviet sub under tow off Norway Kremlin claims it's an exercise jit I WYOMING I NEBRASKA COLORADO I Site where -v bodies may Jn to-- be burled Son Juan LakoQtyl inn (rite. Mountains '(JOgmm AZ NEW MEXICO I It's bone-chilling moment of truth for cannibal tale By Carle Hodge Arizona Republic Science Writer Reputed cannibal Alferd Packer would be astonished at how scientists will search for his alleged victims: with radar. High in southwestern Colorado, scientists will use ground-penetrating radar today to answer the 115-year-old riddle of whether Packer actually ate one of his Ave fellow prospectors in the wintry wilds of the San Juan Mountains. The legend is that he did.

But because he was such a storyteller, a legacy of doubt lingers about Packer's man-eating exploits. James E. Starrs, a white-bearded Washington, D.C., law professor, is determined to discover the truth. The George Washington University scholar, fond of finding "new icons to clast," long has made an avocation of dusting off old murder cases. Helping him will be his team of supersleuths: a geophysical engineer who is bringing his radar, a Tucson With his radar, Stanley S.

Smith III of Hudson, N.H., hopes to determine "where the natural soil has been disturbed," even a century or more ago. That should tell him whether the bodies were buried where local legend dictates, near the mountain hamlet of Lake City, Colo. If they weren't, he can search the surface nearby. When Smith finishes, a crew led by James Ayers, a free-lance Tucson archaeologist, will excavate, hoping to find what's left of the departed gold-seekers. Then, UA physical anthropologist Walter Birkby will take the bones, if See SCIENTISTS, pageA2 The Arizona Republic University of Colorado Alferd Packer A legacy of doubt lingers about his man-eating exploits.

free-lance archaeologist and a University of Arizona anthropologist who is an expert at reconstructing victims of mayhem. Republic Wire Services OSLO, Norway Norwegian government officials said a Soviet nuclear submarine apparently caught fire off Norway on Sunday and was under tow, but Soviet authorities reportedly said the incident was just an exercise. Norway summoned the Soviet ambassador to explain what it said was the third nuclear-submarine accident in as many months near its waters that the Soviets did not iimmit seeks i immediately report. Norwegian State Radio and the i domestic News Agency NTB said I Soviet spokesmen in Moscow claimed CI. a ilQiSMLij jthc incident was an exercise, and action rn Soviet Ambassador Alexander Teterin said he had not been informed of an accident "We called in the ambassador, not because this was the most serious of the incidents, but because it is the on polltition i third time that it has happened," 'Foreign Minister Thorvald Stolten-'bcrg said.

"This is diplomatically the serious of the three incidents." I Norway's Defense Command said ione of its vessels observed the Inuclear-powered Alpha-class attack submarine, one of the fastest and 'deepest-diving subs in the Soviet navy, being towed about 70 miles off Norway in international waters of the Barents Sea. It was not immediately known whether the submarine's nuclear reactors were damaged or whether the ship carried nuclear weapons. The advanced intelligence-gathering vessel Mariata reported that smoke was coming from the sub's conning tower about 5 p.m., and that the sub was being helped by a Soviet tugboat, according to a Defense rinistry spokesman, Erik Senstad. Other Soviet naval vessels were in the area, in international waters 75 miles off Norway, and the submarine did not appear to be in serious danger, the Norwegian Supreme Command said. 1 The Norwegian state television station NRK showed the submarine sailing under its own power and reported no outward signs of an accident.

Soviet officials said that the submarine was engaged only in an exercise and that the ship had never been in trouble, according to NRK. However, Stoltcnberg said at a 7 industrial nations end upbeat talks Republic Wire Services PARIS The world's seven richest industrial nations called for "decisive action" to fight global pollution as they completed a harmonious economic summit Sunday that will be remembered more for bicentennial fireworks than concrete achievements. For the first time, the summit ended ahead of schedule, a reflection of the lack of discord and pressing business requiring lengthy debate and consideration. President Bush labeled his first economic summit a "clear success." The closing communique addressed a number of Bush initiatives, including aid to the communist East bloc, endorsement of the administration's Third World debt plan and a call for greater efforts to clean up the environment. It also called for concerted efforts to fight narcotics, a problem it said has "reached devastating proportions." Also for the first time in the history of the summit, the final declaration focused attention on worsening world 't'U-; rW 11 I 4 i w- if X-W--- -V'i.

Sr ji' itf''f iiwii "i 5 I Jr The Associated Press Margaret Thatcher "I haven't suffered any diplomatic slights of any kind whatsoever. Indeed, I've had every attention." pollution, including global warming, acid rain, ocean dumping, oil spills and the destruction of forests. The declaration stopped short of endorsing any new anti-pollution standards, but it issued a worldwide call for all nations to make environmental concerns a higher priority, and See SUMMIT, pageA6 The Associated Press Reporters vie for attention from President Bush at a news conference on the lawn outside the U.S. ambassador's residence in Paris. On Sunday, Bush hailed the results of the three-day economic summit news conference, We have heard See ANOTHER, pageA2 Postal Service's red ink is rural towns' lifeblood 4 Yf By Anne Q.

Hoy Republic Washington Bureau By the time the mules make their descent deep into the Grand Canyon to: the lone U.S. post office in Supai, virtually the entire Havasupai Indian community is waiting for the mail. jThe one-room post office handles everything from frozen french fries for the community's restaurant to supplies for Supai's Indian school. Supai's mail is so perishable that a walk-in refrigerator had to be installed at jthe Peach Springs post office, above th canyon 65 miles to the southwest, where it is held until a pickup truck hauls it to the canyon's rim for loading onto a pack mule each day. The Supai post office, though perhaps more remote, is not unlike most of the state's rural post offices that cannot make profits.

The Supai postmaster's annual salary of $24,248 is almost 1V4 times greater than the $16,447 the office generated last year selling stamps. Almost 28 percent of Arizona's 198 post offices spend more on the postmaster's salary than the office makes purveying stamps, according to revenue and salary figures for 1988. The, salary-to-revenue ratio is usually 2-1 or 3-1, but in the case of the See POSTAL, pageA6 y. yy.y0 4 No change in world of pest control Firms still cheat, panel chief says By Steve Yozwlak The Arizona Republic A chill travels up Jacki Babcock's spine whenever she thinks about what lurks behind the walls of her 6-year-old home in north Phoenix. In March, Babcock and her husband, Sheldon, knocked through a wall to install a sliding door.

They found termites again. "Living here with two little kids and having them (termites) crawling in the walls, it's awful," said Jacki, who first battled the bugs three years ago. After struggling to get satisfaction from her home builder and pest-control firm, she called the state Structural Pest Control Commission. A complaint form was on the way, she was assured. The form never arrived.

"I don't know what we're supposed to do now," Babcock said. It's been two years since a state inspector blew the whistle on Arizona's termite-control industry and those who regulate it. But little has changed, according to the former inspector and other critics. Chances are, the ground on which your new home or business is being built contains little or none of the chemicals needed to prevent termites. And if your building has termites or if chemicals were improperly applied, state authorities are unprepared to move quickly to enforce' guarantees, critics say.

See NO CHANGES, page A 7 Inside The Associated Press Apollo 1 1 astronauts Neil Armstrong, Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin and Michael Collins ride in a parade in Cocoa Beach, Fla. An estimated 1 0,000 people lined the motorcade route Sunday to cheer the spacemen and to take pictures. Euphoria to go: Apollo 11 crew, space workers relive 'birth of era' INDEX: 77 Astrology El Business CI Calendar B5 Comics B7, E9 Dear Abby Editorial Hutton El A8 B4 Life Leisure B3 Jailing takes its toll Putting criminals behind bars could cost jobs and may mean fewer arrests and higher taxes under a new state law aimed at communities. Bl. King of women's golf Betsy King wins her first Women's U.S.

Open Championship, beating Nancy Lopez by four strokes. Dl. Today's prayer: Thank you, for helping our faith to grow. Amen. Today's chuckle: Don't be too hard on your spouse.

What can you expect from someone who was raised by your in-laws? Today's weather: Mostly sunny. High 108, low 84. Sunday: high 107, low 88; humidity, high 39 percent, low 21 percent. A10. Weatherline 957-8700 Obituaries Puzzles Solomon Sports TVRadio Want Ads C5 El El Dl B6 El By Howard Benedict The Associated Press CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.

The first men from planet Earth to carry their nation's flag to another world relived on Sunday that moment 20 years ago when they blasted off for the moon. "Five four three two one zero we have liftoff," said the recorded voice of a launch commentator as Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong, Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin and Michael Collins listened attentively to a tape of the final three minutes, 15 seconds of their countdown to launch. The tape reached "liftoff" at 9:32 pants and witnesses to the birth of a new human era," Armstrong, Apollo 1 1 commander and the first man to step on the moon, told about 6,000 flag-waving space workers and their families at a Kennedy Space Center ceremony. He said historians in future centuries will identify the 20th century "as the time when the human species broke the bonds of gravity that had heretofore bound them to this planet." "To have lived in that little slice of history and been witness to that turning point in human progress is unique," Armstrong isaid. "But to See APOLLO 11, page A4 a.m., the precise time the three began their historic mission July 16, 1969.

Four days later, Armstrong and Aldrin cast off from the mother ship Columbia and landed on the moon's Sea of Tranquillity in the lunar module Eagle. After 22 hours on the surface, during which much of the world followed their every move, they launched Eagle and rejoined Collins in the Columbia for the journey home. "We can, on this launch anniversary, look back on those very special times and allow ourselves just a touch of pride, a touch of satisfaction, that we wejre partici Herbert von Karajan The brilliant and controversial conductor who said he lived for his music, dies at 81, three months after illness had forced him to leave the Berlin Philharmonic stage. A5..