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FINAL LIFE LEISURE I ''f Cartoon comeback: Hot Iceberg p) 1 fashions jfo (J SPORTS Formula One season begins Final Edition hie Arizona Republic 350 Copyright 1991, The Arizona Republic Thursday, March 7, 1991 Phoenix, Arizona 101st year, No. 293 Slash tares to SYMINGTON'S MISSION: A 'HOUSE IN ORDER' -I raeL Arab Time to end the conflict' 1 -X A V- 15 freed U.S. POWs get heroes' welcome few- .1 mi I i 1 1 Paul F. GeroThe Arizona Republic After being sworn in as Arizona's new governor, Fife Symington presents a bouquet to former Gov. Rose Mofford.

Seated beside them is Symington's son, Fife Symington IV (right), and former U.S. Rep. John Rhodes. Republic Wire Services WASHINGTON Seeking to turn the momentum of the allied victory in the Persian Gulf war into a campaign for peace throughout the troubled Middle East, President Bush declared Wednesday that it is time "to put an end to the Arab-Israeli conflict." Bush, welcomed as a triumphant commander by a cheering joint session of the House and Senate, also said the first planeload of U.S. soldiers would be coming home from the gulf within hours.

Escorted into the House chamber by seven members of Congress whose children and grandchildren are serving in the gulf, Bush had to wait three minutes before the frenzied applause died. Then, in an extraordinary departure from tradition, the Democratic speaker of the House, Rep. Thomas Foley of Washington, extended his hand and complimented Bush and the troops he controls as commander-in-chief, for the "brilliant victory of the Desert Storm operation." Bush had been invited by Democratic leaders to address Congress regarding the war with Iraq. The president said America and its gulf-war allies will become a "force for peace and security" in the gulf region. "We must work to create new opportunities for peace and stability in the Middle East," he told the joint session.

Bush lavished praise on America's combat forces. "From the moment Operation Desert Storm commenced on January 16 until the time the guns fell silent at midnight one week ago," he said, "this nation has watched its sons and daughters with pride watched over them with prayer. "As commander-in-chief, I can report to you: Our armed forces fought with honor and valor. As president, I report to the nation: Aggression is defeated, the war is over." Bush gave special praise to See BUSH, page A5 overnor vows New aid to ilies. kids By Mary Jo Pitzl The Arizona Republic Acknowledging the turmoil engulfing Arizona politics, Fife Symington took the oath of office Wednesday as the state's 19th governor, vowing to "put 'service' back into public service." The 1 1 :30 a.m.

inaugural marked the culmination of Symington's overtime quest for the governorship. His 10-minute speech was light i lis I jf Sadayuki MakamiDepartment of Defense pool photo Freed prisoner of war Rhonda L. Cornum of East Aurora, N.Y., is greeted by Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf as she arrives in Saudi Arabia on Wednesday.

MORE STORIES, PICTURES, A20 on specific policy issues, which he has said he will address later, and heavy on the business and family themes that were the foundation of injured slightly in allied bombing raids and that most had been "slapped around," including three whose eardrums were perforated. The Americans flew to an island nation in the Persian Gulf, after having landed in Saudi Arabia with 20 other former allied prisoners. The Iraqi government, which freed 10 other allied POWs on See 15 U.S., page A2 By George Esper The Associated Press MANAMA, Bahrain Fifteen freed American prisoners of war, two on stretchers and many undernourished, were welcomed as heroes Wednesday after traveling from Baghdad, Iraq, to a U.S. Navy hospital ship here. Doctors who examined the former POWs said that some had been mi Iraqi loyalists subduing rebels his nearly two-year run for the governor's seat.

Harkening to his business background, the Phoenix developer said state government must shake off the belief that "bigger is better." "We have a moral obligation to the citizens of this state to adopt the hard management lessons of the private sector," he said. Although' he intends to cut government spending, Symington said his administration will not neglect the needy. Children will get particular attention from his office, he told an estimated 1,000 people assembled on the Capitol lawn. "We must have governmental policies that support strong families, that, establish safe communities in which to raise children and that extend a helping hand to families in need he said. "For our children's sake, we must get our house in order." Symington, 45, was joined on the second-floor balcony of the original state Capitol building by his wife, Ann, his five children and state dignitaries.

Wednesday's ceremony ended another tumultuous chapter in Arizona's political history. Just eight days See SYMINGTON, page A20 1 control by carrying out an exchange of prisoners of war with the U.S.-led coalition and by naming one of his most ruthless clansmen, Ali Hassan al-Majid, as interior minister to help stamp out the rebellion. The revolt was sparked by widespread discontent over Saddam's crushing defeat by coalition forces in the Persian Gulf war, which ended last week. Fighting in Basra and about a dozen other towns in southern Iraq has killed hundreds in the past five days, refugees said. See SADDAM, page A3 Republic Wire Services RIYADH, Saudi Arabia Saddam Hussein demonstrated a seemingly firm grip over much of Iraq on Wednesday as loyalist troops subdued a violent revolt in Iraq's second-largest city, Basra, and moved against rebels in other cities.

Saddam, seeking to head off any disloyalty among his forces, gave his elite Republican Guard forces a 33 percent pay raise. The Iraqi president showed every sign of being in Paul F. GeroThe Arizona Republic Getting a feel for the governor's office at the Capitol is Arizona's new chief, Fife Symington, and his wife, Ann. INDEX: 43 of kids 5 to 9 tried alcohol, Tucson poll says She asked to die in peace and dignity Doctor advised cancer patient on suicide 4 I I i A Astrology D8 Bombeck D8 Bridge D8 Business B4 Chuckle A2 Classified CL1 Comics CL 6, CLIO Cook CI Dear Abby D8 Editorial A 18 Life A Leisure CI Obituaries CL9 Prayer A2 Puzzles D8 Short Tale CJ Solomon D8 Sports Dl Tclcviskw C6 Weather B12 Willey B2 By Dee Ralle The Arizona Republic TUCSON A third-grader told about drinking three glasses of wine on New Year's Eve. And how did the drinks, given to him by his parents, make him feel? asked a surveyor conducting a study of 390 primary-grade children for the Tucson Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence.

The boy reported that he "passed out and couldn't recall how he felt," Henry Stewart, the council's prevention director, said Wednesday. In releasing findings of the January study, conducted in four elementary schools, Stewart called the scenario "shocking" but said it is "not uncommon." Stewart said surveyors "were amazed" to find that 170 of the 390 children surveyed, or 43.6 percent, in kindergarten through third grade had used alcohol at least once. "Almost all of them said they got their first drink from their parents," he said. Stewart said 7 percent of the drinkers, or 12 children, said "they had a drink almost every day." The children were not asked how much they drank but sometimes volun- ScrWtL, pagcAW Twelve of the 390 children suneyed reported that "they had a drink almost every day." doctor wrote a prescription for sleeping pills and told her how many she needed to take to kill herself. Cases such as this probably are not rare in medicine.

But no one really know because physicians rarely speak of such things, even to each other. This case is different. The doctor who helped Diane end her SeeMCTOI, page Ail Daniel Q. Haney The Associated Press BOSTON Diane was worried about a long and painful death from leukemia when her doctor agreed to help her commit suicide. She had refused chemotherapy because the chance of cure seemed slim.

When the time for dying finally came, she wanted to go qukkly. So after long talks, Diane's Timothy E. Quill Says he wants to bring the discussion of death and suffering into the open..