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SPORTS Suns drop Bidwill: Bugel stays for season Roundup of holiday eventsV $. r- i 4 Sunny, windy High 71 Low 43 Details, Bit Pistons, 102401 throughout the Valley Opry-'s 'Christmas Jubilee' Final Edition I ITT MT' T'j "if I 11 111! 500 Copyright 1993, The Arizona Republic tan" REPUBLIC Friday, December 3, 1993 Phoenix, Arizona 104th year, No. 199 Mesa woman is abducted, locked in car trunk 7 hours Mayor wants parents punished with kids Parents have to be involved, because kids are dying on our streets. Paul Johnson PHOENIX MAYOR Both would face community service MCKELLIPS RD. Kidnapped woman rescued here after 7 hours 1 Phoenix youth.

"Parents have to be involved, because kids are dying on our streets," Johnson said. Although Johnson predicted widespread support among the eight other City Council members, the proposal may be headed for rough waters. Judge James McDougall, presiding juvenile judge in Maricopa County, said that he supports the idea of making parents responsible for their children's crimes but that the courts would encounter "immense problems in making it work." "This could be time- and labor-in- See JOHNSON, page A 13 By Judi Villa The Arizona Republic A Mesa woman was abducted at a shopping center Thursday, hit in the head with a gun and locked in the trunk of her car, where she remained for seven hours before being rescued, police said. After her abductor had driven her six miles, Charlene Thompson, 57, was freed when store employees noticed her bloody bra, which she managed to push out of the trunk to attract attention. Thompson, who was collecting boxes for a move, was behind the Walgreen's store at Higley and Brown roads about 9:30 a.m.

when a man approached her from behind, demanding her purse and an automatic-teller card, said Sgt. Earle Lloyd, a spokesman for the Mesa Police Department. "She turned and then he hit her in the head and See MMH, page A 10 PHOENfX By Carol Sowers The Arizona Republic Phoenix Mayor Paul Johnson is pushing a "get tough" plan that would punish parents whose children violated curfew and graffiti laws and wreaked havoc at huge parties. Johnson said Thursday that requiring parents to participate with their teens in court-ordered community service, such as working in parks or removing graffiti, might help end the maiming and murder of BROWN RD. Drugstore Map area CX- MESA' urnoro man TEMPE IIIIVI IIIUII abducted woman The Arizona Republic Evolution in zoo medicine Colombian drug lord Escobar is killed Police bullets end career of cash, blood By Steven Gutkin The Associated Press BOGOTA, Colombia Pablo Escobar, the ruthless leader of a global cocaine empire, died in a rooftop shootout with police and soldiers Thursday that ended a 17-month hunt for one of the world's most wanted men.

Escobar and a bodyguard were shot dead at a two-story home in Medellin, the city that served as the base for his trafficking network. He died just one day after his 44th birthday and as one of the world's richest men, having amassed a fortune estimated at $2.5 billion. Authorities tracked down Escobar through a phone call he made I Site. i 1 -i vj ii 1 I 1 1. i' y.

H. A-fl Under the watchful eye of Phoenix Zoo animal keeper Zoltan Tresz (right), Billy the orangutan is sedated for an X-ray exam. The animal suffers from valley fever, a condition that requires periodic X-rays, and on Thursday he became the first patient to be examined by the zoo's new X-ray machine. Above is a view of one of Billy's slides. Photos by David E.

NelsonSpecial for The Arizona Republic Pablo Escobar The Colombian drug lord was one of the world's richest men, with a fortune estimated at $2.5 billion. Mm Inside VEHICLE CRASH AND CRASH FATALITIES Fatalities and car accidents by vehicle mile and driver age. oaa nsKs increase 20 with age of motorist Elderly more at peril, as Mesa tragedy illustrates Police-reported crashes per million miles Fatal crashes per 100 million miles 15 10 GRIM RECORD: 5 killed in 1 day on Mesa roadways. Bl Monday to a radio station to complain about the treatment of his family by Germany, said army Gen. Hernan Guzman.

Germany turned Escobar's family members away earlier this week after they sought asylum. The Defense Ministry said a joint team of police and soldiers swept into the house, where Escobar evidently had been hiding for several weeks. Escobar and his bodyguard fired on the troops, who returned fire and killed them both, the ministry said. A shirtless Escobar apparently was surprised by the raid, said a witness to the killing in a residential area of western Medellin. "I was working when I heard some shouting in the street, and I realized that a fat man without a shirt was walking on the roof of the house See COLOMBIAN, pageAH Richard Allen Davis Classmates of a kidnapped 12-year-old girl reportedly have identified him as the abductor.

A3. By Art Thomason The Arizona Republic Seventy-year-old Bing Bingen, a longtime winter visitor to Mesa, considers himself a good driver. He's been one for 54 years. But national statistics say people near Bingen's age are vulnerable on America's streets and highways. Although older drivers travel far fewer miles than do their younger counterparts, drivers age 75 and older have the highest number of fatal accidents per miles driven, according to 1990 figures compiled by the Insurance Institute of Highway Safety, the most recent statistics available.

i Ii Is SI ii II 0 Those ages 70 to 74 have a high fatality rate, too, exceeded only by that of teen-agers. "On a per capita basis, elderly drivers are not a great risk on the road, but when you look at numbers of miles driven, they are just as dangerous as teen-age drivers," said Dan Galvin, a spokesman for the Arizona Department of Transportation. "As a matter of fact, they have a higher See OLDER, page A 8 16- 20- 25- 30- 35- 40- 45- 50- 55- 60- 65- 70- Ages 75 and older 19 24 29 34 39 44 49 54 59 64 69 74 Source: U.S. Transportation Department The Arizona Republic Arizona luring Canadians at record pace and little effort Astrology El 4 Bridge E14 Business CI Classified CL1 Comics C8, CL11 DearAbby E14 Dr. Gott E14 Editorial B14 Mclntyre E14 Montini Bl Movies E8 Obits CL17.CL18 Puzzles E14 Short Takes Ell Sports Fl Television El 5 Weather B16 Weekend El pher Mead, the Phoenix consultant who prepared the study for a group of organizations that included the Arizona Department of Commerce.

However, the state has a long way to go before its Canadian numbers even approach such states as Florida, which attracted 2.5 million Canadian tourists last See CANADIANS, page A 10 close, with an average stay of 20.8 days. Posted a 22.5 percent increase over 1991 in spending by Canadians, leading all states with substantial Canadian tourism spending (more than $100 million) in terms of percentage increase. Posted revenues of $207 million in Canadian spending, more than triple the 1986 total of $66 million. The growth on several fronts was largely accomplished with Arizona spending little to promote itself in Canada, the No. 2 source of foreign visitors to Arizona.

Mexico is No. 1, with 1.68 million annual visitors. Canada is virtually an untapped market for tourism that should be pursued much more vigorously by Arizona, said Christo in 1991, according to a new study. The jump in growth was the highest among the 30 states with large numbers of Canadian visitors, says the study, "Arizona and the Canadian Market." According to the study, Arizona also: Ranked first among all states last year in the average length of Canadian visitors' stay 22.7 days. Only Florida came By Ken Western The Arizona Republic Canadian "snowbirds" are flocking to Arizona in record numbers, drawn almost completely by word of mouth.

Even though Arizona barely advertises in Canada, an influx of visitors from there boosted the total number of Canadians in Arizona last year to 285,800 from 236,700.