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.1 SATURDAY AUGUST 12, .1995 Editor, Steve Knickmeyer 271-8222 l3lLDL3L3l3L3lljL3L3lDl3l3l3L3l3L3lll Bad back i missing hiker mmobilized Dunne 'embarrassed' after 3-day search Alex, who is scheduled to be released from the hospital today, said he never considered himself lost. "Not having any water scared me, but I knew I'd be all right," he said. He said he had thrown his back out before and knew he just had to wait a few days for it to feel better. Alex's adventure began last Saturday morning when he left his mother's home in Nogales to go for a bike ride. Earlier reports had said he left Friday.

After driving to Madera Canyon, he left his bike in the car and went for a hike instead. He set off for the top of Mount Wrightson, a peak, carrying only a change of clothes and an empty plastic bottle that he planned to fill with water on the trail. After reaching the summit, Alex said he was too tired to climb back down and decided to stay the night. The next day, possibly the day after, Alex said he ran into another hiker who directed him to a well where he i See BAD BACK, page B2 By Miriam Davidson Arizona Republic Correspondent TUCSON During the six days that his son Alex was missing, writer Dominick Dunne said that as soon as Alex was found he was going to bawl him out for giving everyone such a scare. But when Alex finally limped down from the mountain east of Green Valley late Thursday, all his father could do was cry and give him a big hug.

"I thought he was dead, I really did," Dominick slid. Alex, the subject of a massive three-day manhunt involving scores of volunteers, as well as horses, dogs, planes and helicopters, emerged on his own from the wilderness in the Madera Canyon recreation area ajfound 8:30 p.m. Thursday. He was dehydrated and suffering from a twisted askle and a bad back that had caused him to lie immobile under a pine tree for several days, but was otherwise in good spirits, rescuers said. Alex, who was taken to St.

Mary's Hospital in Tucson, said he could hear searchers calling his name and saw a helicopter circling over head, but was unable to move or speak. "My lips were so parched," he said Friday. "And I was almost delirious (from back pain). All I could do was roll back and forth a little." But the realization that people were looking for him, coupled with the little water he got from sticking out his tongue during a hailstorm Thursday afternoon, gave him enough strength to get up and walk the eight or so miles back to his car. "I can't believe all this attention," Alex, 38, said at the hospital Friday.

"I'm touched and embarrassed, and I'm grateful to all the search people and volunteers." At St. Mary's Hospital in 'Tucson, Alex Dunne recounts his wilderness ordeal for reporters. "I can't believe all this attention," he said Friday. "I'm touched and embarrassed, and I'm grateful to all the search people and volunteers." jlkm i ii John MillerThe Associated Press iUnrestat DurangoJail Eeragedl hesbaed killed 1 s. iA I- 1.

1. u.l.,-., Charles KrejcslThe Arizona Republic Dressed in riot gear, Maricopa County sheriff's deputies approach a medium-security pod no injuries were reported in Friday's protest, during which a few inmates refused to come at the Durango Jail to end an inmate protest over canceled recreation time. Officials said out of their cells and blocked guards' views of them by placing objects over windows. Ana Beatriz de feel so bad. It's like, what did I do? I was very humiliated and felt dirty." pi 5eauty claims harassment Police shoot after threats to his girlfriend, his wife By Jim Walsh The Arizona Republic As her marriage of nearly three decades fell apart, a Tempe woman feared that her husband's behavior would escalate from erratic to violent.

Thursday night, Gail Fuller's fears proved accurate when her estranged husband first held a knife at his girlfriend's throat, then drove to Gail Fuller's house and started firing a pistol. Finding no one at home, Gary Fuller, 48, holed up as a Tempe police SWAT team surrounded the home in the 300 block of West Riviera Drive. Nine hours later, Fuller was killed by a shotgun blast to the chest when he raised a knife toward an officer. "I think he was going to kill his wife. She's a lucky lady that she wasn't home," said Susan Burdette, a neighbor.

In a brief interview, Gail Fuller, 46, said she wasn't injured because she had left the house after dinner to go shopping. "It was close," she said. Police said Gary Fuller was killed about 5 a.m. Friday when he lunged from a storage shed where he had been hiding in the pitch black of his wife's garage. About a half-hour earlier, police had fired tear gas into the house, to no effect.

Two SWAT-team members, Officers Robert Johnson and Robert Gage-, then entered the garage and pried open the locked shed. "The first thing he (Gary Fuller) did was come up with his hand," said Lt. Steve Graehling, supervisor of the Tempe police criminal-investigations unit. "The officer (Johnson) saw a metal object in his hand. He thought it was a gun." Johnson, 32, a four-year veteran, shot Fuller in the chest with a 12-gauge shotgun, mortally wounding him.

Officer Les Strickland, a Tempe police spokesman, said Johnson "had no other choice" but to shoot Fuller. Under standard police policy, Johnson was placed on paid leave while the shooting is investigated by internal-affairs officers and the Maricopa County Attorney's Office. Fuller's girlfriend was not hurt in the preceding incident, police said. Maricopa County Superior Court records show that Gail Fuller filed for divorce in June, after 28 years of marriage. She also obtained an order of protection, barring her husband from having contact with her, on June 13 in Tempe Municipal Court and on July 6 in Superior Court.

The restraining orders show an escalating number of pitched quarrels between the estranged couple, apparently beginning May 27, when Gary Fuller "threw stuff all over-the driveway" as he removed personal items from the house, Gail Fuller wrote. Val Trent, a friend of Gail Fuller, said the Tucson paramedics rush to the aid of one of three people injured when the mobile home they were in was tossed by gusting winds. The victim had to be transferred to a second ambulance Friday after the first vehicle became stuck in a mud bog created by 3 inches of rain. Bruce McClellandThe Arizona Dally Star Tucson motorist dies in flash flood Green Valley 20 miles to the south, the Tucson Electric Power Co. said.

The motorist who was killed had tried to drive through floodwater and was swept into an arroyo. The 11 motorists were stranded when the Grant underpass of Interstate 10 flooded. It was believed that there were no fatalities. Trees and power lines were downed in Bonita, Eloy and Coolidge, the National Weather Service reported. Heavy rain was reported in south Tempe and west Chandler.

In Phoenix, visibility dropped to a quarter of a mile in the blowing dust as the storm advanced. Contributing to this article was The Associated Press. temperatures over 111, set at 10 days in 1989. But the Valley fell one day short of tying the record for consecutive 1 10-plus temperatures, set in an 18-day streak in June 1974. Winds brought moisture into all parts of the state Friday, which is exactly what Arizona needs to kill this summer's heat wave, said Bob Berkovitz, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in A high-pressure ridge that kept Arizona during the past several weeks could continue for a few more days, keeping temperatures above normal, Berkovitz said.

There is a chance of mainly evening showers and thunderstorms today, and some storms may produce heavy rain. The Tucson storm knocked out power to a 12-square-mile area and to the entire town of The Arizona Republic A storm with wind gusting to dumped hail and more than 3 inches of rain on Tucson on Friday evening, causing flash floods that killed at least one person and left 1 1 motorists stranded in raging waters. The storm 'that spun off Hurricane Flossie struck during the afternoon rush hour. Flossie moved into the open Pacific on Friday after veering past Baja California. Meanwhile, in the Valley, a grueling, 17-day stretch of Ill-plus temperatures finally ended Friday, a sign that the worst of the summer's heat probably is over.

This year's heat wave shattered Phoenix's record for the most consecutive days with By Art Thomason The Arizona Republic Beauty queen Ana Beatriz de Santiago came to Arizona to promote harmony between the United States and Mexico. Her reception was anything but a gesture of goodwill. 'Santiago, a 21-year-old Mexican, says she was harassed and humiliated Border Patrol agents. She said the agents lifted her dress, patted her stomach and accused her of cfiming to America to have a baby. Lewis, president of the UjS.Mexico Sister Cities Association, which Santiago was representing, is asking President Clinton for an iffestigation.

Santiago was heading for'dri association conference in Mesa last Sunday when she and two companions were stopped at the border crossing at Algodones, Baja California Norte, just West of the Arizona-California line. Santiago said Friday that she; her ujifle, Jesus Del Toro, and their eeXSDrt, Dean Baker of Lake Havasu Cjty, were harassed for two hours. j'fl feel so bad," Santiago said tfjbugh an interpreter. "It's like, what I do? I was very humiliated and fCfdirty." ifche and Baker said agents accused Santiago of being pregnant and crossing the border so her child would have U.S. citizenship.

The agents detained the three even when they shdwed agents their passports and visas and offered to provide evidence that Santiago was on a goodwill trip for the sister-cities program. Agents later acknowledged that she was not pregnant, she said. Bob Mandgie, the Immigration and Naturalization Service's district uty director in San Diego, said Friday that his office is investigating. Mandgie said Santiago consented to tne search by a female agent. 2 The group represents 170 U.S.

communities with sister cities in Mexico. See HUSBAND, page B3 Alan Thurber dies; put little people on Page 1 pressed by the famous or notorious. "You shouldn't have to run for office, commit a crime or get run over to get your name in the paper," he once wrote. Politicians, he would say, don't do the real work of the world. That is done by people such as the Arizona Peace Corps volunteers he visited in west Africa and the Dominican Republic.

Many readers liked his human touch. In letters to the editor, they called his See ALAN THURBER, page B2 By Carol Sowers The Arizona Republic Alan Thurber had to be a writer. He looked like one: glasses, graying tapered beard, smoke from his Black China tobacco swirling up out of his pipe. "When he couldn't find a word, he woujd sit back and light up," said Dorothy, hisWe of 40 years. He had a lot of stories to tell.

When signed on as an Arizona Republic columnist in 1982, he said he planned to write a story about almost everyone in the state, column appeared on the front page of the Republic's Valley and State section. In it, he celebrated life and little people. He wrote about a mother of 12 who spent 14 years in college before graduating from Arizona State University. He told readers about an endurance bicyclist with epilepsy. He took them adventuring, writing about his voyage on the black sloop Synia that left Maine and docked in Uruguay 30 days later.

Thurber's columns were not controversial. He ignored politicians, was unim "everyday people swimming upstream and having a little fun along the way." But Thurber, whose full name was Alan Thurber LeWin, won't be telling his stories anymore. He died Unexpectedly early Thursday in his home. Thurber, as he was best known, was 63. An adventurer, runner, hiker, sailer, traveler, church singer and lover of classical poetry, Thurber hadn't been sick.

"The strongest medication he took was Tylenol," Dorothy said. For seven years, starting in 1982, his Alan Thurber He ignored politicians, was unimpressed by the famous or notorious. 1.