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the '70s, and a federal judge in Reno ruled in that such messages have no First See SUBLIMINAL, page A28 By David Hoye Staff writer Eject the exercise videos. Burn those self-help books. It's time to improve your life using the tool of the 90s: the personal computer. A Scottsdale-based software company has produced what may be the world's first subliminal messaging program for PCs that use the Windows operating system. For $49.95, Brainware 2000 promises to improve health, increase spirituality, boost brain power and motivate the heck out of just about anybody who is toiling away at a computer.

"People have computers in front of them all day long," said Mike Klingen, author of Brainware 2000 and co-owner of Apps Software Inc. "It's a no-brainer. It runs under any program." containment 1st of its kind in Arizona 'Complete devastation' at Four Peaks Dry conditions; inflame fear of cabin owners McCain to probe BIA loss i $2.4 billion shortage of trust confirmed lV. fl By Clint Williams Staff writer TONTO BASIN The smoke has cleared out and Curtis Jackson is hoping that the fishermen quickly return. "We've had a lot of people stay away, and it has killed us in the bait shop," said Jackson, who helps run the Butcher Hook Bait and Tackle Shop a few miles north of the base camp set up for firefighters combating the "Lone" fire.

Jackson had cause to be optimistic Friday that business at the bait shop along Arizona 188 would be back to its usual 25 to 50 customers a day. Despite earlier reports that the could turn nasty Thursday night, it didn't. Favorable winds and substantial reinforcements of equipment and firefighters were the breaks that crews needed to get ahead of a fire that has ravaged 61,250 acres, making it the largest wildfire in modern state history. By late Friday, the fire was See WILDFIRE, page A25 By Linda Helser Staff writer A lonely, scorched chimney is all that remains of La Wanda Altherr's slice of paradise in Bonita Creek. Everything else went up in smoke when the "Dude" fire of 1990 swept across her shady mountain cabin and those of 55 others, reducing them and 26,000 acres to stumps, cinders and ashes.

For many years, Altherr insured the retreat she built 27 miles east of Payson. "But the insurance lapsed, so we lost everything," Altherr said. "And even though I can't afford to rebuild, I think my grandchildren might someday." The fear that her cabin might someday burn to the ground never threatened Altherr. "They always said it could never happen," the Phoenix resident said. But Judy Lebeau, who purchased her summer home last June in Tonto Creek Estates, lives daily with a different reality.

See CABIN OWNERS, pageA24 By Adrianne Flynn Washington Bureau WASHINGTON U.S. Sen. John McCain will probe the "outrageous" loss of $2.4 billion in Indian trust funds by the Bureau of Indian Affairs, which the federal General Accounting Office confirmed Friday. "It is absolutely outrageous that the BIA cannot account for $2.4 billion of the Indian tribes' own money as a result of shoddy record keeping," said the Arizona Republican, who is chairman of the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs. "Trustees receive and disburse funds all the time for other Americans, and if they blow it, they pay," McCain said.

"In this case, it's the Native Americans' who are rightfully owed money and the federal government (that) will be forced to compensate for their loss." In a report released Friday the GAO found that tribal trust-fund money cannot be accounted for because records are missing and there is no audit trail in BIA systems. Despite spending $21 million over 5 years, the GAO found, the BIA cannot reconcile funds for 32,900 transactions, or 16 percent, which totals $2.4 billion. McCain said he will schedule an oversight hearing of the Indian Affairs committee once it receives a report from the Interior Department. That report is due at the end of May. The GAO study confirms what Indian tribes long suspected and learned for certain in February.

An audit by Arthur Andersen Co. disclosed the magnitude of the BIA's trust fund errors that month, that one of every seven dollars of Indian money entrusted to the agency from 1973 to 1992 could not be See McCAIN, page A29 Gary R. UtlkStaff photographer Before a precedent-setting kidney transplant at Good Samaritan, Sheldean and Greg Guff (left) and Dany and Becky Seymore gather. Dany Seymore received a kidney from longtime pal Greg fluff. HE GIVES A IDNEY TO SAVE A FRIEND Foster's long fall from Valley skies TV pilot's career marked by turbulence Low men at Good Samaritan Regional Medical Center was the first of its kind in Arizona.

At Good Samaritan, the state's largest renal-transplant center, 77 percent of kidneys for transplants come from deceased donors and 23 percent from living relatives. Doctors said Friday that Seymore and Cluff were doing well, although Seymore must fight off the risk of infections and rejection of the organ for days. Recent studies show that survival rates for people who receive kidneys from spouses are just as high as those for people who get kidneys from relatives or cadaver donors: 95 percent. The very first friend-to- See FRIEND GIVES, page A26 By Jodie Snyder Staff writer "Would it be all right with you kids," Dan Seymore asked over Sunday dinner, "if I got one of your dad's kidneys?" Of all the tests Seymore endured to replace his kidney, this was one of the most trying asking Greg ClufFs kids' permission so their dad could go under the knife and give him one of his kidneys. "That's Dany, though, he had to ask because it involved all of our families," said Sheldean Cluff, Greg Cluff wife.

It's not often that friends like Cluff can donate a kidney to another friend. Thursday's procedure performed on the two Show Or I Jerry Foster Rode with the Dirty Dozen in 1982 in order to do an in-depth story on the motorcycle gang. By Dennis Wagner Staff writer I still have the prettiest Harley-Da-vidson in the world. It's a chopper. It's the one I rode back in those days, except that I've got it all fixed up and painted up just like the helicopter.

Jerry Foster, 1988 The first time Jerrell Pace Foster flew a helicopter, he found a natural high that led to a storied career in broadcasting and law enforcement. But investigators say the TV pilot later turned to synthetic drugs, buying methamphetamines through a Dirty Dozen connection. Foster, who pioneered sky journalism during 23 years on the air, has been silent since a state grand jury indicted him on drug charges last month. His career was always a bumpy ride full of dogfights with federal regulators and flak from media All pulling together colleagues. But even critics were stunned by this nose dive from grace.

Jerry Foster isn't just any boob-tube chopper pilot, but a national broadcasting legend who served as "special deputy" with the Maricopa County Sheriffs Office. See FOSTER'S, page A27 Enthusiasm high for 'Chinese Arizona Center' INSIDE j) Vr I D6 AH1 D6 El A2 CL1 Astrology Az Home Bridge Business Chuckle Classified COMING SUNDAY ARIZONA. The Republic 100: Arizona's biggest employers. How the state's firms are preparing for the next century. Best of Business: The top 10 performing companies.

A look at products made in Arizona. Whitewater, prosecutors rest, Clinton questions remain See Page A4 Comics D4.CL43 Dear Abby D6 By Chris Flscus and Susie Steckner Staff writers A subsidiary of an international Fortune 500 company wants to turn a vacant lot near Van Buren and 44th streets into what one City Council member calls "a Chinese Arizona Center." Plans for the massive project include a formal Chinese garden, open-air Chinese market, office and retail space and three restaurants. Later phases could add two midrise office towers and a 200-room hotel. "When they came in, I thought "This sounds Phoenix City Councilman Sal DiCiccio said. "Then they showed me their plans, and I was like 'Oh my God.

This is The project, between 44th and 42nd streets along Gateway Boulevard, will be developed by BNU a subsidiary of COFCO. COFCO is one of the largest trading companies in China. In 1993, it ranked third in China in terms of import and export volume. The company's main businesses involve food products such as bulk grain and sugar, cereals, fruits, vegetables, See ENTHUSIASM, page A6 D6 B6 Dl B5 A2 D6 B3 CI B8 CL1 Dr. Gott Editorial Life Obituaries Prayer Puzzles Religion Sports Television Weather Wheels u0 Mike GingStaff photographer piving it their all, seventh-grade girls from St.

Gregory's School beat their male classmates twice in a rope-pulling contest The tug of war was part of a Field Day series of events Friday that included a pie-eating contest and other games. DAILY i.