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Boy stabbed to death after beer party By JANE R. BURNS ftvUtMr Ira wntar What began as a group of friends getting together to drink a few beers ended early Sunday in the stabbing death of a Des Moines teen-ager and wounds to two of his brothers. Mark Banker, 15, of 5800 E. Second was dead on arrival at Mercy Hospital Medical Center at 4 45 a.m. Dr.

R.C. Wooters. Polk County medical examiner, said Banker died of a stab wound to the chest. Banker's brothers Mike, 16, and Terry, 18, were treated at the hospital and released. John David Alcala, 19, of 914 S.W.

Frazier was charged with first-degree murder and two counts of assault with intent to murder. Alcala was being held in the Des Moines city jail pending arraignment today. Mike Banker said Alcala was among five people invited to drop by a small party at 3402 S.W. Twelfth St. About 3 a.m., Banker said, a keg of beer ran dry and his brother Terry asked everyone to leave.

Alcala group left but shortly afterward the youths drove back to a parking lot at the apartments. The brothers told the group to leave again, but then "everything started breaking loose," Mike Banker said. He said the five were "causing trouble" outside the apartment, trying to get the brothers to fight. Terry and Mark Banker chased two of the youths across the street, hoping to get them out of the neighborhood, Mike Banker said. He said Mark Banker chased one of the youths and was returning to the apartment when he was stabbed.

"Mark was just standing on the sidewalk. Next thing you know, the guy was coming back and stabbed him," Mike Banker said. "Right after that he stabbed me." He said his brother Terry was fighting with the other four from the group and also was stabbed. After Mark Banker was stabbed, he walked to the upstairs apartment and collapsed, his brother said. "We just wanted to sit around and talk and have a few beers," Mike Banker said.

"It was hardly worth it." Alcala and a companion went to the Des Moines police station about 5:15 a.m. and turned themselves in. They did not know Mark Banker had died, said Bill Thomas, assistant Polk County attorney. Alcala denied the stabbings, Thomas said. The companion was held for a while as a material witness but was released.

Sun peeks through clouds The sun occasionally peeked through the clouds across the state Sunday afternoon. Despite the cloudy conditions, though, the weather was mild with high temperatures ranging from 44 degrees in Dubuque to 56 in Sioux City. Des Moines' high was 53 degrees. THE INDEX Advic 3T Business 7S Editorials 14A Movies 12A Obituaries 13A TV schedules 2T Classified ads 4T Comics 7T 1 Arab states tighten belts in oil glut Rich gulf countries facing huge deficits From The Register's Wire Services MANAMA. BAHRAIN The shrinking oil market is forcing the Arab states on the Persian Gulf to lake their first belt-tightening measures in a decade.

Facing mulhbillion-dollar budget deficits, the countries may have to dip into their huge cash reserves to prop up their economies and forestall growing unrest among religious op position. Sharply lower oil exports and falling prices also are prompting producing countries in the Middle East to begin to pull money out of Western securities markets and banks, financial analysts indicated For the past 10 years, the oil state elite have led extravagant lifestyles and pursued ambitious development plans. Their countries' international prestige and power soared as the price of oil rocketed to $34 per 42-gallon barrel. But now the gulf Arab production has slumped from a peak of almost 19 million barrels a day to little more than 7 million, and their failure to agree on a price with other world producers has started a price war that has dropped the cost of oil below $30 a barrel In Saudi Arabia, Western diplomats say the kingdom is delaying payments to its many contractors and cutting bonuses, overtime and other allowances in hopes of avoiding a shortfall in its 191.1 billion budget. "There are American vendors who aren't getting paid," said G.

Henry Schuler, a former oil executive now at Georgetown University's Center for Strategic and International Studies. A former U.S. diplomat who visited Saudi Arabia in late January said last week: "American companies are concerned." Murad Aly Murad, senior minister of the Saudi commercial bank in Manama, said the Saudis may have a $5 billion budget deficit this year. Some Western diplomats predict 10 billion to $20 billion shortfall in the budget, meaning the Saudis may have to fall back on their estimated cash reserves of $150 billion. Unpopular Option Kuwait has an estimated $75 billion in reserves, and income from this sum was higher than Kuwait's oil revenue last year.

Abu Dhabi has about $10 billion in reserves, but for any of the gulf nations to dip into these coffers would be unprecedented and politically unpopular. Radical opponents of the gulf regimes have long charged that the rulers' expensive lifestyles are irreligious and a drain on the economy, and that oil production is based on the interests of Western consumers rather than the local population. Any severe drop in cash reserves would be political ammunition for opponents of the Persian Gulf regimes. Extremist Moslem groups are con- OIL Please turn to Page 10A After church second day in California. The queen and her husband, Prince Philip, later visited Lo Angeles.

STORY: 8A. Queen Elizabeth II waves to well-wishers after church services Sunday in San Diego. Sunday was the queen's www Governors warn Reagan on deficits Their plan urges cuts in growth of military By ROBERT PEAR inj Nt Vr ThnM WASHINGTON. C. Leaders of the National Governors' Association called on the federal government Sunday to reduce the growth of military spending, maintain the current level of social welfare spending and consider raising taxes to slash the federal budget deficit over the next five yean.

It was their most comprehensive statement to date on Reagan administration fiscal policies. The appeal to Congress and the administration, approved by the governors' executive committee, represented their first formal statement on military spending as well as their most forceful warning about the federal deficit, which most governors see as a threat to the health of state economies. The chairman of the association. Gov. Scott Matheson of Utah, a Democrat, and the vice chairman.

Gov. James Thompson of Illinois, a Republican, jointly sponsored a proposal calling on Congress and the White House to reduce the annual federal deficit to $90 billion in fiscal 1988. Projections by the Congression al Budget Office show that under present law the deficit will reach $194 billion in the current fiscal year, which ends Sept. 30, and will rise to $267 billion in 1988. The governors said the federal deficit, now estimated to be 6.1 percent of the gross national product, should be reduced to 2 percent of that index, the combined market value of all goods and services, in 1988.

Not an "Attack" Thompson said the governors' policy statement should not be construed as "an attack on the president or his programs," but he noted that "the administration does not support it." The president's budg calls for more rapid growth in military spending and more cuts in the growth of social welfare spending than the governors wanted. Thompson said the gist of the governors' message to Washington was, "Put our fiscal house in order, or you're going to kill us all." Gov. Dick Thornburgh of Penn sylvania, a Republican, said he felt uneasy about the policy statement because it was too specific about national military and revenue re quirements. He said he did not understand how the governors, "without a Defense Department of our own," could know whether a particular level of military spending was adequate to protect national security. Larger Role Eyed But many governor clearly wanted their association to play a larger role in the national budget debate than it had before.

Gov. Richard Snelling of Vermont, a Republican, said, "We may not be experts on the federal budget, but we ought to be experts on the implica- STATES Please turn to Page 9A could quickly become overwhelming," said the commission. The commission said that the following provisions should be considered in guidelines: To protect privacy, no genetic information should be given to third parties such as insurers and employers without the consent of the person tested. Relatives should receive genetic information only if they would suffer serious harm without the information. Adoption laws should allow information about serious genetic risks to be passed to adoptees or their biological families.

Genetic information should be required of men donating sperm for artificial insemination, and this should be passed on to recipient women. The commission has studied genetic questions for three years. It is composed of lawyers, philosophers, medical professionals and citizens. role as WOI-TV owner; programs, urge sale quality programming that we hope is of interest to our viewers," says Janis Marvin, WOI-TV programming coordinator. "We are one of the few stations owned by a university, but the fact that we're owned by Iowa State doesn't enter into our programming decisions." Local Programs And that is precisely what bothers people like Herb Strentz, dean of the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Drake Strentz says it is reasonable to expect a university-owned station to do something that investor-owned stations don't, to offer more and better locally produced programming news, public affairs, educational and informational programs, WOI Please turn to Page 2A ISO defends others assail (Second of two articles) By ARNOLD GARSON Mtelstar Staff Wrttar Iowa State University is a better university because it owns a televi sion station that sends shows like "Laverne and Shirley" into central Iowa homes each evening.

That is the essence, if not the language, of Iowa State's explanation for state-university ownership of a commercial television station. Never mind that the university's station, WOI-TV, on Channel 5, has been running last in several important ways among the three commercial stations in central Iowa. WOI-TV's audience ratings and ad vertising income do not have anything to do with the reasons the university is in the television business. Rather, says Iowa State President W. Robert Parks, the university's jus- Linowes, a professor at the University of Illinois, to head a special committee that might recommend changes in the agency's organization and management approach.

Sunday, Fuller said tbe administration had decided not to ask Linowes to make the study. "Early in our discussions, with respect to strengthening the situation at the EPA, we considered a commission and talked to Mr. Linowes," Fuller said. "We have rejected that idea at the present time-Instead, Fuller said, Anne Gorsuch Burford, the EPA's administrator, will first be given a chance to work with a new group of five top assistants on the problems the agency faces. Reagan named the five new officials last week in a major reshuf- EPA Please turn to Page 12A Reagan to give more time to EPA; won't seek study Spread of genetic tests alarms panel Mark Mathews, sports director at WOI-TV in Ames, says that although he is on basketball coach Johnny Orr's payroll the Iowa State University-owned station is not a shill for Cyclone sports: PAGE IS.

tification for operating what ordinarily is an investor-owned enterprise centers on two points. One is that WOI-TV gives the university a sophisticated internal television operation that aids all three of the university's missions teaching, research and extension work. And it does that with television advertising income not with money from taxpayers or students, officials say. Second, as owner and operator of a commercial television station the past one-third of a century, Iowa State has done everything the Federal Communications Commission requires of commercial license holders. Every three years, at license renewal time, WOI-TV wins FCC approval for serving its community and operating in the public interest, just as all commercial broadcasters must.

Some Troubled Still, a number of people outside the state university people in government, broadcasting and the academic world long have been troubled by this unusual marriage involving the public and private sectors. A couple of different arguments emerge here. One is that the public would be better served if the university sold WOI-TV. The other is that if the university is going to operate a commercial television station, the public should get something more than what now is offered. For both of those arguments, the bottom line is the fact taat WOI-TV does not claim to give television viewers anything that other commercial broadcasters don't provide.

"Our goal is not any different from any other station to provide high- WASHINGTON, D.C. (AP) The country urgently needs to prepare for large-scale genetic counseling because a screening test to predict the most common lethal genetic disease soon will be available, a presidential commission said Sunday. The group said national guidelines on the ethics involved in conducting genetic tests and using the results are needed before the tests and counseling and the demand for them become more widespread. Genetic testing involves checking blood and other body fluids to determine the risk of inherited diseases, such as sickle cell anemia or Down's syndrome, in unborn offspring. Genetic counseling is the process of helping people understand and adjust to the resultant information, and to decide what they should do about genetic diseases.

The President's Commission on Medical Ethics said that genetic testing and counseling are valuable when accompanied by sound legal and ethical guidelines. The commission suggests guidelines should help prevent violations of privacy or unwarranted withholding of genetic information. The commission cited cystic fibrosis as a disease that could bring heavy interest in genetic screening because a test for this inherited disease, which attacks glands and the respiratory system, "is on the horizon." Cystic fibrosis is the most prevalent inherited lethal disorder in the United States, the commission noted. Among white people, one person in 20 carries the gene for cystic fibrosis and one in every 1,500 to 2,000 infants is born with the disease. "If a test becomes available to identify these carriers, the demand for genetic screening and counseling A ItU Niw York Tknn WASHINGTON, D.C The Reagan administration has decided to give the head of the Environmental Protection Agency and her new management team time to improve the agency's performance before taking further action, a White House official said Sunday.

Craig Fuller, secretary to President Reagan's Cabinet, reported the decision in response to questions about the possibility of naming an outside consultant to conduct a management study of the EPA. The agency has been the subject in recent weeks of allegations of mismanagement and suspicions of political manipulation and is under investigation by the Justice Department and several congressional committees. Friday, a senior White House official said the president was considering the appointment of David.