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Libs' Sandberg Georgetown No. 1 basketball team ib Baby Fae worsens, put on respirator Below MVP award imo Gazette-JoaraM 35 cents COLOR Drug counselors fear Reno coke epidemic the audience of local employers, counselors and concerned families. "I think the more people know about this drug, the more they'll realize it's not all that neat a thing at all," said Michele Sheppard, employee assistance counselor at the Nugget. Most cocaine users think of the drug as a stimulant because of a "45-minute high," but severe depression usually follows and is accompanied by "an overwhelming urge" to get more of the drug, Thornton said. He emphasized that not everyone who See COCAINE, back page here who have become addicted," another counselor, Sean Moore, told the seminar on cocaine attended by 150 people in the Ponderosa Room of John Ascuaga's Nugget.

The number of users continues to grow and hundreds of them have begun to sell the substance to support their habit, the counselors said. Cocaine use has moved from the upper class to high school students and middle class workers, replacing amphetamines as the third most popular local drug, following alcohol and marijuana, Moore said. There's no estimate on the exact num By WAYNE MELTON Cocaine use has dramatically increased in the Reno area during the last year, permeating almost every level of society and causing problems for hundreds of local families, substance abuse counselors said at a seminar in Sparks Tuesday. The epidemic" is especially bad in casinos, where executives believe at least 2,500 of the estimated 22,000 gaming employees in the Reno-Lake Tahoe area have used cocaine, said one counselor who has spent several months studying the problem. "We're seeing a whole chain of people ber of local cocaine users, Moore said.

But he noted 50 percent of people now seeking help for drug abuse in Reno use cocaine, compared with 15 percent during the same period last year. Reasons for the increase are varied, but most users are lured by the feeling of excitement and power they imagine the drug gives them, said Dr. William Thornton, a physician and psychatrist who works with Moore at the Reno Professional Counseling Center. "But cocaine is the most powerful drug of all in terms of seducing its users and of its ability to destroy a person both emotionally and physically," Thornton told Nicaragua buildup signals invasion plan I mi Jean Dixon Aikln Gazette-Journal morning in the wake of the strong Pacific storm. Another weaker storm system off the coast is expected to bring clouds this afternoon and possibly snow above 5,000 feet tonight and early Thursday morning.

But National Weather Service meteorologist Tom Cylke said high pressure over Idaho See SNOW, back page I Us Wednesday NOVEMBER 14, 1984 Increasing cloudiness, rain High 47, low 30 1 Shuttle salvage crew back in action today CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. Trying to avoid another surprise, Discovery's salvage crew Tuesday decided to put Joseph Allen on the end of the shuttle's arm like a cherry picker to lower a second satellite into the cargo bay today. Allen and his space-walking partner, Dale Gardner, recharged their $2 million spacesuits and said they were ready for their second six-hour excursion outside the shuttle, this time to retrieve the Westar 6 relay station. Allen had to awkwardly hold onto the Palapa satellite now safely secured in the shuttle cargo bay for 90 minutes Monday because an unforeseen protrusion prevented installation of a fixture to be grabbed by the robot arm. Details, page 6A.

New postmaster named NEW YORK Paul N. Carlin, who oversees the post office's 13-state central region based in Chicago, was selected Tuesday to be the new postmaster general of the United States, according to a published report. The governing board of the U.S. Postal Service selected Carlin, 53, at a closed session on Tuesday, unidentified sources familiar with the meeting told The New York Times. John R.

McKean, the board chairman, scheduled a news conference today to announce the appointment of Carlin, the Times said. Nuke plant allegation WASHINGTON The Justice Department has agreed to look into an allegation that the Nuclear Regulatory Commission misled the U.S. Court of Appeals in its handling of the licensing of the controversial Diablo Canyon nuclear plant in California, a congressional aide said Tuesday. Assistant Attorney General Robert A. McConnell said in a letter to Rep.

Richard Ottinger, that the deparment would examine allegations that attorneys for the department and the NRC filed a "misleading" brief with the court over the embattled Diablo Canyon plant. Bomb blasts rock Chile SANTIAGO, Chile Simultaneous bomb explosions rocked Chile's main cities late Tuesday, capping a day of student demonstrations broken up by riot police using force to uphold a week-old state of siege, witnesses said. Six dynamite charges exploded at different points in the Chilean capital, damaging lamp posts to which they were attached, residents said. No injuries were reported in the bomb attacks shortly after 10 p.m. (5 p.m.

PST). At the same time, in the copper mining center of Rancagua, 54 miles south of Santiago, a bomb destroyed the offices of the local newspaper, El Rancauino. Simultaneous explosions were reported in the southern industrial city of Concepcion and the Pacific port of Valparaiso. No visas for Salvadorans WASHINGTON The U.S. Embassy in El Salvador has refused to issue visas that would enable four Salvadoran women to visit Washington to receive the Robert F.

Kennedy Memorial Human Rights Award, an embassy official said Tuesday, because the women "may be affiliated with subversive groups." The embassy instead referred their visa applications to State Department officials in Washington, D.C., where a spokesman said Tuesday that a decision on what he termed the "sensitive case" of the four women would be made before the Kennedy awards ceremony. WIRE SERVICE REPORTS Inside Bridge 11C Business 12-14B Classified ads 5-1 2C Comics 13D Crossword 13D DearAbby 11D Editorials 13A Food 1-5D Health 7, 11D Copyright, 1984 Reno A Gannett newspaper Horoscope 13D Markets 12B Nation 4-12A Nevada 1-5C Obituaries 5C School lunch 3D Sports 1-1 1B TV log 12D Weather 14A World 2-3A Newspapers, Inc. WINTER'S HERE: Larry Sackette of Rochester, Washington, weathers blowing snow and wind in Mount Rose Meadow Tuesday while he and a friend were making their first cross country skiing outing of the season. Snowstorm blankets Sierra, closes Incline Village schools Related stories, page 3A guan buildup to some extent resembled Soviet activity leading up to the 1962 Cuban missile crisis. "What we see in this buildup, and the source of our concern is that it bears some similarities to the Soviet behavior in the weeks and months preceding the 1962 Cuban incident in which the Soviet Union built up a considerable amount of armaments in Cuba and then used that to create a leverage to have a permanent presence in that country, which we're living with today," the official said.

Although officials at the State Department sought to play down their concern about the latest developments in Central America, spokesman Alan Romberg said, "It is clearly our assessment that the level of weapons (in Nicaragua) exceeds anything that is justifiable for purely defensive terms." Still, he said the United States did not know "the full nature or size of recent arms shipments to Nicaragua." Romberg declined to specify new weapons systems obtained by the Sandinistas but, among others, he was presumably referring to high-performance Soviet helicopters that are particularly useful for counterinsurgency operations. U.S. and Nicaraguan officials and Nicaraguan rebel leaders all have confirmed in recent days that the Sandinistas have received a number of the so-called Mi24 helicopters. Nicaraguan Foreign Minister Miguel D'Escoto confirmed Tuesday his country has imported some Soviet helicopters. When asked specifically about Mi24s, he said, "there were some helicopters, yes.

A few." Privately, State Department officials said that "a bunch" of Soviet vessels is heading for Nicaragua carrying additional military equipment. "Nicaragua has now armed itself to a greater degree, or in qualities far greater, than its neighbors or any combination of its neighbors," Burch said. Wire service reports 4. 'J- Mark Crosse Gazette-Journal By PHIL BARBER The biggest storm this season left up to 18 inches of new snow in the Sierra Nevada on Tuesday, forcing schools to close in Incline Village. Only light amounts of snow fell Tuesday night in the Truckee Meadows, which was pelted with rain earlier in the day.

Fair skies are forecast for this Bail-out plan WASHINGTON The Reagan administration, stepping back from its suggestion that the Soviet Union is delivering advanced fighter jets to Nicaragua, insisted Tuesday that the Sandinista government was receiving sophisticated Soviet-bloc weapons and boosting its arsenal beyond its needs for defense. The Pentagon spokesman said he had "no hard evidence" that Nicaragua planned to invade El Salvador or Honduras. But he said that "circumstantial evidence" cited in the past, including a five-year Nicaraguan arms buildup, pointed to such a conclusion. Michael I. Burch, the Pentagon's chief spokesman, citing the continuing arms buildup, said U.S.

officials "believe they (Nicaraguan officials) have designs on their neighbors. "We do believe that Nicaragua poses a threat to the sovereignty" of El Salvador and Honduras, Burch said. "If our assistance was requested, we would provide whatever is appropriate." He did not say if this would involve the use of U.S. troops. Officials at the White House, State Department and Pentagon, responding to questions about the military mobilization under way in Nicaragua, said the United States had no plans to invade the leftist Central American nation.

Burch decried "the hype" surrounding the arrival last week in the Nicaraguan port of Corinto of a Soviet ship originally suspected of carrying MiG-21 fighters for the Sandinistas. But he stated, "There are no plans to invade Nicaragua," and said there were no discussions "at a policy level" of a U.S. naval quarantine there. At the White House, spokesman Larry Speakes labeled Nicaraguan talk of such an invasion "nonsense." Managua, the Nicaraguan capital, had become an armed camp by Monday in preparation for what the government there said was an imminent U.S. offensive.

Burch's remarks about a possible Nicaraguan offensive provoked consternation at the State Department as did another remark, by an administration official who requested anonymity, that the Nicara- See RESORT, back page respirator mmt- See BABY, back page CLEANUP: clean up help of a Streets Division for historic Reno resort Diamond Ranch, cutting off all hope of any repayment for dozens of creditors owed millions for renovation work at the River Inn. Fleming's offer includes $24 million for the Double Diamond, slated for development south of Reno; $3.5 million for a leasehold interest in the River Inn, including 34 acres; and $3 million for about 30 acres near the Mogul interchange. Robert Ryder, a San Francisco engineer and chairman of the creditors' committee, said the committee will meet Dec. 3 to take a position on the proposed sale. His own view is the "sale sounds all right." Yori's family roots in the Reno area extend to his grandfather, who ran a ranch in what is now north Sparks.

His father, Mark owned the River Inn in the 1940s through the late 1950s and then for several years in the early 1970s. The family's holdings include the site of the down- By SUSAN VOYLES David Yori, whose family owned the River Inn for years, plans to operate the historic resort if a deal to purchase developer George Benny's bankrupt Reno-area properties goes through. Yori said his family, through the Yori Land and Livestock is to sign papers today committing several million dollars to an investment group being formed by Jack Fleming, a developer in the Los Angeles area. Fleming has been negotiating to buy Benny's properties out of bankruptcy court. John England, the trustee for Benny's properties, has recommended to U.S.

Bankruptcy Judge Lloyd King in San Francisco that Fleming's offer be accepted. Benny is now serving 30 years in prison for defrauding his lenders. Judge King is to decide whether to accept the proposal at a hearing Dec. 11. If the sale falls through, he could allow secured lenders to foreclose on the Double Baby Fae still rejects heart, put on ri a mm a I it i LOMA LINDA, Calif.

Baby Fae's "moderate" lymphocyte immune globulin to try to bring the rejection under control. The new drug, an immunosuppressant, is being given intravenously along with cyclosporine-A, itself an immunosuppressant, and infant formula. Oral feedings have been suspended "to reduce stress on her intestinal tract," Gentry said. Hospital spokesman Richard Schaefer said the second drug was introduced because Baby Fae was not responding adequately to the cyclosporine, but he said the new drug "is not something that will be used for a long period of time." He was not more specific. Schaefer also noted the infant had been breathing on her own for about 30 hours until doctors determined Monday that she should be returned to an oxygen tent.

rejection episode entered its fifth day Tuesday as the infant was placed on a respirator and given a second anti-rejection drug, officials at the Loma Linda University Medical Center said. Hospital spokesman Patti Gentry said doctors, who until Sunday were unable to confirm the rejection episode was under way, had noticed by Monday the infant's immune system had "flared up again." Weakened heart action and decreased urinary output have been caused by the rejection episode, and the infant was put on the respirator to ease the strain on her tiny heart, hospital officials said. Doctors at the private teaching hospital 60 miles east of Los Angeles, where the anonymous infant received a baboon heart Oct. 26 to replace her own congenitally defective organ, also have started administering a Barney Davidson, left, and Gene Seals leaves on Circle Drive Tuesday with the Reno Disposal truck loaned to the City for its fall leaf collection project..