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ALBUQUERQUE JOURNAL Sunday, January IS, 1986 A3 andinista Arms Linked to Colombia Court Siege 95 people were killed, including 11 Supreme Court justices and all the guerrillas. An army assault ended the occupation. In the letter, Ramirez Ocampo specified the number of rifles Colombia said the government of former President Carlos Andres Perez of Venezuela supplied to the Sandinista rebels when they were fighting the rightist dictatorship of Anastasio Somoza. The Sandinistas seized power in Nicaragua in July 1979. At a Dec.

2 meeting in Cartagena, Colombia, U.S. Secretary of State George Shultz claimed a link existed between the Nicaraguan government and the M-19 guerrillas. Ramirez Ocampo said then an investigation was under way into possible ties. Shultz gave no details, but diplomatic sources later said weapons used by the Sandinista army in Nicaragua were discovered in the Palace of Justice after M-19 guerrillas took over the building. The sources, who demanded anonymity, said Colombian security forces found Venezuelan rifles supplied to the Sandinista rebels by the Perez government.

They also said they found rifles that Vietnamese communists captured from the U.S. armed forces that were delivered to the Sandinistas as covert military aid. The sources said Israeli Uzi machine guns also were captured. The sources said the arms had distinctive marks that enabled identification of their source of origin. The State Department also has said that intelli gence information showed that Nicaragua trained and armed as many as 60 Colombian guerrillas last year.

In his weekly radio address Saturday, President Reagan vowed to continue supporting rebels battling the Sandinistas. He said the answer to Central America's woes was political and economic freedom, not Soviet tanks. Reagan's remarks came one day after he spent four hours in Mexico meeting with President Miguel de la Madrid, who opposes Washington's backing of the rebels. Although the two leaders agreed on the need to help Latin America repay its huge foreign debt, they did not narrow their differences over the turmoil in Central America. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BOGOTA, Colombia The government said Saturday that rifles used by guerrillas in November' bloody assault on the Palace of Justice belonged to the leftist Sandinista regime in Nicaragua.

Foreign Minister Augusto Ramirez Ocampo sent a letter to Miguel D'Escoto, Nicaragua's foreign minister, demanding a "prompt and satisfactory explanation" on how the arms fell into the hands of the leftist guerrillas of the April 19 Movement, known as M-19. Colombia disclosed this in an official statement released by the Foreign Ministry. On Nov. 6, 35 M-19 guerrillas seized the Palace of Justice in downtown Bogota. During a 28-hour siege, Wo COMPILED FROM JOURNAL WIRES RLD BRIEFS Danish Sliip Sinks After Collision on River Officials said that all four HAMBURG, West Germany A 300-ton Danish coastal ship sank early Saturday in the Elbe River near the town of Cuxhaven, about 50 miles northwest of here, after colliding in heavy fog with the Cypriot freighter Orange Coral.

It was the second ship collision on the river within 24 hours. 1 crew members three men and a woman of the Danish ship, Beatrines, were rescued. The Orange Coral sailed to the port of Bremerhaven for an inspection of its damage, officials said. There was no immediate explanation of what led to the collision, other than poor visibility caused by heavy fog and snowfall. TP China Increases Output of Civilian Goods PEKING Weapons factories, under orders to devote part of their manufacturing capacity to civilian goods, produced 100,000 refrigerators, 250,000 cameras and 450,000 bicycles last year, the official China Daily said Saturday.

The English-language newspaper said military plants plan a 50 percent increase in the output of civilian goods in 1986. It said Ordnance Minister Zou Jiahua has ordered all weapons factories to produce civilian goods "no matter how heavy the military commitments might be" so the factories will prosper even if military orders later drop. Deng Xiaoping, chairman of the state and party military commissions, has ordered more resources devoted to modernizing the domestic economy. i KMMMtt' jgLJL'lio i i ASSOCIATED PRESS A Serious Game of Rinjj-Around-a-Rosy Marchers Kept From Salvador War Zone Students in the basic U.S. Navy scuba diver training program at during an exercise to acquaint them with underwater proce-Coronado, slowly circle the bottom of a training pool dures.

Graduates go into combat and non-combat naval diving. New Museum Rises Above Tumult They said military authorities told them they could not enter zones where the army was fighting leftist rebels. The proiesters said they would return instead to the capital to stage their peace demonstrations. The group of about 300 international pacifists set out from Panama last month on a march to Mexico to promote peace in the region. SAN SALVADOR Salva-doran troops Saturday blocked about 500 people from entering a war zone they were trying to cross on a peace march, march organizers said.

The marchers, including 30 American and European peace activists who sneaked into the country, were trying to reach the guerrilla-held town of Per-quin in the eastern province of Morazan. At times since, Callender has probably wondered if he should have stood still long CONTINUED FROM PAGE A1 NATIONAL BRIEFS Mild Quake Jars New York City Suburbs NEW YORK Suburbs north of the city were jolted Saturday by a mild earthquake that registered between 2 and 3 on the Richter scale. John Beabam, a research scientist at the Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory in Palisades said the quake hit at 10:35 p.m. and was centered in the Ardsley or Dobbs Ferry area of Westchester County. Residents throughout the county reported feeling the quake.

On the Richter scale, which measures ground motion, a quake of 3.5 can cause slight damage near the center, 5.0 considerable damage, and a rating of 8 is considered a great quake. Captive Calif. Condor in Critical Condition Special Activities To Mark Opening The New Mexico Museum of Natural History opens this week with two events. The first is a $50-a-person, black-tie-optional party Friday night. The second is a two-day public event, on Saturday and Sunday.

At the fancy party Friday, there'll be tuxedoed doormen and trumpet fanfares and lots of champagne. Tickets to that are still available through the museum, located at 1801 Mountain NW. And the Rotary Club of Albuquerque, co-sponsoring the grand opening with the Junior League of Albuquerque is paying the public's admissions for the first weekend the museum is open. Because the Natural History Museum is a state institution, it is required to charge admissions. Tickets for free entry into the museum are available at branches of three financial institutions First National, Sun-west and Albuquerque Federal (including its Safeway branches) and at the museum.

When picking up tickets, it's necessary to specify a tour time. The tours start every two hours, from noon till 6 p.m. Saturday, and from 10 a.m. until 4 p.m. Sunday.

In addition to its ticket project, the Rotary Club also will be bringing senior citizens, schoolchildren and some parent-child groups into the museum this weekend as part of its Rotary Wheels project. sums, such as Arco's quarter-million dollars early on. But a lot of what built the Museum of Natural History was the efforts of everyday folk. A 10-year-old Taos boy, for example, was so awed by the dinosaur fossils he'd seen at the State Fair that he and his friends got their mothers to make cookies and cupcakes for a bake sale. They sent $68.29 to the museum.

In Albuquerque, some middle-school students peddled bottles of liquid soap. And at a new, Northeast Heights shopping center, anyone donating $2 to the Natural History Museum was also buying a chance at a supermarket shopping spree. In the midst of the fund-raising, and long before the construction started, the state hired the 57-year-old director of the Buffalo Museum of Science to head the Natural History Museum project. But just over a year later, Robert Chenhall was gone. Joe Zanetti, then and now chairman of the museum's Policy Advisory Committee, said, it was "a case of a good man in the wrong position." Zanetti also cited performance problems and difficulties in raising the $2 million as reasons for the state's asking Chenhall to resign.

Chenhall complained of being wrongly made to feel responsible to the citizens groups involved in the museum project. He said he didn't want to elaborate, though, for fear of hurting the fund-raising effort. Almost immediately, Chenhall was replaced by Robert Rhodes, the No. 2 man on the museum staff. But, in less than two years, Rhodes was out.

Everything was fine as long as Rhodes was acting director, and groundbreaking for the museum took place under his direction in November 1982. But as soon as nia condors known to survive in the wild. The nearly extinct condor, with a wingspan of about 10 feet, is the largest of all North American birds. The lead level in the condor's blood Saturday was 4.2 parts per million, which is considered a lethal level. SAN DIEGO A captive California condor with seven shotgun pellet wounds was in critical condition Saturday at a San Diego animal park with lead poisoning, park officials said.

The ailing bird was captured Friday at the beginning of a roundup of the last six Califor Artificial Heart Patient Talks With Famib enough to get caught. Money has always been a problem. He went to the City Council and asked for $125,000 to complete the complex and elaborate exhibits program. City fathers said no. They had agreed a few years earlier to give the museum's foundation $36,000 to pay the salary of a man to raise the last $300,000 of the necessary state-matching $2 million.

And they just didn't want to give any more. A sympathetic philanthropist gave the museum $62,500 for the exhibits, and the foundation set out to put on a $100-a-head gala fund-raiser for the rest. It was not without its problems, though. An appearance by actress Billie Bird at the Wool Warehouse dinner theater and the installation of the bronze pentaceratops dinosaur in front of the museum building was badly scheduled on Easter weekend. Slowly, slowly, though, the museum staff collected its exhibits money.

And work was bustling along quite well until the governor, adhering to the state's recent procurement code, noted that anyone interested in running the museum's gift shop would have to bid on it. A businessman from Moriarty beat out another commercial vendor, and the museum's foundation. Never in New Mexico has anyone but the staff of a museum's foundation run its gift shop. It's one of the most profitable ventures for such a group. But then the troubles began.

Some members of the foundation complained to the Legislative Finance Committee of improprieties in the bid-letting. That led to a hearing before the LFC, during which the selected bid was scrutinized. At the same time, rumors were skittering about that J.T. Turner, the Moriarty vendor, was pals with the governor. Finally, the Attorney General's Office stepped in and said that there were no improprieties in the matter.

What had happened in the ensuing months, though, was that the hands-on work in the museum, the putting together of the exhibits, had almost halted because the director was dealing almost daily with lawyers and legislators. Callender has said that "game," as he called it, "has reduced our credibility, hurt us financially and caused the levels of stress in our institution to rise to disproportionate levels." Since the gift shop incident cooled down, the museum and the foundation seem to be making a concerted try at getting along However, when the museum went to the foundation recently asking for $5,500 to cover some up-front expenses for the grand opening, the foundation loaned rather than gave the museum the money. And the foundation turned over the task of planning the grand opening to the Junior League of Albuquerque Inc. Whatever the underlying politics of the Museum of Natural History and whatever problems it has had, will matter little to the people of this state, however. Finally, New Mexico will be able to save and enjoy its rich, fossilized history.

And, finally, the people will be able to see and understand the complex geological and paleontological past that n.akes New Mexico unique. Northwestern Hospital. Mrs. Lund, 40, of Kensington, remained in stable but criticial condition and her kidneys still are not working, doctors said. She had been in a light coma for a time after the Dec.

19 implant surgery, but emerged from the coma Thursday. The small Jarvik-7 artificial heart continues to work well, doctors said. MINNEAPOLIS Mary Lund, the first woman to receive an artificial heart, was breathing well without a respirator Saturday and talking with family members and the hospital staff, doctors said. A breathing tube, which had prevented Mrs. Lund from talking, was removed Friday, according to a statement released by doctors at Abbott Gov.

Toney Anaya approved of his promotion to full director, in August 1983, two members of the Policy Advisory Committee charged that Rhodes wasn't qualified for the job. Gov. Wallace Hospitalized With Infection The 1980 state law that created the Natural History Museum also stipulated that its director have administrative experience at a similar museum and a degree in some area of natural history. Anaya said he certainly pondered that matter, but "in looking elsewhere, we could find no one who could meet the cided to have him hospitalized, said the press secretary, Billy Joe Camp. A hospital spokesman said Wallace was in no danger.

The four-term governor, who was driven to Birmingham from his mansion in Montgomery accompanied by two per-B sonal physicians, will be given intravenous antibiotics during his hospital stay, Camp said. BIRMINGHAM, Ala. Gov. George C. Wallace was admitted to University Hospitals on Saturday night for treatment of a urinary tract infection, according to his press secretary and hospital officials.

Wallace, 66, had been suffering flu-like symptoms since Thursday and had a temperature of more than 100 degrees Saturday when physicians de qualifications of the statute." And Rhodes, who had a degree in American studies and had worked for the New Mexico Museum absent-mindedly left the tooth in the phone booth, and when he went back for it, the old molar was gone. Stories of the incident played on the nightly news and appeared for several days in newspapers throughout the state. The wire services picked up the story, and it spread across the country. A week later, a Capitol gardener returned the tooth in a paper bag. He said he didn't know anyone wanted it back until a friend told him about the news stories of its disappearance.

But the Natural History Museum was again in need of a leader. After a three-month search, Anaya gave the nod to a geology professor at the University of New Mexico At 39, Jon Callender had experience working at the Natural History Museum as chief of scientific programs. And he had a background necessary to satisfy the state statute: He had a bachelor's, master's and doctorate in geology (a natural history field) and he had worked at Harvard University's mineralogy museum and UNM's geology museum (the administrative experience). At the time of his appointment, Callender said, "I was surprised to get it It wasn't something I was chasing of Natural History for 2Vj years, argued that he could handle the job. However, he resigned after getting an unfavorable ruling from the Attorney General's Office.

Perhaps the most extensive media coverage ever given the museum project came during Rhodes' tenure. But it was most embarrassing to him. While on his way to a Legislative Finance Committee budget hearing, Rhodes had stopped off at a pay telephone in the state Capitol. He was carrying with him an armful of documents and the fossilized tooth of a mastodon, an extinct elephantlike creature, that he intended to use as a prop in'is quest for museum funding He Arnholz JiJL.