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ALBUQUERQUE JOURNAL Thursday, September 22, 1988 A3 Natio Bush Complained to Noriega, Report Says COMPILED FROM JOURNAL WIRES Old-Type Nozzle Ring Found in Test Booster THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BRIGHAM CITY, Utah An old-model nozzle inlet ring was used in the final test of Morton Thiokol's redesigned space shuttle booster rocket, but NASA doesn't believe the discovery will delay next week's scheduled shuttle launch, a spokesman said Wednesday. NASA spokesman Ed Medal said it had not yet been determined if the outdated ring was used in the two boosters attached to the space shuttle Discovery, scheduled for launch Sept. 29, but preliminary investigation showed it had not. stopover in Panama in 1983, met with Panama's then-President Ricardo de la Espriella and other officials, including Noriega, but did not speak of any allegations against the general. Col.

Roberto Dias Herrera, a former senior Noriega aide, attended the meeting, according to a black-and-white photograph shown of the gathering. Manyon said the photograph was obtained from Panamanian sources. He said the meeting took place Dec. 10, 1983, at the VIP lounge of Panama City's airport. Manyon said the meeting raised "important questions" about Bush's claims the administration acted as soon as it learned of allegations against Noriega concerning the laundering of drug profits.

Forces, a post which makes him Panama's de facto ruler. Noriega has denied any wrongdoing and refused to resign. "We have learned that as early as 1983 George Bush sat down with Gen. Noriega to complain about the laundering of drug money in Panama," reporter Julian Manyon said on the program. "One of the vice president's concerns, according to Panamanians who were there, was an estimated $3 billion of drug profits that had already been laundered through Panama," Manyon said.

Noriega was shown on the documentary saying he never met Bush. In Washington, Bush spokesman Steve Hart on Wednesday said the vice president, during a LONDON Vice President George Bush complained five years ago to Gen. Manuel Antonio Noriega about alleged laundering of drug money in Panama, according to a British television documentary screened Wednesday. Two of Noriega's former senior aides, interviewed on Thames Television's "This Week" program, also said Noriega has tape recordings which could threaten Bush's presidential campaign. Bush has said the Reagan administration took action as soon as it learned of narcotics and other federal charges against Noriega in indictments issued in Florida last February.

U.S. actions included economic sanctions to force Noriega to resign as head of the Defense Medal, at NASA's Marshall Space Right Center in Huntsville, said when asked how the ring with the old design might have been installed on the test rocket: "We're taking a long, hard look at how the old ring got there. One of the leading possibilities is a cross labeling of parts." Crash Investigators Focus on Flap Position WASHINGTON Investigators are trying to determine whether several "click" sounds on the cockpit voice recorder from the Delta Air Lines jet that crashed last month are sounds of the Right crew setting the flaps before takeoff. The Boeing 727 crashed seconds after taking off from the Dallas-Fort Worth airport Aug. 31, killing 14 of the 108 people aboard.

The investigation has focused on whether a false flap setting might have kept the plane from gaining altitude. According to sources close to the investigation, at least two clicks can be heard on the recording, but additional sounds also are being examined to determine the exact number of clicks and whether they relate directly to the position of the flaps. Search Continues For Missing Woman Ik A I fX Judge Moves To Prevent Destruction Of APD Files CONTINUED FROM PAGE A1 CONTINUED FROM PAGE A1 ents she would be back no later than 11:30 a.m. because she had a tennis match and a college class Tuesday afternoon. "Everyone we talk to says Tara is dependable and reliable and that's why we have cause to pull out all the stops to find her right away," Romero said.

He said two ranch hands working in the area reported seeing her riding north on NM 47 back to Rio Communities about 11:30 a.m. Tuesday. Romero added that Calico was last seen by a witness riding north on NM 47 about four miles southeast of the town. ti said the case "remains active with leads still to follow." He said Calico is 5-foot-7 and weighs 115 pounds. She has green eyes, a fair complexion and shoulder-length light brown hair.

At the time of her disappearance, Calico was wearing a T-shirt, white shorts with a green stripe and was riding a pink Huffy 10-speed bicycle with upright handlebars. Belen High School Principal Ron Hodges said he was shocked to hear of Calico's disappearance. "She is a nice girl and an exceptional young lady," Hodges said. "This is hard to believe." He said Calico graduated from Belen in 1987 and had been working for the First National Bank of Belen until deciding to attend college full-time last year. Hodges said Calico is "very athletic" and served as a manager for the Belen track team while attending high school.

A friend of the family who asked not to be identified said Wednesday that the missing student is "the type of girl you'd want to bring home to meet your mother." "Tara is a sweet person and Tara Calico Last seen Tuesday someone you could just sense knew where she was going in life and how to get there," the friend said. "This is hard, very hard to talk about." Romero said the search for Calico "will continue as long as possible." He said searchers are concentrating on the east side of the highway because of the area's desolate nature. Two teams of bloodhounds from Socorro are assisting in the search, along with some off-road vehicles and deputies on horseback. Romero asks that anyone with information about Calico's whereabouts call the sheriff's office at 865-9603 or 864-3874. rights were violated by Riordan's audit, but Campos never ruled on that motion to intervene.

Davis, who said legitimate criminal files should remain sealed, said people named in a particular file should be able to examine that information. "Every person who is the subject of a file should be entitled to review the file on himself," Davis said. Inspection of those files could be conducted in several ways to preserve the confidentiality of the files, such as having a judge or court appointee oversee the process, Davis said. Eventually, Davis said, the inappropriate files should be destroyed. In the lawsuit, Davis and Twohig contend their clients may have been improperly investigated by the Police Department because of their political beliefs or because they frequently defend people accused of serious crimes.

The woman's disappearance coincides with renewed investigation by Valencia County sheriff's detectives into the disappearance of a 29-year-old nurse, Debra Lee Lans-dell, from Belen three years ago today. The department said in August that it had uncovered new information in the Lansdell case and had reopened it. Detectives are still interviewing witnesses and Romero Mayor Faces Burning Issue on Ban CONTINUED FROM PAGE A1 ments on the bill. Schultz's smoking became a matter of public concern last spring when he was hospitalized after complaining of chest pains. The mayor's doctor diagnosed the problem as a being caused by a spinal disk putting pressure on a nerve, but said he would prefer Schultz, 50, give up smoking.

Upon leaving the hospital, Schultz said he would consider his doctor's advice but considered himself to be in excellent health. lic access, as opposed to offices in private businesses," Chapman added. Six council votes would be required to override the mayor's veto. "I will not comment or respond to that now," Schultz said through a spokesman when asked if his smoking is a factor in whether he will veto the bill. The mayor did say he has asked the city attorney's office and the city's Environmental Health Department to give him their com ASSOCIATED PRESS Firefighters in Vacaville, feel the heat of backfire set to divert blaze from homes.

Managers Say Worst Over for Firefighters Skies began to clear over Yellowstone National Park on Wednesday, but fire managers there and in California said the worst was over for battling firefighters. "I think we have enough precipitation on the ground to keep these things down and still hold the upper hand," said Yellowstone fire information officer Bob Valen. Steady rain Tuesday prevented any significant growth in the blazes that cover more than 1 million acres of the park. In northern California, a backfire and favorable weather helped hundreds of firefighters divert a 5-day-old blaze away from expensive homes. The fire west and north of Vacaville, continued to burn over a 32-mile area Wednesday, after 500 evacuated residents were allowed back into their homes Tuesday.

CIA Allowed N. Korea To Smuggle Copters WASHINGTON The CIA allowed North Korean agents to smuggle 86 high-performance Hughes helicopters out of the United States, even though the agency knew details of the operation as it unfolded, NBC News reported Wednesday. The shipments were made between 1983 and 1985 through a West German trucking company. Authorities told NBC the company had been bugged, and the CIA had listened to North Korean agents plan the details of the smuggling scheme. However, the CIA withheld the information from law enforcement officials for almost a year, believing its source of information so sensitive that revealing knowledge of the scheme might compromise CIA agents in Germany, NBC reported.

CIA spokesman William Devine said Wednesday night that the agency had no comment on the NBC report. "We neither confirm nor deny the report," he said. The North Koreans protected their investment by obtaining a Lloyd's of London insurance policy against confiscation of the helicopters, according to the report. NBC said it obtained a copy of the policy which contained details of the smuggling routes from Los Angeles to North Korea. The choppers took a circuitous route that included stops in Belgium, the Netherlands and Hong Kong.

smoking. "I think the mayor is concerned about not being able to smoke in his office, but I hope he will support the bill after realizing it is for the common good," Chapman said. Chapman also disagreed with Wiener that the bill should have exempted private offices at City Hall. "Those offices are places of pub The files slated for destruction were packed in 34 boxes, sealed and turned over to the Fire Department shortly before midnight Tuesday, said APD Deputy Chief David Ramirez. The files are locked in the Fire Department's supply room and guarded by a police officer and Fire Department lieutenant, Fire Chief Gerald Grimm said.

Davis said he and Twohig had not known until they were informed by reporters on Tuesday that the city planned to burn the files. PNM Boosts Power-Use Projection in Plan CONTINUED FROM PAGE A1 Chief Administrative Officer Gene Romo's order to Ramirez to destroy the files, which is dated on Friday, was delivered to Ramirez on Tuesday and released the same day. Assistant city attorney Paula Forney said her only reaction to the temporary restraining order preventing destruction of the files was concern about the continued security of the files. "I'm more worried about making sure all the files are safely kept," Forney said. megawatt share of Palo Verde, but won't need that power to serve New Mexicans for several years.

Critics have contended PNM may have deliberately overstated its electricity needs in order to justify the investment in the plant. An analysis done for the state attorney general contends that PNM should have realized early on that it did not need Palo Verde and that it should have gotten out of the investment. cent and lower through 2008. But PNM has discovered already that forecasts can be fickle. One of the current controversies involving PNM's investment in Palo Verde is whether the utility's forecasts which it used to justify that investment in the early 1970s were too optimistic.

PNM contends it could not have foreseen a national recession, and a slump in the New Mexico economy, that skewed its optimistic forecasts. PNM spent $1.2 billion for a 390- cipated," Begley said. Even with the increase, PNM's expected growth still is below what happened in the 1970s and '80s. Between 1970 and 1975, for instance, PNM's sales increased 7 percent a year. But the growth rate dropped sharply after 1975 to above 4 percent.

The latest projections are even below those growth rates 3.3 percent through 1993, then to 3.1 per HlrW.llil!lH.W.MWtlK I Smoking Lamp Wasn't Lit This Time Ai 'Jim i figl Arnholz 1 Here are the people to contact and the telephone numbers of the major Journal news departments: Action Line 823-3888 ArtsEntertainment Frank Zoretich 823-3920 City Desk 823-3840 Church BriefsDaily Record Jean Garvey 823-3562 Columnist Jim Arnholz 823-3930 Community Briefs Jennifer West 823-3840 Editorial Page Bill Hume 823-3861 Financial News A.C. Etheridge 823-3830 HappeningsArt Calendar Karen Keller 823-3920 Las Cruces Bureau Bill Diven (505) 526-4461 New Mexico Bruce Daniels 823-3912 Photography Ray Cary 823-3991 Santa Fe Bureau Larry Calloway (505) 988-8881 Sports 823-3900 Trends Steve Hallock 823-3936 Washington Bureau Paul Wieck (202) 333-2240 Weddings Liz Otero 823-3922 For news information, and to reach staff members: Newsroom Receptionist 823-3800 If your paper is late Your home-delivered Journal should arrive by 7 a.m. If it isn't there by that time, call before 10 a.m. to: Circulation Customer Service 823-4400 In the tobacco business, I imagine you have to constantly update your list because of the high mortality rate of your customers. But whoever sold this list to Nat sold him the wrong one.

"By the way, nobody from the National Health Agencies has ever bought anything from Nat Sherman. Give me a lie detector test. Do anything you want. I have never bought cigarettes from Nat Sherman." I was curious about why Nat would send a catalog to the cigarette buyer at something called the National Health Agencies. I called his Fifth Avenue shop in New York.

A woman answered. I asked for Nat. She said he wasn't in. I explained who I was and what I wanted to talk to him about. She said, "Uh-huh" in that New York voice that means, "So what's the big deal? A health agency might want to buy a box of Casinos or Sherman's Slims.

You can never tell." I told her it would probably be a tough sale. She laughed. Then she said, "Give me your name and number and I'll get a message to the right person." What are the chances the right person will call back today? I asked. She laughed. "Not very good," she said.

What are the chances the right person will ever call back? She laughed again and hung up. That was Monday morning. The right person has not called back. Neither has Nat. But you have to admit the man has style.

When it comes to expanding the sales territory, he's up on the lead horse in The Charge of the Light 'Em If You Got 'Em Brigade. Smoking ordinance or no smoking ordinance, you have to give Nat Sherman credit. Nat is one gutsy old guy. He's well into his 80s but he goes where angels, or even the Marlboro Man, fear to tread. Nat takes more breath away than an unfiltered Lucky.

Words fail me. What can I say about a cigarette salesman who sends a catalog to the director of development for the New Mexico Chapter of the American Lung Association? Nat "Tobacconist to the World" Sherman sells "luxury" cigarettes out of New York. His 1988 Wholesale Fall Cigarette Catalog is just off the presses. It's a wild, spectacular thing with so much red type, blue type and color photos that it looks like it might have have been put together by a graphic artist who spent a little too much time within inhaling distance of the glue pot. Either that or a berserk USA Today copy editor got his hands on the catalog.

"FREE TO YOU! YOU SELL CIGARETTES WE INVITE YOU ALL NO IMPRINT CHARGE We Will Imprint the Top of any Cigarette Box FOR YOURSELF OR YOUR CUSTOMER BIG BUSINESS OR SMALL WE INVITE YOU ALL." Nat sells Cigarettellos and Amigos and the World's Longest Cigarette and cigarettes that come in yellow, green, blue, pink, black, red, and orange. Nat even guarantees his cigarettes: "Never, never, do we use any flavorings, saltpeter (whew!) or any additives in our custom-made cigarettes, as used in most commercial cigarettes." John Vitale received one of Nat's catalogs. Well, not exactly. John Vitale's Albuquerque office received one and nobody knew who else to give it to, so it went to John. The catalog was addressed "ATTN: CIGARETTE BUYER NATIONAL HEALTH AGENCIES." John is the not the cigarette buyer for the National Voluntary Health Agencies, but he is the treasurer.

To the best of everybody's knowledge, the National Voluntary Health Agencies, a group of 13 agencies in New Mexico, has never had a cigarette buyer and doesn't plan on getting one in the foreseeable future. In addition to being treasurer of the National Health Agencies, John has another job, too. Which is why I say Nat Sherman is one innovative guy. John Vitale is the director of development for the New Mexico chapter of the American Lung Association. "My first reaction was what?" John said.

"I read the whole thing. It was kind of interesting, the whole story, the history of how the old codger got into the tobacco business. Actually, he sounded like a nice guy you'd like to sit down with and talk to. "But how did I get this? I realized that all catalog companies, no matter what they sell, always buy new names from mailing lists. SINGLE COPY RATES Morning Sunday $1.00 OUT OF STATE Morn Sun 1 yr $102.00 Morn Sun 6 mot M.OO Morn ft Sun mo 48.00 Morn Sun 1 mo 16.00 Sunday only I mo 6.00 Daily only 1 mo 12.00 NEW MEXICO Morn Sun $156.00 Morn ir Sun a moi $78.00 Morn It Sun moi 39 00 Morn Sun 1 mo 13.00 Sunday only 1 mo 4.78 Dally only 1 mo 10.M Albuquerque Journal PO Drawer Albuquerque, N.M.

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