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NKW MEXICO'S LEADING NKWSPAFKK ALBU 109th Year No. 7 74 Pages In 7 Sections Saturday Morning, January 7, 1989 Copyright 1989, Journal Publishing Co. Daily 350 Sunday $1 QUERQUE IOU1 Owners Prepare To Change Goldwaters5 Name to May By A.C; Etheridge JOURNAL BUSINESS EDITOR Goldwaters has about 300 full- and part-time employees in Albuquerque, a May Co. spokeswoman said. Foley's employs about 140 people in Albuquerque.

The Foley's store, built in 1984 as a Sanger Harris store, underwent a name change in early 1987 when Foley's merged with Sanger Harris. Linda Knight, a Foley's spokeswoman in MORE: See OWNERS on PAGE A3 acknowledged one planned change in credit policy. Barberis said May will accept only Goldwaters, Foley's or May credit cards. Goldwaters currently accepts other national credit cards. Barberis also said May would do some renovation of the store, but he had no details.

He said the company would put forth "a quality fashion image" in its Albuquerque marketing efforts. Barberis said May would keep current management and employees at the Goldwaters store and would "try to bring as many Foley's people over as possible." Barberis was referring to the previously announced January closing of the Foley's Department Store, which is across the mall from Goldwaters in Coronado Center. Both stores came under the same ownership when May acquired Foley's from Federated Department Stores in May 1988. Commenting on the Foley's closing, Barberis said, "We obviously didn't want to compete against ourselves." Barberis, who is based in May Denver headquarters, came to Albuquerque Friday to make the announcement. The name change will be effective Feb.

26, Barberis said. May other stores are in Colorado. The company operates nine stores in Denver and single stores in Colorado Springs, Boulder and Fort Collins. Barberis said he anticipated "no drastic changes" in either merchandise or employment at the Albuquerque store. But he The Albuquerque Goldwaters department store will become a May store, a senior official of the May chain announced Friday.

Randall Barberis, senior vice president and director of marketing of May said the May Department Stores owner of both Goldwaters and May will discontinue the Goldwaters name in all markets. Photos )octored, "I lj Libya 1 1 Says U.S. Claims Self Defense Before Security Council -I THE ASSOCIATED PRESS R'ftM ft ft 5 0 1 'if 54 1 1 JEFF SCOTT JOURNAL Albuquerque firefighter Capt. Jesse Waddles burns police intelligence files Friday afternoon. UNITED NATIONS U.S.

Ambassador Vernon Walters exhibited blurred photographs to the Security Council on Friday showing what he called a heavily armed Libyan MiG-23 and said U.S. jets shot down that plane and a companion MiG-23 in self-defense. Libyan Ambassador Ali Sunni Muntasser called the-photographs doctored and said, "It is completely fake. It is untrue." Walters later asked reporters: "Do you think this is a bouquet of roses hanging under the wing?" "We have photographs which prove that the planes were armed," he said. Walters passed two photographs around the council chamber, where Libya has sought an emergency session to condemn the U.S.

downing of its two aircraft Wednesday, Libya says they were unarmed planes on a reconnaissance mission over international waters of the Mediterranean Sea. The two enlarged photographs show two views of one of the two MiGs, the U.S. Mission said. They are labeled "Libyan MiG-23 Flogger." One shows a full view of an aircraft with what the United States said are two Apex and two Aphid missiles. The other shows a portion of an aircraft in the lower right corner.

"The missile parts show quite clearly," Walters said of the photos, taken from a videotape. "There were two different types of missiles on the aircraft wings and hanging from other parts of the fuselage." "We have photographs that show the planes were armed," Walters said. "You can see for yourself whether there were or were not missiles." He said the photos were taken by one of the U.S. F-14 Tomcats that shot down the Libyan aircraft. The black-and-white photographs were enlarged to about 16 inches by 20 inches and showed blurred objects under the wing.

"Routine operations over international waters were aggressively and hostilely challenged by the Libyan air force," Walters said. The session, which began Thursday, was expected to discuss a resolution condemning the U.S. action. Delegates adjourned Friday evening until 10:30 a.m. Monday.

The United States and Britain were expected MORE: See U.S. on PAGE A3 dAPD Piles Officials Burn Dispute By Sonny Lopez And Colleen Heild JOURNAL STAFF WRITER burned." Attorney Ray Twohig, who represented the citizens seeking to save the files, questioned the city officials' haste in burning the files. "I don't know what was in there that they were so anxious to get rid of," Twohig said. "They had a window of opportunity that lasted about an hour and a half and they jumped into it." He charged that city officials rushed to burn the files because "somebody felt they had something to hide." Foley said he saw no reason to save MORE: See CITY on PAGE A3 At about 1:30 p.m., U.S. District Judge Santiago Campos refused a request by the attorneys, who represent a citizens group, to halt destruction of the 1,362 files.

Instead, Campos stood by his decision on Thursday that their case had no merit because they had not offered enough facts to show they were targets of the Albuquerque Police Department. City Attorney James Foley said the files were ordered burned by Chief Administrative Officer Clarence "Porky" Lithgow. Lithgow's order fulfilled an original plan by city officials who were about to burn the files last Sept. 21 before the lawsuit was filed. After Campos' action on Friday, the group of lawyers and activists appealed to Baldock, who granted a second restraint order against the burning at about 4 p.m.

But word of Baldock's order did not reach city officials until all 34 boxes were smoldering in a large dumpster at the Albuquerque Fire Department's Academy, in the 1500 block of Kit Carson SW. "One of the city's attorneys came up and told me about the 4 p.m. stay," Albuquerque Police Department Chief Sam Baca said. "I told her it's been Albuquerque police and fire officials watched Friday afternoon as 34 boxes filled with police intelligence files burned a half-hour before a federal judge ordered a halt to the destruction. The order by Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Bobby Baldock capped a day's worth of unsuccessful legal maneuvers by local attorneys hoping to save the files, which they claimed contained evidence of illegal police activity.

Former Fine Arts Dean John Robb Dies at 96 Hirohito's Death Ends 'Enlightened Peace' By David Noble JOURNAL STAFF WRITER I a is1 'V the Southwest," now regarded as authoritative. As a composer he wrote nearly 100 surviving works including symphonies and other orchestral compositions, string quartets and other chamber music, electronic music and musical stage pieces, Robb came to Albuquerque in 1941 to become the second head of the UNM music department, succeeding founder Grace Edmis-ter Thomson. Previously a New York City lawyer with a corporate bond practice, Robb had pursued composition of classical music as an avocation from his boyhood in Min- MORE: See FORMER on PAGE A3 son, Crown Prince Akihito, 55, who had been acting as regent in his ailing father's place. Akihito's accession was marked by a brief ceremony in which he took possession of the three treasures of the Japanese throne a sword, a jewel and a mirror. The formal enthronement of the new monarch in a sacred Shinto rite is to take place only after the official mourning period for Hirohito is completed, between one and two years from now.

In addition to Akihito, the emperor is survived by his wife, Empress MORE: See HIROHITO'S on PAGE A3 KNIGHT-RIDDER NEWSPAPERS TOKYO Emperor Hirohito, who presided over Japan's entry into the disaster of World War II and its subsequent emergence as a great economic power, died this morning at the age of 87. Hirohito occupied the Chrysanthemum Throne for 62 years, longer than any of his ancestors in a bloodline of 124 rulers reaching back more than 2,600 years. He was the world's longest reigning monarch and the last of the war's dominant figures, having outlived by decades Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin and Hitler. The emperor is succeeded by his John Donald Robb, composer, folklorist and former dean of the University of New Mexico College of Fine Arts, died Thursday in his Albuquerque home. He was 96.

Robb, who had suffered recurrent attacks of pneumonia in recent months, died after a brief illness. Dean of UNM's College of Fine Arts from 1941 to 1957, Robb also founded UNM's Robb Archive of Southwestern Folk Music. He did the initial field recording for it with the aid of members of his family. He later published a book, "Hispanic Folk Music of New Mexico and I l.Ar John Donald Robb Founded folk music archive Emperor Hirohito Dead at age 87 cat RDAYE Top Lawmakers Endorse Capitol Renovations Good Morning In the day of the shredder the city burns intelligence By John Yaeger rues, is tnat smaiv Weather Partly cloudy and colder. Wesfand northwest winds up to 20 mph.

High today in the upper 30s. Low tonight near 17. F7. should be added to the Capitol, at a cost of $15 million, to house offices for legislators and their staff. Legislative leaders announced last month that they had come up with four options involving Capitol improvements.

Construction of a west wing was among them. Instead, legislative leaders decided to recommend Friday that a task force be MORE: See TOP on PAGE A3 mend to the full Legislature. The first two floors of the four-story building would be reopened in 1991 and the entire building would likely be back in use in 1992, said House Speaker Raymond Sanchez, D-Bernalillo. No recommendations were made concerning how to pay for the renovation, although a recently received $20 million windfall in corporate taxes was mentioned as one possible source. Likewise, no recommendations were made about where to house the Capitol's displaced officials including the governor and secretary of state during the renovation.

The $23.5 million cost includes removing asbestos from the Capitol, improving the electricial, mechanical and safety systems to bring them into compliance with building codes and some aesthetic improvements. The Legislative Council, a body of legislative leaders and other high-ranking lawmakers, made no recommendation on whether a west wing OF THE JOURNAL'S CAPITOL BUREAU SANTA FE Top legislative leaders from both parties agreed Friday that the state should spend more than $23 million to remove asbestos from the Capitol and renovate the 22-year-old building. The entire building would be closed sometime after the upcoming 60-day legislative session and remain shut down through 1990, under a plan the Legislative Council agreed to recom ACTION LINE C2 DEATHS F7 NEW MEXICO B3 BRIDGE C2 EDITORIALS A1Q-11 RELIGION El BUSINESS D8-12 HAPPENINGS B5 SPORTS D1-7 CLASSIFIED E3-F6 HOROSCOPE C2 TV C7 COMICS F8 METROPOLITAN 81 WEATHER F7.