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Home-OvLed Home-Operated Si: SUJINIOAW jplUIINAML 113th Year, No. 269 402 Pages In 28 Sections Sunday Morning, September 26, 1993 Copyright0 1993, Journal Publishing Co. $1 Made in USA omalis Reioice Lobos Crush Aggies After 3. Killed In U.S. CoBter Crowds Parade Around Wreck By Reid G.

Miller THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ti 'v i 1 i i 1 I PAUL BEARCE, JOURNAL University of New Mexico football fan Henry "The onto the field against New Mexico Stale. UNM ham-Hammer" Geissler of Albuquerque holds up a giant, meredthe Aggies 42-7. Quarterback Stoney Case threw inflatable football Saturday as he cheers the Lobos for four touchdowns. Stories on H-1. -u NAIROBI, Kenya Three American soldiers were killed Saturday in Somalia when militiamen fired a rocket-propelled grenade that brought down their helicopter.

Jubilant crowds surrounded the downed craft, holding up pieces of the wreckage. Reporters who went to the scene several hours after the crash said some Somalia displayed what they said were pieces of flesh from the dead crew. It was the first time a helicopter was downed during the 10-month U.N. operation in Mogadishu and the worst loss of U.S. life since four American soldiers were killed Aug.

8 by a land mine. The deaths Saturday bring to 11 the number of U.S. servicemen killed in action in Somalia. Additionally, four other American soldiers have died in Somalia: two in a truck accident, one by drowning and another by suicide, said the Defense Department in Washington. The pilot and co-pilot, only slightly wounded, crash-landed the U.S.

Blackhawk helicopter. They fled to safety after seeing that their three crewmen were dead. Maj. David Stockwell, the chief U.N. spokesman in Mogadishu, could not confirm that Somalia were parading pieces of human flesh and called the reports "absolutely monstrous if true." The pieces of what appeared to be flesh were displayed in a marketplace, Paul Watson of the Toronto Star said his trans- ThiE associated press Somalis sift through wreckage of a U.S.

Blackhawk helicopter shot down in Mogadishu Saturday. Three American crewmen died, but the pilot and co-pilot survived. lator told him. Watson said it was "impossible to say" whether the Somalis actually had remains from the crewmen. Stockwell said he believed the bodies of the three crewmen had been recovered along with part of the helicopter's fuselage.

There were no immediate reports of Somali casualties, but Stockwell said U.N. forces had returned fire and casualties were likely. "If there were casualties and they were MORE: See SOMALI on PAGE A8 Communities Debate Condom Distribution N.M. Safe Sex: Life-Saver or Delusion? By Elizabeth Hayes tiotincuxkMi? I I v' Teen pregnancy in new mexico Percent of births to teen-agers 18 -through June 0 17 a a 16 a 15 1 989 '90 '91 '92 '93 Source: State Dept. of Health School Clinics Offering Family Planning Services By Elizabeth Hayes JOURNAL NOTHERN BUREAU SANTA FE It's a Thursday morning at Espanola Valley High School's health center and that means family planning day.

Students walk in and out of examining rooms, some for sports physicals, some for stomach aches, some for one-to-one counseling on preventing sexually transmitted diseases including the option of abstinence how to use a condom or a prescription for the pill. On one wall hangs a poster showing a high school athlete holding a baby below the caption: "An extra seven pounds could keep you off the football team." One junior says she came by the center for a pregnancy test. "Safe sex is the biggest ripoff on our young people that has ever been perpetrated," said Dr. Mike Roth-man, a Santa Fe orthopedic surgeon who spoke against condom distribution before the school board last June. But these are the facts of life facing New Mexico's teen-agers, their parents and schools: New Mexico's teen pregnancy rate of 116 per 1,000 15- to 19-year-old girls is the 11th highest in the United States, according to the Center for Population Options in Washington, D.C.

The New Mexico Teen Pregnancy Coalition pegged it as the nation's third-highest in recent years. In New Mexico, 42.5 percent of all ninth-grade students and 67.7 percent of all 12th-grade students reported having had sexual intercourse, according to the pregnancy coalition. In 1992, 17 percent of live births were to teen-agers, according to the state health department. JOURNAL NORTHERN BUREAU SANTA FE Contraceptives and frank talk about preventing pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases have become part of high school life in Tierra Amarilla, Espa-nola, Canoncito, Fort Wingate and Zuni. And in Santa Fe, where there were 50 teen-age pregnancies among public school students last year, the Teen Wellness Centers at Capital High School and Santa Fe High School just started dispensing condoms this year.

The question communities around the state are debating is whether dispensing contraceptives will promote promiscuity and a false sense of security. Supporters say the school-based clinics don't encourage sex but provide health counseling some students wouldn't get anywhere else. Opponents argue that for teenagers, the only safe sex is no sex. CAROL COOPERRIDER JOURNAL NEIL JACOBS JOURNAL Nancy Campbell, family nurse practitioner at Escalante High School, said it took time to build the students' trust. "I know the people here real well, pregnant for "a lot of reasons" It's easy to talk to them," says the "bad family life.

I love him. I want 16-year-old girl, who wore a loosely to have a baby." fitting flannel jacket and denim she savs her parents don't know shorts. The girl says she had a steady gee SCH0QL on pAQE A8 boyfriend and she wanted to get Rothman said it has been scientifically proven that condoms just don't work. At a school board meet- MORE: See COMMUNITIES on PAGE A8 SUNDAY! NEW MEXICO TRAVEL Fair Commissioners, Lawmakers at War Over Alcohol Policy By Leslie Lintbicum WEATHER Sunny and cooler. Highs 60s to 80s.

Lows 20s to 40s. C7 GOOD MORNING Fair officials and legislators are having a war of words. That doesn't speak well for government harmony. 4 JOURNAL STAFF WRITER 1 1 1 Vv. v- I I'J "1 A i A i As the lights went up at Tingley Coliseum during the State Fair rodeo last year, the quarter horse State Fair Commission Chairman 1 Gillie Jaramillo rode in the grand INDEX 0 0 procession bucked ana reared, throwing Jaramillo to the arena floor.

Jaramillo spent the rest of the fair in the hospital, mending a broken pelvis. This September, Jaramillo can be found back in Tingley Coliseum, on Main Street, in the Visitors to the unspoiled San juan Islands north of Seattle sometimes get glimpses of killer whales in the green-blue sea. C8 4 4 1 The Air Force is spending $1 1 8 million to modernize the 20-year-old electronic systems of its F-1 1 1 "aard-varks" at Cannon Air Force Base. CI ARTS F1 HOROSCOPE C2 BOOKS F8 MOVIES F5 BUSINESS C3 NEW MEXICO Gl CLASSIFIED D4 SPORTS HI CROSSWORD C2 TRAVEL C8 DEATHS C7 TRENDS CI DIMENSION B1 TV C5 EDITORIALS B2 WEATHER C7 SPORTSLINE 821-1800 WEATHERLINE 821-1111 9 9 3 horse barns, at the Hispanic Arts I Center all over the fair- NATASHA LANE JOURNAL ground3 nQ longef Wfljks Gillie Jaramillo, State Fair Commission chair- a limp, but he is nursing other wounds man. savs that because lealous legislators can't control the fair's money, they went after alcohol.

M0 See FAIR on PAGE A14.