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Itm ALBUQUERQUE JOURNAL Thursday, April 25, 1935 A3 COMPILED FROM JOURNAL WIRES RIEFS. Nicaragua Refugee Aid Plan Dies Van Gogh Painting Sells for $9.9 Million REUTERS collection gathered by railroad heiress Florence J. Gould and sold by Sotheby's auction house. Last week, a record price for a single painting sold at auction was set in London, as the J. Paul Getty Museum in Malibu, paid $10.45 million for "The Adoration of the Magi" by Andrea Mantegna.

NEW YORK A painting by Vincent van Gogh of the view from his asylum window sold Wednesday night for $9.9 million, the highest price ever paid for an Impressionist painting. The painting, "Landscape With Rising Sun," of wheat fields shimmering below a mustard-yellow sun, was the prize work in an impressive the funds would not go to them directly but would be administered by the Red Cross or the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. The Republican proposal "is a slippery way to provide military aid" because the funds would continue to flow to the rebels and support their armed struggle against Managua, charged Democratic Rep. David Obey of Wisconsin. Democratic Rep.

Edward Boland of Massachusetts, former chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, also opposed the Republican plan. But Republicans accused Democrats of being cynical and distrusting Reagan's written pledge that the funds would be used only for humanitarian purposes. The Republican plan, rejected in a cliff-hanger 215-213 vote, would have provided $14 million for food, clothing and other logistical support directly to the contras, who are backed by the Central Intelligence Agency. The Democratic alternative, tentatively approved 219-206 three hours e. rlier, would have provided $10 million to refugees outside Nicaragua and $4 million to Venezuela, Columbia, Mexico and Panama to implement a regional peace agreement.

Reagan had branded the Democratic option a "shameful surrender" to communist forces while his Democratic critics said the Republican plan would exacerbate conflict in Central America. While the rebels could benefit from the humanitarian aid under the Democratic plan, WASHINGTON The House, controlled by Democrats, reversed itself Wednesday night and killed a humanitarian aid plan it had earlier approved for Nicaraguan refugees. It also killed a second plan proposed by President Reagan's Republicans that would have funneled non-military aid directly to rebels seeking to topple the leftist government in Nicaragua. The votes, which in effect continue the ban on any aid to the rebels, called contras, imposed by Congress last October, follows Tuesday's rejection by the House of $14 million in military aid to the rebels. The final vote Wednesday in the Democratic-led House was 303-123.

Nicaragua To Ask Soviet Union for Aid said, adding that two years of war against anti-Sandinista rebels and economic pressure by the Reagan administration "have placed Nicaragua in a difficult situation." "We are obliged to seek this type of cooperation (elsewhere), especially when there are countries that have cooperated with Nicaragua," he said. MANAGUA, Nicaragua President Daniel Ortega said Wednesday he is going' to the Soviet Union this month to seek the financial aid the United States has denied his economically battered leftist government. "We are going to try and recover what the United States denies Nicaragua," Ortega Ferraro Hints at Run for Senate in '86 In Rome with her husband on the second leg of a private, five-nation European factfinding tour, Ferraro said she was just beginning to consider the odds on winning the Senate seat now held by New York Republican Alfonse M. D'Ama-to in November 1986. ROME Former Democratic vice presidential candidate Geraldine Ferraro has emerged from what she calls "near hibernation" after last November's defeat to step tentatively onto the world stage, hinting at a possible run for the U.S.

Senate next year. wi ii" w'-'w 'rrr I V-55 r-Y IRS Behind Last Year's Processing Pace was 20 percent behind the 1984 level; Through last Friday, the IRS had received 86.7 million returns, the same as for the comparable period a year ago. It had processed 50 million, compared with 55.2 million at the same time last year. WASHINGTON With three straight weeks of around-the-clock efforts, the Internal Revenue Service is cutting deeply into the backlog of unprocessed individual tax returns but is still 9.3 percent behind the pace at this time a year ago. Two weeks ago, processing AIDS Vaccine Further Awav Than Planned ASSOCIATED PRESS Pulitzer-Winning Pboto Stan Grossfeld's work for the Boston Globe won the 1935 pictures of illegal aliens on the Mexican border.

This photograph Pulitzer Prize for feature photography Wednesday, in part for his was published Sept. 9, 1984. Story on Page D6. "aggressively pursuing" the work. Mrs.

Heckler pledged to seek whatever federal money is need to confront the disease. In response to a question from the audience, however, the secretary conceded she was too optimistic when she predicted, almost exactly a year ago, that a vaccine would be ready within two years. WASHINGTON Health and Human Services Secretary Margaret M. Heckler conceded Wednesday that the government will miss its goal of having a vaccine against AIDS ready for testing by the spring of 1986. But, in a speech to the District of Columbia Medical Society, she said the department is Union Attacks U.S.

Pay Cut TV-23 Going Off CONTINUED FROM PAGE A1 4 Convicted in Abortion Clinic Bombings CONTINUED FROM PAGE A1 PENSACOLA, Fla. A federal jury Wednesday found two men guilty of the Christmas Day bombings of three abortion clinics and convicted two women as co-conspirators. Matthew Goldsby and his boyhood friend, James Simmons, both 21, were found guilty on all seven counts of a federal indictment stemming from the bomb blasts at three abortion clinics on December 25. Kaye Wiggins, Goldsby's 18-year-old fiancee, and Simmons' wife Kathy, 19, were convicted on one count each, charging that they aided the conspiracy to destroy the clinics. No one was injured in the bombings.

Sentencing is set for May 30. The two men face as much as 65 years in prison, while the women defendants could be jailed for a maximum of five years. mated $100 billion this year alone. In 1970, corporations were paying 26 percent of the country's tax base. Today, they pay about 6 percent, and their reinvestment rate in this country is a minus-35 percent." Carter illustrated his point with statistics on W.R.

Grace and the conglomerate headed by J. Peter Grace. According to a citizens' watchdog organization, Citizens for Tax Justice, between 1981 and 1983, the Grace company made a profit of $684.1 million; it received tax rebates of $12.5 million; it paid only 1.8 percent of its profits in income tax; its reinvestment rate into the country was percent; and the dividends paid to shareholders were up 16.3 percent. in January 1984, it said the government could save $424 billion over three years by reducing waste, inefficiency and fraud. The administration's proposed 5 percent federal pay cut stemmed from recommendations in the report, Carter said.

There are more than 25,300 non-military federal employees in New Mexico, of which nearly 10,000 work in Albuquerque. If the 5 percent pay cut were implemented, Carter said, it would mean a loss to those workers, and ultimately the state's economy, of $26.22 million a year. "While cutting or freezing our wages will save the taxpayers a billion dollars," Carter said, "major corporations in this country, using tax loopholes, are cheating the government and the American people out of an esti market the station and they wasted a lot of money on frivolous things. What they paid for programming broke their backs," he said. He declined to say how much money the station had lost, but he described the amount as "enormous." The current owners are a group of 18 investors.

Among them, Cavileer said, are television personalities Johnny Carson, Joan Rivers and David Letterman, singer Paul Anka, and playwright Neil Simon. Simon and Carson together own about 28 percent. The station was sold about three years ago by Grants businessman Eddie Pena to a holding company, Carson Communications which changed its name recently to Albuquerque Broadcasting Cavileer said. workers doing the same type of work. Those wages are determind by the Department of Labor, Carter said, "and since 1970, we have never received comparability." He.said federal employees now are an average of 7.8 percent behind private-sector workers in wages and benefits and an average of 18 percent behind them in wages alone.

Those statistics are based on the findings of the Hay Report, a survey commissioned by the U.S. Postal Service and the Congressional Civil Service Subcommittee. The Hay Report disputes many of the findings of the President's Private Sector Survey on Cost Control, headed by industrialist J. Peter Grace. Also known as the Grace Commission Report, issued Ex-Union Head Sent to Prison Hospital CHICAGO Former Teamsters President Roy L.

Williams was ordered Wednesday to report to a federal prison hospital by a judge who rejected claims that jailing the ex-union leader would jeopardize his health and safety. U.S. District Judge Prentice Marshall said Williams must report May 22 to the prison hospital in Springfield, for a medical evaluation to help determine how much time, if any, he can serve in prison for conspiring to bribe a U.S. senator. Williams, 70, suffers from severe emphysema and heart problems.

Thieves Ravage Mementos of Lifetime Violence Leaves 79 Dead, Workers Say tresses surrounded with household items, and called police. When sheriff's Deputies Fred Sais, Danny Landarazo and Ed Rosales responded, the two men awoke and began to run, Two hundred yards upstream the deputies wrestled them to the ground. One, a juvenile, 17, was taken to the Juvenile Detention Center. the Northwest Frontier Province and Urdu-speaking Bihar-is, who migrated here after the creation of Bangladesh in 1971. Hospital records listed 55 dead, and police said they could not confirm the Pashtun and Bihari figures.

KARACHI, Pakistan Two rival communities have reported at least 79 people dead and 276 people missing after five days of violence in Karachi. No independent confirmation was available of the reports by Pashtun migrant workers from Martin Jaramillo, 20, of Albuquerque, was booked into the Bernalillo County Detention Center on suspicion of possesion of stolen property and a stolen vehicle. As the Jarczyks surveyed the scene, sheriff's Sgt. David Schuetz said he and the deputies would be off-duty in an hour, and would come back to reload the truck for them. They did and were joined by a team of expert loaders from the U-Haul Co.

and by volunteer firefighters who came from the Ixs Ranchos station in their hip boots to wade in the stream recovering what the thieves had thrown there. By nightfall their job was done. CONTINUED FROM PAGE A1 spent the night drinking and rifling through boxes and cartons. Many of the photographs, letters and mementos they threw aside were washed away in the ditch. Shortly before 9 a.m.

a jogger spotted two men sleeping on mat Brag and Boast All You Want, But, Please, Don't Whine Jim Arnholz I never thought it would come to this, but I miss Texans; I miss the loud, overbearing, obnoxious, pushy kind of Texan who drove around with some poor dead animal's horns on the hood of his Cadillac. I miss those Texans a lot, because Texans have changed. Nowadays, when I think of Texans, all I can see is Sally Field accepting her Oscar, jumping up and down, and squealing, "You like me! You like me!" That's what I see now when I think about Texans millions of them jumping up and down and squealing, "Do y'all like me? Do y'all like me?" Well, no, I don't; I used to, but not anymore. This Texas insecurity first showed up last year during the Republican convention in Dallas. Because there wasn't much going on in the way of news, reporters were forced to cover Texans.

They wrote reams of stories and shot miles of videotape showing the usual outrageous displays of wealth; you could hardly turn on the TV without seeing stretch limos, women dripping in diamonds, expensive gowns, tuxedos, gleaming buildings with gold windows, the world's largest barbecue, beer-spraying contests, mechanical bulls and other typical artifacts of Texas culture, such as it is. But then came the twist: At the end of each repressed anger toward us Texans." Where they got the idea there was anything "repressed" about it, I don't know, but the article continues, "What if Governor White (of Texas) and Governor Anaya of New Mexico meet to negotiate water rights before we've talked through all this anger? You know what's going to happen. Governor Anaya will drop some snide remarks about name belts, and Governor White will respond with a nasty rejoinder about tacky souvenirs, and the next thing you know El Paso won't have any water." What, exactly, is wrong with any of that? When a cop asks a New Mexican for identification, he shows the cop a driver's license, not a belt with his name stitched on the back; and what's wrong with tacky souvenirs, so long as Texans willingly pay inflated prices for them (and then jump up and down and squeal, "Y'all like me! Y'all like and if El Paso doesn't have any water Well, let's just say it's not nice to fool with Mother Nature and let it go at that. Texas Monthly had five "eminent representatives" from neighboring states write about Texas. New Mexico's eminent representative was some of you are going to quibble with this choice John Ehrlichman.

Now, before you start ticking off all the other people Texas Monthly could have picked, I think you ought to know Ehrlichman did an OK job. I was especially glad to see he mentioned that Texans think the only color chile comes in is brown. The only gripe I've got is that he was too polite, although he did point out that the souvenir Texans want most to buy is Santa Fe, and he worried about us being under the boot of these invaders. Well, being under their boot is bad enough without them begging me to love them after they get me there. It's like being blitzed by the Huns and then having Attila squealing, "Do you like me? Do you like me?" Some Texan named Nicholas Lemann responds to all these Texas neighbors by saying we should be nice to Texans, because Texans are a whole lot better to have around than East Coast and West Coast Yankees.

Well, of course they are. Texans are some of the friendliest people around. We know that. I've never met a New Mexican in my life who'd swap a Texan even up for one of those coastal creatures. But I sure do wish Texans would stop whining because we won't admit it in public.

It's not becoming of someone with some poor dead animal's horns on his hood. story, some Texan would ask plead is more like it), "Well, do y'all like us?" I saw that happen 17 times before I believed it wasn't a promo for a new ABC comedy. My mind rejected the notion that this quivering mass of insecurity was a Texan; maybe Woody Allen rehearsing a scene for a new movie, but not a Texan. Since last August, I put all that out of my mind, hoping that Texans would come to their senses such as they are and revert to the old, dependable, repugnant ways. No such luck.

They're still worried; they're still staying up nights trying to figure out a way to get their neighbors to love them. In the May issue of Texas Monthly, it says, "It's not good for you Coloradans and New Mexicans and Arkansans and Oklahomans and Louisianans to have this.