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A2 ALBUQUERQUE JOURNAL Wednesday, November 15, 1989 WORLD NATION it, a- y. -00 i "I I Israel has N-arms, Pentagon reports WASHINGTON A Pentagon report, obtained under the Freedom of Information Act, Tuesday disclosed that Israel has nuclear and chemical warheads for its Jericho I missile. The report is certain to increase pressure on Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir when he meets President Bush today to talk about a U.S. plan to revive the stalled Middle East peace process. Jogger out of hospital NEW YORK Continuing her "miraculous recovery," the Central Park jogger was released from a Connecticut hospital Tuesday, nearly seven months after the attack and gang-rape that almost killed her.

The 28-year-old investment banker will be treated at Gaylord Hospital in Walling-ford as an outpatient. Reached for comment, her father said, "We're thrilled. We'll have a quiet celebration." Doctors would not say whether the woman, who suffered brain damage and had not been expected to recover fully, would be able to testify at the trial of six teens accused of raping her. House leaders push pay hike WASHINGTON House leaders Tuesday pushed their pay raise and ethics package with an internal lobbying effort more vigorous than most major legislation. Speaker Thomas Foley, and Majority Leader Richard Gephardt, planned to appear today before the House Republican Conference, while their GOP Ortega puts strings 'on new cease-fire WASHINGTON Nicaragua's Marxist-led Sandinista government Tuesday dropped its insistence that the Contra disband by Dec.

5 and offered to resume a ceasefire if the insurgents return to Honduras. Nicaraguan Deputy Foreign Minister Victor Hugo Tinoco made the proposal as the two sides negotiated here on reinstitut-ing a 19-month cease-fire that President Daniel Ortega canceled Oct. 27. Nicaragua's new proposal appeared to be an attempt to defuse criticism over ending the truce by returning to the cease-fire while still extracting concessions from the Contras. Enrique Bermudez, the Contras' chief negotiator, charged that the Sandinistas are asking for "a military retreat" that would cost the Contras their gains from eight years of struggle.

Mexico against border troops MEXICO CITY The Foreign Ministry Tuesday objected to U.S. plans to use Marines near El Paso in anti-drug operations. "The Mexican government wants to make clear that it does not share in nor support the measures announced yesterday by the U.S. Defense Department regarding the use of the armed forces in a location close to the shared border," the ministry said. Washington Monday announced plans for a military intelligence center at Fort Bliss to use 75 Marines in border drug patrols.

Italians drop communist tag ROME West Europe's largest Communist Party surrendered to "recent events in Eastern Europe" Tuesday, announcing a name change and waving goodbye to the THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Homage to the homeless v. Lmti Former President Reagan and Covenant House founder the Rev. Bruce Ritter chat as 1-year-old Kenya Street plays with a White House pen in New York Tuesday. The former president addressed 120 street children during his visit to the agency for homeless children. IE ASSOCIATED PRESS Paying respect Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi pays homage to his grandfather, India's first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru on the 100th anniversary of his birth Tuesday in New Delhi.

hammer and sickle. Achille Occhetto, general secretary of the Italian Communist Party, made the initiative. Occhetto will press to drop the word "communist" from the party's title and forge an alliance with other leftist groups. COMPILED FROM JOURNAL WIRES the biH A raise of 7.9 percent would take effect on Jan. 1, 1990, raising congressional pay from $89,500 to $96,600.

A year later, lawmakers would get a 25 percent increase. Federal judges and top executive branch officials would also get the increases. Senate OKs Indian museum WASHINGTON The Senate unanimously approved legislation Tuesday to transfer the priceless Heye Foundation York museum to the Smithsonian Institution. The measure is identical to legislation ratified Monday by the House. It now goes to the White House for President Bush's signature, perhaps as early as next week.

The legislation also authorizes $10 million in 1990 for the planning, design and construction of the national museum. In addition, the legislation stipulates that the Smithsonian, where possible, return its collection of some 18,000 Indian remains and funerary objects to their original tribes for burial. counterparts, Minority Leader Robert Michel, and Minority Whip Newt Gingrich, were going before the Democratic Caucus to drum up support for collection of Indian artifacts from a New I 7 wBH-r Czechoslovakia Eases Travel Czechoslovakia opens borders Prime Minister Ladislav Adamec said Tuesday that Czechoslovaks will no longer need exit visas to travel outside the country. Previously, Czechoslovakia's Communist government had remained resistant to Gorbachev-style reforms. Area: about the size of New York 'SC.

Population: 1 5.8 million Languages: Czech and Slovak Production: 71 industry (V Prague -V- -r A' THE ASSOCIATED PRESS It is one of many locations where the government has opened the wall to allow East Germans to visit the West. An East German border guard gives out pieces of barbed wire Tuesday as he cuts them off the Berlin Wall at the Ostpreussendamm passage. W. Germany Offers East 'Marshall Plan' East Germany Poland -y ussr West Germany Czecho8lovakla71. Aw8trla V-rsj-t JN- Hungary fm-.

Enlarged i il maP area Hard-line Leaders Yield on Tourism THE ASSOCIATED PRESS PRAGUE, Czechoslovakia Czechs won a concession from their hard-line communist leadership Tuesday, with the government saying they would no longer need exit visas to travel to the West. Premier Ladislav Adamec said his government regards "tourism as the citizens' important right to get to know the world, gain experience and establish personal contacts." His announcement came five days after neighboring East Germany threw open its borders to allow citizens to travel freely to the West for the first time in nearly three decades. Millions have taken advantage of the new freedom. Hungary and Poland, which have been at the forefront of East bloc reforms, also allow their citizens to travel freely to the West. Adamec did not say when the new regulations would take effect, but government sources insisting on anonymity said it would be Jan.

1. "The processing of travel documents is being speeded up," Adamec told the Federal Assembly, or parliament. "For travel to non-socialist countries and to Yugoslavia exit visas will not be necessary." Czechoslovak citizens previously wishing to travel to the West had to obtain a passport and then apply for exit visas with Interior Ministry authorities. This process requires stamps of approval from local Communist Party branches, employers and the army and takes up to 30 days. Under the new rules, those wishing to travel to the West still must apply for visas from the Western country they wish to visit.

Yugoslavia does not require visas from Czechoslovak citizens. The Yugoslav Adriatic coast is a favor, ite summer travel spot for Czechs. Travel to other East bloc countries is visa-free except for Poland and the Soviet Union. President Bush praised Adamec's announcement. "The people of Czechoslovakia have the same aspirations for freedom that others have, and I would serious, ana saia inai economic Jan.

15: Riot police crush protest in Prague. May 1 Demonstration In Prague suppressed. Aug. 21: Police attack 3,000 demonstrators gathered in Prague to mark the anniversary of Soviet-led 1968 invasion. Oct.

1: "Freedom trains" from Prague begin carrying East Germans to West Germany. NOV. 14: Czechoslovakia officially opens borders. SOURCE: Europa Year Book, World Book of opening up the gate after his CONTINUED FROM PAGE A1 figures had been systematically misstated in the past to disguise the lack of progress. Modrow, an economist, has vowed to streamline the centralized system that divides the economy into 126 large companies, each lagging far behind comparable Western companies in productivity.

East Germany's share of worldwide heavy machinery sales has dwindled from 5 percent to less than 1 percent. confirmation by East Germany parliament, the Volkskammer. But he said he would not consider ripping down the entire wall, despite demands from West Germany. "In our country, there isn't much crime, hardly any AIDS, drugs are practically unknown," Modrow said. "But with an open border if all these problems slide over, then my policies as prime minister won't have a chance." Modrow has called the country's economic situation "serious, very work was imminent.

The gate, a large, columned monument, is one of the city' best-known symbols and stands at the end of East Berlin's main street, the Unter den Linden. For years before East Germany flung open its borders, the gate had been a major rallying point for demonstrators demanding free travel to the West. Modrow had raised the possibility 'Welcome' Costs West Germany $82 Million THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Knlght-Ridder Tribune NewsBILL BAKER last year by 30 percent over the previous year, Adamec said. The government will take steps to remove unnecessary red tape to make travel easier, he said. "Our aim is that Czechoslovakia become a country for which travel and tourism represent not only a significant sum in the state budget, but also the satisfaction of its citizens," he said in the nationally televised speech.

Two years ago Czechoslovakia relaxed hard currency restrictions, permitting its 15.5 million citizens to keep foreign currency earmarked for travel abroad in their bank accounts and withdraw it without a special application. The move eased travel abroad. expect we'd see further changes there, just as we have seen in Poland, Hungary and in (East Germany)," Bush said. "So it's a very good and encouraging step." Czechoslovakia has been among the most resistant countries in the Soviet bloc to political reforms and has cracked down on dissent, but it has gradually allowed its citizens greater freedom to travel. In the past two years, Prague has allowed thousands of Czechoslovaks to vacation in the West.

In the summer months, cars with Czech license plates are a common sight on Austrian and West German highways. The number of visits by Czechoslovak citizens to the West increased probably was double the West Berlin figure. By government policy, each East German visitor is entitled to 100 marks once a year. East Germans traveling abroad can take along only 15 West German marks, equivalent to a little more than $8, and East German marks are not convertible. Earlier Tuesday, "West Berlin banks threatened to suspend payments of "welcome money" unless Bonn covered their operating costs, and the government agreed.

The banks stayed open most of the weekend to handle long lines of East Germans. Officials said the government was raising its total "welcome money" allocation from 479 million marks to 779 million. BERLIN The friendly weekend invasion from the East when the Berlin Wall was opened cost the West German government $82 million in "welcome money," the city's bankers said Tuesday. The West Berlin bank association said 1.5 million visitors from East Germany came through the wall and banks gave each 100 marks ($55) on the government's behalf, for a total of 150 million marks, or about $82 million. Figures were not available from the other parts of West Germany visited by 1.5 million more East Germans, but the total paid in "welcome money" Theaters May Open Without Rand on Marquee payment, he said.

CONTINUED FROM PAGE A1 823-4400 ALBUQUERQUE JOURNAL P.O. Drawer Albuquerque, NM 87103 7777 Jefferson NE 87109 SUGGESTED HOME DELIVERY RATE Daily and Sunday $8.50 per month Sunday only $4.00 per month The publisher assumes no responsibility for payments to carriers tor more than the current month. Subscribers desiring to pay tor six or twelve months in advance will please mail remittance at their carrier rates direct to the circulation department "The (writs of) executions have been issued and are in the sheriff's hands," Gentry said. "He has the option of accepting payment from Mr. Rand, standing by the door on Friday and Saturday nights and taking the money as they take it in or ceasing the business, padlocking the doors and having an auction." Gentry said the Rand's 21 screens account for about 25 percent of the screens in Little Rock.

The Rand chain also owes Texas more than $178,800, said John Bender, assistant to the comptroller for tax information. Bender said property managers or utility companies have closed all eight of Rand's theaters, located in San Antonio, Dallas and Fort Worth, during the past two months. "We raided their cash registers once (Oct 6) because a portion of May and June sales taxes ($30,000) had not been paid," Bender said. After the raid, Rand made full Hinkle said. "The hardest thing to do is go build something, but once it's built and in place.

I think we'll end up with stronger people than Rand." Russ Beckner, senior vice president of SESBeck Associates, said the Plaza at Paseo del Norte eight-screen is nearing completion. The California-based development company for the West Side center expects Rand to honor its leasing contract, Beckner said. "I know they've had some problems, but as of today, we haven't had a problem (with them)," he said. Elsehwere, Rand Inc's problems are multiplying. The company owes the state of Arkansas in excess of $350,000 in taxes, including for some audits going back as far as 1981 for the Little Rock theaters, said Cora Gentry, an attorney with the state department of finance and administration.

Daily .35 New Out of Mexico State Single copy rate: Out of town mall rates (823-3160) When the Rand Theatre on Tramway was announced in June, Rand's wife, Mary Ann, said the chain had planned to build 24 theaters in 1989. The chain, which started out as a twin screen in Little Rock in 1970, hoped to have 330 screens operating in 10 states by next spring, moving the company into the top seven nationally in numbers of screens, she said. At the time, Mrs. Rand said she and her husband's com-. pany had never closed a theater.

Little Rock authorities said the chain has been reduced to about two dozen screens in Arkansas after reaching a peak of 115 screens in Texas, Arkansas and Tennessee with theaters under way in Florida, Washington, D.C., and New Mexico before the company's problems ended the expansion. But no Rand executives could be reached for comment on the chain's size. Here are the people to contact and the telephone numbers for frequently called Journal departments: Arts Pat Reed 823-3939 City Desk Karen Moses 823-3840 Classified Ads 823-4444 Editorial Page Bill Hume 823-3861 Financial Scott Merville 823-3830 Las Cruces Bureau Bill Diven 526-4461 Photo RayCary 823-3991 Santa Fe Bureau Tim Coder 988-8881 State Bruce Daniels 823-3912 Sports Mike Hall 823-3908 Trends Steve Hallock 823-3936 Washington Bureau (202) 662-7540 Richard Parker (202) 662-7541 Managing Editor Features Frankie McCarty 823-3803 Managing Editor News RodDeckert 823-3804 For other news information, or 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 the development partners, does not owe the partnership any money now, but he may owe some shortly, Hinkle said.

"We're advising him (Tuesday) to move his people in, occupy it and move equipment in seats, projection equipment," Hinkle said. If Rand does not comply with the lease arrangements, then Rand will be in default, he said. When the three theaters open, they will add 24 more screens and bring Albuquerque's total number of indoor movie screens to 92. "These theaters will really max out the market," Silverman said. Quite a few people are interested in buying the theaters, he said.

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