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NKW MKXICO LEADING KWSFAPK ALBUQU JOURNA ft I 109th Year, No. 199 32 Pages In 4 Sections Tuesday Morning, July 18, 1989 Copyright 1989, Journal Publishing Co. Daily 35 Sunday $1 iFROI IF Superpowers Approve Chemical Weapons Ban Owls' Presence in Gila Could Close Sawmill By Janis Marston JOURNAL CORRESPONDENT MEXICAN SPOTTED OWL the amounts and types of chemical weapons be destroyed over a 10-year period. They also agreed on procedures for highly intrusive surprise inspections at sites where one country suspects the other of cheating. The draft treaty would ban the development, production, possession and transfer of chemical weapons.

The United States and the Soviet Union have the largest arsenals of such weapons. The Geneva Protocol of 1925, adopted after poison gas in World War I produced 1.3 million casualties, prohibits the use of MORE: See SUPERPOWERS on PAGE A6 About 15 owl counters roamed the piney' forests near Reserve and the controversial Water Timber Sale, a few miles southeast of the Catron County seat, as part of a two-month project that covered 150,000 acres in the Gila Forest. They ended their count Friday. The sale became controversial after environmental groups objected to the Forest Service opening the area for logging without allowing time for appeals. It was rushed through at the end of last year so the MORE: See OWLS' on PAGE A3 THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK The United States and the Soviet Union have reached agreement on key elements of a treaty banning chemical weapons, including a timetable for destroying them and procedures for inspecting chemical factories, according to The New York Times.

The superpowers' recommendations will be submitted to the 40-nation Conference on Disarmament in Geneva, the newspaper reported in today's editions, citing Bush administration officials. A State Department official told The Times the two sides had agreed in principle on "a mathematical formula" prescribing RESERVE The presence of an unsuspected number of threatened owls in Gila National Forest's northern reaches may shut down a sawmill here and imperil 135 jobs. An owl count by the U.S. Forest Service shows the northern part of the Gila Forest to be prime territory for the Mexican spotted owl, an 18-inch-tall cousin of an owl recently placed on the endangered list in Oregon forests. The Mexican spotted owl is a sub-species of the northern spotted owl, which was placed on the endangered species list in May.

Mexican spotted owls nest in abandoned raven or hawk nests in tree cavities or canyon walls. While most owls have yellow eyes, these owls have brown eyes. BEAI Flawless In ace 9 JL Beam Could Fly As SDI Weapon By Byron Spice JOURNAL SCIENCE WRITER ASSOCIATED PRESS weapon, which has no tail and lacks the traditional aircraft fuselage, landed some two hours later at Edwards Air Force Base. The B-2 Stealth bomber takes off from Air Force Plant 42 in Palmdale, Monday on its long-anticipated maiden flight. The sinister-looking Stealth Bomber Roars Away From Critics LOS ALAMOS Jubilant scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory on Monday said a flawless test of an experimental particle-beam gun in space last week marked a major milestone in the Star Wars program.

The test revealed no fundamental problems that would prevent such devices from being used in a missile defense system. Electrically neutral particle beams have been envisioned as a means to destroy warheads. During a nine-minute suborbital flight from White Sands Missile Range early Thursday morning, the particle-beam gun fired pencil-shaped bursts of hydrogen atoms to distances of more than half a mile, said Don Cobb, project leader for the $61 million Beam Experiment Aboard a Rocket, or BEAR, mission. "It appears that all the mission objectives were accomplished," Cobb said, based on a preliminary study of the experimental results. "We see no impediments for proceeding with the neutral particle beam in space." One of the biggest hurdles for the program is budgetary, but officials of both Los Alamos and the Pentagon's Strategic Defense Initiative on Monday maintained THE WASHINGTON POST been one of the military's most closely held secrets, took on more trappings of a space launch than an airplane take-off.

For days, area residents and aviation buffs lined the desert roads surrounding Air Force Plant 42 outside of Palmdale where the B-2 has been housed in a massive sand-colored hangar. When the plane's four General Electric engines revved, almost 100 news cameras followed the gray-black craft down the runway and into the cloudless Southern MORE: See STEALTH'S on PAGE A6 landings here. "This was an historic day in aviation," Gen. Bernard P. Randolph, commander of the Air Force Systems Command, said at a news conference less than three hours after the two test pilots emerged from the futuristic cockpit.

"We flew the flying wing." The pilots described the tailless, four-engine bomber, with its 172-foot wing-span, as nimble, maneuverable and easy to fly. One pilot, Air Force Col. Richard Couch, added sheepishly, "It was kind of fun." After an 18-month flight delay and an aborted takeoff Saturday, the successful maiden flight gave Air Force and Northrop Corp. officials a brief respite from the barrage of criticism that threatens the future of the $70.2 billion, 132-airplane program. "A lot of people went out on a limb and said 'it won't fly' or 'it's not Thomas Jones, Northrop' chairman and chief executive officer, said in an interview after the flight.

"The fact that it was an uneventful first flight made it a success." The long-anticipated first flight of the bomber, which until last November had EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. -The B-2 Stealth bomber, the most expensive U.S. warplane ever built, roared into a desert sunrise Monday on a two-hour maiden flight that controversy-weary Air Force officials quickly declared a "historic day in aviation." The $530 million bomber, soaring over the Mojave Desert like a giant mechanical bat, performed a series of simple, first-flight maneuvers before touching down 30 minutes earlier than scheduled on the same dry lake bed used for space-shuttle MORE: See BEAR on PAGE A6 Lujan Sees Offshore Oil As Energy Needs Answer Teen-Age Driver Dies After Random Shooting By Johanna King And Glen Rosales -vr- 1 JOURNAL STAFF WRITERS the administration's policy. "He went to the lion's den," Steve Goldstein, Lujan's chief press aide, said Monday. Goldstein said the speech was cleared by the White House.

The push to prevent exploration and development of outer continental shelf oil reserves comes from the California congressional delegation which succeeded in putting a moratorium on exploration several years ago and is trying to keep it intact this year. Last week, the House Appropriations Committee put a moratorium in its annual funding bill. Taking direct aim at this, Lujan pointed to "dangerous moratoria being imposed by the back door without any meaning- MORE: See LUJAN on PAGE A3 pulled up alongside Kaitlyn's car as it was moving and fired four gunshots through the side window. Two bullets struck her head. "The car went out of control, veered and hit a pole," said Kaitlyn's mother, Lois Arquette.

Kaitlyn, a University of New Mexico student who recently graduated with honors from Highland High School, had been returning home from dinner with a girlfriend, her mother said. Kaitlyn died Monday night at about 8:15 at UNM Hospital, according to a hospital spokeswoman. Police late Monday had no witnesses, no suspect, no weapon and no explanation for MORE: See HONOR on PAGE A3 By Paul R. Wieck OF THE JOURNAL'S WASHINGTON BUREAU WASHINGTON Interior Secretary Manuel Lujan Jr. today will tell western governors meeting in Long Beach, that development of offshore and Alaska oil reserves is the solution to the nation's energy needs and that new ways must be found to get that oil to market safely.

The speech is being touted as an "amplification of the Bush administration's energy policies," and comes at a time when public and congressional opposition to off-shore drilling is rising. To emphasize its importance, Lujan chose to give the speech in California where the opposition to off-shore drilling runs high and to western governors who must deal with environmental opponents of Eighteen-year-old Kaitlyn Arquette, an honor student and daughter of a well-known local children's author, died Monday night of two gunshot wounds to the head, as her family and police tried to piece together what appeared to be a random, drive-by shooting. Kaitlyn was discovered in her car at about 11 p.m. Sunday by police officers investigating what they thought was a routine car accident on Lomas near Broadway NE, said Albuquerque police spokeswoman Mary Molina Mescall. Mescall said someone apparently had Kaitlyn Arquette Shooting victim 0 TUESDAY FDA Plans Major Changes in Food Labeling Good Morning A threatened owl may shut down a state sawmill.

That could put the timber industry up a tree. Weather Partly cloudy northwest; slight chance of afternoon, evening thundershowers east, south. Lows 50s to low 70s. Highs 80s to near 102. D11.

fiber, cholesterol and saturated and unsaturated fat content of packaged foods, along with current requirements for some foodmakers to list calories, sodium and carbohydrates. Ingredient labeling. Ingredients currently are listed in the order of their predominance in the product. However, consumers cannot tell how much there is of each ingredient or category of ingredients. Changed labeling could require disclosing that various sweeteners listed separately add up to, say, 20 percent of a food's total content.

Foodmakers also do not have to list the variety of vegetable oils used in a product, even though there is a MORE: See FDA on PAGE A6 CHICAGO TRIBUNE Spurred by increasing evidence linking diet and health, the Food and Drug Administration is planning to require major changes in the nutrition information on labels of packaged foods. The sweeping alterations would represent the biggest change in U.S. food labeling since the FDA first mandated nutritional information on many packaged foods in 1972. Likely changes include adding key nutritional such as fat content, clarifying the often-confusing manner in which nutritional information is presented, and setting forth clear definitions in such murky areas as what makes a "light" beer light. "If we're going to say you can modify your diet and change your health, there needs to be a label that can be used," said Dr.

Frank Young, the FDA commissioner. "I believe the time has come for food labeling reform." In an interview, Young said regulators will look at five areas in which food labels can be made more useful and understandable. These are: Nutrition labeling. Present labels sometimes mislead consumers. For instance, because fat content is not required to be listed, someone buying a product labeled "no cholesterol" may not realize that it contains saturated fats.

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