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-lip i Weather El Terremoto A special section Mexico City shook crete. The world's larg- for 90 seconds. Build- est city was devastated, ings dropped. Voices Today, a recap of the cried from under con- El Terremoto. Page 2A Today's forecast calls Today's high: near 90.

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144 No. 316 Final Edition, Tucson, Thursday, October 3, 1985 56 Pages Rapping noises from Mexico City rubble spur rescuers By Isaac A. Levi The Associated Press MEXICO CITY Miners and soldiers, listening for rapping noises that signaled life, tunneled through a collapsed building yesterday toward a 9-year-old boy and his grandfather believed to have survived a massive earthquake nearly two weeks ago. Officials identified the trapped boy as Luis Ramon Mazerati and the grandfather as Luis Maldonado, 57. Although relatives said they were sure both were the leader of the rescue effort, Carlos Malbran, said there were signs of life from only one person.

Rescue workers said they believed the boy was alive because they used a microphone system to call out his name and he responded with tapping. Red Cross worker Ernesto Ariaga said searchers were within about a yard of the boy but would have to dig out five more yards of rubble because of the way the floor caved in around him. They were trapped the morning of Sept. 19 when an earthquake measuring 8.1 on the Richter scale collapsed the interior of their three-story apartment and commercial building on Venustiano Car-ranza Street. A second quake measuring 7.5 hit the city the next day.

Together they devastated the heart of the capital, wrecking hundreds of buildings and killing thousands of people. Late yesterday, the U.S. Embassy released the names of 14 Americans believed missing in the earthquakes, and asked for help in locating them. It gave no ages or hometowns. They are: Magdalene Armstrong; Jim and Debbie Buchan; Claudia Cuevas; Nathan Goldsmith; Rochelle or Michelle Gregory; Linda McRae; Daniele Nava; John Stanaway; Ricardo or Richard Perez; Carol Suerth; Gina Thompson; Margaret Villanueva; and Sharry Zeit-lan.

The embassy earlier released the name of the 10th American known dead: Ronald Patterson, no hometown given, whose body was found in the crumbled Regis Hotel. Maldonado's son, Alberto Maldonado, 30, said both Luis and his father have knocked on the walls of their prison repeatedly in response to rescuers' raps. 'T know my father is alive," he told The Associated Press. He said his father is "very strong. He plays jai alai all day on Wednesdays and Saturdays." However, Carlos Malbran, an Argentine engineer and a leader of the rescue effort, said they had signs of life "from one person." Abducted Soviet slain; callers is dead ays 2nd By Ed Blanche The Associated Press BEIRUT, Lebanon Kidnappers of four Soviet Embassy employees killed one of them and said yesterday that the others will die unless Syrian-backed militias halt an offensive against Moslem fundamentalists in the northern port of Tripoli.

An anonymous caller claimed a second captive has been killed, and another said Moslem extremists plan to blow up the embassy. The battle raged on for control of Tripoli, where more than 500 people have been killed and 1,100 wounded since Sept. 15. The militias supplied by Syria, Moscow's main ally in the Mideast, have the fundamentalists cornered with their backs to the sea, and Syrian artillery has joined the battle. The body of cultural attache Arkady Katkov, 32, was found yesterday, shot once in the head at close range.

It was sprawled on bloodstained rocks near the Cite Sportive, a stadium adjacent to the Sabra Palestinian refugee camp, destroyed in Lebanon's decade-long civil war. An anonymous caller claiming to speak for the Islamic Liberation Organization gave the location of the body to a Western news agency. "We have carried out God's sentence against one of the hostages and we shall execute the others one after the other if the atheistic campaign against Islamic Tripoli does See FATE, Page 4A V'" Rock Hudson loses battle with AIDS, dies at age 59 Taxpayers wail about increase Assessor getting 1,500 calls a day By Bob Christman The Arizona Daily Star Taxpayers upset about higher taxes in the Tucson Unified School District are calling Pima County Assessor Arnold Jeffers as many as 1,500 times a day. "If it hadn't been for the $16 million budget override in TUSD, I'd probably be getting two dozen calls a day," Jeffers said yesterday. "Besides the calls, we get nasty letters and people lined up at the counter to complain," he said.

Jeffers doubts that voters understood the power they wielded May 21 when they authorized the district to spend up to $16 million more this year and in each of the following two years. In the fourth and fifth years, the district is authorized to spend up to $10.6 million and $5.3 million, respectively. "People can vote to take the limits off taxation, and in the past few months they dang near did that," the assessor said. "Thirteen percent of the voters authorized the $16 million override, while 100 percent of the taxpayers (in TUSD) are getting the bill." Some taxpayers got the double whammy, Jeffers pointed out. "Besides the TUSD increase, their residential property was converted to rental status, resulting in a 175 percent tax increase in the school district," he explained.

"Given the reaction my office has received to this year's override, it is my opinion that NO budget override will ever again be successful, re-See TUSD'S BUDGET, Page 4A By Rick Lyman Knight-Ridder Newspapers Rock Hudson, the handsome and durable matinee idol whose public battle with AIDS focused a worldwide spotlight on the disease and on the hidden lifestyle of entertainment-industry homosexuals, died yesterday at his Beverly Hills home. He was 59. The actor died peacefully in his sleep at 9 a.m., said his publicist, Dale Olson. Hudson's longtime friend and associate, Tom Clark, was at his side when he died, Olson said. Hudson revealed in July that he had AIDS, or acquired immune deficiency syndrome, which weakens wy if: The Associated Press Gorbachev, foreground, and Mitterrand at start of visit Gorbachev says U.S.

is inviting 'rough times' PARIS (AP) Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev warned last night of "rough times" ahead if the United States persists in developing the space-based defense system commonly called "Star Wars." He said the Reagan administration's plan has wrought a major change in the arms race, which "consists of the fact that an attempt is being undertaken to transfer military rivalry into extra-atmospheric space, as if we lacked it on Earth." "In the event that the instigators of this enterprise stubbornly continue down the perilous path they have laid, the world must indeed face up to rough times," Gorbachev said at a banquet on the first night of his four-day official visit to France. He spoke in Russian, and a French translation was provided. The trip, seven weeks before his November summit in Geneva with See U.S., Page 2A Ex-CIA officer accused of spying for Soviets Rock Hudson faced his death with a great deal of personal integrity. Page ID.

Hudson's film credits began with "Fighter Squadron" in 1948. Page ID. the body's ability to defend itself from other diseases. Two weeks ago, at a celebrity benefit in his honor, actor Burt Lancaster read a statement from Hudson that brought tears to the eyes of many in the audience. "I am not happy that I am sick," Hudson said.

"I am not happy that I have AIDS. But if that is helping others, I can at least know that my own misfortune has had some positive worth." The benefit, attended by 2,000 people, raised more than $1 million for AIDS research. Hudson kept it secret for more than a year that he was suffering complications from AIDS. But Hollywood rumors, spurred by Hudson's increasingly gaunt appearance along with his worsening condition and his decision to seek experimental treatments in France, drew the story into the open. When the news first broke July 23, it initiated a tragic public-relations circus that lasted for two days.

Publicists in Hollywood said the actor was suffering from cancer and was comatose. Host ital spokesmen in See ROCK HUDSON, Page 2A Santa Fe, was charged in an arrest warrant issued Monday Sept. 23 in Albuquerque with conspiracy to deliver national defense information to aid a foreign government. Although the FBI and the warrant did not say which foreign government Howard allegedly spied for, U.S. sources, who would not be named, have said it was the Soviet Union.

One U.S. official has said Howard By Michael J. Sniffen The Associated Press WASHINGTON The FBI has charged a former CIA officer who worked in Moscow with plotting to spy for a foreign government and has been seeking his arrest since he fled from his New Mexico home more than a week ago, a spokesman said yesterday. FBI spokesman Ed Gooderham said Edward Lee Howard, 33, of was probably one of two ex-CIA officials implicated as Soviet agents by a recent top-level defector from the Soviet KGB, Vitaly Yurchenko. The CIA is believed to have very few U.S.

agents in the Soviet Union, and former CIA directors have said that the agency has difficulty recruiting Soviet citizens as agents. Thus, anyone involved in American spy operations in the Soviet Union See EX-CIA, Page 5A AP fUe photo Rock Hudson had kept his illness secret 17 ill 1. Cowboys accused. The FBI and the NFL probe allegations that five present and former Dallas Cowboys participated in point-shaving schemes for cocaine. Page IE.

Royals, Mets victorious. Kansas City beats California to tie the Angels for the AL West lead, and the Mets beat St. Louis to get within a game in the NL East. Page IE. Trust no one.

That's the prescription for success in the job that Beulah Aikens holds. Page 2D. Happy journey. "The Journey of Natty Gann" is one movie aimed at teen-agers that has nothing to do with purple hair or shopping malls. Its director, Jeremy Kagan, says the story of a girl's cross-country search for her father reaffirms the best in human nature.

Pages ID. Kitchen dilemma, gop City Council candidate Wayne Sil-berschlag expresses concern that moving a soup kitchen to a church where a Head Start program is also conducted could be harmful. Page 3B. Living Wills. The Pima.Coun-cil on Aging has been overwhelmed by requests for living wills, and in Washington, D.C., Arizonans urge Congress to set national standards for living wills.

Page 7 A. Worst pollution. Rep. Morris K. Udali, just returned from a trip to the Soviet Union, tells a gathering of reporters that nuclear war would be the worst pollution on Earth.

Page 8F. AsbestOS fears. A notification that there is asbestos around piping in the basement of Tucson High School is raising some fears despite assurances that there is "no danger." Page IB. Deportation stayed. Giorip teen-ager Claudio Foerster, who is crippled by polio, will be allowed to stay in the United States for one more year, but first he must return to Mexico.

Page IB. Court investigated. Tucson Police Department officials say an investigation begun in June is continuing into the disappearance of several thousand dollars from City Court. Page 2B. Newsman's death.

Arizona Republic writer Charles Thornton was killed and three other Americans were wounded in fighting between rival rebel groups, the official Kabul Radio says. Page 3A. "Act Of aggression." Tunisia urges the U.N. Security Council to condemn Israel's raid oh PLO headquarters near Tunis and demands payment of reparations. Page SA.

Apartheid "doomed." Secretary of State George P. Shultz warns that South Africa's racial quota system is "doomed" and the nation must reach a political compromise to head off revolt Page 5A. Price shock. In the wake or U.S. carmakers' recent spate of incentives to sell off '85 models, consumers can expect to see up to $2,000 added to '86 models, and the strong yen may boost some Japanese import prices.

Page IF. Silver search. Silver Tech Mines Inc. is seeking financial backing to build a silver and manganese processing mill in Tombstone. Page IF.

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