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College football Her Black ''Monday Olympics U.S. coach charges bribe offered to boxing judge Sports, Section THE CRASH OF 1987 Florida 19 LSU 6 Wash. St. 52 Tennessee 24 UCLA 24 Washington 17 Idaho 31 NAU 20 How we averted disaster Money, Page IF 1 988 The Arizona Daily Star Vol. 147 No.

276 $1.25 182 Pages Home Edition, Tucson, Sunday, October 2, 1988 New leader for KGB is selected jrrr.v: By Philip Taubman 1988 The New York Times MOSCOW Mikhail S. Gorbachev consolidated his leadership of the Soviet Union yesterday by taking over the presidency of the country to match his role as head of the Communist Party. Completing the major realignment of the party and government of the past two days, several top government officials were replaced, and a longtime KGB official was named to head the security and intelligence agency. On Friday, the party Central Committee dismissed three veteran members and accepted the retirement of President Andrei A. Gromyko from the ruling Politburo.

Anatoly F. Dobrynin, who had long served as the Soviet ambassador to the United States, also was ousted from his post as Central Committee secretary. Speculation on Ligachev There had also been speculation that Yegor K. Ligachev, the No. 2 party leader and a man who has often questioned Gorbachev's poli- Power was the theme at Soviet session.

Page 14A. Estonians, pushing for more independence, open congress. Page 14A. cies, had lost influence. Ligachev was named Friday to head a party commission on agriculture.

The move suggested that he would wield less influence on ideological and foreign-policy issues. But the leadership lineup at yesterday's meeting did not support that speculation. Ligachev appeared yesterday in his customary position at the front rank of the Politburo, seated in the same row as Gorbachev, Gromyko, and Nikolai I. Ryzh-kov, the prime minister. Although Leonid I.

Brezhnev had been both the general secretary of the party and president, there was more significance to Gorbachev's assuming both roles because he has said that he intends to invest the presidency with much more power, part of a policy of making the See GORBACHEV, Page 14A Bruce McClelland, The Arizona Daily Star For Peete'S Sake Former Sahuaro High School ference vlctoryver the University of Arizona. The game also quarterback Rodney Peete threw three touchdown passes last night marked the return to Arizona Stadium of former UA coach Larry to lead third-ranked Southern California to a 38-15 Pacific-10 Con- Smith, who left the Wildcats to coach the Trojans. Story, Page 1 E. One site cleaned up, 4 on Superfund list and years to go Discovery crew tests new escape suit, slide It's taking too long to remove con Six of the state's seven federal Superfund projects are in or near the Phoenix area, says Virginia Donohue, an Environmental Protection Agency spokeswoman. No basis for complacency Rob Smith of Phoenix, associate Southwest representative for the Sierra Club, says, "We hear more about Tucson's problems than we hear about our own clearly we don't have as strong an environmental consciousness as Tucson.

"Phoenix should look south to Tucson to see how people there make the environment a political issue." The statistics are no cause for complacency, says Eberhardt. "The Phoenix area has a variety of water sources; 100 percent of Tucson's water comes from a single ground-water aquifer so it's more vital," she adds. Jim Derouin, a Phoenix attorney handling See CLEANUP, Page5A J3y Keith Bagwell The Arizona Dally Star Landmark environmental laws of the last two decades have brought the nation's largely hidden pollution problems into the headlines. Tucson is no exception. It has one site serious enough to attract federal Superfund cleanup money TCE pollution of southside ground water.

And it has two sites enough for last year's state Superfund, including the top priority ground-water pollution by TCE and other chemicals along the Santa Cruz River. One of the state sites here was cleaned up, but pollution problems continue to make The city has four nominees for this year's state Superfund list, to be released later this month. But Tucson's problems are dwarfed by those where there are more, and older, industries. New Jersey, a state smaller than Pima County, has 110 taminants, critics say. Page 4A.

pollution sites on, or nominated for, the federal Superfund list. "Tucson has no Chernobyls, no Love Canals," says Michael Gregory of McNeal, conservation chairman of the state Sierra Club chapter. "It's a fairly young city that doesn't have the type of heavy manufacturing that caused so much pollution in the East and on the West Coast," Gregory says. The Phoenix area, larger and more industrial than Tucson, far outstrips it in pollution problems: The capital area had 10 of last year's 17 state Superfund projects and has 11 of 20 nominees this year, says Sandra Eberhardt, health programs supervisor in the state Department of Environmental Quality. SPACE CENTER, Houston (AP) Discovery's astronauts rehearsed a new emergency escape system yesterday after helping President Reagan keep a promise and reassuring a "worried 14-year-old" that America's space program is "back on track." The crew of the first shuttle flight in 32 months also tested an infrared communications system designed to keep space snoops from eavesdropping.

Mission specialist George "Pinky" Nelson conducted radio checks with the device throughout one orbit, and his voice was clearly heard in Mission Control. Earlier, Nelson and Discovery commander Frederick Hauck wormed their way into bulky orange pressure suits designed to protect shuttle astronauts See DISCOVERY, Page2A Return to Space rp i I mark IWEATHER offord is praised at six-mon Legislators laud her calming effect but say test will come next session Comfortable. Sunny and warm; winds 8 to 12 mph. High in the upper 90s; low in the lower 60s. Yesterday's high was 96; the low 61.

Details, Page 3 A. INDEX Mulroney calls i Nov. election to save trade pact OTTAWA (AP) Prime Minister Brian Mulroney yesterday dissolved Parliament and announced elections Nov. 21 in a bid to keep alive his free-trade agreement with the United States. Mulroney is gambling that his ma- jority Progressive Conservative gov- ernment will be the first to return with a majority since the Liberals did it in 1953.

"I invite Canadians to judge our record," he said outside Government House after consulting with Governor General Jeanne Sauve. Flanked by three Maple Leaf flags, Mulroney promised the Progressive Conservatives will offer "an agenda of confidence for Canada," with the free-trade pact "very much a centerpiece" of the campaign. "This is your future" The main opposition Liberals and the socialist New Democratic Party oppose the trade agreement and say it would destroy Canada's sovereignty. Liberal leader John Turner welcomed Mulroney's announcement He accused Mulroney of trying to make Canada "a colony of the United States." "We're going to be saying to Canadians: This is more than an election, this is your future," Turner said. Turner's Liberals control the un- See CANADA, Page4A mwi i i i i i -ft r- -v3 'oo 00MLMt Accent 1-18D Books 5C Chess 17D Classified 1H-I4I Comment 1-4C Crossword 17D DearAbby 2D Dr.Gott ID Money 1-F Movies 14D Obituaries 2H Public records 8B Sports 1-I5E Travel 1-4G Tucson today 2D World 13-17A By Susan R.

Carson The Arizona Daily Star PHOENIX After six months as governor, Rose Mofford is stabilizing a state government left in turmoil from the administration of the disgraced Evan Mecham. "If I accomplish nothing else, I think that there isn't the resentment, the bitterness that I felt when I came in," the Democratic governor said in an interview last week. "I'd rate. Governor Mofford and her staff as a 10 because nobody realizes what we came into. The office was, of course, stripped Where do you start? What do you do? With no staff.

With no transition money." Qualified staff Many others legislators and directors of state agencies agree, saying she has calmed state government by going to work and organizing a staff of qualified people. Few state officials criticize the Democratic governor who was sworn in on April 5 after the impeachment conviction removed Mecham as governor. That is a far cry from the comments legislators were making six months into Mecham's tumultuous governorship. Mecham, a Republican, was criticized for insensitive statements he had made and for some of his ap pointments. An effort to recall him from office also was under way.

Careful In comments Legislators have been careful in their comments about Mofford, perhaps in an effort to avoid the chaos that has just about subsided. Most give Mofford a break when they talk about her first six months in office. In giving her that break, many cite a May 22 fall from which she suffered a concussion that forced her to work from home for several weeks. And for the critics, such as Tucson Republican Sen. Bill De Long, who ask "What has she done?" Mofford lists her achievements, including the passage of most of her legislative agenda, the establishment of committees to study potential legislation, more than 300 appointments to state posts, and the return of business and civic leaders' interest in serving state government.

"Soothing effect" "Gov. Mofford has had a soothing effect on state government She has made some excellent executive staff appointments," said Rep. Chris Herstam, R-Phoenix. "The real test for Gov. Mofford will come in January, when the next See MOFFORD, Page2A Lottery numbers on Page 2A Sunday Star now $1.25 on street, in stores Beginning today, the single-copy price of the Sunday Arizona Daily Star will be $1.25.

The 25-cent increase is the first for the Star since 1984 and is due to higher newsprint costs, which have risen 35 percent in four years. The price increase affects newspapers sold in stores and from vending machines. Home delivery prices remain the same. Benjie Sanders, The Arizona Daily Star Gov. Mofford rates herself and her staff "as a 10".