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Lonsom Dove' CBS mini-series saddling up Accent, Page 6B -Uy Gem shows spreading MetroState, Page IB Mm 1989 The Arizona Daily Star Vol.148 No. 35 Final Edition, Tucson, Saturday, February 4, 1989 35 66 Pages i I 1. -o. v'J i 5 5 St if' The Associated Press A bundled-up pedestrian encounters the snow and temperatures In the teens that ended Chicago's springlike weather Cold widens its subzero reach in U.S. Navajos feel singled out by Senate inquiry By Julia Anderson States News Service WASHINGTON The Senate investigation of mismanagement of federal Indian programs and corruption in tribal governments heated up, ending this week with charges that Navajo Chairman Peter MacDonald Sr.

accepted payoffs from businessmen seeking lucrative reservation construction contracts. The investigation already has drawn charges from the Navajos that the committee is focusing on tribal corruption rather than rectifying problems in the Bureau of Indian Affairs and other federal programs. Thursday, the Navajo Tribe issued a statement lambasting the committee. It said the committee was shifting attention from BIA mismanagement and directing negative attention toward the Navajos and their leadership so that Congress may pass laws that erode tribal sovereignty. To send delegation The Navajos are angered by testimony of contractors who said they have spent thousands of dollars in loans, expenses and outright payments to the MacDonald family while bidding for contracts.

Tribal officials said they plan to send a delegation to Washington to testify in front of the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs' Special Committee on Investigations. MacDonald is not expected to be part of the delegation, according to Navajo Tribe spokeswoman Thaz-bah McCullah. No response from MacDonald Sens. Dennis DeConcini, and John McCain, who head the committee, said yesterday in an interview with reporters that they would welcome the Navajos at the hearings. The committee invited MacDonald to testify but has received no response.

DeConcini and McCain both said they were troubled by perceptions that the committee is concentrating on tribal corruption, instead of investigating poorly managed federal programs. "Only about 20 percent of the hearings are on tribal corruption It's invalid to say that we're focusing on it," said McCain. DeConcini said the committee has no evidence of either the Bureau of Indian Affairs or Housing and Urban Development officials taking kickbacks. But the panel has heard lengthy testimony concerning bogus "front" companies that have taken advantage of contracts set aside for Indian-owned businesses, i A "front" is a joint venture set up 'iby a non-Indian company with an Indian-owned firm. Through the In-See INDIANS, Page2A Diocese to attack TV debt Report outlines plan to recoup $15 million ByJimRadcllffe The Arizona Daily Star The Roman Catholic Diocese of Tucson ended its four-year experiment in commercial television Wednesday with a loss of more than $15 million.

Bishop Manuel D. Moreno will tell parishioners today and tomorrow about plans to overcome the loss that resulted from the diocesan ownership of KDTU-TV, Channel 18. Clear Channel Television of Houston took over operations this week. The bishop's two-page report, which will be distributed this weekend at the diocese's 67 parishes, addresses the problem of paying off $13.4 million in outstanding short-term bank loans. More than $11 million of this money is from station expenses.

To reduce the debt, the diocese probably will sell three local cemeteries Holy Hope, Our Lady of the Desert and All Faiths Memorial Park to the Archdiocese of Los Angeles for about $4 million. The diocese eventually could buy them back for the same amount. The report says that the diocese recently sold a 10-acre lot adjacent to Holy Hope for about $1 million, and it may sell the Regina Cleri Center on East 22nd Street, which was once a pre-seminary junior high and high school and is used for diocesan administration. Moreno asks parishioners to help See DIOCESE, Page2A Soviet Union, China agree to summit BEIJING (AP) China yesterday formally invited Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev to come to Beijing for their nations' first summit in 30 years, and the Soviet Union accepted.

The meeting between Gorbachev and Deng Xiaoping is expected to normalize relations that turned hostile in 1960 when their predecessors, Nikita S. Khrushchev and Mao Tse-iung, quarreled over the border and leadership of the world communist movement Soviet Embassy spokesman Viat-cheslav Duhin said Foreign Minister Eduard A. Shevardnadze, who has been in China since Wednesday, will make an announcement about the See CHINA, Page4A and northwestern Nebraska, the National Weather Service said. Austin, Texas, fell from a high on Thursday of 69 to a low yesterday of 28, and a freeze warning was posted for the lower Rio Grande Valley. Record lows were scattered from Oregon to Iowa, including minus 35 at Great Falls, Mont.

Mason City, Iowa, had a low of minus 20, but winds gusting to 31 mph produced a wind chill index of 78 below zero. Minong, hit 32 below zero. At midday, the temperature was minus 27 at Bozeman and Butte, Mont. The weather service's official low for the Lower 48 was minus 53 at Wisdom, Mont. But ahead of the cold air, 14 cities in the Southeast and East reported record highs, ranging from 61 at Beckley, W.Va., to 85 at Jacksonville, Fla.

The cold reached all the way to New Orleans yesterday, less than five days before Mardi Gras. "Snow, sleet, ice or 80 mile-an-hour winds those are the only things that would stop a parade," said Assistant Police Chief Ray Holman. in Montana, the first Lower 48 state struck by the frigid air that had previously stunned Alaska and slid over Canada, moderation of temperatures isn't expected until Monday or Tuesday, and then it could warm only to about zero, said Robert Do-herty, a spokesman for the weather service. The mass of cold air remained over the eastern two-thirds of Alaska, but temperatures continued to moderate. Northway was the coldest at minus 50, Fairbanks warmed up to minus 8 and Anchorage reached 10 above.

A low-pressure system moving in from the west warmed the western See COLD, Page4A Mississippi Valley shivers; 1 5 deaths are recorded The Associated Press Bitingly cold arctic air and freezing drizzle iced highways yesterday from the Northwest to New England and south to Texas, shutting dozens of schools and one state government and prompting increased aid for the homeless. The urge to play in new-fallen snow resulted in four sledding deaths in Washington state. Eleven other deaths also were blamed on the weather, including three of hypothermia. Temperatures early yesterday were below zero as far south as the middle Mississippi Valley, with readings of minus 20 to minus 38 over the Dakotas, Wyoming, much of Montana, Minnesota Coup leader assumes presidency of Paraguay Caritas reported, saying the total could top 200. It gave no source or explanation for the disparate death totals.

Officials at the main military and police hospitals refused to give figures on casualties, and the new government made no estimate. Stroessner, 76, was put under house arrest at an army base, about 30 of his followers and aides detained, and the hierarchy of the government and ruling Colorado Party replaced. Stroessner was ordered out of the See PARAGUAY, Page 2A sidered by law enforcement authorities in Paraguay to be the country's No. 1 drug trafficker. Today's New York Times quoted John Hoyt Williams, a professor of Latin American history at Indiana State University in Terre Haute, as saying, "Rodriguez has reportedly provided protection, airfields and an air taxi service to people smuggling drugs northward." At least 18 soldiers and a handful of civilians were killed during fierce clashes between troops loyal to Stroessner and Rodriguez, the Roman Catholic Church-run Radio ASUNCION, Paraguay (AP) Gen.

Andres Rodriguez was sworn in as president yesterday after ousting President Alfredo Stroessner in a coup that reportedly left scores dead. Rodriguez ordered the dictator out of the country he had ruled for 34 years. Rodriguez, who had been Stroessner's second-in-command in the army and whose daughter is married to Stroessner's son, took the oath of office and then swore in a nine-member Cabinet composed of seven civilians, an active general and a retired general. Paraguayans poured into the streets to celebrate the bloody military coup and to gape at damage left by hours of heavy fighting between rebel soldiers, and police and troops loyal to Stroessner. "My government will respect the human rights of everyone to make democracy a reality," Rodriguez, five rows of medals on his shirtfront, said during a short speech at the 19th-century National Palace overlooking the broad Paraguay River.

Cox newspapers, quoting from a classified State Department report, said yesterday that Rodriguez is con WEATHER State fine-tunes new emissions test to help motorists pass, cut long waits llll iMMMkMMKa Cloudy and windy. Today is expected to be cloudy with little temperature change. Some west winds of 10 to 20 mph are expected. Look for a high near 70, overnight low near 45. Yesterday's high was 72, and the low was 39.

Details on Page 3A. He said officials believe more vehicles failed because the test was too brief for pollution-removing catalytic converters to heat to maximum efficiency. Also, some auto computers might not have had time to set the proper fuel-air mixture during the shorter tests, he said. Three emissions-control experts said in interviews this week that the 90-second test still might not get accurate emission readings on all vehicles. Bob Van Cura, staff project engineer for General Motors Corp.

in Detroit, said, "I'm not sure just 90 seconds will be long enough for every car." "Not when you consider that there are probably a couple of hundred of engine configurations, designs and emissions-control systems," he said. Raphael Susnowitz, senior air pollution specialist for the California Air Resources Board in Los Angeles, said that because of the variables, the most accurate test would be to run vehicles until readings on testing machines stabilize. "You should wait until the reading is steady and stable and either pass or fail the car at that point," he said. Van Cura and Mike Schwarz, manager of emissions control analysis and planning for Ford Motor agreed with Susnowitz. Van Cura said catalytic converters must be "1.000 to See EMISSIONS, Page2A By Keith Bagwell The Arizona Dairy Star The state yesterday changed procedures for its new emissions test, seeking to improve motorists' chances of passing the test and shorten their waits in line.

A cruising-speed test now will be conducted for up to 90 seconds, compared with 20 seconds at most stations this week, said Bill Watson, vehicle emission inspections manager for the Department of Environmental Quality. Even though the test Is longer, fewer vehicles should fail it, eliminating the need for motorists to get repairs and return for retests, Watson said. There should be fewer motorists angry because their autos failed despite having properly working equipment and accurate rune-ups, he said. The new test procedure will start Monday. Cruising-speed tests of 1981 and newer model autos began in January.

But 12 percent of the vehicles failed the test, instead of the state's estimate of 6 percent, Nancy Wrona, director of Environmental Quality's Air Division, said this week. Based on January 1988 figures for Pima County, that means about 3,600 autos failed instead of the predicted 1,800. A trial of the longer test at one Tucson station and one Phoenix station this week reduced the failure rate to 7.5 percent to 8 percent, Watson said. INDEX Moiey 14-18B Mwrtes MB News summary Obihurles Pablit 2B Sports MC Tucson, Ariiona IB Tucson today TV US Accent HJB Bridge 1IB Classified Cmiics 12B 1S-1IA Crosjwtrd WC DearAbby 7B Dr.Ctt........IB Hmxope 7B The Associated Press Racial barrier broken Bill White will replace A. Bartlett Giamatti as National League president on April 1.

White will be the first black to head an American professional sports league. Giamatti will be the new commissioner. Story, Page 1C..