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El SGj HeyBid a eniracS Story of transplants, friendship Section vvyO Only AL East is undecided Mk 1 ill Sports, Page IE Ark 1989 The Arizona Daily Star Vol. 148 No. 271 Final Edition, Tucson, Thursday, September 28, 1989 56 Pages Ihuri: iO C9iSn 1 i-' J. a. v-r 11 p) SllSfl if near Oanyon Tour aircraft wrecked during landing i TV By Mark Bryant The Arizona Dally Star TUSAYAN Ten people died and 11 were injured yesterday after their twin-engine sightseeing plane crashed while trying to land at the Grand Canyon Airport.

Seven of the 19 passengers were in critical condition last night at the Flagstaff Medical Center, a hospital official said. Yesterday's crash brings to more than 75 the number of people killed in aircraft crashes in the Grand Canyon area since 1980. The plane, with two crew members, had just completed a 50-min-ute tour of the Canyon just before 10 a.m. Ron Warren, general manager of Grand Canyon Airlines, owner of the plane, said it had touched down at the South Rim airport, "then veered off radically to the left into the trees." "We just don't know what happened here," he said. Elly Brekke, a spokeswoman with the Federal Aviation Administration in Los Angeles, said the plane was a quarter of the way down the runway when "it veered to the right, then to the left, into a power line." The severed power line started a small grass fire, but the plane did not catch fire.

The plane landed at the side of a 200-foot-high hill, a half-mile west of the runway. The plane crashed through some junipers and ponderosa pines before coming to rest on its left side. The wings sheared off. The left See CANYON, Page2A Education summit hits snag Funding issue splits Bush, governors By Christopher Connell The Associated Press CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. President Bush urged governors at an education summit yesterday to forge fundamental changes to rescue the nation's troubled schools, but was told in return the federal government must spend more money if that goal is to be reached.

"We've got to challenge the education system if we're to meet the challenge of educational excellence," Bush told the governors in a pep talk that opened the nation's first education conference between a president and the states' chief executives. All agreed that help is needed for a national school system racked drugs, high dropout rates and medji-1 ocrity. But, behind closed doors, Bush and members of his Cabinet heard what they did not want to hear: that the federal government's financial commitment has to grow. "If they would give us a 5-year-old that is healthy and alert, the system See EDUCATION, Page4A Senate OKs $9.4 billion for drug war WASHINGTON (AP) The Senate yesterday overwhelmingly approved a $9.4 billion plan to pay for the war on drugs and called for mandatory drug- and alcohol-testing of millions of transportation workers in safety-sensitive jobs. "This proposal represents the strongest first step we can make to win the war against drugs," Sen.

Robert C. Byrd, said as the Senate voted 97-2 to couple the drug plan to an $11.9 billion transportation bill. The Senate then passed the transportation bill with the drug plan attached and sent it to a House-Senate conference committee. Also Included in the transportation bill is a measure passed last week that would ban smoking on all domestic airline flights. The drug plan represented a compromise reached in weeklong negotiations between the White House and senators of both parties.

The negotiations began after Democrats sought to add $2.2 billion to the $7.9 billion war on drugs announced by President Bush on Sept. See DRUG WAR, Page 5A utah V-" Colorado City jD Airport Plane Crash pARIZ- fPETAIL MAP i Phoenix v- 4 fwv, i TatMl GRAND CANYON NATIONAL PARK L. i''1 y- I '720 L-LAKE MEAD Colorado River Cameron ARIZONA WUPATKI NATIONAL MONUMENT FJ The Associated Press 1 The Associated Press Sheriff's Department personnel work to remove victims trapped In sightseeing plane Nuclear treaty may be ready by summit, Bush says have every 't' crossed and dotted (on a treaty) that the summit is considered a failure," Bush said. Bush met with the reporters before boarding a flight to Charlottesville, for a summit meeting with the nation's governors to improve the country's education system. The path toward a treaty became brighter last week when the Soviets, in two major concessions, said they would not let their objections to the U.S.

"Star Wars" missile defense; program and to submarine-launched cruise missiles stand in the way of a nuclear arms pact. a good likelihood that might happen," Bush said in an interview with a small group of reporters in the Oval Office. Bush's statement put him in sync with an optimistic forecast by Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard A. Shevardnadze, who told the United Nations on Tuesday that there are "realistic prospects" by the time of the summit for passing "the last turn" on the road to a strategic arms-reduction treaty to trim 30 percent to 50 percent from each nation's arsenals of long-range nuclear missiles, bombers and submarines. "I don't want to set it up so that if we don't arsenals, Bush said: "No.

Absolutely not. We need a certain sense of deterrence." Bush also said, "I would have difficulty" eliminating all testing of nuclear weapons. He said he was willing to discuss Soviet proposals to ban testing, but added: "We do have some differences on it" with Gorbachev. The president said the scheduling of a summit in late spring or early summer "will serve as a catalyst for moving forward on a treaty" and that the treaty may be ready by the summit "It's not absolutely certain that that's going to happen, but I would have to agree (there is) WASHINGTON (AP) President Bush said yesterday that there is "a good likelihood" he and Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev will be able to sign a landmark treaty to slash the deadliest weapons in the superpowers' nuclear arsenals in a summit meeting next year.

But Bush balked at a Soviet proposal to go beyond the plan he outlined earlier this week to the U.N. General Assembly for deep cuts in the superpowers' chemical weapon stockpiles. Asked if he would accept the Kremlin's offer to eliminate all poison gas from U.S. and Soviet qWEAIHER Errant Okla. artillery shell kills 3 soldiers, injures 23 Johannesburg OKs desegregation of city buses, pools JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AP) The City Council voted late Tuesday to desegregate buses, swimming pools and recreation centers.

The decision to integrate all public facilities controlled by the city of Johannesburg, South Africa's largest, counters wishes of most white voters who in a poll earlier this year approved desegregating buses and recreation centers but opposed opening "whites-only" pools to blacks. The Johannesburg City Council vote does not affect schools, neighborhoods or hospitals that are segregated by national and provincial laws. Also, private facilities may be segregated under the Separate Amenities Act. The council voted Tuesday night amid strong opposition from members of the far-right Conservative Party. In a poll earlier this year, white Johannesburg voters favored desegregating buses and recreation centers, but 60 percent voted not to swim with blacks.

"We are taking a large step in South African terms," said council member Harold Rudolph. "I am so glad we are putting right that which was wrong." Most public facilities in major cities have been desegregated in recent years, either informally or by repealing legislation. Cape Town already has formally repealed racist laws. Dream of 'good cop' is ended by drugs By Carmen Duarte The Arizona Dally Star Ever since Fred Bair was a little boy, he wanted to be a good cop. He idolized his great uncle, the late Frank Eyman a law enforcement officer whose career spanned 52 years.

Eyman's accomplishments Included the capture of John Dlllinger and three members of his gang in Tucson in 1934. He was Pima County sheriff from 1950 to 1955. That year he became Arizona State Prison warden, a post he held until 1972. "He was a legend, and I wanted to go out and do a good job as a cop," said Bair, a 1975 Rincon High School graduate. Bair became a police officer, but drugs got in the way of his dream.

His law enforcement career ended Monday when he received notice that he would be fired from the Tucson Police Department next week. He joined the department in 1985. Bair tested positive for marijuana and cocaine use. A urine sample was taken after the department got word that Bair was a drug user. Tucson Police Officer Ruben Valenzuela, a friend of Bair's, also received word that he will be fired See GOOD COP, Page 2A 'BOUt the Same.

Today is expected to be sunny with southeast winds of 5 to 15 mph. Look for a high in the upper 90s, overnight lows in the mid-60s. Yesterday's high was 96, and the low 73. For the weekend, the forecast statewide calls for dry and unseasonably warm weather Saturday, with lower temperatures on Sunday. Details on PageSA, occurred between 750 and 1,100 yards beyond the target area.

Long said the base, which has 21,000 soldiers and Is the Army's Field Artillery Center, has three sizes of howitzers. He said the accident site was about four miles from the populated area of the base. Helicopters and ambulances were used to evacuate the injured to Reynolds Army Hospital on the base, located in south central Oklahoma, officials said. Brown said the identities of the dead soldiers were not released pending notification of relatives. Long said the soldiers hit by the shell were on the base for basic training, which usually lasts 14 weeks.

From there, the soldiers are assigned to other Army units. He said he did not know how many units were in the field when the accident took place. Other details were not immediately available. FORT SILL, Okla. (AP) Artillery fire at a practice range overshot its target yesterday and struck a group of about 80 soldiers, killing three and injuring 23, officials said.

Early reports indicated that one or more rounds exploded outside the Fort Sill firing area about 5 p.m. and struck a nearby rifle range at which the soldiers were training, said Master Sgt. Michael Brown. Three of the injured were in serious condition and were undergoing surgery, said Jon Long, a base spokesman. He didn't know the extent of the injuries.

Fort Sill officials were trying to determine how many shells hit the oldiers, what type howitzer was being fired and why the artillery missed its mark. "We have to analyze the craters and interview all the units on the range," Long said. "Even if we knew anything, I don't anticipate that it would be released tonight." Long said it appeared the impact INDEX Accent MID Horoscope ZD Bridge ID Money 7-1IB Classified Movies ID 8D Obituaries IE Comment 8-IA Public records 4B Crossword HE Sports ME Dear Abby ID Tucson today 2D Dr.Gott 2D TV ID Lottery numbers, Page 2A.