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SI lv (Senilis aft worEr 'i'" 7 Not so says UA's Mac Duff Sports, Page 1C feJV Tank race driver She started crushing cars as a teen i jSsif Accent, Page 5B 1992 The Arizona Daily Star Final Edition, Tucson, Thursday, November 12, 1992 U.S.50 In Mexico 60 Pages 1 151 No. 317 I1 'I. fi tw -r, Yeltsin tells of American executions Others remain in Russia voluntarily, letter says WASHINGTON (AP) Russian President Boris N. Yeltsin told U.S. senators yesterday In a letter that Americans were held in prison camps after World War II and some were "summarily executed" but others still 11 ve In his country voluntarily.

Yeltsin's letter also said some Americans had been forced to renounce their citizenship. Russian leaders are almost certain no U.S. citizens are still being detained, Yeltsin said in his letter, read to a Senate committee by the general who serves as Russian head of a U.S.-Russian commission searching for American POWs and MIAs. Gen. Dmitri Volkogonov told the Senate's Select Committee on POWMIA Affairs that he has pored through Russian archives but has so far found no evidence that any Americans captured in the Korean or Vietnam wars were taken to the former Soviet Union.

He said he was aware only of nine American servicemen who deserted in the Vietnam War and went to the former Soviet Union. He added, however, "hypothetically we cannot dismiss the possibility that Americans were taken from Vietnam to the Soviet Union, but we have no precise information" about any specific cases. But it is "a possibility and I believe not a very strong possibility," he said. Sen. John F.

Kerry, chairman of the committee, characterized as revelations the Russians' acknowledgements that Americans held after World War II were forced to renounce their citizenship, that some were killed and some still lived in the former Soviet Union voluntarily. "They will be talked to and asked whether they want to come home," Kerry said, adding that the list of names and addresses that Volkogonov delivered to the committee would be made public. Last August, Volkogonov signed a statement printed in a Soviet newspaper that said several dozen Americans were jailed by Soviet secret police during and after World War II and that one of them was executed on orders of Soviet dictator Josef Stalin. The statement said most were forced to renounce: their citizenship. Two Americans trapped in the So-; vlet Union for years were Interviewed by an Asso-t elated Press reporter shortly thereafter.

In answer to a reporter's question yesterday, Vol-! kogonov said through an interpreter that 119 Ameri- See POWS, Page 3A The Associated Press Opposition political parties In Matamoros, Mexico, protest alleged election fraud by burning city election headquarters Riot, burning follow election in Mexico Suspect shot after bar chase High-speed pursuit nds near Bisbee By Ignaclo Ibarra The Arizona Dally Star BISBEE A 22-year-old drug suspect was shot by a Bisbee police-than yesterday after leading officers en a high-speed, 20-mile chase that began in Tombstone. A woman who fled from the disa'-bled car after it ran over spikes placed on the road by police escaped into the wooded hillsides west of Mule Pass Tunnel. Police said Christina Serrano of Bisbee is believed to be armed with a 9mm pistol and should be considered dangerous. The injured man, Xavier Romo-Morales, was in guarded condition at Tucson Medical Center last night with a single gunshot wound in the torso. -The Bisbee police officer who fired the shot that struck Romo-Mo-rales, four-year veteran Ben Reyna, was placed on administrative leave yesterday morning after the shooting.

Bisbee Police Chief Jim Elklns said Reyna shot Romo-Morales as Remo-Morales tried to flee from the 18E88 Ford Taurus police say was loaded with an estimated 250 pounds of marijuana. Elkins gave this account: "We had a pursuit initiated out of See CHASE, Page 2A Inquiry sought on Weinberger case's timing WASHINGTON (AP) At the urging of Senate Minority Leader Bob Dole, four Republican senators yesterday formally requested a special independent investigation of alleged Improper politicking by the office of Iran-Contra prosecutor Lawrence Walsh. The four, a majority of GOP members on the Senate Judiciary Committee, made the request to Attorney General William P. Barr. They said Barr should call for a court-appointed independent counsel to look into charges that Walsh's office timed an Oct.

30 indictment of former Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger to embarrass President Bush in the closing days of the election campaign. They also questioned whether the indictment had been leaked to the Clinton-Gore campaign before it was made public. "We have questions whether or not improper political considerations went into the timing of the indictment, and whether improper disclosure of the indictment was made to the Clinton-Gore campaign," they said in a letter to Barr. Dole, a Kansas Republican, made the letter public. The attorney general has 30 days See WALSH, Page 3A MATAMOROS, Mexico (AP) Angry protesters yesterday sacked and burned the election headquarters in this border city after guards began to beat demonstrators.

Isidro Canales, who witnessed the confrontation, said opposition party leaders were trying to enter the building when they were rebuffed by a group of guards in camouflage uniforms, armed with nightsticks. Canales said the guards beat one woman, sending her to the hospital. That attack angered the people and a riot broke out, witnesses said. Several other people were injured. Protesters promised to continue their rally and sit-in until the election is declared fraudulent.

The burning started after guards used tear gas to disperse the crowd outside the building where votes from Sunday's balloting were being counted. A pile of furniture burned yesterday afternoon near the doors of the blackened frontation began. He said similar scenes could be expected statewide. Supporters of the coalition made up of PAN and Democratic Revolutionary Party members on Tuesday began a sit-in outside the Federal Electoral Institute. About 200 supporters also attended a rally in front of City Hall, where opposition candidates again accused the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party, known as the PRI, of stealing elections throughout the border state of Tamaulipas, including the race for governor.

The PRI, which denies all fraud allegations, declared victory on Monday. A group marched down one of the city's main streets Tuesday and rallied again in front of the election headquarters. Coalition loyalists had cautioned that they would be willing to go to greater lengths to pressure the government into recognizing the voting Irregularities they say occurred. People milling In the street displayed ballots they said came from the building and showed proof of vote fraud. The ballots inside election headquarters were burned and smoldered for hours.

election headquarters. People milling in the street displayed ballots they said came from the building and showed proof of vote fraud. The ballots inside election headquarters were burned and smoldered for hours. Romualdo Hernandez, a National Action Party, or PAN, representative, said protesters did what they felt they had to do. "This is only the beginning," said Alejandro Blaz, who arrived shortly after the con Church of England grants women the right to be ordained as priests ii in Ji-.

nun I ill i miii i i hi in j.i ill ii ii. ii iiiiii ii in iii ii i i 'X. cals protested that Christ was male and chose male disciples, and that there was no warrant in the Bible for women priests. "The maleness of Christian ministerial priesthood may be an obstacle to some, madness to others, but I have yet to be convinced that it's not part of God's revelation for the salvation of us all," said Canon Christopher Colvern of London. "Where lies the relevance of my gender when I exercise judgment, teaching, discipline, order and spiritual endeavor?" countered the Rev.

June Osborne, deacon of Bow in east London. One of the first to leave the church was Ann Widdecombe, a Conservative member of Parliament, who said the Anglican "doctrine is doubt, its creed is compromise and its purpose appears to be party politics. This was just the last straw." With a two-thirds majority required in each of the three houses of the church's General Synod, the legislation was approved 39-13 by the bishops, 176-74 by the clergy and 169-82 among the laity after a daylong debate. A switch of just two votes among lay dele-See ANGLICANS, Page 5A LONDON (AP) The Church of England voted yesterday to ordain women as priests, risking a split with church members who feel the move contradicts Scripture and tradition. The vote allows the Church of England to join 12 of the 28 self-governing provinces in the Anglican Communion that already ordain women priests most of them in the 2.5 million-member Episcopal Church in the United States.

If Parliament and Queen Elizabeth endorse the decision, as expected, the first woman priest could be ordained in 1994. Supporters of women's ordination cheered, sang and danced outside Church House In central London as the vote was announced. The Rev. Jules Cave Bergquist, a college chaplain, hugged her 9-month-old daughter, Maria, and exulted, "Now she can become a priest if she wants to." The daylong debate in the General Synod underlined the passion on both sides. Opponents raised several objections.

Some in the Anglo-Catholic wing see the ordination of women as a bar to closer relations with Rome which sharply criticized the vote and a denial of the universal church. Evangeli Ed Compaan, The Arizona Daily Star WEATHER Hats off to veterans VIslonQuest's "Buffalo Soldiers" marchers had to break formation yes-march down South Sixth Avenue In Tuc- terday to get his hat. Related stories, son's Veterans Day parade. One of the Pages 4A and IB. Another beauty.

Today is expected to be sunny, warmer and breezy. Look for a high in the mld-70s and an overnight low In the lower 40s. Yesterday's high was 64, the low 37. Details on Page 17A. Penguin T-shirt is deemed evil by Colorado City principal INDEX Accent S-12B Obituaries Classif led UK Public reewta IB Camlet KB Sporti 1-SC Crossword IC Tucsoa tody IB Money 1UIB TV HB Lottery results, Page 2A tional goals," he told the newspaper.

"It was Mr. Steed's view that this T-shirt vio- lated our policies, and he has the authority to make that decision." Efforts to reach Barlow for further comment were unsuccessful. His telephone is unlisted. Colorado City, a town of several thousand, was settled more than a century ago by polygamous, fundamentalist Mormons after the church banned plural marriages. Men often have as many as 10 wives and 50 children.

Polygamy is illegal in Arizona, but the law is not strictly enforced. The Batemans aren't polygamists. affect my boy's she said. "He just looked at me and said that it's a sign of devil worship. I couldn't believe what I was hearing." The school's telephone was not answered yesterday.

Veterans Day, and a woman at Steed's home said he was out of town and would not return until next week. Alvin Barlow, superintendent of Colorado City schools, defended the school district's dress code as being "as liberal as it can be." 'Clothes aren't allowed that depict obscenities. Immodestly expose the body, materially interfere with school work, present a hazard or prevent students from achieving their educa On Nov. 4, the boy wore the T-shirt picturing actor Danny DeVito as The Penguin. By lunch-time he was in the office of Principal Lawrence Steed, who "told me that my T-shirt was not appropriate in his school," the youth said in an affidavit He said Steed told him "that it interferes with my learning" and "that I must go home and change it" The boy said the principal ordered him to go home and not to wear the T-shirt at the school.

His mother, Trudie Bateman, said she was quick to react "I took that shirt up to school, laid it on a table and said. "Lawrence, how does this shirt COLORADO CITY (AP) A 14-year-old was reprimanded for wearing a T-shirt to school depicting The Penguin, Batman's archenemy. His mother said the principal complained that wearing the shirt was a sign of devil worship. James Bateman said he is fed up with the rigidity in Colorado City, a primarily polygamous, breakaway-Mormon town in the Arizona Strip, a mile from the Utah line. He said he was hassled by students and teachers two years ago when he wore short-sleeved shirts to school "They kept saying that I was wicked," he said in yesterday's Arizona Republic "But I just think I'm normal" HIT1 II scm'oooov1.