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j-j Is anyone there? UFO proponents, opponents MetroState, Page IB SV BanEtingonJoan; Center Pens for businesses HI Money, Page 8C oIW A timzti 1m 1990 The Arizona Daily Star Final Edition, Tucson, Thursday, September 6, 1990 Vol. 149 No. 249 46 Pages ill emotional loss American man reported sho tbv li Braoi in Kuwa it White House asks Congress, public, to be tough, patient for long haul '-A if if 'ill A Compiled from wire reports The State Department said last night that it had received a repprt that an American citizen was shot by an Iraqi soldier in Kuwait while trying to avoid cepture. "We have no information on how serious his injuries might be," the department said in a statement. Diplomats at the blockaded U.S.

Embassy in Kuwait City spoke with officials at the hospital where they were told the American had been taken, but "hospital officials said they had no knowledge of the incident," the statement said. "The U.S. Embassy in Baghdad has been instructed to contact the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to demand consular access to this citizen," said the statement read by Tom Dougherty, a spokesman. Dougherty said the family of the man believed to have been shot had been told of the report but he was not at liberty to identify him. "Attempts by our embassy in Kuwait to obtain more information from Iraqi officials in Kuwait have been in vain.

We will continue to press this case," Dougherty said. Though the statement spoke only of "a report" of a shooting, Dougherty said the department believed it was a well-founded report. Meanwhile, the Bush administration appealed to Congress and the public yesterday to stand firm and demonstrate patience during an expected long standoff with Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. Government analysts said the worldwide embargo against Iraq could take more than a year before See IRAQ, Page 7A CJ3 Budget cuts at UA being scaled back Photos by Marl A. Schaefer, The Arizona Daily Star Several DPS officers console one another after funeral services for one of their colleagues, David Gabrielli 1 v.

1 tt x'Afs By Mark Bryant The Arizona Daily Star TEMPE The budget cuts ting all departments at the University of Arizona will be softened, UA President Henry Koffler announced yesterday. Speaking before the Resources Committee of the Arizona Board of Regents, Koffler said departments will face cuts of 4 percent, and possibly less, instead of the 6 percent he asked for a few weeks earlier, The committee voted for an out-1 side consultant to review the UA's 1990-91 budget and the budgeting process, to help ensure such a crisis does not occur. The UA, under the eye of the regents, will hire the consultant. On Aug. 20, Koffler said about $23.7 million had to be reallocated, meaning departments had to trim their budgets so the UA coufd meet other expenses.

The cuts came seven weeks into the fiscal year and drew biting criticism from faculty members, deans and department heads. Koffler told regents that aca- See UA CUTS, Page 2A Sex survey finds vast ignorance By Natalie Angler 1990 The New York Times It may be a topic of abiding fascination at cocktail parties and in locker rooms everywhere, but when it comes to knowledge of sex, Americans are woefully ignorant according to a new survey. In what is being billed as the "first nationally representative survey of what people know about sex," the Kinsey Institute and the Roper Organization asked 1,974 adult Americans 18 questions about their basic knowledge of sex and reproduction. The majority of those polled, or 55 percent flunked the test, said Dr. June M.

Reinisch, director of the Kinsey Institute, who initiated the survey. "They couldn't answer 10 out of 18 questions correctly," she said at a news conference in New York, where the results of the survey were announced yesterday. And less than one in five were able to give right answers to 12 of the questions, she added. The questions, asked of adults over the age of 18, addressed everything from the most elementary grasp of physiology, like whether women can get pregnant during menstruation (they can), to knowledge of what people do with each other in bed, including queries like: "Nowadays, what do you think See SEX, Page7A Up to 1,000 attend funeralservices for DPS officer Gabrielli By Douglas Kreutz The Arizona Daily Star He was a lawman, a Navy man, a family man and a sportsman. But first of all, most of all, David Gabrielli was a good man and he will be missed mightily.

Those were the sentiments that friends and fellow officers expressed yesterday at funeral services for Gabrielli, a 43-year-old Department of Public Safety officer. Gabrielli and DPS Sgt. John Blaser, 36, were killed Friday night when a station wagon struck them as they were on foot, investigating a traffic fatality on Nogales Highway, DPS officials said. James Benjamin Sheets, of the 9000 block of South Audria Lane, was arrested Saturday and charged with two counts of manslaughter in connection with the deaths, the officials said. Services for Blaser are scheduled for 9 a.m.

today at See FUNERAL, Page 2A I 1 .1 1- At grave are, from left, Benjamin Orzolek, Judy Gabrielli, Bruce Buckner WEATHER New hydrogen leak forces third scrub for Columbia TEP suit says Calif, utility interfered with merger deal Continued muggy. Partly cloudy with a good chance of thunderstorms. High in the mid-90s, low near 70. Yesterday's extremes, 94 and 70. Details on Page 13A.

INDEX Yesterday's troubles were the latest blow to NASA's image. The highly touted Hubble Space Telescope failed to operate as advertised because its mirrors were ground wrong, the shuttle Atlantis developed a hydrogen leak similar to Columbia's, and NASA controllers had intermittent problems contacting the Magellan space probe orbiting Venus. In the three months since the first leak was discovered, NASA has tested and retested the lines between its three shuttles and their fuel tanks. None of the tests, however, could duplicate the rush of supercooled fuel pouring into the tank. The line being used on Columbia is new, having been taken from the orbiter Endeavour, which is under construction in California.

The leak yesterday wasn't in the area of that line, NASA said. But the space agency offered no clue where else it might be. Columbia is to carry four telescopes into orbit Edison merger agreement was signed. Edison has about 3.8 million customers, compared with about 1 million for and 250,000 for TEP. The TEP complaint filed yesterday said Edison's actions caused the Tucson utility to suffer loss of economic benefits and other damages.

TEP said actual damages, punitive and exemplary damages, attorneys' fees and interest in the action could total "hundreds of millions of dollars." Without question, TEP's financial health has suffered in the two years since the contemplated merger with San Diego dissolved. At the time of the merger announcement in June 1988, TEP stock was selling for about $53 a share. Yesterday, TEP stock closed on the New York Stock Exchange at $10.63 a share. Based on 25 million outstanding shares, TEP stock value has declined in that period by more See TEP, Page 2A CAPE CANAVERAL, Ha. (AP) NASA scrubbed the launch of space shuttle Columbia for the third time after discovering a leak as liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen were being poured into the fuel tank yesterday.

The decision was made after un-acceptably high concentrations of hydrogen were found in the shuttle's aft compartment, said space agency spokeswoman Lisa Malone. The launch crew immediately began trying to isolate the leak. No new launch date was set "We will continue with loading liquid hydrogen on board the orbiter and to the external tank in an attempt to determine the location of the leak," Malone said. NASA canceled the first launch attempt in May after sensors detected an unusual buildup of hydrogen in the aft compartment during the fuel operation. The second scrub was last week because mission control had trouble communicating with one of the four telescopes in Columbia's cargo bay.

By Richard Ducote The Arizona Daily Star Tucson Electric Power Co. filed a lawsuit yesterday seeking "hundreds of millions of dollars" in damages from a California utility giant for alleged Interference in the 1988 merger agreement between TEP and San Diego Gas Electric Co. The TEP complaint, filed in California Superior Court in San Diego, accuses Southern California Edison Co. and its parent, SCEcorp, of "malicious, outrageous and oppressive" conduct and "willful wanton, reckless and conscious disregard of the rights and interests of TEP" by in: terfering with the Tucson-San Diego merger agreement announced June 13, 1988. On July 26, 1988, Edison offered to merge on friendly terms with San Diego in a deal that is still pending and would create the nation's largest investor-owned utility.

In November of that year, the TEP-San Diego deal was called off, and later that month a San Diego- Appellate court blocks felling of Mt. Graham trees By Jim Erickson The Arizona Dally Star A federal appeals court suspended work on Mount Graham last night as a logging crew prepared to down spruce and fir trees at the first telescope site this morning. The logging team was scheduled to start up the mountain under police escort by 7 a.m., said Graham County Sheriff Richard Mack. But at about 6 p.m. yesterday, the 9th U.S.

Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco suspended ground-disturbing activities on the mountain until it rules on an emergency motion filed by the Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund. "We're extremely pleased, and See TREES, Page 2A Continuing the drug war Top problem. President Bush vows to maintain the war on drugs as his No.l priority, despite events in the Persian Gulf. Skeptics say efforts have ignored major cities. Page CA.

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