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1 4 K3 High school football Sports, Section i F. Wells 59 Catallna 6 Mtn.View 60 Douglas 7 isf er-city aid Salpointe 21 CDO 12 Santa Rita 31 Palo Verde 9 Tucson Buena Amphl Pueblo 42 20 34 6 Sahuaro 17 Cholla 7 Sunnyside 29 Nogales 7 Wheelchairs for Alma-Ata Money, Page 8C 1992 The Arizona Daily Star ol. 151 No. 305 Final Edition, Tucson, Saturday, October 31, 1992 35 U.S.50 In Mexico 64 Pages', For some, Halloween is more than costumes and candy, it's religion Afterward comes the feast, called cakes and ale, named for the foods of the ancient Celts. Of course, adapted to today, cakes and ale could mean pizza and cola.

But more likely, it will be seasonal foods, McRue says. Most of the traditions have been painstakingly gleamed by pagans from writings and literature they have found. But there is no dogma. "For all the books we have, we don't have a book or THE book," says pagan club member Jeff Miller, a graduate stu- See PAGANS, Page 2A They will make a circle in a private gathering, creating a sacred space. They will call on the four directions, then on the lady and the lord or god and goddess.

Then the ceremony will begin. Since paganism, as the belief system of indigenous peoples, is a religion of experience rather than dogma, the ceremony itself can take any number of forms, McRue says. Many, if not most, traditions will seem familiar. Most of the Halloween traditions derive from these ancient celebrations. The ceremony may involve writing down on paper things you want to change farm animals that would not endure the winter were slaughtered and the world prepared for the long winter sleep.

It is a time when the veil between the worlds is thinnest. The old year ends with nightfall. The new begins with sunset. "It doesn't occur to people that (Halloween) is a religious holiday," says R.A. McRue, a member of Arizona Student Pagans at the University of Arizona.

At 9 p.m. tonight, McRue and her fellow pagans, also known as witches in the ancient sense of the word, will gather to celebrate Samhain. in the new year and throwing it into the fire in a symbolic gesture, McRue says. It may also involve setting out food for the ancestors, a probable precursor to "trick or treating." Because the veils between the two worlds, between the dark half of the year and the light half, are so thin, Samhain also is a good time to communicate with your ancestors, say McRue and other members of Arizona Student Pagans. Reading tarot cards, crystal balls or other forms of communication with other worlds are popular.

By Janet Kornblum The Arizona Daily Star Tonight, when the sun descends and darkness falls across the land, It begins. To millions of young Americans dressed up as monsters and movie stars prowling the streets and begging for treats, it is Halloween. But to neo-pagans, it is much more. It is Samhain, the Celtic New Year and a religious holiday with roots as deep as humankind is old. In ancient times, Halloween was the time when the harvests were finished, ieinra snow $21.4 mlion The city's budget is balanced for this year.

The projection is for fiscal 1993-94, which starts July I. City Councilman Bruce Wheeler said the new deficit projection shows that "we're going to have to, make some serious decisions about some cuts next year." He said the growing projected deficit also shows that business license-fee reductions approved by the council in the past year "didn't really help any businesses" and "were a folly." Wheeler opposed the cuts. Other members of the all-Democratic council could not be reached for comment last night after the See DEFICIT, Page 2A By Joe Burchell The Arizona Dally Star Tucson's projected budget deficit for next fiscal year has ballooned to $21.4 million, according a memo from City Manager Ruben Suarez yesterday. On Sept. 17, Suarez estimated the 1993-94 deficit at $12.6 million, but warned the City Council that the projection could be optimistic.

In a memo sent to the council late yesterday, Suarez said the main reasons for the larger deficit projection are: higher employee costs, and the accelerated removal of underground storage tanks and cleanup at the Thomas 0. Price Service Center, 4004 S. Park Ave. xCl- 'TV-'' -ft ONE WAY 1986 notes contradict Bush on hostage deal )i rh I i nth The Associated Press Vintry outing The first snowstorm of the season Is the setting for a Sierra which began Thursday afternoon, left more than IVi feet of snow on levada trek on Mount Rose In the Lake Tahoe area. The storm, the ground by yesterday morning.

Bush, Clinton sharpen attacks as race tightens By Owen Ullmann Knlght-Rldder Newspapers WASHINGTON A new indictment of former Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger provided fresh testimony yesterday that President Bush was not truthful when he denied knowing that the United States and Iran were trading arms for hostages in 1985 and 1986. The indictment accuses Weinberger of making false statements to Congress. It quotes his handwritten notes about a Jan. 7, 1986, White House meeting attended by Bush where explicit details of the arms-for-hostage exchange were discussed. Bush has admitted knowing that the Reagan White House had been secretly sending arms to Iran using Israel as a middleman and that Iran was using its influence in return to win the release of American hostages held by pro-Iranian terrorists in Lebanon.

Then-President Ronald Reagan strongly backed the initiative, and Bush has said that as vice president he supported it too. But Bush claimed that he thought the exchange was taking place as part of a larger effort to cultivate moderate forces in Iran. He said he did not realize that the project had deteriorated into nothing more than a strict arms-for-hostage deal until December 1986, a month after the secret initiative became public. Weinberger's notes of the Jan. 7, 1986, meeting in the Oval Office.) however, describe a direct arms-for-hostage trade.

"President decided to go with Is-; raeli-Iranian offer to release our 5 hostages in return for sale of 4,000 TOWs (anti-tank missiles) to Iran by Israel," Weinberger wrote in his daily log. "(Secretary of State) George Shultz I opposed (CIA Director) Bill Casey, (Attorney Gen- eral) Ed Meese VP (Bush) favored as did Poindexter." John M. Poindexter was Reagan's national security adviser at the time. In comments on "Larry King Live" yesterday, Bush denied that See INDICT, Page 3A on the economy, the issue that the polls indicate provide him with his best chance for victory on Tuesday. "My fellow Americans," he said in Pittsburgh, "you have a clear choice.

Four more years of trickle-down economics, declining income, rising unemployment Four more years of people who say they represent family values but they increase the number of working poor, they veto the Family and Medical Leave Act, they veto bills designed to help us fight cancer among women and to help solve the problems of children, like See CAMPAIGN, Page4A The autumn crowds summed up the choice: "Four more years," Bush's partisans chanted in Missouri. "Four more days," Clinton's supporters cried in Pittsburgh. The president attacked Clinton relentlessly on economics and character, and first lady Barbara Bush backed him up. "I mean, the first thing you teach your children when they're little is, 'Tell the truth. Be honest' It doesn't work if you don't" she said on CBS' "This Morning." Clinton said he would "run like the underdog" in the final few days and sought to focus squarely he Associated Press President Bush and Bill Clinton, four days rom judgment, clashed over the economy yester-lay in an increasingly tense race for the White louse.

Bush said his rival favors "trample-down iconomics" while the Democrat urged voters to nun the "comfort of failed ideas." Clinton's lead dwindled in surveys of voters udged most likely to go to the polls evaporating some cases as Bush searched for an election-lay upset Story, Page 4A. Ross Perot was mired in third place despite in unprecedented advertising campaign. WEATHER Air Force helicopter crashes in Great Salt Lake, killing 12 Muslims may be forced to use poison gas against Serbs, Bosnian president says Cloudy, breezy. Today is expected to be partly cloudy, with northwest winds of 10 to 20 mph. Look for a high in the upper 70s and an overnight low in the upper 40s.

Yesterday's high was 82, the low 54. Details on Page 17A. UNPEX Acceit 4-12B Money MIC Bridge 11B Movies IB Classified 12C-12D Newsmnunary 2A Comic KB Obituriei 12C Comment lt-lM Public Records SB DearAbby UB Sport! 1-7C Horoteope IB Twaoi SB begovic that "more significant aid" would be forthcoming and urged other Islamic countries to "take serious action and rush to the help of struggling Muslims in Bosnia." Senior Iranian officials who have repeatedly denounced Serbian attacks on Muslims as a genocide and "a new Crusade of Christians against Muslims" recently called for "retaliatory measures against the Serbs by Muslims across the world." Ayatollah All Khamenei, Iran's supreme religious leader, said two weeks ago that Iran was prepared to send "volunteers" to fight alongside Bosnian Muslims. In September, Croatian officials Intercepted 40 Iranians and a planeload of arms on a Boeing 747 at Zagreb airport The plane, officially on a mission to deliver "relief supplies" to Muslims in Bosnia and Herzegovina, contained 4,000 guns and more than 1 million rounds of ammunition. The discovery of the weapons raised Western fears about the spread of Islamic fundamentalism in the heart of Europe, although Iran later denied having smuggled arms to Bosnian Muslims.

One survivor was pulled from the water and was in serious condition at the University of Utah Health Sciences Center with cuts on his right leg and over his left eye. The helicopter was assigned to the 1st Special Operations Wing at Hurt-burt Field near Eglin Air Force Base outside Pensacola, Fla said George Grimes, spokesman for the VS. Special Operations Command at Mac-Dill Air Force Base, Fla. The only squadron that flies the Pave Hawk Is the 55th Special Operations Squadron at Eglin. The helicopter was on a joint Army-Air Force exercise.

Grimes said. The names of those aboard were not released pending notification of families. 1992 The New York Times TEHRAN, Iran The president of Bosnia-Herzegovina said yesterday that his Bosnian Muslim forces had poison-gas weapons and might be forced to use them as a defensive measure against Serbian forces. "Bosnian Muslims live under very difficult conditions," the Bosnian leader, Alija Izetbegovic, told Iranian television at the end of a two-day official visit to Tehran. "If the current situation continues, the people of Bosnia will be forced to use poison gas to defend themselves and end the crimes committed by the Serbs, even though this may be against their true wishes." Izetbegovic did not specify how the poison gas had been obtained, but added that his forces had the chemicals in Bosnia.

At a ceremony in which senior Bosnian leaders placed a wreath on the tomb of the leader of Iran's Islamic revolution, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, Izetbegovic thanked Iran for its "overall support" to Bosnia and stressed the need for fuel and food, with the approach of winter. President Hashemi Rafsanjani of Iran assured Izet HILL AIR FORCE BASE, Utah AP) An Air Force helicopter into the Great Salt Lake luring rough weather, killing 12 eople, authorities said yesterday, rhe only other person aboard was escued from the water. A storm, with snow at high eleva-lions, hampered rescue efforts but ill 12 bodies were recovered, said Hill Air Force Base spokesman Dave Kendziora. The MH-60G Pave Hawk helicop-er was on a training mission when it went down Thursday night in north-rn Utah's inland sea, about 15 miles west of Hill Air Force Base. Kendziora said crews in search helicopters spotted bodies in deeper water northwest of the crash, apparently pushed there by high wind, rhey were recovered by crews in boats.

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