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irculation: 1. 136,813 Daily 1. 42 1.7 1 1 Sunday Tuesday, August 16, 1988 CCf 1 (TO PHPP; r- muu itl. 1C Hniliulrf Reagan Is Hailed as He Tells Bush to Win for Gipper Different Traditions Europeans' ClocbAre Out of Sync By JAMES GERSTENZANG, Times Staff Writer all that could be done. Never less." The President and First Lady Nancy Reagan entered the Super -dome an hour and a half before he was scheduled to speak, receiving a thunderous four -minute standing ovation set off by the familiar "Hail to the Chief." Bringing symbols of the nostalgia of the evening, one delegate waved a 1980 Reagan campaign poster, showing the grinning, tanned candidate in a cowboy hat.

Another waved a sign proclaiming: "Reagan for King." Guided Tour But the emotion of the evening peaked even before the President strode purposefully to the front of the podium when a recorded Reagan offered a guided tour of his videotaped scrapbook commemorating his two terms in office. It was an electronic collage of now-familiar scenes: Reagan in Red Square, Reagan on the beach at Normandy, and, yes, Reagan on horseback. The five-minute standing ovation he received after the film eclipsed the shorter farewell the delegates accorded Reagan after he spoke. Still, the President's speech was interrupted by applause approximately five dozen times, by an audience that cheered his every criticism of Democratic presidential nominee Gov. Michael S.

Dukakis. He received prolonged applause when he declared that during his 2,765 days in office, "not one inch of ground has fallen to the Communists" and when he criticized "those liberal elites who loudly proclaim that it's time for a change." And when he saluted a reduction in government red tape, as a result of a Bush task force, and said, "George was there," he brought the delegates to their feet as they turned the floor of the Superdome Please see REAGAN, Page 11 NEW ORLEANS-President Reagan transformed the New Orleans Superdome on Monday night into an arena of tribute to his eight years in office while placing the mantle of Republican leadership on George Bush and telling his vice president to "Go out there and win one for the Gipper." Bush arrives in this steamy Gulf Coast city this morning, but on Monday night, the Republican National Convention belonged to Reagan, who gave the party faithful a mixed-media valedictory summing up his presidency. In a speech intended to transfer, as much as possible, the affection the delegates clearly felt for Rea- Excerpts of Reagan speech. Page related stories. Pages 4-12; View, Pagel.

gan to his vice president, the President listed his qualifications for the next President: "It will take someone who has seen this office from the inside, who senses the danger points, will be cool under fire and knows the range of answers when the tough questions come. "That's the George Bush I've seen up close when the staff and Cabinet members have closed the door and when the two of us are alone," Reagan said. "George played a major role in everything that we have accomplished in these eight years," Reagan declared. At the same time, the 77-year-old Reagan delivered a powerful political valedictory to his presidency that in one stroke bathed the delegates and television audience in nostalgia while denying that he has reached the twilight of his life. "Twilight, you say?" No, Reagan said, it is "a new day our sunlit new day to keep alive the fire so that when we look back at the time of choosing, we can say that we did BERN1E BOSTON Lot Angela Tlme speech to the GOP convention.

CON KEYES Lot Angela Time Balloons come tumbling down at the end of President Reagan's Bush to Use Speech to Leave Reagan Shadow Acceptance Talk to Spell Out How His Presidency Would Be Different and Shift 'Focus to the Future' By JACK NELSON and CATHLEEN DECKER, Times Staff Writers By WILLIAM D. MONTALBANO. Times Staff Writer ATHENS British astronomers set it. Swiss clockmakers keep it. German businessmen swear by it, but Irish poets ignore it, and Latin lovers cheat it.

Here in Greece, politicians debate it. It's all a question of time. And amid the ticking of disparate national clocks, Europe is increasingly aware these days that it is out of sync with itself. Between countries, and within them, different concepts and uses of time are complicating a continental goal of democratic unity. By 1992, the 12 partners of the European Communities aim to abolish frontiers, allowing the free movement of goods and people.

There are many obstacles: one of them, from the Athenian Parthenon to the Roman Pantheon, is that time weighs. Is It Worth It? Here in Greece the question is whether it is worth surrendering national traditions to the demands of a modern Europe. The Greek government, which holds the revolving Communities presidency for the rest of this year, thinks it is. Many Greeks are less sanguine. Other Mediterranean peoples also wonder how much efficiency is worth.

Are more methodical and richer Northern Europeans better off those in the sunny south who ave less money and more elastic life styles? Last February, partly to mesh better with Greece's Communities partners, the government of Socialist Prime Minister Andreas Pa-pandreou defied a Greek custom even older than the Acropolis. It banned that afternoon hiatus known as the siesta, which has characterized some would say exemplified Mediterranean life since time immemorial. Papandreou had impeccable cause for warring with tradition. Athens traffic is impossible. Downtown pollution is appalling.

The siesta, usually from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m., created two extra rush hours each day and immeasurably increased pollution. It also, critically, shut down hundreds of Greek offices during business hours in much of the rest of West Europe. 'Horse-and-Buggy Fashion' "We can't go on, horse-and-buggy fashion, with a split work day," siesta-banning Labor Minister Giorgios Gennimatas said. "Stores in Greece stay open less than 50 hours a week, and up to 80 hours a week elsewhere in Europe." A single new all-day timetable replaced more than 40 different sets of hours for shops and businesses.

Within months, the government exulted, the single schedule had reduced pollution and created thousands of new jobs in stores. New restaurants, called fas-foudadika, sprang up to quickly feed downtown thousands more accustomed to the heaviest meal of the day at home, followed by a snooze and then a second joust with the world of commerce lasting till 8 or 9 p.m. Businessmen, shopkeepers, res-Please see TIME, Page 19 last minute. As for when the "last minute" would be Wednesday night, as some aides have suggested, or Thursday morning, as he had planned Bush left himself some room to maneuver. "Well, what's under discussion with me is Thursday morning," he said in answer to a question, "but I don't feel locked on that.

But that's the plan. I think I should have whatever flexibility is required." He said he was not worried that Please see BUSH, Page 5 First- Time Delegate at Age 55 'Liking Ike9 Is Paying Off for an Indiana Cinderella By PATT MORRISON, Times Staff Writer GOPFarewell to Nancy Ends 8-Year 'Run' By ELIZABETH MEHREN, Times Staff Writer NEW ORLEANS In a carefully orchestrated "surprise" appearance, President Reagan paid a visit to a giant Republican Party salute to his wife here Monday that was nothing short of a love-in to Nancy Reagan. The event was an often-emotional official farewell from the Republican Party to the First Lady who is widely considered the President's best friend and closest personal adviser. Normally cool and ultra-composed, Nancy Reagan's voice broke as she recalled "so many memories. "The Republican Party has given Ronnie and me eight of the most wonderful years we have ever had," she said.

"Of course, sometimes they were a little bit frustrating and a little bit frightening, but they were wonderful. "But you know, there are cycles and rhythms to life. There are times to enter, times to stay and times to leave. And today the Urne has come for the curtain to come down on the Reagan era. "We've had a wonderful run," said the First Lady, like the Presi-Please see NANCY, Page 6 BERNIE BOSTON Los Angeles Times President and Mrs.

Reagan at the party's salute to her. Car Builder Ferrari Dies Enzo Ferrari, whose name was synonymous with speed in racing cars, has died at 90 in his home in Modena, Italy. Page 3. A-Test Cooperation U.S. and Soviet scientists are preparing to demonstrate ways to verify unratified nuclear test-ban treaties.

Page 3. Global Crops Seen Promising Most of the world is having a productive growing season that should ease the impact of the U.S. drought, a study said. Page 1 3. NEW ORLEANS It was before 7:30 in the morning.

It was before breakfast. It was even before coffee. Nonetheless, the local jazz combo marched into the Gardenia Room relentlessly oom-pahing the kind of Delta melodies that somehow sound better on a night before, with mint juleps and moonlight, than on a morning after, with biscuits and bacon. But the lady in the Indiana delegation who hasn't touched a drop since she renewed her commitment to Christ, and that was a good 25 years ago was alert and ready to go. She had stayed up until midnight the night before, unpacking and ironing all her clothes, and now it was about to begin: this breakfast with a governor and City Retaken From Rebels, Afghans Say By MICHAEL PARKS, Times Staff Writer MOSCOW-President Najibullah of Afghanistan announced Monday that government forces have recaptured the provincial capital of Kunduz, lost last week to Muslim rebels when Soviet forces withdrew and the local garrison fled.

"The rebels have been wiped out in Kunduz," Najibullah told a news conference in Kabul, the Afghan capital. "Kunduz is now in the hands of the Afghan armed forces." For Najibullah's beleaguered government, the victory was an important demonstration of its ability to hold its own against the rebel moujahedeen, who are now on the offensive as Soviet troops pull out of the country. Half of the 100,300 Soviet troops in Afghanistan three months ago (at least 115,000, by Washington's count) have now been withdrawn, according to Soviet officials, under an agreement reached in April among Afghanistan, Pakistan, the Soviet Union and the United States Please see AFGHAN, Page 17 NEW ORLEANS-Vice President George Bush on Monday portrayed the Republican convention as his first opportunity to emerge from Ronald Reagan's shadow and declared that, in accepting the GOP nomination here Thursday, he will spell out how a Bush presidency would be different from the Reagan Administration. Bush said his nomination means that the party will be "shifting the focus to the future." Tribute to Reagan In an interview with The Times in Washington, the vice president called the convention's farewell to Reagan Monday night "a very nostalgic and fitting tribute" to the 77-year-old President, but he said the convention "not just symbolically but actually focuses on the change" in the party's leadership. "And I say actually," Bush added, "because I will be the nominee of the Republican Party.

It's more than just symbolism. It's an actuality" Bush, who is scheduled to arrive in New Orleans from Washington today, appeared tanned and upbeat, although a little tired, during The Times interview in his office in the Old Executive Office Building adjacent to the White House. He has been fine-tuning the fifth draft of his acceptance speech and mulling over the choice of a running mate. He said he had not made a final decision on a running mate but indicated that he is through conferring with aides and will not let them in on his decision until the That was the inauspicious beginning of Kanyi's pioneering work in birth control, or "family planning," in the preferred terminology of Africa. The woman on the table was Kanyi's first patient for a procedure known as a minilaparo-tomy, a simple and convenient method of performing tubal ligations, or surgical sterilizations.

After years of searching for a simple way to provide his rural patients with the permanent contraception they desired, Kanyi had learned the technique abroad and brought it to his tiny clinic here in the shadow of majestic Mt. Kenya. With a three-inch incision and an hour's surgery, since reduced to 10 minutes, he could surgically sterilize a woman and have her out of his Please see KENYAN, Page 20 SoCal Gas to Sharply Cut Deliveries to Area Utilities By DONALD WOUTAT, Times Staff Writer senator, lunch with Nancy Reagan (and 2,999 friends), an interview with the BBC and seat 18, row 21, section 1, right on the aisle for the drear and the drama of the Republican National Convention. For 30 years and more, since the day her mother-in-law enlisted her to nail up "I Like Ike" placards around Indianapolis, and then got her into San Francisco's Cow Palace to witness the 1956 convention, Leatha Rhea has worked for the Indiana Republican Party, and worked hard. This week comes the payoff her first convention as a delegate.

"You generally think that with all the candidates and officials, by the time they get down to the volunteers, you don't think it's anything Please see DELEGATE, Page 4 means the e'ectric power generators will have to switch to dirtier heating oil, which is much more polluting than natural gas," said Thomas Eichhorn, a spokesman for the South Coast Air Quality Management District. It is the second time in eight months that SoCal Gas has had to restrict deliveries to major customers because of dwindling storage levels. The action affects Edison, the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, San Diego Gas Electric, the Imperial Irrigation District and municipal utilities in Pasadena, Burbank, Glendale and Vernon. SoCal Gas said it will reduce deliveries to electric utilities as much as necessary for it to meet its storage needs. That will probably mean the utilities will get about 800 million cubic feet of natural gas per Please see GAS, Page 23 Kenyan a Birth Control Pioneer 10-Minute Operation Aids Family Planning in Africa By MICHAEL A.

HILTZIK, Times Staff Writer INSIDE TODAY'S TIMES Abby VIEW 3 Ann tandars VIEW 8 Astrology VIEW 6 Auctions METRO 8 Bridga VIEW 6 Comics VIEW 7 Crossword CLASSIFIED 20 Paths PART I 24,25 Edrtorists METRO 6,7 Entertainment CALENDAR Lattars METRO 6 TV-Rsdk CALENDAR 8,9 Southern California Gas, blaming unusually high demand for natural gas by the region's electricity generators, will sharply cut gas deliveries to Southern California Edison and other electric utilities as of 6 a.m. today to conserve gas for winter. The curtailment will force the utilities to burn oil to power their generators, roughly doubling the air pollution contributed by electric utilities at the peak of Southern California's smog season. SoCal Gas said it would deliver additional natural gas to the utilities in the event of "smog episodes." But it said it doesn't know whether it could meet demand on all first-stage smog alerts, when air is designated "unhealthful" to "very unhealthful," but not yet "hazardous." It expects the curtailment to last through October. "We're deeply disappointed.

It NYERI, Kenya The first time Dr. Joseph Kanyi performed the operation, his nurses fled. "I thought they were going for tea," he recalled in his whitewashed office one day recently, 13 years later. "But they never returned." It was not tea, but the unfamil-iarity of Kanyi's procedure that drove the nurses away: It was the first time that they had seen abdominal surgery performed using only local anesthesia. "They disapproved of doing the operation while the patient was awake," Kanyi said.

His staff gone, Kanyi glumly canceled the three other operations he had scheduled for that day. Racked by frustration and embarrassment, he spent a sleepless night. WEATHER: Morning low clouds, otharwisa sunny and mild. Civic Cantar lowhigh today: 6282. Details: Part Paga 5..