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Middlebury, Bowdoin tie v'. In SPORTS, Page 1C 1 Matt Thompson NATURE'S tnrwfff8' i Mw4i 4 A Salute and Fouage Viewer's Guide to Autumn in Vermont IN LIVING, Page 1 CftlS udington Jftee tess drop emasi. DC." In Kennebunkport, Maine, meantime, President Bush declared that he and Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev would hold their first summit conference late next spring or early next summer. Bush's decision to agree to a summit, following an extended period of caution, was the result of progress on key issues made during busy discussions in the Wyoming highland.

Shevardnadze's step appeared to remove a major obstacle from completion of a treaty that would cut U.S. and Soviet strategic nuclear arms by half. But the foreign minister made it plain that the Soviets retained fundamental objections to U.S. plans for missile defenses in the Strategic Defense Initiative, or "Star Wars" program. He said that although the Soviet Union was dropping its insistence that the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, or START, be signed along with a Defense Space Treaty detailing future use of space for military purposes, Moscow would insist that the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty be followed to the letter.

The ABM Treaty bans missile defenses, and in the Soviet view prohibits extensive testing in space of components for a missile defense. Shevardnadze said the Soviets would Turn to SOVIETS, back page Superpowers appear closer to arms treaty By Stephens Broening The Baltimore Sun JACKSON, Wyo. In a significant change of policy, Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard A. Shevardnadze announced Saturday that Moscow would sign a treaty with the United States cutting strategic nuclear arms without insisting on a new companion agreement stifling the U.S. "Star Wars" program.

Secretary of State James A. Baker III said the Soviet initiative "might open up the way to a Strategic Arms Reduction V- SHEVARDNADZE BAKER Treaty," but cautioned that Shevardnadze's proposal, unveiled during negotiations, needed to be "very carefully analyzed and weighed in Washington, SUNDAY September 24, 1989 Volume 163, No. 267 $1.25, 10 news sections Top of the news South African police disrupt women's march While white extremists and neo-Nazis held government-sanctioned rallies two blocks away, South African police cracked down on an anti-apartheid women's march Saturday. More than 150 arrests were made near a cathedral cordoned off with razor wire. Police used batons to keep blacks away from the protesting right-wingers.

Story, 12 A Flight data confirms explosives caused crash PARIS Flight data recovered from the wreckage of a French airliner confirmed Saturday that explosives caused the crash that killed 171 people over an African desert, the government said. Information obtained from the plane's black boxes "showed that the flight proceeded in a normal manner until a total interruption, which translates as an explosion in flight" at an altitude of about 30,000 feet, a statement issued by the Transport Ministry said. It said data from the black boxes backed up the preliminary findings of an investigative commission at the site that "leads us to accept the hypothesis of the presence of explosives on board." The conclusion signals the start of an intensive search for the individual or group responsible for the bombing of UTA Flight 772, which was flying to Paris. In Beirut, a previously unknown group calling itself the Secret Chadian Resistance claimed responsibility on Saturday for the bombing. Quayle calls for return of Soviet-held islands TOKYO Vice President Dan Quayle on Saturday called for Moscow to return r-' -j I i-Hi -''J V(f i a Hurricane leaves city in shreds Charleston, S.C., struggles to rebuild By Laura Parker The Washington Post CHARLESTON, S.C.

The entire city and most of the neighboring communities remained without electricity, drinkable tap water and such essentials as gasoline as officials attempted to restore order Saturday in the wake of Hurricane Hugo's devastating drive across the state. Charleston Mayor Joseph P. Riley Jr. advised residents who were evacuated before Hugo not to return just yet. "Their houses are dark.

There is no hot water. No refrigeration. It is not something they want to come back to." In some of the coastal communities, residents are forbidden to return. On the Isle of Palms, which received a knockout blow from Hugo's 138-mph winds, residents were barred from returning after Mayor Carmen Bunch announced she was imposing "martial law" until roadways have been cleared by emergency workers. The storm, which left at least 27 people dead in the Caribbean, also has been blamed for 21 deaths on the mainland 18 in the Carolinas, two in Virginia and one in New York state, The Associated Press reported.

As the storm moved through West Virginia, western Pennsylvania and western New York, it subsided into a tropical storm. It had disappeared from weather radar screens by Saturday morning. In South Carolina, damage estimates continued to spiral upward as officials discovered additional destruction. An estimated 500,000 residents, 137,000 of them in the Charleston area, lost electrical power. A spokesman for South Carolina Electric Gas Co.

said Charleston and Beaufort were hardest hit, with Columbia, about 90 miles to the northwest, also reporting serious damage to power lines. Power company officials said it will be two weeks before electricity is restored. Thus warned, a long line of people formed outside a shop selling generators. Passing motorists stopped to ask if it was a line to get bagged ice. None of the stoplights at the city's 180 signaled intersections was operating, and as some residents returned, traffic became nearly as tangled as some of the downed power lines.

Howard R. Chap-Turn to CHARLESTON, 8A Luxury resorts devastated; Carolinians are coping; Preventing price-gouging, 8A several islands claimed by Japan but occupied by the Soviets since the end of World War II. During a visit to Japan's northernmost main island of Hokkaido, Quayle said America shared Japan's "heartfelt desire" for a return of several small islands off Hokkaido's 2 The Associated Pres A man walks through Garden City Beach, S.C, after Hurricane Hugo devastated the Carolina coast. 'A Once-mighty Hugo limps past Vermont High winds arrive without high water si QUAYLE northern shores, which Japan calls its "northern territories." "We hope the idea of glasnost and perestroika will someday come to the northern territories and that they will be rightfully returned to Japan," Quayle said in a speech at the official residence of Hokkaido's Gov. Takahiro Yokomichi.

Soviet troops occupied the islands in the closing days of World War II in 1945, and Japanese civilians were evacuated. The territorial dispute has stalled completion of a treaty formally ending the war and a visit to Japan by Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev. From wire reports MARK SASAHARA, FrM Prasi Spotlight And combined with a Canadian cold front following behind, Hugo set one particular benchmark for the state: the season's first snow. Meteorologist William Grady reported that snow had dusted the top of Mount Mansfield Saturday evening and he predicted the first frost this season will hit several sections of Vermont tonight.

The remnants of Hurricane Hugo did not cause any individually major electrical outages, officials said. The interruptions were small but scattered throughout the state, Green Mountain Power officials said. An estimated 5,000 to 6,000 Green Mountain Power customers lost electricity beginning late Friday night and continuing into late Saturday afternoon, spokesman By Mike Donoghue and Richard Cowperthwait Free Press Staff Writers Hugo fizzled Saturday, but not before causing several thousand Vermonters to lose electrical power and knocking down scores of trees, limbs and fences. Despite early concerns about heavy rain, there were no reports of flooding as of late Saturday night, according to the National Weather Service in South Burlington. Only a half inch of rain had fallen at Burlington International Airport by Saturday night.

What the storm did bring to the state were strong winds some clocked at 60 mph. Franklin County was particularly hard hit, with reports of tree-crushed cars and boats being capsized or dragged from their moorings. 'It's been about 12 hours that I've been without says Marguerite Piche, after winds from Hurricane Hugo caused a tree limb to fall on the porch of her South Burlington home Friday night. The limb cut her electrical and telephone lines. Educators and legislators in the United States are pushing for funding more directly tied to academic achievement.

New legislation introduced by Vermont's Rep. Peter Smith would ease federal and state restrictions on education funding in exchange for guarantee of higher student performance on the local level. Spotlight, 14A Greg Morgan said. "Hugo is gone," meteorologist Richard Mamrosh said from the weather service offices in mid-afternoon. "We got the strong winds." Winds of 25 to 40 mph were recorded at the Burling ton airport, with a few gusts at 52 mph, Mamrosh said.

Burlington Electric reported winds at 60 mph in the Burlington Intervale, he said. As the storm passed and a cold front moved in Saturday Turn to VERMONT, 8A Numbers VERMONT LOTTERY: The numbers 303 and 4468 were drawn Saturday. TRI-STATE MEGABUCKS: The numbers 3-8-19-29-35-36 were drawn Saturday. Former officer charges CIA with harassment Weather Increasing sunshine, high 50 to 55. Tonight, clear and cold, Tow 32 to 35, with frost likely.

Regional forecast, 14A I f7 V. They have ruined me. They have made x'j 4 me unemployable, all because I told what I Bruce Hemmings Former CIA off icer Inside The Senate Intelligence Committee has been investigating Hemmings' allegations for several months. As a result of his efforts to work with congressional investigators, the Iran-Con-tra scandal has swept Hemmings up in Its wake, leaving the 17-year CIA veteran's career and private life in shambles because of what he says is a desire by the CIA and FBI to cover up their actions and harass those who tell the truth. His marriage had broken up before his ordeal began, but Hemmings claims the CIA has helped keep his children from him.

His wife, Mary Harding, declined comment for this article. Hemmings is trying to convince the Turn to CIA, 8A By Kevin Ellis Free Press Staff Writer In 1985, Bruce Hemmings was a mid-level CIA officer, a self-described patriot collecting secrets for his country. Today, in Vermont's Mad River Valley, Hemmings lives a frantic, paranoid life, with no job, no money, no family and no career. "They have ruined me," he said in one of a series of recent interviews about the CIA. "They have made me unemployable, all because I told what I knew." What Hemmings began to find out in 1985 was what the rest of the nation would soon discover, that the U.S.

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