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Hits and misses of the 1980s Look back at the '80s, forward to the '90s in Decades4 sections inside SENSES: Good, bad productsIE CtlLNby'QUL JL JLmLJL JL Salem, Oregon Monday, January 1, 1990 35 cents UffUSUf -7, ax UliDSODTOdl kfl torn eras Dong the headlights were on, the door was ajar. But the 18-year-old driver, Sherry Eyerly, was nowhere to be found. About a week later, Linda Eyerly lost hope that her daughter would be found alive. As the 1990s begin, she still longs for something the 80s could not bring the discovery of her daughter's remains. "She's not alive," Linda Eyerly said, clenching a tissue in her hand.

"It would help if her remains were found. We wouldn't have to keep living with the dread." "And after time, you could think of all the happy times you had. "When I think of her, it's just pain." Although the circumstances may differ, relatives and friends of 16 other murder victims in Marion County during the 1980s also live with pain aggravated by unanswered questions. Two 9-year-old girls were among those killed by unknown persons during the 1980s. An unemployed nursery worker, a computer programmer, two transients, an Turn to Murders, Page 2A.

16 cases in county frustrate families By Amber Stenger The Statesman Journal On a muggy Fourth of July evening in 1982, a dozen children gathered near an isolated South Salem gravel road to set off fireworks. About 100 yards down the road, three boxes of pizza rested next to a Domino's Pizza delivery car. The engine was running, 2 stories inside List of '80s unsolved murders New system may aid police Page 2A Finding her only child and giving the girl a proper burial would help Linda Eyerly take heart in all the good memories of their time together. "When my grandparents died, we were able to properly mourn them," she said. Sherry Eyerly She disappeared in 1982 Noriega may face murder charges Officials still negotiate his fate i 3 stories inside Bush visits soldiers Bush's Noriega plan Group sends supplies Page 3A New gun law forces buyers to wait longer Oregon adds checks, lengthens waiting period By Shawn Wirtz Trie Statesman Journal It will take longer to buy a gun under a new state law that takes effect today, but some law officers say more people may try.

The law, sponsored by House Speaker Vera Katz, D-Portland, expands the waiting period for buying a handgun from five to 15 days. Obtaining a concealed weapon permit or buying a handgun also now will require two pieces of identification and an extensive background 11 if( 1 The Los Angeles Times PANAMA CITY, Panama -Panama's new government prepared murder charges Sunday against deposed dictator Manuel A. Noriega. The new government also joined intense negotiations with the Vatican and the Bush administration about the fate of Noriega, who is holed up in the Vatican embassy. The impending charges, resulting from the deaths of 10 officers involved in an Oct.

3 military revolt against Noriega, were announced by Attorney General Ro-gelio Cruz. He said they would be filed by Tuesday as legal grounds for asking Vatican officials to relinquish Noriega for trial in Panama. But other Panamanian officials said that talks pointed to a possi- ble agreement to put Noriega in brief Panamanian custody before handing him over to U.S. military forces for trial in the United States on two 1988 drug indictments. Foreign diplomats warned that obstacles remained, but spokesmen for President Guillermo En-dara and the Roman Catholic Church in Panama said that the three-way talks involving a spe-Turn to Panama, Page 3A.

check. The 2 stories inside per- two-year mit will cost New Oregon laws op nosed to fees New national laws New Eastern Europe celebrates New Year ranging from Page 2A $5 tO $30. aMMWMHMMMI Potential gun buyers with a history of felony convictions or who have been convicted of certain misdemeanors or committed to a state mental institution in the last four years will be banned from buying guns. Buyers of long guns such as rifles or assault weapons will not have a waiting period and will not have to submit fingerprints. A background check will be required, however, and a yearlong study will examine long gun transactions.

"This is probably the strongest weapon control law in the country," Katz said. She started working on the legislation after Patrick Purdy of Sandy, gunned down children in a Stockton, schoolyard last January with a semi-automatic weapon. But area sheriffs, who will process the applications for concealed weapon permits, say Turn to Laws, Page 2A. Gerry LewinSlatesman Journal Cleve Shilling (left), a gunsmith, and Doug Raaf, the owner of Guncrafters, a gun shop, discuss the new method of fingerprinting buyers of handguns. A new law affecting the sale of handguns goes into effect today.

From wire reports Newly free Eastern Europeans greeted 1990 with resolutions for a better life during celebrations ranging from a floodlit frolic at the Berlin Wall to somber prayers for peace in Romania. Along the Berlin Wall, hundreds of thousands of Germans rang in a new year of unity at a huge party punctuated by drums, saxophones and whistling firecrackers. Hammers clanged against chisels as souvenir hunters mined for chunks. More than 2,000 people lighted candles and rallied in the rain in Hong Kong in support of Romanian and Chinese democracy. And British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher said "the overwhelming lesson of the 1980s is that socialism has failed." Soviet President Mikhail S.

Gorbachev and President Bush exchanged televised greetings to their respective nations. At the Berlin Wall, tens of thousands of people poured from both directions through the newly opened wall, which in the past two months has been transformed from a symbol of suppression to one of reconciliation. Thousands more scaled the wall and tumbled into the other Germany as the formerly feared East German border guards watched with amusement. "The wall is open for the first 2 stories inside New Year's message Page 1D Freedom means stress Page 6D time in my life. We want to celebrate along with everyone else," said Hans-Juergen Witfeld, who traveled from the Ruhr Valley city of Dortmund with eight friends.

In Bucharest, Romanians prayed for peace, prosperity and their new freedom, celebrating their first New Year's Eve in 24 years without the oppressive yoke' of Nicolae Ceausescu. Interim President Ion Iliescu, in a New Year's speech, made a renewed commitment to political pluralism and pledged that the popular revolution that toppled Ceausescu will "remain unvan-quishable." Throughout Eastern Europe, 1989 has been a year of once-unimaginable changes, as Poland, Hungary, East Germany, Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria and Romania shook off Communist domination, following word from Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev that the Soviet Union would no longer intervene militarily in Warsaw Pact states to dictate internal political developments. Check the numbers; don't enter '90s unprepared ade. The average woman will eat her way through only 4,442 hours or 185 days.

A $1,000 certificate of deposit at 8 percent interest, compounded quarterly, will earn $1,208.04 by the end of 1999. If you buy a house for $85,000, put $10,000 down and take out a $75,000, 30-year fixed-interest loan at 9.75 percent, you will pay $70,275.65 interest by Dec. 31, 1999. percentage of what will happen to us in the next decade cannot be predicted, there are a few things we can depend on. Here are some coming attractions for the 1990s: There will be 315,532,800 seconds in the next 10 years, including two leap years in 1992 and 1996 (and not counting leap seconds).

Make your vacation plans. Most people will get 29 three-day holiday weekends between 1990 and 1999. There will be 17 Friday the 13ths between 1900 and 1999. 1998 is the spookiest year, when three of those Fridays show up. The average television viewer will watch 25,659 hours of TV by the end of the decade.

That is 1,069 days or 2.9 years. Almost five months of deodorant and used car commercials will be aired. The average man will spend about 4,745 hours or nearly 198 days eating during the next dec Gannett News Service If it is 8:30 a.m. as you pick up today's newspaper, the new decade is already 30,600 seconds old. That means there are only 315,602,200 seconds left until the year 2000.

In those 315,602,200 seconds ws will all eat, sleep, work and recreate. Some of us will exercise. All of us will grow older. After all, the future is where we will spend the rest of our lives. Although an unsettlingly high World Life Sports Index What's In a name? Inside NewsA Nation OUT WITH DIETS Fitness is the buzzword for the '90s.

1BLlfe Local 1 rWiHr 'M p5 World ClasslfledD World1, 8, 6D Classlfied7-10D Money MattersE SportsF College bowls3F NFL4F Decades Big storyQ Our livesH CultureJ Economy FIRST FACE Face reader Laura Rose-tree says George Bush's face doesn't project Northwest3A NatlonS, 6A Oplnlon8, 9A D.C.9A Weather1 OA LlfeB Obltuarles2B Landers3B CrosswordSB Senlors4B MoviesSB Comics6B LocalC Almanac2C ROMANIAN PALACE Dictator's luxurious, unfinished house is bigger than a city park. IDWorld Money Matters KING OF THE ROAD A look at the Chevy Corvette ZR-1. 2EMoney Matters Coming tomorrow MALL HOUSES We'll tell you how a Salem man plans to make 29 houses from the Capitol Mall Into low-Income housing. "TV WOOD-BURN FOSSILS Professor William Orr of the University of Oregon plans a dig near the high school this summer. 1CLocal ft A Nat Inn Rlckreatl Creek, In Polk County, flows eastward, through Dallas and Rlckreall to the Willamette River.

The name is controversial; It may have different Indian meanings, or may be derived from La Creole, French-Canadian phrase. tourcw "Oregon Oographle Ntrrwt" by ttwtt A. McArthur. WILDCARD WINNERS Houston fullback Alonzo High-smith picks up short yardage before the Pittsburgh Steelers win, 26-23, In overtime against the Oilers. The Los Angeles Rams beat the Philadelphia Eagles, 21 7.

1FSport George Buth Weather SHOWERS High today near 42. Back Page Copyright 1990 The Statesman Journal Vol. 13B, No. 280, 11 Sections, 1 1 4 Pages A Gannett Newspaper William Orr.