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4 A GOP CCCllO 'H y7 In VERMONT, Pcg3 1 I Can Francicco Vegetarian! IS wliipo Rcdoliin; celebrate, too In LIVING, PAGE 1 In SPORTS, PageIC urun Ry roney leads in Canada irae TUESDAY November 22, 1988 Volume 162, No. 325 35 cents, four news sections ty in the 295-seat House of Commons. It projected that John Turner's opposition Liberals, who fiercely attacked the trade pact, would win 84 seats, and the socialist New Democratic Party of Ed Broadbent, which also opposed the accord, would win 41 seats. Without giving specific figures, the public network said its breakdown of the popular vote showed the Conservatives with 43 percent, the Liberals with 36 percent and the New Democrats in third with 18 percent. The Canadian Press news agency also projected that Mulroney would have a parliamentary majority.

A cheer went up at Mulroney headquarters in his hometown of Baie-Comeau, Quebec, when the CBC made its first projection. "We're here, and we're to stay," said Sen. Michel Cogger, co-chairman of the Conservative campaign. President Reagan and Mulroney signed the free trade agreement Jan. 2, and Mulroney needed a majority in the Commons to keep it alive.

The U.S. Congress has already approved the pact. The plan is to take effect Jan. 1, 1989, and phase out remaining tariffs during the next 10 years between Canada and the United States, whose two-way trade is worth $150 billion a year. Top of the news N.Y.

lawmaker indicted in Wedtech bribery case The Washington Post NEW YORK Rep. Robert Garcia, and his wife, Jane Lee Garcia, Talking turkey The Associated Press TORONTO Prime Minister Brian Mulroney's Conservatives won the House of Commons majority needed to save the free trade pact with the United States, the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. projected Monday night. The CBC projected that the new House of Commons would have 170 seats for Mulroney's Progressive Conservative Party, 22 more than needed for a majori- Dad fears sailor slain in Italy Former BHS student missing since July By Ian Polumbaum Free Press Staff Writer A woman who left Burlington to join the U.S. Navy is missing from her station were indicted in New York Monday on charges of demanding and receiving more than $150,000 in cash and jewelry from Wedtech Corp.

and its executives in exchange for his efforts to aid the now-defunct defense contractor. Garcia, 55, has represented the South ImW oPWIMb HMNHH GARCIA L- w. 1 1 I in Italy and feared dead by her father and Italian police. Radioman 3rd Class Jennifer Muir, a former Burlington High School student, disappeared July 29 from the Naval Support Activity base at Naples, Italy. She is classified base officials have r-' UA JENNIFER MUIR as a deserter.

But ADAM RIESNER, Free Presi 'This turkey is says Sam Jackson, left, as he and Tony Little, right, enjoy a Thanksgiving feast along with the rest of Colleen Cowell's third and fouth grade classes at Champlain Elementary School Monday. jailed an American sailor at the request of Italian police who suspect him of killing Muir and hiding her body, a Navy spokesman said. Muir's father this week said the evidence made it "absurd" to think she had Turn to FORMER, back page 2 announce plans to run for mayor Bronx for more than 10 years and was the second Puerto Rican-born American elected to Congress. He was accused of receiving bribes disguised as legitimate payments to his wife, 48, and his sister, according to the indictment. More than $75,000 was allegedly fun-neled through a family friend, Ralph Vallone 41, a Puerto Rico attorney also charged by a federal grand jury.

In a statement before the indictment was announced, Garcia said evidence proving his innocence had been ignored. Garcia was re-elected this month with 92 percent of the vote, although allegations that he took bribes from Wedtech first were disclosed last March during the trial of his Bronx colleague, former Rep. Mario Biaggi, Biaggi was sentenced Friday to eight years in prison for his role in the Wedtech scandal. If convicted of extortion, bribery, conspiracy and receipt of illegal gratuities, the Garcias each face 79 years in prison and $1.7 million in fines. Beginning in May 1984, the seven-count indictment said, Garcia and his wife, who then worked on his House staff, allegedly demanded and received money from Wedtech by threatening the Bronx firm with "economic loss." Over the next 20 months, the indictment said, Wedtech paid attorney Vallone $86,000 disguised as legal fees.

Vallone then allegedly passed $76,000 in the form of "consulting fees" to Jane Garcia. New Hampshire couple win Megabucks jackpot The Associated Press A couple from Manchester, N.H., who said they both get Social Security disability payments, have won $1.9 million in the Tri-State Megabucks game, and plan to use it to buy their first house. Gabrielle Gagne, 56, said she was out playing bingo when the winning number was drawn Saturday evening, and that her husband, Joseph, learned she had the winning number before she returned. She bought the winning ticket at Alexander's supermarket in Manchester, letting the lottery computer generate the number. The Gagnes were to get the first of 20 annual checks for $75,200, after taxes, Monday afternoon, state Sweepstakes Director Jim Wimsatt said.

Mrs. Gagne said she and her husband had been forced to retire from work because of heart-related problems. Smaller prizes in the Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont game totaled nearly $295,473, spokesman David Long said. The winning numbers were 1-10-13-17-23-26. Numbers Bush wants to keep 2 in Cabinet posts Education, Justice appointees to stay on Tech University, reportedly encountered some resistance among Bush advisers, who thought that the new president would be better served by a new secretary of education.

Bush, in describing his three new appointees, said that he had sought to name "people of outstanding quality (and) integrity as expeditiously as possible." His other two Cabinet appointees were former Secretary of the Treasury James A. Baker III, whom he chose for secretary of state, and Nicholas F. Brady, whom he said he would keep as secretary of the Treasury Congressional sources and others close to the Bush transition operation have indicated that the president-elect may be ready as early as today to announce his choice for defense secretary. Former Sen. John G.

Tower, R-Texas, an arms negotiator for Reagan in 1985-1986, has been said by sources close to Bush to be the favored candidate. Darman, whose first priority as head of the Office of Management and Budget will be trimming the federal budget deficit, said he would view Social Security as untouchable. But. Medicare and other health care programs, he said, would be closely examined by budget cutters. By Enrique Corredera Free Press Staff Writer Peter Clavelle, Burlington Community and Economic Development Office director, said Monday that he is seeking the Progressive Coalition's endorsement to run for mayor.

Clavelle is the only one of three potential candidates for the endorsement who has made his intentions clear. City Treasurer Jonathan Leopold and Alderman Terry Bouricius, PC-Ward 2, are each considering a bid. Clavelle has scheduled an "announcement party" to declare his candidacy next Tuesday at the Community Boathouse and outline the issues he plans to raise during the campaign. Also Monday, Democrat Rick Sharp formally kicked off his bid for the Democratic mayoral nomination. Another Democrat, Alderwoman Nancy Chioffi of Ward 5, has confirmed she will announce her candidacy next month, and a third, William Aswad, is considering a bid.

In a related development Monday, Leopold released the results of a poll he and a group of volunteers conducted during the weekend. It indicates that more than 40 percent of 289 registered voters are undecided about who should be the next mayor. Los Angeles Times WASHINGTON President-elect George Bush, reaching again into the ranks of Reagan administration officials, announced Monday that he wants to keep Attorney General Dick Thornburgh and Secretary of Education Lauro F. Cavazos and that he would nominate Richard G. Darman to be his budget director.

All five of Bush's Cabinet-level appointees so far have worked for the current administration. But none possesses the ideological bent of many of Reagan's top officials, and all have reputations as pragmatic problem-solvers. In Darman, the president-elect opted for a master of detail who has developed a reputation as a skilled bureaucratic infighter and hard bargainer. Darman served as a senior White House aide during President Reagan's first term and then as deputy secretary of the Treasury until last year. Thornburgh, the attorney general since August, has avoided the highly ideological approach adopted by his predecessor, Edwin Meese III, in running the Department of Justice.

He promised to make the battle against drugs his first priority. Cavazos, a former president of Texas CLAVELLE LEOPOLD Respondents were picked randomly from the phone book, he said. Although the poll asked whether the person was a registered voter, it did not inquire whether the person was likely to vote. The poll also did not attempt to balance the numbers of respondents to the populations of the city's six wards. The breakdown by gender was 51.6 percent male and 48.4 female.

According to the results, 61.9 percent of those polled said they would rather have Mayor Bernard Sanders run for reelection than to elect Clavelle, Leopold, Chioffi or Republican Margaret Green. The poll asked, "Even though Mayor Sanders has said he will not seek reelection as Burlington's mayor, would you like to see him remain as Burlington's mayor for another two-year term?" The word "remain" was underlined. The question came after respondents were asked to rate Sanders' performance as mayor. Forty-six percent said it was good; 33.9 percent, excellent; 13.5 percent, fair, 2.4 percent, poor, and 4.2 percent had no opinion. In two hypothetical three-way races, Turn to TWO, back page NHL Canadians 4 2 In SPORTS, 1C VERMONT he flumbers 589 Friends pay tribute to former Bishop Kerr and 3105 were drawn Monday.

By Maggie Maurice Free Press -Staff Writer DOW JONES INDUSTRIAL AVERAGE: gained 3.56 and closed at 2,065.97. In MONEY, 7A Weather Mostly sunny and cool, high 35 to 40, winds northwest at 10 mph. Tonight, clear and cold, low 15 to 20. Regional forecast, 12A Edwardian, "not always the most up-to-date man. Sometimes he liked to do things the old-fashioned way.

None of that prevented him from being in the forefront for women's ordination or dealing with the church's human sexuality. The bishop, assisted by the Very Rev. Bruce H. Jacobson and the Rev. Canon Howard A.

Van Dine celebrated the Holy Eucharist. The Rt. Rev. Harvey D. Butterfield, bishop-retired, gave the commendation.

Besides Kerr's widow, Carolyn, and family members, the congregation included Kerr's secretary, Brenda Palmer, who flew in from Florida; Edward Daniel, former treasurer of the diocese, who came from Texas; the Very Rev. Gary Kriss, dean of All Saints Cathedral, Albany, N.Y., David Jette, former verger at St. Paul's, now head verger at Trinity-Wall Street, New York, and the Rev. David J. Heim of South Hero, former pastor of First Baptist Church.

Walking in the procession were Bishop John A. Marshall of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Burlington; Rabbi Max B. Wall, retired, of Ohavi Zedek Synagogue; the Rev. Stanley Moore, United Methodist Church; the Rev. Paul Losh, former head of the American Baptists Convention; the Rev.

Kenneth Morris, representing the Vermont Ecumenical Council; and the Rev. Fred Lahr, pastor of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. When they left the cathedral, all the priests in line, behind the crueller and the thurifer, Boyer was carrying the marble urn with the ashes. "It is very hard to bury your best friend," he said. Vermont, followed by the present bishop, the Rt.

Rev. Daniel L. Swenson. Perhaps no one knew Kerr better than the Rev. Donald E.

Boyer of St. James, Woodstock, who was his assistant at St. Paul's. Swenson had asked for Boyer to give the homily; Boyer was notified in Vienna, Austria, and returned Sunday. "I'm not going to give a biographical sketch of the bishop," he said.

"That has already been well done, in his obituary, written by his son, Phillips, and in every diocesan report. If you want to see his monuments, look around you at St. Paul's, at St. Andrew's in Colchester, which was very close to his heart, at the Bishop Booth Conference Center. It is very fitting to have his friends go out there," Boyer said.

In a lighter vein, he called him an Vermonterssaid farewell Monday to the late Rt. Rev. Robert Shaw Kerr, the state's seventh Episcopal bishop. Kerr, 71, died Friday. St.

Paul's Cathedral in Burlington was jammed. The balcony was filled, people lined the side and back walls and the aisles, way out onto the south porch, where some who stood couldn't see or hear the service. The bishop had been there for them through Joys and triumphs, sickness and grief and they were there for him Monday. With a silver staff engraved with the cathedral coat of arms, Robert Stanfield, verger, made way for the procession of clergy, more than 60 from throughout Inside Classified. -5C Nation.

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