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World Games Spotty attendance raises doubt 1C Hs) BaMe Creek GUEST COLUMNIST: do Plunkett takes stand for the children within us Local, 3A Rnd your lucky license plate and win (three winners daily) Him ttowto 25 CENTS MONDAY, DEC. 30, 1985 Jo Plunkett A GANNETT NEWSPAPER BATTLE CREEK, MICHIGAN Egg U.S.-Soviet citizens TV debate too soft, activists say The Associated Press SEATTLE U.S. protesters pleaded with participants in a three-hour U.S.-Soviet satellite-TV dialogue to "ask the tough questions" and accused producers of the television special of "editing" the audience to avoid controversy. Simultaneous translation was provided for taping of the "citizens summit" Sunday, moderated by talk show host Phil Donahue here and Soviet commentator Vladimir Pozner in Leningrad. "What can your government do to ease the threat of nuclear war?" a Seattle questioner asked, drawing applause from the 200 people in the U.S.

TV studio audience. There was an equal number in the Soviet audience. A Soviet man answered with a call for a moratorium on nuclear testing, a reduction of nuclear arms and then cuts in all weaponry. About 90 percent of the Soviet Union will see a 90-minute version of the program, probably on prime-time television, Donahue said he was told. The show is being aired at various times in most major U.S.

cities in the next weeks, said Penny Rotheiser, who works for Donahue. It is tentatively scheduled to air at 8 p.m. Jan. 6 on channel 8. Before the taping, the program was criticized by Jewish, Latvian, Estonian and other activists who were barred from the U.S.

audience. Jack Greenberg, one of about 40 protesters complained there had been an "editing out (of the audience) of anybody who was part of an organization." Marilyn O'Reilly, a free-lance producer who selected the audiences for Donahue's Multimedia Entertainment, said she tried to avoid ideologues and to balance both sides with people in similar occupations. She said she was free to choose whomever she wanted in Leningrad. "Can you speak out without fear of reprisal?" Donahue asked. See DEBATE, 2A amis ted tosiiag obi CC Money, tickets to England demanded The Associated Press -nTKENTUCKy!) OHIO Cincinnati civ IND 9 Dayton Newport Police refused to reveal the names of the boys, ages 14 and 16, but said Lucas is an acquaintance and officials don't know why-he took them hostage.

Officers cordoned off a four-block area around the house, and SWAT teams armed with rifles were stationed at various points. The gunman apparently called Cincinnati radio station WLW-AM Sunday afternoon and boasted of killing two people recently. He said one of the bodies could be found in a wooded area in nearby Cincinnati across the Ohio River from Newport and that the other could be found in the Licking River near Newport. Lucas also told WLW that he was on drugs. Kim later confirmed that police found a body Sunday in the Licking River, about eight blocks from where that river joins the Ohio River at Newport, but did not link the death to Lucas.

Campbell County Coroner Dr. Fred Stine identified the body as that of James Cain, 15, of Covington. Stine said the boy, last seen Saturday night, had been stabbed repeatedly and had been dead 1 2 to 18 hours when found. Lucas had served time at an Indiana prison on two theft convictions, but there was no further information available on him, Kim said. NEWPORT, Ky.

A gunshot-punctuated standoff dragged into the early morning hours today as a man who claimed to be a killer held two teen-age boys hostage and demanded $50,000 and plane tickets to England. The man, whom police identified as Dennis Lucas, 20, of Dayton, seized his hostages around 5 a.m. Sunday. He fired a handgun out a window several times during the standoff and initially set a 5 p.m. Sunday deadline for his demands, but the deadline passed without incident, police said.

Police said Lucas had not threatened to kill anyone and was still barricaded inside the house early today. The scene was quiet 24 hours after the ordeal began. "To my knowledge, it's status quo out there," said a Newport policeman who would identify himself only as Officer Porter. WKRC-TV in Cincinnati reported that the man called the station Sunday night and said he gave authorities until noon today to give him the money and three plane tickets one for him and two for his hostages. He did not say why he wanted to go to England.

Police spokesman Jimmy Kim said police talked to the man several times, but would Hostage Standoff -av i- not elaborate. "They have good communications. They are talking from time to time," Kim said Sunday night at a news conference. AP Photo The relative of a hostage huddles behind a wall with police officer. World trauma topped headlines in '85 Attacks 'planned in Lebanon' The Associated Press The world's headlines in 1985 echoed hope and horror, each event, it seemed, so gripping as to erase what went before.

sia. Tunisia refused landing rights, and the Egyptair plane was forced down by U.S. fighter planes at a NATO base in Sicily. The political rhubarb and the release of one PLO official almost brought down the Italian government. In November, hijackers struck again, seizing control of an Egyptair 737 jet bound for Cairo from Athens.

See HEADLINES, 2A The Associated Press ing from the Andes into the valleys below. No. 4 was the Mexico City earthquake in September, which crushed or trapped at least 7,000 people. In June, TWA Flight 847 out of Athens was hijacked with 153 people aboard. An American Navy diver aboard was killed.

Thirty-nine Americans were held hostage for 1 7 days while two Shiite terrorists demanded the release of hundreds of Lebanese held in Israeli prisons. In the end, the 39 were released. In October, six Israeli planes bombed the Palestine Liberation Organization headquarters in Tunis, killing about 60 people in retaliation for the slaying of three Israeli tourists aboard a yacht in Cyprus. The Italian luxury liner Achille Lauro and hundreds of passengers were held hostage for two days by four PLO members. American Leon Klinghoffer was killed.

'The hijackers returned the ship to Egypt where they were allowed to board an Egyptair jet for a trip to Tuni '85 Year in Review The top story of the year, as voted by member editors and broadcasters of The Associated Press, was the wave of terrorism that swept the Middle East from air hijackings to the commandeering of the Italian liner Achille Lauro. Second in the poll was the summit meeting and the change in leadership of the Soviet Union, and the promise therein. Windsor romance tops in first AP poll The Associated Press But these top stories were pressed by natural disasters. Colombian volcano Nevado del Ruiz erupted and left 25,000 dead in the muddy wake of melted snows cascad- ROME Police believe the terrorist attacks at airports in Rome and Vienna that left 14 people and four gunmen dead were planned in Lebanon and organized in Switzerland, the Italian news agency ANSA reported today. Meanwhile, funerals were held in Rome for 1 1-year-old American Natasha Simpson, the youngest victim of the attack at Rome's Leonardo da Vinci Airport, and for Italian Francesco della Scala.

ANSA quoted unidentified police sources as saying the attackers were sent from Beirut, Lebanon, to avenge the Israeli air raid against the Palestine Liberation Organization's headquarters in Tunisia. At least 60 Palestinians and Tunisians died in that Oct. 1 attack. Police said the conclusion was based on interrogations of the lone surviving terrorist involved in the Rome attack, Mohammad Sarham, and on other investigations. "The brains of the terrorist attack, after they organized the action, probably convoked about 10 kamikaze, mostly Palestinians from the (Beirut) refugee camps of Sabra and Chatilla, to a secret location in Lebanon," ANSA quoted one source as saying.

According to ANSA, the source said the terror- Seat-belt law leads Associated Press Top 10 stories for Michigan in 1985 NEW YORK This is the 50th year Associated Press members have ranked the top 10 stories. For a sense of history, here are the results of the first poll in 1936: 1. The British Empire crisis the Edward VIII-Mrs. Simpson romance. 2.

The U.S. political campaign FDR's second term. 3. The Spanish Civil War. 4.

Italy's conquest of Ethiopia. 5. The AFL split by John L. Lewis' tactics. 6.

The U.S. business recovery coming back from the Depression. 7. Remilitarization of the Rhineland. 8.

U.S. drought and floods. 9. Hauptmann's execution the Lindbergh baby kidnapping case. 10.

Development of Dr. Charles Greeley Abbot's steam engine; it operates on solar power. The Associated Press fourth, respectively. Rounding out the top 10 stories were: 5. U.S.

auto industry's late summer sales boom. 6. New Year's Day ice storm that crippled the state. 7. Ronald Bailey's arrest in the kidnap-slayings of two young boys.

8. Record flooding in Flint. 9. Michigan's jobless rate falling into single digits. 10.

Three children found living in a dilapidated bus See SEAT BELT, 2A Enactment of a law that compels Michigan motorists to strap themselves into their car seats or face fines was picked as the top Michigan news story in 1 985 by Associated Press member newspapers and broadcasters. The nationwide scramble for General Motors $3.5 billion Saturn car-making complex snagged second place in the balloting. Michigan's return to financial solvency and the furor over spiraling liability insurance costs finished third and See TERRORIST, 2A -i; tf" ill ffl 11 ffl V-i irr -V jj-nfiiin "'r It plays again in Peoria Deng tapped for Man of the Year J- -'AO 4 tk.M' The Associated Press The Associated Press Newsmaker Lighter Side Chance of light snow Chance of snow Tuesday 2A Inside The Enquirer PEORIA, 111. Peoria's mayor is busting out with pride that, once again, his city is outstandingly, ah, average. "Will it play in Peoria?" was the Nixon-era benchmark of Middle America's values until two years ago, when Dancer Fitzgerald Sample, a New York City-based advertising agency, dropped the west-central Illinois community from its list of preferred test markets.

Suddenly, the city of 120,000 was no longer typical. Now, however, the agency has restored Peoria to its latest edition of NEW YORK Time magazine on Sunday named Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping as its 1985 Man of the Year, crediting him with introducing "sweeping economic reforms which have challenged Marxist orthodoxies and liberated the productive energies of a billion people." Deng, Time's Man of the Year in 1 978, is one of only nine men to be picked more than once. "In the Chinese spirit of balance between yin and yang, Deng's second revolution is an attempt on a monumental scale to blend seemingly irreconcilable elements: State ownership and private property, central planning and competitive markets, political dictatorship and limited economic and cultural freedom," the magazine Guide to Test Marketing, after deciding the city is once again "average" enough to be included on its list of 41 test-market cities. Mayor Jim Maloof said, When we lost that designation obviously it was a blow to us. But now that we've got it back and are being recognized, it means a lot of pluses for the city too.

"It means that advertisers will be looking to the Peoria market to bring some of their new products in." reported in its Jan. 6 edition. "Indeed it is almost an attempt to combine Communism and capitalism," Time said. In choosing the 59th Man of the Year, Time's editors considered Mikhail Gorbachev, "the vigorous new Soviet Nelson Mandela, "the jailed black South African who symbolizes the struggle against Bob Geldof, "the musical fund-raiser for African famine relief; and "once again, the terrorist." But Time editors felt Deng's reforms "held more promise for changing the course of history than anything else that occurred in 1985." Local 3A.3B Nation 7A Obituaries 3B People IB Sports 1-3C State 3A.3B Television 4B Weather 2A World 7A Ann Landers 4B Bridge 5B Business 4-5C Classified 5-6C Comics 5B Editorials 6A Entertainment 4C Features 4B Horoscope 5B.