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ii mtmsmtm 3 City Council mandates 25 percent water cuts and restricts watering and filling pools Residential customers will pay a $25 surcharge per 1000 gallons on all use above 25000 gallons Appeals An appeals process will be set up for customers who have special circumstances such as a household of four people or more and average winter water use above 6000 gallons per month or a change in occupancy from previous year Penalties A customer who make signtfi- use the restrictions mean residents must limit outside watering to alternate days and even then only during the evening and early morning hours The ordinance prohibits filling private swimming pools and spas except in cases where used for water supply storage doing today is dealing with an emergency said Mayor Debbie Jaramillo sponsor of the ordinance is not a debate about whether people think there is a drought or a Generally residential customers who meet the required 25 percent reduction below the same water usage last year will be charged a $10 surcharge per 1000 gallons of By BEN NEARY The New Mexican excess water used in addition to the usual base rate of about $350 per thousand gallons The penalty goes up dramatically for heavy residential users Any use over 25000 gallons a month will be assessed a surcharge of $25 per 1000 gallons Mike Hamman city water services director said the top 5 percent of water users those who used 25000 gallons or more per month consumed 20 percent of the water Last June he said the top 30 individual residential customers consumed more than 114000 gallons per month each water bills will explain the situation and inform customers whether Please see WATER Page A-3 Water-use levels and surcharges All city water users must cut consumption by at least 25 percent measured against water bill for same month of previous year Households that do not exceed 6000 gallons a month are not affected Base amount for businesses vanes by meter size Water use above base amount will be subject to surcharge of $10 per 1000 gallons above what customer used dunng same month of previous year Residential customers using between 12500 gallons and 25000 gallons per month will pay a $15 surcharge for each 1000 gallons of use above 12500 gallons Santa Fe residents face stiff penalties if they fail to reduce their water consumption by 25 percent below last levels under an emergency ordinance the City Council approved Wednesday In addition to reducing overall water Please see RESTRICTIONS Page A3 Navajo weaver shares secrets of the loom Prime minister candidates are neck and neck Israeli exit poll results Israelis split their votes but Netanyahu expected to keep slight lead over Peres Exit poll results Wednesday of first vote for prime minister and separate ballot for the Knesset 3 The Associated Press Shimon Peres Incumbent Benjamin Netanyahu WWMWAMXWjJLwwfcLrt UNXmui Ill III! ij Party Seats won Labor 35 Likud 31 National Religious 9 Shas 9 Israel With Immigration 7 Third Way 4 SOURCES AP Los Angeles times Knight-Ridder Tribune TEL AVIV Israel As Israel held its breath the election battle Thursday over the leadership and the course of Mideast peacemaking persisted until the final votes could be counted Hard-line challenger Benjamin Netanyahu held a narrow lead over Prime Minister Shimon Peres as results from voting were counted through the night With 998 percent of the regular ballot boxes counted Netanyahu was ahead with 503 percent to 496 percent Israel media reported Most Israeli commentators said Netanyahu was the likely winner The final results will not be known until at least Friday and possibly as late as Sunday when more than 100000 absentee ballots of soldiers diplomats merchant seaman prisoners and hospital patients are counted For a come-from-behind victory Peres would need overwhelming support among the soldiers who traditionally have leaned to the right Media reports said the percentages translated into a lead of between 10000 and 16000 votes for Netanyahu in an electorate of 39 million Voter turnout was 79 percent about average for an Israeli election A victory for Netanyahu a Please see ISRAEL Page A2 After nationwide search college finds new leader from Albuquerque After ages of secrecy and male control of art a Navajo woman shares thread of old passion with Pueblo Indians By AARON BACA The New Mexican By BETTY BELLARD The New Mexican 1985 to 1989 going to be my second Maestas said Wednesday Maestas said he has accepted a two-year contract from the board of regents that will pay $90000 The board will vote on hiring Maestas when it meets in a special meeting at 9 am today The regents launched a national search earlier this year after former Northern president Connie A Valdez resigned in March for family reasons Interim President Felicia Casados has Jeen at the helm of the school since early April Please see MAESTAS Page A-2 An award-winning Navajo weaver and her Pueblo Indian students are crossing tribal and gender lines to revive textile arts among American Indian peoples breaking one longstanding tradition each tribe shielding its art practices from other native groups to ensure the survival of another are a lot of people who really like to share their weaver Joyce Begay-Foss explained recently I think if we teach each other different art forms going Please see WEAVERS Page A-2 After considering candidates from New York to Colorado Northern New Mexico Community College regents will hire a new president from their own backyard The board is scheduled today to name Sigfredo Maestas executive vice president of the Albuquerque Technical Vocational Institute as president of the school which has campuses in Espafiola and El Rito Before working at Albu-querque-TVI Maestas 56 was president of Northern New Mex- ico Community College from Kathy Howkuml right and her sister Loralne Hayes of Namb6 Pueblo prepare a loom for their first weaving Sperm-making cells can be transplanted between species TheVUbsfs Oldest Newspaper The Associated Press Partly cloudy breezy High 83 low 50 Weather Page B-2 Brinster and colleagues reported their findings on freezing in the June issue of the journal Nature Medicine They froze sperm-making cells from mice for up to 156 days thawed them implanted them in other mice and found that the cells produced sperm In a second study published in issue of the journal Nature Brinster and colleagues reported that when they trans Please see SPERM Page A 3 from which all sperm originate Freezing stem cells could confer a sort of biological immortality because they embody the essence of the Brinster said "If you freeze the stem cell really frozen the said Brinster a researcher at the University of School of Veterinary Medicine "That individual the fast race horse the high-producing bovine in the freezer forever" With further improvement the techniques also could be a boon to conservation of endangered animals livestock breedmg and studies of human genetic diseases said researcher Ralph Brinster Sperm from human males and some animals already is routinely frozen for later use But those samples capture only a tiny fraction of the genetic combinations a male can produce The latest research involves what are known as stem cells NEW YORK Scientists have successfully transplanted sperm-making cells between species raising the possibility someday of using animals to produce sperm for infertile men They also have found that the sperm-making cells can be frozen for a long time which one day could enable men made sterile by chemotherapy to regain their fertility Four sections 28 pages 147th year Issue No 151 Lata paper: 984-0363 Classified ade: 982-4451 On the World Wide Web 4httpVwwwlnterart netzla connection 0 The New Mexican Is Vj prlntod on recycled paper.