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gCri Critics question governor's farm plan. 1C State champions Armour wins its 5th consecutive B' title Yankton repeats as 'AA' champions 1B Divided families cope with holidays. 1D 4 Parties replacing Christmas bonusesE LX1 Sioux Falls, South Dakota A Gannett newspaper Dec. 13, 1987 1987 Argus Leader $1 Tha Sunday Persian Gulf rescue f. if t.

I 1 I it '1 I il A after an Iranian frigate attacked it Saturday in the Persian Gulf, The USS Chandler is in the background. Navy save 40 on fiery tanker The Cypnot tanker Pivot burns TV crew, MANAMA, Bahrain (AP) A U.S. Navy warship and a TV helicopter rescued 40 people Saturday from a blazing supertanker hit by an Iranian frigate in the southern Persian Gulf. The chartered helicopter with a team from the CBS television network and smaller helicopters from the destroyer USS Chandler lifted the crew from the Cypriot oil tanker Pivot. "They were very, very frightened," said CBS correspondent Allen Pizzey, describing how the crew huddled in the bow of the tanker as the TV helicopter landed six times on the deck.

Chillier today Mostly cloudy today. Highs around 29. North to northwest winds 10 to 20 miles an hour. Mostly cloudy tonight. Lows 13.

Cloudy Monday with a 20 percent chance of light snow. Highs 20s. Weather. 2A Briefly Waldheim says he knew of reprisals CHICAGO (AP) Austrian President Kurt Waldheim, accused of participating in brutal Nazi reprisals against Yugoslavian partisans during World War II, said in a newspaper interview that he knew about the reprisals but denied he was involved in carrying them out. "Orders to the former United Nations secretary general told the Chicago Tribune.

"They came from the highest war office in Berlin. "That was well-known by everyone. Only I was not involved in it," he said in the interview Friday. Waldheim's comments, published today in the Tribune, come as an international commission of military historians is studying his war record. Soviet rocket body lights Midwest skies By The Associated Press A rocket body burned up as it entered the Earth's atmosphere Saturday night, putting on a spectacular light show over a broad area of the West and Midwest, officials said.

The dying rocket lit up the skies over Fort Worth, Texas, about 6:45 p.m. CST and left a fiery trail in its wake as it headed north, said Maj. Alex Mondragon of the U.S. Space Command in Colorado Springs, Colo. People from Texas to Montana called police, saying they saw vividly colored streaks of blue, red and other hues.

"It looked like a helicopter, with red and green lights," said Paul Kellenbarger of Pea Ridge, Ark. "And it looked like it had a trail behind it. I've never seen anything like it. It was spectacular, beautiful colors." The display was caused by a Soviet rocket body used in the launch of Raduga 21 satellite Dec. 10 and tracked by the space command since then, Mondragon said.

Police warn public about escaped killer WORCESTER, Mass. (AP) A former New Hampshire state trooper serving life sentences for the murders of a police officer and an Army captain slipped away from a prison work detail, setting off a nationwide hunt, i Authorities said Armand R. Therrien apparently was unarmed when he escaped Friday, but warned he could have obtained a weapon since. They, described him as extremely dangerous. Therrien, 51, was serving two consecutive life terms at the Massachusetts Correctional Institution in Lancaster.

He was reported missing about 4 p.m. Friday while on a work detail at Worcester State Hospital. State police said Saturday a nationwide alert was issued for him. Index 104 pages Movies 8-10O Obituaries 4C Business Sec Opinion 8-9A Channels Lite Sec. Classified Sec Soux Empire Sec.C Comes Sports Sec.

Arm Landers 5D Weatner 2A Senate OKs $606 billion spending bill WASHINGTON (AP) Senate approval Saturday of a record $606 billion catchall spending bill finally moves this year's legislative budget struggles into the last round. The money package, which was passed by the Senate 72-21, has now been approved in different versions by both the House and Senate. It covers virtually all the government's spending priorities for fiscal 1988. In combination with a tax and entitlement bill that's moving in tandem, it would enact the first year of the two-year, $76 billion deficit-reduction agreement between President Reagan and congressional leaders. The remaining task is to find compromises between the two chambers and the White House.

House-Senate conferences hope to begin and finish their work this week. With considerable lobbying from White House officials all during the marathon debate that began Friday morning and ended at nearly 3 a.m. Saturday, the Senate added to its version of the spending bill the $9 million in new Contra aid plus an allowance for transportation expenses to get it to Nicaragua. The $9 million would pay only for food, clothing, shelter and medicine for two months for the rebels, and an estimated $6 million more would be spent to deliver the supplies. If a cease-fire takes place next month, as scheduled, the remaining money would be given to non-government humanitarian agencies to distribute instead of the Central Intelligence Agency.

The House has refused to provide the rebels with any more aid but Reagan has threatened to veto the bill without it. The White House, which was seeking an allowance several times larger than what the Senate approved, took part In the drafting the language adopted early Saturday. Unless negotiators from the two chambers wrap things up by the holidays, the $23 billion in automatic spending cuts of the Gramm-Rudman law will begin to take full effect. 'When I met with General Sec retary Gorbachev in Geneva in 1985 and in Reykjavik, Iceland, last year, he exerted every bit of pressure he could to try to get us to give up SDI," Reagan told his audience. He added, "Building a defense against nuclear weapons is a moral as well as strategic imperative, and we will never give it up." concerns holidays grow.

The combat intensifies during the holiday season, retailers say. "It's a time when people are obviously in need of gifts and unfortunately, if they can't afford it, they may decide to pick that up," said John Mitchell, operations manager at Sears Roebuck and Co. in Sioux Falls. The store uses a combination of shoplifting defenses, including television monitors, Mitchell said. When a shoplifter is observed, a videotape can be made that may be used in court.

A shoplifter caught recently at Dayton's was a student at "one of the prestigious local colleges," said John Felton, Dayton's loss-prevention manager. "She came in and absolutely loaded up a bag and some plastic bags she ShopliftingSee 2A 7-year-old war. The CBS helicopter ferried 29 people in all from the Pivot to the Chandler, including crewmen and the pregnant wife of a Greek officer. The Chandler's two smaller Lamps 1 maritime surveillance helicopters rescued the other 11 people. They could take only three people each per trip.

The bow was clear of the fire that raged in most of the, vessel, said Associated Press photographer Greg English, who watched from another helicopter. The Iranians were believed to Gulf rescue See 2A Reagan: Star Wars disputes threaten next treaty WASHINGTON (AP) President Reagan said Saturday that persistent Soviet efforts to restrict testing of the Star Wars missile defense program still threaten prospects for reductions in intercontinental nuclear missiles. The president, in his weekly radio address from Camp David, seemed to back off the statement he made in a question- AH photo future generations." He said that during his three days of summit talks with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, "We made progress toward 50 percent reductions in strategic nuclear arsenals." "This could be another historic achievement, provided the Soviets don't try to hold it hostage to restrictions on SDI," he said. Shoplifting rise during By MIKE SNIDER Argus Leader Siat! A young woman, who looks as if she could be a college student, picks up a wool sweater. Without looking, she unfolds and refolds the sweater.

She returns it to the shelf and walks on. The woman, who has a bachelor's degree in criminal justice, is not in this upscale department store to buy a sweater. She is looking for shoplifters. Elsewhere in the store, a man pretends to scan a rack of Calvin Klein jeans. He is watching a woman with a shopping bag whose eyes like his are not on what is in front of her.

These two are soldiers in one store's war against shoplifters. The problem increases as the Sioux Falls population and the number of retail businesses IRAN IRAchy, 7 Cypriot tanker attacked kuwaItV it Persian A SAUDI J3 arabia A qman POO miles "4. 1 "When we first landed, they rushed the helicopter. We had to unload (some of) them." No one was hurt in the attack or in the fire, which was brought under control after five hours. The Chandler is part of the 11-unit Middle East Force that protects U.S.-flagged commercial navigation in the gulf.

It was the first time a U.S. warship on patrol in the gulf undertook a major rescue mission. It was also the first time journalists were involved in a rescue mission in the tanker war. Iran and Iraq both have regularly attacked foreign ships in their and-answer session Friday that the question of Star Wars testing had been resolved. During the session, Reagan was asked whether his understanding with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev resolved or postponed the issue of Star Wars the informal name for Strategic Defense Initiative as an obstacle to a missile treaty.

He responded, "It resolves Yankton College. The prison would house short-term, non-violent prisoners. On Tuesday, citizens will vote whether Yankton should negotiate to buy the college. A yes vote would give the city commission permission to negotiate for purchase of the campus. In September, the Justice Department's Bureau of Prisons announced that it was interested in buying the 33-acre campus, located in the center of this Missouri River city of 12,000 people.

If approved the prison would employ 125 people with an annual budget of $6 million. Prisoners could be relocated to Yankton early next year. The school would be renovated slightly but its appearance would remain the same. "It would meet all our goals," says Don Peterson, Yankton College's acting president. "We could College-to-prison proposal divides YanEcton's residents Soviet tactics.

7A it. I don't think there is any impediment there at all." But in his radio speech, Reagan said, "The Soviets have persisted in efforts to limit our testing in this vital area. But providing a strategic defense is too important to restrict the promise it holds for pay back our creditors 100 cents on the dollar. It would ensure that the historical buildings on campus would be preserved and it would be a real economic boost to Yankton. Most people here don't see how we can go wrong with this." Not everyone in Yankton feels that way.

Members of a group called Citizens for a Better Alternative want the city to buy the campus and hold onto it until a more acceptable use is found. Ads they've run in the Wall Street Journal and New York Times in recent weeks describing the property have led to six inquiries from well-financed prospects, says Bernie Hunhoff, a magazine publisher. "You can't wrap up a multimillion-dollar deal in a few days," Hunhoff said. "We need more CollegeSee 2A By JAY P. WAGNER Argus Leader Staff YANKTON When Yankton College held its first graduation ceremony here 99 years ago, president Joseph Ward predicted the school would serve society for a thousand years.

Ward, a Congregational minister from New England, arrived in Yankton in 1875 and founded the school with $11,000. His goal was to train students who were both intelligent and conscientious. Three years ago, owing $1.5 million to 1,000 creditors, college trustees voted to close the school and file for bankruptcy. Ward's dream of an institution dedicated toward the betterment of society was dead. Now some residents say a proposal to convert the empty campus to a minimum-security federal prison would be a positive use for.