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Gorb ochev eaqan and resolve to seek treaty PALM SPRINGS ralif lkP President Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev greeted the new year today by exchanging pledges to seek an intercontinental I Ii3 4l II V'l ff -Ml (: vKx a I 'i- IIP 1 ti-i I -i 4 -gg 1 if limit tt imiiMlirmiirwiiimiiBiMJiiiiiiiiiwiri TiinBTiWriiVTitiiM liiMIMIllllllMlliwniM missile treaty during the first six months of 1988. The two world leaders, who signed an intermediate-range missile accord in Washington in December and plan to meet again in Moscow before midyear, voiced their hopes in an exchange of televised messages to each other's peoples. Reagan used the recorded address to highlight some points of difference between the two superpowers. He pressed for a space-based missile defense and called for steps to foster human rights and settle regional wars.

Gorbachev said there are "profound changes" going on in the Soviet Union. He stressed the value of human life anywhere in the world and said the Soviets are "ready for interaction" in dealing with world trouble spots. Before turning to any of these issues, however, both leaders expressed their hopes for an agreement on long-range nuclear weapons. "Perhaps we can have a treaty ready to sign by our meeting in spring," Reagan said. "The world prays that we will.

We on the American side are determined that we will." Gorbachev, for his part, said, "We are ready to continue fruitfully the negotiations on reducing strategic arms with a view to signing a treaty to that effect, even in the first half of this year." It was the second time Reagan and Gorbachev had exchanged televised messages on New Year's Day. They began the practice in 1986 after their first meeting in Geneva, but skipped 1987 after their summit in Reyjkavik, Iceland, collapsed over Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative the anti-missile plan known informally as Star Wars. Continued on page 12 i r- At Starting with a bang HAMBURG, WEST GERMANY Fireworks the coming of 1988. About 10.000 people came to light up the sky over St. Michaelis and the River the banks of the Elbe to celebrate the new year.

Elbe Thursday night as West Germans welcome AP Laserphoto. CITY EDITION J3 Muncie, Ind. Friday, January 1, 1988 THE MUNCIE A look back at 1 987 Pages 6 and 1 0 mm i 0 T11, irill lMIl MIII Bllll)l r1 ,,1,1, LiiiiMipw ij, in.iwwaip.i...jmkwawiiijmwJ A recop of 1 987 's top sports stories Page 14 1988 The Muncie Evening Press 'H'Aere toe Spirit of tie Lord Is, There is Liberty" II Cor. 3:17 (25 Parades, panofemonun greef 9SS 1 Tonight clear and very cold. Low around 5.

Northwest wind 5 mph. Saturday mostly sunny and cold. High around 25. Sunday mostly sunny. Not as cold.

High around 30. By MICHAEL HIRSH Associated Ptess wnler Millions of New Year's revelers welcomed 1988 with parties, parades, hooting horns and gunfire today, despite chilly weather that failed to put a damper on celebrations. In New York City's Times Square, an estimated 350,000 people raucously counted down the final seconds of the old year as a glowing ball in the shape of a "Big Apple" descended a flagpole to begin the new year. "It's one day when you can see all the people come together. It's the climax of the whole Christmas season," said Patricia Chess of Rochester, while around her horns and noisemakers blared above the roar of the throng.

Crowds estimated at more than 500,000 jammed the streets around Boston Common for the city's 12th annual First Night celebration, highlighted by a parade, outdoor art events, performances and a 15-minute burst of midnight fireworks. Despite Chicago's 14-degree weather, crowds spilled out of taverns and bars along Rush and Division streets early today, bringing traffic to a standstill. In Los Angeles, police said hundreds of complaints about revelers' random gunfire began coming in about sundown, despite authorities' pleas to refrain from the dangerous and increasingly common way to celebrate the holiday. Police Sgt. John Emerson said some callers reported windows being shot out and pets wounded by stray bullets, but officers could not respond to all the reports.

"We simply don't have that many people," he said. In Pasadena, thousands of people braved overnight lows in the 30s with lawn chairs, sleeping bags, food and champagne to stake out sidewalk spots for the 99th edition of the nationally televised 5.5-mile Rose Parade today. "This is where it's at on New Year's Eve," declared 17-year-old Spencer Harris of San Marino. "You party until 4 a.m., hit your sleeping bag and wake up when the parade starts." Forecasts of a cold wave across much of the country pleased officials, who expected smaller crowds and fewer arrests as a result. "When the weather is warmer, people are more apt to climb out of their sleeping bags, throw things" and run amok," said Kristin Mabry, spokeswoman for the Tournament of Roses Association.

Pasadena police said they arrested two dozen people for alcohol-related offenses by Thursday night. New York City police reported at least 15 arrests around Times. Square and Boston police Continued on page 12 H-h-happy N-n-n-new Year, -folks Barometer 30.52 Rain (22 hrs. to 10 a.m.) .01 in. Hel.

humidity 6 a.m 69 Rel. humidity 10 a.m. 69 Wind dir w-northwest Wind velocity 15 mph Visibility 2 miles Sunrise 8:03 a.m. Sunset 5:27 p.m. Maximum, 37; Temperatures recorded in downtown Muncie during pre ceding 22 hours: Noon 37 2 p.m.

Midnight 24 2 a.m 20 4 a.m. 17 6 a.m.. 15 8 a.m 12 37 .32 29 26 4 p.m. 6 p.m. 8 p.m.

10 p.m. 25 10 a.m... 11 Minimum, 11 Baby found in bag is new year's first miracle County sheriff's detective. Indeed, the staff at Sequoia Hospital, smitten and dewy-eyed, gave their chestnut-haired charge the nickname "Miraculous Mary." Gibbons, 30, was doing a routine evening check of an area along Canada Road that has a reputation as a teen-age party hangout. He stopped his patrol car at Canada and Edgewood roads, in a deserted driveway flanked by the stone wall.

A crumpled grocery sack caught his eye he thought it might be a bag of beer. "I looked in the bag and heard her cry," Gibbons said Thursday while visiting the infant at the hospital. "I opened it up and saw the baby's head. "I immediately picked her up and put her in the car. I wrapped her in my duty coat and turned on the heat to keep her warm, then brought her to the hospital." A father himself, Gibbons said he didn't feel like a hero: "It's more the fact of being in the right place at the right time, and good luck for her." Good luck, to be sure.

The baby apparently was born just hours before she was abandoned. By the time she reached the hospital at 7 p.m., her temperature had dropped to 90 degrees and her skin was cold to the touch, said the hospital's nursery coordinator, Sheryl Greenspan. Doctors raised her temperature by putting her under a warmer. Thursday afternoon, the 16Vi-inch, 6'2 -pound baby was in good condition, smiling, clenching her fists Continued on page 12 Muncie man wins state chess title for fourth time in six years 2 million new Americans due in '88 WASHINGTON (AP) There are 2.2 million more Americans around to greet the New Year than there were a year ago, the Census Bureau estimates. The bureau said the population of the United States as 1988 began increased to an estimated 244,427,098, a gain of 7.9 percent since the last census was taken in 1980, when 226.5 million people were counted.

The new projection was based on an estimated 3.8 million births in 1987, 2.1 million deaths and net migration of 547,000. The population is expected to grow by another 2.2 million this year, far below the record increase of 3.1 million recorded during the baby boom year of 1956. Births are projected to be slightly higher in 1988, while deaths are expected to be at about the same level as 1987. The population increased 0.9 percent in both 1986 and 1987, down slightly from 1.0 percent growth recorded in each year from 1981 to 1985. By contrast, the annual rate of increase from 1947 to 1961, the peak years of the baby boom, ranged from 1.6 percent to 1.9 percent.

Will Robertson accept U.S. funds? WASHINGTON (AP) The U.S. Treasury is going to send Pat Robertson $4.5 million in campaign matching funds on Monday after all, but the Republican presidential candidate still isn't sure he will keep the money. Robertson says his reluctance is based on concern about the federal deficit, but the question he raised earlier with the Federal Election Commission concerned the spending limits that accompany the matching money. The Robertson campaign asked the commission this week whether he would be bound by the spending limits tied to the matching funds if he accepts them but does not use them.

However, a statement issued by the Robertson campaign on Thursday emphasized the deficit instead. It said Robertson's "effort to privately fund his campaign has been an effort to reduce the current deficit." 11 killed in revelry in Philippines MANILA, Philippines (AP) At least 11 people died and 713 others were injured as Manila exploded like a war zone in frenzied revelry to ring in the new year, police and hospital authorities said today. Doctors said there was a drop in casualties compared to last year when 13 died and 1,400 oihers were injured. But by noon today, hospitals were still admitting casualties from New Year's Eve celebrations. A check with 23 hospitals in the capital showed that four people had been hit by stray bullets and died.

County still waiting for first baby Delaware County still was waiting for the arrival of its firstborn of 1988 at midmorning today. A Ball Memorial Hospital spokesman said there had been no births since midnight and there were "no immediate prospects." 3 By JANET WELLS Knigbt-Ridder Newspapers WOODSEDE, Calif. When baby Jane Doe grows up, her nickname might be "Lady Luck." If not for Stephen Gibbons, a curious and sharp-eyed Highway Patrol officer who found her Wednesday behind a 6-foot-high stone wall near Woodside, the baby would have lasted maybe another hour in the 42-degree night. "She's either the last miracle of 1987 or the first of 1988," said Michael Dirickson, a San Mateo TB posts first substantial increase in three decades ATLANTA (AP) Federal health researchers said AIDS is partly to blame for the first substantial yearly increase in tuberculosis in the United States in more than three decades of recordkeeping. The United States recorded cases of tuberculosis in 1986, up 2.6 percent from the 22,201 cases of the lung disease in 1985, the national Centers for Disease Control said Thursday in its weekly report.

The increase is the first "substantial" increase in tuberculosis among Americans reported since the nation's TB reporting system was implemented in 1953, the CDC said. The only previous increases came in 1963 and 75, when changes in reporting criteria brought more cases into the totals, and in 1980, when large numbers of TB-infected refugees arrived in this country from Kampuchea, Laos and Vietnam. Previous reports from earlier data pointed to the increase, and linked it to the spread of AIDS. AIDS infections, when acquired by patients with dormant TB infections, "seem to allow the progression" to actual cases of tuberculosis, the CDC said. By TIM CLELAND Evening Press reporter The biggest chess victory for James A.

Mills might have come when he was about 13 years old. That's when he defeated his father for the first time. "When I beat him for the first time, I got to play in a tournament. He entered me in a local tourney," Mills said. Now age 29, Mills, of 2208 N.

Milton, has played tournament chess ever since. Last weekend, he won the Indiana state chess championship for the fourth time in the past six years. The state tournament attracted about 80 top players to the Indianapolis Airport Hilton. Mills was the only Indiana player to earn a perfect score over the two-day competition. He also won the state title in 1982, 1983 and 1985.

He shared the overall title this year with a player from Tennessee, who beat him in the final game. That competitor had already lost one game. Each took home $250. Mills, a clerk at the Muncie Post Office on Memorial Drive, carries a United States Chess Federation rating of 2,300 points. Only one Hoosier, six-time state champion Dennis Gogel of New Albany, boasts a higher rating "I like chess because there is no luck involved," Mills said.

"If you lose, it's your fault. If you win, it's your skill that won." Mills competes throughout the year in tournaments in Indiana and neighboring states, playing about one out of every three weekends. "I usually limit the distance I'll go for a tournament to about a three-hour drive from Muncie," Mills said. "And the tournament also has to Continued on page 12 Classified 19-23 Obituaries 7 Comics, puzzle 18 Sports 13-15 Dear Abby 11 Theaters Doonesbury 12 TV 17 Inside today's Press STATE CHAMPION James A. Mills, 2208 N.

Milton, shows the cup he received for winning the 1987 Indiana chess championship last weekend. Mills has won the state title four of the past six years. Evening Press photo. Editorials 4 Weather Lifestyle 11.