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ZZ TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1992 The Alontgpn'Achatiser PAGE 3A ush family bids farewell Baha'is remember missing members to matriarch at funeral tiW! T. 7. a ti tl tl ti si ij 7 i. 7 rv attached to a 150-foot rope, said Donna Cuttone, ranger at the Hawaii Volcanoes National Park. The cameraman, who was conscious, was en route to Hilo Hospital, Ms.

Cuttone said. Mr. Benson appeared to be in good condition, as he stood and waved when a helicopter flew over the Pu'u O'o vent earlier Monday, said Richard Rasp, a spokesman for Hawaii Volcanoes National Park. Martin Marietta to buy GE aerospace division WASHINGTON Martin Marietta Corp. said Monday that it will purchase General Electric aerospace business for more than $3 billion to create the world's largest aerospace electronics company.

"The defense budget is clearly declining, and the industry must consolidate," said Norman R. Augustine, Martin Marietta's chief executive and chairman. "The companies that do consolidate early will be the survivors. "There is room for strong survivors," Mr. Augustine said.

"There is no room for weak companies." But after the announcement, Standard Poors placed Martin Marietta's single A-plus senior debt and A-l commercial paper on CreditWatch citing "negative" implications of the deal. The rating firm said the debt-financed acquisition would materially increase financial risk in $470 million of Martin Marietta debt, but that its rating was unlikely to fall more than one category. AAA lifts travel warning on Florida interstate JACKSONVILLE, Fla. The American Automobile Association on Monday lifted its warning to avoid Interstate 295, citing a crackdown that has led to 20 arrests and apparently ended a spate of random sniper attacks on drivers. The Florida National Guard, Highway Patrol and other law-enforcement agencies said they I.L.

Strauss Montgomery I Associated Press Randy Ingles removes clothes from his home in Channelview, Texas, on Monday after it was leveled when a tornado hit the Sterling Green subdivision on Saturday CCiSSer torroadloes cut ruinous swatih From Wire Reports GREENWICH, Conn. President Bush and more than 100 relatives and friends bade farewell Monday to Dorothy Walker Bush, the 91-year-old matriarch of the Bush family. Mrs. Bush died Thursday after a stroke. The president, his three brothers and sister, their children and spouses gathered at Christ Church for a 45-minute service presided over by the former top bishop of the Episcopal Church in the United States, the Rev.

John Allin. The oldest and youngest of the president's brothers, Prescott and William, spoke during the service, but the president did not, one woman said as she left the church. Afterwards, church bells pealed, and the president accepted condolences outside the church while a hearse took his mother's remains off for cremation. 'Doctor Death' present at sixth assisted suicide SOUTHFIELD, Mich. Dr.

Jack Kevorkian attended the suicide of a cancer patient on Monday. It was his sixth assisted suicide. Catherine A. Andreyev, 46, of Coraopolis, turned on a device that allowed her to inhale carbon monoxide gas through a mask, police said. Kevorkian "I consider this a well-tested, well-controlled, well-thought out medical procedure," Dr.

Kevorkian said. "The aim of suicide is to end a life," he said. "The aim of this is to terminate unbearable suffering. I've made progress because for one more human being, suffering is ended." Dr. Kevorkian was charged with murder after the first three deaths, but each time the cases were dismissed because Michigan has no law against assisted suicide.

His Michigan medical license has been suspended, but he remains licensed in California. Ms: Andreyev had suffered from cancer for six years, said Dr. Kevorkian's attorney Michael Schwartz. Second cameraman pulled from volcanic crater VOLCANO, Hawaii A movie cameraman was pulled from a volcano crater Monday, two days after his helicopter crashed and trapped him in sweltering volcanic fumes, authorities said. He was pulled to safety and appeared to be in good condition, authorities said.

Efforts to rescue Michael Benson from inside Kilauea Volcano crater had been delayed by heavy smoke, rainy weather and fog, authorities said. A companion had crawled to safety Sunday. A break in the weather Monday allowed a helicopter to lower into the crater and drop a basket $Q79 not 0 Short Wctumrk.i Sun 1 pm-5 ptn By RICHARD PYLE Associated Press Writer NEW YORK Baha'i faith fol-lowers gathered Monday for the group's first convention in 30 years and remembered hundreds of fellow members killed or missing in Iran. The meeting coincided with the release of a United Nations report stating that religious persecution of Baha'is, which surged with the overthrow of the Shah of Iran, persists. The Baha'i World Congress marks the 100th anniversary of the death of the group's Iranian-born prophet-founder, Baha U'llah.

Followers believe in the unity of mankind under one God, recognizing the validity of all religions. President Bush sent a message of support. The United States has "repeatedly expressed the hope that Baha'is in Iran will be permitted to practice their religion, as guaranteed by the Universal Declaration on Human Rights," President Bush said. About 30,000 Baha'i members opened the four-day convention with speeches, music and large floral bouquets set up in honor of Iranian repression victims. Baha'i claims 5 million followers of 2,100 separate ethnic, racial or tribal origins in about 200 countries.

It espouses unified worship free of prejudice and conflict based on race, sex, culture or other differences. It recognizes the legitimacy of major religions and their prophets, including Jesus Christ, Mohammed and Buddha, but Baha'is contend that only they have remained free of "sectarian division and schism." The World Congress, the second in Baha'i history the first was in London in 1963 also commemorates New York as the "city of the covenant," so named by the founder's son, Abdul Baha, during a visit here in 1912. In welcoming remarks, Mayor David Dinkins noted that New York is even more diverse than it was then, with 178 different ethnic groups. "Although we are not free of all racial and ethnic problems, New York ranks as one of the most tolerant cities in the world," he said. In the principal keynote address, retired British broadcaster and Baha'i leader David Hoffman said the group faced several "urgent" tasks, including spreading the word and recruiting new members.

"When the traffic cop gives you a ticket, give him a pamphlet," Hoffman said. Historically tolerated but never allowed to flourish in Iran, an estimated 350,000 to 400,000 Baha'i followers there were brutally -suppressed and eventually outlawed after the Ayatollah Ru-hollah Khomeini's Islamic revo-lutionin 1979. About 40,000 were able to flee, but about 200 Baha'is have been executed or remain unaccounted for since the takeover, said Firuz Kazemzadeh, a retired Yale University history professor and the main U.S. spokesman for the Baha'i. Baha'is in Iran are denied legal, rights including marriage and divorce and are barred from colleges and jobs.

Thousands of government employees and teachers have been fired because of their beliefs, he said. These points were repeated in a report to the United Nations General Assembly on Monday. U.N. human rights investigator Reynaldo Galindo Pohl of El Salvador said reports from Iran showed that among victims of religious repression since 1979, 199 Baha'is had been killed, 15 were, "presumed dead," and "arbitrary arrest and detention of Baha'is continues in Iran." 7Vt 7 storm system included 15 in Mississippi; five in Georgia; and one each in Tennessee, Kentucky and South Carolina. The first tornadoes hit Louisiana and Texas on Saturday, damaging about 300 homes in Houston but causing only minor injuries.

An extension of the storm system set off tornadoes in Indiana and Ohio. Alabama also was struck, and a small tornado caused minimal damage at a Smithsonian Institution storage and restoration center at Silver Hill, Md. The National Weather Service said at least 45 tornadoes touched down in the 24 hours up to 6 a.m. CST Monday. Hundreds of people were injured.

Tornadoes caused extensive power outages, snapped trees, blocked roads and delayed the start of school and work for thousands. In Pasquotank County' in the state's northeastern corner, a tornado picked up a school bus and carried it 20 to 25 feet, said Sheriff D.M. Sawyer. Twenty-seven children and the driver were treated at a hospital. All injuries treated by late morning were serious, said hospital spokeswoman Diana Gardner.

m1 would continue their stepped-up patrols of the area through the Thanksgiving weekend. Interstate 295 is a major gateway for tourists driving south to Florida for the holidays. "AAA's decision to lift the alert was made after a review of highway security measures," said Tom Crosby, a spokesman for the national travel club. Authorities have erected barricades along highway overpasses and installed additional lighting and fencing along the roadway. About 150 National Guardsman using helicopters, Humvees and infrared night-sensor equipment have been patrolling.

Measures such as those, and the fact there have been no reports of sniper shootings or rock-throwing attacks along the highway for two weeks, led to the auto club's decision, Mr. Crosby said. Tsongas leaves hospital after tests on abdomen BOSTON Former Democratic presidential hopeful Paul Tsongas was released from a hospital Monday after five days of tests for a lump found in his abdomen. Doctors remained unsure whether the lump was a recurrence of the lymphatic cancer that forced Tsongas to leave the U.S. Senate in 1984, according to officials at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.

Doctors had said the cancer was cured by bone-marrow treatment, and Mr. Tsongas swam laps in a pool for television ads during the presidential primary campaign to show he was healthy. Questions about his health resurfaced after he dropped out of the presidential race in March, blaming a lack of campaign funds. Mr. Tsongas, 51, told his hometown newspaper, The Sun of Lowell, that if the lump turns out to be cancerous, his doctors believe they can treat it.

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"Several mobile homes are just frames laying in the middle of the road. It's pretty extensive," said rescue squad member Ray DeFriess of the damage in Hillsborough, N.C., 30 miles northwest of Raleigh. He estimated 40 to 50 homes were destroyed. And in the wake of that weather system, a new storm built in strength Monday in the Rockies. A blizzard closed schools and highways in Colorado and Wyoming, and avalanches closed canyon roads in Utah, where the Alta ski resort got 45 inches of snow in 24 hours.

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