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A The onolulu mm TOT Tentative pact readied on transit fioiidiog plan It's Le i Day! a careful deliberation, the Legislature is poised to act upon a historic mass transit measure. Positive action now will permit city government to move forward with its plans for traffic relief. "In addition several important measures, including the bill which dedicates revenues from the transient accommodations tax to the counties and the bill which compensates individuals for claims against the state, have been recommitted for technical reasons," Waihee said, "with two additional days, these measures can be enacted by the Legislature." Senate-House conferees struck a See Legislature, Page A4 transit funding pact was the elimination of the tax relief package to help provide the $53 million a year for 17 years that could be required to pay for the rail system under the House proposal. The deal was struck shortly before the Legislature was scheduled to end at midnight last night. Gov.

John Waihee ordered a 48-hour extension of the 1990 session, allowing lawmakers to begin a new floor session at 12:01 this morning. The Senate almost immediately yanked the tax reform package off the floor and sent it back to committee. Waihee said he called for overtime for state lawmakers because "after By William Kresnak, Stu Glauberman and Andrew Yamaguchi Advertiser Capitol Bureau In a deadline concessiori, state senators last night agreed with a state House proposal to kill Gov. John Waihee's $40 million income tax relief package as part of a plan to fund Honolulu's $1 billion rapid transit system. The senators also tentatively agreed to go along with a House-proposed transit funding package that calls for no excise tax increase this year.

The condition on reaching the rapid V. The Advertiser looks at lei fads and fashions PAGE D1 Aloha! HE WORLD Thousands jeer Soviet officials May Day crowds boo President Mikhail Gorbachev and other officials on Red Square Lava river 4 feet deep near homes Historic Painted Church readied for move to safety By Kevin Dayton Advertiser Staff Writer KALAPANA, Hawaii Steaming lava rose in a 4-foot-high wall down the middle of the Kalapana Gardens subdivision yesterday and was expected to, break out in quick streams that could claim more homes today. Harry Kim, Hawaii County Civil Defense administrator, said only, small surface flows occurred during most of yesterday. One finger of lava ignited a Pililani Street home owned by John Duff shortly before 10:30 a.m., and the building page Air HAWAII Housing wars City Council trims funding for four Fasi housing proposals from budget rage mo Two killed in crash Two oeoDle are dead and one critically hurt after one-car crash near Mililani Wjt. Page AS LIVING was quickly engulfed in flames.

That finger of lava' reached a home belonging to Melvin Ah Sing on Nani Street and set it afire about 8:30 p.m. That brought to 121 the number of homes destroyed by lava from Painted Church has colorful history Page A5 Lava poses double threat for members of Kalapana Mauna Kea Congregational Church ohana Page A5 True commitment An actor who really gets into his role 42 pounds worth Jx' Alb 1 rage do A V- SPORTS Two classics? 0 Chaminade University and Rolfing Productions entangled in a hitter seDaration after co-producing the Maui Classic the Kilauea volcano eruption that began in January 1983. About four dozen Kalapana Gardens homes have been lost to the molten rock in recent weeks. At the Star of the Sea Catholic Church -known for its hand-painted murals volunteers removed statues, brass candlesticks and other valuables to keep them from breaking if the church must be moved away from the lava. Federal Emergency Management Agency inspectors are scheduled to meet with state and county authorities this morning, and with Kim and others at Kalapana this afternoon, Kim said.

Red Cross officials said they expected to move their operations from the Harry K. Brown Park to Pahoa today. The disaster relief service center staffed by 25 Red Cross volunteers at the park has been providing about 70 meals a day to victims of the devastation. A Red Cross spokesman said the 57 evacuees who are living in the park will be offered shelter at the Pahoa Community Center. But not all of the people staying in the sea- college basketball tournament tne past three years, plan to hold rival events at seoarate sites on Maui during the Thanksgiving weekend rage i MONEY 1 Merger brakes U.S.

Supreme Court decides to allow States to De major fjiaycio rfoririinn whether to limit mercers Advertiser photo by Bruce Asato that might adversely affect A man who identified himself as "just a volunteer" loads a statue of Christ into a car outside Star of the Sea Catholic Church in Kalapana yesterday as lava advances toward the historic structure. See Kilauea, Page A5 consumers page ah WEATHER Shiite kidnappers release second American hostage TONIGHT TODAY Mostly sunny; high in upper 80s; trade winds 1 0-20 mph. Fair tonight; lower 70s Isle, Mainland details, Page A2 Reed's release, six Americans and nine other Westerners remain hostages, most of them thought to be held by factions of the Iranian-backed Hezbollah movement. Reed, looking thin and pale, said after arriving here that he felt "rather odd" without the blindfold he was forced to wear 24 hours a day for much of his ZVz years as a hostage. He said he felt basically well, having received "adequate food and fresh fruit" in captivity as well as clean clothes and the opportunity to bathe and shower "fairly By Caryle Murphy Washington Post Service DAMASCUS, Syria Frank Herbert Reed was released yesterday by Shiite Moslem captors after 44 months as a hostage in Lebanon, the second American freed as part of an apparent Syrian-Iranian initiative to improve ties with the United States.

The 57-year-old Massachusetts native was handed over to U.S. Ambassador Edward Djerejian at Syria's Foreign Ministry in the same manner that American educator Robert Polhill was released April 22 after being held 39 months. The authoritative, English-language Tehran Times, in an editorial in today's edition, warned, however, that "now the ball is in the court of the U.S. and Western countries." It said that unless there is "an appropriate response" such as pressure on Israel to release its Arab prisoners, "there is no chance for the continuation of Iranian mediation" on the hostage issue. Reed and Polhill are the first Americans released from captivity since three others were let go in the fall of 1986 as part of the clandestine Iran-Contra arms-for-hostages deal between Washington and Tehran.

With THE INDEX 3 sections, 44 pages Ann Landers 64 Asia-Pacific news A17 Classified ads C6-15 Comics, crossword, bridge C16 Editorials til Entertainment B4-8 Global news A17 Horoscope 1 Letters to the editor A15 Living section B1-7 Money section A10-13 Obituaries C4 People column B2 Sports section C1-4 TV schedule, highlights B4 Wayne Harada B5 1 regularly." "Our problem was the passage of endless time. We had no information," he said. "In fact, there were times when I really didn't even know what month it was." While his captors offered him the possibility of watching non-news programs on television, Reed said he refused "because I didn't want to be entertained when I'd lost my freedom." Reed, who was director of a private school in Beirut before being kidnapped on Sept. 9, 1986, also told Syrian television in an interview yesterday that during his captivity he was never told why he was seized. "The bot- See Hostage, Page A4 AP phOtO Frank Reed flashes victory signs as he arrives at Rhein-Main Air Base early this morning in Frankfurt, West Germany.

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