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Mobile controversy Southside mobile home park OK'd Local, Page C-l Cy Young winner Astros' Mike Scott beats out Dodgers' Fernando Valenzuela Sports, Page B-l New Mexican 35 WEDNESDAY Copyright 1986. The New Mexican Leslie New Mexican Roses for a veteran Fermin Villarreal of Pojoaque holds roses he received in recognition of battles fought in World War I during Veterans Day ceremonies Tuesday at the Santa Fe Plaza. Villarreal, a member of American Legion Post 50, was one of hundreds who attended the ceremony that included bands, a drill team and speeches. For Veterans Day story and photos, see Local, Page C-l. Dam seepage problem unresolved at Cochiti Cattle deaths blamed on water By PETER EICHSTAEDT The New Mexican Staff COCHITI PUEBLO Four months after the government decided to let most of the water out of Cochiti Reservoir, farmers here continue to face severe problems caused by water-logged land below Cochiti Dam.

Fields once covered with rich green alfalfa, corn and squash, trees laden with ripe fruit, and healthy grazing livestock, are no more. Instead, the fields lie under water, fruit trees are dead and barren and now livestock is dying mysteriously. Sam Arquero, Cochiti Pueblo governor, said Tuesday that four cattle, including a prized bull, have died in the last week in the fields that traditionally have been used for fall and winter grazing. Arquero fears the rising water table, which has flooded some of the land and turned 500 acres of once prime farmland into a bog, is the cause of deaths. He said U.S.

Corp of Engineers, which built the dam 10 years ago, has admitted the saturated land is caused by seepage under Cochiti Dam, but has done nothing to help reclaim the land. "We're going through a period of devastation," Arqeruo said. With the traditional farmland of the 700 residents of Cochiti Pueblo now ruined, life-long farmers have been forced to turn to arts and crafts to make a living. Santa New Mexico LIFE at 50 Santa Feans remember golden days as magazine celebrates Living, Page D-l 2, 1986 A Gannett Newspaper Freed Frenchmen tell of others in captivity DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) Two Frenchmen freed by Lebanese kidnappers gave intriguing clues Tuesday about the fate of other Westerners missing in Lebanon, raising hopes an Irishman not heard from in seven months is alive in an underground prison. Marcel Coudari, 54, also indicated he believes one of his countrymen, Michel Seurat, has died in captivity.

Islamic Jihad, a pro-Iranian Shiite Moslem group, claimed March 5 to have killed Seurat. Coudari and Camille Sontag, 85, were freed Monday after another pro-Iranian Shiite group, the Revolutionary Justice Organization, announced it would freed some French hostages. Coudari, speaking to The Associated Press for the partially deaf Sontag before the pair was turned over to French envoys by the Syrians, said he believes Seurat was not slain but died of natural causes at a later date. He declined to elaborate. Asked whether Seurat had suffered a heart attack, he nodded his head silently.

Coudari was held by the Revolutionary France welcomes hostages PARIS (AP) Two Frenchmen freed by Shiite Moslem kidnappers after months of captivity in Lebanon came home Tuesday and were greeted by Premier Jacques Chirac, who thanked Syria for helping arrange the release. Camille Sontag, 85, and Marcel Coudari, 54, were released in west Beirut Monday night and turned over to French envoys in Damascus, Syria, less than 12 hours later. When they arrived at Orly airport outside Paris, Chirac thanked Syria, Saudia Arabia and Algeria for helping arrange the release of the captives. Coudari, when asked if he had news of other French hostages, replied: "No. But I can tell you that things will happen soon." Asked if he was certain, Coudari said: "Well, yes, more or less, more or less." Sontag came down the steps of the French jet into the arms of his 84-year- old wife, and they hugged and kissed as Chirac beamed.

Blanche Sontag then fumbled in her handbag and handed a small object to her husband, apparently a replacement for the hearing aid broken during his abduction. Justice Organization, while Seurat and some of the other Frenchmen and Americans were taken captive by Islamic Jihad. "When they took Sontag out of his cell Monday to free him, one of the men slipped him a piece of paper on which he had written 'I am Irish. Please tell my Coudari said. There is only one Irishman missing in Lebanon, Brian Keenan, 35, from Belfast, Northern Ireland.

Keenan, an English teacher at the American University of Beirut, was kidnapped April 11 Lifepn ihe street grows colder Santa Fe's homeless find few places to go By HARRISON FLETCHER The New Mexican Staff Fred Roberts spent Tuesday night huddling in his soiled down jacket on a small mound of pine needles underneath an evergreen near the state capitol. Jack Santos, assistant director of His Place shelter for the homeless at 1033 Agua Fria Street, said Roberts is not alone. "We're turning away four or five a night and sometimes more," he said. "It's a rough job to have to do something like that to anyone." Santos said the shelter's three locations can house up to 35 people, but as temperatures drop each year, the number of people wanting shelter increases beyond its capacity. His Place, which operates on donations, does not have the money to expand, he said.

Santos said before people are turned away, they are given meals, extra See HOMELESS on Page A-5 Leslie New Mexican Evergreen home The floor is a carpet of pine needles, and there is only open sky above. Fred Roberts takes a wall next to the state Capitol and makes it his shelter for Tuesday night. Families can save young, speakers insist See WATER on Page A-5 CHICAGO (AP) A resurgence of the American family, not more federal aid, is needed to stem high rates of pregnancy, drug use and suicide among young people, the nation's top education official said Tuesday. "The decline of the American family constitutes perhaps the greatest long- term threat to our children's well-being," Education Secretary William Bennett told about 450 people attending a symposium on family relations. Rosalynn Carter, wife of former Presi- dent Jimmy Carter, echoed Bennett's call for policies at the federal and state level that encourage families to stay together.

"Nearly a quarter of today's kids live in poverty," Carter said. "And the number rises dramatically when you look at single-parent families. Being poor often means being poorly fed, housed, educated and in poor health. "We know that confident and competent parents raise mentally and emotionally healthy kids." Bennett said that despite a rise in welfare spending from 1960 to 1980, and despite the establishment of more than 260 programs for children by 1976, the average Scholastic Aptitude Test scores fell during the period while births to unwed teen-agers and the rates of juvenile arrests and homicides among young people more than doubled. Bennett said research is needed to determine what has caused the traditional family to unravel.

MORNING DIGEST Inside The New Mexican 137th Year, Issue No.316 Four Pages Ann Landers D-2 Bridge D-8 Business B-6 Classified D-5toD-7 Comics 8 Crossword 8 Editorial A-4 El Diario C-2 Horoscope D-8 Legals 4 Living D-l to D-4 C-l to C-6 Movies D-2 Nation A 2 Obituaries C-5 Sports B-l to B-4 Stocks B-6, B-7 Television D-2 World A 3 Man guilty of killing NM police officer FORT SUMNER A district court jury Tuesday found Cloyd Norman Hall Jr. guilty of second-degree murder in the shooting death of New Mexico State Police officer Sherman Toler. The eight woman-four man jury deliberated nearly four hours before returning the verdict. Hall had been charged with first-degree murder. District Judge Stanley Frost deferred sentencing Hall, who could receive a maximum sentence of 16 years.

On March 5, Toler, 27, was shot five times with his own weapon, once fatally. The incident took place on Interstate 40 about 13 miles west of Cloudy and cool Today should be partly cloudy and cool with a high of 46 and a low of 20. Thursday's forecast adds a chance of showers. Partly sunny and cool with highs approaching 50 is the forecast through Sunday. Weather, Page C-2 Tucumcari, where Toler had pulled Hall over for speeding.

The prosecution attempted to show premeditation in the case. The defense, which never denied that Hall shot the officer, had attempted to show self-defense. Seminoles offer $1 million bingo BIG CYPRESS RESERVATION, Fla. The Seminole Indian Tribe will inaugurate its new bingo hall with a $1 million jackpot in March. Groundbreaking for the hall, in the vast reservation north of Alligtor Alley, was scheduled for Wednesday, William Van Horn of RKG Enterprises, the development firm building the hall, said.

He said it is virtually certain prize money at the first session in the hall would pass the $1 million mark. "No one has come up with any reason for us not to (give away $1 million)," said Van Horn. The Associated Press Dwarf toss Australian thrower David Barry grimaces as he throws English dwarf "Lenny the Giant" Tuesday in Brisbane. The throw was part of the dwarf throwing test matches..