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Proud mother awaits McKnight to head road panel WlcWherter's day 1 1 1 "iyiwumw "mam 1 By Sun, AP writers By Detores Ballard Sun senior writer Rain may dampen Ned McWherter's inauguration on Saturday. Page 1B. ties as I feel like doing which will probably be all of them." McWherter, a Democrat, will be sworn into office at 10 a.m. Saturday on the steps of Legislative Plaza in downtown Nashville, followed by the swearing-in of his Please see MOTHER, back page. NASHVILLE -State Sen.

Joe Nip McKnight, D-Jackson, has unseated Sen. Riley Darnell as Senate Transportation Committee chairman. McKnight, a freshman legislator, joined seven other Democrats and all 10 Senate Re- nuhl irnnc thrpp Haus NASHVILLE Among the thousands expected, to converge on Music City this weekend for the inauguration of Ned McWherter will be a very special guest: the governor-elect's mother, Lucille McWherter. Tired out and under the weather after a summer of heavy campaigning for her son, she's been resting up for the big doings in Nashville, and "I'll be there all weekend," she said. "I'll attend as many of the festivi- Lucille McWherter Yards of wreckage Communist leader quits in China ago in re-electing Je Nip Speaker JohnS.

Wilder. McKnight Most of the Democrats wanted Darnell for speaker. Wilder, a Democrat, also announced the appointments of four other Republicans as chairmen today. Darnell, D-Clarksville, was appointed secretary of the Judiciary Committee, under two Republicans. "It was not my intent to be punitive," Wilder said.

But Darnell said the action was anticipated. "It was about what we expected from a man who promised to be fair," he said. "We can live with it." Also demoted was Sen. Carl Moore, D-Bristol, who had been Commerce Committee chairman. He was replaced by Sen.

Carl Koella, a Maryville Republican. Please see WILDER, back page. Downtown Woolworth to shut doors PEKING (AP) -Communist Party chief Hu Yaobang resigned in disgrace today after weeks of student protests and a crackdown on pro-Western intellectuals. Premier Zhao Ziyang was elected to replace him. Tho 71.0O9r.nM Hu 's fir Hu Yaobang once considered a iike.

ly successor to top leader Deng Xiaoping, resigned after saying he made "mistakes on major issues of political principles," the official Xinhua News Agency and national television reported. The announcement ended days of speculation that Hu would be ousted. Deng reportedly was unhappy with the way Hu handled the students' pro-democracy demonstrations and the subsequent party campaign against critics. An enlarged session of the Politburo, the party's top decision-making body, accepted Hu's resignation and unanimously selected Zhao to be the new secretary-general of the 44-million-member party, Xinhua said. It said the decisions on Hu and Zhao would be submitted to the next plenary session of the Central Committee for confirmation.

Politburo members "gave Comrade Hu Yaobang a serious and comradely criticism and at the same time acknowledged his achievements," Xinhua said. I '4 AP Laserphoto Sisters Luly and Gloria Paz survey the tail section single-engine plane over Kearns, Utah, Thursday from a Sky West commuter plane that landed in afternoon. All 10 people aboard both planes were their front yard after a midair collision with a killed. See story, Page 3A. By Tim Tanton Sun business reporter F.W.

Woolworth Co. a Main Street institution in Jackson for almost 70 years is closing April 4. "Customers don't come downtown like they used to," said store manager Bob Weible. The patriarch of variety stores, Wool-worth opened on Main on June 30, 1917. Woolworth pioneered the wonderland of wares.

People could and still can find almost any essential item there for home or business. "This store used to do millions of dollars, back when a dollar really meant something," Weible said. A grill was a standard feature at Wool-worth's, evolving from the zig-zag counter at the downtown store to the full-fledged restaurant at the newer Woolworth's in Old Hickory Mall. The downtown grill still does a good business on some days, Weible said. "They say there was a time when people would line up behind the stool, behind the stool, just to get a seat to get something to eat," said Weible, who has managed the store for two years.

The dramatic decrease in the downtown store's work force, from a high of 120 in the 1940s and 1950s to eight people now, shows how Woolworth's fortunes have changed. Some employees will be transferred to the mall store, Weible said. The senior Main Street employee has been working Please see STORE, back page. McFarlane: Israel picked arms contacts WASHINGTON (AP) Former national security adviser Robert C. McFarlane said today that President Reagan authorized arms sales to so-called moderates inside the Iranian government only after Israel made every effort to "validate the legitimacy of these people." Testifying before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, McFarlane confirmed that the idea of seeking contacts with Iranian moderates was first broached to him by David Kimche, director general of the Israeli foreign ministry.

He said Reagan acted to authorize the contacts with Iran in mid-summer 1985 only after he and his advisers became convinced that despite obvious risks, any other course would be "a cop-out" given Iran's important to Iran as he sought freedom for American hostages. And the top-ranking Republican on the Senate committee investigating the controversy surrounding the once-secret sales says the president should do more to assume responsibility for the foreign affairs fiasco. Rep. Henry J. Hyde, and Sen.

Warren Rud-man, were interviewed Thursday as the White House said the president believes he need not apologize for the sales, which he says were undertaken to build a bridge to moderate elements in Iran. In testimony that largely repeated previous public statements, McFarlane sought to demonstrate an important difference between Iranian adherents of the theocratic autocracy of the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini and "self-interested" Iranian politicians. strategic position to both the United States and the Soviet Union. On Thursday night, ABC News reported that McFarlane held out for the release of four U.S. hostages during his secret trip to Iran in May, rejecting an Iranian offer to release just two.

During the mission to Tehran, McFarlane overruled fired White House aide Oliver L. North, who had wanted to give in to the Iranian demand that two' hostages be freed immediately and two more would be freed after the delivery of more U.S. arms, ABC News reported. Meanwhile, one of President Reagan's strongest supporters in Congress says the president should admit he made "an error of the heart" in approving arms sales 3 Rebels kidnap Ecuador president Inside By Sergio Carrasco The Associated Press Business 7B Obituaries 8B Classified 8B-12B Opinion 2B Comics 6B Religion 4C DearAbby 2C Scoreboard 4B Leisure Magazine Sports 1B-4B Living 1C-2C Praying woman escapes rape A prayer may have saved a Jackson woman from rape Thursday. A masked man who tried to rape her at knifepoint fled when the woman began praying aloud.

The victim was locking her east Jackson office around 4:45 p.m. when a man forced her into the building, pulled a 10-inch knife and tried to rape her, she told police. She began praying aloud, and it apparently distracted the man, who told her to go to a back room. He then left the building. The suspect is black, slim, cleanshaven and around 6 feet tall, the victim said.

He was wearing a beige jacket with orange stripes and had pantyhose over his head, she said. Rain fense minister were forced onto a bus and taken to a chapel inside the base. Guayaquil Gov. Jaime Nebot was blocked from entering the base shortly alter Febres Cordero had entered, she said. The Palace of Government in Quito, the capital, was closed and guards outside were dresssed in combat gear.

But there was no movement of military vehicles in Quito or any unusual display of military presence. Febres Cordero, leader of the center-right Social Christian Party, took office after elections in May 1984. Vargas Pazos last March demanded the firing of the former defense minister and the army commander, whom he accused of corruption. Febres Cordero sided with the two men and dismissed Vargas Pazos, who seized an air force base on the coast. Government press secretary Marco Lara said through his secretary there was no official information on the reported incident.

The private radio station said the paratroopers may be acting in coordination with former air force commander Gen. Frank Vargas Pazos, who is being held at an army base in the jungle east of Quito, awaiting trial on charges stemming from the rebellion he led last March. Mrs. Aguayo told viewers she witnessed the paratroopers' assault and the president's capture. She said that shortly before the ceremony began, the elite forces surrounded Febres Cordero and Salazar.

The reporter said shots were exchanged and that three people "apparently" were killed and several others wounded. She said Febres Cordero and the de- QUITO, Ecuador Rebel paratroopers today took President Leon Febres Cordero prisoner after a firefight with his bodyguards and were holding him at an air force base, radio and television reports said. Febres Cordero, one of the Reagan administration's staunchest allies in South America, put down a military rebellion last year. Radio Guayaquil and a reporter for Channel 10 television, Maria del Carmen de Aguayo, said Febres Cordero was captured during a military ceremony at the Taura air base outside the port of Guayaquil. The TV reporter said the defense minister, retired Gen.

Medardo Salazar, was taken prisoner at the same time. Cloudy tonight with a 40 percent chance of rain. Low in upper 30s. Wind northeast 10 mph. Occasional rain Saturday.

High in the upper 40s. Wind east 10 mph. Probability 61 rain 80 percent. Details on Page 2A..