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TMJIM Details, on page 6 WASHINGTON COUNTY EDITION vbtuMEfl'aTNUMBER6 TUESDAY, FEB. 25, 19861 12 PAGES Tares safe passage out of Philippines haltered Marcos steps down 1.S. recognizes Aquino government "N1 I Makati financial district and around a Marcos-controlled television transmission center. At least 10 people were killed. "Marcos is welcome to come to the United States but I don't believe any decision has been made by him," Shultz said.

"He is physically at Clark Field in the Philippines." Administration officials later said Marcos would spend the night at Clark while trying to decide where to seek refuge. Mobs celebrating Marcos downfall overwhelmed a force of civilians who sought to block them at the palace gates and swarming across the grounds and into the palace. 'Long live Cory' Screaming "Long live Cory" and "Marcos is a thief," they rushed to the stage where Marcos hours earlier today was sworn into office for another six-year of office despite having lost control over events. The mobs, ignoring official appeals to preserve the palace, ripped portraits of Marcos and his wife Imelda off palace walls and set them ablaze, broke chandeliers and hurled government records from the second-floor windows of the white Spanish-style mansion. Thousands of others broke into the administrative building, laughing their way to third floor Office of Media Affairs where, swarming like ants, they carted away telephones, typewriters and everything else in sight.

Enrile and Lt. Gen. Fidel Ramos, then deputy armed forces chief, precipitated Marcos' downfall Saturday by taking refuge in two military camps in a Manila suburb and announcing they no longer recognized the legitimacy of his government. Disaffected troops rallied around the two military leaders, sparking a rapid erosion of support for Marcos. Tens of thousands of civilians surrounded the camps to prevent a counter attack by Marcos loyalists.

MANILA, Philippines (UPI) President Ferdinand Marcos, his 20-year hold on the Philippines shattered, stepped down today in exchange for safe passage out of the country and flew to a U.S. air base. The Reagan ad-minstration quickly recognized the new government of Corazon Aquino, Thousands of jubilant Filipinos stormed Marcos 's presidential palace after his departure, destroying pictures and other symbols of the Marcos rule and looting anything of value. Corazon Aquino, the widow of Marcos's murdered arch political rival, was sworn in earlier in the day as the seventh president of the Philippine Republic and appealed for national reconciliation "so that all together we will rebuild our beautiful country." Secretary of State George Shultz promptly announced U.S. recognition of the new Aquino government and told reporters in Washington that Marcos was welcome to come to the United States but said no decision had yet been made.

Marcos negotiated the terms of his resignation in a telephone conversation with his former defense minister, Juan Ponce Enrile, who assumed the same post in the newly constituted Aquino government today. Marcos flies away "We will provide a ring of protection around him and his family," Enrile said in a radio interview. "We have no intention to harm Our only request is that we can settle this so that we can now start working for the interest of the people." Two helicopters flew Marcos and his family and associates from his Malacanang Palace to Clark Air Base, 50 miles north of Manila. Gen. Fabian Ver, Marcos's fiercely loyal friend, was with him.

Marcos's resignation followed the worst day of violence since the revolt began, with rival soldiers fighting in the MANILA Corazon Aquino takes the oath of office ing the Bible is Benigno "Ninoy" Aquino's mother, from Supreme Court Justice Claudio Teehankee as Aurora. Marcos left the country today for a U.S. air she is proclaimed President of the Philippines. Hold- base after his government tumbled. (Reuters) NEWSLINE Complainant took lie detector test by Loren Webb Staff writer ual harassment charges.

The questioning took place in the presence of City Attorney Ted Shumway, Hutchings' attorney Michael Hughes and Weston's personal attorney, Alan Boyack. Gill filed a complaint Thursday with the Utah Anti-Discrimination Division (UADD) in Salt Lake City on behalf of Weston, Musser and Mitchell. The complaint alleged that Hutchings, a 25-year veteran with the department, violated Title VII of the federal Civil Rights Statute by engaging in a course of conduct characterized by repeated unwelcomed and offensive physical contact which has created an intimidating work environment. The charges will be handled by the UADD, a division of the Utah State Industrial Commission and the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission office in Phoenix. Hutchings and police Lt.

Jim Raburn were placed on administrative leave with pay Friday following a City Council executive session. The action involving Raburn was taken after Gill alleged that the lieutenant subjected two of the complainants to an interrogation in an attempt to persuade them to drop their allegations. Gill said his visit to St. George this week was primarily to structure a joint investigation. Gill had no comment as to whether he was pursuing charges of alleged witness tampering against Raburn.

(See polygraph on pJ) ST. GEORGE One of three policewomen who brought sexual harassment charges against city Police Chief Joseph Hutchings was given a lie detector test before authorities filed the complaint, an investigator said Monday. A polygraph test conducted by Salt Lake County Sheriff's Dept. official Virgil Johnson, was given to St. George Police dispatcher Lynn Mitchell on Feb.

10, said L. Zane Gill, attorney for the Utah Public Employees Association. GUI said he was concerned "about making accusations of this kind," so he requested the polygraph test. He had to be sure before going ahead with the accusations, Gill added, noting that statements taken from the other two witnesses patrolman Wendy Weston and dispatcher Tiffany Musser con- firmed the general allegations made by Mitchell during the course of the lie de- i tector test. Based on the outcome of Mitchell's test, Gill said, were satisfied with her statements and were confident in going ahead with the investigation." Hutchings' attorney, Michael Hughes had ho comment when asked if the police chief would submit to a lie detector test.

A handful of female city employees were questioned Monday by Gill, accompanied by Casey Romijn, employee representative, Utah Public Employees Association, in connection with the sex Beggs decides to quit WASHINGTON (UPI) James Beggs, on leave from his post as NASA administrator while he fights a criminal indictment, has decided to quit. Rep. Manuel Lujan, said Tuesday. Lujan said Beggs called him in the late morning to say he was submitting his resignation to the White House. The White House, howeve said in the early afternoon it had yet to receive resignation letter.

Lujan, the ranking Republican on the NASA oversight House Science and Technology Committee, said, "I'm sorry to see him go. I have full confidence that he will be exonerated." Beggs stepped aside late last year when he was indicted in connection with activities while he worked for defense contracting giant General Dynamics. William Graham is currently serving as acting administrator. Governors defeat proposal WASHINGTON (UPI) Big state and Western governors combined today to defeat a proposal to have states take over the national highway system and the gasoline tax that finances it. The 17-15 vote at the closing session of the national governors' Association winter meeting not only put the highway proposal into the ditch, but shattered an unspoken suggestion that the federal government and the states enter into a trade-off that would have given Washington full responsibility for the Medicaid health program for the poor.

The governors, who feel that President Reagan's budget proposals to sharply cut federal Medicaid outlays would be the most burdensome provisions on the states in the effort to reduce the federal deficit, prop-soed the swap to the president at the White House. VA loan ceiling hike OK'd WASHINGTON (UPI) The House Tuesday unanimously agreed to lift the ceiling on the amount of home mortgage loans the Veterans Administration can guarantee this year a limit set by Gramm-Rudman that the VA said would force it to end the program in April. The House passed legislation, 386-0, upping the ceiling to $18.2 billion. Without the increase, the ceiling would have been $11.5 billion due to Gramm-Rudman and would have run out this spring because of increasing demand for the loans due to lower home mortgage interest rates, sponsors said. The Senate, which is likely to pass similar legislation, was set to take up a bill later this week, House sponsors said.

MANILA A shell flies from the barrel of a high-powered rifle as a soldier under the direction of Gen. Fidel Ra mos fires at a loyalist soldier in a tower in the Presidential Palace. Several loyalist soldiers were killed. (Reuters) Thiokol engineers recommended delay of Challenger's launch St. George TV OK'd spectrum Bureau The FCC agreed to the request after reviewing whether the market could support commercial television service, whether the community needs such service and whether it would interfere with other broadcasting in the area.

Though King's petition led the FCC to assign Channel 12 for commercial use, he is not necessarily granted the right to operate the channel. The agency now begins another process where any prospective station operator can apply for exclusive use of the channel. The final choice will be made by the FCC after determining which application best meets the public needs of the area. WASHINGTON The Federal Communications Commission has assigned Channel 12 to St. George as a commercial television station.

At the request of Atlanta, businessman Steven D. King, the FCC set aside Channel 12 as a commercial television operation for St. George as of March 25. In a petition to the FCC asking that Channel 12 be reserved. King told the agency he had a continuing interest in setting up a commercial television service in southern Utah.

sometime in the future," McDonald teti-fied. Mulloy is NASA's booster rocket chief at the Marshall Space Flight Center, Hunts ville, Ala. McDonald said he also heard someone in a telephone conference call on launch eve who said he was "appalled" by the no-go recommendation. McDonald said he believes it was George Hardy, deputy director of science and engineering at Marshall, who made that comment. Mulloy and Hardy were scheduled to testify later in the day.

Thiokol managers finally recommended to NASA that the boosters be cleared for flight. But McDonald said he refused to endorse the launch approval given by his bosses at the company's booster rocket plant at Brigham City, Utah. In opening the hearing, commission chairman William Rogers said testimony might involve human error. "Because the subject matter may involve possible human error as distinguished from equipment failure, the commission will attempt to give a right of reply as soon as possible to any person who feels he's been unfairly criticized or who's actions may have been inaccurately portrayed," Rogers said. Pressure One of the key questions before the commission was whether NASA exerted any pressure on Thiokol management to approve the launch.

"There was no doubt in my mind" that NASA exerted pressure, McDonald told the panel. "I felt some pressure. The commission has found that three key NASA officials were unaware of launch objections, but how far up the NASA chain of command that information went is unknown. WASHINGTON (UPI) An engineer representing the builder of the shuttle booster rockets said today his company's initial recommendation against launching the doomed Challenger four weeks ago was strongly challenged by two NASA of Allan McDonald, the Morton Thiokol engineering chief at Cape Canaveral, also said he was "absolutely sure" at the time that the concerns his company had against launching the shuttle were passed along to top NASA officials. "The issue was so controversial! I thought people were aware of that," McDonald said under oath in testimony to the presidential commission investigating the disaster.

"I have a hard time believing they didn't." "I made the direct statement that if anything happens to this launch I told them I sure -wouldn't want to be the person to have to stand in front of a board of inquiry to explain why a launch was outside the qualification of the SRM (solid rocket motor) or any shuttle system," McDonald said. 'I was still very upset' "I made that statement. No one commented on it. I was still very upset." McDonald and some other Thiokol engineers argued against launching Challenger in temperatures lower than 53 degrees for fear the cold might barm critical O-ring rocket seals. They said the rocket seals had not been approved to fly in cold weather.

It was 38 degrees when the ship took off Jan. 28, and the temperatures had been below freezing earlier in the morning. "I believe it was Mr. (Lawrence) Mul-loy who made some comments about when we'll ever fry if we have to live with that YOUR WEIGHT Consumer prices up SWIFT KICK ber and 0.4 in December. The unadjusted inflation rate for the 12 months ended January 1986 was 3.9 percent.

The January price increase would mean an annual inflation rate of 3.6 percent if repeated through December. Analysts attributed the modest rise to a slowdown in energy price hikes. The cost of fuels dropped 1.1 percent in the month of January due to a sharp decline in imported oil prices. The cost of meat, poul-; try, fish and eggs also declined by 0.1 WASHINGTON (UPI) Consumer prices rose a modest 0.3 percent in January, stemming a late 1985 surge, as meat and imported oil costs declined, the Labor Department said Tuesday. The seasonably adjusted Consumer Price Index, based on the 0.3 percent increase, rose to 324.3, equivalent to a cost of $324.30 for the government sample "market basket" of goods and services that cost $100 in 1967.

January's rise followed increases of 0.3 percent in October, 0.6 percent in Novem 2- i.