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Upper Lake girls fall hard CI THE i i' Sv 'nJ'CL Lilt ANNIE WtUSPHESS DtMOCHAT Bernice Reagon of Sweet Honey In The Rock. Fanatics for folk i Sen B1 136th Year. No. 142 Santa Rosa, California, Sunday, March 1 4, 1 993 $1.25 taidla to Maim freeze Faith coalition methods draw fire i 1 li I I u.r.r;, war; if" I I H.r -'ri A i a i A 1 i By BLEYS W. ROSE Staff Writer After five years of using noise and bluster to push its proposals through local governments, a coalition of churches and community organizations is encountering re-sistence among officials who are bristling at the group's tactics and confrontational style.

Since its inception in 1988, the Sonoma County Faith-based Community Organizing Coalition has operated with favorable publicity and kind words from elected officials eager for its support. The coalition, which boasts a membership of about 2,000 people from two dozen churches and several community organizations, has been widely praised for representing Hispanic and low-income residents on issues tackled by few others. It has worked for low-income housing in Santa Rosa, Sebastopol and Healdsburg. It is pressing the Santa Rosa school board for more child care, simpler budgets and Spanish translations for parents. It has secured designation of drug-free zones in Roseland, Wright and Bellevue neighborhoods.

It got Sonoma County transit bus schedules printed in Spanish and improved bus routes in Hispanic areas of the county. But tactics such as hooting down officials who don't totally agree with their positions, running meetings according to scripts, and -according to some misrepresenting public officials' statements are drawing criticism. The most recent example of See Faith, Page A10 ASSOCIATED PRESS The Lincoln Memorial looms in mist Saturday behind a line ofsnowplows clearing Memorial Bridge in Washington, D.C. Tornadoes, ice and cold blamed in 37 fatalities was 3 jrw mm MM inn: jut wu heart attacks while shoveling snow, and homeless people who died of exposure. "We are fighting a losing battle against the elements," Pennsylvania Lt.

Gov. Mark Singel said. Snow depths by early evening included 2 to 3 feet in western North Carolina; 2 feet in West Virginia and eastern Kentucky; 21 inches in eastern Tennessee; a record 15 at Birmingham, and 16 in northern Georgia. Farther north, 15 inches fell at Philadelphia and 20 elsewhere in Pennsylvania; 10 inches at New York City's Central Park; and 24 inches in parts of New Hampshire. In the New York City region and See Storm, Page A9 Press Democrat news services One of the worst winter storms on record bombarded the East Coast on Saturday with 14-foot snowdrifts, wind over 100 mph and killer tornadoes.

At least 37 people died, more than 3 million customers lost power, and thousands of travelers were stranded. "This is like a hurricane with snow," said Devin Dean, a forecaster at the Atmospheric Science Research Center of the State University of New York in Albany. Sixteen of the deaths were in tornado-ravaged Florida, still recovering from Hurricane Andrew last summer. The dead included people killed in the wreckage of mobile homes, men who suffered ore inside Deep South pummeled and paralyzed by storm. A3 New York City battens down the hatches.

A3 State-by-state update of blizzard's effects. A3 List of worst U.S. storms on record. A9 Fans left to grumble as weather plays havoc with sporting events. C1 Abortion face-off in Fremont The force of Saturday's storm toppled signs for the interstates in snow-blanketed Atlanta.

ImJmAmmImLmLmLmLmmmJmm 1 3 Hard-liners strip Yeltsin of key powers Dad on the run Fugitive fears satanic conspiracy targeted son By FRED KAPLAN Boston Globe By CHRIS SMITH Stall Writer By DENNIS GEORGATOS Associated Press FREMONT About 200 abortion rights demonstrators disrupted an Operation Rescue planning session Saturday where police in riot gear stepped in to prevent the disturbance from escalating into an all-out confrontation. "It could have gone either way," said police Sgt. Brian Cross of the Abortion rights group pickets Catholic church in Santa Rosa. Bl tense two-hour confrontation between protagonists in the abortion debate. One abortion rights activist was arrested for investigation of battery on a police officer, Det.

Bob Nelson said. The arrested woman, whose name wasn't released, allegedly kicked and spat at officers during crowd-control efforts at Bethel Baptist Church, where leaders of Operation Rescue of California bad gathered. The militant anti-abortion group is known for blockading clinics and picketing the homes of doctors who perform abortions. Abortion rights groups got wind of the meeting and showed up in force to block the church driveway and harass Operation Rescue members, either as they showed up or tried to leave. There were heated feelings on both sides in the aftermath of Wednesday's fatal shooting in Florida of a doctor who performed abortions.

Dr. David Gunn was See Abortion, Page A9 MOSCOW The Russian Congress ended its emergency session Saturday, leaving President Boris Yeltsin with many of his key powers taken away, nearly all his maneuvering room cut off JANE IOOSU-BARRYCAZAWRO Some showers, then sunshine High: 68 Low: 49 The agents supposedly use sound waves and stun guns to keep their victims enslaved. Khasbulatov A dastardly and demonic vision haunts Peter Tscherneff. Tscherneff, a Petaluma tennis instructor who ran off with his 2-year-old son last month, believes in a sordid, nationwide conspiracy in which small children have been raped and tortured by U.S. intelligence agents until they're conditioned as sex toys, drug runners, pornography models and necaccinc Tscherneff and his top Cabinet officers threatened with dismissal.

When President Clinton meets with Yeltsin in Vancouver, British Columbia, next month to encourage Russia on the path toward democracy and a free-market economy, he will be facing a man who is increasingly incapable of pushing Russia down that road. Clinton will be dealing with merely one of the most powerful men in Russia but not, any longer, its sole leader. Ruslan Khasbulatov, the speaker See Yeltsin, PageA9 BooksG4 Bob PadeckyCl BusinessEl PeopleAll ClassifiedFl Real EstateRl EditorialG2 SportsCl Ann LandersD8 Susan SwartzDI Gaye LeBaronA2 TheatersD4 LottoA3 TravelD5 ObituariesB2 WeatherB6 he stole his son, Alex, from his former girlfriend, tne child's mother and custodial parent Before fleeing, Tscherneff complained frequently that the boy was being abused at the Novato child-care center in which his mom had him enrolled. A former friend said Tscherneff has been obsessed for years with visions of devil-worshipping child molesters. But more recently he has become consumed by conspiratorial theories that put satanic pedophiles in league with the CIA, FBI and U.S.

Army Intelligence. Tschernef fs belief in a far-reaching and sinister See Dad, Page A9 The agents supposedly use sound waves and stun guns to keep their victims enslaved. Police and judges across America look the other way as pedophiles in places as high as the Oval Office prey upon young victims at orgies and in weird, blood-drenched Satanic rituals, so the theory goes. They buy and sell children like farm animals. The alleged mind-control conspiracy makes "The Manchurian Candidate" seem like "Hogan's Heroes." Whether or not it exists in reality, it exists in the mind of Peter Alexander Tscherneff.

Tscherneff, 34, has been a fugitive since Feb. 4, when Eight sections.