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WEATHER Tuesday May Be Rainy rlil 3 Benton Harbor St. Joseph, Michigan Final Edition 25 Monday, August 25, 1988 ICoverup Hands9 Drive Faltteirs 1 Efforts For Needy Net $1 6 Million donations, of which $16 million is in the bank to help the hungry and homeless, he said. Of the remaining $8.5 million from public donations, $3.5 million went to secure liability insurance and $4 million went to fund-raising costs, including mailings, a nationwide toll-free telephone number, route assignments for the line, and T-shirts and jackets sent to those who mailed in their contributions. Another $750,000 went directly to administrative costs, including paying rent for Hands Across America's Century City offices, telephone costs, and salaries for staffers. Specific costs met with corporate contributions have not yet been broken down.

from public donations and corporate sponsorship to pay for it, but this is the first time the amounts were broken down. Rogol now admits it was a mistake to include the corporate tributions in the amount that Hands Across America claimed it took in, because it was perceived by the public as money meant for the homeless. Hands Across America, as recently as early August, reported it had raised $38 million to $41 million. That figure, Rogol said, included unfulfilled pledges, corporate contributions earmarked for underwriting costs as well as donations from toe public. Hands Across America actually received $24.5 million from public 1 LOS ANGELES (AP) Hands Across America has raised only $16 million for needy people because it was a media event that didn't require enough commitment from participants, the leader of another charity says.

"The problem with Hands Across America is that it was a lot of publicity hype," Millard Fuller, founder of Habitat for Humanity, said Sunday in a telephone interview from Turrell, Ark. "I participated in Hands Across America, but it was like all this buildup and (in) 30 seconds it was over. It didn't take much of a commitment on the part of people who participated in it." Hands Across America spokesman David Fulton said about $7 million in unfulfilled pledges remain outstanding three months after the broken line of hand-holders formed across the country. Organizers once hoped to raise as much as $100 million. "The income should have been much higher," said Marty Rogol, executive director for USA for Africa, which sponsored Hands Across America.

"A lot of people didn't fulfill their pledges, and a lot of people who joined the line the day of the event didn't contribute anything." Hands Across America has yet to distribute any funds to the poor. A recently appointed 37-member committee to oversee allocations had its first meeting in July and expects to begin disbursing funds this fall. Among the items which took a considerable chunk from USA for Africa's budget were $4 million for various fund-raising costs and $3.5 million for liability insurance, needed to secure the permits for the event as the line crossed through cities and towns in 16 states and the District of Columbia. Months before the May 25 Memorial Day weekend event, Hands Across America received $8 million in corporate contributions from Coca-Cola Co. and Citicorp, among others.

That money was aimed solely at underwriting costs, and not for the needy. But even with that, another $8.5 million, or roughly one-third of public contributions, also went toward costs. Organizers said before the event they had enough in contributions ft (: Daniel Rosenthal, 2, of Worcester, strolls along impervious to the rain under the protection of his mother's umbrella. (AP Laserphoto) News Highlights 1 Deadly Gas KiUs 2,000 In Africa OVERCOME BY GRIEF: Three unidentified members of a family of one of the fourteen slain postal workers share their grief at a memorial service in Edmond, Okla. "A new chapter starts tomorrow," Mayor Carl Reherman said Sunday night in a ceremony attended by 3,500 residents at Central State University's football stadium.

Earlier Sunday, the cremated remains of Patrick Henry Sherrill, who police said killed 14 fellow employees and wounded six others before committing suicide, was buried in a family plot in his hometown of Watonga. The private service was attended by 25 friends and relatives. (AP Laserphoto) the toxic fumes killed 40, although travelers from the area said as many as 1,000 may have died. The leak of hydrogen sulfide a flammable, colorless gas which smells like rotten eggs from Lake Nios near Wum, about 200 miles northwest of Yaounde, the capital, was a "geological castas-trophe," a government communique said Sunday. Hydrogen sulfide is often found in volcanic gases.

It is often formed during the decay of animal matter. Lake Nios lies in a volcanic crater. At least three villages were affected by the leak, which began Friday, according to a communique read Sunday over state television. President Paul Biya toured the region Sunday and declared it a disaster area, the communique said. The Cameroon government called for international aid to cope with the disaster and said the United States and Britain agreed to supply logistical support for evacuation of villagers and "appropriate types of equipment." France offered unspecified helo.

Cameroon is an oil-producing nation the size of California with natural gas reserves estimated at 3.5 trillion cubic feet. It has a population of 9.2 million, including the members of 24 tribes who predominately work in agriculture. YAOUNDE, Cameroon (AP) At least 2,000 people were killed by toxic gas seeping from a volcanic lake in northwest Cameroon, and survivors were fleeing the area and being evacuated, the government said today. There was no word on the number of injured. A 17-member Israeli army medical team arrived in this West African nation today as part of international relief efforts that the Cameroon government said would also involve the United States, Britain and France.

Cameroon borders Nigeria. "As far as we know, volcanic activity is still, going on," medical team leader Dr. Michael Weiner told reporters on the plane from Israel, which was carrying Prime Minister Shimon Peres for a state visit. There has been no official government report of volcanic activity. Cameroon Information Minister Georges Ngango told reporters that military authorities in charge of rescue operations filed a preliminary report of at least 2,000 dead.

He said villagers from a wide area were being evacuated and others were fleeing, and that rescue workers were wearing gas masks. Ngango said the death toll could rise as rescue workers advanced into the affected area. On Sunday, the government said FBI Assistant Director John L. Ho-gan said Saturday at a news conference in New York. Because Zakharov worked for the United Nations, "He was not supposed to snow any specific loyalty but here again he was spying for Mother Russia," Hogan said.

Last year, President Reagan called the Soviet delegation to the United Nations a "spy nest," and in March of this year, the United States ordered the Soviet Union to reduce the size of its missions at the United Nations from 279 to 170 by April 1988. The cuts are to begin Oct. 1. Bonner estimated Sunday night that about one third of all Soviets in the United States "have intelligence-gathering reponsibilities." It'll Be M-63 A section of U.S. 33 in the St.

Joseph-Benton Harbor area will be renamed Michigan 63 shortly after Labor Day, according to an announcement from the Michigan Department of Transportation. The new number will affect the section of the highway between Miners Road south of St. Joseph in Royalton Township and Hagar Shore Road north of St. Joseph in Hagar Township. The U.S.

33 designation, which now follows the same route as U.S. 31 between Miners Road and the city of Niles, will be discontinued north of Niles after Labor Day. The U.S. 33 designation will continue south of Niles into Indiana In the Twin Cities area, M-63 will follow the old U.S. 33 route on Niles Avenue from Miners Road into St.

Joseph, then north on Main Street and on North Shore Road to Hagar Shore Road, where it meets U.S. 31 Interstate 196. M-63 will end at that point. The renumbering will not affect the existing traffic control orders or agreements with local governments, according to the MDOT. Man Burned By Gas Inside Van By TOM RENNER South Haven correspondent SOUTH HAVEN A Grand Rapids man was burned Saturday morning while pouring gasoline into the carburetor of his van while it was traveling on Interstate 196 near here, according to state police from the South Haven post.

Frederick Carpenter, 47, was released after receiving treatment at South Haven Community Hospital for first- and second-degree burns on the left side of his body and his hands, according to a hospital spokesman. Troopers said Carpenter was burned as he poured gasoline into the carburetor of a van as his wife drove the vehicle on 1-196 near Michigan-140 in South Haven Township at 8:40 a.m. Saturday. Carpenter told police his wife, Mar-Jorie, drove the van while Carpenter sat on the passenger's side and poured gasoline into the engine's carburetor, which is inside the van. Police said the engine apparently backfired, igniting the fuel line and setting Carpenter's clothing on fire.

The officers said Mrs. Carpenter put out the fire on her husband and the van with an extinguisher before South Haven firemen arrived. Chernobyl Will Be Topic VIENNA, Austria (AP) A weeklong conference of 500 nuclear industry officials from more than 50 countries convenes today to discuss a 382-page Soviet report on the Chernobyl disaster and its causes. The five-day conference on the power plant accident in the northern Ukraine is closed, but some of the contents of the report have already been made public by the news media and the Soviets. "More information will probably come out in dribs and drabs during the course of the week," said an official of the sponsoring International Atomic Energy Agency, a Vienna-based U.N.

organization that provides expertise and support for the peaceful uses of nuclear energy. Poll: Few Impressed By Tax Plan NEW YORK (AP) Washington politicians may be happy about passing the tax revision bill, but their constituents have told Newsweek pollsters they think their taxes either will stay the same or go up. According to the Sept. 1 issue of the newsweekly, 29 percent believe their taxes will stay the same while 36 percent believe they will pay more. Just 25 percent of those polled think the tax package will result in lower taxes for them, while 10 percent had no opinion.

The new tax bill itself, approved by a House-Senate conference mittee last week, won the approval of 16 percent of those surveyed. Fire Crews Mop Up Blazes By The Associated Pre Fire crews mopped up dwindling Northwest forest fires today, after four New Mexico firefighters died and 17 other people were injured when a National Guard truck overturned at an Idaho blaze. Only a few fires still burned in eastern and southern Oregon, but fire danger remained extreme, officials said. Light showers helped firefighters control Washington's largest blaze Sunday. Most of the 21 people aboard the National Guard truck were ejected from the 5-ton vehicle when it crashed and overturned en route to camp from a fire line on the Anderson Creek fire, a blaze near Boise.

The dead and most of the injured were members of the Jemez No. 4 Indian firefighting team at the Jemez Pueblo northwest of Albuquer-, que, N.M., said Allen Quintana, a spokesman for the Santa Fe National Forest Sorting Out Downing Of Jet WASHINGTON (AP) The downing of a South Korean airliner three years ago was a terrible mistake made by Soviet military officers who did not know they were firing at an unarmed civilian plane, journalist Seymour M. Hersh said today. Nor was the intrusion into Soviet airspace by KAL Flight 007 a disguised U.S. spy mission or a deliberate provocation as the Soviets have suggested, Hersh said in a television interivew.

"They (the Russians) first spotted the plane and they shot it down always thinking it was an American military plane," Hersh said on NBC-TV's "Today" show. Hersh said U.S. intelligence information backs the view that Soviet military officers believed they were firing at an American reconnaissance plane, possibly one which was operating in the area at the same time. Winning Lottery Numbers DETROIT (AP) The winning number in Saturday's daily Michigan lottery drawing was 049. The winning number in Saturday's Daily-4 Michigan lottery drawing was 4695.

The winning numbers Saturday in Michigan's weekly Super Lotto drawing were 4, 17, 18, 34, 36 and 40. INDEX TO INSIDE PAGES Soviet U.N. Worker Charged As Spy classified precision components for military aircraft engines and in radars. On May 10, Zakharov offered his contact a 10-year contract that called for obtaining classified information that could not be obtained by a citizen of the Soviet Union, the FBI said. The informant signed the contract.

Earlier this month, Zakharov asked for some classified material and gave his contact $1,000 for three documents, including material about an Air Force jet, the FBI said. Before Zakharov could get a good look at the material, three special agents moved in. "He had to be forcibly wrestled to the ground and handcuffed," Fedorovich Zakharov after bis arrest on a subway platform Saturday night illustrate how the Soviets often maintain legal contacts with Americans before pumping them for secrets, the FBI says. "The Soviets and their surrogates have an insatiable appetite for our scientific, technical defense information," Lane Bonner, spokesman for the FBI in Washington, said Sunday night. "Academic contacts are not unusual.

Often, they are not outside the law." The unidentified Queens College computer science student notified the FBI as soon as Zakharov approached him, authorities said. Zakharov, who authorities said does not have diplomatic immunity, could be sentenced to life in prison if convicted on espionage charges. He's scheduled to be arraigned today in federal court. Zakharov, assigned to the United Nations Center for Science and Technology for Development, told the student he needed assistance in obtaining material on robotics and computer technology, and for two years paid him thousands of dollars for unclassified information stolen from libraries and other sources, the FBI said. After the student, a U.S.

permanent resident, graduated, he went to work in September 1985 for a New York firm that is a subcontractor for defense contractors Bendix and General Electric, something Zakharov allegedly had encouraged him to do. The company manufactures un NEW YORK (AP) In 1983; a Soviet employee of the United Nations chatted up a college student, but the relationship did not become illegal until three years later with an exchange of classified information, the FBI says. The charges against Gennadiy GENNADIY ZAKHAROV Doesn't have Immunity 1 State Lotto Jackpot To Hit $4 Million LANSING, Mich. (AP) The Super Lotto jackpot swelled to at least $4 million after no one matched the six winning numbers in the latest drawing, Michigan lottery officials say. A computer check Sunday of 3.1 million tickets purchased prior to Saturday's drawing showed none matched the numbers 4, 17, 18, 34, 36 and 40, the Bureau of State Lottery said in a written statement.

Lottery officials said 59 tickets matching five of the numbers were worth $4,240 each, while 4,057 tickets matching four of the six numbers were worth $100 apiece. Also Sunday, the lottery bureau said two of the four winners from last Wednesday's regular Lotto drawing Helen O. Schmidt, 52, of Haslett, and William Denno, 48, of Saginaw had claimed the first of their annual checks which will total $365,924 by 2005. That jackpot was $1.4 million. SECTION THREE Sports Pagetzl-23 Comics, TV Page29 SECTION FOUR Markets Page 32 Weather Forecast Page 32 Hospital Lists Page 32 Classified Ads Pages 33-39 SECTION ONE Twin Cities News Page 3 Family Focus Pages 4-4 Ann Landers Page 6 Editorials 8 Obttaaries Page 10 SECTION TWO News Roundup Pagesll-20.