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Auburn Scumal NEWS FRONT PAGE A-2 Monday May 25. 1987 Weather 8 ii in I PioriGor 1 "rVt Regional forecasts Foothill region: Partly cloudy in the monung then clearing. Highs in the mid 60s to mid 70s. Northerly mds to 20 mph. Tonight fair.

Lows in the 40s to low 50s. Tuesday mostly sunny and breezy. Highs 70 to 80. Northern Sierra Nevada: Scattered showers, mainly Lake Tahoe south. Snow level 6.000 to 7,000 feet.

Tonight partly cloudy. A chance of showers south of Lake Tahoe. Snow level 7,000 feet. Tuesday mostly sunny. San Francisco Bay: Partly cloudy with slight chance of showers near the south bay mountains.

Mostly sunny and breezy in the afternoon. Highs in upper 50s and 60s. Northwest winds 15 to 30 mph. Tonight fair. Lows in the 40s to low 50s.

Tuesday mostly sunny. Breezy. Highs in the upper 50s to near 70. Los Angeles: Partly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of sprinkles or light showers. Highs today near 66.

Lows tonight 52 to 56. Tuesday fair and slightly warmer. Highs near 70. Precipitation Sunday 0.00 Rain Totals Season Normal Yearly (Julyl) to date average 22.15 34.45 34.98 -id 0 Rainfall reported at 7 p.m. survives tornado By William H.

Inman UPI Reporter SARAGOSA, Texas Annie Hamilton is sweeping her white-latticed porch. It is twilight. Behind her house is the wTeckage of a great tornado that took 29 of Annie's neighbors and erased a town, but left the 86-year-old widow to sweep her porch another day. "When God comes, he comes quickly," the woman says, hammering a fist into the palm of her hand. "God brought me (boll) weevils quickly.

He brought the famine and the drought. I survived them all. God either loves me or he hates me." Today clouds still boil over the purple Davis Mountains to the south, and thick gashes of lightning turn the evening into sudden day. But the fury is at a distance. Last Friday the fury came to Annie's homestead at Saragosa a town named for the Inquisition city in Spain and hurtled the huddle of tin-roofed buildings at the edge of Annie's home into oblivion.

Annie never saw the black spiral. She heard the wind, a shrill ghoulish shriek, and listened in terror to the hammer of hail. "It was like my house was alive," she said. "The hail sounded like it was the size of grapefruit, going The noise heightened in intensity. She heard the sharp crack of a huge electrical transformer exploding not far away, then the snap of power lines.

The lights went out. There was no radio, no television, no telephone only the wind, scourging the melon fields and the patches of catclaw and creosote brush around her home. As suddenly as it came, the wind departed. A curtain of rain descended. "I waited inside.

I was terrified. I may have been in my home for an hour before I went outside," she said. What she saw outside will forever haunt her. Her two-story home stood like a solitary pillar at the edge of the end of the world. The rest was wreckage, a heap of metal, wood and humanity.

"I cried and I wondered why I was spared. I'm 86, and I lived. There were children who died." "But," she paused, "God does things like that." UPI photo Ramiro Ramirez, 12, gets a lick from his dog Chiquita after it was found alive in the rubble left by a tornado in Saragosa, Texa 5 all not I eave us omnans esus Along with Coleman, teams of federal and state representatives surveyed what was left of the town. But none indicated how much financial aid if any would be forthcoming. "We can only hope the government will be as generous as it normally is in times of national disaster," said Pena, who added that response has been "overwhelming" to a relief fund established by the Catholic Church.

But Texas Gov. Bill Clements declined to visit the site in the aftermath of the worst twister to hit Texas in nearly a decade, and residents of the mostly poor, mostly Hispanic town said they didn't expect much from the government. "Nobody will care about us once the news cameras leave," said Leonel Melendez, also homeless. "We're not white, and we're not rich." The White House said it had not received any request for federal disaster assistance, but spokesman Mark Weinberg said if Saragosa submits a formal request, "we will work to expedite its processing." A cordon of law officers guarded the tiny farming community throughout the night against looters, but there was little need. drinks and Baptists distributed peanut butter sandwiches.

Mariachis strummed traditional hymns. And when the West Texas sun got too hot, multicolored umbrellas formed a canopy over the worshippers. "We believe that when we end a life, another one begins," Pena said. "We have reason at this horrible time in our lives to celebrate, to give thanks. The devastation is complete, but signs of life were all around us.

We will go on." At one point, worshippers joined hands among the ruins and against the blue backdrop of the Davis Mountains to sing hymns in Spanish and thank God for those who survived. Rep. Ronald Coleman, D-Texas, whose West Texas district includes Saragosa, promised federal aid was on the way. "America will see Saragosa again," Coleman said. Some survivors, however, hoped they would never see this land again.

"Will I stay here?" said 12-year-old Juan Espe-raza, who lost no family members in the storm but was left homeless. "Never. Never. Never. It is only bad memory." By William H.

Inman UPI Reporter SARAGOSA, Texas Townspeople who lost their tin shacks to a tornado that wiped out their town and killed 29 residents joined hands Sunday and sang hymns of hope at an open-air mass in the ruins of their church. "Jesus will not leave us orphans," said Ray-mundo Pena, the Catholic bishop of El Paso, who spoke in Spanish and English from a flatbed truck to several hundred people gathered in the ruins of Our Lady of Guadalupe Catholic Church. "We are like his disciples," Pena said. "We feel shattered, devastated, lost. We ask God why he did this horrible thing.

He shall not leave us with questions but will answer our prayers." Survivors of the Friday tornado that killed 29 and injured 120, 21 of whom remained hospitalized Sunday, lined up to kiss statues of Jesus and Joseph left undamaged in the ruins of the church. Some wept softly. Their tears, however, were matched by an air of hope and even festivity. Barbecue vendors worked the crowd, Seventh-day Adventists passed out cold hat6d Bran war of words iicrtanci Senator: Stark should have attacked Soviets prepare shuttle MOSCOW (UPI) Spurred by national prestige and the successful launch of a giant new rocket, the Soviet Union is aiming to orbit its own reusable space ship before the U.S. space shuttle returns to service, Western scientists say.

Scientists who watched the televised pictures of the Energia rocket launch on May 16 predict the Soviet shuttle will be in space within the next year. "I would think they're aiming for something before the next U.S. shuttle launch," said a European expert. U.S. shuttles, grounded since the January 1986 Challenger explosion that killed seven astronauts, are not scheduled to fly again until June 1988 after exhaustive tests to make the spaceships safer and more reliable.

A key ingredient in the Soviet shuttle program was the successful testing of the Energia rocket, a massive two-stage rocket that can lift a payload more than five times that of the previous largest Soviet rocket. Soviet reports place its payload at "more than 100 tons" and Western sources in Moscow say it appears to be 110 tons, by far the largest payload capacity of any rocket now in service. The American Saturn-5 moon rockets could lift some 113 tons into low-Earth orbit, but the Saturn line was shut down after the Apollo moon program ended in the 1970s. Although Energia is described as a general-purpose rocket, a major use is clearly to lift the shuttle that has been quietly under development for several years. A new launch pad was built for the Energia rocket at the Baikonur cosmodrome in Central Asia and satellite photos have shown the runways at the remote space center have been extended, apparently to handle the return of shuttles to Earth.

Although Western descriptions of the Soviet shuttle appear very similar to the American version, there are differences that will give cosmonauts advantages. Unlike the seven-man crews of the U.S. shuttle, the Soviet crew is expected to be only two or three. A key difference is the use of liquid-fueled rocket engines throughout. Energia does not use solid-fuel boosters, which once ignited cannot be turned off, and the shuttle itself is not equipped with any large launch engines.

Instead, it is thought to be equipped with jet engines, which would allow it to land under power instead of gliding like the American version. Above all, the Soviet shuttle is part of a space system that is focused on permanently manned stations orbiting high above the Earth. The shuttle will likely be used mainly for transporting supplies to the space station, including materials to expand its size. The Mir space station that has been in orbit for more than a year is designed for expansion through the addition of extra modules. The addition of a space observatory in April gives the current station enough room to hold up to 10 people, one Western scientist estimated.

The Soviet program looks President Reagan to invoke the War Powers Act. Lugar agreed with U.S. policy of protecting 11 Kuwaiti tankers while they are in the gulf, but also said the question of imminent danger to U.S. forces there makes it mandatory for the president to invoke the War Powers Act. "That's clearly indicated by any reading of the act," Lugar said, adding that the "consultation provisions have never been argued on constitutional grounds.

Clearly this is the time when the president ought to do that." Weinberger disagreed. "I have always felt that there should be full congressional notification and participation of these actions, not under the War Powers Act, which we believe is unconstitutional and have ever since it was enacted," Weinberger said. "The War Powers Act restricts, unconstitutionally we think, the president's ability to respond quickly to very rapidly changing situations, including times when Congress may not even be in session." Weinberger said, "The purpose of protecting those tankers is so we don't get into a shooting war." Lugar said, "It's in the very best interest of this administration right now to set up a consultation procedure promptly. We want to know specifically what are our WASHINGTON (UPI) A war of words broke out Sunday with Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger saying the United States intends to keep ships in the Persian Gulf and an Iranian official warning that some vessels may be attacked "regardless of whose flag" is flown. Weinberger re-emphasized American determination to not only continue a U.S.

presence in the gulf, but also to strengthen it in the aftermath of the Iraqi missile attack on the USS Stark that killed 37 American sailors. The United States has had ships in the gulf since 1949 and "we certainly intend to remain there," he said. But Iran's ambassador to the United Nations, Said Rajei-Khorassani, warned the United States: "If my country has the intention of attacking a Kuwaiti tanker, it will continue with that policy, regardless of whose flag it is carrying." Weinberger appeared on NBC's "Meet the Press" with Sen. Richard Lugar, and CBS's "Face the Nation" with Sen. James Sasser, who was speaking from Bahrain after he inspected the damaged frigate.

Sasser said he has seen no evidence to suggest that the Iraqi attack was anything other than accidental. He also said the survivors are experiencing grief and anger at the attack and the loss of their shipmates. Lugar said if the United States is going to protect Kuwaiti ships in the Persian Gulf, then "clearly this is the time" for after it was hit by Iraqi missiles in the Persian Gulf. When asked if the ship's defense systems including its antimissile Vulcan Phalanx system were operational when it left port before the May 17 attack that killed 37 crewmen, Sasser said, "That's a question that at this juncture I can't answer. "I would not want to render an opinion at this juncture as to the ship's state of readiness," Sasser said.

The senator arrived Saturday with a team of seven experts and aides to gather information on the attack. He is to visit Kuwait Monday to gather information on a plan to register 11 Kuwaiti oil tankers under the U.S. flag and provide them with U.S. naval escorts through the Gulf. MANAMA, Bahrain (UPI) The head of a Senate fact-finding team Sunday went aboard the crippled USS Stark and charged the ship failed to take available defense measures when it was attacked by an Iraqi jet, but he did not know if its antimissile system was working.

Sen. Jim Sasser, said, "There is no way of saying conclusively that the Stark incident could have been prevented, but I think that the chances of this incident occurring could have been considerably lessened obviously if the Stark had taken evasive action, if the Stark had fired chaff into the air, if the Stark had locked onto the Iraqi aircraft." But Sasser, who spent two hours aboard the Stark, said investigators were hampered by the destruction of records in the fire aboard the frigate World briefs Theatergoers could add many more memorable moments to her achievements, especially in the famous wartime British revues, "Sweet and Low," "Sweeter and Lower," and "Sweetest and Lowest." She became a great favorite of American servicemen and their assurances that she would be just as popular in the United States helped inspire her move across the Atlantic for the revue, "It's About Time," in Cambridge, 1951. From then on she appeared mostly in American films, such as "Around the World in 80 Days," "Bell, Book and Candle," "The Music Man" and on the American stage with an occasional return to her roots in Britain. Thousands cheer Kennedy GDANSK, Poland (UPI) Several thousand people, many waving U.S. flags, greeted Sen.

Edward Kennedy Sunday as he visited the northern shipbuilding city to lay a wreath at a workers' monument and talk with Actress Gingold dies NEW YORK (UPI) British-born actress Hermione Gingold, perhaps best remembered for her wistful but comic duet on aging with Maurice Chevalier in the film "Gigi," died Sunday of heart disease, officials said. She was 89. The character actress died at 7:30 a.m. at Lenox Hill Hospital, where she was admitted April 30, hospital administrator Sophie Perrini said. Gingold suffered from cardiac problems complicated by pneumonia, she said.

The duet with Chevalier was recognized by many critics and filmgoers as one of the perfect moments of the cinema. In the 1958 film she played Leslie Caron's grandmother, a retired French courtesan, opposite Chevalier as her onetime lover and they sang "Ah Yes, I Remember It Well," a wistful acknowledgement of the failing memory of age, from the pen and piano of Alan Jay Lerner and Fritz Loewe. Harish Sharma, announced their rejection of the caretaker government of Governor General Ratu Penaia Ganilau in a statement following a lengthy meeting with 20 members of their ousted Indian-dominated coalition in the western town of Ba. Stalin criticized MOSCOW (UPI) A Soviet historian said Sunday dictator Josef Stalin "committed major blunders" in World War II that allowed German troops to surround Soviet soldiers and penetrate as far as Moscow and Leningrad. Alexander Samsonov, a historian and veteran of World War II, also criticized Stalin for the bloody purges of 1937 and condemned the "cult of personality" "It is wrong to associate all successes achieved by the party and the people with the name of Stalin, ascribing to him the quality of a people's 'leader of genius' and a 'great military Samsonov wrote.

Solidarity leader Lech Walesa. Kennedy, stepping from a church into the sunlight after attending mass with Walesa, received an emotional pro-American welcome by a large crowd, many waving U.S. flags and chanting, "greetings to President Reagan." "Jestem Polakiem," Polish for "I am a Pole," the senator said, visibly moved. "This ceremony is spontaneous, and that is what the whole of Poland looks like," Walesa said, referring to support for outlawed Solidarity in the predominantly Catholic nation of 38 million. Fiji unrest continues SUVA, Fiji (UPI) Declaring Fiji's interim government illegal, deposed Prime Minister Timoci Bavadra and his deputy said Sunday they would refuse roles in the new administration and vowed a protest campaign unless their democratically elected government is restored.

Bavadra and his deputy prime minister,.