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tt mm. CIRCULATION: 1.1 18.649 DAILY 1.433.739 SUNDAY THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1989 COPYRIGHT 1989TIIETIMES MIRROR COMPANY Cl't 204 PAGES DAILY 25 DESIGNATED AREAS HIGHER Czech Lawmakers Abolish Power of Communist Party COLUMN ONE Keeping a Lid on Gorbachev Bush's image-makers are scrambling to play to his strengths at the Malta summit. Their script gives new meaning to the notion of Soviet containment. 13 hw, TV CLLJL I ft eft Associated Press Salvadoran soldier puts rifle to head of suspected guerrilla. Rebel offensive in capital heated up again.

East Bloc: The constitution is also amended to eliminate the mandatory teaching of Marxism in schools. By TYLER MARSHALL TIMES STAFF WRITER PRAGUE, Czechoslovakia After only five hours of debate, an emergency session of the Czechoslovak National Assembly on Wednesday voted unanimously to abolish the leading role of the Communist Party. The assembly also voted unanimously to eliminate the mandatory teaching of Marxist-Leninist ideology in the country's schools a key demand of the students who have been the vanguard of the revolution. The votes, in the form of amendments to the Czechoslovak constitution, legally end communism's 41 -year-old domination of the country and pave the way for meeting opposition demands to build a new coalition government before next Sunday. Prime Minister Ladislav Adamec pledged Tuesday to form such a government.

Earlier in the day, a recently appointed member of the ruling Politburo suggested that free elections could come as early as next year. "I think it's possible in the next 12 months," Communist youth leader Vasil Mohorita said. At 37, Mohorita is the youngest Politburo member and a man considered to have reformist tendencies. The sheer speed of the Communist regime's collapse in Czechoslovakia has propelled the country in less than two weeks from one of the last hard-line holdouts to the forefront of reforming East European nations. Among these countries, only Poland has so far formed a coalition Please see CZECH, A12 Broderick Tells of Rage at Slain Ex-Husband By DAVID LAUTER and THOMAS B.

ROSENSTIEL TIMES STAFF WRITERS WASHINGTON Nearly every major event has a defining symbol. The leading candidate to play that role in this weekend's Malta summit meeting between George Bush and Mikhail S. Gorbachev is a helicopter. This particular helicopter will belong to the U.S. Navy.

On board will be a small group of reporters and a large group of television cameras. The chopper will hover in the space over Marsaxlokk Bay as Bush shuttles between the Belknap, the Navy cruiser that will host U.S. events at the summit, and the Slava, its Soviet counterpart. Photos will be encouraged. Questions and answers will be impossible.

That is precisely the intention. Ships at sea, men in flight jackets, leaders waging peace these are the images the White House wants Americans to see. But more important for the public relations strategy of Bush's chief of staff, John H. Sununu, and his chief image consultant, former campaign advertising wizard Sig Rogich, are the images they want to avoid. Chief among these is that of dynamic Soviet leadership contrasted with American "prudent caution." And so the details of the summit have been designed in large part to level the playing field for Bush.

The leaders will be seen relatively little and heard even less. Gorbachev, who commandeered television news broadcasts two years ago by jumping out of his limousine during the Washington summit and pressing the flesh, will have few such opportunities this time. White House officials, planning Crime: Charged with the murder of Daniel T. Broderick III and his new wife, Betty Broderick says she was the victim of "overt emotional terrorism." through it all over again." During the half-hour conversation, Betty, 42, did not directly address whether she had killed the couple. She has pleaded not guilty.

But she spoke animatedly about the last six years of her life, her 1986 divorce, her constant court battles and the events that led up to the first Sunday in November, when Daniel, 44, and Linda, 28, were found shot to death in the bedroom of their Hillcrest home. Please see BRODERICK, A34 CIA Agent Who Defected Is Expelled From Hungary THE MALTA SUMMIT Untied Press International Nadia Comaneci in 1984 Comaneci Vaults Out of Romania By RANDY HARVEY TIMES STAFF WRITER Nadia Comaneci, the Romanian athlete who in 1976 earned the world's first perfect scores in Olympic gymnastics, has fled her native country, the Hungarian government announced. Relatives in this country said they expect her to eventually settle in the United States. According to Hungary's official news agency, MTI, Comaneci received a three-day permit for unrestricted travel within the country Wednesday in Szeged, which is about 15 miles from the Romanian border, after crossing into Hungary the night before with six other Romanians. Few details were availa-Please see NADIA, A10 under Moscow's protection.

Howard allegedly told the Soviets key information about CIA operations in Moscow, including names of agents and technical equipment being used. He evaded an FBI surveillance team in New Mexico in 1985 and then turned up in Moscow. It was not clear when he began spending time in Hungary. "The idea for encouraging his expulsion goes back some months," said a U.S. official aware of the effort, "but they the Hungarians have acted only in the last month or so.

Our argument was: 'Here's this guy who cast his lot with the Soviet Union but tried to avoid the hardships of Gulag "Our purpose was not to have him turned over to us," the official said. "We never thought they Please see EXPEL, A17 Yet, the intensity and duration of the offensive, which started the night of Nov. 11, has mocked all official predictions and sent Cristi-ani's elected right-wing government reeling. After weeks of fighting, the armed forces hold a tenuous advantage against the Farabundo NEWS ANALYSIS Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN). But the rebels have slipped in and out of the city several times, striking again Wednesday at a number of neighborhoods and occupying mansions of the rich.

Few here are willing to bet that the offensive, or the fierce right-wing backlash it has provoked, will soon end. "The crisis is just beginning," San Salvador Mayor Armando Cal-deron Sol said. "The country has Please see OFFENSIVE, A20 Salvador Rebels Renew Attack, Hit Rich Areas By TRACY WILKINSON TIMES STAFF WRITER SAN SALVADOR-Leftist guerrillas took over mansions in San Salvador's elegant western suburbs Wednesday, temporarily trapping scores of Americans, foreign diplomats and rich Salvador -ans in a sudden resurgence of urban warfare. The army surrounded the area with light tanks and ground troops but was held at bay by rebel sniper fire until after dark. American officials closed the U.S.

Embassy and encouraged the 270 dependents of embassy personnel to leave El Salvador on charter flights starting today. At least 30 embassy employees and their children were sleeping at the diplomatic mission Wednesday night to escape fighting near their homes. The guerrillas burst into the home of an unidentified U.S. Embassy officer in San Benito, a well-to-do suburb of high walls and barbed-wire fences, and torched it before being driven away by troops, U.S. officials said.

Two cars were destroyed, and two other houses on the same street were also burned. Four U.S. Embassy employees trapped for more than 12 hours by fighting in the wealthy Escalon neighborhood were rescued by Salvadoran army and embassy personnel, a source close to the military said. No American casualties were reported. The attacks began shortly after midnight when rebels began sweeping into the upper-class western suburbs of Escalon, San Benito and Lomas de San Francisco and the middle-class neighborhoods of Antiguo Cuzcatlan, Ciudad Merliot and La Cima on the southern edge of the city.

Combat was reported within blocks of the Please see SALVADOR, A16 DIEGO COUNTY EDITION Reuten Gorbachevs in Rome. GORBACHEVS TAKE ROME Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev, accompanied by his wife, Raisa, heard only cheers on the first day of a three-day visit to Italy. A6 i) By RONALD J. OSTROW and ROBIN WRIGHT TIMES STAFF WRITERS WASHINGTON Edward Lee Howard, the former CIA agent who defected to the Soviet Union after allegedly passing vital U.S.

secrets, has been permanently expelled from Hungary as a result of the pro-democracy upheaval there and is now in another East Bloc country, U.S. sources disclosed Wednesday. The expulsion has prompted U.S. officials to, redouble efforts to apprehend Howard, but it is not clear whether those prospects are good. Hungary revoked Howard's asylum at least a month ago at the urging of U.S.

officials and over the protests of the Soviet KGB, government sources said. It was not known where in the East Bloc he is now living, or whether he is still jointly with the Soviet and Maltese governments, worked out the details of summit press coverage. But glasnost (Gorbachev's policy of openness) notwithstanding, Americans still have far more experience in media management than do their Soviet counterparts. Moreover, because the Americans extended the initial invitation for the summit, protocol dictated that "they get to propose the setting," said Lane Venardos, a veteran CBS News director who has been involved in negotiating with the White House over the summit. Gorbachev could still try to perform the sort of spontaneous camera-attracting moves he showed Please see IMAGE, A8 By AMY WALLACE TIMES STAFF WRITER SAN DIEGO-Two days before Daniel T.

Broderick III was killed, Betty Broderick received legal papers from her ex-husband that "were like hammers at my head," she said Tuesday in an interview with The Times. Elisabeth (Betty) Broderick said those papers were the last in a series of acts of "overt emotional terrorism" by her ex-husband. Her comments Tuesday in the County Jail at Las Colinas came during the only interview she has granted since she was charged with murdering the prominent San Diego malpractice attorney and his new wife, Linda Kolkena Broderick. Betty also took issue with court statements and press accounts that she said characterized her as crazy. "I have never had emotional disturbance or mental illness except when he provoked a she said.

The final disturbance, she said, came "the week before, in fact, the Friday before this incident," referring to the killings. "Those papers at my door were like hammers at my head. They were just going to keep me in court forever. How long can you live like that?" When asked whether she felt any relief after Daniel and Linda's deaths, she said, "I don't know what I feel. I go through periods of peace, but then there's a day like today, with the lawyer, the psychiatrist, a reporter all asking me about the past.

I don't know if my words will be used against me. "Momentarily, I felt like it was over. But now, I'm having to go spread criticism at home that the Bush Administration has moved too slowly in helping Gorbachev reform the Soviet economy. Senior Administration officials said Bush still does not intend to extend most-favored-nation trading status to the Soviet Union until Moscow enacts new legislation granting free emigration to Soviet Jews. But they said the President may tell Gorbachev he is willing to push forward negotiations toward a comprehensive trade agreement with Moscow even before the Supreme Soviet's proposed new emigration law is passed.

"It's on the list of said a senior official involved in planning the Malta summit. "It comes under the category of things that they will give a political push to," another official said. Please see BUSH, A6 Jogger, Attacked and Left to Die, Is Back at Work By JOHN J. GOLDMAN TIMES STAFF WRITER NEW YORK-The 29-year-old jogger who became a symbol of personal fear and urban violence after she was brutally beaten, raped and left to die by a gang of teen-agers in Central Park, has returned to her job as an investment banker in a top Wall Street firm. Her remarkable seven -month recovery is the latest chapter in a compelling drama that thrust the chilling word "wilding" into the national vocabulary of criminal behavior.

Law enforcement sources said Wednesday that the jogger, who even has resumed her hobby of running, went back to her job full-time at Salomon Bros, this Please see JOGGER, A26 INSIDE TODAY'S SAN TRYING TIMES The past several weeks have been difficult ones personally and politically-for Republican state Senate candidate Carol Bentley. Bl CONDOS IN FAVOR Condominiums are back in vogue as budget-conscious home buyers are increasingly turning to them as a less-costly housing alternative. D2A HOUDAY FARE San Diego theaters put new twists on familiar holiday fare with "A Christmas "Festival of Christmas" and "Black Nativity." Fl WEATHER: Fair with decreasing winds. Today's Lindbergh Field highlow: 7447. Details: B5 TOP OF THE NEWS ON A2 President May Speed Talks on U.S.-Soviet Trade Pact Offensive Pushed Salvador War to New, Bloodier Level By DOYLE McMANUS TIMES STAFF WRITER WASHINGTON-President Bush, in a surprise move that is being readied for his Malta summit with Soviet President Mikhail S.

Gorbachev, may offer to speed negotiations toward a new U.S.Soviet trade agreement, Administration officials said Wednesday. Bush also may tell Gorbachev that the United States, in a shift in policy, now favors the Soviet Union's bid for observer status at the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, the Geneva-based organization that administers world trade rules, the officials said. Both moves would be significant gestures of encouragement for the Soviet leader, who has publicly asked that restrictions on U.S.-Soviet trade be relaxed. They also would answer wide By RICHARD BOUDREAUX and MARJORIE MILLER TIMES STAFF WRITERS SAN SALVADOR-First, there was an ominous tip from a factory guard on the northern edge of San Salvador: Peasants in civilian clothing and military boots were asking directions into the city. Fighting had all but ceased in rural Chalatenango and Morazan provinces, the traditional theaters of the civil war.

Then, rebel radios fell silent, a sure sign that the long-expected urban guerrilla offensive was about to begin. By the time 1,500 to 2,000 guerrillas had infiltrated the city, the government thought it was ready. Military units had been placed on alert, and President Alfredo Cristi-ani had abandoned his residence. The rebels had lost the advantage of surprise..