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4. I ttl virt-I 4 7 I- it By Adam Pertman Globe Staff WASHINGTON Some members on the Iran-contra investigating panel have angered their colleagues and spurred a significant rules change by using their time to air procontra views rather than to question witnesses about specific events or possible wrongdoing. Both supporters and detractors of aid to the Nicaraguan rebels are critical of this strategy by some conservative Republicans, asserting that the hearings were never intended as a forum to debate policy goals and that the result has been long speeches that reveal little but take up precious time. "It's embarrassing." said one legislator who stressed that he backs the contras. "Here they are using this for free television time to express their views without any pretense or acknowledgment that they're involved in an important investigation.

It's maddening." The members involved. most prominently Sen. Orrin G. Hatch (R-Utah) and Rep. Henry J.

Hyde vehemently deny'that they are misusing the hearings. It is essential, they argue, that the events being discussed be put into context and the context, they say, is the need to combat communist incursion in the Americas. "I think it's just sour grapes." Hatch said in an interview. "I think what's really bugging these people is that they thought the hearings by now would have stripped Reagan of his popularity. Instead.

I think support for his policies has been building as people become educated about what's going on down there." The conservatives' tack has been particularly frustrating for HEARINGS. Page 6 Weinberger sees peril for tankers By Michael York Knight-Ridder Service WASHINGTON Defense Secretary Caspar W. Weinberger said yesterday that the United States will seek help from Persian Gulf countries in its plan to secure safe transit for Kuwaiti oil tankers, and he suggested the United States is looking for basing for its planes in the gulf region. But while Weinberger said the Increased US role in the Persian Gulf was intended to prevent more Iranian attacks on oil shipments, the Iranian ambassador to the United Nations said yesterday that Iran would not be intimidated by the American military presence. "If my country has the intention of attacking a Kuwaiti tanker, it will continue with that policy, regardless of whose flag it is carrying," said the ambassador, Said Rajale-Khorassani, on ABCTV's "This Week With David Brinkley." Appearing on NBC-TV's "Meet the Press," Weinberger said the US mission in the gulf has changed and that it could become necessary to acquire such basing rights for its planes to provide air cover for the 11 Kuwaiti tankers being reflagged as American vessels.

The United States has maintained a small number of ships in the Persian Gulf on a regular basis since 1949. "Now, with the new specific mission, then we would have to GULF, Page 9 Globe staff photoStan Grossfeld Thousands of people clog the Golden Gate Bridge yesterday during a walk celebrating the structure's 50th birthday. 800,000 turn out for'Golden Gate's 50th birthday celebration I love it," he said. Trapped in the one spot for almost an hour. a man screamed for a medic while a saxophonist soulfully played "San Francisco.

Open Your Golden Gate." "It's very scary," said Bennett Feiner-man, a real estate salesman from Mill Valley, as the bridge swayed in the wind. "I fear the bridge is going to collapse." "The size of the crowd was approximately BRIDGE, Page 10 By Stan Grossfeld Globe Staff SAN FRANCISCO A 50th birthday bash for the Golden Gate Bridge turned into a human gridlock yesterday as an estimated 800,000 people jammed the area around the bridge. The bridge walk was a reenactment of Pedestrian Day held on May 27, 1937, the day before the bridge opened to vehicular traffic. Yesterday's walk was supposed to last from 6 to 8 a.m., but strollers starting from the Mann County side met those going north from San Francisco in the center of the bridge. For one solid hour the only thing that moved was the bridge itself, swaying in the early morning gusts, which reached 40 mph.

The bridge remained people tangled until 11:05 a.m., when the roadway was finally cleared fora parade of antique Harry Levy. who walked the bridge as an 11-year-old in 1937, was undaunted yesterday as he stood stuck in pedestrian traffic. "It took me three hours, but this is a ball. Wheaton College trustees vote to admit men in '88 Receptive crowd at boat race dispels memories of slur 'The local press will be reminded that he's responsible for a very discriminatory social Gay activist Sue Hyde By Doris Sue Wong Globe Staff -4ci 1' 1 1 i i i Illi 4,) Gays target Dukakis' campaign rate races. "We got a very warm reception.

I am very happy to be here. as always," said Larry Otway, a rower and president of the St. Brendan Project. an Irish history society In New York that sponsors a currach team. Otway had filed a protest with the North American Currach Association following a comment by a member of the Boston Irish Currach Club during a race in Boston last September.

The protest came to a boil last week, when the Metropolitan District Commission, saying the Boston club had discriminated on the basis of race, revoked a permit for the event until BOAT RACES. Page 20 By Diane Alters Globe Staff Replicas of ancient Irish fishing boats raced in chilly waters off Carson Beach yesterday while spectators gathered to help bury the memory of a racial slur that had nearly caused the race to be canceled. The race, characterized by city officials as a "symbol" of racial change in Boston. attracted a larger-than-usual crowd to a rain-soaked beach behind the Street bathhouse. About 400 people.

including city officials, black community leaders, reporters and photographers listened to an Irish band and watched the long wood: en currachs compete in five sepa MUM photol band en cui as degree the trustee board chairman, Paul E. Gray, stated in the letter. Darlene Boroviak, dean of faculty and a professor of political science at the private four-year college, said she obtained a copy of the letter at the campus switchboard center, where a stack was left for faculty members who did not wish to wait for the notice to arrive in the mail. Other college officials and trustees declined to comment on the decision yesterday. noting that a press conference has been scheduled for Wednesday to make the announcement.

WHEATON, Page 14 NORTON Despite months of protests by students and alumnae, the Wheaton College board of trustees yesterday voted to open the doors of New England's oldest women's college to male students in the fall of 1988. The school's faculty was notified of the action, which reaffirmed an earlier vote by the board, in a letter after a 612-hour meeting at the school yesterday. Public announcement of the decision is scheduled for Wednesday. "At our annual meeting, the trustees today resolved that Wheaton shall henceforth be coeducational and shall admit men Globe staff photoTom Herde Alicia Blackwell of the St. Brendan Project Club in New York was among the rowers in the spotlight yesterday at the currach race off Carson Beach in South Boston.

Page 15. FIT TO BE TIED Inside Today: Sci-Tech AI Unser Sr. wins 4th Indy 500 Al Unser replacing an injured driver, won his fourth Indianapolis 500 race yesterday. Page 57. Al four By Joan Vennochi and Bruce Mohl Globe Staff Gay activists, still angry over a Massachusetts policy that makes It virtually impossible for gay men and women to become foster parents.

have said they will step up protests against Gov. Dukakis during his presidential campaign. The Washington-based National Gay and Lesbian Task Force last week pledged a "Duke-Watch" in Iowa, New Hampshire and other stops along the campaign trail. "As the Dukakis campaign gets rolling. we want to organize around the country so everywhere he goes the local press will be reminded that he's responsible for a very discriminatory social policy." said Sue Hyde.

a national organization spokeswoman. Dukakis relationship with the gay community has been cool as both a gubernatorial and presidential candidate. Since he announced that he would run for president, gay protesters, either singly or in small groups, have turned up in Maine, New Hamp7 shire and Iowa. On the day he formally announced his candidacy. a banner raised on the Boston Common proclaimed "The Duke is an antigay bigot." A Dukakis supporter pulled it down.

Dukakis, who made his first West Coast campaign swing last week, did not go to San Francisco, but denied that had anything to do with concern that he might face gay protest. GAYS, Page 8 GAYS, Page 8 A P''', 1,. i 0 0 4'' p'. i AY ti- eli" 't 4 2 4. 't 12, i 40 2,...

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A Actress Hemtione Ghlgold dies Hermione Gingold, 89, the deep-voiced English actress whose American credits ranged from 4,. Broadway's "A Little Night Music" to the films "Gigi" and "The Music Man," died yesterday in a i Manhattan hospital. Gingold made her stage debut 1 in London in a kindergarten production of "Henry VIII and by the age of 14, she had appeared with Noel Coward In "Where the Rainbow Ends." Page 33. Ac Noel Second Look: The Boston police Amid reports of corruption, scandal and grand jury investigations, morale in the Boston Police Department is dangerously low, police officers and administrators agree. Today's Second Look studies the problems of the Boston Police.

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