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Satuiday Oct 19, 1991 EI Paso TimesQ 2D Television 4D Columns 5D Comics 8D Business Living section editor, Josie Cantu-Weber, 545-6100 Gorby? Coney? Aquarium seeks help naming whales One nerson combined the wisher wrote when whale mom Associated Press NEW YORK Whale, whale, bo-bale, banana-fanna Name Game is coming" to the New York Aquarium. A contest to name two rare baby belugas is being announced in a couple of weeks. But some admirers have already gotten into the act, a spokesman said Friday. One suggested the name Percy "short for persevere." Ti 1 .1, il. character to see he wouldn't give up on trying," that well- "Although both appear to be" doing well, obviously not just the calves but the mothers have to continue to be healthy.

Because if anything interrupts the link between calf and mother, its chances are severely reduced," Miller said. Beluga babies usually nurse for 20 to 24 months. These are getting bigger, although they can't be weighed yet. The calves are on view to the public. Miller said they know people are looking at them.

"The mothers have been used to it fur a iuug Uiue aud the calves don't seem to be bothered by it at all," he said. Paso Satanic or not, fans like its speed, freedom first names of Kathi and her lover, Newfy, to come up with a "nautical" name: Kanew. (Don't get it? Say it out loud.) "How about naming it-Coney?" suggested another. The aquarium is in Coney Island. Some people have phoned to lobby for Boris and Gorby.

Others sent well wishes without names. "Dear Natasha: Congratulations on the birth of your baby. I'm happy for you LcCduoC you're such a sweet girl," wrote one. 0 ic j. 4 5 St a mm Singer Luis Miguel cancels concert Hispanic pop singer Luis Miguel's 26 concert has been canceled.

Ticket-holders can get refunds starting Monday at the sites where they bought the tickets. Information: 747-5234. Riverside High has Menudo Sale Day Sunday is Menudo Sale Day at Riverside High School. The public is invited to bring their own containers and till them up with the spicy stew that is a border specialty. The sale begins and 8 a.m.

and lasts until 11 a.m. at the school's Boxcar concession stand, 301 Midway. Proceeds from the sale go to help the school band and the sale is sponsored by the Band Booster Association. Information: 778-2933. Vanna buys new Los Angeles home "Wheel of Fortune" letter-turner Vanna White and her husband, George Santo Pie-tro, have purchased a newly built home on the westside White of Los Angeles for just under $3 million, sources say.

The Mediterranean-style villa has five bedrooms, a media room, a library-office and a basement. It also has city and mountain views. Court: Benetton ads can stay up PARIS A court Friday rejected a campaign to force the Italian clothing maker Benetton to take down 1,300 billboard advertisements showing a priest kissing a nun on the mouth. A Roman Catholic citizens' lobby had filed a complaint against the ad saying it was "particularly offensive to Catholics." The court ruled the advertisement did not constitute an "act which could be characterized as anti-Christian racism." The billboards will remain in place as scheduled until next Monday. Romance on the 'Brady Bunch' set NEW YORK Barry Williams, who played eldest Natasha wouldn't let her newborn nurse.

"I think, "Man, he's a persevering little Of course, there's been a vote -for Raffi, after the children's entertainer, who sings about you guessed it a baby Beluga. A couple of dozen people already have called or written to suggest names since Natasha gave birth Aug. 7 and Kathi gave birth a week later. Rick Miller, the aquarium bald Uiey all uo considered officially entered in the contest. metal.

Concert info What Morbid Angel with Entombed. When: 8 p.m. Tuesday. Where: Club 101, 500 E. San Francisco.

How much: $14. Get tickets at Headstand records in El Paso, Trax records in Las Cruces or at the door. Information: 533-8158. "It's a transcending limitations thing. It's a removing boundaries thing," he said.

"I don't advocate anything that would bring harm to anyone. What I'm against is brain control, brainwashing and oppression." He said his ghoulish lyrics are not intended to glorify Satan but to push musical boundaries. "If I wanted to worship the devil, I would. I don't, but I would if I wanted to." The death-metal genre of music has been underground for the past 10 years, just now finding widespread popularity with groups such as Napalm Death, Obituary and Cannibal Corpse. i Cannibal Corpse is more into bodily destruction than religious defamation the focus of Morbid Angel's music.

One Cannibal Corpse album cover shows a woman on a table, knife through her heart, blood and entrails hanging out. She's being carved by two skeleton men. One is clutching a bloody baby. Decomposing babies hang in the background. Teen death-metal fans say they don't take this gore seriously.

"It looks like Satan and evil," said Rene Lopez, 18. "But mostly kids don follow it for that, they just like the power and the speed." "Yeah, it's just for merchandising and publicity," added Erich King, 17. King and Lopez belong to a local death-metal band, Reign of Terror. Steffen Hunger, an honor student at the University of Texas at El Paso, said teens 'WTe just visited and we think he's a whale of a kid," another writer a kid stated via computer. Meanwhile, Natasha's kid and his half brother they have different moms but the same dad are blissfully unaware of the commotion.

Nov. 27 the day before Thanksgiving Natasha's calf would become the longest-surviving beluga born in captivity, Miller said. A beluga born at the aquarium in 1981 survived eight weeks. Another, bum iu captivity in Vancouver in 1977, survived nearly four months. Tl ffl sociate professor of psychology at UTEP, said this music is a type of rebellion for teens.

"It's something that is challenging the ways of music," he said. "Anything new, shock When a couple's level of physical involvement rushes ahead of the level of emotional closeness and commitment, intimacy can be short-circuited, even destroyed. Intimacy flourishes in the rich soil of sound values like unselfishness, honesty, compassion, gratitude, trustworthiness, patience and self-control. Furthermore, the choices that make intimacy possible require reasoning skills that most adolescents do not acquire until they reach age 18 or older, according to studies summarized in a recently published research report titlpd "Has Sex Education Failed Our Teenagers?" by Dinah Richard. Richard's report concludes that children need direct moral guidance from parents and schools, rather than "values neutral" sex education courses that assume that adolescents can make logical choices they are unequipped to handle.

By Nicole Carroll El Paso Times It's fast. It's grungy. It's screaming guitars, pounding drums and monster voices. It's death-metal music. Protesters say it's satanic.

But fans say it's freedom. "The faster the music, the harder the music, the better," death metal fan Lupe Amador said. "The vocals have to be very grungy and death. This band has it." "This band" is Morbid Angel, the kings of the death-metal scene. The music is raw, the lyrics are raunchy: Ghouls who pray the death of god Destroy Jehovah's church Vomit upon the cross And burn the book of lies Morbid Angel appears with Entombed Tuesday at Club 101.

Amador, a sales clerk at Headstand records, which is selling tickets to the show, estimates 500 fans will be there. Protesters also are likely to show up. Carrie Webb, a youth minister at Abundant Living Faith Center, said she won't tell her teens not to go. She just encourages them to think about what it might do to them. "The mind is just like a computer," she said.

"Whatever you put in is what's going to be coming back out. I don believe the music itself is good or bad; it's the message it sends." Morbid Angel guitarist David Vincent said he will debate anyone who challenges his music. "They don't like what I have to say, but I don't like what they have to say," said Vincent, a former porn movie star. "I may go organize a protest against some churches." I Vincent said he won't let anyone set his moral code. "If I want to read porno, that's all right to do," he said.

"If I want to have random sex with whomever I want, that's OK. Anything that I do that doesn't infringe on the rights of others is all right." Vincent said freedom is what death metal is all about. Children About 10 years ago, when my husband and I were sponsors of a church youth group, I used to spend a lot of time talking with a 15-year-old girl I'll call Maria. In one of our conversations, Maria told me that she had been 13 the first time she had gone to bed with a boy. "Should I tell her about sex in a marriage relationship?" I wondered, after she described that experience.

Maria was tough and street wise. I figured she'd sneer at my "square" insistence on saving sex for marriage and sticking faithfully to one partner. But I plunged ahead. "Sex is reserved only for celebrating our marriage, our commitment to each other," I said in part. "We celebrate being part of each other and trusting each other with everything: our hopes, our feelings, our dreams, our future and our life every day.

During the times when things aren't going so well between us, we celebrate our it 11 T- I -ft ing, revolutionary has always attracted young people. "Some teens feel that we don't give them their rightful place in society. So they establish their own world." no Opportunity for column writers Becky Powers is taking a break from column-writing, so we're inviting others to write in with their ideas on family activities, issues and problems. Anyone interested is invited to send a stamped, self -addressed envelope to Especially for Families Guidelines, El Paso Times, P.O. Box 20, El Paso, Texas 79999.

In the meantime, we'll be rerunning some of Powers' best past columns. For a copy, write Focus on the Family Publishing, Colorado Springs, 80995 or phone 1-800-232-6459. Cost: $8. Becky Powers is a free-lance writer in Vinton, Texas. tTV Grace Saenz El Paso Times Some local religious groups are worried about El Paso death-metal groups like Reign of Terror, above.

The group's members are Frank "Chucky" Telles, foreground, and from left, Rene "Scum" Lopez, Erich "Scooby" King, Javan "Roach" Cruz and Fred "Grind" Salazar. son Greg on "The Brady Bunch" said his with his TV mom took a different miisf nff Henderson ua Williams dated Florence Henderson, who played mom Carol Brady, while they were working together on the series, both acknowledged in a taping of Friday's "Geraldo." The sitcom ran from 1969 to 1974. Williams, now 37, was too young to drive at the time of the date, so his older brother served as the chauffeur for their rendezvous, Henderson, 57, said. Singer's dizziness linked to fatigue SEATTLE Singer John Mellencamp was released from a hospital Friday, a day after he became dizzy while performing on a radio show. Mel- 1 cm pt 1 4 i need guidance from parents, i are just tired of top-40 music.

"If you've had a bad day, you" can go to a (death metal) concert and relieve tension," he said. Dr. Guido Barrientos, an as and condoms to protect her body from pregnancy and disease. But where could she find a pill that would give her the ability to think through emotional decisions like an adult? And how do you put a condom on a young girl's heart? Nobody told her that. Like many teenagers, what Maria was really looking for was intimacy.

She longed to be valued, cherished and able to trust another with her hopes, fears, joys and limitations. She yearned to belong to another person in a relationship that freed her to be fully herself. She wanted to be deeply known, yet fully accepted. On TV and in the movies, sex i3 portrayed as the shortcut to intimacy. But in real life, the intimacy Maria longed for is a bonding process that builds gradually over time, with each partner gaining a deepening trust in the other based on growing knowledge, understanding and commitment.

Pesliy Paweis Especially for families intention to stick together re-, gardless." Maria's reaction astonished me. Her eyes softened to sadness, and in a wistful tone she said, "Gee, you make sex sound so neat." Suddenly it was clear that, deep down, Maria felt cheated. And badly hurt. Maria had been taught sex education in school. She knew how women get pregnant, how sexually transmitted diseases are passed from partner to partner, and how to use pills Mellencamp 40j the night at Swedish Hospital, where a cardiologist blamed the dizzy spell on Eoor eating habits and ex-austion brought on by a promotional tour.

Mellencamp was finishing a 17-city tour, which included performing visits to 46 radio stations. Mellencamp was known during his early recording years as John Cougar, then John Cougar Mellencamp. Times staff, wire reports.