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50 THE BOSTON GLOBE FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1990 Landfill foes rally in Walpole Broadcast Notes WGBH picks up Soviet news -rf ft rCr -f WAf PftTP v.a. 4 Lvj ivy if i send "Vremya" out to 20 stations that carry "Today's Japan" for two weeks, if PSC would charge a nominal fee for the transmission. "They own the rights, so if we make it work, they'll make money," Foster said. "It's sort of a free introductory offer. We would love to find an interested foundation to fund it." "We think it's a very exciting prospect to see current issues through the eyes of another people, particularly the Soviet Union and particularly with what's going on there and in Eastern Europe," he said.

'Findingthe Circle': Beauty and power By Christine Temin GLOBE STAFF The title of a new "Dance In America" program "American Indian Dance Theater: Finding the Circle" isn't mere pretty language. To prepare to dance in a powwow, Indians clear away the tall grasses to find the circle that is already there. "In the circle, we are in touch with our world," says one of the narrators of this superb hour-long program which airs tonight at 9:30 on Channel 2. The circle is a symbol of continuity and the everlasting, ideas lucidly conveyed by the dancers and musicians of the American Indian Dance Theater as they perform and speak. This show is a good preview, by the way, of what local audiences will soon see live: Dance Umbrella presents the troupe's Boston debut at the Emerson Majestic Theater, March 9-11.

i Ancient though Indian dancing is, this company of more than 20 performers from 15 tribes across the country is just three years old. It was founded by a New York concert producer, Barbara Schwei, and its birth coincided with a new interest in dance outside the balletmodern theatrical tradition. "Finding the Circle" does just about everything right, thanks to the expertise of the "Dance in America" folks, who understand, love and trust the art form they bring to millions of Americans. Some sequences of "Finding the Circle" are shot ou doors, in real powwows, while others are produced in the studio, with spare sets suggesting clouds and trees. The dances are accompanied by voiceovers the performers talking about the significance of a dance meant to thank the Creator for a rainbow, for instance.

The language of the narration is simple to the point of austerity, while the thoughts expressed are powerful. "We hear the songs of all those who have sung and danced before us," says one performer; linking the living with then-ancestors is a theme that occurs again and again. I Love Canal veteran offers a strategy By Jennifer Bloom CONTRIBUTING REPORTER WALPOLE The woman who helped turn Love Canal into an international symbol of the dangers of hazardous waste spoke to a group of 500 community activists in Walpole this week, telling them that only an aggressive political campaign will stop the state from placing a landfill for grit and sludge from sewage treatment plants in their town. "Every one of you should call all those elected officials half a dozen times before the vote, and when you find someone who is not going to vote with you, you should go to that person's home and picket," said Lois Gibbs. Gibbs was the housewife from Niagara Falls, N.Y., who worked to prove that toxic chemicals had caused a host of diseases in her neighborhood, known as Love Canal, forcing the government to evacuate the area in 1980.

In a speech Wednesday night, Gibbs described how she and her neighbors picketed legislators' homes, handed out leaflets at a black-tie state dinner and surrounded the former governor of New York with a ring of preschool children to gain attention for their cause. Organizers said her appearance was meant to breathe new life into the coalition of Walpole and Norfolk residents whose energies and pock-etbooks have been depleted by more than two years of battling against the landfill. "We invited Lois to keep the troops fired up, and I think she is a living example that people who can and do, win," said Joanne Muti, leader of a citizen's group opposing the landfill. At the event, about 50 people signed up to help with the lobby- Earl Christopher of East Walpole makes his feelings known at rally of opponents of plan to locate a grit landfill in Walpole. or snow likely; near 40 By Susan Bickelhaupt GLOBE STAFF Live (well, not exactly) from Moscow it's the news! WGBH-TV (Ch.

2) has coordinated a two-week trial broadcast of the nightly news from the Soviet Union, beginning Tuesday, Feb. 13, at 1 a.m., news director Alan Foster announced yesterday. PSC a Fairbanks, company that has exclusive rights with the Soviets for the program, will pick up "Vremya" and dub it into English. WGBH will then transmit it to 20 PBS stations nationwide, Foster said. And while it won't be live, it will be the same day's broadcast of the news, and it will be the news as Soviets see it Foster said the two-week trial is part of a concept he has been trying to develop called "overseas overnight" The only success so far, he said, is "Today's Japan," which is an English broadcast of Japan's news that airs Monday through Friday at 12:30 a.m.

"The funding for even a great idea like this is a hard nut to crack," he said. "As much as it's a good idea, we have not yet found deep enough pockets to fund the big concept" The Soviet broadcast would cost close to $1 million a year to fund, he said. But Foster struck a deal with the PSC Inc. in which WGBH would Weather Cloudy, rain National Weather Service 7 p.m. EST forecast and highs for Friday, February 2 REGIONAL FORECASTS Boston area: Cloudy, strong chance of rain or snow, winds becoming northeast 10-20 m.p.h., highs near 40 (4 C).

Tonight, chance of snow early, then remaining mostly cloudy, lows 20-25 (-7 to -4 C). To morrow, cloudy, chance of snow during afternoon, highs around 30 (-1 C). Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut: Cloudy, rain or snow likely, mainly snow western hills, rain south coast, highs 35-40. Tonight, chance of snow early, remaining mostly cloudy, lows in teens and 20s. Tomorrow, cloudy, chance of snow during afternoon, highs in upper 20s to mid-30s.

Cape Cod and Islands: Cloudy with rain likely, northeast 10-20 m.p.h., highs around 40. Tonight, snow likely early, remaining mostly cloudy, lows 25-30. Tomorrow, cloudy, chance of snow or rain during afternoon, highs in mid-30s. Massachusetts coastal marine forecast: Northwest winds 10-20 knots becoming northeast 10-20 knots increasing to 15-25 m.p.h. tonight.

Average seas around 1 foot increasing to a possible 2 feet tonight. Visibility variable to below 1 mile in fog and precipitation through tonight. Maine, New Hampshire: Mostly sunny north, cloudy, occasional light snow south, highs in teens north to low 30s at coast. Tongiht, mostly clear north, snow ending early then clearing south, lows 10-20 below north to single numbers and mid-teens south. Tomorrow, mostly sunny north, partly sunny south, highs from single numbers north to teens to mid-205 south.

Vermont: Rain or freezing rain south, snow likely north, highs in teens north, 20s south. Tonight, chance of flurries north, chance of freezing drizzle south, lows in teens and 20s. Tomorrow, chance of snow north, chance of light snow or freezing drizzle south, highs in teens north, in 20s south. "fT- COLO Weather and highs CNy Albany Albuquerque Anchorage Asheville Atlanta Atlantic City Austin Baltimore Birmingham Bismarck Boise Buffalo Criarlstn.SC Chartstn.WV Charlotte Cheyenne Chicago Cincinnati Cleveland Columbia.SC DallsFtWrth Denver Des Moines Detroit El Paso GmdRapds Great Falls Green Bay Greensboro Honolulu Houston Indianapolis Jackson MB Rain and through the Snow and states as will be from and northern through the desert and in the US January was mildest in Boston since 1937 MnnffAt rr AiwAtva. GLOBE STAFF PHOTO OM HERDE MWRA "We will have testing at the landfill constantly.

You could prevent a situation that could cause a public health problem." The landfill, which would accept up to six trucks a day of grit and sludge screened from waste at sewage treatment plants, is a $28 million piece of the $6.1 billion plan to clean Boston Harbor. Gibbs said residents of Walpole were more fortunate than her neighbors had been at Love Canal because they had been informed of the plans for a landfill in their town. But she warned that if toxic substances leaked from the landfill into drinking water, "It could be worse here than at Love Canal." Since moving to Washington, Gibbs has founded a group called the Citizen's Clearinghouse for Hazardous Wastes. She is now working to prevent the resettlement of Love Canal. Police see similarities in rapes, robberies By Don Aucoin GLOBE STAFF A man who robbed a Braintree pharmacy over the weekend may be the assailant sought in sexual attacks on five women in Greater Boston, police said yesterday.

"There's a good possibility" the armed robbery Saturday at the CVS Pharmacy in South Shore Plaza was carried out by the rapist who has eluded half a dozen police departments over the past month, said Braintree Police Detective James McDonald. The robber matched the description of the assailant given by victims of robberies and rapes in stores in Boston, Braintree, Framingham, Dedham, Saugus and Norwood, according to McDonald. His method was similar to that used in the string of robberies, McDonald said. According to police, the man robbed the female manager at the CVS store on Friday. The robber was described as a white male between 35 and 45 years old, standing 5 feet 10 inches tall, with a large pot belly and short-cropped hair.

He was wearing a brown "canvas-type" jacket, dungarees and workboots, McDonald said. Investigators have "a lot of leads," including a description of the car used to flee a previous robbery, but no suspects, McDonald said. Detectives from all six communities met Wednesday to discuss the store rapes and robberies and to pool information, according to Framingham Police Capt Thomas Cobb. Three female employees of stores have been raped in the attacks two in the daytime robbery on Dec. 27 of a clothing store on Route 9 in Framingham, and another during the Jan.

12 robbery of a telephone store on Route 1 in Norwood. A female employee of a small downtown Boston store was sexually assaulted by a robber on Dec. 16, and another woman was sexually assaulted on Christmas Eve in a Braintree store. Clerks were not sexually assaulted in other robberies in small stores in the Dedham Plaza and Route 1 in Saugus. In each instance the attacker has acted alone, usually carrying a revolver, 1 WARM STATIONARY irta 333 DI330 LOW SHOWtK MN nuWWS SNOW Ct SUNNY PT ClOUDY CiOUCY NATIONAL FORECAST ing effort, Muti said.

The Massachusetts Water Resources Authority is pressing forward with its plan to build a grit landfill in Walpole. The agency needs approval from the Legislature before it can take over the Walpole site, which now belongs to the Department of Correction. Gov. Dukakis has indicated he will ask the Legislature to approve a transfer this year. Officials at the MWRA said they thought a comparison between Walpole, where wastes would be placed in a double-lined landfill under close supervision, and Love Canal, where more than 20,000 tons of hazardous chemicals were surreptitiously dumped in a seven-mile trench, was inappropriate.

"Up at Love Canal, no one knew that this was happening, and when they knew it was too late," said Paul DiNatale, a spokesman for the more than normal, while traces came on six days. Twelve days had no precipitation, three less than normal. The most precipitation any day was 1 inch on the 29th. There was 1.48 inches of rain in the 24-hour period from the 29th to 30th. Snow totaled 7.0 inches, 5.3 inches less than average.

The largest daily snowfall was 3.5 inches on the 21st Measurable snow fell on four days, two under par. The greatest snow depth was 7 inches on the 22d and 23d. The seasonal snow accumulation became 17.7 inches, 3.5 inches less than normal. Heating degree days totaled 880, or 20 percent less than normal. These brought the season total up to 3,264, 6 percent more than normal.

Sunshine totaled 49 percent of possible, four percentage points less than the past average. There were five clear days, 11 partly cloudy and 15 cloudy. The past averages are nine, seven and 15, respectively. There were nine days with no sun at all while only one day had 100 percent sunshine. Wind averaged 13.5 m.p.h., 0.4 m.p.h.

less than normal. The peak gust of the month was 46 m.p.h. from the northeast on the 30th, while the day with the greatest average wind was the 1st, with 22 m.p.h. winds. In a new weekly series, Bill Movers talks with artists, scientists, philosophers, and teachers about the values, ethics and beliefs that shape our world.

BILL M0YERS WORLD OF IDEAS Friday By Robert Lautzenheiser SPECIAL TO THE GLOBE It was an extremely mild January in Boston, with frequent rain and snow and cloudy skies. The temperature averaged 36.4 degrees, 6.8 degrees above normal. The average was 14.7 degrees warmer than December, though normally January is 4.1 degrees colder. It was the fifth warmest January in 120 years and the mildest January since 1937. The high mark for the month was 63 degrees on the 18th, setting a record for that day by topping the 61 degrees recorded in 1974.

Only two days were freezing all day compared with a normal of 12. The month's lowest reading was 14 degrees on the 22d. The 12th ended a 13-day run of above normal temperatures, which followed the record-breaking 32-day cold run of November-December. The 14-degree low for the month was the mildest January low since 1953, when it was 15 degrees. The average daily maximum temperature was 43.3 degrees and the average daily low was 29.5 degrees.

Precipitation totaled 3.78 inches, just 0.21 inch shy of normal. Measurable amounts fell on 13 days, two showers will dampen Washington, Oregon, Texas, and Mississippi Valley northeast to the mid-Atlantic states. ice will fall in Idaho, Montana, and the southern central well as the upper Ohio Valley and New England. Highs 10 to the 20s in the Dakotas, the Great Lakes region Maine; in the 50s and 60s along the Pacific coast, Texas northeast to the mid-Atlantic states; in the 70s in Southwest; in the 80s in Florida and southern Texas; 30s and 40s throughout most of the rest of the nation. CITIES FOREIGN CITIES Weather and temps yesterday Ucat Tea Ch Weatkar Tkae Aberdeen clear 1pm 43 Amsterdam cloudy 1pm 48 Ankara clear 3pm 42 Athens ptly cldy 2pm 58 Auckland ptly cldy noon 68 Beijing clear 8pm 22 Berlin cloudy 1pm 52 Bonn cloudy 1pm 50 Brussels ptly cldy 1pm 47 Cairo ptly cldy 2pm 64 Casablanca ptly cldy noon 63 Copenhagen doudy 1pm 43 Dakar clear noon 69 Dublin rain 1pm 45 Geneva- ptlyddy 1pm 47 Helsinki drizzle 2pm 35 Hong Kong doudy 8pm 51 Jerusalem cloudy 2pm 50 Lisbon ptly cldy 1pm 58 London doudy 1pm 48 Madrid ptly cldy 1pm 44 CiWO AeevWe-afror, mt Friday, Faknary 1 1990 (Eastern Standard Tkee) 6:57 Moonrise.

10:06 am 4:59 Moonset 12:12 pm Length of day 10:02 Day of year 33 AM PM HIGH TIDE 3:42 4:16 Hgt. of tide 10.6' 9.3' LOW TIDE 10:05 10:22 Hgt. of low tide 0.4' MOWS PHASES First Quarter Today 1:32 p.m. Full Moon Feb. 9, 2:16 p.m.

Last Quarter Feb. 17, 1:48 p.m. New Moon Feb. 25, 3:54 p.m. 6 9 6 15 20 -5 11 10 9 18 17 6 21 7 9 2 11 10 14 9 7 14 27 0 25 24 22 15 7 10 30 21 CLIMATE DATA 7 mi.

Thursday, February 2, 1990 BOSTON TEMPERATURES DetTMS High yesterday 53 Low 30 Mean 42 Departure from normal 13 Departure this month 230 Departure this year 230 BOSTON DEGREE-DAY DATA Degree-day units 23 Total this month 23 Total for season 3287 Total corres. date last year 3007 30-yr. normal, corres. date 3112 BOSTON PRECIPITATION 57 81 32 Total 24 hours, ending 7 0 00 Total this month to date 0.00 Departure from normal Total this year 3.78 Departure from normal SNOWFALL 77 74 71 58 45 50 86 71 56 Total today none Monthly total 0.00 Total for season 17.7 BAROMETER AT SEA LEVEL at 1 p.m. 1020.5 in.

30.14 mbs. at 7 1013.5 in. 29.93 mbs. 7 p.m. relative humidity 68 YESTERDAY'S SUItSWNE MDEX 455 76 of possible.

Boston record temps for February 2 are 55 1988 and -5 in 1881. NIGH TIDE 14 29 -1 47 8 42 5 75 24 35 1 60 16 42 5 47 8 PJt. 4:07 4:18 4:16 4:14 4:13 4:16 4:11 4:21 4:15 2:06 3:58 5:17 4:46 4:28 4:30 5:21 Old Orchard, Me 3:33 Hampton Beach, N.H 3:44 Plum Island Ipswich Gloucester 3:42 3:40 3:39 3:42 3:37 BOSTON AREA Sdtuate Plymouth 3:47 Cape Cod Canal (E) 3:41 Cape Cod Canal (W) 1:32 Falmouth 3:24 Hyannis Port 4:43 Chatham 4:12 WelrSeet 3:54 Provincetown 3:56 Nantucket Harbor 4:47 MT. WASHINGTON 7 p.m. Weather: Fog; wind: West; 81 m.p.h.; temperature: 23; man-mum: 28; minimum: 13; precipitation: aone; snow depth: 5 hjhhes snow fend ice.

16 -26 34 1 35 1 11 -24 DIM RSMfl Malta cloudy 1pm Manila dear 8pm Moscow cloudy 3pm Nairobi ptlyddy 3pm Nassau dear 7am New Delhi dear 6pm Nice doudy 1pm Oslo ptly cldy 1pm Paris pttyddy 1pm Pretoria ptly cldy 2pm Riyadh dear 3pm Rome rain 1pm Seoul pttyddy 9pm Sofia clear 2pm Stockholm doudy 1pm Sydney rain 10pm Tokyo cloudy 9pm Tunis ptty ddy 1pm Vienna doudy 1pm Warsaw ptty ddy 1pm for today and Saturday Today Satwday FresL Hkdi Frcst. Hbjk fzrain 35 fzdrzl 27 cloudy 43 snoshw 43 cloudy 13 cloudy IS ptcldy 66 shwrs 65 ptcldy 70 tstrms 68 rain 49 rain 47 cloudy 69 cloudy 65 cloudy 58 shwrs 51 cloudy 72 tstrms 68 cloudy -10 ptcldy 24 ptcldy 40 cloudy 44 fzrain 33 sleet 32 cloudy 76 cloudy 75 rain 65 rain 60 ptcldy 70 ptcldy 69 snoshw 30 windy 37 snow 33 snow 32 rain 57 rain 53 rain 40 rain 39 cloudy 76 cloudy 72 ptcldy 65 ptcldy 50 ptcldy 35 ptcldy 45 cloudy 25 cloudy 25 rain 35 rain 35 fair 53 fair 51 snow 31 snow 32 windy 32 windy 40 cloudy 22 snow 25 ptcldy 69 ptcldy 65 ptcldy 81 ptcldy 82 cloudy 75 cloudy 64 rain 48 rain 42 tstrms 74 rain 66 Jacksonville fog 78 ptcldy 78 Kansas City fzrain 35 cloudy 25 Las Vegas sunny 53 sunny 57 Little Rock rain 58 ckmdy 49 Los Angeles sunny 67 sunny 72 Louisville rain 57 shwrs 54 Memphis tstrms 68 cloudy 56 Miami Beach sunny 83 sunny 84 Milwaukee snow 30 snow 30 MptaStPaul ptcldy 20 cloudy 23 Nashville tstrms 68 cloudy 60 New Orleans ptcldy 78 ptcldy 73 New York rain 46 rain 40 Norfolk ptcldy 72 cloudy 65 OklhmaCrty rain 39 cloudy 35 Omaha doudy 23 ptcldy 25 Orlando fog 84 ptcldy 86 Philadelphia rain 49 ram 44 Phoenii ptcldy 61 fair 66 Pittsburgh rain 49 rain 45 PorfJand.Or shwrs 49 ram 51 Raleigh ptcldy 73 ptcldy 66 Rapid City cloudy 31 ptcldy 41 Richmond ptcldy 69 cloudy 60 Sacramento sunny 55 ptcldy 55 St Lous rain 46 cloudy 36 SaNLakeCity shwrs 37 ptcldy 42 San Diego sunny 64 sunny 67 SanFmcsco sunny 59 cloudy 56 San Juan ptcldy 84 ptcldy 85 Seattle ram 48 shwrs 50 Spokane doudy 39 snow 40 TmpStPete tog 83 ptddy 83 Topeka cloudy 30 cloudy 28 Tucson ptcldy 55 fair 57 Tulsa ram 43 doudy 38 Washington doudy 62 shwrs 54 LATIN AMERICA Weather and temps yesterday uol Tea. CUT Weaker Tkae Buenos Aires doudy 9am 77 25 Mexico City haze 6am 53 12 Santiago dear Sam 59 15 EXTENDED FORECASTS Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut Chance of snow Sunday, fair Monday and Tuesday. Highs in 30s; lows 15-25. Maine, New Hampshire: Fair north, chance of snow south Sunday, fair Monday, chance of flurries Tuesday.

Highs 10-20 north, 20-30 south Sunday, teens north to 20s south Monday, 20s north to 30s south Tuesday; lows 0-10 below north, 0-10 above south Sunday and Monday, 5 below to 5 above north, 5-15 above south Tuesday. Vermont Chance of snow Sun day, dry Monday, chance of snow Tuesday. Highs in 20s Sunday and Monday, near 30 Tuesday; lows 5-15 through the period. CANADA 4 Reports at noon yesterday Ck WmSw 7 'C Calgary snow -17 -27 Edmonton dear -21 -29 Montreal pttyddy 34 1 Ottawa cloudy 37 2 snow pttyddy Vancouver pttyddy Wmj worn.