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VOLUME 241 NUMBER 67 76 pages 35 cents 60 centt at newsstanda beyond 30 miles from Boston he iHrton BILLOW FLIGHT Wednesday: Rain, windy, 45 Thursday: Same sun, 40-45 High tide: 5:20 a.m., 6:05 p.m. Full report: Page 46 WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1992 A Christian Science dispute Four editors quit following publication of book on church's founder in So 'Dakota 1 By James L. Franklin GLOBE STAFF Elaine Natale, had recently been suspended by church officials after she refused to write an editorial justifying publication of "The Destiny of the Mother Church," a book about its founder, Mary Baker Eddy. Critics say the church issued the book, written by Bliss Knapp, in order to receive a $97 million bequest from Knapp's wife and sister-in-law, who had demanded in their wills that the book be published as "authorized" Christian Science literature. Nathan Talbot, spokesman for the church, said the resignations were a surprise and said the church's directors have asked for "dialogue, over a period of several days, about what the editors' statement means." Meanwhile a Los Angeles court yesterday granted a 90-day delay in payment of the bequest to the church.

Other potential beneficiaries of the estates Stanford University and the Los Angeles County Museum told the court they don't believe that Page 7 Four editors who jointly produce the religious publications of the Christian Science movement yesterday resigned in a dispute over the direction of their church, including publication of a book connected to $97 million bequest by the author's relatives. The four did not detail their reasons. But a source in the church said one of them, Dissatisfaction with Bush seen Democrats 1,010 of 1,010 pets. -100 Bob Kerrey 40 Tom Harkin 25 Bill Clinton 19 Paul Tsongas 10 Jerry Brown 4 Larry Agran 1 Republicans 1,010 of 1,010 pets. -100 George Bush 69 Uncommitted 31 By Michael K.

Frisby GLOBE STAFF SIOUX FALLS, S.D. Sen. Bob Kerrey of neighboring Nebraska scored a decisive victory in South Dakota yesterday, while Paul Tsongas, the former Massachusetts senator, registered a surprisingly weak fourth place in the first primary contest outside of his native New England. South Dakota voters gave Kerrey a big enough margin to settle in his favor the heartland showdown with Sen. Tom Har-kin of Iowa.

But Harkin said he intends to stay in the race. On the Republican side, delegates supporting President Bush topped an uncommitted slate, 69 percent to 31 percent, with all of the votes counted. The strength of the uncommitted slate was seen as a measure of dissatisfaction with Bush in this prairie state. The president's GOP challenger, Patrick Buchanan, was not on the ballot here. It was the poor showing posted by Tsongas, who since his New Hampshire victory has gained stature as a serious national candidate, that seemed to attract the most attention as the vote was tallied last night With all the Democratic votes counted, Kerrey led the field with 40 percent, followed by Harkin well back at 25 percent, Gov.

Bill Clinton of Arkansas at 19 percent, Tsongas at 10 percent and Jerry Brown, the former California governor, at 4 percent A smiling but nervous Kerrey told a crowd of several hundred supporters, "Tonight, we have struck gold in the Black Hills of South Dakota." He said his dream is to attain the power of the presidency "and use it here at SOUTH DAKOTA, Page 8 iff A 1 1 V---' rv in i ii fmin inr- 1 i ininiifiiiniirmmn iiiiiinnmi ml iMiwiMmnirlwililiTiiWTlMiilnimm 1 For the Bay State also-ran, a reflection of the region BITTERSWEET CELEBRATION A Kuwaiti woman holds a photo of a telative still held captive in Iraq during a rally yesterday in Kuwait City, where residents marked the country's 31st independence day from Britain and today's one-year anniversary of its liberation from Baghdad's forces. Page 15. By Scot Lehigh GLOBE STAFF Senators rip Baiter's stand on Israel aid By Mary Curtius GLOBE STAFF That sentiment echoed through yesterday's primary, the results of which left former Massachusetts Sen. Tsongas, last week's optimistic victor in New England, as this week's vanquished challenger in the Midwest. In a national electoral process notable so far for each state's refusal to follow another's cue, South Dakota continued the cantankerous impulse toward regionaliza-tion, declaring hke Prairie writer Willa Cather that the Midwest wants one of ours.

As a result, Kerrey's strong victory here will give him another chance to argue that he is the best alternative to Gov. Bill Clinton of Arkansas, particularly in the ANALYSIS, Page 10 SIOUX FALLS, S.D. Since his New Hampshire primary victory a week ago, Paul Tsongas has argued that his cam- NeWS paign messae has aP" Pea across the country. AnaiySIS Presented with that no- tion yesterday, South Dakota Democrats shook their heads emphatically no. Emerging from casting a vote for the eventual victor, Nebraska Sen.

Bob Kerrey, Karen Murphy of Sioux Falls delivered her verdict on Tsongas: "I am not impressed. I am tired of Eastern thinking. I'd like someone from the Midwest" said, "is just not the right or fair way to treat an ally who absorbed 39 unanswered Scud missile attacks in a joint effort with the United States to defeat a common enemy." Another committee member, Sen. Don Nickles, Republican of Oklahoma, said, "I really don't like the connnections that have been related between the settlements and the loan guarantees." Before the hearing began, President Bush told reporters traveling with him on Air Force ISRAEL, Page 20 the loan guarantees to a settlement freeze, the administration may be jeopardizing both the peace process and the lives of Jews in the former Soviet Union. Some senators also said the administration is provoking a rift between the United States and Israel and is interfering with Israeli politics.

The administration is in danger of infringing "on a nation's fundamental national security," said Sen. Arlen Specter, Republican of Pennsylvania. Imposing such conditions, he WASHINGTON Angry senators lashed out at Secretary of State James A. Baker 3d yesterday for saying Israel cannot have $10 billion in loan guarantees to help resettle Soviet Jewish immigrants unless it agrees to stop building settlements in the occupied territories." I' Senators on the Foreign Relations operations subcommittee charged that by linking Apprentice, Aintrak faulted in '90 Back Bay train crash Immigrants and Italians face strains Ration's economy, tolerance tested By Andrew Blake GLOBE STAFF food: Evolving gourmets Brockton fire probe: Evidence bolsters a police theory that a man murdered his wife and torched his home before dying in the blaze. Page 23.

Consumer gloom: American economic faith fell this month to the lowest level since the severe recession of 1974, a research group's survey says. Business, Page 61. Celtics stumble: Ice-cold Boston bows to the Nets, 109-95. Sports, Page 69. AP PHOTOS GRAMMY JACKPOT Bonnie Raitt (right) brandishes one of her three music awards last night in New York.

Natalie Cole (shown arriving at left) won three Grammy including album and record of the year, for her "Unforgettable" tribute to her late father. Living! Arts, Page 39. An improperly supervised apprentice engineer who failed to adequately reduce speed caused the Dec. 12, 1990, crash of the Amtrak "Night Owl" into an MBTA commuter train at Back Bay Station that left 453 people injured, the National Transportation Safety Board ruled yesterday. The Amtrak train, traveling at more than 100 m.p.h.

as it approached the station, reduced speed to only 76 m.p.h. before it jumped its tracks and rammed a commuter train from Stoughton. In addition to faulting engineer Willis E. Copeland, 54, and apprentice Richard Abramson, 42, who was at the controls, the safety board officials slammed Am-trak's training procedures, its system for selecting apprentices and Amtrak's failure to install warning devices to reduce speed. All of those factors contributed to the crash, said the report, issued in Washington.

Russell Gober, chief investigator for the board, called the Back Bay crash, at the height of the morning rush hour, "the worst train wreck I've ever seen." 1 AMTRAK, Page 7 By Charles A. Radin GLOBE STAFF ROME It was midnight on a recent Saturday. Thousands of North African immigrants who make Rome's central railway station their community center for the evening had left. Only one group remained, clustered around a subway entrance, jostling and quarreling, their color distinguishing them from the white European swirl around them. A police car screeched to the curb.

A plainclothesman leaped out and began shoving and slapping an African, knocking him to the ground and beating him on the head, in the stomach, between the legs. A small crowd of whites moved toward the scene, protesting. "Do you have a problem?" another plainclothesman shouted at the protesters. "Leave! Leave!" this Italy?" cried a Frenchman as the crowd dispersed. "Shame on Italy!" "Shut up," growled a taxi driver.

"They're just drug dealers. Go back to France." The strains of East meeting West, ITALY, Page 18 FBI targeted Mavroules in 1980s Queried role in property sale to engineering firm FEATURES CLASSIFIED Ask The Globe 36 Classified 48-60 Business 61 Autos 54 Comics 36-37 Help Wanted 52 Deaths 28-29 Real Estate 49 Editorials 12 Apartments 50 Horoscope 36 CommlInd'! 60 LivingArts 39 Market Basket 54 Lottery 24 YachtsBoata 75 Sports 69 Learning 18 TVRadio 45 Globe Newspaper Co. again probing Mavroules, this time with a grand jury looking at his ties to two other landmark Lynn businesses the bankrupt Brest automobile dealership on the Lynnway and the West Lynn Creamery, sources said. A source said yesterday that Bob Brest, unaccompanied by attorneys, has already met with federal authorities to discuss the ongoing investigation. Mavroules, a Democrat, acknowledged last MAVROjf LES, Page 16 By Brian McGrory and Frank Phillips GLOBE STAFF US Rep.

Nicholas Mavroules of Peabody was interrogated by FBI agents in the mid-1980s during an investigation of a Lynn engineering company that received prime property from the city at a favorable price, a source involved in the investigation said yesterday. While that investigation did not lead to indictments IK: public officials, federal authorities we ii III 0 935 947725.