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ii fc--Tiaftiaw-'J Singles Plea bargain Fulton murder case won't goto trial3A 13-12 49ers nip Saints6B Quarterback Joe Montana Housecleaning, cooking 'easy' for unattached1 Gregory Lensbower has laundry down to a science OPIfflOM 35 cents Chambersburg, Pennsylvania A Gannett newspaper Japan boosts gulf aid offer HEHSMTCD Bush speech at 9 tonight Weather WASHINGTON (AP) President Bush, fresh from his one-day summit with Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev in Helsinki, will go before a joint session of the House and Senate with a nationally broadcast address at 9 p.m. EDT today. State fines Texas Eastern $400,000 for polluting area By JIM HOOK Staff writer Texas Eastern Gas Pipeline Co. has agreed to pay Pennsylvania $400,000 for failing to use proper erosion and sedimentation controls last year during construction of a natural gas pipeline.

Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Resources inspected the construction in late 1989 and early 1990 and found violations in Franklin, Fulton, Bedford and four other counties. County conservation district technicians conducted the inspections. "Texas Eastern's failure to prevent erosion and control runoff from its pipeline construction areas See PIPELINE on Page 12A Partly cloudy tonight; low 60 to 65. Chance of showers Wednesday; high 80 to 85. WeatherTrak's 24-hour pay-per-call service: 1-900-370-8800.

Details, 2A. By DAVID BEARD Associated Press Writer Japan said today that it was considering giving $2 billion in aid to Egypt, Jordan and Turkey, an infusion aimed at strengthening the resolve of nations most severely affected by the U.N. embargo on trade with Iraq. The announcement came a day after Iraq's Saddam Hussein sought to puncture the embargo by offering free oil to developing nations. The White House called the move an act of desperation, and the Philippines today rejected the offer.

But Cuba and Romania have struck oil deals with Iraq and companies elsewhere are trying to continue trade with Baghdad, a State Department report says. The report, made available to The Associated Press, Inside says some Eastern European countries also are trying to maintain their military sales to Iraq. The U.N. Security Council ordered the embargo after Iraq's Aug. 2 invasion of Kuwait, and a U.S.-led multinational force is in the Persian Gulf region enforcing the blockade.

The United States has sent an estimated 100,000 troops to Saudi Arabia to deter a See GULF on Page 12A Jury selection starts today A jury for the case involving a Chambersburg man accused of killing his girlfriend is to be selected today. 3A Lt. governor quits race Lt. Gov. Evelyn Murphy walked the Assatcaguc ponies at Dluc nidge Summit 0X0 hiiuimii iMinimw iii iiiMuiiraiiuwMMjiyuuj pa plank and dropped outofthe Massachusetts governor's race after staging a mutiny the minute Gov.

Michael Dukakis left her at the helm to take part in a trade mission to Europe. Mnrnhv miit tho 1 -JPi'X jf' Evelyn Murphy race Monday, days after she ordered cuts in state spending in Dukakis's absence, and against his orders. 12A Reagan visits Wall site Three years after challenging the Soviets to topple the Berlin Wall, Ronald Reagan has returned to stroll across the old "death strip" where chunks of the wall are now peddled as tourist souvenirs. 12A Brush fires damage homes Firefighters working in rugged terrain near San Diego today battled a brush fire, apparently started by target shooters, that damaged $5 million homes and forced the evacuation of about 175 people. 12A NASA to test space shuttle NASA mechanics trying to beat a launch deadline installed new fuel pumps in the leaky shuttle Columbia in hopes of getting the spaceship aloft by next week.

12A 'v Collector gets more than he bargained for By TAGHRID HANNA Staff writer It was an honest mistake, said Richard Keller, 227 Fifth about a box of items mailed to him from, France containing 19 grenades, an artillery shell and other World War I memorabilia. "I had no idea they were coming. It was something unfortunate that happened," he said Monday. Keller, a collector of World War I memorabilia, said he was expecting a package from a fellow collector in France but had requested empty bottles, a mess kit, military-style leggings and two boxes of French cookies. He said he did not know why the grenades were sent and that he never intended to cause any problems.

The package sparked a three-hour evacuation of a mail center in northeast Philadelphia Saturday after it fell off a conveyor belt spilling its contents. The grenades and shell were taken to a disposal site by a bomb squad and blown up. "I didn't ask for them. I'd be crazy (to ask for such items)," Keller said. Keller declined to identify his friend but said he was sure his friend meant no harm.

"I'm sure he selected some items he thought were harmless and put them in a box in the mail. Over there (France) they are used to that stuff being scattered all over the place," Keller said. The grenades and shell were live, according to bomb squad Sgt. Robert Garrison. "They were very badly deteriorated.

We considered them unsafe for storage." Keller said in France such items are more common and can be found lying in areas that had been battlefields. "To them (the French) they're just relics," he said. When he first heard about the incident, Keller immediately knew the package was being sent to him. "It was the cookies" that gave him the clue, he said. He took off work at Letterkenny Army Depot to straighten out the matter.

Investigators from the U.S. Postal Inspection Service, Harrisbura division, and the See GRENADES on Page 12A Public OpinionMarkell DeLoatch Michael Pryor grooms pony Beebe Breeze at his stables in Blue Ridge Summit. Ponies settle in new home Obituaries Louise E. Feldman, 95, formerly of Chambersburg. Mary E.

Lane, 73, Chambersburg. John O. Park, Chambersburg. Wilbur A. Shope, 84, Roxbury.

4A Index Pryor bought his first descendant of Misty in 1987; now he has 13. He also leases Misty's daughter Stormy and Misty, who is stuffed by a taxidermist. He keeps Misty in his home. Pryor stumbled across the ponies three years ago. "I was vacationing down there, (Chincoteague) and the motel I was staying at was across from the pony farm.

It was raining one day and we couldn't go to be beach so we went to see the ponies." Within a few days, Pryor purchased two of Misty's descendants from Paul Merritt, who owns the pony farm where Misty's family Lived. Over the weekend, Pryor came back with three more ponies of Misty's lineage. He will bring back a stallion later. See PONIES on Page 4A By TIM SULLIVAN Staff writer BLUE RIDGE SUMMIT A local restaurateur has brought a small part of an American tradition to Franklin County. Michael Pryor has purchased the descendants of the famed "Misty of Chincoteague," the pony celebrated in Margeurite Henry's 1947 novel.

Pryor read the book as a child, but never thought he would end up owning Misty's descendants. The book tells the story of one of the wild ponies that run free on Assateague Island, which straddles the Virginia and Maryland border on the Atlantic coast. Every year, some of the ponies are driven across a narrow strip of water to Chincoteague, where they are auctioned. The pony swim has become a yearly ritual, attracting thousands of spectators. Ann Landers 3B lifestyle 1-38 Businessfarm 10A Lotteries 2A Classified 9-12B Obituaries 4A fetiks 5B Police Log 4A CountyRegion 3A.4A.9A Sports 6-9B Editorial 11A StateNation 12A Hospitals 2A Television 4B Shuster sees U.S.

victory in Middle East Shuster: Letterkenny an efficient operation U.S. Rep. Bud Shuster says Iraqi blockade is working. to tell from a command control point of view what we are doing," he said. Shuster would not disclose the number of American casualties that could result from such a scenario, saying the information may be classified.

The amount of Arab resentment toward Saddam was a surprise, Shuster said. "The Arab world is saying this thing is not going to be over until we get rid of Saddam," he said. According to Shuster, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak believes the average Arab is not sympathetic to Saddam. They know Saddam is not a religious Muslim, is a secularist and did not recognize the poor masses until recently, he said. "All of a sudden he discovered religion and the poor, and it doesn't wash with the average Arab," Shuster said.

Saddam being overthrown by a See SHUSTER on Page 4 A By TAGHRID HANNA Staff writer Political analysts have said the Middle East crisis is a test of wills, which U.S. Rep. Bud Shuster, R-Everett, believes the United States is closer to winning each day. "As each day goes by, we get stronger and he (Saddam Hussein) becomes economically weaker," Shuster said Monday, when he met with Public Opinion editorial board. Shuster was one of 22 House members to recently tour Bahrain, Egypt and Saudi Arabia.

Shuster said the economic blockade against Iraq is working. Not being able to export oil, Iraq is hard pressed for money. Even if Iraqi allies managed to send food and aid, it wouldn't be enough to tide over its millions of people, he said. The $1 billion a month bill to keep U.S. troops in the Middle East is not a big concern, Shuster cord have helped the depot distinguish itself.

"People with RIF notices in their pockets working round the clock, that's the kind of attitude that helps," he said, i Shuster said the transfer of employees from Lexington and The Presidio is still in effect but could change in the future. However, he said the situation in the Persian Gulf is helping to slow down military reductions. Perhaps in five years when military cuts occur, consolidating the military branches into one unified defense department is a possibility, he said. "There would be no Letterkenny Army Depot but a Letterkenny Defense Depot," Shuster said. "That's another reason to position ourselves as strong as we can." By Taghrid Despite military reductions, U.S.

Rep. Bud Shuster, R-Everett, sees Letterkenny Army Depot playing a crucial role in a streamlined military. Shuster said the decision to transfer employees from closed bases in Lexington, and The Presidio, San Francisco, to Letterkenny was a major victory in a continuing battle against military reductions. "I believe you can fight all you want but you've got to have something worthwhile to fight for and Letterkenny is worthwhile to fight for. It's an efficient depot.

It has substance. It's been modernized," he said. Keeping the depot efficient and productive will be crucial to limit cuts when they come, Shuster said. A good employee attitude and a good work rec-' and the United States could forgive the other half. However, if the situation were to come to a military conflict, the United States could cripple Iraqi forces and infrastructure within 72 hours, Shuster said.

The Iraqis have more forces on land but their air capability and intelligence would be no match for American forces. "We've got eyes in an intelligence point of view, and they'd be blind. They wouldn't be able said. Kuwait has pledged $4 billion. He said Saudi Arabia has pledged "substantially more" but wouldn't disclose the amount.

Japan pledged $1 billion. "So far, I can see where there is more than $11 billion pledged," Shuster said. "We're O.K." Shuster doesn't agree with President George Bush's proposal to forgive a $7 billion Egyptian debt for the purchase of arms. He suggested other Arab countries help Egypt pay 50 of the debt.