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A-22 I riday. January 19. 1990 SAN FRANCISCO EXAMINER In a book on her experiences that was published last summer, "Alone at the Bottom of the Pit," she described the stress brought about by the long isolation and her feat of sleeping and "staying in hibernation." Antonio Clpclkr.3 Sued tobacco company te 1 A 1 MCMARTIN from A-l jurors cxplrin acquittals other counts. The district attorney's office will have to decide whether to try those counts again. The suit filed Friday names as defendants Los Angeles County, the city of Manhattan Beach, former District Attorney Robert Phi-liboaian, Children's Institute International and therapist Kee McFar-lane, as well as Capital Cities-ABC Inc.

and its former reporter Wayne Satz. It contends that all defendants joined in a conspiracy to have the McMartin defendants indicted. The suit seeks general damages of $1 million and unspecified special damages. Peggy Buckey also disclosed that after verdicts were announced Thursday, a parent of a McMartin Pre-School child approached her husband, Charles, arid threatened to kill him. She did not elaborate.

She also said that children who once attended the school trailed her to her car and screamed epithets at her. Peggy Buckey said she hoped to win enough money in damages to buy a home to replace the one she lost as a result of paying for her case. meat packing business near their home when the Bayview was called Butchertown. He leaves his wife, daughters Roberta Ruiz of Santa Cruz and Joan Martin of Minneapolis, and seven grandchildren. Hsnrtetta Berk Oakland painter EXAMMER STAFF REPORT Henrietta Berk, whose paintings of 30 years were collected widely in the Bay Area, died Monday at the age of 71 in an Oakland convalescent home.

She had suffered from diabetes for years, and her eyesight was failing, but she told Examiner critic Albert Morch, when he last wrote of a show opening in, 1976: "I have become greedy about every day. I do more, see more and paint more." Morch said she was of the California Butter School, applying paint in generous dollops with a palette knife instead of a brush, Herbert Hoover, who exhibited her work for 20 years in his Hoover Gallery, said she used "huge massive strokes and vigorous color, but she was very feminine. She had a nice soul. People who collected her liked living with her paintings." Born in Wichita, she was married to an Oakland physician, Dr. Morris Berk, and started to study painting when she was 35 with artists Richard Diebenkom and Harry Krell at the California College of Fine Arts in Oakland.

She had her first show in 1959, when she was 40, and was an immediate success. After that, she had 25 one-woman shows at San Francisco and Oakland galleries and in New York and abroad. Her paintings hang in private homes in the collections of famous names in theater, business and the arts. She leaves two children, Steven Berk of Alameda and Anne Berk of and a grandchild, Anthony Steven of Alameda. A memorial service will be held at 1 p.m.

Sunday, Jan. 28, at the Chapel of the Chimes, 4499 Piedmont Oakland. Veronique Le Guen Spent 1 1 1 days in cave ASSOCIATED PRESS PARIS Veronique Le Guen, a cave explorer who set a world re- "They were almost badgering the children," Hutchins said. Another juror who spoke after the verdicts were unsealed agreed. "Even if you accept that the children were molested, it didnt necessarily mean that they were molested at the McMartin school," said juror Brenda Williams.

She added "I dont know if Ray is innocent But it was not proven to me he is guilty." The outcome outraged parents whose children attended the school. "Life is not fair. I tell my children all the time there is no such thing as fair," said Bob Curry, whose youngsters did not testify. Prosecutor Lael Rubin, who devoted six years to the case, said, "We ultimately must respect the jury's decision even though I personally disagree with it "I believe that the families involved in this case and the children involved in this case cannot be forgotten or overlooked in terms of what they have had to endure in the kind of system we presently have." District Attorney Ira Reiner said "I'm obviously very disappointed. This was a very long road, and it was not the results we hoped for." He called the trial's nearly three-year duration insane.

In 1984, when indictments were issued, prosecutors alleged Raymond Buckey, his mother, sister, grandmother and three other women teachers had molested hundreds of children at the school during a five-year period The prosecution contended the youngsters had been raped, sodomized and forced to participate in oral copulation. Prosecutors also maintained the children had been forced to play sex games in the nude such as "Naked Movie Star" and engage in pornographic photo sessions and rituals involving animal mutilations, and had been scared into silence by threats against them and their parents. Prosecutors said pornographic pictures were taken, but they could never produce such evidence. The most important evidence, jurors said were videotapes of interviews conducted with alleged victims at Children's Institute International, a private child abuse center. The jurors said interviewers had used leading questions and coached the children on how they should answer.

Juror Mark Bassett criticized prosecutors for failing to be suspicious of some of the more dubious allegations involving animal sacrifices and satanic rituals. "You felt that at some time, someone should have said 'Wait a minute, did this really Bassett said At one point, the judge said: "The case has poisoned everyone who had contact with it By that I mean every witness, every litigant and every judicial officer." United Press International contributed to this report. EXAMMER NEWS SERVICE NEWARK, NJ. The man who won the first damage award against a tobacco company in a personal injury case has died, but his lawyers said Thursday they would still pursue an appeal of a recent court ruling throwing out the verdict Antonio Cipollone, who pursued the landmark suit against three cigarette companies on behalf of his late wife, Rose, died Jan. 10 at his home in Toms River, said Marc Edell, one of Mr.

Cipollone's lawyers. Mr. Cipollone, 66, died of pneumonia and heart failure. He had been hospitalized Jan. 4, one day before the U.S.

3rd Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia reversed a June 1988 verdict that awarded a $400,000 damage award to him. Liggett Group a defendant in the case, and Mr. Cipollone had both appealed. Rose Cipollone died in 1984 at age 58 after smoking for 42 years. She and her husband filed the suit in 1983, also naming Lorillard Inc.

and Philip Morris Inc. The three companies manufac tured the brands Rose Cipollone smoked, but Lorillard and Philip Morris were dismissed from the case before the verdict was issued. Mr. Cipollone had not gotten "a dime" of the award, Edell said. The appeals court overturned the jury verdict but also ordered a new trial, a move that could expose tobacco companies to broader claims and larger damage awards.

Another attorney for Mr. Cipollone, Cynthia Walters, said his death "doesn't mean anything pro cedurally." The suit "can still be brought, it can still be tried, it can still be pursued," she said. Yuzuru Abe Japanese steel executive ASSOCIATED PRESS TOKYO Yuzuru Abe, the chairman of Nisshin Steel Co. who led Japanese steelmakers in investing in the United States, died Thursday of a liver ailment at age 73. Under Mr.

Abe's leadership, Nisshin Steel became the first of Japan's leading steelmakers to launch a joint venture in the United States when it agreed in 1984 with Wheeling-Pittsburgh Steel the eighth-largest U.S. steelmaker, to produce and sell aluminum and galvanized steel sheets on the U.S. market. Sydney Johnson Valet to Duke of Windsor ASSOCIATED PRESS PARIS Sydney Johnson, longtime valet to the Duke of Windsor, died Wednesday at age 69. Mr.

Johnson entered the service of the late King Edward VIII when the duke was governor-general of the Bahamas during World War II and remained with him for more than 30 years. Edward was forced to abdicate the throne in 1936 because of his announced intention of marrying a divorced American, Wallis Warfield Simpson. Candy Jones 1940s model ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK Candy Jones, a top cover girl of the 1940s and the highest-paid model of her time, died Thursday of cancer at age 64. Born Jessica Wilcox, she won the Miss Atlantic City Pageant in 1941 when she was 16. She signed a contract with the Conover Model Agency in New York and was the first model to earn $35 an hour, considered an astounding fee in the 1940s.

She was the first to be featured on the covers of 11 national magazines at once. Miss Jones was named Model of the Year in 1943 and served as the model for a postage stamp issued during World War II honoring women in the Navy and Air Corps. funeral Notices 1976 FU PHOTO John Joseph BaZrM4 retired San Francisco fireman, is dead at 77. John ex-fireman, dies of cancer FXAMMER STAFF REPORT John Joseph Baldelli, who retired as assistant chief after 40 years with the San Francisco Fire Department, died of cancer Tuesday in a San Francisco hospital at age 77. Mass was said early Friday at St Vincent de Paul Church.

He figured in many newspaper stories that told of acts of heroism, the earliest shortly after he became a fireman in 1935 when he bumed his hands helping to rescue several families from a three-alarm fire in the Mission District. He carried a 64-year-old woman down from her third-floor apartment through a burning building in a nighttime fire on Market Street in 1954, and in 1964, by then a battalion chief, helped evacuate 16 families from a burning apartment house. He became assistant chief and sometimes acting chief of the department in the 1970s and retired at the end of 1975. He was married in 1938 to Rita Marie Venturi of San Francisco, who survives him, and lived all his life in a house in the Bayview District that his father moved across the city when the Golden Gate Park Panhandle was being built in the 1920s. He was the son of Baldo and Maria Baldelli, who immigrated from Italy.

His father worked in the BEITASHOUR, William BERK, Henrietta EATON. Rotita EMMONS. R.Bruce FONC, George HIGA, Paul (Paulie) HOWARO.NellieC. JOHANSON.Valfrid Vital MARSHALL. AileenM.

McGIL VRAY, John D. Ill SWAHN. Agatha WINSTON. Jess J. BEITASHOUR, William Died Jan.

14, 1990. of natural causes: Age 49 years; survived by his mother, Rosa Beitashour of Turlock; two brothers, Edward Beitashour of San Jose and Ninous Beitashour of S.F; a sister, Angel Kaldanl of Turlock; he was an auto salesman at Shen Lincoln Mercury Dealership in Burlingame: a native of Iran; he came to S.F. in 1966; a member of the Church of the East of Turlock and the Syrian-American Civic Club. Evening Service Jan. 21, 7 p.m., WHITEHURST-NORTON CHAPEL, Turlock.

Funeral Service Jan. 22, 11 a.m. at Church of the East. Burial Turlock Memorial Park. Visitation 2 p.m.

to 9 p.m., WHITEHURST-NORTON CHAPEL. Contributions in his memory may be made to the Ashor-Banipal Library of Chicago, IL. BERK, Henrietta In Oakland, January 16, 1990; loving mother of Anne Elaine Berk, and her husband, Bruce Cantacessl of Oakland, Steven Henry Berk and his wife, Julie Miles of Alameda; dear sister of: Adele Nussbaum and her husband. Dr. Herman Nussbaum of Tujunga, CA, Sam Robin and wife Sylvia of San Bruno, CA; dear grandmother of Anthony Steven Berk; also survived by many close and loving relatives' and friends; a native of Wichita, Kansas; age 71 years; a member of the Senior Tutor Program which is designed to assist dell-quent boys; Ms.

Berk was a prominent Bay Area artist who had 26 ''one woman'' shows; Henrietta had a long struggle with diabetes for many years; she won numerous awards for her art and continued painting throughout her lllnesv. Friends are invited to attend Memorial Services at CHAPEL OF THE CHIMES, 4499 Piedmont Oakland on Sunday, January 20 at 1 p.m. In the Chimes Chapel. The family has requested that in lieu of flowers, memorial gifts may be made to the American Diabetes Association, 3100 Summit, Oakland, CA 94609. In Memoriam LONG-HURST, Donald February 11, 1936 -January 16, 1990.

In loving memory. RON Funeral Directors HALSTED N. GRAY CAREW ENGLISH 1123 Sutter St, San Francisco 673-3000 24Hrs. All Services Itemized VALENTE, MARINI, PERATA AND CO 4140 Mission St. San Francisco 333-0161 To set a world in a grain of sand And a heaven in a wild, flower.

Hold infinity in the palm of your hand And eternity in an hour. William Blake Remember a friend or loved one with an In Memoriam message. Call 777-7320. 1981 FU PHOTO Henrietta Berk applied paint to her canvases in generous dollops. cord after living in underground isolation for 111 days, has died of an overdose of barbiturates, police said Thursday.

She was 33. Her body was discovered late Thursday in a car in northeastern Paris, said police, who called the death a suicide. There was no indication how long Ms. Le Guen had been in the car. Ms.

Le Guen descended into a cavern 260 feet underground on Aug. 10, 1988, near Millau in southern France, equipped with 264 gallons of water, 900 books and crates of canned and frozen foods. She wore no watch and bore no other instrument to determine what time or day it was or what was taking place above ground. A pale but healthy Ms. Le Guen returned to the surface Nov.

29, 1988, eclipsing a 20-year-old record set by Josie Laures, who stayed underground for 88 days. Ms. Le Guen had said her fondest memory during the ordeal was reading "One Hundred Years of Solitude," a best-selling book by the Colombian author Gabriel Garcia Marquez. She said she had grown to like her damp surroundings and had talked to stalactites. The only sound around her was that of dripping water, and her only contact with the outside world was a telephone.

"The calls put into my ears the sounds of people living without me, in the free air," she said. "I missed that and felt bad about it" Upon leaving the cave, she said she felt the joy of being reunited with her family and "a poignant sadness at leaving this cave which I'd become attached to after all." HOWARD, Nellie C. In S.F., Jan. 17, 1990; beloved wife of the late Daniel J. Howard; loving mother of Mary Francheschl, Irene Rolston, Kevin and Steve Howard and the lata Jack and Dan Howard; dear sister of Mary Jane Wynne, and many others In Ireland; also survived by 15 grandchildren and I great-grandchildren; a native of Co.

Cavan, Ireland; age 16 years; a member of the Legion of Mary, League of Sacred Heart; Ret'd employee of Sears, Geary St. Friends may visit Friday, 2-4 p.m. at OUGGAN'S SERRA MORTUARY, 500 West-lake O.C., and after 6:45 p.m. at St. Cecelia's Church, where a Vigil Service will be held at 7:30 p.m.

Funeral Mass will be offered Saturday, 11 a.m. at St. Cecelia's. Interment Holy Cross, Monday. Spiritual bouquets or donations to Catholic charities or earthquake relief.

THE BUD DUGGAN FAMILY JOH ANSON, Valfrld Vltalls In San Francisco, January 17, 1990; husband of the late Anna E. Johanson; beloved father of Aase Solvig Laas; age 94 years; a native of Sweden; a 60-year member of Hardwood Floor Layers Union Local No. 1S61. Friends may attend the Funeral Services. 3 p.m.

Friday. January 19 at ANDERSON'S. Valencia St. at 25th St. Interment Woodlawn Memorial Park.

ANDERSON'S FUNERAL PARLORS VISITOR PARKING MARSHALL, Alleen M. Of San Anselmo, January 15, 1990; dearly beloved aunt of Donald G. Harrison and Dorothy J. Hoelter; devoted great-aunt of Lorl J. Altese and Evelyn B.

Harrison; a native of San Francisco; aged 12 years. At her request no Funeral service will be held. Inurnment private. Memorial gifts to St. Anselm's Catholic Church, Shady Ln.

and Bolinas Ave, Ross, or your favorite charity preferred. A memorial dinner will be held on Sunday, January 21, 1990. For information please call 415-952-3402. CHAPEL OF THE HILLS San Anselmo 453-1440 McGIL VRAY. John O.

Ill In Palo Alto, January 15, 1990. after brief illness; age 12 years; loving husband of the late Bernlce McGilvray; father of John D. IV; father-in-law of Catherine McGilvray, and grandfather of Victoria McGilvray, all of Palo Alto; loving brother of Ida Pennebaker of San Leandro; born in San Mateo and a member of the family of builders whose works include Stanford University, San Francisco City Hall and Opera House, the U.S. Mint, Fairmont Hotel, and most granite, marble or other stone buildings constructed In the Western United States in the early 1900's. Private services will be held.

Remembrances to a charity of the donor's choice are preferred. Arrangements by ROLLER HAPGOOD TINNEY, 910 Middlefleld Palo Alto, CA. SWAHN, Agatha At rest, January 13, 1990; beloved wife of the late Martin Swarm. Private Funeral Services were held. DRISCOLL'S MORTUARY 126-6300 WINSTON, Jess J.

In Daly City, January 17, 1990; beloved husband of Kathryn Winston; devoted brother-in-law of Willard Adams; also survived by many loving friends; age 16 years. Friends may call at the Mortuary SATURDAY after 2p.m. and are Invited to attend a Service SATURDAY, January 20 at 7 p.m. at the Mortuary Chapel of W.C. LASSWELL 6154 Mission St.

corner Wilson. Inurnment private. Cemeteries-Lots MOUNTAIN VIEW CEMETERY 200 acres OVERLOOKING San Francisco Bay Non-profit. Oakland-Piedmont 651-1616 SKYLAWN Memorial, San Mateo. 2 plots, side-by-side.

$4000 ea. 209-941-6099 FAITHS 222 El Camino Heal.Colma inr COUNSELING 7 DAYS A WEEK 416.788.727 FOR ALL T1 "I feel I have a right to have a home again," Peggy Buckey said. "My husband and I worked hard for what we had And to take everything away from someone who's done nothing it's a nightmare." Peggy Buckey appeared at the news conference with her mother, Virginia McMartin, and her daughter, Peggy Ann Buckey, who both were charged in the original child molestation case but had their charges dismissed. "The truth is always the victor, and that has been proven," said the 82-year-old McMartin, founder of the now-closed Manhattan Beach school that was the subject of child molestation allegations rejected Thursday by a jury. Peggy Ann Buckey, who has returned to teaching special education classes, said her brother, Raymond, who went into hiding after his acquittal on most charges, was delighted with the verdict "He's extremely happy.

He's on cloud nine because he was scared," she said. "There was a great fear that the jury, not knowing the whole story, could convict. Thank God they were intelligent enough not to." Jurors who cleared the pair Thursday said children may really have been molested. But they said prosecutors in the nation's longest, costliest trial failed to link sexual abuse to the defendants. "I tried to believe the children," said juror Daryl Hutchins.

But Hutchins added the youngsters had been so "contaminated" by parents' suggestions and therapists who interviewed the children that he could not accept their testimony. SOVIET from A-l Soviet army fires on Azerbaijani's region to the brink of chaos. "I think we must, take tough measures," Armed Forces Political Director Alexei Lizichev said on Moscow television's main evening news. Gorbachev told a' meeting of workers, farmers and engineers in the Kremlin that the Transcauca-sus region was still tense, despite the presence of the troops, and that there are clashes, pogroms and attempts to seize weapons, Tass said. Gorbachev said that although "extremists may resort to every sort of provocation and make attempts to exacerbate the situation, we will do everything possible that the situation does not become more acute." An appeal for calm in the region, where at least 72 people have died and more than 220 have been wounded in what the press and officials are calling civil war, was signed by government and Communist Party leaders.

"Today's tragedy, if it is not stopped tomorrow could turn into a national catastrophe," said the message, released by Tass and broadcast on radio and television. The fighting was showing signs of spilling over from a bloody localized ethnic conflict into a potential threat to the territorial integrity of the Soviet Union. Reports from Azerbaijan now talk of growing calls by political activists for their republic's secession from the Soviet Union. Virtually all off Baku, an oil cen EATON, Roslta Died In Mill Valley, Jan. 17, 1990; loving sister of Frank Rivera of S.F.

and Charles Rivera of Petaluma; dear aunt of Charles Rivera of Visalia, Ronald Rivera of Fremont, Diane Albeckt of Windsor and Rochelle Rivera of S.F.; a native of Spain; age 76 years; lifelong member of KQED and the S.F. Opera. Private Family Services pending. Donations in her memory may be made to the American Cancer Society. Arrangements by Neptune Society, San Rafael.

EMMONS, R. Bruce At rest in Palo Alto, Wednesday, January 17, 1990: R. Bruce Emmons: husband of Gretchen Emmons of Palo Alto; father of Gillian Emmons of Lexington, Mass, Michael Emmons of Sonoma, Oets Emmons of Palo Alto and Mathew Emmons of Portland, grandfather of five; brother of Baird Emmons of Ventura, Ca, Franklin Emmons of Hastings, Neb. and Mrs. Carol Pollard of Friend, Mr.

Emmons was a consulting scientist with Lockheed Missiles Space of Sunnyvale; a native of Niobrara, age 59. Friends are invited to attend Memorial Services at 2 p.m. Saturday, January 20. 1990 at St. Mark's Episcopal Church, 600 Colorado Palo Alto.

The family prefers contributions to St. Mark's Episcopal Church Memorial Fund, Palo Alto Downtown Food Closet, SS Waverley Palo Alto 94301 or Urban Ministry, P.O. Boa 213, Palo Alto, Ca. 94302. ROLLER HAPGOOD tinney, 910 Middief ieid Rd Palo Alto, in charge of arrangements.

FONG, George In S.F., January 17, 1990; beloved husband of Elvira Leong Fong; loving father of Michael, Debbi, Deda, Dana and the late Mitchell Fong; loving grandfather to Erica Michelle Lee and Lauren Michelle Cheung; loving father-in-law to Nikolaus Borthne, David Lee and Bill Cheung; loving brother, brother-in-law, uncle and friend to many. Family and friends are invited to attend the Visitation 7-1 p.m. Sunday, January 21, and Funeral Services Monday, January 22 at 1 p.m. at HALSTED N. GRAY-CAREW 4.

ENGLISH, 1123 Sutter St. Contributions to ALS Foundation, 23S1 Clay St. Rm. 416, S.F., CA 94119 or On Lok. COMPLIMENTARY PARKING HIGA, Paul (Paulla) In San Francisco.

Jan. 16. 1990; dearly beloved father of Eric, Richard and Lorraine Higa; loving grandfather of Sophia Higa; also survived by three brothers and four sisters; a member of the Japanese American History Society and the National Nisei Veterans Organization; age 72 years; Paulle will be missed by his many friends In North Beach. Friends and relatives are invited to attend the Memorial Service Jan. 20, 1990 at 3 p.m.

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man garnet 9335 COMPLETE DIRECT CREMATION NOTHrNG TO JOrN 621-1313 1 CHURCH STREET, 8 F. 1 ter of 1.8 million people, went on strike Friday to press demands that Soviet troops be pulled out of the city and local authorities refrain from imposing martial law or a curfew there, said Savili Peretz, Azer-inform's deputy director. Tass also reported rioting on the Azerbaijani border with Iran, and Peretz said 31 miles of the border fences had been torn down Thursday by Azerbaijanis who wanted to be united with relatives in Iran. By Friday, Soviet guards were in control, he said. In Armenia, activists reportedly were calling for their republic's Communist Party to break away from the Soviet party.

No Western reporters are allowed in the region, and Soviet reports painted conflicting pictures of the situation. The Interior Ministry said authorities had started to round up troublemakers, and that the presence of 24,000 government troops had sharply cut thefts of weapons from state depots. But Tass said the situation had worsened in the two republics Thursday. Clashes were particularly fierce in the Nakhichevan border strip with Turkey and Iran, it said. In its first comprehensive report, the Interior Ministry said that in the past six days, more than 200 apartments or houses had been looted or burned There were more than 66 raids on armories, and more than 100 people have been arrested it said There was no breakdown of the nationality of the victims, although there have been confirmed deaths on both sides in the conflict.

The first reports from Baku said most of the dead were Armenians..