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MONDAY EVENING A Miracle Win For The Red Sox See Page 8 Home Expresses Formal Elegance See Page 14 WEATHER Rain through Tuesday. Lows tonight in the mid 60s. Highs Tuesday in the upper 60s. Details on page 2. V3r Lebanon Pine Grove 272-5611 838-6345 345-8812 va Star Drops In On Big Jake L- Ia.

-v- ivt-sn Ck 115th Year No. 35 October 13, 1986 LEBANON, PA. 22 PAGES, 2 SECTIONS The Daily News SI 95 per week by carrier Star Wars Sinks Related stories on page 21. WASHINGTON (AP) President Reagan reports to the American people tonight on the frustrating failure at the Reykjavik summit, where potential agreement on a sweeping arms treaty fell apart over Star Wars testing and dashed plans for another meeting between Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev. The two-day meeting at the little house on Reykjavik Bay was one of the most disappointing superpower encounters of the post-war generation, and in the downbeat aftermath, there were recriminations all around.

Following the suspenseful final act, Gorbachev said it would have taken a madman to accept Reagans proposals. Soviet official Georgi Arbatov blamed the United States for an arms control dead end. White House Chief of Staff Donald T. Regan said: The Soviets are the ones who refused to make a deal. It shows them up for what they are.

The Soviets finally showed their hand. The grim faces of Reagan and Gorbachev tell a story of frustration and Hofdi in Reykjavik Sunday evening. Quake Toll Hits 890; Duarte Appeals For Aid After bidding farewell to Gorbachev, Reagan flew back to Washington late Sunday. Asked for comment on his trip upon returning to the White House, Reagan said, "Tune in tomorrow night. Reagan plans to deliver a speech today from the Oval Office of the White House, beginning at 8 p.m.

EDT. The dramatic, discouraging climax of the summit came after the two sides had reached a surprising agreement to eliminate all nuclear ballistic missiles within 10 years, only to have this understanding evaporate over the issue of testing Star Wars, the presidents Strategic Defense Initiative. Still, amid the mutual blame-'; fixing, the presidents adviser for; national security affairs, Vice John Poindexter, suggested the two sides do not regard Reykjavik as the! last word. i Poindexter fatigued, rumpled and unshaven as he spoke to reporters after the marathon talks in Iceland said the United States will reassess what happened and has (Continued on page 2) undamaged. In a vacant lot near the heavily damaged Bloom Childrens Hospital, doctors and nurses worked in a makeshift field hospital.

In another field, the homeless built shelters of tin and wood from crates. Meanwhile, rescuers picked their way through the rubble with the aid of specially-trained dog teams brought in from the United States, Switzerland and France. On Sunday, officials said rescuers had dug more than 70 survivors from the wreckage of buildings. It is impossible to say how many more are trapped, said Dr. Antonio Silva Carranza.

A A i ,06 IV s- WjN la Vvr Jy Si Pal Blackman Tha Daily Newt Feed Hungry, Rabbis Urge BOSTON (AP) When Jews end their fast at sundown today at the conclusion of Yom Kippur, the holy day of atonement, hundreds of rabbis across the United States will urge them to help feed the worlds hungry. People want to do the right thing. Youve just got to give them a vehicle, said Leonard Fein, founder of a group called Mazon: A Jewish Response to Hunger. Mazon is the Hebrew word for sustenance. Fein said in an interview last week that more than 300 rabbis in 37 states have pledged to supplement the traditional Yom Kippur service with a special sermon about Mazon and an appeal for funds.

Were asking them to say, Look folks, our fast ends at sundown. It is a voluntary fast. Were asking that on this day, you stop and think about those people whose fast is involuntary and will not end tonight or tomorrow night, Fein said. Arson Charges CALIFORNIA, Pa. (AP) Two California University students were in jail today in connection with a fire that erupted in a dormitory over the weekend, authorities said.

Laura Balch, 20, of California, and John Michael Popp, 18, of Reading, were being held at the Washington County Jail in lieu of $25,000 bond apiece, said Jack Duvall, the universitys director of public safety. The two were arraigned before District Justice James Brady of Monongahela on charges of causing or risking a catastrophe and institutional vandalism, Duvall said. Sexism Outlawed DENVER (AP) A regional body of the United Methodist Church has approved a policy prohibiting candidates for the ministry from referring in church paperwork and interviews to God exclusively as a male. All of us are in the process of making the transformation from sexist language to sexless language. This is a step in the direction we need to go, said the Rev.

Keith Watson of Longmont, chairman of the Methodist Rocky Mountain Annual Conferences ministry board, which approved the policy. Under the new policy, phrases such as Divine Light will replace Father, King or Lord, the Rocky Mountain News reported Sunday. Candidates, however, can refer to God as Mother and Father, or he and she. The historical figure Jesus may be called he, but any male reference to a divine or messianic Jesus is prohibited. INSIDE SPORTS Hershey Bears win opener in Baltimore page 8 BUSINESS Business leaders express uneasiness about economys future page 6 STATE Oscar and Felix should have known about roommate contracts page 5 WORLD British monarch welcomed to China page 3 Amusements 15 Business 6 Classified 17-21 ComicsFeature 16 Editorial 4 Family 14, is Local 13 Obituaries 17 Sports 8-12 TV 15 Lots Of Calls This advertiser received lots of phone calls for his ad.

Single car garage has elec Northeast sec tion $25 per mo Call 0004)000 Call 274-3474 to place your ad today. ATTENTION! MYERSTOWN WATER USERS The water ayslem will be (lushed through (Ire hydrants starting the eveing o( Monday, October 13, 1986 each evening therealter until the system Is Hushed By Ordtr of Iho Myemtewn Water Authority The Associated Press failure as the two leaders leave the said. Duarte estimated the number of homeless would rise to more than 300,000. Although he did not explain why it would increase, it appeared to be because the count was not yet complete. Many refugees from civil war fighting between leftist guerrillas and U.S.-backed government troops live in shacks around San Salvador and have swollen its population to about 800,000.

Those shantytowns and buildings in the city center suffered the most damage in the Friday quake. Aftershocks, most of them slight tremors, continued throughout 4v have not reached, he said, suggesting the death count would go even higher. An estimated 150,000 people, many of whom had been living in shacks, lost their homes and 100,000 were left jobless when businesses were destroyed or shut down by the quake, he said. Durate said his personal estimate of material damage was $2 billion, but that an official figure would have to await a survey. All government buildings in the capital were damaged, including the presidential palace, he said.

We are practically going to have to reconstruct all of the city, he I Jt I A SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) The death toll from the earthquake that shattered this war-ravaged nations capital rose to at least 890, and President Jose Napoleon Duarte said hospitals were desperately short of medicine to treat the injured. In a nationally televised news conference Sunday night, a haggardlooking Duarte announced the new death toll, nearly triple the figure of 300 he gave Saturday. He said 10,000 people were also injured in the Friday quake that leveled sections of San Salvador. (There) are many people who are still buried and places where we Fairgrounds Mini-City For A Day By PAT BLACKMAN Staff Writer More than 750 participants in the coast-to-coast Great Peace March trekked into North Cornwall Township Sunday and set up a temporary Peace City at the Lebanon Area Fairgrounds. The weary marchers, along with their Peace City on Wheels, arrived at the fairgrounds at about noon, after a four-hour trek from Campbelltown, where they had camped Saturday night.

Peace City, which has its own mayor, Is made up of a fleet of buses, vans and trucks that serve as a library, performing arts studio, school, kitchen, lavatory facilities, a media office, information center and a trash recycling center a city on wheels. Participants in the march started their journey March 1 in Los Angeles and spent the past six months plodding across the United States to promote global nuclear disarmament. The march is expected to end in Washington D.C. on Nov. 15.

Marchers plan to leave the Lebanon area today, stopping in Myerstown and Robesonia. Katie McGee of the Peace Marchers Speaker Bureau, said that the marchers were well-received in Harrisburg and have gotten a good response for their upcoming visit in Kutztown. We have seven members scheduled to speak at Kutztown University and about 20 spoke in Harrisburg churches Sunday morning, Me Gee said. She explained that the main goal of the march is to raise public awareness about global disarmament. "We are focusing on nuclear testing, not nuclear energy, said Me Gee, a resident of Los Angeles.

Sunday. Twenty mercy flights have arrived with food, medicines, clothing and temporary shelters, Duarte said. But he said there is a shortage of temporary shelter and medicines such as tetanus vaccine, anesthetics, antibiotics and analgesics. The International Red Cross in Geneva said earlier Sunday that immediate medical needs have been met and no epidemics are feared. The six major hospitals in the city were damaged in the earthquake and many of the injured were sent to Santa Ana, the largest city in western El Salvador, which was i i jg Jr A It touch people more than speaking, she said.

This is far more educational than sitting in a classroom," she said. Their faces sunburned and chafed, the marchers trudged along Routes 322 and 241 from Campbelltown. Some walked in groups while others walked alone to complete the 11.5-mile hike. Although all had one common destination, they traipsed along in should write McGee Star Wars destructive Sooner or world. Well be dropping Johnson decision not best thing alarm them up Another nion, "The twist the the meaning Marchers head for Lebanon Area Fairgrounds via Route 241 on Sunday.

They walked from Campbelltown in four hours Reagans Stand Scary, Peace Marchers Say By PAT BLACKMAN Staff Writer Several Great Peace Marchers camping at Lebanon Area Fairgrounds said this morning that they are frightened and upset by the outcome of talks between President Reagan and Soviet leader Gorbachev in Iceland. He blew it, said Tom Johnson, referring to Reagans decision not to call a halt to the so-called Star Wars program. Johnson, who described himself as a generic marcher with no specific title or duties with the peace group, said, I think we lost the most valuable opportunity to end the nuclear arms race; this was the first chance in 40 years to decrease nuclear arms and testing, and he (Reagan) blew it. Johnson said he views the Star Wars program as a first-strike system. Its an offensive system not a defensive system, he said.

Katie McGee, a Los Angeles resident who has been responsible for engaging speakers along the cross-country trek, said she is very upset. There was a hope in the back of my mind that Reagan was using Star Wars as a ploy in negotiating the nuclear arms ban, she said. I thought maybe he was using it to get what he wanted in other areas; he proved my theory wrong. I think its important for people to understand whats going on and if they dont agree with the arms race, they should let it be known they their congressman or call the president, said. is an efficient way to create a system, Johnson said, adding that later, we are going to destroy the have nuclear space stations and well bombs on everyone.

said he thinks, however, that Reagans to give up on Star Wars might be the in the long run. It may wake up and everyone, he explained. It may wake enough to do something about it. marcher commented that, in his opK Reagan administration is trying to treaty around. Theyre trying to change of its intention.

Jennifer York, while she took down her tent at Campbelltown, explained that each marcher was responsible for holding fundraisers to finance his or her journey. She raised $3,000 from family members and friends in her home town of Penn Grove, California, to pay for her trip. Unlike most of the marchers, York says she has been active in the peace movement for many years. "But, lately Ive been feeling more desperate, she said. I want to have children soon, but I feel with all the nuclear testing, its unsafe." York, who said she put her education on the back burner to make the trip, said she had participated in various peace programs and served as a speaker for various peace issues.

But, I believe this (the march) can various styles. A young man strummed a guitar as he walked; a girl read a took as she strolled along. Others gave the peace sign to passing drivers. Martin Sickler of San Diego, and Freda Weis, of Galena who said they met during the march, walked hand-in-hand, he with a peace flag anchored to his belt and she with a sack of sup-( Continued on page 2).

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