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World Nation The Berkshire Eagle, Wednesday, September 14, 1994 A5 Sundlun ousted in R.I. primary In the Nation Ex-treasurer gets 4-month term WASHINGTON (WP) A federal judge yesterday sentenced former U.S. Treasurer Catalina V. Villalpando to four months in prison, rejecting a Justice Department recommendation that she be more severely punished for "lying" to get and keep her government position. U.S.

District Judge Thomas F. Hogan also sentenced Villalpando, 54, to serve an additional four months under house arrest and to do 200 hours of community service for under-reporting her taxable income by $160,000, misleading government officials in the confirmation process and obstructing a federal investigation in order to secure the treasurer's job. The oldest of six children born to Texas sharecroppers, Villalpando was selected as treasurer by President Bush in 1989. The role is largely ceremonial, but the treasurer also oversees the mint. Her name appears on a large amount of U.S.

currency still in circulation. Burns stable after brain surgery LOS ANGELES (LAT) Comedian George Burns was conscious and in stable condition at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center yesterday following a two-hour operation to remove fluid from his brain, a hospital spokesman said. Burns, 98, entered the hospital Monday afternoon and entered surgery at about 6 p.m., spokesman Ron Wise said. "I have no sense of impending disaster," Wise said, adding that Burns "tolerated the surgery well With any kind of luck he'll be out of here in a week." Burns was flown to Cedars-Sinai for observation July 13 immediately after a fall in a bathtub in his Las Vegas home, which required two stitches for a cut. He was released from the hospital then, but his speech was slurred as a result of the accident and the slurring worsened recently, according to Burns' manager, Irving Fein.

The fluid had gathered above Burns' brain as a direct result of the fall, Wise said, and the surgery was designed to relieve pressure on the brain. of wedlock. Rhode Island's economy also has lagged in the region. With 81 percent of the vote counted, York had 57 percent to Sundlun's 28 percent On the Republican side, Almond had 57 percent to Rep. Ron Machtley's 43 percent.

Brock's comeback bid was the highlight of the Senate contests. Maryland GOP leaders embraced his candidacy early, but Aron proved a dogged competitor, labeling Brock a carpetbagger who raised taxes and his own pay while in Congress. With 22 percent counted, Brock had a six-point lead. As Republicans seek to gain seven seats and a Senate majority, the nine races without incumbents are major battlegrounds, and the fields for two of those were picked yesterday. In Minnesota, freshman Rep.

Rod Grams was favored in the Republican primary, while Democrats had a spirited two-way race. GOP Sen. David Dure-nberger is retiring. And in Arizona, four Democrats sought the nomination for the seat being vacated by Sen. Dennis DeConcini.

Freshman Rep. Sam Coppersmith was considered the front-runner. Four-term Rep. John Kyi was unopposed on the Republican side, and favored in November. who could not seek re-election.

State lawmaker Ellen Sauerbray appeared on the verge of a major upset in the Republican primary. With 22 percent of the vote counted, Sauerbray led Rep. Helen Bentley 51 percent to 37 percent. Arizona GOP Gov. Fife Symington was heavily favored over a challenger who poured $1 million of her own money into the race and sharply criticized, to the delight of Democrats, controversial dealings by Symington when he ran a savings and loan.

Former Phoenix Mayors Terry Goddard and Paul Johnson led the three-way, Democratic field Former Rep. John Rowland convincingly won the Republican nomination in Connecticut. He also was the 1990 nominee. The Democratic winner was state Comptroller Bill Curry. Gov.

Lowell Weicker is not seeking reelection, but Lt. Gov. Eunice Groark is running on the A Connecticut Party ticket Weicker led to victory four years ago. Sundlun is the second governor defeated in a primary this year, joining South Dakota's Walter D. Miller.

Sundlun was seeking a third term, but his standing slipped during a banking crisis he inherited and plunged after he acknowledged fathering a child out were favored. New Hampshire Gov. Steve Merrill handily defeated two primary challengers. Cuomo vs. Pataki And in one of the fall's marquee races.

New York Democrats nominated Gov. Mario Cuomo for a fourth term. The GOP hand-picked candidate, state Sen. George Pataki, easily won the Republican primary. Early polls have shown Cuomo vs.

Pataki as a tight contest. Several sons of prominent politicians also were on yesterday's ballot, none with a name more famous than Rhode Island state Rep. Patrick Kennedy. The son of the Massachusetts senator easily won a Democratic House nomination. The winner of Washington's Democratic mayoral primary will be the overwhelming November favorite.

So yesterday marked the biggest hurdle in Barry's effort to win back the office he left when a 1990 arrest for smoking crack cocaine landed him in prison for six months. With 52 percent of Washington's vote counted, Barry held a narrow lead over fellow City Councilman John Ray, 43 percent to 40 percent. Mayor Sharon Pratt Kelly trailed badly with 14 percent. The early count also had Minnesota Gov. Arne Carlson ahead in a contest that vividly illustrated the fissure between Republican moderates like Carlson and Christian conservatives, who are a growing power in state GOP affairs.

Carlson's opponent was former state lawmaker Allen Quist, a fierce opponent of abortion and homosexual rights who won the Republican endorsement over the sitting governor. In other gubernatorial contests of note: Parris Glendening, a county executive, won the Democratic nomination to succeed Maryland Gov. William Donald Schaefer, Associated Press Rhode Island Gov. Bruce Sundlun was ousted by a primary rival yesterday while Marion Barry made a strong bid to regain the District of Columbia mayor's office four years after a cocaine conviction. In another contest with a comeback theme, former Tennessee Sen.

Bill Brock led developer Ruthann Aron for the GOP Senate nomination in his new home Maryland. The incumbent, Democrat Paul Sarbanes, crushed token primary opponents. In other Senate primaries: Rhode Island Sen. John Chafee, a Republican, and Wisconsin Sen. Herb Kohl, a Democrat, crushed token opponents.

Chafee faces state Rep. Linda Kushner. There was a four-way GOP primary in Wisconsin. New York Democrat Daniel Patrick Moynihan trounced black activist Al Sharpton. Businesswoman Bernadette Castro is the Republican challenger.

Former State Sen. Gerald Labriola won Connecticut's GOP Senate primary. Democratic Sen. Joseph Lieberman was unopposed in the primary and is a heavy favorite. Busiest day There was voting in nine states in all, plus the nation's capital, on the year's busiest primary day.

At stake were lineups for eight gubernatorial elections, eight Senate races and 73 House seats. For the winners, there was little time to celebrate with Election Day just eight weeks away. Sundlun was crushed by Myrth York, a two-term state senator. York would be Rhode Island's first woman governor if she can defeat former U.S. Attorney Lincoln Almond, who won the GOP primary.

The governors of Minnesota and Arizona also endured bruising primary campaigns, but both Thruster theory in doubt CRASH, from Al Aircraft Certification Service. A sudden reversal of thrust is blamed for the crash of the Lauda Air flight, in which 233 people died. Investigators in that case have been unable to determine why the reverser on one of the plane's engines was activated. Boeing says there has never been a reported case of inadvertent reverse thruster deployment on one of its planes, although ABC News has reported that Boeing had been aware of possible problems with the thrusters. Hampering the investigation, besides the ruggedness of the ac cident site and nearly total destruction of the aircraft, are a less than state-of-the-art flight data recorder and, apparently, little indication from the cockpit voice recorder of what went wrong in the 23 seconds that elapsed between apparently normal flight and the crash.

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Court blocks EPA's ethanol rule WASHINGTON (WP) A federal appeals court yesterday temporarily blocked the Clinton administration from mandating the use of ethanol in gasoline as part of the government's latest effort to clean up auto emissions. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia ruled that the Environmental Protection Agency may not have made a convincing case when it gave preference to ethanol as a gasoline additive in its renewable-fuels program. The court put a stay on the EPA's decision so that both sides can present arguments on the issue to the court. EPA officials insisted yesterday that the court action would not force a delay in other parts of the agency's renewable-fuels program under the Clean Air Act.

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