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A 2 TIMES-ADVOCATE, Escondido, Tuesday, September 22, 1987X Refunds? What about refunds? i When players go on strike, fans may want to also. Al- though a strike has been called, officials for the local say they wont know until at least tomorrow whether this weekends games will be played or how they will handle refunds, if any are issued. Although the team does not ordinarily issue refunds on tickets. Jack Teele, the Chargers director of administration, said for any games that are canceled or played with less than our regular players, that is, with new squads. full refunds will be made.

(Tickets cost $14, $18, $20 and $25.) Any refunds that are issued probably will be handled in person at the ticket office, on a game-by-game basis. Were not calling off the whole season, Teele added. Were taking it one game at a time. For the moment, the team is awaiting word from the executive committee of the NFL management council on the status of this weekends games. And, said Jack Teele, the Chargers director of administration, at this point we dont know whether our players will honor the strike or not.

For further information call 563-8281. Bowl Continued from page Al Rose Bowl. If the strike is one week, we could push the season and the playoffs back a week, Land said. That was done in 82, when only one week (instead of two) separated the playoffs and the Super Bowl." I dont have any more insight than to look historically to 1982, added Steeg. It was only a nine-game (regular) season, but there was a tournament to get into the Super Bowl.

And it all boiled down to an exciting game between Washington and Miami. The stakes are so high that peo-: pie cant afford not to keep it scheduled, Land said. From the task forces standpoint, we just hope cooler heads (at the bargaining table) will prevail. Estimates vary on just how badly a players strike will hurt the economic returns hoped for in San Diego. It would really be a major loss to us, said Dal L.

Watkins, president of the San Diego Convention Visitors Bureau. Watkins said the Super Bowl is expected to at- tract 75,000 visitors and generate $140 million into the local economy, but a protracted strike could lower those estimates Gulf Continued from page Al President Reagan today defended the U.S. attack. He denied that the United States had entered a shooting war and said he did not intend to notify Congress of imminent dangers under the War Powers Act. We did what was authorized by law any place in international waters, Reagan said at the White House.

Tehran radio reported on the attack in its main broadcast at 2 p.m. The ship belonged to the shipping company of the Islamic Republic of Iran and had been placed at the disposal of the countrys navy, the radio said. The report came only a few hours after Parliament Speaker Hashemi Rafsanjani insisted the United States had attacked an unarmed cargo vessel. Rafsanjani categorically denied the Iran Ajr was laying mines, according to Irans official Islamic Republic News Agency. Those who have entered the region by force and embarked on wicked acts will soon regret their actions, Rafsanjani told the Iranian Parliament today, according to an IRNA reported monitored in Cyprus.

He said the raid will not go unanswered. Rafsanjani said the Americans fired on the ship to overshadow Iranian President Ali Khameneis speech to the United Nations General Assembly today. Khamenei was expected to outline his countrys stand on a U.N. cease-fire resolution aimed at ending the 7-year-old war Iran-Iraq war. An Iranian Foreign Ministry statement said U.S.

charges that the ship was laying mines were a fictitious excuse. The Foreign Ministry statement added: The American aggression will certainly receive an appropriate response from the Iranian nation and the Islamic World. The attack Monday night was the deadliest U.S. strike against Iran since the Reagan administration began expanding the American presence in the gulf in July in an effort to protect Kuwaits tankers and keep the oil shipping lanes open. The Iran Ajr, an amphibious landing craft, was attacked 50 miles northeast of Bahrain in inter A spied the mine-laying through night-vision devices.

One of the helicopters opened fire with 7.62 mm machine guns and 2.75-inch rockets, setting the ship ablaze, the Pentagon said. Although the Pentagon indicated one American helicopter opened fire. Pentagon sources said two choppers may have taken part in the assault. The attack occurred as Iran faces increasing pressure to halt attacks in the gulf and accept the U.N.-sponsored cease-fire resolution. President Reagan opened the general debate session of the 42nd U.N.

General Assembly Monday with a call for international sanctions against Iran if it rejects the truce. The war between Iran and Iraq spilled over into the waterway in 1984, and the two countries have attacked more than 350 ships in the gulf since then. Iraq strikes at ships to cripple Irans oil exports, and Iran retaliates with attacks on neutral shiping, saying if its commerce is not safe, other shipping will not be either. The Reagan administration agreed to reflag 11 Kuwaiti tankers to protect them from attacks from Iran, which accuses Kuwait of aiding Iraq. Five West European governments have sent forces to the gulf to safeguard commercial shipping.

The United States and Iran have confronted one another in the gulf before. A Navy F-14 Tomcat fighter fired two missiles Aug. 8 at an Iranian jet that was judged to be making a hostile approach on another plane. However, both missiles missed their target. national waters.

Pentagon and White House officials said. The ship was under tow today by an American warship, witnesses reported. It was not clear where the ship was being taken. Witnesses aboard a chartered television news helicopter said that from a distance of about three miles the Iran Ajr showed no visible signs of damage. Gulf-based shipping salvage sources, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the Iranians dispatched a chartered tug, the Salvas Count, to the central gulf are where the Iran Ajr was under tow.

A shipping industry source with close ties to Iran said the tug was warned away by the U.S. Navy when it was about five miles from the Iranian vessel. The U.S. strike came shortly after a British tanker reported it was attacked about 100 miles north of Bahrain. The Pentagon said the incidents were not related.

This morning, the Iraqi News Agency said in a report monitored in Cyprus that Iraqi warplanes raided a large naval target off the Iranian coast. Iraq uses the term to describe tankers carrying Iranian oil. Lloyds Register of Shipping for 1982-83 lists Iran Ajr as a roll-on, roll-off cargo ship, built in 1978 and owned by the Iran National Shipping Lines. The vessel does not appear in later editions of the registry, indicating it may have been removed from Irans civilian fleet. Pentagon spokesman Fred Hoffman said at least two American helicopters were on patrol from the frigate USS Jarrett when they thought I knew what was going on, I kept thinking, My gosh, Miramar is getting bombed out of its gourd.

In Escondido, firefighters decided to climb into the departments four-story training tower to get a better look at the lights. It was pretty spectacular stuff, said Capt. Todd Smith. Besides providing a free show, the lightning was blamed for knocking out power lines serving 58,000 San Diego Gas Electric Co. customers, said Dave Smith, a company spokesman.

Most of the power outages from 2 to 8 a.m. were reported in East County, western San Diego and southern Orange County, Smith said. There were, however, several hundred residents without electricity this morning in Fallbrook and Rainbow, he said. Warm temperatures will accom- erford said. We buy information just like you buy a loaf of bread, he said.

Tracers charges a flat fee of $300 for finding a missing person who is suspected to be lost in California and a flat $900 fee for find a person lost elsewhere in the nation or oversees. Rutherford established the business 10 years ago and has solved about 1 1,000 cases since, he said. Burton said the money paid to Tracers was well spent. He considers himself blessed to have a second chance with his lost family. Im just lucky to be alive, I guess.

San Diego Chamber of Commerce, said because Super Bowl demographics suggest the game itself is really just an excuse for a week-long party, he thinks any economic erosion caused by substitute players would be minimal. If theres a Super Bowl played, whether its played by top-notch players or freshmen or second string, the folks are still going to come, Bonelli said.As long as the NFL goes ahead with the game, the people are going to come. Planners reject park plan FALLBROOK The Fallbrook Planning Group voted Monday to oppose park district boundaries proposed by Bonsall residents. The proposed Bonsall Community Service District boundaries reach into the southeast corner of the Planning Groups and Fallbrook park districts area, around Highway 75 and Interstate 15. Fallbrook park district chairman Don Dussault, the former chairman of the planning group, lobbied the planning group to oppose the Bonsall boundaries.

The group voted unanimously to recommend to that the Bonsall district stop at Fallb rooks border. Dussault fears that the Fallbrook district could lose thousands of dollars in park developer fees in that southwest corner. EORTUNEiSXISTj NEW YORK (AP) Here is Fortune magazines list of the 11 richest individuals. Sultan Hassanal Bolk-iah, 41, Brunei, $25 billion, oil, foreign investments. King Fahd, 67, Saudi Arabia, $20 billion, oil.

Sam Moore Walton, 69, United States, $8.7 billion, discount retailing. Samuel I. Newhouse 59, and Donald E. Newhouse, 58, United States, $7.5 billion. Queen Elizabeth II, 61, England, $7.4 billion, real estate, investments.

Kenneth Colin Irving, 88, Canada, $6 billion, oil, shipbuilding, forest products, newspapers. Lester Crown, 62, United States, $5.7 billion, major stake in General Dynamics real estate, sports teams. Kenneth Roy Thomson, 64, Canada, $5.5 billion, newspapers, retailing, real estate. Forrest E. Mars 83, Forrest E.

Mars 56, and John F. Mars, 52, United States, $5 billion, owners of Mars Inc. Albert Reichmann, 58, Paul Reichmann, 56, and Ralph Reichmann, 53. Sheik Jaber al Sabah, 61, Kuwait, $5 billion, oil. It depends, Watkins said, on how well substitute players could play and on fans reaction to them.

But, Watkins said, the strike five years ago does suggest a brighter side. If they got eight or nine games in, there was a feeling that they had a season and a reason for a Super Bowl, he said. And that gives San Diego about six more weeks to agonize. Garry Bonelli, vice president of communications at the Greater Pendley, calling the North Korean charges false, said they were part of an attempt to persuade the world that military tension was growing on the divided peninsula and the Olympics were in danger. North Korea has charged in recent months that the UNC is trying to increase military violations and has violated the armistice agreement thousands of times.

UNC officials have rejected the charges, saying they are false or involve minor administrative matters such as the wearing of arm-bands. South Korea has expressed concern that the North may attempt to disrupt the Games. North Korea was blamed for a bombing at Seoul airport during the 1986 Asian Games which left five people dead. EORBESkLISTj NEW YORK (AP) Here is Forbes magazines list of the 10 richest individuals or families in the world, including age, nationality and source of wealth. Forbes grouped the billionaires in broad categories and did not offer specific estimates of wealth for each person.

More Than $15 Billion Yoshiaki Tsutsumi, 53, Japan, transportation, hotels. More Than $10 Billion Taikichiro Mori, 83, Japan, property development. More Than $5 Billion Brenninkmeyer family, West Germany and the Netherlands, retailing. Yohachiro Iwasaki, 85, Japan, logging, property. Shigeru Kobayashi, 60, Japan, real estate.

Hans and Gad Rausing, Sweden, liquid packaging. Albert, Paul and Ralph Reichmann, Canada, real estate. Kenneth Roy Thomson, 64, Canada, news media, oil. Sam Moore Walton, 69, United States, discount retailing. Haruhiko Yoshimoto, 63, Japan, real estate.

Last Oct 15 Moonset Regional Games Continued from page Al and Chinese officials during meetings oi the Military Armistice Commission, which supervises the armistice that ended tbe war. China aided the North during the war. North Korea, which called the MAC meeting, charged at the Pan-munjon truce village that U.N. Command forces had violated its territory and committed 12,300 armistice violations in August. North Korean Maj.

Gen. Li Tae Ho charged that South Korea and its allies were trying to increase tension on the Korean peninsula. He said South Korean naval vessels had violated the Norths waters and U.S. spy planes had violated its air space. Rich Continued from page Al Tsutsumi, No.

1 on the Forbes list, is the 53-year-old head of Sei-bu Railway Group, Japans biggest and richest landlord. The empire consists of railways, more than 30 hotels, 25 golf courses, ski resorts and other land. Fortune's choice, the 41-year-old sultan, owns practically everything in the Delaware-size country of Brunei on the island of Borneo. Forbes cover story includes only foreign billionaires, but the magazine issued a statement Monday with the names of the top 49 Americans on its annual Forbes 400 list, which will be in its Oct. 26 issue.

Only three individuals or families make the top 10 on both maga- zines lists of combined U.S. and foreign billionaires. They are Albert, Paul and Ralph Reichmann, Canadian real estate, newsprint and oil magnates; Kenneth Roy Thomson, a Canadian with interests in news media and real estate, and Sam Moore Walton, the count retailing king from Benton-ville. Ark. Fortune's list also included American publishing magnates Samuel I.

Newhouse Jr. and Donald E. Newhouse; Queen Elizabeth II, and candy makers Forrest E. Mars Sr Forrest E. Mars Jr.

and John F. Mars of Mars Inc. The last big flare-up between the two magazines was when Forbes designed the cover of its June 15 issue to resemble Business Week's. Weather Almanac Moon phases New First Full Oct 23 Oct 30 Oct 7 Tomorrows Sunrise Sunset Moonrise pany the storm during its stay in the county, according to the weather service forecast. Temperatures should reach well into the 90s in Escondido and other North County inland valley areas, while highs along the coast should hover between 75 and 80.

Temperatures in the mountains should reach the high 70s; desert temperatures should reach the high 90s and low 100s. The humidity will also be high. By Thursday the storm and high temperatures should move out. By then, summer will be over. The season will end officially at 6:45 a.m.

Wednesday, but in 1987, the summer did not live up to its billing. According to the National Weather Service, it was the coolest summer in at least 15 years The hottest it got in downtown San Diego this summer was only 85 degrees. Free rides for disabled SAN DIEGO (AP) In a first-of-its-kind program in San Diego, wheelchair users will be given free tickets next month to try out the regions lift-equipped buses and trolley. Nancy Friedman, of the San Diego Association of Governments subcommittee for accessible transportation, said the promotion was designed to get people to try wheelchair-accessible transit. The free tickets are available through San Diego Transit or local organizations that serve the Bang Continued from page Al hour early this morning after the storm knocked down a telephone line carrying the stations signal to its transmitter, said station spokesman Brian Drummy.

Service was restored at 5:38 a.m. Lightning ignited several brush fires throughout the county, including a half-acre blaze off Wagon Trails and Country Club Drive in San Marcos, said San Marcos fire Capt. Clayton Howe. The San Marcos fire, reported just before 4:30, threatened no homes and left no one injured. But the biggest impact of the storm was a spectacular light show.

It was pretty amazing, said Poway fire Capt. Garry MacPher-son, who was awakened about 3:30 by the thunderstorm. Even after I Reunion Continued from page Al either, he said. Finally, he called Worldwide In-vestigators-Tracers on the advice of a friend. Thirty days after calling, he received a call from his son.

Pat Rutherford, director of Tracers, said his group ran credit checks on a William Burton and checked Department of Motor Vehicle records in Connecticut but came up empty-handed. They learned of Burtons whereabouts through secret information they purchased from source, Ruth forecast Wednesdays forecast Nations temperatures Temperatures Indicate previous day high and overnight low to 5 a PST. Nations weather Scattered showers and thunderstorms are expected over the Florida peninsula and from the southwestern third of Texas through the mountains of Southern California. California temperatures Southern California forecast North County Partly cloudy with a 30 percent for showers or thundershowers through Wednesday. Lows tonight 57 to 63, highs Wednesday 80 to 90.

Beaches Partly cloudy with some showers or thundershowers through Wednesday. Lows tonight 64 to 67, highs Wednesday 75 to 80. Sea breezes 10 to 15mph. Mountains Partly cloudy with widely scatt-tered showers and thunderstorms early tonight. Ixtws tonight 45 to 60.

Precipitation increasing a little Wednesday. Highs Wednesday in the 70s. Deserts Variable cloudiness tonight through Wednesday with widely scattered evening thunderstorms, increasing a little Wednesday afternoon. 1 tw.