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Some waved their fists at the leaders numbering about two dozen and shouted "Resign! over the holiday music blaring from loudspeakers One caustic sign likened the Soviet leadership to Nicolae Ceausescu the Romanian dictator executed in December after a popular uprising "Kremliii Ceausescus: From Armchairs to Prison Beds it rood The leaders clearly expected some criticism They authorized the unofficial demonstration and took control of the traditional parade that preceded it from load Communist Party and government officials But they likely did not exppet the tone to be quite so angry or the scale quite so large Gorbachevs popularity has waned during his five years in office because his reforms have failed to resolve chronic economic problems Many people believe supplies of food housing and con-' sumer goods actually are worse under Gorbachev He also is-under fire for the blockade of oil raw materials and other goods he imposed on Lithuania to force the Baltic republic to back off its March 11 Jack Daniels Mikhail Gorbachev declaration of independence For decades the Red Square rally on May Day has been an orchestrated show of support for official policies Entry onto Red Square was rigidly controlled This year there was little of the usual polite praise Just about anyone could join the march on the gray cobblestone stretching from the Historical Museum to the multi-colored St Basils Cathedral "We are all so very tired of these formal galas when long before the holiday the lists of de- -monstration participants were put out said the official news agency Tass Soviet leaders went on record this year as preferring a parade like those before the 1917 revolution when May Day was marked with smaller spontaneous affairs aimed at voicing workers grievances about the czarist regime What they got instead were posters that declared "Down with uk? Empire of Red Fascism and" "Today a Blockade of Lithuania Tomorrow a Blockade of Moscow The black flags of an anarchist group stood out in the sea of colors Deaths JOHNSON CITY Mrs Hazel Sheets BOONE NC Mrs Revs Wallace CHUCKEY- Vance Henley CHURCH HILL Eldo Janutolo Sr GEORGETOWN Md Mrs Bonnie KC Burton LIMESTONE I Robert Rader NAPLES Fla Kenneth Davenport WATAUGA Rayburn Nave By Robert Houk Press Staff Writer ERWIN Gov Ned McWherter said Tuesday construction of an' improved US Highway 23 through Sams Gap to the North Carolina line would be under-taken "just as fast as the weather permits and (he good Lord wills McWherter who attended a ground-breaking ceremony for the first leg of four-laning the highway from Erwin to Temple Hill School said funding for the final section of the 15-mile construction project would be included in the states 1991-92 budget Construction funding for the first two sections of the highway which officials hope to have designated Interstate 26 when completed was included in the recently approved 1990-91 state budget "Today we start the extension to the top of the mountain at Sams Gap the governor said "Another section of the project is already funded and will be let this year That will leave us with one fast section of 1-181 to get to the North Carolina border "We will be prepared to fund that in the budget next year so "those of us here today will hopefully drive over the road to have a meeting like this on the North Carolina side "v-State Department of Transportation officials say work on the first stage of the project to widen a 48-mile section from Erwin to Temple Hill School has already begun Holloway Construction Co a Michigan-based firm was awarded the $219 million contract in February Two additional construction bids must be approved before the highway is completed to the North Carolina line in late 1992 or early 1993 State DOT officials originally placed the total construction cost for the project at $95 million -However state engineers say the final price tag could reach nearly $200 million State and county officials from Unicoi Washington Carter and Sullivan counties attended Tuesdays ground-breaking ceremony near the spot where US 23 currently narrows from four lanes of traffic to two Ttep Zane Whitson Please see WHIM Page 8 Tours11 Wx I Beller said he is involved in no other presidential 5 searches Beller rules out second unsought post which Beller was being considered having withdrawn last week from the race for the chancellorship of North Carolina State University Beller had said NC States troubled athletic program -would make the job "a 'meat grinder and he "lost sleep while considering the situation Beller said Tuesday he is involved in no other presidential searches and maintained he is satisfied as ETSU president a job he has held since 1980 Beller said he did not seek out either the UNH or the NC State position entering each race after being contacted by executive search firms Beller said "a person can be happy in a position but still have reasons to look at other opportunities "simply to look into James Yakovakis chairman of the UNH search committee said Beller informed him of his decision to withdraw from consideration while speaking by phone briefly Tuesday but the two did not discuss sellers reasons for withdrawal Yakovakis said the search committee was still in preliminary stages with the remaining finalists as Beller was the first to visit the UNH campus By Sam Watson Press Staff Writer For the second time in a week East Tennessee State University President Ronald Beller has withdrawn from consideration for the top post at another university Beller 54 was among five persons being consi-' dered for the presidency of the University of New Hampshire Durham haying interviewed for the position with faculty and staff on the UNH campus Sunday and Monday as well as earlier in April with a presidential search committee In a press release issued Tuesday Fred Sauce-man ETSU director of University Relations said Beller called him about 8:45 am Tuesday to By be had withdrawn from consideration for the post because he was "simply not interested in the position after the interviews and was "heading home" "Based on this level of preliminary review I decided not to pursue the opportunity Beller said in the press release The UNH presidency is the second such post for.