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Although assumed the title Monday, MUi Chartea waa not preaetrted a crown. "We don't believe thia la the time for that kind of symbolism," aatd Albert Marka, pageant executive director. There waa one bit of aym- boUam, however: The portrait of Mlaa WUHami which had hung in pageant offlcea waa taken down. lit aaid deai waa etmk wife tt Utr tt fc- Her crowa, apptaraMt (tat aM a amoMt tf the in aeHttar- ahip money wMch waa part tf her prttt, ha aatd. Miaa WUliama, a linger, aaid ahe would devote the reat of what ahe called "the moat difficult year of my life" to "eitabllihlng what I hope will be a aucceaaful career in the entertainment buaineaa." Nine die, 17 missing in Illinois explosion ROMlOmUB, IB.

(AP) VMM ON Ce). td eoaerete away cetc plant. i from evovt MM etftiiitiltlte battled five NBb liiHiy vvwyi wmj VPJV BrVBaBBBBBM BMBvi ten tar ereaaaj cad left totfcaat "a gteat vl BOT wat waa eider eoatrel, aaid Varwtaa Williams on," aaM Romeovflte paHce Lt. Andy Barto. Reacue workera ware hampered for houri from recovering charred bodiea at the alte by the choking smoke and intense heat.

Officiate early today had no Information on what might have Wages to head auto talks DETROIT (AP) General Motora Corp. and the United Auto Workera may be on their way to defuaing health care aa a bargaining iaaue, but job security and wagea still loom aa the biggeat obstacles to avoiding a strike thia summer. OM and the UAW opened talk! Monday on a contract for 350,000 workera to replace the hiatoric 1982 accord which provided union conceaaiona to the ailing automakers. UAW President Owen Bieber amiled for photographers and shook hands with GM's top negotiator, Vice President Alfred Warren, in the traditional opening of auto contract talks. Talks start today at Ford Motor where the union represents 115,000 production workers.

Both contracts expire Sept. 14. They were reached more than two years ago while the U.S. auto industry struggled through its worst slump since the Depression. But Detroit came roaring back last year, with GM making a record $3.73 billion profit and Ford a record 11.87 billion.

Both companies paid their top executives millions of dollara in bonuses baaed on thoae and the induitry ia expected to double ita black ink thia year. GM's plana to import hundreds of thousands of small cara from Asia amounts to "blackmail" against the workera, Bieber said at a news conference. "We pointed out first of all, very quickly and I think very clearly, that 1984 is not 1982," Bieber aaid. "The situation ia totally different than when we were here the last time." The average GM autoworker has seen his base hourly wage frozen at $9.63 for more than years, although cost-of-living increases brought that to $12.64 an hour this summer. Ford workers make a penny an hour more.

GM and Ford complain that wages are high enough and health care alone costs several hundred dollars per car. They peg the total cost per hour for a production worker at $22. "We'll be prepared (to strike) if that becomes the only way we can resolve the said. One dies as Amtraks collide NEW YORK (AP) Investigators were trying to determine whether a broken signal or human error cauaed two paaaenger trains to collide head-on, killing one rider and injuring 115 in Amtrak's fourth fatal accident thia month, officials said. The collision Monday on elevated tracks in the borough of Queens occurred when the Boston- bound Zip failed to wait for the southbound Shorellner to pass, aaid Amtrak spokesman Clifford Black.

The traina were traveling on the same track because of repairs, he aaid. The Impact derailed both locomotives and four cars on each train. Firefighters had to break windows to rescue trapped passengers, and the most severely injured were lowered in cherry pickers 80 feet from the tracks to waiting ambulances below. Others were evacuated into another train that pulled alongside the derailed cars and taken to Pennsylvania Station. Traffic started moving on the line again a little over three hours after the 10:45 a.m.

accident. "It sounded like a terrific explosion," said Joseph Specht, who owns a store underneath the tracks. "I ran out and saw smoke." Emergency Medical Services treated 115 people for injuries, including nine who were admitted to area hospitals, officials said. Enrique Gilarranz, 53, a Spanish government administrative official vacationing in New York, died Monday at Booth Memorial Medical Center from chest and abdominal injuries suffered in the crash, said hospital spokeswoman Nancy Simington. The five-car Shoreliner, bound for New York from Boston, had received written initructioni to uae the northbound track because the southbound track waa closed for regular maintenance, Black aaid.

The seven-car Zip, which had originated in Washington and stopped in New York, was auppoi- ed to have waited for the Shoreliner to pass, he said. Each train carried about 160 paaaengera. "Whether it was dispatcher failure, an engineer failure or a signal failure we do not know at this point," he said. "The northbound train was to have held for the southbound train. That did not happen." The Shoreliner's engineer, Bob Hurley, was in critical condition at Elmhurst Hospital with head injuries; the Zip's engineer, Willis Copeland of Bethany, was in stable condition at Flushing Hospital.

Another worker, John Fitzpatrick, about 39, of New Haven, was in critical condition at Booth Memorial with internal injuries, Ms. Simington said. Amtrak set up a special telephone number, 800-424-7960, for anyone seeking information about relatives or friends on either train. National Transportation Safety Board spokesman Brad Ounbar said a report on the cause should take about six months, although safety recommendations could come sooner. It was Amtrak's fourth fatal accident this month.

Five people were killed and 147 injured in a derailment at Williston, Vt, on July a grade crossing collision killed a train engineer and a jtruck driver at McBee, S.C., on July 11; and a collision killed two people in a truck at Elgin, S.C., on July 4. Ntatit. Nattat aaid the btdtta of badly burned vtttinta "ad been recovered frum the cxptoilon but none had been identified. There were 41 workeri at the plant when the exptoalon occurred ahortly before 6 p.m. Monday, he aaid.

Twenty-one workeri were Injured, two of them critically, in the blast and enaulng fires, area hoapltala reported. Two Romeoville firefighters also suffered minor Injurlei fighting the blaaea, aaid Assistant Chief Stephen Clancy. The refinery straddles Romeoville and Lemont, about 25 miles southwest of Chicago. About 15,000 people live in Romeoville. The explosion blew out windows and cracked building foun dationa in Jolict, said Sgt.

Paul Dixon of the Will County sheriff's office. "I was talking on the telephone," said Angela Schmidt of nearby Lockport. "The door blew open like someone threw something at it." Some witnesses reported a second explosion shortly after the first, and others said there were also a series of smaller explosions. "I heard the explosion, I turned around and hit the pavement," said Virgil Powell, a truck driver who was unloading a shipment inside the refinery's main gates. "I ran about 300 yards to a canal and then I heard a second explosion," he said.

"That one really scared me because the heat was so intense I was afraid I was going to incinerate." A spokesman for Commonwealth Edison said the blast knocked out a transmission tower and cut power to up to 10,000 homes. El Paso model Miss Texas USA SAN ANTONIO (AP) Laura Herring-Martinez, a 20-year-old model from El Paso, said her ability to stay cool helped win her the Miss Texas USA crown. Miss Herring-Martinez, a native of Los Mochis, Mexico, was crowned Monday night by Laura Shaw, the reigning Miss Texas USA. She will represent Texas in the Miss USA pageant next May. "My interview was strong.

It comes really natural to me," she said. "I really don't get nervous. That and the eye contact." Miss Herring-Martinez ia the first Hispanic to win the title, said Richard Guy, director of the Miss Texas-USA and Miss El Paso pageants. She also was named Miaa Photogenic during the pageant. Interviewed by telephone from backstage at the Cockrell Theater in San Antonio before leaving for the coronation ball at the St.

Anthony Hotel, Miss Herring-Martinez said she wasn't sure until the end that she would win. "I was just thinking positive," she said. "I was gettting so nervous that my name wouldn't be called out, but it was. "My first impression was compete shock. I was just crying.

I couldn't believe it." Miss Herring-Martinez, whose winnings include diamonds, a fur, a car, clothes and a scholarship worth a total of $80,000, is the stepdaughter of Manuel Martinez, a West Texas cattle rancher, and daughter of Maria Elena Martinez, a psychotherapist. Her parents were in the audience when she won. Her father is Raymond Herring. First runner-up was Tonya Beddingfield, Miss Harris Coun- ty, a University of Houston senior. Second runner-up was Karla Self, Miss Clear Lake City, a sophomore at the University of Houston.

Third runner-up was Angel Hightower, Miss Metroplex, a University of Dallas senior. Fourth runner-up was Leigh Ann Medaris, Miss North Dallas, a Southern Methodist University graduate. Miss Herring-Martinez said her career ambition is to be a top photographic model and an actress. Her hobbies Include drawing, swimming, yoga, skiing and photography. Miss Herring-Martinez said she has traveled extensively throughout the world and "I can talk to anyone." She was educated in Europe and worked as a teen-ager helping the poor in India.

Mexico Today MEXICO CITY (AP) The top Roman Catholic church official in Mexico aaya the immigration control bill now before the U.S. Congress "trespasses all accepted normi" of human righta. Cardinal Erneato Corripio Ahumada told reporters the church hierarchy here has been working with church authoritiea on the U.S. aide of the border to work out humanitarian aid programs ihould the bill paaa to Congress. "A law that contravenes human righta should not become a law.

It waa not properly thought out, and treapaaaea all accepted he "id following a maaa Sunday celebrating the MOth an- niveraary of the Santiago TlaMotop Church. The ao'caUed Slmpaoa-lltaioU bill haa attracted widespread attention and criticism la Mexico, whiehla autttrlng the went economic criaia in ita hiitory. It would apply sanctions to employers hir. ing illegal alieni. MEXICO CITV (AP) Police here thing for tht former director of the aeeret police in cowletton with the im murder oMJ bank rob- pecUandthelhehciwmatlM.OOOinboo.

In January 1982, 13 partly decomposed bodiea were dragged out of a sewage canal at Tula, 50 miles north of the capital. The arreated men con- leased they killed the 13, Identified aa South American bank robbera, then dumped their bodiea in the deep drainage ayatem here that flows out of town to the north, Proceao aaid. The motive of the crime waa reportedly to find out the whereabouts and then take aeveral hundred thouiand dollars that the robbera had stolen. MEXICO CITY (AP) An exhibition of paintings by David Alfaro Siqueiroa will be aent to three muaeuma in the Soviet Union to celebrate the 80th anniversary of diplomatic the Inatitute of Pine Arta announced. Inatitute director Javier Barroa Valero aaid the exhibition, currently on view in Mexico City, will oe aent to the Hermitage Muaeum In Leningrad, the Moacow Arta Academy and at a muaeum in the Erevan Armenian Republic.

He aaid in return the Bolihoi Ballet would appear in Mexico thia September. MEXICO CITY (AP) Mexican eitiatna have between US and HO Muton to tarttgn bank aeeounta ovar tha laat four years to protect their Iortunae from declining economic eoawlUoaa hartj the government Tally SI NttiMtl reported Monday citini Public Pinance director Joaa Angel Cur- i I A. I tht capital efloru to after Brattl. oiflaaiSal of eapttal ka4 llact it Ittt Iftt. RETAILER YOU BET ON JULY 30! Retailer, you can see double on July 30 for Customer Appreciation." You, the retailer, have been our good customer, so to show you our appreciation we will DOUBLE your ad size for no extra cost on this day.

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