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MONDAY, August 17, 1987 A2 1 PEOPLE W)rldNation A3 The Sun MONDAY, August 17, 1987 Taylor, Forbes depiction of the ordeal that brought the captain fame, and now he hopes, a bit of fortune. WORLD U.S. takes hard look at peace plan fit of an additional week of think-, Six British septuplets still struggling to survive Bird was selected because "despite strong and often unbe-llevably vicious opposition, (she) steadfastly followed the path, of integrity in her political life," said a statement by the Wayne Morse Historical Park Corporation. Morse, who died in 1974, was one of only two senators who voted in 1964 against the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, which escalated the Vietnam War. His opposition to the war cost him his Senate seat.

"Rose Bird set a very high standard of tough integrity in a very difficult situation," said Monroe Sweetland, a former Oregon newspaper publisher and legislator who nominated Bird. He is retired and lives in San Mateo. Bird will accept the award on Oct. 24 at the annual Wayne Morse dinner in Eugene. Stately witness sees hole-in-one OMAHA, Neb.

Gen. John T. Chain Jr. had a hole-in-one Saturday, and he has a pretty good witness to vouch for it. Chain, the commanding officer at SAC's headquarters at Of-futt Air Force Base, was playing at Highland Country Club in a foursome with Secretary of State George Shultz.

Chain knocked in a hole-in-one on the par three, 167-yard eighth hole with a six-wood. Falk draws on drama for his paintings JACKSON, Miss. Peter Falk, best known as the rumpled police lieutenant Col-umbo in the 1970s television series, says his offstage interest painting isn't much different from acting. "You want to have life, spon-f taneity" in a drawing, he said. 1 "You would like it to have some emotional impact, some drama r.

to it. Those are the things you work for. i "It's the same thing in acting," said Falk, who was in Jackson on Friday to premiere five original drawings at a local gallery. Falk has played both cops "nd killers, and portrays a psy- chic in an upcoming feature, which co-stars Jeff Goldblum and Cyndi Lauper. His drawings are less variable: 90 percent of them, he said, are of women.

"I don't know, they just grab me." meeting are to offer their evaluation of how the countries in the region interpret parts of the plan. They will then return to their posts the next day to deliver an account of American concerns to their host governments. On Wednesday, the foreign ministers from the five foreign countries are to hold talks in San Salvador. Next weekend, the same foreign ministers are to meet again, this time in Caracas with other Latin American leaders. After that, a team of American officials will travel to Central America to evaluate the shape of the plan.

"We'll have our experts look at the plan after the two foreign ministers' meetings," said one official. "We'll have the bene- meet on Wednesday to discuss the accord. The administration, which had earlier offered its own proposal, has found itself swept up in the Central American plan since it was signed on Aug. 7 at a conference in Guatemala by the leaders of that nation and Nicaragua, Honduras, El Salvador and Costa Rica. Elliott Abrams, the assistant secretary of state for inter-American affairs, described the Guatemala plan on Sunday as "more a preliminary agreement than a final peace treaty." He said there were important ambiguities that had to be cleared up before the administration could judge how to react to the proposal.

The diplomats at today's hit the road to help AIDS JACKSON TOWNSHIP, N.J. (AP) It isn't easy spending the afternoon with multimillionaire publisher Malcolm Forbes. Just ask Elizabeth Taylor, who, on Sunday, hopped on one of Forbes' motorcycles and rode behind him 100 miles from his Bedminster estate to the Just Plain Janes bar and picnic area, where she attended a rally thrown by a motorcycle organization. In case that wasn't enough excitement, Forbes also took Liz up in one of his hot air balloons. But Taylor, whose social set doesn't usually include the Blue Star Motorcycle Club, took it all in stride, and made some money for her AI DS foundation.

When she motored into the picnic area, the bikers passed the helmet and came up with $1,000. "It was just a really deep sense of caring and loving," said Taylor. "I think bikers are great. I want to become one. Malcolm is making me a biker.

"I'm working on my tattoos." LIVERPOOL, England Britain's six surviving septuplets made it through their first night, but their doctor said Sunday it would be "quite remarkable" if all of them survived. One boy died 25 minutes after the Caesarean delivery Saturday morning at Liverpool Maternity Hospital. Two other babies suffered setbacks overnight but were im proving, the hospital said. The smallest, 15 oz. Erin, improved dramatically, it said.

She had not been expected to live. The birth of the three boys and four girls hailed as Britain's first septuplets was nearly four months premature. The parents are 27-year-old Susan Halton and her husband, Neil, of St. Helen's, Merseyside, in northwest England. Death toll reaches 33 in building collapse y.ww'W'-i" 111 MTtti'Wiinir nim AP WIREPHOTO azon jungle, said rescue efforts would continue until they had found a "reasonable number of bodies" from the Thursday evening accident.

The bodies of a 5-year-old child and her mother were found in the rubble of a neighboring Protestant church that was destroyed by the falling building, Santos said. RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil Rescue workers on Sunday pulled 18 more bodies from an apartment building that collapsed while under construction in the northern city of Belem, bringing the death toll to 33. Edson Santos, a fire department spokesman in the city of 1 million on the edge of the Am BIKER LIZ: Malcolm Forbes inspects a dragon tattoo on Elizabeth Taylor's arm before the two toured central New Jersey on a motorcycle Sunday. The tattoos, by the way, are not permanent. Krlstlan Alfonso Horse society won't say neigh to anyone Balloon sets record for most passengers ported missing they would Skipper making cash from trash LULING, La.

The skipper of a tug that pushed a New York garbage scow thousands of miles on an ocean odysBey is now riding a wave of publicity by marketing a "Garbage Barge Cruise Lines" T-shirt. "Tour The Seas With Capt. Duffy Garbage Barge Cruise Lines," the legend emblazoned on the T-shirt reads in whole, the words curling around a ship's wheel. Capt. Duffy St.

Pierre of Luling, is selling each shirt for $10. Duffy is skipper of the tug Break of Dawn, which lifted anchor March 22 at New York Harbor, taking a bargeload of 3,100 tons of commercial waste from Islip, N.Y. Six states and three countries rejected the refuse during a ocean trek, including points along the Eastern seaboard, the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean. It was not until June that St. Pierre and his crew left the barge back in New York Harbor and returned home to suburban New Orleans.

The T-shirt design is a comic western England. Representatives of The Guinness Book of Records witnessed the flight, but could not be reached to confirm the record. Brink said the previous record for the greatest number of people in a passenger balloon was 32, set by British ballonist Christopher Davey of Bath in 1979. BRISTOL, England Dutch balloonist Henk Brink piloted himself and 44 passengers through the skies over Bristol on Sunday and claimed a world record for the most people aloft in a ballon. Brink, 44, of Tienhoven, said his hot air balloon took off from Bristol and flew about Vh miles before landing in Lockleaze village in By NEIL A.

LEWIS The New York Times WASHINGTON The Reagan administration is embarking on a stepped-up diplomatic effort over the next two weeks to evaluate and influence the regional peace plan put forward by five Central American nations, according to government officials. The stepped-up American effort to deal with the issue begins today when the senior United States diplomats in the five Central American countries meet in Washington with top officials on the peace plan. The diplomats are then expected to relay Washington's concerns to officials in the region, who are scheduled to Believers usher in 'harmonic convergence' Associated Press Exemplifying the do-your-own-thing spirit of the 1960s, believers in "harmonic convergence" greeted the dawn Sunday with Buddhist chants, pop music, their own versions of Indian rituals and heartfelt hugs. A few made sure to wear some flowers in their hair. "The possibility is there now for anyone to receive a personal WATS line to their own god or goddess," said Bob Thibodeau, a psychic astrologer and owner of the Mayflower Book Shop in Berkley near Detroit.

"It's a nice happening," said Anthony Rendina, who happened by a convergence at Goat Island near Niagara Falls. "I wish I understood what it was all about." To believers, the two-day con-vergence was a time to synchronize with new vibrations and launch a period of cleansing to prepare the Earth for contact with alien intelligence in the 21st century. They gathered at sites such as Mount Shasta; Chaco Canyon, N.M.; Enchanted Rock in Texas; Serpent Mound in Ohio; Glastonbury, the English city of King Arthur; and at the massive Pyramid of the Sun in San Juan de Teoti-huacan in Mexico. A few camel drivers and tourist guides looked on curiously as a young man in white shorts and a glittering shawl danced near the pyramids at Giza, Egypt. "I am God, I am God," he shouted.

"They're not completely mad," tourist bus driver Nasser Said commented about the 40 convergers at Giza. "They have different beliefs, but are very nice people who believe in peace." "It's the possibility of people dropping their masks and saying hello, perhaps really able to be happy with no manipulation or fear," said Theo Hedding, who had come to Chaco Canyon from Cape Town, South Africa. Soap star married in $20,000 gown BOSTON Actress Kristian Alfonso once again donned a $20,000 wedding gown she wore as Hope on the NBC soap opera "Days of Our Lives," but this time the ceremony was for real. Alfonso, 23, married real estate developer Simon McCauley in historic South Church on Saturday. The dress by designer Lee Smith is made of imported Paris silk with Italian beading and dozens of extra tucks and touches.

Alfonso left Days of Our Lives" to work in movies and television and has just finished a segment of "Who's the Boss?" From Sun News Services Rose Bird pear at the annual banquet, and even that is voluntary. What a change in tone from the day the founding members laid down the law at Marsh's Tavern, drawing up a proclamation meant to chill the blood of any would-be horse thief. "The great number of horses stolen from amongst us and in our vicinity is truly alarming and calls for the attention of every well-disposed citizen," the proclamation read. "It requires the utmost exertion of every good member of the society to baffle and suppress depredations of this kind." Hanson elaborated, "When the horse of a member was re DEDHAM, Mass. (AP) Ronald Reagan is a member.

So are Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev, Pope John Paul II, Raquel Welch and Wall Street speculator Ivan Boesky. They belong to The Society in Dedham for Apprehending Horse Thieves, even if they don't know it. Robert Hanson, secretary-treasurer of the society founded 177 years ago in a serious effort to combat a real problem, says that now, for $10, anyone can become a life member, or be enrolled posthumously or in absentia. There are no dues, no initiation rites, nothing to do but ap designate the people to chase the horse and track down the thief.

They'd apprehend him (and) turn him over to whatever legal machinery existed." It seems that members started horsing around soon after that first meeting. "There is only one instance in the records that they actually caught anybody," said Hanson. "As for the number of horses stolen, they didn't record that either. "The last instance documented of actually making a recovery was, I think, in 1909," said Hanson, leafing through a worn lined notebook. U.S.

servicemen urged to return skulls Ex-justice wins first Morse award SAN FRANCISCO Rose Bird, the former chief justice of the California Supreme Court, has been selected as the first winner of the Sen. Wayne Morse Memorial Award. ing." The Guatemala accord is de-1 signed to end conflicts in the re-; gion, particularly a left-wing in-; surgency in El Salvador and a right-wing rebellion supported by the Reagan administration in i Nicaragua. The plan differs sig- nificantly from one announced a few days earlier by the Reagan administration and Rep. Jim; Wright of Texas, the speaker of; the House of Representatives.

The administration has been confused over how to react to the i Guatemala accord. Officials said this weekend that a disagreement over the American response to, the plan was a major reason be- hind the sudden resignation last week of Philip C. Habib as special envoy to Central America. Reagan: No 'bad motives'! in Iran deal i The New York Times SANTA BARBARA Presi-I dent Reagan says the administra-; tion officials who organized the; Iran arms deal were not operat-! ing with "bad motives" and that; he can understand "why they did' what they did," adding: "I'm just! sorry that it turned out that way." The president's comments; came in an interview on Wednes-! day with Hugh Sidey, of Time; magazine. A transcript was obtained here on Sunday.

The interview, conducted just; before the president addressed the nation Wednesday night: about the Iran-contra affair, shows a president who continues to defend his original decision to! sell arms to Iran and seek the release of American hostages in the Middle East. His major regret seems to be the way the policy "turned out," not that he pursued it in the first place. This question was highlighted on Sunday by Rep. Lee H. Hamilton, the chairman of the! House committee investigating the Iran-contra affair, who that Reagan described himself as; getting "mad as a hornet" ovef; the issue.

"The question I have is, what; did he really get mad at?" Hamifi ton said on the NBC News pro gram "Meet the Press." The president, Hamilton seemed particularly incensed that his policy had been dis; rupted. Reagan has been notice ably reluctant to condemn thjs "excessive secrecy," the altera-tion of documents, and the "lyinf to Congress" that took place, said. Reagan has given very few iifc terviews in recent months. AI; though the one with Sidey ft; cused on the Iran-contra issue, also disclosed that even before be! was elected in 1980, he knew thai; his economic policies would not produce a balanced federal bur get. In his campaign and in thf early years of his presidency Reagan insisted that his program; of cutting taxes, while increasing military spending, could even tually produce a balanced bur get.

Few economists agreed wit), him, and Howard H. Baker Jr-n then the Republican leader of th Senate and now Reagan's chief oj? staff, called the economic plan "riverboat gamble." Now, Reagan acknowledges that he knew the gamble would fail. Reagan said he was dete mined to enact mechanisms requiring a balanced budget before he left office, adding: "I will rcf gret all my life if we don't get them pinned down." visited Iwo Jima for a month in 1952 for a memorial service, and found "many bones without skulls." The 87-year-old Wachi said in a telephone interview he believed that after the war, "at least 1,000 skulls were taken home by Americans" as souvenirs of the February 1945 fighting on the island, one of the bloodiest battlefields of the war. TOKYO A Buddhist monk and World War II combat veteran said Sunday he estimates that American servicemen took home more than 1,000 skulls of Japanese soldiers killed on Iwo Jima, and called for return of the skulls to Japan. The monk, Tsuneo Wachi, a former Japanese Imperial Navy captain, said he inspected caves, bunkers arid trenches when he NATION AP WIREPHOTOThe Sun BELIEVERS: One of a group gathered atop Mount Tamalpias near San Francisco on Sunday to mark the harmonic convergence greets the dawn and a patch of fog that blanketed the Bay Area.

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"Oh, I feel a tremendous energy from the universe I'm inspired," cried a 37-year-old Portland, Ore. woman, who said her name was Tserling. I the chest, said police Sgt. Larry Hargrove. Joseph Ross, 59, was listed in fair condition Sunday afternoon at Provident Medical Center, said Evelyn Susada, hospital spokeswoman.

Ross was the only person shot but was possibly not the target, Hargrove said. CHICAGO A 61-year-old woman pulled out a handgun during a church service Sunday and fired five shots toward the altar, wounding a member of the choir, police said. The woman, whose name was not released, opened fire during a service at the Liberty Baptist Church on the city's South Side, hitting one man in The convergence was popularized by Jose Arguelles, an art historian who wrote "The Mayan Factor: The Path Beyond Technology." According to the theory, the convergence Sunday and today begins a period of cleansing that will last at least until 1992 to pre OFF Rivers' husband talked of being a burden SYNTHETIC PLUS I REG $159 Israel delays Lavi fighter decision moo 4 7 -a PJJ 1 berg's room at a downtown Philadelphia hotel, were addressed to his wife, his daughter, Melissa, and to Thomas B. Pileggi, his business manager and a prominent Montgomery Country real estate developer. In Los Angeles on Sunday, 300 mourners including a number of celebrities heard Rosenberg memorialized as a loving father and expert manager of his wife's career.

PHILADELPHIA In a message taped before his suicide, the husband of comedian Joan Rivers said ill health made him feel like a burden to people close to him, police said Sunday. In one of three recordings made before he was found dead Friday, producer Edgar Rosenberg also cited "possible business problems," said Sgt. Edward Geigert. The tapes, found in Rosen General telephone numbers: East Valley: (714) 825-1255 Victor Valley: (619) 243-3240 All other areas: (714) 889-9666 Circulation: (714) 889-8584 Classified: (714) 888-3252 News Do you have a news tip? Call the number most convenient for you from those listed above. Or write the Editor at 399 North Street, San Bernardino, CA 92401.

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"Last week we collected eight sacks, put them into a box, but then couldn't carry the box up the steps of the aircraft. It was too heavy." In Newark, N. Virgin Atlantic employees have been using trolleys to transport the money through the airport. And on a recent flight, a Connecticut businessman, apologetic over not having any change, later handed a $200 check to a stewardess. On another flight Virgin Atlantic ran out of envelopes so passengers used airsick bags.

The airline holds the U.S. currency at Gatwick for one week, then returns it to First Fidelity "It's a super idea, and very cleverly done," Ken Kirsten, 59, an insurance salesman from Chatham Township, N.J., said before flying from Gatwick Airport outside London. "It might as well be put to good use," said Kirsten, who traveled to five countries in seven days with his wife, Joan. "We'll give them all the foreign coins we have." Change for Good's appeal starts with a 2'-minute video featuring rock singer Phil Collins, an artist who donated his time. Passengers are asked to put their hard currency inside an envelope from the in-flight magazine, which is then deposited in a nylon sack.

"They're very discreet about it," said John Perlas, 35, a teacher in West New York, N.J. "If you Gannett News Service LONDON So many passengers liked the idea of donating their leftover foreign coins to a good cause as their overseas flights headed home that the envelopes ran out and they had to stuff the change in airsick bags. Called "Change for Good," the new UNICEF aid plan is collecting an average of $3,000 a week halfway through a three-month trial aboard Virgin Atlantic Airways flights. UNICEF officials ultimately hope to sign up all the major international airlines and perhaps collect as much as $40 million a year in foreign coins that are either discarded or unused. UNICEF, the United Nations Children's Fund, says that amount would prevent the deaths of at least 7 million children a year.

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