The Modesto Bee from Modesto, California • 64

SAN JOAQUIN EDITION Rain delay could help Yankees Page F-l Identifying the dead from bones Page B-l SAN JOAQUIN XUOUJMNE EDITION The Modesto Bee Wednesday October 28 1981 Modesto California Copyright 1981 The Modesto Bee Twenty-five cents a- Reagan close to AWACS win vote today AP photo would only say Tuesday that he plans to make his decision after listening to the daylong debate leading up to the vote at today (2 pm PST) and there was no immediate sign of how the veteran Louisiana senator will react to being cast in the unexpected role of determining whether the sale goes through When the debate opens this morning the lineup based on See Back Page AWACS Revised inflation index hit The Associated Press WASHINGTON Government plans to change the way it measures inflation at the consumer level drew charges of political and Tuesday from organized labor and spokesmen for the elderly The Bureau of Labor Statistics an independent and nonpartisan branch of the Labor Department announced Tuesday that it plans to revise the monthly Consumer Price Index between 1983 and 1985 to reduce distortions caused in recent years by soaring increases in house prices and mortgage rates Most economists contend the current measure of housing costs has overstated the actual rate of inflation and that the new calculations the government plans to use could result in a lower official rate of inflation and smaller cost-of-living increases for at least 90 million See Back Page INDEX By JOHN GOSHKO The Washington Post WASHINGTON President fight to save his proposed $85 billion aircraft sale to Saudi Arabia produced a dramatic breakthrough Tuesday as 10 senators openly threw their support to the president and put him in striking distance of victory when the Senate votes on the package today The backing mustered by Reagan including a startling switch by Sen Roger Jepsen R-Iowa who had been one of the most outspoken opponents of the sale raised the possibility that the vote will end- in at least a 50-50 tie That would leave the opposition one short of the majority required to pass a resolution disapproving the sale if all 100 members vote Adoption of the resolution requires a majority of those senators present and voting Additional senators could swing toward the administration and give it a majority but the White strategy appeared Tuesday night to center on producing a tie vote of the full Senate Its chances of getting a tie or even a majority were acknowledged by one of the opposition leaders Sen Alan Cranston D-Calif He said: odds have shifted The advantage now lies with the The hope of a tie hinges on the expected but still undeclared defection from the opposition of two other Republican senators Slade Gorton of Washington and Mark Andrews of North Dakota If they switch into column the only chance to defeat the sale will depend on Sen Russell Long D-La the one senator who has not taken a stand Most congressional sources have been expecting Long to vote for the sale However he 1 dead 2 missing A Dominican pilot and his American co-pilot were missing Tuesday after their cargo plane crashed off the US Virgin Islands killing one crew member and injuring two others the US Coast Guard said The missing men were identified as Capt Alvin Minaya and Capt Luis Nolasco a naturalized US citizen who lives in Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic A Coast Guard spokesman said it was not known what caused the crash Soviets: US playing with war in Mideast and the sooner the hotbed of war danger in the Middle East will be His words echoed a Soviet statement following the assassination of President Anwar Sadat which warned Washington against interfering in Egypt It was first to the Soviet Union seen as a point for the Soviets in the East-West jockeying for influence in his country talks with Brezhnev were termed by the official Tass news agency being done now by the aggressive forces of Brezhnev said He spoke at a Kremlin dinner for visiting North Yemen President Ali Abdullah Saleh stakes in this dangerous game are the threat of a world nuclear war the prospect of the death of hundreds of millions of Brezhnev said so-called strategic cooperation between the United States and Israel means blood destruction and sorrow for the Doctors 'non-believers' acceptance is slow Holistic Last in a series By NANCY NEHER Bee staff writer President Reagan agreed on new strategic cooperation with Israel during Prime Minister Menachem recent visit to the United States The US policy of is used for interference in the internal affairs of the Egyptian people and creates a danger for the security of The greater the unity of Arab states the Soviet leader said more active the international support of their struggle By Al Golub Bee staff photographer United Press International MOSCOW Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev warned Tuesday that US in the internal affairs of Middle East countries especially Egypt threatens a world nuclear war with hundreds of millions of deaths has never been such a period in history when the policy of states the destinies of whole peoples were manipulated so shamelessly and cynically and with such naked egoism as is Zoo needs $1 million mulls fee By BRYCE WHITE Bee staff writer STOCKTON San Joaquin County may start charging admission to its Micke Grove Zoo as one way to help pay for an estimated $1 million in improvements needed at the facility The zoo the largest between Sacramento and Fresno has lost its accreditation from the American Association of Zoological Parks and Aquariums which says animal facilities at the 25-year-old zoo must be upgraded The biggest concern is that Maggie the 400-pound polar bear and the lions tigers leopards wolves coyotes dingos and other large animals have too little space to move around The zoo six miles north of Stockton in a 60-acre grove of oak trees near Highway 99 will not regain accreditation until the facilities are improved the association says An improvement effort is under way Next month the county is expected to hire a firm to draw up a long-range master improvement plan Actual work is two years away if and when an estimated $1 million can be raised to pay for it The improvements would include budding new and larger animal exhibits that include natural habitats Existing facilities would be used for small See Back Page ZOO alternative medicine or to resist an illness Lethin said And that concept has been around for years The idea of spirit and healing has been around since Hippocrates But not until recently did some western doctors begin to teach relaxation techniques and medical self-care to patients and to practice acupuncture he said That is a beginning but Lethin believes it will take at least 25 Index years before the holistic ideas permeate the medical profession have been treating our bodies as objects for so long at least 2000 years that it will take a while to he said The move has to be away from treating the body like an automobile that has to be sent to the shop to be repaired toward seeing the body and mind as partners much like a man and his horse he said To speed the evolution Lethin helped organize and is chairing the Holistic Health Group at Kaiser Hospital in San Francisco The group mostly nurses and other non-physician health professionals meets monthly to discuss ways help our patients and to help through holistic techniques he said Proposed laws which would See Back Page HOLISTIC weather Rain likely today decreasing tonight Winds 1 5 to 30 mph Highs in the the mid-60s lows in the mid-40s Tuesday's high 73 low 43 In the Sierra Nevada winter storm watch spreading south Details on Page A-2 Dr Antone Lethin pediatrician alsois Dr Antone Lethin holistic health practitioner Lethin of San Francisco is one of only a few medical doctors who practices holistic health He estimates there are about 1000 of his peers in California where 45000 physicians are licensed to practice The doctor whose credentials include a medical degree from Yale University and acceptance into the American Board of Pediatrics and the American Board of Pediatric Nephrology is certified in bioenergetics a melding of the mind and body in treatment He spoke about bioenergetics last year in Modesto One physician a psychiatrist attended the session Lethin believes more and more doctors eventually will accept the holistic mind-body-spirit approach not as an alternative but rather a supplement to medical treatment But today Lethin admitted many of his peers do not understand his interest in holistic health traditional medicine especially with the new technological advances it is easy for the whole patient to be overlooked Too often a feelings are not taken into Lethin said Yet a feelings and emotions often control his or her ability to recover from a disease Richard Davis of Modesto lost his left leg and hip to cancer but he hasn't lost his enthusiasm for sports The 10-year-old fifth-grader at Sonomo School goes for a football here buf baseball's his first love Story Page F-l.