The News Tribune from Tacoma, Washington • 1

r' I 1 7 i jfcWlf i wj ij -j Opposition awaits plan on FWay Today in Local B1 Dodgers draw first blood Gibson homers in ninth to win game No 1 Sports Cl Huskies lose on two-point try Cougars whipped by Wildcats 45-28 Sports Cl Sunday October 16 1988 $100 Dukakis aides revamp strategy Mercy killing discussed for three icebound whales George Bush assures California support era that not going to mess up" All Barry Goidwater urges both candidates to calling each other names" and concentrate on the issues All lumbia in the mid-Atlantic region Iowa and Wisconsin in the Midwest and Oregon Washington and Hawaii in the West A second tier of states when Dukakis sides say he is trailing but competitive will receive priority attention They an Montana North and South Dakota Colorado New Mexico Missouri and Kentucky Texas and New Jersey have been dropped into a third category states when the ticket faces a clearly uphill battle along with North Carolina Tennessee Arium- Please see Dukakis back page ty The mammals are in shallow water oily i few hundred feet offshore where they have been rising to the surface every couple of minutes to breathe through small and shrinking holes in the ice They are four to five miles from open water ice around the whales has become pretty said Geoff Carroll a wildlife biologist with Please see Whales back page The Washington Pott BOSTON Fighting wave of defeatism after the last debate Democratic nominee Michael managers Saturday set forth an 18-state strategy keyed to basic economic issues that they insisted will give him a realistic chance of After1 full Jay of top-level meetings at headquarters Dukakis communications director Leslie Dach said the embattled nominee will argue that issues at stake are too important for the press and the Republicans to shut this election down The Associated Puss BARROW Alaska lime is running out for three California gray whales trapped in the thickening ice of the Arctic Ocean and the discussion Saturday was turning from rescue to humane destruction The young whales have been stranded for more than a week by new ice about 18 miles northeast of this Inupiat Eskimo communi three weeks before it To counter the impression of the last 48 hours that Bush had slammed the door on a Dukakis comeback by beating him Thursday in the final nationally televised debate managers described plans for an drive in 18 states with 272 electoral votes two more than are needed for victo ry- Those states all of which they described as favoring Dukakis or competitive are the electoral giants of New York Pennsylvania Ohio Michigan Illinois and California the New England states of Massachusetts Connecticut Vermont and Rhode Island Maryland West Virginia and the District of Co $100 million ribbon is link to future By Jim Szymaneki The News Tribune 2 Far East bases get 3-year OK Big aid hike buys use of bases in Philippines The New York Times WASHINGTON The United States and the Philippines reached agreement Saturday on terms for continued operation of American bases in the Philippines through September 1991 administration officials said Secretary of State George Shultz and the Philippine foreign minister Raul Manglapus are scheduled to sign the agreement on Monday in a ceremony that will formally end months of politically charged negotiations between the United States and its longstanding ally in the Pacific over the two bases Clark Air Base and Subic Bay Naval Station The officials said that soma of the final details of the accord were still being worked out but added that these unresolved matters were not regarded as an obstacle to signing the agreement The United States has agreed to provide the Philippines with 481 million a year in economic military and development assistance in 1090 and 1091 the officials said The amount represents a substantial increase over the current level of 8180 million a year the officials added agreement applies to the remaining years of the existing agreement and will pave the way for renegotiation of the military bases agreement which expire in September an administration official said In addition the United States has agreed to speed the delivery of aid already appropriated for the 1988 fiscal year which was held up fay the United States because of a conflict with the Philippines over how it was to be spent and for fiscal 1080 which began Oct 1 according to the officials The officials added that the Philippines would be able to use a substantial amount of that money in a market-oriented debt relief program to pay foreign creditors outstanding debts if certain economic changes were put into effect by the Philippines This issue had hem a major sticking point in the negotiations The officials stressed that there was no agreement on the precise amount that can be used to repay foreign debt and that those details remain to be worked out with Manila The United States on the other hand has been reluctant to allow the Philippines to use the money to pay its foreign debt preferring that it finance development projects such as roads schools and credit mechanisms for farmers disbursement of funds is directly related to ongoing Philippine economic the administration official said stressing that the Philippines will have to show concrete evidence of long-promised changes Administration officials also emphasized that the money was not blank and that there would be certain conditions on how it would be spent rt Gollahon smiles as he grills another sizzling hamburger lunchtime in Tacoma and a handful of faithful customers has bellied up to the tiny counter to savor the same juicy burgers Gollahon has spent 36 years selling on Pacific Avenue Within earshot motorists whistle non-stop by the rear of the shop on a curvy undulating 8100 million elevated ribbon of concrete known as 1-705 or the Tacoma spur Probably none of those drivers takes the notion to sample menu but he says not worried The thought that some of those speeding cars used to cruise more slowly past the front door of Hamburgers on mind he answers when asked about how the spur has reduced traffic on Pacific and whether it has hurt business people here might blame their problems on the spur or some might blame the city manager But hell the city take care of everybody If people take care of their business they have nothing to worry It was in fact in the spirit of taking care of Tacoma that state transportation officials downtown mo-chants and city politicians decided more than 30 years ago that a superhighway was needed to connect downtown to the rapidly developing Interstate 5 which effectively has been a high-speed detour around the central city since the early 1980s central business district had been going downhill for says Bill Loring a Puyallup resident and project engineer for the spur the past two years was in need of a high-speed link to Interstate Though it built without struggle the one-mile spur is Tacoma's link to reawakening downtown Gov Booth Gardner and Mayor Doug Sutherland are scheduled to dedicate it at noontime ceremonies on Monday By the year 2000 state officials estimate the spur could be carrying 60000 cars a day to and from downtown three times the number that now use Pacific Avenue the historic north -south route to downtown Even though official traffic counts have not yet been date on the spur city studies show it has reduced traffic on Pacific When the spur was being planned and downtown' was mine vibrant key downtown intersections tended to become clogged with traffic says Fred Thompson the city's public works director He said the congestion concerned city officials not only for the transportation Please sea Spur back page Downtown Tacoma's link to 1-5 could carry 60000 cars a day by the year 2000 Bit MuiriarTha Naara Tribune Elderly Americans: A population boom? 'VTS 'f Index 158 pages 11 sections lenged one of the prevailing assumptions about the aging process in America that longevity has reached its peak and cannot be extended any further But in fact mortality rates that is the number of deaths in given populations each year have fluctuated over the yean without much warning and in many cases without any apparent explanation the researchen wrote In the study published in the current issue of the Millbank Memorial Fund Quarterly one of the leading gerontology journals Between the turn of the century and the mid-1950s for example mortality rates dropped between 1 percent and 2 percent a year Then in 1954 and continuing through 1968 Pino dm Aninn hunk rmrm costly problems the magnitude of which this nation has not even begun to said Dr Edward Schneider dean of gerontology and one of three authors of the study According to the new projections the average life expectancy of American men could rise by the year 2040 to 87 years 17 years longer than the current average and 11 years more than the moat often quoted census projection The average woman in the year 2040 under the new projections will live 92 years compared to the current average of 78 years and a census projection of 83 years In making their calculations Schneider and his colleagues at the National Institute of Aging Dr Jack Guralnik and Machiko Yanagish-ita arknowledee thev have chal and the National Institute of Aging an arm of the National Institutes of Health Although many variables can cause disparities in population projections the major difference between the census figures and the new higher projections is the degree of optimism that the USC and institute researchers share about ability to prolong life over the next 50 years Unlike the census projections which assume that there will be no overall decline in the rate of death the USC and national institute projections predict a decline in the mortality rate of 2 percent a year If the more optimistic projections prove to be correct and many experts are now saying they may be then the government and families conld fane verv nntnnln and By Anna Roark Los Angelss Times Over the next half-century the number of Americans over the age of 85 may grow to nearly 24 million twice as many as the standard US Census Bureau projection and 10 times the current level according to a new study to be released today Moreover by the year 2040 when most of the members of the generation have entered their elder years the population over age 85 in the United States may catapult to 87 million or a quarter of the population which is a figure that is 20 million higher than what the census has projected and three times the current level The new study was done by the University of Southern California weather: 100 percent chance of rain highs around 60 Details A2 106th year No 192 1988 The News Tribune.