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I ir-'- I Final WtNNINQ LOTTO HUMMUS, PAD I A-2 'Oakland, California Sunday, February 21, 1989 $1.00 I.NlSIlD: 'ITISTHEEV1DENCEOFOURCULTURE' MMBCALtNDAH Mareevloel, queen of cabaret and kitschy films, also has the range to play Saint Joan of Arc with lots of TRAVE Oo North, young traveler" xould have been the jnotto of todays section on sights In i the Pacific Northwest, and Alaska. (COMMENTARY Power and powerlessnesa brought corruption to Aya-' tollah Khomeini and Winnie Mandela last week, says Bob Maynard, CALENDAR City an Oakland lectureperformance series, brings a new dimension of soda! responsibility to public art prelects. PasoS SPORTS Martina Navratilova was upset last night by Larisa Savchenko of the Soviet. Union In Virginia Slims action at the Coliseum. PARTLY CLOUDY Variable cloudiness today.

Highs in the ipid-60s to mid-60s. Westerly winds to 20 mphFafr tonight. INDEX NEWS ByEricliaMc HONOLULU Federal Investigators began an inch-byinch inspection yesterday of the fuselage around a truck-sized hole that tipped in the side of a United Airlines Boeing 747 near Hawaii, dumping nine passengers to their deaths from more than 20,000 feet Searchers crisscrossed the Pa-dfle Ocean but found no bodies. Were looking hopefully for survivors, Coast Guard spokesman Keith Spangler said. But you know a normal human being Just cant last that long, even in 70-degree waters.

Plus they fell 23,000 feet. If anyone lived through the fan, Spangler said, chances for survival were slim. He said the sea was inf ested with At least one of the victims was sucked into the whirling blades of a Jet engfnerA medical exam- iner found multiple smalTbody parts inside. See 747, Back Page String of midair some By JacqueMne Free! nr May Place used to fly all the time, but she arrived in Oakland yesterday on a Greyhound bus. Weary and disheveled but determined to avoid air travel, she vmade the bus trip from Harrisburg, I1L, because she is so jittery about flying now.

Even 72 hours on a bus beat three hours on a plane qr five minutes for that matter. There are too many crashes. IDamaged' Boeing accidents makes too many accidents. Im not going to fly until they get some newer planes, some new equipment and some new air- traffic contrbllersXsaid who is visiting her sister in Newark for three Its Just too scary, she add- ed. I used to fly all of the time, but no more.

Even though it appeared to be business as usual yesterday at See FLYING, Back Page. tion in West Oakland to a site three Mocks southeast of Jack London Square. The trains and ferries would be tied into a free shuttle bus servicethat opened last year between the square and the downtown area. The new waterfront transit network is part of a 9125 million renovation of the square currently being undertaken by Oakland Portside Associates, a partnership of the port and four Bay Area businessmen. 'vov Sv IklMiaMAw In Beijing from his car.

Ferrying new life v. I to Jack London Square hub of ambitious plan riety of museums, with thousands of exhibits, what the average museum-goer gets to see on display is only a fraction of the mfflinM of items In local collections. "We can exhibit probably 300 to 400 items a year, said Burton Benedict, director of the Lowie Museum of Anthropology at the University of California at Berkeley. At that rate, it wifi take the Lowie about 9,500 years to display everything in its SJ-millioo item collection. Set MUSEUMS, Page AS By KetyGuet IWIMbW -j I Bay Area museums were to dean out their closets and hold a garage sale, every Eastbay grade schooler could have his own dinosaur.

There would be enough oil paintings to hang at least one over every fireplace in Alameda County. And, surely there would be Etruscan and Mesopotamian pottery to outfit every kitchen in Contra Costa County. Although the Bay Area has a wide va By Paul Qrabowiu nwr Jkck London Square in the near future may look like the Oakland waterfront or the distant past, when ferryboats, trains and streetcars shuttled people to and from their Jobs, homes and entertainment spots. Oakland port officials hope to begin a ferry aervice within a year that will move commuters and tourists between the square and San Francisco. Tbey also are seeking funds to relocate the Amtrak train sta- 'President Bash waves to crowds UR Towns MONEYlMONOAYr estate experts say the East bays Albany Is fast becoming the In" place to Rve.

LIFESTYLE Pled set whe got al the laughs at the Black Comedy 1 Competition held Saturday In Oakland. CALL THE TRIBUNE: 645-2000 wnur i ByTomRaum Ttm BEUING President Bush today traded banter with senior Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping, got right down to business? oo a range of topics with Premier Li Peng and returned to a church where he and his wife Barbara had worshipped in 1974-75. The president was bid a hearty welcome by Deng as the two began a Session at the Great Hall of the People. During a picture-taking opportunity, Deng, 14, thanked (Cambodia), South Korea, North Korea, the Middle. East, trade, Afghanistan, Taiwan and nude-ar proliferation.

It was an engaged conversation. We got right down to business. We thought it was an extraordinary conversation, Fltx-water said of Bush. In his meeting with Deng, the two talked about sports and cards. Peng told Bush: "You're an athlete.

Thats why youre in See BUSH, Back Page Bush for visiting China after you took office and said, We two have been good friends. Tm delighted to see you looking so'welLV Bush told the Chinese leader, who appeared healthy. The session followed a meeting between Bush and Chinese Premier Peng. Bush's press secretary. Marlin Fitiwater, called the meeting with Li a remarkable and unprecedented dialogue, covering tasues ranging from Kampuchea ew-r 1 4- -I, 4.