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h- 1 i i INSIDE YOURSELF BANKRUPTCY WATCH GIVE A LIFT Astrograph Business Bridge Classified Comics Comment Crossword Dear Abby Deaths El Paso Lifestyle Movies arts C4 B3 C2 C7-10 C5 B5 C2 C2 C7 B1 C1-7 C3 DM C4 SPORTS Today Chicago tomorrow Detroit It seems the Dallas Cowboys are set on reclaiming their label as America's Team D1 BUSINESS Up to 10000 John Hancock Bowl visitors could bring an estimated $15 million to the city's economy B3 Thisisoneof the best years togetyour money's worth on the ski slopes LIFESTYLE Cl Like El Paso Electric an electric utility in Tucson faces a key debt deadline today BUSINESS B3 IMPOUNDED CARS The Mexican government will begin impounding more illegally imported foreign vehicles MEXICO B6 EYE IN SKY A police helicopter will be hovering above El Paso on New Year's Eve looking for drunken drivers EL PASO B1 SHBBBHBBHBm fr Good morning Herald-Post subscriber Ralph Cornett SCARY RESURRECTION Communism dying in Europe is finding new Iffe in Africa says columnist BJ Cutler COMMENT B5 i Alrf'vV' it v-M'wi i d' -an-iW fA a Tbday In history I) 1974 gold became legal in the United Stalest after 40 years of Today: Sunny Mgh upper 50s Tonight: Fair low upper 50s Tomorrow: Sunny high SCRIPTS HOWARD TUESDAY DECEMBER 31 1991 35 Cents Vol Ill No 313 North would drop suspected weapons programs in accord had threatened to cripple a landmark reconciliation accord signed Dec 13 The two Koreas divided since 1945 fought a war from 1950 to 1953 remain technically at war and are separated by the most heavily armed border The United States had refused to say if it stored nuclear weapons in South Korea where about 40000 US troops are stationed But South Korean President Roh Tae-woo on Dec 18 declared that his country was nuclear-free increasing pressure on -the north to follow suit Washington had also postponed a round of troop withdrawals until file nuclear question is resolved Before putting the agreement into force both Koreas will have their prime ministers sign it in January the statement said without giving a date Two sets of signed documents will be exchanged through the border village of Panmunjom in January it added Officials said earlier that the signing was expected at a scheduled meeting in February Today's agreement requires both Koreas to use nuclear energy for peaceful purposes only and bans them from pro- ducing possessing and deploying any type of nuclear weapons said spokesman Choi Byong-bo of the Unification Board a South Korean government ministry der to remove the danger of a nuclear war and create a good atmosphere for peaceful unification of the fatherland" a joint statement said The agreement came less than a week before President Bush is to visit Seoul to discuss trade topics and security concerns Washington and Seoul had been increasing pressure on the north to reach a nuclear agreement Experts believe North Korea one of the last hard-line Communist states could have the ability to make a crude atomic bomb in a few years though the north has insisted that its nuclear programs were not weapons-related Failure to resolve the nuclear weapons issue SEOUL South Korea (AP) Rivals South and North Korea today initialed a pact aimed at making their heavily armed peninsula free of nuclear weapons officials said The dramatic agreement came during nearly eight hours -of talks at the border village of Panmunjom the officials said A formal agreement will be signed by the two prime ministers in January they said The agreement binds North Korea to abandon its suspected programs to manufacture nuclear weapons uWe hereby initial a joint declaration on the denuclearization of the Korean peninsula in or Saying goodbye Qeffi dead! Iby fsiGjQtty theater they started their religious service Sunday night and by Monday morning we got reports of their deaths" he said in a telephone interview Torres Trejo said he had no details but that everything indicated they died of poisoning from escaping butane gas from a malfunctioning heating appliance "There was no explosion that much we know We have no more he added "We know what sect or evangelical denomination they were" MEXICO CITY (AP) About 30 people were gassed to death at a religious gathering at admail town in northwestern Mexico and a malfunctioning heater was apparently to blame officials said Monday The disaster occurred overnight at a Protestant evangelical temple on a cooperative farm near Venado in San Luis Potosi state said Venado Mayor Juan Torres Trejo "According to the reports we have about 13 of the victims were younger than 12 years of age Apparently Mother Teresa suffers from heart problems ing steady Dr Paul Teir-stein said She was "chipper" Monday Known as the Saint of the Gutters she gave up a comfortable life as a convent teacher to care for the poor Her order has sent about 3000 nuns to Mother Teresa 87 countries LA JOLLA Calif (AP) Mother Teresa was in serious condition today after suffering congestive heart failure and undergoing a procedure to unclog her coronary arteries The Roman Catholic nun is 81 and has won the Nobel Peace Prize for her work with the poor of Calcutta India She was admitted to Scripps Clinic and Research Foundation with pneumonia on Thursday is seriously ill but she is mak AP PHOTO Beverly Serette a dose friend of CIA officer William National Cemetery Buckley was taken hostage and Buckley places a rose on a coffin bearing his later killed by his captors in Lebanon His sister remains during burial services Monday at Ariington Joyce Wing sits at left Taking a glance back at an event-filled 1991 Gulf war Electric Co blues affected El Paso Half of El Paso murders were related to gangs Various went In 1991PAGE A-6 By Deborah Martin Paso Herald-Post By Deborah Martin Paso HerakPost WAR CRIME and economic concerns have dominated the news in El Paso during 1991 THE biggest story was the Persian Gun war particularly the part played in it by Fort Bliss troops and El Paso-based reserves and their homecomings GANGS became an increasing problem About half the city's 52 murders this year were gang-related FINANCIAL WOES at El Paso Electric Co now on the verge of bankruptcy have kept the city on edge THE UTILITY made headlines again in June when it was indicted along with other corporations and individuals in the insurance scandal surrounding El Paso businessman Maury Kemp THE HERALD-POST will discuss El Paso's environment another big story in 1991 later this week The Patriot came under attack in April when military weapons experts testified before Congress that the Patriot been nearly as success- ful as the Army had reported El Paso Electric woes It a good year for El Paso Electric A prediction of things to come was found in May when the $150 million in bulk loans the utility was living on came due The company ends the year with its future very much in doubt as it tries to renegotiate those loans and land on its feet Bankruptcy has become a strong possibility for the utility in the past several weeks Business leaders Indicted The Electric Company was among a group of prominent El Paso companies and businessmen indicted by a state grand jury for their involvement in the Maury Kemp mess MSEEYEARPAGEA-10 gation Division had 10 murders this Ctr which was the same as year which was four times as many as the year before" he said Three of last homicides in the countv were gang-related Ryals said Ortega estimated that about 50 percent of city murders were gang-related He attributed the increase to the availability of weapons and the rising use of weapons by gang members in all kinds of crimes Efforts to curb gang violence were constantly in the head- lines and on newscasts'! throughout the year Perhaps an indication of how tired El Pasoans became of it all could be found on the editorial pages where a homeowner frequently was praised for Homecomings crime business woes and poisoned maqui-la workers dominated the headlines in 1991 A huge amount of newsprint was dedicated to the staggered homecomings that took place during the early part of the year Soldiers who served in Operation Desert Shield-Desert Storm in the Middle East began coming home in March with the last group returning in late August The star on the mountain which had been left on after its traditional Christmas run as a show of support for the soldiers and their families was turned off and the yellow ribbons that had been displayed all over town were pulled down By the time President Bush called a cease-fire in February Fort Bliss had sent more than 12000 troops to Saudi Arabia not to mention dozens of doc- tors and other medical personnel from Beaumont and hundreds of reservists When they all came marching home celebrations spawned a kind of baby boom on the post Fort Bliss soldiers won national attention for their performance during the conflict Spec Melissa Coleman 20 was reported missing near Kafii Saudi Arabia becoming the first US woman to be listed as missing in action since World She and Spec David Lockett 23 a fellow soldier in the same unit were held for more than 30 days before being released The performance of the Patriot missile in shooting down Iraqi Scud missiles also won national attention and spurred a wave of patriotism in the Sun City that culminated in renaming the North-South Freeway the Patriot Freeway 1991 was a violent year in El Paso with 52 murders in the city and 10 in the county The number of murders in the city is just six shy of the record 58 murders investigated in 1980 said police spokesman Lt Eddie Ortega Last week alone the police department added two more victims to those stats Gilberto Enrique Sanchez 27 of Juarez was found shot to death Dec 23 in an alley beside 1010 Seventh Ave And Wayne Nation 38 a transient was found stabbed to death inside a sleeping bag near a convenience store beside the 1-10 overpass on Mesa Street on Thursday The number of murders in the county is also rapidly rising said sheriffs Sgt Marvin Ryals of the Criminal Investi MSEEGANGPAGEAfi.