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14D DETROIT FREE PRESS 'FRIDAY, SEPT. 7, ri t. $1 I mini I mws rai cm.j Ktar JWMSX ms ill i ii and death, theast acits out part 01 or prvsi 1 1 From AP and UPI Tropical storm David churned through the urban Northeast and into New England Thursday with high winds and torrential rains, knocking out electrical power for two million people, sending hundreds fleeing and forcing many schools to close. At least six more deaths have been attributed to the onetime hurricane that killed more than 1,100 people in the Caribbean and left at least 16 dead along the Atlantic Coast of the United States. Gale warnings were up for north of the Merrimack River in Massachusetts to East-port, Maine.

And hurricane watchers had their eyes on two other storms brewing in the Atlantic, Including the newly christened tropical storm Gloria. Tropical storm Frederic dumped more tor rential rains on the already saturated Dominican Republic, while Gloria whipped into a full-fledged storm off the western coast of Africa. DAVID'S TREE-FELLING winds, flood-building rains and spinoff tornadoes forced the evacuation of about 1,000 residents of Maryland and Delaware. More than 1.7 million customers in the New York City metropolitan area from New Jersey to Connecticut lost power in homes and offices during the morning. A spokesman for Baltimore Gas Electric Co.

said about 140,000 Maryland customers were without power. At least 50,000 customers in Massachusetts also lost power for a time. Traffic at some Northeastern airports was affected by David's passage. Flights were delayed up to a half hour at Newark International Airport, and Eastern Airlines canceled Draconian ivisdom lost on all but the insiders According to a report from United Press International, when a rabbit attacked President Carter, there was "a White House photographer concealed in the bulrushes." "That's draconian," my friend Ralph said. "What does that mean?" "It means they play hardball In Washington," Ralph explained.

"What does that mean?" "It means Moses wasn't playing softball in the bulrushes," Ralph said. My friend Ralph isn't an easy person to understand. He tends to pepper his vocabulary with words currently popular with high-ranking government officials. Ralph talks this way because it is his ambition if Wi POINT I VI TIM to be mistaken someday for a David's path some of its morning Boston-to-New York shuttle flights from Logan Airport. The Philadelphia area was soaked with 4,4 inches of rain and a mudslide near the Baltimore train station forced cancellation of Amtrak commuter service between Baltimore and Washington.

Winds up to 53 m.p.h. socked New York City, uprooting trees, ripping down power lines and snarling transportation. A WORKER IN a Brooklyn plastics factory, Gregory Candela, 48, bled to death when a gust of wind smashed a window and the falling glass severed arteries in his legs. The body of a girl who appeared to be 1 1 or 1 2 years old was pulled from the waters of the Rahway River near Woodbridge, N.J. Still missing In the flood-swollen stream were a boy about the same age and a policeman who had tried to save them.

Truck driver Omar Sanchez of Newark was sitting in the cab of his tractor-trailer rig loaded with 30,000 pounds of clothing at a truck stop in Pedricktown, N.J., when the wind suddenly toppled the truck on its side. "I can't believe how the wind turned over the truck," he said. "It was like a piece of paper. After it turned over, the wind was continuing to push the truck along on the ground." By evening, David was centered over Vermont, headed northeast at 30 to 35 miles m.p.h. It was carrying 44 m.p.h.

winds. Last week David killed 27 people on the Island of Dominica and then swept through the Dominican Republic with winds, killing more than 1,100. Damage in the storm's trek from off the coast of Africa where it was spawned was estimated to be at least $2 billion, with a half-billion of it in the continental United States. WPtn MnDC EYMJn. congressiunm suurte ur, ni me NEED MORE WE least, a White House aide.

'tit I 'hKW or this pRDjed; For example, Ralph read that a high-ranking Treasury Department official, when informed that two top Chrysler executives had cut their own salaries to $1 a year, complained about a severe pain in their budget. But a high-ranking government official says his pain is draconian so no one 5 iJ? 1 ABOVE: The fish might have appreciated the water if they had been alive. The Fulton Fish Market in Manhattan was flooded by the heavy rains of storm. will know what he is talking about, thus proving he is really a high-ranking government official. AN UNINFORMED CITIZEN might wonder why high-ranking government officials must use obscure words to prove they are who they claim to be.

Why don't they just reveal their names and precise occupations so their credentials can be easily verified by anyone interested? Because if high-ranking government officials allow their names to be revealed in newspaper and TV reports, no one believes what they say. As all the polls show, citizens no longer trust their leaders. Richard Nixon said he wasn't a crook and then copped a pardon from Gerald Ford. Congressman Charles Diggs said he didn't steal any money and then promised to pay it back. Jimmy Carter promised he wouldn't lie and then appointed Andy Young It's not surprising that citizens have concluded that high-ranking government officials find it politically expedient to lie to the public.

As a result, the public has decided the only time these officials tell the media the truth is when news reporters promise not to reveal the names of their sources. That's why so many of the quotes coming out of the capital today are attributed to such anonymous sources as "a senior White House aide" or "a department spokesman." This Is how high-ranking government officials float the truth Into public view without violating the Washington code of ethics. THE ONLY PROBLEM, as indicated earlier, is that these anonymous officials must sound authentic while telling the truth, otherwise the public won't believe they are really high-ranking. So they establish their credentials by saying things like: "It was draconian for the White House to play hardball by hiding a photographer in the bulrushes." No one knows what the devil the unnamed officials are talking about, so the public Is naturally convinced that they must really be high-ranking officials, probably with access to the Oval Office. If you don't, you do.

Here's another example of this strategy of authenticated anonymity: To play hardball In Washington mean to play a tough game, politically. If you don't think it was tough for the White House to conceal a photographer in the bulrushes to snap pictures of rabbit attacks upon the president, you should be reminded that the photographer risked oblivion. History records that no one has been found in the bulrushes since Moses. Not Incidentally, I looked In the Bible for the name of the Egyptian king whose daughter found Moses. It isn't given.

He Is described only as a pharaoh, probably high-ranking. There's nothing new in political reporting. UPI Photos car was flipped and town houses under construction suffered heavy damage in Fairfax, as a tornado spawned by David hit the Virginia suburbs of Washington, D.C. tf-fsmJwww-wJ 1 Barnard is hemmed in ALEXANDER GODUNOV finally told the Russians to their faces he'll not be returning to the Bolshol Ballet ever. Godunov, the latest dancer to CHRISTIAAN BARNARD, the globe-trotting South African surgeon, just had his wings clipped.

The man who performed the world's first heart transplant back in 1967 has lost the special travel privileges Blliy Graham names 8 faces that enabled him to be a rov defect to the West, released a statement late Wednesday in New York saying he met with Soviet officials at their request and told them he preferred to live in the West "by free choice." Godunov told his ex-comrades that the decision to leave the Bolshol and wife Salvation never varies: -A1 Ludmua viasova was "Dasea on God's grace the means ing ambassador for his homeland. The reason for the punishment: Barnard defended his old friend Eschel Roodie, the former minister of information now jailed In the South African version of Watergate. Barnard's reaction to his new status as a stay-at-home: "stand vlr dank." That's an Afrikaaner phrase which refers to Ingratitude for services rendered. ART CARNEY, 13 pounds thinner but feeling "great," left a Middletown, hospital for a month's rest at his nearby summer home. "I think I'll watch my diet and stay away from any form of the grape.

You know what the grape is the sauce," Carney, 60, told reporters before leaving. Hospitalized for elevated blood pressure and an irregular heartbeat, the Oscar-winning actor said, "I've learned once again to watch out for the danger signals. I guess I'm a workaholic. I've got to recognize the signals and watch out for them." to teach them several vital spiritual truths. For example, the shedding of blood as a sacrifice for sin reminded them that God was holy and took sin very seriously so seriously that forgiveness could only come through the shedding of blood.

But all of the sacrifices of the Old Testament were only a foreshadow or symbol of the great sacrifice for sin the sacrifice of God's Son on the cross. Jesus himself stated that his blood "is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins" (Matthew 26:28, NIV). QUESTION-How were people who lived In Old Testament times saved? C.B.C. ANSWER They were saved In the same way you and I are saved today by God's grace. The difference Is that they looked forward In faith to what God would some day do In Christ, the Messiah.

We, however, now look back to what He did for us in Christ. By faith in Christ we are saved. In the Old Testament, God established an elaborate system of sacrifice. He gave this system to the Israelites I my desire or 8reater artistic pos-; sibilities." ry. Ll CHRISTINA ONASSIS KAU- Godunov ZOV is having a great time in the surf off La Jolla, acquaintances report.

The shipping heiress and her Russian husband, Sergei, have spent a week in the resort community and the word is Christina has been spending "hours in the water" with a device called a Boogie board that makes surfing easier for neophytes. Her only words to the press, given upon her arrival, have been "I love the beach." BERT PARKS said Thursday he'll leave his traditional job as emcee of the Miss America Pageant when he's good and ready and that's no time soon. Parks believed to be 65 even though his hair remains jet black held his annual news conference in advance of Saturday's finals and it was noteworthy only because he gave the same answers he gave last year. For example, Parks reiterated that he. has never chosen the winner in advance: "I've been wrong every year for 25 years." Last year, it was 25.

Compiled by JOHN SMYNTEK AP Photo Looking rather serene, actress Jane Fonda does some leg-stretching exercises the other day at the opening of her new Beverly Hills, exercise salon called Workout. While profits from the chic avoirdupois-shedding facility are earmarked for husband Tom Hayden's Campaign for Economic Democracy, Ms. Fonda couldn't resist an opportunity to assert her independence. Said she: "It's my business." LocEtherns i 1 HV Tammy still slands by her man, George Jones 'vTN til Sources close to the music scene In Nashville say Jones Is on the comeback trail with Miss Wynette's backup band as the vehicle. And late last month, fans at DuQuoin, 111., were flabbergasted when Jones ambled on stage for a duet during her appearance.

Her office says the relationship and the lawsuit have not changed despite the apparent cozlness between the pair. Perhaps she realizes that down-and-outers have a harder time paying their bills than resurrected country greats. Country singer Tammy Wynette's love life has never been orthodox. Miss Wynette often made headlines for her Intramarital skirmishes with fellow country star George Jones. As might be expected, the brickbats didn't end with the divorce.

Last year, she sued Jones for falling behind on his alimony payments. The suit was just another burden on her ex-hubby, who was fighting a battle with alcoholism that put his career in eclipse. But time and new husband George Rickey are apparently mellowing Miss Wynette. UPI Pholo Art Carney greets some nuises as he ends his hospital stay. "THE DRINKS ARE ON ME LOR ETTA 16 ON JURY PUTY ANC? THEY LOCKEP HER UP!" Miss Wynette.