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Screens Ught Up Theaters open 5 new films Weekend, 1C Chapman Leads The Field Musician gets 6 Grammy nominations Weekend, 1C Pistons' Problem Surgery sidelines Dumars Sports, ID etwit Jfee Steis Metro Friday Mostly sunny. High 34, low 20 Saturday: Mostly sunny Details, Page 2A January 13, 1989 For home delivery call 222-6500 20 cents On Guard For 157 Years I Family and friend found laiifed to death -J 1 Gr? among victims; Detroit couple had helped unwed mother II? 4- was found lying behind an upstairs bedroom door in the home in the 17300 block of Cooley Street, police said. Each adult was stabbed many times in the head and upper body, and the child's throat had been slashed, police said. Smith's 16-month-old daughter was not in the home. William and Bette Darnell had moved to Detroit about two years ago from Houston.

Three weeks ago, she told friends and neighbors that she was pregnant. Homicide investigators were searching Thursday night for Smith's boyfriend. Neighbors told police Smith had been beaten regularly by an unidentified man and recently had filed a complaint against him. She came to the Darnell home over the weekend, saying she had been beaten again and was terrified the man would try to find her, neighbors said. "She was scared to go home, to her own home," said a neighbor who iden- See SLAYINGS, Page 18A By Jack kresnak, Brian flanigan and deborah kaplan Free Press Staff Writers A deeply religious northwest Detroit couple, their 2'2-year-old daughter and an unwed mother the couple had helped during her pregnancy were found stabbed to death Thursday in the family's Old Redford home, police said.

The adult victims William Darnell 34; his wife, Bette, 40, and Alicia Smith, 24 were bound and gagged in the basement, their bodies piled one on top of another, police said. The Darnells' daughter, Stephanie, y1 8 Seven Mile I 7r4 Redford AsA I William Rogell o5 Course o) Grand I "5 Lawn Cemetery JTJ jcNichols Site of four homicides on Cooley -1 1 1 Fenkell Detroit Free Press AlRACHlNArailA WILLIAM ARCHIEDetrolt Free Press Chevrolet's GEO Prizm-LSI is reflected in mirrors at its display Thursday at the auto show at Cobo Hall. Detroit show crowds Chicago for auto title It- J0 Automotive display uses blitz, pizzazz to become contender auto Show BffiEa. By Marj Jackson Levin Free Press Staff Writer Hey, North America: What other proof do you need? By any name, Detroit's auto' show this year has proved that the auto capital can be a contender for the title auto show capital as well. North America's chief auto show for years has been in Chicago, where the larger metropolitan area generated a crowd of 974,432 last year, and where nearly all the important new car news was made.

If last week's news-making press preview weren't enough, as of North American International Auto Show WHERE: Cobo Hall, Jefferson at Washington, Detroit DATES: Through Sunday. HOURS: 2 p.m. to 10:30 p.m. today; noon to 10:30 p.m. Saturday and Sunday.

ADMISSION: $5 for people 12-65; free for children under 12 accompanied by an adult and for people over 65. 6 men live in quake wreckage for 35 days Rescuers find them in building 's cellar Free Press Wire Services MOSCOW After 35 days trapped in a small, cold cellar, six men saw a ray of light and began shouting for help. They were rescued Wednesday as workers cleared the rubble of a nine-story apartment building in Leninakan that had been toppled by the Dec. 7 earthquake in Armenia, the Soviet news agency Tass reported Thursday. They lived on canned vegetables, stewed fruit, pickles and smoked ham stored in the cellar.

One man had a broken arm and the others had only minor injuries, and they were recovering in hospitals Thursday, Tass said. "I should be counted as a real lucky fellow," survivor Aikaz Akopyan, 50, said on Soviet TV from his bed at Hospital No. 3 in Yerevan, recounting how three years ago he fell from the third floor of a building under construction and was not hurt. "And now again," he said, "I was very lucky." He said he had learned that his relatives had been standing outside the building, around the clock, since the quake. His sister met him as he emerged, he said.

The basement room was pitch-dark and about eight square yards, said Andranik Iordanyan, duty officer at the hospital. The men were able to stand and move around, he said. SI Cwj a 1 A tA 1 Jtj-n. I Jfc, -I AP Wednesday, attendance at the North American International Auto Show is running more than 100,000 ahead of last year, with this weekend yet to go. Last year's total was 451,626.

And while a fair measure of the response can be chalked up to an unprecedented media blitz, it can't be lost on anyone that the show this year is bigger and, by most accounts, better than ever before. "The show has so much Brian Bayley, a Canadian who caught a glimpse of this year's auto show on television, hopped in his car and drove on down from London, Ontario. "They've turned this car show into an extravaganza. That's what makes it," he said. Crowds scrounge for parking.

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girlfriend Wendy Kulczycki of Plymouth twirling to the beat. After the dance number, Kulczycki, one of the many models and entertainers who took time out from school to join the auto show circuit, said: "We've been to four cities so far and this is definitely the busiest." Besides Bayley, a number of See AUTO SHOW, Page 18A Over at Chevrolet's Lumina display, five "Heartbeat of America" dancers kicked and sidestepped around the 1990 plastic-bodied "I love it," said Sandy Kim, of Plymouth, who with her daughter, Kari, was watching Kim's son's Describing himself as "a real lucky fellow," Aikaz Akopyan rests Thursday after being rescued. See SURVIVORS, Page 18A "jfPJIS 1 Bad luck Retired admiral fills last post in Bush's cabinet II New civil rights film hits old nerves in Mississippi r'Ailiiiniinlir Ann Landers 2B Bridge 100 Business SB Classified Ads 17C, 9D Comics 10D Crossword Puzzle UD Dateline Michigan SA Death Notices 17C Editorials 10A Feature Page 11B Greater Detroit 4A Health Fitness 3B Horoscope 10D Jumble 19C Movie Guide 2C Names Faces 120 Obituaries 16A Sports ID Stock Markets 6B Television 13C The Way We Live IB Volume 158, Number 248 1989, Detroit Free Press Thursday 940 and 4216 Lotto jackpot $1.5 million 111 Friday takes more blame By Jim Finkelstein Free Press Staff Writer Today is more than Friday the 13th. Today is National Blame Someone Else Day. Hey, it's not our idea.

Blame Anne (A.C.) Moeller of Clio, who has so designated the first Friday the 13th of each year. Here's how it works: Make a list, then start dumping blame. If you must, write letters or make phone calls to parcel out fault. "Essentially, it's the blame for the entire year," said Moeller. "I make a list each year of everything I'm blaming for that day, then compare that list to the previous year's.

A lot of those blanuf are the same every year. By David Hess Free Press Washington Staff WASHINGTON President-elect George Bush completed formation of his cabinet Thursday by naming a retired admiral to head the troubled Department of Energy. He also named an educator as his drug czar, a cabinet-level post. Later, Bush convened his cabinet at Blair House, across the street from the White House, to spell out what he expected of them and what they could expect of him. Bush nominated James Watkins, See APPOINTMENTS, Page 19A Bush gets Lincoln limousine.

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The mayor is talking on the telephone, congeniality rolling from his lips even as exasperation flits across his face. A woman from "Good Morning, America" is on the line. No ma'am. The town government had nothing to do with the local theater owner's decision not to show "Mississippi Burning." No ma'am. Nobody in town's been protesting the movie, but then nobody in town's seen it yet.

It hasn't even opened in Mississippi. Yes ma'am. Calling back next 4 Mississippi Burning review. Page 1C. Movie Guide listing, Page 2C.

week would be a real nice idea. Charles McClain hangs up and shakes his head in dismay. "How does a movie company go about stirring up this kind of publicity?" he marvels. "How is 'Mississippi Burning' any different from. He pauses to scan his mental movie catalog.

"How is it any different from Twins'?" For a while, it looked as if towns-See Mississippi, Page 18A 1 JOHN COLLIERDetrolt Free Press Anne Moeller of Clio created Blame Someone Else Day. "The biggest one is the weather. That's always on my list." Her other favorites are the weather forecaster and the alarm clock. She got the idea for National Blame See BLA.E, Page 19A.