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"2 lit nM( Mtfv BJi i U- Sharing Secrets Children of alcoholics get help The Way We Live, 1C 3d Scoop Of Rescuers Fred Sanders Inc. gets new boss today Business Monday, ID JORDAN'S Day He scores 40 in All-Star win Sports, IF it EtlETRO Monday Today: Partly cloudy High 23, low 16; Tuesday: Snow Details, Page 2A February 8, 1988 For home delivery call 222-6500 20 cents On Guard For 156 Years 'xt 7 1 1 ugitives face slaying charges Couple identified in TV show left state to 'make a better life Purdue edges past u-M University of Michigan head coach Bill Frieder shouts instructions to his players during first-half action against Purdue at Crisler Arena in Ann Arbor Sunday. The Boilermakers nipped U-M 91-87 to take sole possession of first place in the Big Ten. Story on IF. 'I 11 a Police in Moses Lake, a town of about 12,000 people about 100 miles southwest of Spokane, say the pair will be arraigned today in Grant County on fugitive charges.

Both police and Strickland said the couple did not plan to fight extradition to Michigan. Strickland, 26, and Munday, 17, are charged with murder, armed robbery and fraud in the slaying of Elmer DeBoer, a courier who picked up cash from a Union 76 gas station in Water-ford where Munday worked. They BY GEORGEA KOVAN1S Free Press Staff Writer MOSES LAKE, Wash. Jerry Strickland says he finally had what he wanted: a wife, a son and a decent job as a mechanic at a local mart. He said he didn't know that his name appeared on the Michigan State Police list of the state's 10 most wanted fugitives or that he and Melissa Munday, his teenage girlfriend, were wanted in Michigan for the May 1987 slaying and robbery of a Union 76 gas station courier.

TTft sraeiis ki raiestmians said. "It matters a lot that they've been caught, because maybe they won't get a chance to do it to someone else. "What they did to Elmer was just senseless there was no reason for it at all. They could've let him go. They had the money.

Why did they have to do this to him?" At the Grant County Jail in Ephrata, where he is being held without bond, Strickland said he and Munday See FUGITIVES, Page 13A Rivals fuel feud in GOP family Iowa winds down, Bush, Dole heat up BY ROBERT BOYD AND LARRY ElCHEL Free Press Washington Staff DES MOINES Vice-President George Bush and Senate Minority Leader Robert Dole blamed each other for making bitter personal attacks on the campaign trail, as the long, grueling battle for the hearts and minds of Iowa voters drew to a close Sunday. The Republican rivals continued their feud on separate television talk shows and in published news reports 'V DAYMON 1. HARTLEY Detroit Free Press i I were arrested Saturday after viewers saw the couple on NBC-TV's "Unsolved Mysteries." DeBoer's wife, Mary, 39, who watched the show with two of her three daughters, said she cried when a police detective told her of the capture. "He said, 'Mary, we've got she recalled. "I started crying.

I really couldn't tell you how I felt I told him I couldn't talk no more and I'd call him back. "I wanted them found bad," she sen '4 AP Israeli soldiers during a protest i Dozens hurt in bloody street battles BY MASHA HAMILTON Associated Press JERUSALEM Israeli troops shot and killed three Palestinians on Sunday, and hospital officials said dozens of others were wounded in one of the worst days of bloodshed since violent protests began Dec. 8. Widespread demonstrations rocked the occupied territories oi the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, and Jerusalem Mayor Teddy Kollek declared that "coexistence between Jews and Arabs has collapsed." Two other Arabs a 15-year-old boy hit in the head by a soldier Saturday and a 10-year-old boy struck by a bullet last week died of injuries Sunday, and dozens more were hospitalized after they were beaten and teargassed by Israeli troops. Rami Akluq, 1 5, of the Deir el-balah refugee camp in the Gaza Strip, died at Muqassed Hospital of a brain hemorrhage about 30 minutes after he was transferred from a Gaza Strip hospital, said Dr.

Hani Abdeen, an internist at Mukassad Hospital in Jerusalem. The boy's father told doctors his son was beaten by soldiers Saturday, Abdeen said, adding the victim's injuries were "consistent with a beating." Akluq apparently would be the first beating fatality since Israel announced the army would use physical force, including beatings, to quell violent protests in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip, seized from Jordan and See ISRAEL, Page 13A Dealers warn they may quit selling Audis BY NUNZIO LUPO Free Press Automotive Writer SAN FRANCISCO Audi dealers warned the company's new chief Sunday that they will stop selling the luxury cars within months if the automaker doesn't take drastic action soon to improve sales. About one-fourth of Audi's 400 dealers attending a meeting in San Francisco said they wanted results in three to six months or they would abandon the struggling nameplate, said several dealers who attended the closed meeting. "It's got to contribute its fair share" to the business, said Fred Willis of Fred Willis Motors, which sells Porsche, Audi, Peugeot, Yugo and Ber-tone in Tucson, Ariz. "I don't have the family fortune.

The family jewels are in the business." yM the funeral of her son who was shot by SPAM: POLL MO SURPRISE Tigers manager Sparky Anderson says he wasn't surprised by a Free Press poll that found two-thirds of the people interviewed hope that Tiger Stadium can be saved. Page 3 A. during their last full day of campaigning. Iowa voters tonight are to attend 2,487 precinct caucuses in the first crucial test of the 1988 presidential campaign. On Sunday, the Republican front-runners were still squabbling the way Democrats used to do.

For their part, the Democratic candidates sounded more like Republicans as they promised to lower the federal budget deficit and maintain a strong national defense. The latest Iowa poll published by the Des Moines Register on Sunday showed Dole of Kansas and U.S. Rep. Richard Gephardt of Missouri ahead in their respective contests. Because of the unpredictability of the caucus system, however, there was still suspense over whether U.S.

Sen. Paul Simon of Illinois could overtake See IOWA, Page 4A Official U.S. concern about Noriega's activities was expressed as long ago as 1972. No criminal investigation was begun until 1986. Relatives and friends hold a bereaved Palestinian mother mourning at Sunday in Beit Ununar in the occupied West Bank.

U.S. ignored Noriega's drug deals BY ALFONSO CHARDY Free Press Washington Staff Washington For 16 years, four U.S. administrations have known or suspected that Panama's Gen. Manuel Antonio Noriega was involved in drug trafficking, but the CIA and the Pentagon continued to collaborate with him in sensitive operations, according to U.S. officials familiar with the relationship.

Official U.S. concern about Noriega's activities was expressed as long ago as 1972 in a Drug Enforcement Agency memorandum linking the then-Panamanian intelligence chief to drug trafficking. It was reiterated in a Defense Department memo dated Nov. 1 1985. The Defense Department memo noted that the Panamanian armed forces' leadership "is involved in illegal activities (e.g., drugs)." No criminal investigation was be- irti Ann Landers 2C Auto Report IE Bridge 12F Business Classified 3D Career Mart 70 Classified Ads 8C.2E Comics 12F Crossword Puzzle 13F Dateline Michigan 7 Death Notices 7C Editorials Entertainment 6C Feature Page 13D Horoscope 12F Jumble 12C Metro Dateline 5 Movie Guide 13F Names Faces 14F Obituaries 7C Television 4C Volume 157, Number 275 1988, Detroit Free Press Arizona Gov.

Evan Me-cham received a warm welcome from the residents of the town of Benson just one day after he was impeached. Page 6A. Mailers union reverses stand against JOA By John Spelich and STEPHEN JONES Free Press Staff Writers Members of Mailers Local 2040 voted Sunday to drop their fight against a proposed joint operating agreement between the Free Press and the Detroit News, once union leaders work out a "loose end" in an agreement that includes job protection, buyouts and severance pay. The secret-ballot vote was 156-125, according to a union member who spoke on condition of anonymity. Local 2040 President Joel Wilson said he would meet with newspaper representatives soon to resolve "one loose end" in their 10-point agreement.

Wilson had recommended approval of the package, and said before the vote, "It would be an absolute disaster See JOA, Page 12A gun until late 1986, after several Noriega supporters in the CIA and the Pentagon retired or left their posts in connection with the Iran-contra affair. U.S. Attorney Leon Kellner in Miami said Friday that the beginning of his investigation and the departure of Noriega supporters were unrelated. Kellner said the information that led to Noriega's indictment Thursday on drug and racketeering charges was developed independently of other U.S. government intelligence.

"I was not directed by Washington to conduct this investigation," Kellner See NORIEGA, Page 12A See AUDI, Page 11A.