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partly cloudy High 82, low 63 Partly sunny Sunday Details on Page 2A Gracslsss? Elvis' extravagance turned home into flashy castle 1B Yankees beat Tigers on homer in 9th 1C Saturday August 1, 1987 Metro final 200 For home delivery call 222-6500. 1987, Detroit Free Press, Inc. ON GUARD FOR 156 YEARS" Volume 157, Number 89 32 dead as twisters Peoi strilte i in Edmonton Train leaves station, and city hops aboard By DAVID EVERETT, TERESA BLOSSOM and PATRICIA EDMONDS Free Press Staff Writers The words that thousands of downtown Detroit workers and visitors wanted to hear came across loudspeakers at precisely 1 p.m. Friday: "May I have your attention please," said central control operator Joyce West. "The Detroit People Mover is now open for revenue service.

Welcome aboard." A few seconds later, operation shift supervisor Gordon Pryor pressed a button in the system's control room, sending a packed People Mover car WILLIAM DEKAYDetroit Free Press Industrialist Max Fisher, left, with Mayor Young. MA city is not built in one day. Every one of these projects that are built is another building block for the Max Fisher UPI and AP EDMONTON, Alberta A series of tornadoes smashed through Edmonton on Friday, demolishing homes and businesses and trapping survivors in the rubble. At least 32 people were killed and 250 were injured, officials said. One tornado wiped out a 20- to 30-block area in southeast Edmonton.

Witnesses said scores of homes and buildings, including large warehouses, were flattened. The Canadian Broadcasting Corp. reported 32 people were killed, including 24 in the Evergreen trailer park wrecked by the twisters and three in a 69-car train that derailed. An Environment Canada weather forecaster said at least six tornadoes touched down during the hour-long storm, sweeping down on the city from the Rocky Mountain foothills to the west at about 4 p.m. A CBC reporter at the scene said it looked like "a nuclear bomb went off." MAYOR LAURENCE Decore declared a state of emergency, and police said the tornadoes damaged at least 1 00 homes and an industrial area and trapped hundreds of people in the wreckage.

The tornadoes, accompanied by hail and torrential rains, hit during rush hour, blowing several cars and their occupants from highways and overturning dozens of house trailers. Many roads were closed and communications were disrupted, hampering rescue attempts. Fire fighters along busy roads peered into overturned cars with flashlights in the search for trapped survivors, and rescue teams were organized to hunt through wrecked buildings. Police said more than 100 people See STORM, Page 7A from the Grand Circus Park Station on the first of a week of free rides and into a new era of mass transportation for downtown Detroit. The first riders had a few words of their own for the 2.9-mile, mini-train system.

"That's a beautiful view," said Coleman Young, a powerful mayor. "It will work," said Max Fisher, a rich industrialist. "I liked it," said Angela Wheeler, a nine-year-old. See PEOPLE MOVER, Page 7A iiJiV Lf ,1. fl a Free tickets to papal mass still available Car stolen from Mover critic.

7A. Hood prays for Mover success. 7A. Riders develop crush on new transit system By W. KIM HERON and CASSANDRA SPRATLING Free Press Staff Writers Call it love at first crush.

Forget the shoulder-to-shoulder crowding and waits of 20 minutes or more to board at some stations. Forget the years of controversy and the $200.3 million construction bill. Many passengers riding on the People Mover Friday during its first few hours of operation said they were impressed, if not in love, with the 2.9 miles of elevated rail that loops the core of downtown Detroit. Rides were free Friday and will remain free through Aug. 7.

"I loved it. I think I'm gonna buy a yearly pass," said attorney John Zorza as his premier ride ended at the Financial District Station. "I love it. It's great." said Consquela Marbury, 29, a salon i mm i 'mm Above: A balloon replica of the Detroit People Mover is released Friday from the Financial District Station; at right, the public lines up for its first ride on the mini-train system. iiim" "iiiiNmiiiiiriiiiii iii 'T.

T'JH 2 IPmI11 owner at Trappers Alley who expects the Mover to boost 4 -w ner rjusiness. "I love it. I like a little adventure in my life a different viewpoint," said Dorothy Tyler of Detroit as the People See PASSENGERS, Page 7A tttv -4 rrr-r-rMir rrr-VTi 3 I i RICHARD LEE Detroit Free Press By JOCELYNE ZABLIT Free Press Staff Writer Some Detroit area Catholic churches are reporting trouble giving away tickets to Pope John Paul H's Silverdome mass Sept. 19. Church officials said Friday that strict Secret Service guidelines for the mass, the long hours crowds will be expected to wait for the pope, and a lack of transportation have scared away some of the faithful.

The Free Press surveyed two dozen metro area parishes Friday. Half reported they still had more tickets than people who wanted them; three said they had just the right number; five said demand has exceeded supply, and four said it's too soon to tell. The Secret Service guidelines in many parish newsletters warned that walking and climbing steps at the Silverdome might be a problem and that food, purses and other packages would not be allowed. Rev. William Easton, head of the site preparation committee, said, "Knitting and books are OK." He added that women's purses would not be confiscated, but all packages will be searched.

Sister Rose Matthew, ticketing coordinator for the mass, said she expects the event to run smoothly and predicts ticket requests will pick up. Typical of the parishes reporting tickets still available was St. Rene Goupil Parish in Sterling Heights, which had received 400 requests for its 618 allotted tickets, according to its pastor, the Rev. Bernard Harrington. "I don't think they realize it's a moment of history," he said.

"I've described it In our parish bulletin already as taking no more time going to a University of Michigan or Michigan State football game with a tailgate party." Weinberger: Reagan misled LOTTERY NUMBERS FRIDAY 241 and 5610 SAT. JACKPOT $1.5 million INSIDE TODAY 12C ANN LANDERS 10C BRIDGE BUSINESS NEWS 16-19A CLASSIFIED 4-7B, 7-9C Suspect in rapes had 80-namc list By MARYANNE GEORGE Free Press Staff Writer Police who searched the car of a 30-year-old Royal Oak man charged with three rapes and suspected of three others found a list with more than 80 names and descriptions of women police believe were his intended victims. A search of Michael Eric Masters' 1983 Toyota station wagon after his arrest last month on two Ann Arbor rape charges yielded a list of names and addresses of women living in southeast Oakland County, including notations about their high schools, marital status and physical characteristics. 10-11C COMICS Pubuc Notice Detroit Free Press, Incorporated, publisher of the Detroit Free Press and The Detrqit News publisher of The Detroit News, have filed with the Attorney General of the United States a request for approval of a joint newspaper operating arrangement under the Newspaper Preservation Act. The Attorney General has ordered that a hearing be held on the application.

The hearing Is being conducted before Administrative Law Judge Morton Needelman and is open to the public. Judge Needelman has scheduled opening statements and oral examination of witnesses to commence on August 3, 1987 at 10:00 a.m. In Room 237 of the United States Courthouse, 231 W. Lafayette, Detroit, Michigan. After August 3, the hearing will begin each morning at 9:30 a.m.

CROSSWORD PUZZLE 11 DATELINE MICHIGAN 4A DEATH NOTICES 7B By CHARLES GREEN and R.A. ZALDIVAR Free Press Washington Staff WASHINGTON Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger said Friday that President Reagan's 1986 order authorizing U.S. arms to Iran was based partly on an erroneous assessment that Iran was losing its war with Iraq and fit a pattern of faulty information provided Reagan. Weinberger, testifying before the Iran-contra congressional committees, said the assessment reflected a deliberate effort by the National Security Council to provide Reagan with onesided information. "People with their own agenda on the security council kept away from the president views they suspected might differ from their own," said Weinberger.

Coming in the wake of charges by Secretary of State George Shultz that the CIA slanted its intelligence estimates regarding Iran, the testimony raised further concerns about a cadre of officials misleading Reagan. "In effect, there was a junta within the government of the United States," said Sen. Paul Sarbanes, referring to former national security adviser John Poindexter and his fired aide, Lt. Col. Oliver North.

Handwritten notes taken by former White House chief of staff Donald Regan, cited Friday, showed Reagan upparently believed last November that Iran was at a disadvantage in its See HEARINGS, Page 7A I 6A EDITORIALS 10C HOROSCOPE JUMBLE 8C 4A METRO DATELINE 11C MOVIE GUIDE 11A OBITUARIES STOCK MARKETS 16-19A 14-1SA TELEVISION See MASTERS, Page 4A.