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Steve Hinson of the Arlington County fire department said a man parked at the gas station in suburban Washington was selling the weapon to another man when it went off. launching a round into a nearbv gas pump. Both men were arrested. The blast, which was heard for 10 blocks, sent metal fragments flying through the air from a pickup truck parked at the gas station, according to police and witnesses The two men were charged with transportation and manufacture of an explosive device, which is a fel ony. said Arlington police spokes man Tom Beil Bell identified the pair as Robert (.eorge Deign. 54, and Joseph Ray- mono Donanue, 40. He said Deign was arrested about three miles from the scene after he drove away in the charred truck. Donahue, wno fled on foot, was caught nearbv Delgir told police he is an electro nics store owner in Xenia. Ohio. Do nahue said he is a former army heli copter pilot now working in northern Virginia “Delgir was showing him (Dona hue) this homemade cannon, six feet long, and he inserted a shell into it and then dropped H into the truck when H went ofT.” said Bell “It went through the truck into the gas pump and set the whole thing on nre by Kevin Thomas A ©gAAAAAA/y fcfckkMAA/Y JMON uvc*. Creators of ‘Santa Barbara’ have to give up home there LOS ANGELES (AP) — Try this for irony: The success of NBC soap opera “Santa Barbara" has forced creator-producers Jerome and Brid get Dobson to give up their home in Santa Barbara The couple launched the soap op era two years ago against incredible odds, but it has survived and is skiwly gaining in the ratings We opened the show the week of the Los Angeles Summer Olympics." Dobson said, noting that ABC's seri als were shortened or pre-empted during the games His wife added. “We had 250 peo ple who had never worked together Hus it was a new studio and you couldn’t find ihe light switches.” The Dobsons, who had previously written for “(ieneral Hospital." "The Guiding Light" and “As the World Turns, were living in Santa Barbara when thev were asked by NBC to create a new serial “We thought we would retire," Dobson said. “We didn’t want to work for a while. When NBC first asked us to do the show we said they didn't have enough to offer. Bhdgie was working on an idea for a novel, and she wanted to write several plays. Then they offered us own ership of the show and an on-the-air (ommitment.” Mrs. Dobson said, “We were living in Santa Barbara, which is a very exotic place with exotic people. We’d had this idea for a long time. Putting the show in Santa Baroara gives it a nice flavor, a good California feel- ing/’ To keep the show on the air re quired 16-hour days. They soon re alized they could no longer com mute 90 miles from Santa Barbara tb Los Angeles, so thev sold their home and moved here. Soap operas are tough to get oft the ground Viewers have to be lured away from established senais Once a soap is established, its audi ence is very loyal, and its profits can be sizable The time slot for “Santa Barbara” was particularly tough. I wo game shows and another soap. “Texas," had failed there, and the competition is fierce — ABC’s “General Hospital" and CBS* “The COiding Light.” In the beginning "Santa Barbara” had a rating of 2!/ (percent of the nation's 85.9 million homes with TV.) It was at rock bottom in the davtime Now, the show has a rating of 5.0 and is ninth out of 15 soap operas. Mrs. Dobson learned the soap op era business from her parents. Frank and Dons Hurslev. who cre ated “General Hospital.” At one time Mrs. Dobson wrote all the shows. But Dobson had no connection with soap operas until he married. “I learned soap opera writing looking over my wife’s shoulder.” he said Doctor-pilots help Mexico with medical care MESA, Ariz. (AP) — On the first weekend of each month from Octo ber through June. Dr. Charles Gard ner. an orthopedic surgeon at Mesa C>eneral Hospital, loads medical sup plies and equipment on ha single engine airplane and flies to a small town in Mexico. In the town of El Fuerte, a village of about 10,000 in the Mexican state of Sinaloa. 150 people from a hun dred miles around line up early in the morning outside a small Red Cross-owned clinic to be treated by Gardner and other physicians from the Mesa area. Their ailments range from ear in fections to cancer tumors, and all of them look to the American doctors for relief and comfort. “You can see in their eyes thev ap preciate whatever you can do for them." he said. Gardner is a member of Liga In ter natKinal Inc., a group of Califor nia-based doctor-pilots who volun teer their time to fly regularly to remote areas of Mexico where medi cal services are in short supply. The organization, which has been C g to Mexico for 50 years, was mg for a group of doctors to take over a clinic in El Fuerte. Gard ner said. So several physicians at Mesa Gen eral who own their own airplanes formed a Mesa chapter of Liga In ternational lo be responsible for the clinic, he said The Mesa doctors are committed to be in El Fuerte on the first week end of each month for nine months out of the year, he said. Sometimes they are joined by Liga International volunteer doctors and dentists from other states. They do not go during the sum mer months because of rainy weather, and because the airport at El Fuerte is not equipped with nav igation aids. Gardner said. The doctors fly down on Friday, see patients on Saturday and return to Mesa on Sunday. The group sees about 150 patients m that one day. So far Gardner has seen a wide va riety of cases, including some gen eral illnesses that an orthopedic sur geon doesn't normally treat. The local doctors don’t seem to resent the presence of Americans in the village; some seem to feel it's an opportunity to learn from special iMs. he said. Despite the frustration he feels at the limitations on the program, Gardner said it's worth it. Ruling party PRI dominates life in Mexico MEXICO CITY (AP) — On many rural roads in Mexico, the signs that caution against speeding are not posted by the government but bv the rul ing Institutional Revolutionary Partv No town is too small to be without a headquar ters for the official partv, known as the PRI. and its ever-present national colors of red, green and white. The PRI and the government work hand in hand, in control of Mexico without a break for the past 57 years, and despite their separate structures, to moM they are the same In Chihuahua. Mexico's largest state on the border with Texas and New Mexico, protesters from the conservative National Action Party charge that vote fraud deprived them of an elec tion win this summer Pockets of support for opposition parties of the left or right are scattered about Mexico but the PRI » everywhere. The partv is a chameleon scampering across the political landscape to endure and control since its founding in 1929. a response to the vio lence of the Mexican Revolution from 1910 to 1921 that claimed the lives of one of every seven Mexicans. Now, in a Mexico that is rapidly changing from a rural, agriculturally based nation to an ur ban. industrialized one. it is searching once again for (he shifts that can absorb, co-opt or simply overwhelm the opposition And it must oo so in a climate of recession, without the promise of ever-improving standards of living that carried the PRI from the mid-1950s through the 1970s when the "Mexican Miracle" of 6 percent to 7 percent annual growth was the norm. The longstanding promise of social peace through one-party rule may not be enough. "For many non-Mexican observers, the party’s name was simplv incomprehensible; ‘revolution ary’ and on top of that ‘institutional,’ an authentic contradiction in terms,” wrote political analyst Arnaldo Gordova. “For Mexicans, it did not mean anything but that the heroic era of the rev olution had passed on to a new life.” Through a combination of money, political pa tronage. a strong grassroots organization and domination of the news media, the PRI has man aged to fend off challenges before. Most important, according to its political foes, the PRI simplv steals unwinnable elections. The PRI never has lost the presidency or a governorship since it was founded. A presidential election is scheduled every six years, with the next in 1988. and no serious chal lenge to the ruling party is expected at the na tional level. Electoral reform laws adopted in 1977 in re sponse to growing voter apatnv led to some con trol of town and city halls by minority parties. By 1989, National Action defeated the PRI in im C rtant municipal elections in Chihuahua and irango states, including Ciudad Juarez, the country’s fifth biggest city. Since then, in vote after vote, the PRI has won the vast majority of state and local elections. There have been charges — backed up by evi dence. in some cases filmed — that old-fashioned voter fraud was once again in Myle. The party's critics charge that the nation's leaders were un willing to take the threat that opposition control of a city could lead to PRI loss of a statehouse. Indeed, the expectations of fraud are so hieh that few believe it even if the PRI wins honesUv The party's problem, observed one top-level sup porter, may oe that “it can conquer but can't con vince." NFL Roundup (continued from page IS) turn spec lalist Iasi year was cut bv the New England Patriots. It was a busy two days for the Bills, who are trying to regain re spectability after losing 28 of tneir last 32 regular season games On Monday, they signed Jim Kelly, the USFL's record-break ing quarterback, to a contract es timated at $8 million over five years. On Tuesday, they an nounced the retirement of Ben Williams, a nine-year starter at left defensive end and signed two more USFL refugees, center Kent Hull and tight end Sam Bowers, both of whom played three years with the New Jersey Generals. Cribbs also had USFL experi ence, having jumped after the 1983 season to the Birmingham Stallions. That move prompted a lawuit by the Bills that Cribbs eventually won. He rejoined the Bills six games into laM season, but had to split time with Bell and gained just 399 yards in 122 carries after three 1,000-yard seasons in his four L previous Buffalo seasons. In San Francisco. Cribbs is ex pected to be used as insurance for Wendell Tyler, who was bothered last year bv a knee injury. In another deal I uesdav, the Washington Redskins traded vet eran punter Jeff Hayes to Cincin nati and placed another veteran. Calvin Muhammad, on injured reserve. The Redskins also placed defensive tackle Bob Slater, their top draft pick three years ago, on injured reserve for the third straight season with a bad knee. AFC champion New England, meanwhile, got a boost when cen ter Pete Brock signed a new con tract and checked into camp. The Patriots placed Lin Daw son. their starting tight end on in jured reserve with a knee he in jured in last January's Super Bowl loss to the Chicago Bears. Also going on New Enmnd's in jured list was Gerard Phelan, Doug Flutie’s favorite receiver at Boston College two years ago. The New York Jets put oft-in- jured wide receiver Johnny “Lam” Jones hack on injured re serve and the Pittsburgh Steelers did the same with Craig Wolfley. a starting guard The Miami Dol phins put veteran tight end Joe Rose on the injured list and cut Bill Barnett, a six-vear backup on the defensive line The Dallas Cowboys placed six players on the injured reserve list, leaving the NFT club just one person over the required 60- player limit that had to be met by the day's end. Those on the injured reserve Iim were Jeff Jones, neck injury; defensive lineman George Mc- Duffy, neck injury; and running back Carl Miller, elbow injury. Also liued were third-year full back Norm Grainger, hamstring injury; seventh-year guard Kurt Petersen, knee injury; and line backer Brian Salonen, groin in jury. In other team moves: San Diego The Chargers cut their fourth- round draft choice, linebacker Tommy Taylor of UCLA, leaving IS linebackers Mill remaining on the roster The Chargers also said thev had reached agreement witn Andy Hawkins, a former line backer with the USFL Houston Gamblers and were awaiting clearance to sign him. Fittsborgti The Steelers today placed 14 players on waivers. 14 plavers on injured reserve and three other plaven on two other reserve itsu to reduce its roster to 59. Wolfley went on injured reserve and among those cut was nose tackle Mark Catano, a three-year vet eran who started six games last season. Atlanta The Falcons cut Virgil Seay, who had spent six years in the NFL, most of them with Wash ington They also waived Steve GnfTin, a 12th round draft choice from Purdue, and Ron lenkins, a free agent from Colorado State. Miami In addition placing Rose on in jured reserve and cutting Bar nett, the Dolphins cut rookie quarterback Jeff Wickersham and free agent Liffort Hobley, both of LSLT New Orleans The Saints cut wide receiver Jerry Wheeler and quarterback John Fourcade and put eight players on injured reserve, in cluding veteran quarterback-wide receiver-defensive back Guido Merkens. New York Jets Along with Jones, the leu put third-round draft pick Tim Crawford, a linebacker, on in jured reserve. Among those cut were second-year running back Cednc Minter, who came to the club from the Canadian Football League