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    Page 14/The Battatton/Wednesday, August 20,1986
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Three hurt as waido
anti-tank
weapon fires
ARLINGTON. Vs. (AP) — A
50mm anti-tank weapon discharged
at a gasoline service station Tuesday,
apparently as a man was trying to
sell it, setting off a fire and explosion
and injuring three people, authori
ties said.
Lt. 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
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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