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The Times Herald Port Huron, Mich. Monday, April 4, 1 988 BRIEFS 7A WORLD NATION Tornado damage Land dispute triggers fatal church shooting EDNEYVTLLE, N.C. A man accused of killing three people and wounding his ex-wife and two others at a church funeral apparently was upset over a land dispute involving his former in-laws, authorities said. Michael L. Rainey, 41, was arrested Sunday without incident near the Mountain Home Baptist Church.

Witnesses say Rainey walked into the church on Easter Sunday to view the body of Effie Collins Justice, the grandmother of his ex-wife, Andrea Rainey, and left. Police said Rainey retrieved a shotgun and a handgun from the trunk of his car and opened fire, killing his wife's parents, Wilford Owensby, 61, and Ponnelle Owensby, 60. Also killed was Scott Bowles, 24. IBM admits secret chip sales NEW YORK International Business Machines Corp. has secretly supplied some of its competitors with sophisticated computer chips.

In an interview with The New York Times, IBM's vice chairman and highest-ranking engineer, Jack D. Kuehler, denied industry speculation that the company was acting to prevent its American competitors from becoming dependent on Japanese suppliers for chips. India's population to surge WASHINGTON India appears on the way to becoming the world's most populated country by the middle of the next century, the U.S. Census Bureau said Sunday. Currently, the bureau estimates, China people while India has 816,828,000.

Population projections for the year 2050 show India as, the world's most populated country, with an anticipated 1,591,204,000 people. At the same time China" would have a population of 1,554,875,000. Report: Carter considered deal MIAMI A plan to swap military parts for the 52 American hostages in Tehran was scuttled in 1980 when the Carter administration began to doubt the Iranian go-between, a newspaper has reported. President Carter considered offering $10 million in military spare parts for 52 Americans held hostage at the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, according to the Miami Herald.

However, his administration backed away from the plan after deciding arms dealer Houshang Lavi did not have the backing of Ab-olhassan Bani-Sadr, then president of Iran. Ferraro's son faces drug trial MONTPELIER, Vt. John XL ir a Associated Press Joe Hart takes a break from repair work day. Torrential rains are blamed for at least Sunday to survey the damage from a tor- one death and widespread flooding in the nado that swept through Slidell, Satur- metropolitan New Orleans area. Troops raid homo of opposition loader MANILA, Philippines Troops raided the vacation home of opposition Sen.

Juan Ponce Enrile but they found no trace of the fugitive leader of an August coup attempt who fled his prison ship with 14 guards. Sunday's raid on Enrile's seaside home in Bat-angas province, southwest of Manila, was part of a nationwide search for former Lt. Col. Gregorio "Gringo" Honasan, leader of the Aug. 28 coup attempt.

Carlucci ends Morocco visit MARRAKECH, Morocco U.S. Defense Secretary Frank Carlucci ended a three-day visit to Morocco Sunday after meetings with King Hassan and other officials. Carlucci, who then departed on a flight to India, called his meetings "very satisfying." Soviets stop heroin shipment MOSCOW A Soviet customs inspector became suspicious of an African couple because of their roundabout travel route and found $10 million worth of heroin packed inside their suitcases, a newspaper said Sunday. Police arrested the couple, from Cotonou, Benin, after the incident at Moscow's Sheremetyevo Airport. Iranian missile hits Iraqi city NICOSIA, Cyprus Iraq said an enemy missile slammed into the city of Kirkuk, killing and wounding many civilians, and Baghdad threatened to destroy Iranian cities in response.

The official Iraqi News Agency, which did not provide casualty figures, said the missile hit a residential area of Kirkuk, a city 140 miles north of Baghdad whose oilfields pump half of Iraq's oil production. Iraq said its warplanes raided two Iranian refineries Sunday but Iran said the bombs hit residential areas, killing 10 civilians and wounding 50. Nuclear test conducted MOSCOW The Soviet Union detonated an underground nuclear blast Sunday in the republic of Kazakhstan, the third such test announced by the Soviets this year, the official Tass news agency reported. It said the blast had a yield of 20 to 150 kilotons. The U.S.

atom bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, on Aug. 6, 1945, had a yield of 20 kilotons, or the equivalent of 20,000 tons of TNT. No details of the test blast were given by Tass. 200 arrested in Tibet protest BEIJING More than 200 people were arrested following a bloody March 5 independence protest in Tibet, but most have been released, the Panchen Lama, Tibetan Buddhism's No. 2 leader, said today.

It was the first time an official figure has been given for the number of arrests linked to the demonstration, during which thousands of Tibetans stoned Chinese armed police and burned vehicles to protest more than 37 years of Chinese Communist rule. The Panchen Lama, speaking at a televised news conference, also said five people died during the violence, including one policeman, a Tibetan monk hit by stones, and two lay Tibetans shot by police. MICHIGAN PEOPLE 'Koko and I talked. We touched hands and we touched William Shatner Zaccaro Jr. faces trial today on a charge of selling cocaine to an undercover agent after his lawyers failed in their bid to have the case overturned.

The son of former vice presidential candidate Geraldine Fer-raro pleaded innocent to the 1986 charge, which carries a five-year prison term. Zaccaro, 24, was a senior at Middlebury College when he was arrested Feb. 20, 1986, outside a Middlebury restaurant where he worked. John Zaccaro Jr. Easter thunderstorm produces 4 tornadoes A tranquil Easter Sunday was shaken and shattered across much of southern Michigan' by thunderstorms that spewed heavy rain, hail and high winds and bred at least four tornadoes, authorities said.

No tornado-related injuries were reported. The twisters damaged at least two dozen homes in the southeastern Lower Peninsula, flattened garages and barns and were blamed for interrupting electrical service to an estimated 9,000 households. Most of the damage was in Washtenaw, Lenawee, Oakland and Hillsdale counties. Quads born to Detroit couple DETROIT It was no April Fool's joke David and Pamela Lollie became the parents of quadruplets on Friday. A Henry Ford Hospital spokeswoman said Sunday the condition of the babies could change because of their birth weights.

They ranged in weight from 1 pound, 6 ounces to 1 pound, 14 ounces. They were born 2Wi months premature. Radium to be sent to Nevada MILFORD A cigar box-size metal container of radium found in a Milford home last month will be taken to a nuclear dump site in Nevada. Thomas Dykstra, a physicist for the state Department of Public Health, said the box found in the home of the late Richard Kelil contained between 50 and 100 milligrams of the radioactive material. He said friends of the man found the box when they were preparing his house for an estate sale.

Dykstra said Kelil's uncle, a physician who died about 40 years ago, was a former owner of the house and apparently bought the radium for treatments. Agent Orange study pushed LANSING A statewide petition drive has gotten under way to force the state to finish a study into Agent Orange. Vietnam veterans, many of whom say they were affected by the defoliant while overseas, hope to collect 100,000 signatures to persuade the state to allocate $2.5 million needed to complete the study. One winner In Super Lotto LANSING One Super Lotto ticket is worth more than $9 million after matching the winning numbers in Saturday's drawing, the Bureau of State Lottery said. A computer check Sunday showed one ticket matched the numbers 2, 12, 22, 23, 27 and 35.

fj cH Boldly going where few have gone before, actor WILLIAM SHATNER touched hands and talked with KOKO the gorilla. Shatner, also known as Capt. JAMES T. KIRK of "Star Trek" fame, spent half an hour with the celebrated 16-year-old lowland gorilla at the Gorilla Foundation of Woodside, this weekend. Koko lives at the nonprofit organization's center and has been taught to understand 2,000 words of spoken English and use a vocabulary of 600 signs.

Koko has communicated to foundation officials that she "want gorilla baby." The foundation has made arrangements to have her artificially inseminated. Although she plays a high-achieving high school student on ABC's "Growing Pains," TRACEY GOLD knows the pain and frustration of failing grades in real life. When she was 18, a psychologist diagnosed her as suffering from a serious learning disability, attention deficit disorder, according to this week's TV Guide. To help compensate, her parents and sister recorded her lessons on cassettes, and Tracey listened to the tapes while reading the lessons. A court has temporarily placed teen-age pop singer TIFFANY DARWISH in the custody of her aunt, JULIE ABBAS, until a ruling is made in her bid to obtain legal status and control of her career.

For months, the 16-year-old entertainer known to fans as Tiffany has been fighting a legal battle with her mother, JANIE WILLIAMS, who has had sole custody of her daughter since her 1985 divorce from Tiffany's stepfather. At stake is Tiffany's estimated $3 million in royalties from her MCA recordings. At the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, the hands of time belong to ROBERT CHEYNE, caretaker of the museum's antique clocks who spent several hours Sunday resetting the delicate instruments for daylight-saving time. He took Vh hours to change the 50 clocks he takes care of at the Dearborn tourist attraction. Police hunt prison escapees MOUNDSVILLE, W.Va.

State police today expanded into Ohio and Pennsylvania a manhunt for three convicted murderers who escaped from the maximum-security West Virginia Penitentiary on Sunday night. The three inmates were serving life sentences without possibility for parole and were housed separately in cells in the same prison wing, officials said. Mental health funding rapped WASHINGTON Democrats and Republicans on 1 the House Government Operations Committee are calling for more federal spending on mental health services to improve a piecemeal system they say isn't meeting the needs of patients or those trying to help them. The committee's report It says both spending and staff levels must be restored to pre-1981 status or higher. The government is spending $73 billion a year on mental health services, but they are often fragmented, inappropriate or simply lacking.

News stories compiled from The Associated Press and Gannett News Service. Weather information is from the National Weather Service and the Sarnia Weather Office. The page was edited by Joe Powell, Mike Patton and Jim Ketchum. Associated Press Easter blessing Pope John Paul II makes an emotional plea for peace, justice and human rights Sunday in an Easter message In St. Peter's Square in Vatican City.

U.S. Secretary of State George P. Shultz attended the Easter Mass. WEATHER Th Accu-Watw forcit for 8 AM, Tueaday, April 5 30 TEMPERATURES State i (SHOWERS Ollk Jackson 66 43 cdy Lansing 67 45 clr Marquette 62 40 pedy. cdy.

fog HI LO Alpena 68 45 Detroit 68 43 Escanaba 47 29 cdy Muskegon 64 42 cdy Flint 68 46 cdy Pellston 70 40 rain' Grand Rapids 68 cdy cdy Saginaw 67 Sault St. Marie 47 Houghton 53 fog fog rain Houghton Lake 65 40 Traverse City 70 42 rain Nation FORECASTS Blue Water Area Clear skies are expected tonight with lows in the mid-30s. Sunny skies are on tap Tuesday with highs in the low 60s and lows in the mid-30s. Showers are forecast for Wednesday and Thursday. Friday should be partly cloudy.

Michigan Fair skies are forecast for the Lower Peninsula tonight with lows from the upper 30s to mid-40s. It should be partly sunny Tuesday with a chance of afternoon thundershowers and highs in the lower 60s to lower 70s. It should be partly to mostly cloudy tonight inthe Upper Peninsula with a chance of showers and lows in the mid- to upper 30s. Mostly cloudy skies are forecast for Tuesday with a chance of showers and highs in the mid-50s to lower 60s. Great Lakes Lake Huron winds should be southwest 5 to 15 knots tonight with waves 1 to 3 feet.

Lake St. Clair winds should be south 5 to 15 knots tonight with waves 1 to 3 feet. Nation Today's forecast calls for showers and thunderstorms from the central Gulf coast region and Florida across the East Coast states to New England; scattered showers from northern Michigan to Minnesota; rain and mountain snow from the Pacific Northwest across Idaho and northern Utah to the northern and central Rockies; and windy conditions near the Rocky Mountains. Warm Cold Stationary 1988 Aocu-Wthr, Inc. Local statistics Louisville 74 62 .57 cdy MlamlBeach 77 72 cdy NewOrleans 72 65 .09 cdy NewYorkClty 54 48 clr OklahomaClty 76 41 cdy Orlando 78 62 cdy Philadelphia 66 49 clr Pittsburgh 73 57 .48 clr Portland, Maine 53 33 cdy Portland.Ore.

50 45 32 rn SanFranclsco 57 50 clr Seattle 50 41 .10 cdy Shreveport 83 52 cdy SlouxFallS 52 39 cdy Spokane 51 41 .40 clr Syracuse 69 53 38 cdy Tampa StPtrsbg 84 65 cdy Topeka 66 42 .01 clr Tucson 86 47 clr Tulsa 74 42 cdy Washlngton.D.C. 75 53 clr SUNDAY HI Lo Pre Otlk Albany.N.Y. 57 47 .12 cdy Albuquerque 71 35 clr Anchorage 36 25 cdy Asheville 61 56 .54 cdy Atlanta 72 62 .14 cdy AtlantlcClty 54 46 clr Baltimore 72 50 clr Billings 68 48 clr Boise 56 46 43 cdy Boston 52 42 .03 cdy Buffalo 70 56 .77 cdy Burllngton.Vt. 55 49 .03 cdy Chicago 59 45 .05 cdy Cincinnati 69 58 1.31 cdy Cleveland 62 58 1.04 cdy Dallas 81 45 clr Dayton 68 58 .55 cdy Denver 71 35 cdy DesMoines 58 43 cdy Duluth 39 35 .39 cdy GreatFalls 57 44 clr Honolulu 81 68 .11 cdy KansasClty 61 44 .04 cdy LasVegas 82 49 clr LosAngeleS 76 52 cdy Time Temp Baro Wind Sunday Noon 61 29.19 S12 2 p.m. 57 29.13 S14 4 p.m.

62 29.08 S12 4 p.m. 61 NA S20 Today 6 a.m. 46 29.05 S12 8 a.m. 47 29.05 SW12 Yesterday'! high 64 Yesterday' low 49 Year ago high 34 Year ago low 28 Record high 70 (1981) Record low 18 (1982) Rainfall (Inches) 0.37 Rainfall last year 0.22 Rainfall to date 2.60 Snowfall (Inches) none Snowfall last year none Snowfall to date 34 5 Water temperature 38 Sunset 7:59 p.m. 7:04 a.m.

Tuesday for Air pollution Index 7 (A reading of 32 or less Is considered acceptable; a reading of 100 or more is considered serious.) National temperature extremes Sunday Low 17 at Gunnison Colo. High 98 at Laredo Texas.