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Show Judgo denies habeas corpus writ in capital murdor case Condemned killer Gardner ordered to die August 24 old Testimony in Barry trial on drug topic BYU hires Bosco as f ulltime coach 1 Florida bailout sets S&l record - WASHINGTON (AP) Regulators spent a record $1.7 billion Friday to bail out CenTrust Bank of Miami, capping an unprecedented three-mont- h spree of 155 savings and loan rescues or closings. In the biggest bailout of a savings and loan yet, the government is paying Great Western Financial Corp. of Beverly Hills, Calif, to take over CenTrust's 71 branches and $5.2 billion in deposits, officials said. In all, the Resolution Trust Corp., created 11 months ago to clean up the thrift industry, expected to sell or close 15 institutions Friday, including some of the largest failures handled to date. When regulators seized CenTrust in February, they blamed its failure on speculative investing, including purchase of more than $1 billion in junk bonds from the investment banking firm of Drexel Burnham Lambert Inc., which later crashed itself. They also cited the lavish spending of the institution's chairman, David Paul, who spent millions of dollars of deposits on a museum-qualit- y art collection kept at his home; a company yacht; limou C4 d toilets in the sines and executive washrooms. A "fraud squad" of investigators is examining the legality of $328,000 in political contributions by Paul. CenTrust's failure is rivaled only by the collapse of Charles H. Keating Jr.'s Lincoln Savings and Loan Association of Iryine, Calif. The Lincoln case is expected to cost taxpayers around $2 billion when regulators eventually resolve the case. Great Western is paying $86 million to acquire the right to service CenTrust's deposits. Most were gold-plate- brokered deposits which were placed by money brokers and were drawing a high interest rate. They are expected to flow out of the institution, leaving a base of $1.78 billion in deposits from local branch customers. Great Western is also buying about half of CenTrust's $6.7 billion in assets, with the right to return them within three months if they turn out to be worse than expected. The assets include cash and investme- securities, residential nt-grade mortgages and consumer loans. The Resolution Trust Corp. will (See BAILOUT, Page A2) Herald PhotoAndrew Holloway Duck talk : Two ducks talk about the heat at Utah Lake Friday. And a sizzler is forecast for today, too. If it reaches 100 degrees today, flie June heat record will be broken. It's already tied. The high Friday was 101. in Provo, said local weather observer David James. Today is the sixth day in June of 100 or lOtolus temperatures, James said. Six days was the record for June set in 1936, James said. -- As of Friday, Utah County tied the 1936 France adopts boll record, and if the temperature reached 100 today, a new record will be set. Will it happen? "You bet," James said. See additional weather stories on Page A6. In a move widely PARIS (AP) leader believed aimed at right-win- g Jean-Mari- e Le Pen, the National Assembly approved a strict iaw Friday that would bar anyone convicted of promoting racism from holding elected office for five years. The law also would require news media that report racist statements and other problems and is in a to give targeted groups the right to hospital in the East German town respond, and it classifies as a of Beelitz. crime the propagation of "revisionHonecker already is the target of ist" history questioning the existother criminal probes, including a ence or extent of the Holocaust. alWest German investigation for The bill now goes before the legedly harboring West German ter- Senate, which refused to consider rorists. an earlier version. But the assem"The personal guilt of Honecker has the power to enact it into for the deadly shootings at the bly if the Senate rejects it a second law Berlin Wall and the German-Germa- n time. to be investigaboundary is In France, the debate about ractive HONECKER, Page A2) ism has been closely linked with anti-racis- m investigated for murders IrHonecEter - WEST BERLIN (AP) Former East German leader Erich Honecker will be investigated for murder in the deaths of people who were shot or killed by land mines as they tried to escape Communist rule, the state news agency said Friday. chief prose.. Acting East German cutor Guenter Seidel also is investigating individual soldiers suspected of having killed would-b-e escapees, according to East Germany's ADN news agency. - A judge has denied the habeas corpus writ of a nun who tried to change his gufity plea in an d capital murder case. See story on Page AS. eight-year-ol- Accent: Six yean ago, Robbie Bosco led BYU to the national football championship. Now, Bosco will be the latest addition to the coaching staff. See Page Bl. MOSCOW (AP) President hail S. Gorbachev warned top munist Party leaders on Friday that they must avoid a split at next week's key congress that is to plot the party's future course, a spokesman said. Gorbachev and his allies argue that disintegration of the party's movement would weaken it against conservatives who dominated last week s founding congress of the Communist Party of Die Russian republic. The Central Committee, the body of the pro-refor- MikCom- m policy-m- aking World: American cyclist Kevin Fos- ter whizzed down the last ' stretch of the Great Wall of China to reach the ocean Frt-day. See Page A3. Find it 4 Arts Entertainment Business ................................Al Bl-C- S Classified Ads ......B4 . Comics .... B3 Horoscope B3-B- Movies B3 National Obituaries Sports.......... State Utah Valley .. A3 AS World Eastern Europe's movement to be targeted in a murder investigation. Romania's former leader, Nicolae Ceausescu, was executed on Christmas Day after a quickly arranged trial on genocide charges. HoIf convicted, the necker could receive life in prison. However, it is unclear whether he will ever be brought to trial because of his failing health. He has been suffering from kidney cancer Soviets prepare for Monday's Congress Utah Valley: ,'. More than 200 East Germans were shot to death or killed by land mines as they tried to escape from East Germany and East Berlin during more than four decades of Communist rule. Bringing those responsible to justice has been one of the most bitterly debated issues in East Germany since the fall revolution toppled the Communist government. Honecker is believed to be the first Communist leader ousted in .........B1-B- 2 .A3 AS A3 member party, tentatively approved a report that Gorbachev will deliver Monday at the 28th congress of the Soviet Communist Party, where conservatives will be strongly represented. committee But the ordered the Politburo to "rework it taking Into account discussion" durforty-minut- e ing a three-hou- r, closed-doo- r Kremlin meeting, said Alexander Kapto, head of the Central Committee ideological department. Litlhiyamiia m er As the national congress ap-(S- SOVIETS, Page A2) The VILNIUS, U.S.S.R. (AP) Lithuanian parliament on Friday y moratorium on agreed to a its declaration of independence in an exchange for an end to the economic blockade ordered by Mikhail S. Gorbachev. 100-da- ATc Lithuania's president, Vytautas Landsbergis, said he expects the blockade by the Kremlin on all supplies of oil and most natural gas to the breakaway republic to be lifted on Saturday. Further negotiations Lithuanian President Vytautas Landsbergis between Gorbachev and Lithuanian leaders over the status of this Baltic republic of 3.8 million residents are to continue under Friday's compromise. Officials say it may be two weeks before death cause is known in Challenger case - LAKE CITY (AP) It could be up to two weeks before SALT authorities know the cause of death Florida girl who of a collapsed and died while participating in a controversial wilderness experience group for troubled teens, officials said Friday. Meantime, a nurse who attended to Christen Chase says It took more than an hour from the time she received a call about an emergency to the time the helicopter ambulance landed on the rugged Kaipa-rowit- s Plateau where the girl had doubt whether anything could have saved her' Charles Brofman Challenger attorney 'I frankly collapsed. An attorney for the Challenger Foundation, in which the girl was enrolled, said help was at the scene within a half hour of when counse lors radioed the emergency. Chase was pronounced dead on arrival at Panguitch Memorial Hospital Wednesday evening. She was the second patient in a wilderness far-rig- ht ht Ks moratorium - 1 debate over immigration. It took another twist last month after the discovery of desecrated graves in a Jewish cemetery in Carpentras, southern France. Le Pen, leader of the National Front, has advocated deportation of North African immigrants and called the Nazi gas chambers "a detail" of history. His party and the mainstream center-rigparties have accused the Socialists of failing to control immigration. The Socialists have accused Le Pen's party of creating a climate of racial animosity. But the govern-- , ment has bowed to public opinion by proposing tighter curbs on immigration and shelving a plan to give immigrants voting rights in local elections. (See FRANCE, Page A2) survival treatment program to die in the past six weeks. Challenger attorney Charles Brofman said the girl was apparently dead at the scene. "I frankly doubt whether anything could have saved her," he said. Brofman said program founder and director Stephen Cartisano spent much of the day with the dead girl's parents and that they remained supportive of the program. Rudi Riet, an Investigator with (See CHALLENGER, Page Az Asked if he was happy with the result of the long debate, Landsbergis told reporters: "No, it's too complicated." Earlier in the day, he backed off his reservations about accepting a compromise to endorse the moratorium. y The moratorium, passed will take effect by a vote of at the start of negotiations with Moscow. Landsbergis would not say how soon those talks could begin. Supporters said the deal allows Soviet President Gorbachev to save face while giving Lithuania its freedom. Top Lithuanian officials said in e two meetings with (See LITHUANIA, Page A2) 100-da- 69-3- 5, face-to-fac- Weather Fair to partly cloudy with a slight chance of thunderstorms mainly near the mountains. Strong winds near thunderstorms. Not as hot Highs in the upper 90s. See Page A6. Air Quality Today's air quality was listed as good tnvall areas along the Wasatch Front, with little change In pollution levels |