| Show 6A Tbe Salt Lake Tribune Saturday Jane 20 1 Incumbent Party Winning Vote In Bahamas Despite Criticism 987 - NASSAU Bahamas (AP) The governing party of Prime Minister Sir Lynden 0 Pindling took an early lead Friday in Bahamian national elections despite opposition accusa tions of corruption and failure to Btem drug trafficking Christie a former PLP member and Cabinet minister fired by Pindling in October 1984 for criticizing the corruption detailed by the Commission report Independent observers rated the parliamentary elections a Three hours after polls closed at 6 pm EDT the Progressive Liberal Party appeared to have won 17 of the 48 contested seats in the House of Assembly 49-se- parli-menta- The opposition Free National Movement headed by Nassau attorney Kendal Isaacs appeared to have won three seats at that point while an independent won a seat for the first time in two decades The party winning a majority chooses the prime minister to form term the government for a five-yea-r - NICOSIA Cyprus (AP) Fifty battalions of Iranian zealots known as the “Defenders of the Persian Gulf paraded through Tehran Friday vowing to carry out suicide attacks against US ships in the gulf Tehran radio reported The state radio monitored in Nicosia quoted Revolutionary Guards spokesman Ali Reza Afshar as saying his forces have turned Iranian islands ar Pindling loyalist Kendal Nottage who resigned from the government in yktVi —Associated Press Laserphoto Bahamian leader Lynden Pindling tries to whip up support in an election that pits him against foes who call him corrupt 1984 after a Royal Commission of Inquiry linked him to alleged moneylaundering by an American drug- smuggling figure handily won re- -' election The independent winner was Perry Black Leaders Angered at Unpaid Holiday “It appears to be becoming a divisive issue It appears that there are those who would like to send the wrong message about how we do things in Arizona This is designed to clear that up” The Republican governor rescinded an executive order issued by his Democratic predecessor Bruce Babbitt creating the holiday Jan 12 one week before the holiday would have been celebrated for the first time The holiday was created to conincide with the federal holiday which falls on the third Monday in January Mecham said Babbitt’s order was illegal because governors cannot declare paid holidays The governor cited an opinon by Republican Attorney General Bob Corbin to support his decision to re First for US: Boise Basques Open Museum BOISE (AP) — The first Basque museum in the United States was dedicated Friday at a boarding house where some of the first immigrants stayed while seeking work in a new land “Like the Basques who came here this house is sturdy” said Adelia Garro Simplot who organized and financed the effort to save the red brick building near downtown two-stor- y which for generations housed Basques emigrating from their seven native provinces straddling the Pyrenees Mountains in northern Spain and southern France "This house is worthy of remembrance for the comfort and shelter it gave" said Simplot “Like the Basques who came here it endured” Boise is home to an estimated 20 000 Basques the largest concentration in North America The dedication featured speeches from Idaho Secretary of State Pete Cenarrusa a Basque and Josu minister of culture and assistant to the president of the Spanish Basque Country who donated a Basque flag "This means a great deal to me and to the Basque people — to be recognized and have our history recorded" Cenarrusa said The Basques' origins are obscure and their language is related to no other in Europe About 3 million Basques live in Spain and France After the ceremony a crowd of about 300 was entertained by the Children's Basque Dancers a troupe of young people in traditional white dress with berets shashes and bandannas of red and green The museum's opening marked the beginning of three days of Basque dancing food and athletic competitions in Jaialdi '87 the International Basque Cultural Festival The museum building Boise's oldest brick structure was built in 1864 bv local merchant Cyrus Jacobs and s rim as a boarding house until the a the Uberaugas prominent by Basque family The museum houses Basque art oral history tapes books in the Basque language of Euskara historic photographs and other arti- in the gulf into “huge battleships that can easily hunt all of the enemy’s ships and naval apparatus" Iran's official Islamic Republic News Agency also monitored in Nicosia reported that the Supreme Defense Council met in Tehran Thursday night to discuss “the defensive plan for naval forces and the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps in the Persian Gulf’ following superpower intervention to protect Kuwaiti ships The council which maps Iran's war with strategy in the 6 Va year-old Iraq made some decisions IRNA reported but it did not elaborate IRNA however quoted Parliament Speaker Hashemi Rafsanjani Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini’s representative on tbe council as saying: “We must be ready “The people the armed forces and the government must all be prepared although the possibility of a confrontation with the United States is -- Mecham Declares Day Honoring King - Gov PHOENIX Anz (UPI) Evan Mecham has declared the third Sunday in January a civil rights day in honor of Martin Luther King Jr to try to quiet furor over his abolition of a paid state holiday for the slain black leader But Arizona black leaders who support only a Monday holiday denounced the governor’s surprise proclamation One state legislator called it a “sham” and an “affront” Mecham said it was his only option after the state Legislature failed to act on his suggestion that a voters referendum decide the holiday issue "I took the action that was open to me" he said “I waited for the legislative process to complete itself as the only place where a paid holiday can be taken up “It may take a minor miracle for a that both result to be achieved sides are going to cheerfully accept as valid" said Weinstein Martyrs Vow To Attack Ships in Gulf drug-corrupti- '1 time Would-B- e One former Cabinet minister imscandal plicated in a won election along with a dissident fired for criticizing Pindling’s handling of allegations that shook his leadership -- toss-u- p but both Pindling and opposition Isaacs predicted their parties would gain a majority A victory for the Free National Movement would be a startling reversal for the Pindling who became the country’s first black prime minister in 1967 and was instrumental in the movement that gained the Bahamas independence from Britain in 1973 turnout of 90 percent of the 99000 registered voters in the Bahamas was predicted Allen Weinstein head of a team of 10 American observers reported "a profound measure of administrative confusion that could have a major impact on this election” He said officials from both sides agreed there are minor irregularities such as polling places opening late voters not knowing their polling locations and ballots not arriving on A scind the holiday But Babbitt a former state attorney general and a Democratic presidential candidate contended that he had the power to create the holiday and said the issue should be decided by the courts House Minority Leader Art Hamilton who led the drive in the Legislature for a holiday in honor of King said Mecham’s latest action was a “subterfuge” to get him off the hot seat “It's an affront to the people small” Tehran Radio quoted Afshar as saying in a prayer sermon at Tehran n battalUniversity that the will be ions of “martyrdom-seekers- ” deployed June 28 “to defend the Persian Gulf and repulse the aggression of world arrogance” Iranian parlance for the United States He did not say how these forces the “defenders of the Persian Gulf” would fight the Americans and where they would be deployed Afshar’s warning was the latest in a daily series of threats 400-ma- who have worked long and hard to get a holiday” said Hamilton one of three black legislators “It is a sham” Hamilton said he will continue the fight for a paid holiday on a Monday Mecham said his decision “certainly was not” influenced by a recall movement against him Evan Mecham Proclaims Rights Day Car Seat Covers Only phones J2850 RATED 1 A pair Jewelry Report! 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