Daily News Record (Newspaper) - July 7, 1986, Harrisonburg, Virginia Hot Today sunny and High in the upper Tonight fair and Low 65 to Tuesday mostly sunny and High in the low to mid Becker Boris Becker won this years mens tennis title at Wimbledon with a bolder a more complete net and great See story Page 235 28 Pages July 1986 4332702 20 Cents Long Liberty Weekend Over ShowBiz Glamour Provides A Finale NEW YORK AP Showbiz glitz and glamour provided the fina le Sunday for the Statue of Libertys big birthday a festi val of celebrities and fireworks honoring the great ladys first 100 A rousing spectacle featured 200 Elvis Presley imitators dressed in white and silver jumpsuits perform ing a medley of rock n roll tunes with Jailhouse Rock as 300 Jazzercise dancers in bobby socks danced The extravaganza also featured the worlds largest a laser light ringers and Two hundred workers involved in the restoration of the statue were brought on waving and cheer as Willie Nelson sang Living in the Promiseland in tribute to their nearly threeyear The million televised spectacular featured an elaborate stage with waterfalls and fountains topped with a giant Liber ty More than dancers twirling white and blue capes formed a giant American flag on the football field as the audience The at nearby Giants Stadium in New topped a tribute to the lady of New York whose facelift and centennial cele bration became the worlds biggest birthday Even the audience was part of the with more than spec tators given flashlights and colored lenses to ring the stadium with a stars and stripes The evening began with a sports salute at the Brendan Byrne Arena in New Jersey featuring such celeb rity athletes as Mary Lou Muhammad Billie Jean King and exhibitions by cheerleaders and Peggy Dorothy Hamill and other ice skaters performed to Yankee Doodle From presidents to majestic sailing ships to lowly the rich and famous to common folk all turned out to pay tribute to the statue that represented hope to millions of New World im Some paid for tickets to the opening and tickets to Sundays finale went for up to But much of the spectacle was a festival enjoyed by simply looking up at the sky or out to Majestic tall sailing ships paraded by the gray warships of many nations fired 21gun and private pleasure boats jammed the Blimps lumbered by overhead amid dozens of helicopters and millions took in the panorama from AP Its all Hags at Giants Stadium for Liberty Weekend closing ceremonies the Organizers of the weekend had predicted as many as 6 million peo ple would be involved in the but there was no way to get an accurate About people visited the Statue of Liberty on Sunday at the rate of 500 an and by 1 the crowds were so huge the National Park Service halted ticket President Reagan led the nations saying This weekend we my we cut And cut they In the thundering July 4 fireworks billed as the nations 20 tons of explosives were hurled in to the erupting in cascades of gold and silver around the towering The festivities opened Thursday with Reagan pushing a button to trigger a laser beam that shot across the harbor to signal the relighting the statue in a glow of white and blue to symbolize the conclusion of the restoration In the shadow of the statue on ad jacent Ellis the country got its newest citizens as Chief Justice Warren Burger swore in 292 people and thousands more were natural in ceremonies across the coun Schoolchildren from the United States and which gave the statue to the United States 100 years helped Nancy Reagan reopen the statue to the public and thousands of people jammed See Page 3 Claims Philippine Rule AP ARTURO TOLENTINO Philippines AP Arturo the running mate of ousted strongman Ferdi nand declared himself acting president Sunday and holed up in a luxury hotel with a small cordon of Early about 12 hours after the revolt about 200 of the estimated 300 soldiers with Tolentino surrendered to troops loyal to President Corazon military spokesman Emiliano Templo said on government Eight armored personnel car riers quickly moved into a park outside the Manila Hotel in what the military said was intended to secure the building where Tolen tino remained with the remaining rebel It was not known exactly how many still backed Tolen who said he was acting on orders from but reporters said they counted fewer than 100 left at the executive secre Joker said in a tele vision interview that four generals had joined the but did not identify Reporters saw only three at the Templo quoted the soldiers who surrendered as saying they had been told they were being sent to Manila from their bases in nearby provinces to support Defense Minister Juan Ponce Enrile and the armed forces Fidel Enrile and Ramos immediately reaffirmed their loyalty to Aquino when Tolentino made his Enrile sent in emissaries to talk with the Tolentino say can solve this What we are trying to do is avoid an encounter and We will use cool heads so nobody will get hurt or Templo appealed to remaining troops to saying they would receive no no who was on a polit ical trip to Cagayan de 510 miles south of the dis counted the 75yearold Tolentinos move as but vowed to prosecute him for Its best to ignore she Hes nobody to contend I respect him only because of his She said she had no plans to cut her trip short and still figures on returning to Manila on In the State Department condemned the act of defiance and reiterated its strong support for the Aquino gov vice Salvador was on an of visit to Marcos running mate in presidential last took the presidential oath at the luxurious Manila a landmark building used by Douglas MacArthur as headquarters before and during World War Tolentino said he acted on orders from who fled the Philippines on 26 after a ci military rebellion and now is in exile in Tolentino then holed up in the variously on the fifth and 14th to confer with sup About 300 ap supportive of Tolentinos See Page 3 Nakasone Seeks Voter Majority TOKYO AP Prime Minister Yasuhiro Liberal who have governed through a coalition since sought an independent tary majority in national elections The vote count was not to begin until but the relatively high turnout was seen as beneficial to pro Western party that has led the na tion since The vote was also considered crucial to own political The Home Affairs Ministry reported that percent of Japans 87 million registered voters cast ballots The postwar high voter turnout was percent in The low in 1983 was All 512 seats were at stake in the more powerful lower the House of and half of the 252 seats in the House of or upper Under the Liberal Democratic or suf a stunning setback in 1983 following former Prime Minister Kakuei Tanakas conviction for taking bribes from Lockheed during the Before the lower house was dissolved in the LDP had 250 with eight seats held by its coalition the New Liberal Six opposition parties the Japan Socialist Party the strongest among them had 244 Independents had seven and three seats were party needs 257 seats for a simple but at least 271 seats to control all legislative Separate opinion surveys by Japans nationwide daily pers and the Kyodo News Service predicted the LDP could win from 260 to 280 lower house The LDP dominated the upper house with 135 seats before the With 65 of those seats the governing party was expected to easily maintain a comfortable After saying he did not intend to do Nakasone dissolved the lower house 18 months ahead of schedule so elections for it would coincide with those of the upper The rare dual election was seen as likely to help the LDP by boosting voter and foes accused him of deceit in arranging for likely successors within the LDP Foreign Minister Shintaro Finance Minister Noboru Takeshita and LDP Executive Board Chairman Kiichi all known as new leaders also initially op posed the double election See Page 3 Pope Prays For Dead At Armero AP Pope John Paul II reacts after visiting Armero Colombia AP Pope John Paul II knelt before a huge cross Sunday and prayed for the thousands who died when a volcano buried this once flourishing city beneath tons of mud last After a 15minute the pontiff flew by helicopter to the nearby town of Lerida where hundreds of destitute survivors of the 13 disaster live in refugee try ing to rebuild their The city of Armero is now a sea of dried mud with tops of houses and buildings poking through the sur The Nevado del Ruiz volcano melted a huge ice pack that sent a gigantic mudslide down the valley to Armero where lives were snuffed out in The pope walked from the helicopter to a wooden podium built atop the He waved to the few hundred people mostly survivors and relief workers still on the stopping briefly to pat a litle girls President Belisario Betancur also attended the In his the pope asked God to receive with compassion in your merciful heart so many of brothers buried here by the unleash ed forces of As the hushed crowd he said These children of fa ther of fell like wheat into the depths of the earth to germinate the resurrection of the rich in ease the suffering of so many dry the tears of so many guard the loneliness of so many Im plant in all of them spirit and hope See Page 3 Rest Of Celebrates Final Day BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Americans enjoyed a final fling of the long Fourth of July holiday weekend Sunday with and a day at the while others clogged highways on the way back Twentyfour men bellied up to a table Sunday on New York Citys Coney Island for the 70th annual Nathans Famous hot dog eating I feel just said winner Mark who crammed down 15V4 dogs in 10 minutes at the landmark The record is wolfed down in In spite of muggy 1 million people were expected along the Mississippi at Louis on the last day of the VP a public extravaganza that was known as the Veiled Prophet Fair when it was run by a private Fair officials said million at tended the opening day Friday and more flocked to the river front About 600 people were treated for mostly illnesses the first two and four were Police said they had handled scat tered reports of violence but there was no major At least million people roamed Grant Park during the weeklong Taste of Chicago which concluded said spokesman Al See Page 3 Elections In Mexico Said To Be Rigged Mexico AP The people of Chihuahua state voted peacefully in state and local elec tions but early cries rose from the opposition that the gov erning Institutional Revolutionary Party had rigged the State elections were also held in Zacatecas and but attention focused on Mexicos largest state and the one in which the Institutional ry or faced its biggest Weve seen serious The presidents of the polls have ref used to allow our poll watchers into the And one woman said the ballot boxes were already full when she went to said Matias a spokesman for the opposi tion National Action known as Alfonso a PRI said that in no manner was fraud being He said three or four minor incidents in which PAN representatives were refused en trance to polling places had been Wed like to see proof it he At stake were the 67 and 14legislative Polls opened at 8 and were scheduled to close at 6 but some remained open late to ac long lines of waiting In the San Felipe neighborhood of Chihuahua voters formed a line at closing They complained that three precincts had been consolidated into See Page 3 Todays lnde Business Calendar Classified Ads Crossword Editorials Jeane Dixon Local News Valley Living Weather Valley Deaths Charlie David Details on Page
