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I I 1 I I "I'" I I I 1 1 p- isr ui i Spectrum Wednesday, November 30, 1968 Mexico biography latest in book genre earthquake and the heroic As Romanenko falls to the station floor, Pagan is caught up in the international intrigue surrounding his death. And the deeper he gets, the more dangerous it becomes as both sides try to stop him from unravelling their plans. With finely crafted characters Campbell Armstrong, a pseudonym for former London book editor Campbell Black, has created a fast-paced and highly complicated plot that leaves the reader in suspense until its fiery conclusion above the Kremlin. Harold Martin (UPI) fA f'l i -jp, Jfi Hi mi i tuff" -ti frn A monkey on your back by united Press infl La Capital: The Biography of Mexico City, by Jonathan Kandell (Random House, 640 $24.95) VV Non-fiction books by The New York Times' overseas correspondents usually make good reads. "La Capital: The Biography of Mexico City" by Jonathan Kandell is the latest in the genre, perhaps the best known of which is Hedrick Smith's account from his Moscow outpost during the Cold War.

Kandell, the Times' Latin America correspondent from 1972 to 1977, makes the history of the sprawling metropolis come aliVe by drawing masterfully on his journalism skills and his days growing up there. The best journalism usually focuses on people, and Kandell does just that by writing about the everyday people who built Mexico City. Kandell begins with a brief geology lesson, beginning 50 million years ago with the physical formation of the Valley of Mexico, which we learn isn't really a valley at all. That fact is painfully apparent in modern-day Mexico City and its environmental problems. Before long, we are taken into the Aztec culture and their blood orgies, and the conquest of Mexico by Hernan Cortes.

Cortes, sometimes a flamboyant character in grade-school history lessons, comes off as something of a cheap, political Kandell notes that very few sites in Mexico have monuments to the conquistador. Kandell insightfully walks through the centuries of post-conquest turmoil, noting the inhabitants' near-obsession with skin color and the average person's lot in life. The author's exhaustive research takes readers beyond a sanitized account by a governor or viceroy. "La Capital" smoothly weaves its way through centuries of revolts and presidencies to the 1985 Caliente race track just south of the border near San Diego. About half a dozen dogs take to the nighttime turf experiencing what it's like with a monkey on your back.

(UPI) Mexico What may look like the ugliest jockey to hit turf is actually one of a handful of Spicier monkeys that ride Greyhound dogs in exhibition racing at the Move over Springsteen, Jackson: Coulter is biggest name in Ireland John G. Slagle, Trustor in favor of KEITH L. WHIT-TAKER AND ARLENE WHITTAKER as beneficiary, dated November 25, 1985, and recorded on the 12th day of June, 1986, as Entry No. 296230, in book 415, Pages 837-839 of official Washington County Records, covering real property, and all personal property located thereon. Said property is located in Washington County, State of Utah and more particularly described as follows: BEGINNING at a point North 0 degrees 45'12" 285.00 feet along the 116' line from the Southwest Corner of the Northeast 14 of the Southeast 14 of Section 25, Township 42 South, Range 16 West, Salt Lake Base and Meridian, said point of beginning also being 89 degrees 48'07" 1327.87 feet along the Section line and 0 degrees 45'12" 1617.32 feet along the 116 line from the Southeast Corner of said Section 25 and running thence 59 degrees 45' 98.64 feet; thence 30 degrees 00' 271.08 feet to a point on the South line of the Northeast 14 of the Southeast 14 of said Section 25; thence 89 degrees 51'44" 451.77 feet along said South line to a point on the Southwesterly Right-of-way line of a Highway known as Project No.

S-0417; thence along said Southwesterly line of Highway as follows: 27 degrees 12'10" 255.33 feet to a point on a curve to the left, the radius point of which ins 52 degrees 17'37" 1749.859 feet; thence Northwesterly 124.83 feet along the arc of said curve; thence 40 degrees 37' 743.37 feet to a point on the West line of the Northeast 14 of the Southeast 14 of said Section 25; thence leaving said Southwesterly 14 of said Section 25; thence leaving said Southwesterly line of Highway and running thence 0 degrees 45'12" 604.00 feet along the 116 line to the POINT OF BEGINNING. SUBJECT TO existing Sewer and Water Lines running across said property. TOGETHER WITH all improvements and appurtenances thereunto belonging. SUBJECT TO easements, restrictions and rights of way currently appearing of record and those enforceable in law and equity. DATED this 21st day of November, 1988.

Michael W. Park STATE OF UTAH COUNTY OF IRON On the 21st day of November, 1988, personally appeared before me Michael W. Park, Successor Trustee, who being first duly sworn, did say that he is the successor Trustee and the signer of the foregoing Notice of Trustee's Sale. Patrice W. Durfey NOTARY PUBLIC Residing at: Cedar City, Utah My Commission Expires: March 30, 1992 Pub4525 Published November 25, 30, December 7, 1988 The Daily Spectrum effort by residents to pull survivors and bodies from the rubble.

Kandell is a sprightly writer, and "La Capital" is a good read because he focuses on personalities. He also makes "La Capital" accessible to average readers by avoiding the tortured, imperious prose tney encounter in many works of this genre. Paul Grant (UPI) White Light, by Campbell Armstrong (Morrow, 384 $18.95) The time is now and in the Soviet Union, glasnost is taking control. With the new order comes new faces and new feelings, feelings that become yearnings for independence among the Baltic states of Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia, held since World War II under the yoke of Moscow. One August day, Aleksis Romanenko, a party official from the Baltic region, is en route to Edinburgh for sightseeing in the company of Scotland Yard's Frank Pagan and officials from the Foreign Office and the Soviet Embassy.

In Edinburgh, Romanenko is shot by a puzzling American with a Baltic name, and glasnost is about to face its biggest threat ever. The biggest because it comes not only internally, from old hardliners in the KGB and especially the dying old KGB chief Vladimir Greshko, but from outside, from a highly secretive and powerful intelligence group in Washington, D.C., controlled by a 280-pound bisexual known as Galbraith. Greshko is convinced that the Soviet Union, built by terror and discipline, will collapse if the old order is not restored. Gal-braith's group believes that the old order, because of its inefficiency and rigidity, was less of a threat to America than the new. The catalyst for bringing down the new order is a group of Baltic dissidents, within and without the Soviet Union.

corn palaces for a $4,226 per-screen average. Both films promise to be strong contenders for urchin audiences during the holiday season. No. 2 in the box-office rankings was the previous week's leader, "Child's Play," an occult thriller involving a malevolent dol' that comes to life to terrify a family. "Child's Play," starring Catherine Hicks and Chris Sarandon, grossed $5.2 million in its second week for a total of $14.8 million.

"Ernest Saves Christmas," the latest exploits of Ernest P. Worrell (Jim Varney), collected $4.8 million to bring its two-week total to $11.8 million. Following "Oliver Company" in fifth place was another newcomer, "High Spirits," starring Peter O'Toole, Daryll Hannah, Steve Guttenberg and Beverly D'Angelo in an Irish castle ghost story. It attracted $3.3 million in its opening week. Yet another freshman film release, "Fresh Horses," stars Molly Ring-wald and Andrew McCar "I did it to get it out of my system.

To my amazement it became the biggest selling album of all time in Ireland. Then the second album outsold the first one. It kind of took on a life of its own. It's become my primary activity." Now when Coulter tours, he brings a whole string orchestra with him. "Touring with a string orchestra is very much against the flow," he admitted.

"Orchestras are being dismantled and people are touring with two synthesizers." Though Coulter's lush, easy-listening style fits neatly into the New Age category, few references get his Irish up as quickly as calling him a New Age act. "I'm a bit confused about the whole New Age thing," he said. "It's so all-encompassing. In one of my previous incarnations I played keyboards in the Van Morrison band. Mark Isham played trumpet.

Some of the things he's done are substantial. "I find other things a bit like wallpaper music. I find a lot of it is very soulless, indulgence on the part of players. The difference is I'm dealing in proven, strong melodies that have been around for generations. I get a kick doing places like Albe-querque, New Mexico, where there are very few Irish.

To have people there giving standing ovations, where there's no ethnic response or patriotism, that was gratifying because they were judging them as tunes. "I'd soouer not thmk of myself as a New Age performer. I'd be quite happy to captivate some New Age buyers, though." NEW YORK (UPI) Who's the biggest name in pop music in Ireland? Not homegrown heroes U2, or even international superstars like Michael Jackson and Bruce Springsteen. The answer is Phil Coulter, an unassuming writerproducer arranger who's described by Irish press agents as the "king of the middle of the road." Over the years Coulter has written or produced hits by a bewildering variety of people from the Bay City Rollers to Elvis Presley, Waylon Jennings, Richard Harris, the New Seekers and James Last. His songs, which have sold over 25 million copies worldwide over the years, range from the sentimental pop fluff of "My Boy" to the anguished ballad protesting violence in Ireland, "The Town I Loved So Well." The classically-trained keyboardist reached his commercial heights a few years ago, though, with the first of a series of instrumental albums built around traditional Irish melodies, "Classic Tranquility." Coulter's recently issued "Forgotten Dreams" is another lush, flawlessly arranged Irish mood piece that will form part of the program during Coulter's current U.S.

tour. "This is the sixth album in a series," said Coulter upon arrival for the tour from Ireland, "since I've adopted this new persona as pianist, orchestra leader and performer after having been a backroom boy for 20 cdcl years "The whole concept of 'Classic Tranquility' was to direct my musical attention into areas that could afford some great funds of melodies that hadn't been explored. "It confuses a lot of people who think I need help," he said with a laugh. "When I was working with the Bay City Rollers, I kind ofinvented and dreamed them up. They didn't have any musical identity, all they had was the conviction they would become stars.

As a producer songwriter I figured we needed a home grown Osmonds. There was no musical direction so I came up with some uncomplicated pop tunes for them. "I'd have them in the studio and be back in with the Dubliners to keep some mental balance within myself and keep musical integrity. Because working with Irish folk music, which is something I grew up with, I was working in a medium I really enjoyed. I could write songs with a little more substance than 'Saturday The last thing I wanted was that my entire output would be directed to teenybopper music.

"Five years ago I split with my songwriting partner of 17 years, and said it was time to doing something for myself. I actually did get around to making an album of songs that had universal appeal, tunes that had been around for centuries in Ireland. I wanted to make an instrumental album to state these melodies in an uncomplicated way. "They're so strong, lyrical and seductive, they do it on their own. My job is to give them some space to breath, make them as accessible as possible.

They had been perceived in a purely ethnic framework. I did that as a tangent to my main business as a producer. Cartoon dinosaurs romp at the turnstiles in battle with 'Oliver Company' The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, edited by Barry Kernfeld (Grove's Dictionaries of Music, 1,360 $295) Leonard Feather's indis- jazz bible, "The ncyclopedia of Jazz" and its 1960s and 1970s supplements, now have some comprehensive competition as a standard jazz reference. In fact, "The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz" brings new meaning to the word comprehensive in terms of jazz research. Entries on more than 3,000 composers and performers the essence of jazz from J-to-Z, are diligently researched and written about in scholarly detail, often cross-referenced for a performer's nickname in case you aren't sure of the real name.

Most entries are followed by discographies and bibliographies containing recommendations for further listening or reading. As a bonus, some include classic photographs of the participants. There are separate listings for jazz terms, instrumental traditions, record labels, clubs and jazz festivals worldwide. Longer essays focus on the contributions of Duke Ellington and the pioneering New Orleans music tradition. James Lincoln Collier penned a 26-page history of jazz.

Feather wrote an extensive survey of the vocal tradition. This is a work that was painstakingly researched. thy predictably falling in love again like dime store copies of Garbo and Gilbert. "Fresh Horses," No. 6, skimmed off $3 million from 1,272 theaters.

It was a bounce-back week for exhibitors with the strong showing of the quartet of new movies and with the 13 highest ranked films grossing $1 million or more each. All theaters grossed $68 million to equal the 1987 take for the same week. For the year to date, the total gross was $3.7 billion as against $3.6 billion last year at this time. All-star cast HOLLYWOOD (UPI) In her new movie "High D'Angelo, one of the brightest and most beautiful actresses in movies today is part of a unique mix of cast members including Peter O'Toole, Daryl Hannah, Steve Guttenberg, Liam Neeson, Ray McAnally, Jennifer Tilly, Donal McCann and Peter Gallagher. sumer's revenge for all the things that don work as advertised.

This night of Soviet television has its more serious side as well. There are the plain facts of Soviet television: it is run under the auspices of Gostelradio, the USSR State Committee for Television and Radio. More than 900 transmitters, four satelites and 90 ground stations transmit video images over the Soviet Union's 11 time zones to the more than 100 nationalities that comprise the USSR. As of 1986, there were more than 90 million TV sets in the country that were reaching 93 percent of the Soviet population of about 280 million. The most popular program in the country is rtVre-mya" or "Time," a one-hour newscast that airs nightly at 9 p.m.

and reaches about 90 percent of the population. Of course, it's the only game in town at that hour, the only show on the air. That Soviet television has loosened up enormously is illustrated in various ways, but none so dramatically as the way two Japanese grumble about security umbrella TOKYO (UPI) Americans who feel burdened providing military security for affluent Japan may find it odd that the Japanese complain about shoddy U.S. protection. Japan is concerned that the quality of the U.S.

military, like the quality of U.S. consumer goods, is slipping. Its main fear is that the 60,000 U.S. troops sent to Japan to defend the region will become a threat to public safety because of their carelessness. "The watchdog has become a mad dog," said Minister of Transportation Shintaro Ishihara after this string of recent U.S.

military mishaps: A U.S. Marine Corps helicopter crashed less than a mile from a nuclear power plant in June. A U.S. Navy destroyer fired practice shells within 300 Sards of a Japanese patrol boat in a busy channel near le mouth of Tokyo Bay on Nov. 9.

Stray bullets from a U.S. military facility hit a Japanese residential area in October. Ten years ago Japan may have quietly accepted these incidents as part of the cost of U.S. military protection. But the Japanese have changed.

Their increased economic power has given them the confidence to stand up to the United States. "Japan has come a long way in the last decade," said the retiring U.S. Ambassador to Japan Mike Mansfield. "They no longer stand in the corner and bow their heads and remain silent." And they are no longer willing to tolerate U.S. military blunders on their territory.

"Each incident could have caused the loss of civilian life," said an editorial in the Mainichi Shimbun, a major independent newspaper. "Don't they have any respect for human life?" The Japanese media have suggested various reasons for the U.S. military mishaps, including poor discipline, low intelligence among servicemen, a declining economic base of support and "lack of moral concepts." Japan's angry reaction is part of a growing desire to be more independent from the United States. The incidents remind the Japanese that, despite all their economic muscle, they are still dependent on the United States for security. "We are equal in economics and sometimes superior in high technology but never superior in security," said Yoichi Masuzoe, a professor at prestigious Tokyo University.

"This gap is frustrating for some Japanese." So if the Japanese don't like the U.S. military, and Americans don't like footing the bill for Japanese security, why not do both a favor and send the American troops home? Neither Washington nor Tokyo wants that. Secretary of Defense Frank Carlucci has defended the alliance as a key ingredient of U.S. security. Furthermore, Japan's contribution to maintaining U.S.

troops about $45,000 a year per person makes it cheaper to station a soldier in Yokohama than Texas. As for Japanese leaders, they certainly have no intention of giving up U.S. military protection. It is the umbrella that has allowed Japan to spend only 1 percent of its gross national product on defense and concentrate the rest on economic development. The United States, by contrast, spends roughly 7 percent of its GNP the total output of goods and services on defense.

The message the Japanese want to send to the military is simply, "Please clean up your act." Glasnost means comedy, drama, rock HOLLYWOOD (UPI) The Steven Spielberg-George Lucas film "The Land Before Time" bested Disney's "Oliver Company in a battle between animated cartoons at North America's movie houses. Despite the fact that Mickey Mouse was celebrating his 60lh birthday when both pictures were released last Friday, "The Land Before Time" posted a big win with a turnstile take of $7.5 million. Under the direction of animation whiz Don Bluth, "The Land Before Time" spins a yarn about five lovable young dinosaurs on a trek to find a prehistoric haven. It was No. 1 among all movies in release in North America.

Disney's "Oliver Company," a contemporary musical update of Dickens' "Oliver Twist" with a cute kitten in the title role, was No. 4 with a gross of $4 million. "The Land Before Time" opened in 1,395 theaters for a per-screen average of $5,395. "Oliver Company" surfaced in 952 pop Soviet TV: NEW YORK (UPI) -The grim joke in the Soviet Union used to be that on any given night, twiddle the dial and you would find three of the country's four television channels broadcasting the same speech by the Soviet premier. On the fourth channel, a man in uniform ordered the viewers to turn back to the previous channel.

That was before Gorbachev and glasnost. Now Soviet television offers news shows that include foreign news and some of the warts on Soviet society. Entertainment ranges from game shows to ribald classic drama to a rock group named "Time Machine" that spent 15 years underground before becoming one of the country's most popular groups. There's a magazine show that does features on subjects from Hare Krishna to telephone party lines that help battle loneliness sometimes with an X-rated angle. American audiences can see all this and much more a comprehensive sampling of Soviet television on "Larry King's Night of CLASSIFIED lv CRAFTS A Feature of This I Newspaper "HOLIDAY VEST.

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Not all of Soviet television would knock 'em dead in the West. There's "True Man of the Soil from Archangelsk," the story of Sivkof, an admittedly workaholic farmer whose efforts at reestablishing the family farm are making him a national hero. Gorbachev has called the show one of his favorite programs, but it will never replace life among the Huxtables. Then there's "Letter to the Fir Trees," the only Soviet program King shows in its entirety. The hero is a Soviet Georgian war veteran who has a fir tree growing out of an old war wound in his shoulder.

His friends, his frantic wife and the bureaucracy try to deal with this problem in a satire of the bureaucratic social system and the Russian character, while the man in question waters his feet. But a tree growing out of his shoulder getting taller and taller as the roots work their way down? Well, "Alf" it ain't. events were handled. One was the anniversary of the Russian Orthodox Church, celebrated on television in a show titled "Millenium." It includes the patriarch of the church celebrating its anniversary official Soviet television bringing religion into the homes of its people. More striking, considering the long-standing Soviet reluctance to admit anything can go wrong in the worker's paradise, was the handling of the Chernobyl disaster.

After its initial, knee-jerk instinct for cover-up, Soviet television allowed newsman and anchor Alexander Krutov to travel to the ruins of the reactor and film the plant, the town, the people. It helped make Krutov the most popular Soviet TV journalist and encouraged popular belief in the sincerity of Gorbachev's new openness, his glasnost. There's also "Scarecrow," a fierce and frightening film that uses the story of some schoolchildren as an allegory about life under Stalin. The film was completed in 1983 but Soviet Television," to air on SuperStation TBS, Wednesday, Nov. 30, p.m.

Eastern time. King doesn't pretend that what he presents is an average evening in front of the Soviet boob tube it's the best of Soviet TV and some of it's a lot of fun. "Somebody Else's Wife and a Husband Under the Bed," a bedroom farce adapted from several short stories by Dostoevski, would be delightfully at home on PBS. Then there's a real crowd pleaser a sort of reverse home shopping show in which shoddy items are auctioned to the lowest bidder for return to the shame-faced manufacturer. These include a jacket in which one sleeve is open and the other has no hand-hole, an unusable plastic bag, a toy with wheels that are supposed to turn and don't, and a balky expandable dining table that two strong men struggle unsuccessfully to wrestle open.

How about some American producer putting together this kind of Golden Goof Award the con Sidonia Whiting MILFORD Sidonia Helena Anderson Whiting, 78, died Nov. 28, 1988 in Milford. She was born March 6, 1910 in Manti to Andrew Peter and Blonde Peterson Anderson. She married Clarence Armon Whiting June 30, 1937 in the Manti LDS Temple. She was a very active member of the LDS Church, member of the Milford Business and Professional Women and worked for Utah Power Light in Milford.

She is survived by a son, Ray of Milford five grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. Funeral services will be held Thursday at 10 a.m. in the Milford LDS Ward Chapel. Friends may call Wednesday evening from 7 to 8 p.m. and one hour prior to services at the Milford LDS Ward Relief Society room.

Interment will be in the Manti Cemetery Thursday at 3 p.m. under the direction of the Southern Utah Mortuary. I I.