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Is ln I's That's When Good Thirds Corr.e In Every Sue Package 102nl Year 357 5 1 lajrts in 1 Sections Tlniilay Dert'inln'r 2.5, I9JJ2 Price: DaiJv 25c; Sunday 73c Baker Confident Senate Will Pass Gas Tax Today '-few Democratic leadership source said only about 10 Democrats might vote against limiting debate and 20 to 25 of them would vote to approve the measure. After Sen. Jesse Helms, mounted the conservatives' third filibuster against the bill late Tuesday night, Baker filed a petition to force a vote on halting debate The vote on whether to stop debate, under the rules, will come today at 7 30 a MST It takes senators to cut off debate, the Senate is divided between 54 Republicans and 46 Democrats. Helms refused to let the vote be moved up to Wednesday to accommo- Continued on A-3 noticed acts, the 97th Congress is prodding the Federal Reserve Board to lower interest rates to spark a significant economic recovery' and "reduce the current intolerable level of unemployment The rare congressional directive, added at the last minute to the newly passed 1983 spending bill, seems certain to intensify the already considerable pressure on the nation's central bank to abandon its anti inflation money policies and move aggressively to get the economy growing again. The legislation does not require the red to lower interest rates; it merely advises the bank to do so However, rt carries an implicit threat of further congressional action if rates don't continue down, congressional officials said Wednesday.

Regarding the gas tax, one Senate Compiled From Journal Wires WASHINGTON Senate Republican leader Howard Baker said confidently Wednesday he has enough voles to shut off a conservative filibuster and give final approval today to President Reagan's gasoline-tax in i rease. Reagan offered to call senators to urge their support for the bill, which would increase the gasoline tax 5 cents a gallon to raise $5.5 billion for high way, bridge and mass transit improvements But Baker indicated to reporters Reagan's help was unnecessary. He said he had enough voles to cut off debate and "enough to get passage" to send the bill to the White House by Christmas Meanwhile, in one of its last and least in Winds Enshroud West jr. mgr r. f.u i 1 In Huge Power Failure 1 1 1 1 Pueblos Sue Hundreds Over Water By NANCY HARBERT Journal Staff Writer The Acoma and Iiguna pueblos went to federal court Wednesday and sued defendants for trespass, at the same tune laying claim to the surface and underground waters of the Rio San Jose, The trespass suit named as defendants the state of New Mexico, the Bluewater-Toltce Irrigation District, the city of Grants and a host of others.

The suit claimed that beginning as early as 1S80, the defendants "have unlawfully diverted, stored, pumped and used substantial amounts of water of the Rio San Jose, its tributaries and underlying basins upstream from the Acorra and Liguna pueblos." Saving thev have a prior claim to the Continued on A-3 lines arc long but the wait is worth it, at Wednesday at Winrock Center to hav a nance least judging by the expressions on these two to sit on Santa's lap and uhisper their ihes in youngsters' faces, What child could help but be his ear. The scene was repeated at shopping excited by having a picture taken with Santa centers throughout the city. That Santa, he sure Claus? Dozens of children waited patiently gets around. Story, photos on B-l. ANGFIT.S (APi A power failure darkened more than two million homes and businesses Wednesday in California, Nevada and Anona when storm winds toppled a major power line.

a series of blackouts. The blackouts forced the first ewu.ua turn of Disneyland and darkened the (littering casinos and hotels of Lis Vegas and the skyline of San Francisco Commuters stranded by halted electric buses in Stin Francisco were set upon by robbers and darkened traffic signals snarled traffic in Ids Angeles More than half the blacked out customers had electricity within about an hour of the 4 2V pm break and mattered utilities worked to get lights hai on tor the rest By 7 15 power wa' restored to all of the virtually one million customers affected in Southern California Edison territory, said sikes woman Becky Sordelet knots were reported in scattered Mit often densely populated locations nsiilv I Ml To lius 2r oflntvl NKW YORK International Business Machines Corp said it agreed to pay 5250 million cash for 12 percent of the common stock of Intel a leading semiconductor maker whose biggest customer is IBM Page D-6. 'a ii tn hiit(ln crlcil NKW VOHK Three major unions at Pan American World Airways agreed to extend 2 year old wage concessions, averting a threatened shutdown that company officials had tried to downplay Page C-12. NKW YoKK- A job and a phone call from President Keagan were the Vnava Wants Prison Lawsuit Ended 1 "ill -f onimtii asiii la ill mil that course to having lawyers continuing to challenge the department's efforts and, in effect, run the prison. Though a court order has settled the lawsuit on paper, attorneys have been in court periodically since the settlement arguing over the department's alleged non-compliance with such issues as visiting rights, correspondence, food service and inmate disc: phne The court required the state to comply with a series of issues regarding prison conditions.

He said that $12 million in str.te funds has been paid to suite and plaintiffs' lawyers since the final order wrts signed July 1980, and another SoOO.000 is expected to be paid to lawyers over the next five months Federal law requires the state to pay part of a package deal that will include normalising relations Page C-12. Action Line A-12 Arnholz A-3 Bridge All Business Finance D-6-9 Classified D-10-14 Comics D-15 Crossword A-ll Dailv Record B-4 DearAbby C-7 Deaths Funerals D-16 Editorials, Comment A-4-S Horoscope All Movies Entertainment B-10-12 New Mexico B-2 Sports D-l-S Television Amusements A-ll Trends C-l-11 Weather D-16 What's Happening C-6 Jmnui Hk1': b) Jia Fisher the fees of lawyers on both Sides of the case. "We can provide a lot of services for the ttioney being wasted on that lawsuit," Anm a dec tared. Dwight Duran, the lead plaintrff the kw-uit and former state prisoner, said k- aw pVascd with Anaya's inter? "We fee! the wa to t'H ''id eompbnee in Duran vs. vfd.tr is through the appointment of a Dur Ne a telephone 'men view fron: ngton, If the is wiring tu hjve the two To hiring a special master, -aid he thinks the plaintiffs' rs would consent to that uiihoiM litigation Duran Continued on A-3 official with the IVC's common earner bureau who helped develop the plan, a seven year transition will begin on Jan.

1, 1984, with residential customers paying a minimum flat monthly rate of S2 to their local phone company even if they don't place any long-distance calls The total amount local phone companies must make up lost subsidy at that point will equal about 4 per line per month The local companies will make up the $2 difference by levying a small charge estimated at no more than 25 cents per call on those customers who do place long-distance calls Interstate long distance rates will be falling in the meantime, so the two should offset each other for the average customer who places five or six longdistance calls a month, Halpnn said. Over the next seven years, the flat charge will increa.se until it covers all of the subsidy By when the transition is completed, Halpnn estimated the flat charge will have nsen from a minimum $2 a month to 58. 50 to SS.7S a month on average. That will be in addition to the payment Continued on A-3 1 'A from San Francisco to San Diego and as tar east as Las gas, Nev and Yuma, Anz Most of San Diego had no power and major parts of Redding, Sacramento, San Franciseo and San Jose were dar kenrd In Lis Angeles, most of the city estajied with little more than a momentary' dip in power, although scattered outages were reported and darkened traffic lights snarled rush hour traffic Most of the Antelope Valley, including the cities of Palmdale and Lmcaster north of Lis Angeles, was reported without power east to San Bernardino, as was the I'alm Springs area, parts of Ling Beach and much of San Diego County In Northern California George Huge of Gas Electric Co said. "I can say safely that hundreds of thousands of people all over Northern Continued on A-3 Christmas rewards of an unemployed father of eight who dived under a moving subway tram to rescue a blind veteran who had fallen on the tracks Page -8 Jrri l)oiii LAS VKGAS, Nev.

Comedian Jerry I-ewis was "doing very well" in his recovery from an emergency heart-bypass operation, and a spokesman said the entertainer still plans to be married in February Page C-12. Israel and L-banon will start talks by next week on with drawal of Israeli invasion forces as by President those was posthumously," Domenici told the Journal. "I talked with the president and with the boy. I also met with the woman whose life he saved. I think the medal is entirely justified.

I was very proud of him," he added. According to Domenici, the ceremony was an emotional affair for Browne, who received one of four medals conferred by the president. Domenici called the ceremony an "emotional" event. "Michael looked extremely pleased when he was given the medal. He stood forthright-ly next to the president and shook his hand," Domenici explained.

Browne was selected to receive the national award by U.S. Attorney General William French Smith after the youth was recommended for the honor by Gov. Bruce King. The Young American Medal is given only to those 18 years old or younger. It was early evening on a rainy Continued on A-3 Federal Policy To Hais Dixon Youth Bravery By DAVID STEINBERG Of the Journal's Capitol Bueeau SANTA FT: Toney Anaya said Wednesday that he wants a quick resolution to the unsettled issues in the so-called Duran lawsuit on poor.

conditions, allowing the Corrections Department to regain full tive control of the State Peratentiary "My personal feeling is that we retd to get those attorneys out of running the pen," Anaya told a press conference He suggested that the two sides in the federal case, filed by prisoners and former prisoners, agree to a special master to oversee the department's compliance with the decree. The governor elect said he prefers Ai Userphnto Medal From President Reagan His Fescue of an Injured Hiker t-, I 1 ill Rewarded By MARC SANT Journal Staff Writer WASHINGTON President Reagan shook 15-year-old Michael Browne's hand and thanked the teenager from Dixon, N.M., for saving the life of an injured hiker trapped high on a lam swept ledge near the Rio Embudo on Sept. 6, 1980. Reagan handed Browne the national medal for bravery before a White House audience assembled in the main dining room. Browne's grandparents, an aunt and the Santa Fe woman whose life he saved watched as Browne was honored.

A smiling president told Browne that he also grew up in a town called Dixon Dixon, 111., Reagan quickly added. These were some of the recollections of Sen. Pete Domenici, N.M., who attended the 10:30 a.m. ceremony. "I went because it was an extremely high honor for the state of New Mexico.

Only three medals for bravery were given out and one of WASHINGTON (AP) Consumers will pay more for local telephone service-under a policy adopted Wednesday by the Federal Communications Commission to phase out a subsidy from interstate long distance rates. The plan replaces a complicated procedure known as separations and settlements that has evolved over several decades The procedure has been used tr set the American Telephone Telegraph Co long-distance rates with an eye toward recovering not only its costs, but billions of dollars a year for local phone companies. In N80, the long-distance subsidy totaled roughly $7 billion, or the equivalent of $7 a month per telephone line. That money is used by local companies to help nay for the portion of then-system that must be maintained regardless of whether it's handling a local or long distance call for example, the line to a customer's home. In essence, the commission's plan calls for consumers to pick up roughly half of that total subsidy through direct payments to their local phone company instead of through long-distance rates.

According to Bert Halpnn, a topt 4 1 4 Michael Browne of Dixon Gets Browne's Award Stems From.