*** e0690 *** d s *** PM-OlympicBobsleds NYS 12-17 0318 *** a4900 *** d a *** PM-NationalOverView 12-17 0542 *** m0610 *** u n *** BC-Neuhausser 12-17 0165 *** g4240 *** r n *** PM-Mass.Briefs 450-600 12-17 0447 *** p4730 *** d a *** PM-NationalOverView 12-17 0542 Before the hole, there wasn't much to be excited about in Monroe. Mostly, it was just known as the third-largest town in Sevier County. But the hole is about to steam up the residents. It's the core of the first city-run geothermal heating system in the nation and it lies smack in the middle of central Utah's coal fields. The geothermal well on a hillside east of town will enable many of Monroe's 2,000 residents to stop shoveling coal next winter and enjoy the benefits of the city-owned-and-operated project. ``It's something to be excited about. It's exhilarating. The potential is mindboggling,'' said Mayor Duane Nay. The federal Department of Energy has sunk $900,000 into the geothermal well, and Nay said the town will need more to lay the pipe. Bob Chappell, with the DOE in Idaho Falls, Idaho, says Monroe will get the money. ___ ****0730EST 4740 *** r i *** PM-InternationalOverview 12-17 0645 Foreign Minister Sadegh Ghotbzadeh says the departure of the shah from the United States to Panama has opened the door to a resolution of the U.S.-Iranian crisis, and some of the American hostages may be released before Christmas. ``We will try to do our best to defuse the crisis. I certainly don't want to have this crisis forever,'' Ghotbzadeh told The Associated Press Sunday evening. It was his most conciliatory comment to date. ``We take it as the first victory for our determination in this case and obviously the atmosphere is being changed to some extent,'' the foreign minister continued. He said some of the hostages ``possibly'' would be released before Christmas and that all those still held by Christmas Day would be visited by foreign observers on the holiday. ___= CONTADORA ISLAND, Panama (AP) _ Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and his wife settled down on a heavily guarded Panamanian island and the deposed monarch said he hoped to stay. Panamanian officials said they can protect him and Panama from his former subjects. ``I would like to express our deep gratitude for the very generous invitation of the Republic of Panama and President Royo. Since we set foot on this soil, we have felt at home,'' the shah told a news conference Sunday, a day after arriving from Texas with Empress Farah Diba, a woman Iranian doctor, seven other people, two dogs and a huge amount of luggage. Asked if he planned to stay in Panama, the sixth nation to receive him since he fled from Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini's revolution in January, the shah said: ``This is obviously within our minds because such a surrounding and such hospitality is not very easy to match in very many cases.'' ___= CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) _ The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries meets here today to raise its base price for crude oil again but many of the cartel's 13 members have jumped the gun and boosted their prices as much as 33 percent. Libya, which breached the OPEC ceiling of $23.50 a barrel in October, announced another price increase Sunday. It hiked the price of its high-quality crude oil _ prized for its high yield of gasoline _ by $3.73 to $30 a barrel retroactive to Nov. 1. Indonesia also boosted its price by $2 to $25.50 for a 42-gallon barrel. Iran's official Pars news agency said the price of Iranian crude had been raised $5 to $28.50, but Iranian Oil Minister Ali Akbar Moinfar called the report a rumor. The pre-conference splurge of price hikes was begun last week when a bloc of OPEC moderates, led by Saudi Arabia, bumped their prices up $6 to $24 a barrel. The rise from the current OPEC basehprice of $18 a barrel represented a 33 percent increase. ___= BELFAST, Northern Ireland (AP) _ The British army in Northern Ireland had its worst day in four months Sunday with the death of five soldiers. A former militiaman also was assassinated in front of his 13-year-old son. A land mine, apparently triggered by remote control and believed to contain 500 pounds of explosives, blew an army Land-Rover off the road Sunday near Dungannon, 30 miles west of Belfast, killing all four troops in the vehicle. A bomb killed a fifth soldier as he passed by an abandoned house near Tullydonnel, about 40 miles southwest of Belfast. A gunman killed a former member of the Ulster Defense Regiment, a part-time auxiliary force, in Omagh, about 50 miles west of Belfast. The victim was selling fish and chips from a van and his young son witnessed the killing. The Provisional wing of the Irish Republican Army, fighting to drive the British out of Northern Ireland and reunite the province with the Irish Republic to the south, claimed responsibility for the Dungannon land mine. ****0731EST 4750 *** d w *** PM-WashingtonOverview 12-17 0494 For the first time, cigarettes with low tar and nicotine contents make up more than half the brands on the market, the Federal Trade Commission says. An FTC report of tests on 176 brands, released Sunday, showed 103 having less than 15 milligrams of tar and 101 having less than one milligram of nicotine. These are the two elements scientists say can cause lung cancer and heart attacks. The number of low-tar brands, which according to industry standards have no more than 15 milligrams of tar, now stands at 59 percent. This is up from the 40 percent reported by the FTC last year and 31 percent in 1977. ___= WASHINGTON (AP) _ President Carter has politely told 19 senators he'll press for quick Senate approval of the SALT II treaty despite their weekend letter listing worries about American military might and suggesting he wait. The senators declared they are still uncommitted on the arms limitation pact with the Soviet Union. But they added that they are ``deeply concerned over the ongoing slippage in America's military position,'' and made it clear their SALT votes are affected by that conczrn. The letter asks for meetings to discuss possible U.S. steps to try to close a ``nuclear window of vulnerability,'' to improve intelligence gathering, to strengthen NATO forces in Europe and to prepare for aggressive acts by ``the Soviet Union and its proxies.'' Carter said in written replies that he would be happy to meet with the senators but still plans to work for ``prompt ratification.'' ___= WASHINGTON (AP) _ The contest for the 1980 Republican presidential nomination, subdued by the Iranian crisis, has settled into a catch-the-leader pursuit _ with Ronald Reagan still setting the pace. Rivals concede Reagan an early-favorite status but say they hope to chip away at his strength once the primary season opens in earnest. The major and some of the lesser-known GOP candidates are devoting their energies and funds to heavy campaigning in Iowa, New Hampshire and the other early primary and caucus states _ most operating under the theory that they need early, strong showings to capture national attention. Campaigning has been rather low-key to date, with the stalemate at the U.S. Embassy in Tehran casting a pall over the political landscape. ___= WASHINGTON (AP) _ President Carter is learning first-hand how far Great Britain is prepared to go to help put pressure on Iran to release the 50 American hostages. Carter was meeting today with British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, paying her first official visit to Carter at the White House. Mrs. Thatcher has in the past voiced consistent support for the American position on the Iranian situation. The British also have refrained from increasing their purchases of Iranian oil and have stopped arms shipments to Iran. But Mrs. Thatcher's ambassador to Washington, Sir Nicholas Henderson, indicated last week that the British have their doubts about further economic steps against Iran. ****0732EST 4760 *** d w *** PM-CigaretteList 3Takes 12-17 0358 Following are the Federal Trade Commission's latest cigarette ratings. The brands are listed in alphabetical order with the tar value listed first, followed by the nicotine value. Alpine king filter menthol, 14.6 milligrams tar and 0.91 milligrams nicotine. American Lights 120 mm filter, 7.8 and 0.64. American Lights 120 mm filter menthol, 9.3 and 0.77. Arctic Lights filter menthol, 8.4 and 0.71. Arctic Lights 100 mm filter menthol, 9.4 and 0.81. Belair filter menthol, 9.5 and 0.81. Belair 100 mm filter menthol, 8.7 and 0.67. Benson & Hedges regular hardpack filter, 0.8 and 0.07. Benson & Hedges hardpack filter, 17.6 and 1.35. Benson & Hedges 100 mm hardpack filter, 16.7 and 1.10. Benson & Hedges 100 mm hardpack filter menthol, 16.5 and 1.07. Benson & Hedegs 100 mm filter, 16.9 and 1.15. Benson & Hedges 100 mm filter menthol, 17.0 and 1.14. Benson & Hedges Lights 100 mm filter, 10.7 and 0.76. Benson & Hedges Lights 100 mm filter menthol, 10.6 and 0.74. Bull Durham filter, 28.3 and 1.95. Camel regular, 25.5 and 1.83. Camel filter, 18.9 and 1.37. Camel Lights filter, 10.2 and 0.90. Camel Long Lights, 100 mm filter, 13.5 and 1.08. Carlton hardpack filter, 0.2 and 0.04. Carlton filter, 0.9 and 0.11. Carlton filter menthol, 0.6 and 0.08. Carlton 100 mm filter, 5.6 and 0.45. Carlton 100 mm filter menthol, 4.8 and 0.40. Chesterfield regular, 22.8 and 1.37. Chesterfield king, 27.5 and 1.66. Chesterfield filter, 15.2 and 0.94. Chesterfield 101 mm filter, 16.4 and 1.10. Decade filter, 4.4 and 0.37. Decade filter menthol, 4.3 and 0.36. Doral filter 13.0 and 0.99. Doral filter menthol, 12.2 and 0.93. Doral II filter, 5.5 and 0.45. Doral II filter menthol, 5.0 and 0.44. Dumaurier filter, 15.4 and 1.01. English Ovals regular, 23.3 and 1.77. English Ovals kings, 29.8 and 2.37. Eve 100 mm filter, 15.0 and 1.06. Eve 100 mm filter menthol, 15.4 and 1.05. Eve 120 mm filter, 13.2 and 0.97. Eve 120 mm filter mepthol, 13.2 and 1.01. Fatima, 27.7 and 1.63. Galaxy filter, 16.9 and 1.06. Half & Half filter, 24.4 and 1.83. ****0736EST 0720 *** d s *** PM-OlympicPrison 12-17 0490 *** f0030 *** r f *** PM-BusinessHighlights 2 12-17 0618 *** f0040 *** r f *** PM-BusinessHighlights 1st 12-17 0507 *** f0050 *** r f *** PM-OPEC 540 12-17 0598 *** e0730 *** d n *** PM-Bigotry 12-17 0263 *** p4810 *** r a *** PM-SolarFridge 12-17 0187 *** p4820 *** d a *** PM-Anti-Klan 12-17 0328 An organizer of an anti-Klan network forged at a conference of civil rights groups says the effort is the first time in 10 years civil rights groups have joined to map a strategy to combat racism. Lucius Walker, director of the Interreligious Foundation for Community Organization, said the coalition was composed of representatives of labor unions, community and church organizations, human rights and other groups. ``It's our belief that through an anti-Klan network, we can respond to KKK violence, the defamation of affirmative action and the rising wave of racism that endangers the civil rights of all people,'' said Walker, whose New-York based foundation co-sponsored the two-day conference with the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. The network's first call to action for anti-klan activists is a demonstration in Greensboro, N.C., on Feb. 2. SCLC President Joseph Lowery, calling the Klan ``the ugliest, most violent example of a racism that exists on more respectable and sophisticated levels,'' urged labor unions, churches, human rights groups and other political organizations to join the demonstration. The march was prompted by the fatal shooting of five demonstrators during a rally in Greensboro last month. Eleven persons, including self-proclaimed Klansmen and members of the Nazi party, have been charged in the slayings. The purpose of the anti-Klan network, Lowery said, was not to counter every move made by the Klan but to restrict it from growing. ``Entering the 1980s, we find ourselves in a situation where even the limited gains achieved during the '60s are under increasing attack, and the Klan is part of that pattern. We will not return to the back of the bus, nor should decent people desire it,'' he said. ``We are opposed to the outright and violent attempt to turn back the clock in race relations,'' Lowery added. ``We hope we will bring in the decade of the 80s with a reaffirmation of our commitment to human dignity and racial justice.'' ****0747EST 0060 *** r f *** PM-Steel-Patent 12-17 0262 A federal judge has approved an out-of-court settlement capping nearly 20 years of litigation over Kaiser Industries' patent on the widely used basic oxygen steel process. The settlement, of an undisclosed amount, was filed in federal court in a suit filed by Kaiser in 1974 against Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp. The suit was the last to be settled among a long series of legal actions dating back to 1961 and involving many of the nation's largest steelmakers. The final settlement was approved by U.S. District Judge Louis Rosenberg and filed here Friday. Kaiser claimed it was the first American steelmaker to be granted a patent on the basic oxygen process. The technique, developed in Austria, involves blowing pure oxygen on molten iron instead of using any kind of fuel to generate purifying heat. J&L first obtained a license on the patented oxygen process for its Aliquippa, Pa., plant in 1956, but allegedly stopped paying royalties a few years later. Kaiser sued J&L in 1961 in Cleveland, where the process also was in use at a J&L plant. Kaiser originally sought triple damages plus royalties for all of the steel produced in oxygen furnaces in the ``non-patented'' plants. As defendants _ including U.S. Steel, Republic, National, Wheeling-Pittsburgh, Bethlehem and others _ accumulated over the years, the cases were consolidated under Rosenberg's jurisdiction. Rosenberg upheld the Kaiser patents, but was overruled by the U.S. 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals. Kaiser then filed another suit against J&L in 1974 when J&L installed a new oxygen furnace at Aliquippa. ****0749EST 4280 *** r n *** PM-JewelryTheft 12-17 0080 Jewelry valued at an estimated $100,000 was stolen from a Chestnut Hill store early today, according to Newton police. They said the display cases at Stowell's at the Chestnut Hill Mall were cleaned out sometime after midnight. The theft was discovered by a maintenance person sometime around 2 a.m.. Police said the culprit, or culprits, apparently entered the store through the front door. The store's alarm system did not sound. ****0749EST 0740 *** d n *** PM-AdamsObit 12-17 0367 *** f0070 *** r f *** PM-FordDiesel 12-17 0370 Ford Motor Co. is confidently betting almost all its marbles on its stratified charge engine as a new high-mileage power plant. The development put Ford solidly on a different tack from General Motors Corp., the industry leader. GM, which in contrast to Ford sells diesel cars now, is counting on 15 percent of its output being diesel-powered in 1985. In May, Ford hired Cummins Engine Co., supplier of diesels for some Ford heavy-duty trucks, to develop a smaller engine for cars and light trucks as a backup. Ford later explained that its own diesel engineers in Europe, where Ford is a large producer, were fully occupied. Ford now ``has decided not to enter into a full agreement'' with Cummins, said a Friday statement from John McDougall, executive vice president for operations in North America. Unlike the successful Honda engine using two connected combustion chambers, Ford's stratified charge power plant _ called PROCO, an acronym for programmed combustion _ uses direct fuel injection into a single chamber. That design is much harder to manufacture because of the extremely close tolerances required. Such engines first ignite a rich fuel-air mixture near the spark plug, with the flame spreading through increasingly leaner regions of the mixture for more complete combustion than conventional engines using fairly homogenous fuel-air mixtures. McDougall said Ford's development work was ``very encouraging'' and the PROCO engine was on schedule. That schedule calls for introduction in 1983. Some engines are to be tested this year in the company's own auto fleet. ``The work to date supports the conviction that PROCO is potentially an inherently low-emissions, quiet, smooth-running engine that could yield a fuel-economy advantage of approximately 20 percent over comparable 1980 Ford V-8s, with no loss in performance,'' he said. Ford still is interested in diesels, he said. Spokesman Paul Preuss added that ``someday we may purchase small diesels'' but that ``this particular diesel we assigned Cummins, we're not going ahead with it.'' Preuss declined to say how much Ford had paid Cummins. Diesel engines offer economy gains of 25 percent or more, but suffer the disadvantages of extra weight, noise and the so-far unresolved problem of suspected cancer-causing agents in the exhaust. ****0752EST 0080 *** r f *** PM-LettuceStrike 12-17 0351 An 11-month United Farm Workers' lettuce strike against an Imperial Valley grower, one of the original targets of the UFW, has been settled, the farm union says. UFW spokesman Marc Grossman said Sunday a tentative agreement was reached with Admiral Packing Co. during a late night session with a pair of Gov. Edmund Brown Jr.'s key aides. Grossman said talks were still continuing intermittently with other struck growers, but that Brown's office was not involved in those. ``This is a sign during this holiday season that we seek peace in the fields,'' Grossman said in a telephone interview from UFW headquarters in Keene. ``It shows that pride and hostility must be put aside so that we can reach agreements.'' In a joint statement released late Saturday night, Admiral and the UFW thanked Don Vial, chariman of the state Department of Industrial Relations, and Richard Rominger, chairman of the state Department of Food and Agriculture, for their help in reaching the agreement. Since January, the UFW has settled with 22 of the 34 California and Arizona growers involved in the dispute. This was the first settlement with one of the nine Imperial Valley growers originally struck. The other settlements were in Central and Northern California and Arizona, and came after the Imperial Valley strike, which stopped harvesting of 90 percent of the nation's winter lettuce last year. Admiral, with 100 UFW workers, is one of the smaller of the Imperial Valley companies. However, the tentative three-year pact calls for the same raise that was agreed to earlier this year by the giant SunHarvest Co. Wages will rise to $5 an hour in the first year and $5.71 in the third with major cost-of-living, medical and pension increases. Before the strike, Admiral's workers were earning $3.70 an hour. Both sides agreed to drop legal action against each other. The boycott now focuses only on the products of the Salinas, Calif.-based Bruce Church Co., marketed under the Red Coach label. ****0753EST 0660 *** r n *** PM-LIRR 12-17 0379 *** e0770 *** u n *** PM-GasPrices 12-17 0106 Gasoline suppliers, forced to buy oil on the spot market, may be raising prices again. John MacDonald, head of the New Hampshire-Vermont Gasoline Retailers Association, says recent price hikes by Texaco and Mobil were caused by purchases on the spot market. MacDonald predicts that the price will go up to as much as $1.35 a gallon by spring. Mobil, he says, increased prices by 3 cents a gallon last week and Texaco followed suit. MacDonald says most dealers now are selling gas at more than $1 a gallon, a price that would have seemed unlikely a year ago. ****0801EST 0670 *** u s *** PM-McGinleyAward 12-17 0229 The Connecticut Sports Writers Alliance has announced that the fifth recipient of the Arthur B. McGinley Award is long-time sports editor and columnist Samuel Cohen. Alliance President Bohdan Kolinsky announced the selection of Cohen for the award, which is named after the late sports editor of the Hartford Times and is given for meritorious and distinguished service by a sports writer to the community. Cohen will be honored along with three Gold Key recipients at the alliance's Jan. 27 annual dinner in New Haven. Cohen began his career as the Meriden sports correspondent for The Hartford Courant while he was a student at Wesleyan University. After he graduated, he became the sports editor of the now-defunct Meriden Journal from August 1932 to October 1947. He left Meriden to become sports editor of the Bridgeport Sunday Herald (later the Connecticut Sunday Herald). He held that post for 27 years. Cohen, president of the New Haven Tap-Off Club, also serves as secretary of the state Department of Consumer Protection's division that supervises licensed boxing and wrestling; correspondent for ``Ring'' magazine; and sports editor of the 1956 World Scope Encyclopedia. Previous recipients of the McGinley Award were the late Bill Lee of the Courant; Williard R. Williams of The Hour of Norwalk; Lou Black of The Associated Press; and Hank O'Donnell of the Waterbury Republican-American. ****0802EST 4840 *** r f *** PM-BusinessHighlights 2 12-17 0618 *** p4850 *** r f *** PM-BusinessHighlights 1st 12-17 0507 The bidding war between Bendix Corp. and AMCA International Corp. to takeover Cleveland-based Warner & Swasey Co. has escalated. Directors of Warner & Swasey _ a producer of machine tools, construction machinery and textile equipment _ recommended shareholders accept the offer from Bendix. In October, AMCA International, a New Hampshire-based subsidiary of Dominion Bridge Co. Ltd. of Montreal, said it would offer $57 a share to Warner & Swasey shareholders. The tender offer was delayed because of a cooling off period under Ohio law applying to takeover bids by out-of-state interests. AMCA filed a federal lawsuit challenging the law. Warner & Swasey directors called the AMCA offer inadequate and resisted the takeover. The company then sought out Bendix as a merger partner. On Tuesday, the Southfield, Mich.-based Bendix offered $70 for up to 1.6 million shares, or 46 percent of Warner & Swasey common stock. For the remainder of the outstanding stock, Bendix offered to give two shares of a new series of Bendix convertible preferred stock for each share of Warner & Swasey. On Friday, AMCA raised its tender offer to $75 a share, but Bendix later offered $83 a share under terms similar to its earlier offer. ``We heartily endorse Bendix' revised offer,'' said Craig R. Smith, Warner & Swasey chief executive officer. ___ DETROIT (AP) _ Chrysler Corp. says it is offering most of its dealers a $2,000 discount on any 1979 model they buy from the No. 3 automaker's overflowing inventory. The incentive program, which ends today, covers the company's entire 1979 inventory of 5,000 cars and 7,000 trucks, Chrysler spokesman Moon Mullins said Friday. Dealers who took delivery of 1979s during a similar incentive program last July and August are eligible for the incentive _ about 70 percent of Chrysler's 4,800 dealers, Mullins said Friday. ``Getting them (the '79s) out of our inventory is cheaper for us than keeping them,'' said Mullins, admitting the incentives will cost the financially strapped carmaker substantial revenues. ``The same is true for the dealer _ selling them means no storage or bank fees. If you give the dealer $2,000 off on the car, he can sell it for a hell of a price,'' Mullins added. ___ NEW YORK (AP) _ A subsidiary of American Telephone & Telegraph Co. said Friday it has won a competition to negotiate a deal to provide telephone facilities in South Korea that could cost as much as $1 billion. Western Electric International, AT&T's international manufacturing and marketing unit, said it has been selected to negotiate a five-year contract to provide a nationwide electronic telecommunications switching system, and the technology necessary for the manufacture of this type of equipment in Korea country. Hugo T. Ruberg, president of WEI, said details of the proposal are still to be negotiated, but the value of the project could approach $1 billion. Under the WEI proposal, the South Korean telecommunication system's local switching capacity eventually will be increased by about 2 million lines. ****0804EST 0780 *** d n *** PM-Notch 12-17 0110 Highway Commissioner John Clements says work can begin on Interstate 93 from Littleton to St. Johnsbury, Vt., now that the project has gotten the legal go-ahead. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Hugh Bownes has accepted a compromise between environmental groups and the state on expanding the road that winds through Franconia Notch. The court action, Clemants says, means that federal funds for construction in the New Hampshire link to Vermont now are released. Clements says the portion through the notch is probably two to three years away. Under the compromise, three miles of the interstate through the notch would be two lanes. ****0804EST 0790 *** d n *** BC-Museum 12-17 0126 The Adirondack Museum in this tiny Adirondack Mountain village says it will open this winter _ for the first time in its 24-year history, in honor of the 1980 Winter Olympics in nearby Lake Placid. Museum Director Craig Gilborn said the facility will be open from Feb. 9-24 from 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. ``We think that alll visitors to this area should have a chance to learn about the region's history,'' Gilborn said. The museum will have three heated buildings open and on display will be the winning two-man bobsled and gold medal from the 1932 Lake Placid Winter Olympics. The museum will open for its regular summer season on June 15. ****0806EST 4250 *** r n *** PM-Mass.Briefs 1stAdd 250 12-17 0253 Some 45 rowdies arrested at Schaefer Stadium during the New England Patriots last season game faced arraignment today on charges ranging from disorderly conduct to assault and battery on a police officer. State Police said two police officers were injured in scuffles with fans at Sunday's National Football League contest. Seventeen persons were detained, 10 in protective custody and seven on disorderly conduct charges. Meanwhile, Foxboro police arrested another 28 persons _ three for attacking policemen _ during brawls at halftime when many fans left during a rainstorm. The officers, Timothy Kleczek and Charles Hobbs, were treated for minor injuries and released from Norwood Hospital. ****0811EST 4920 *** u w *** PM-Republicans 1stLd-Writethru a4110 12-17 0843 The contest for the 1980 Republican presidential nomination, subdued by the Iranian crisis, has settled into a catch-the-leader pursuit _ with Ronald Reagan still setting the pace. ``Let's face it, there are some people who thought as soon as he came off the blocks, that he'd stumble,'' said Rep. Jack Kemp, R-N.Y., a key Reagan organizer. ``But he's running a good race and getting stronger.'' Rival campaign teams concede Reagan an early-favorite status _ but say they hope to chip away at that strength once the primary season opens in earnest. Republican candidates are thus pretty much holding their positions and marking time until the field of nine GOP candidates can be narrowed. The major and some of the lesser-known GOP candidates are devoting their energies and funds to heavy campaigning in Iowa, New Hampshire and the other early primary and caucus states _ most operating under the theory that they need early, strong showings to capture national attention. Campaigning has been rather low-key to date, with the stalemate at the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, where 50 Americans are being held hostage, casting a pall over the political landscape and temporarily robbing the Republicans of one of their favorite themes _ attacks on Carter's conduct of foreign policy. Republican candidates have voiced general support for Carter's performance in the crisis _ without dwelling on the subject. ``There is a hiatus because of Iran and a desire to support the president and to not criticize the voice that speaks for the country in a time of crisis,'' said Kemp. Reagan's proposal that deposed Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, who flew to Panama Saturday, be granted permanent asylum in the United States provoked former Texas Gov. John Connally to openly criticize Reagan for speaking out of turn. It was one of the few breeches of the unwritten, unspoken ``speak-no-ill-of-another-Republican'' rule that thus far seems to be governing the GOP struggle. Connally, whose $8 million warchest is the largest raised to date by a presidential candidate, has been doing some heavy campaigning _ especially in the South. Connally strategists concede that Reagan is still far out front, but claim the former California governor's strength, outside of the Far West, lies mostly in the Northeast _ despite the fact that in the 1976 primaries Reagan ran poorly in the region. Connally is focusing much of his attention on primaries in Alabama, South Carolina, Georgia and Florida. ``The best opportunity is in southern primaries. Reagan's strength is soft in the South,'' said Eddie Mahe, Connally's chief campaign strategist. Reagan aides dispute that theory, noting Reagan's easy victory over Connally in last month's Florida GOP straw ballot. ``We're concentrating heavily on everything in the first wave of primaries, including those in the South,'' said Charlie Black, Reagan's political director. This weekend, Reagan completed his third major campaign swing since announcing his candidacy a month ago. But he'll remain at home in California until early January when he'll hit the campaign trail again, Black said. Meanwhile, former CIA Director George Bush of Texas, buoyed by his upset victory last month over Sen. Howard Baker of Tennessee in a Maine straw ballot and his strong showing in the Florida GOP tally several weeks later, is trying to keep that momentum going. Bush has been stumping hard in Iowa and New Hampshire and also paying close attention to Florida and Maine. Iowa's Jan. 21 caucuses present the first major showdown for candidates, and New Hampshire's Feb. 26 primary remains the first involving both parties. A GOP primary in Puerto Rico on Feb. 17 is also attracting the attention of Republican candidates, however, including Bush. His strategy requires a good showing in the early primary states and he knows he must make his move as soon as possible. ``I have to do better than you guys think I can,'' he tells reporters covering his campaign. Baker has practically abandoned his job as Senate minority leader to pursue his campaign. He's focusing largely on seven states: Iowa, New Hampshire, Arkansas, Massachusetts, Vermont, Connecticut and Wisconsin _ as well as Puerto Rico. Despite initial setbacks, such as the straw ballot loss to Bush in Maine, Baker feels he still has a good chance of being in the finals. ``Our thesis is that through the Illinois primary, through March, there is going to be a winnowing down process'' and that two or three major candidates will emerge, with Baker among them, a spokesman says. Rep. John Anderson, R-Ill., whose moderate-to-liberal philosophy and voting record set him apart from the rest of the pack of GOP contenders, is putting most of his energy and limited resources into making a strong showing in New Hampshire. He has been campaigning there extensively, while doing little in Iowa but looking ahead to the Massachusetts and Illinois primaries. If Anderson can't begin pulling ahead by Illinois, he probably will drop out, aides said. ****0813EST 0800 *** d n *** PM-IndianCase 12-17 0450 New York state officials say they have not yet been officially notified of Utah's decision to delay extradition of a 29-year-old man wanted in the Council House takeover at the St. Regis Indian Reservation in northern New York last May. Aides to Utah Gov. Scott Matheson said Friday that Matheson had sent Gov. Hugh Carey a letter, dated Dec. 11, saying Lawrence Jacobs would not be returned, at least until the courts decide whether New York has jurisdiction on the reservation at the New York-Canadian border. In a cover letter signed by the Matheson's extradition secretary, Tina Falvo, New York authorities were advised they ``may want to consider a further request for extradition after judicial resolution of the question of the power of the charging authority over Mr. Jacobs.'' ``We have not received the letter yet,'' said Stephen Morello, a spokesman for Carey. ``Our position is that there is some standing for state jurisdiction on the reservation.'' Jacobs' attorney, Milva Kearl of the Salt Lake Law Resource Center, has argued that New York state lacked jurisdiction on the reservation. Ms. Kearl, in a letter to Matheson, argued that the charges ``stem from a political incident'' and that New York state authorities had ``become deeply involved by supporting one side in the controversy.'' Kanawahionto, a spokesman for traditional Mohawks at the reservation, said Friday that Jacobs went to Utah seeking a job. ``He's an iron worker,'' Kanawahionto said. Utah officials said they thought Jacobs was a student at the University of Utah, but that was not confirmed. Jacobs and about 20 others were indicted several months ago by a Franklin County grand jury in the May takeover of the reservation Council House and the blockading of several roads on the reservation. The takeover resulted from a long-standing dispute for control of the reservation between ``traditionalist'' Mohawks and elected tribal leaders. The takeover by the traditionalists ended after several hours when they agreed to leave the Council House. The roadblocks came down, and there were no serious injuries reported, although some reservation police officers said they were roughed up. After indictments were returned by a Franklin County grand jury, state police and sheriff's deputies moved cautiously, hoping to avoid another confrontation with the traditionalists. As a result, about half the number indicted have not yet been arrested. Jacobs, a resident of the St. Regis Reservation, was arrested several months ago in Salt Lake City but chose to fight extradition. Since the indictments were announced, leaders of the traditionalist movement at St. Regis and defense attorney William Kunstler have argued that the state has no jurisdiction on the reservation. ****0816EST 4930 *** r a *** PM-SexSurvey 12-17 0215 *** e0820 *** d n *** PM-FireFatal 12-17 0109 A Fulton County woman has been killed when fire swept through her home in the Maple Grove area near this village. Authorities said Beverly Morrison, 50, of Maple Grove Road was trapped in the burning house about 6 a.m. Saturday and died of smoke inhalation. They said the woman's husband and their two daughters escaped the fire, which destroyed the wood-frame house. Officials said three firemen suffered slight injuries while battling the blaze and were treated at the scene. Three fire companies fought the blaze for about three hours. The cause of the fire was under investigation. ****0820EST 4940 *** r a *** PM-55PoundCard 12-17 0216 *** a4950 *** d a *** PM-MBTAMeeting 12-17 0196 *** m0700 *** r s *** PM-FBN--Broncos-Charg 12-17 0451 For pure drama, Hollywood and Hitchcock would be hard-pressed to dream up a better ending. Consider the suspense at hand when the San Diego Chargers and the Denver Broncos conclude the National Football League's regular season tonight with the AFC West Division's ``Great Shootout.'' A national television audience will see: _Two teams already assured playoff spots battling for a division championship. Either Denver, 10-5, wins its third straight title or the Chargers, 11-4, claim their first in 14 years. _San Diego quarterback Dan Fouts try his hand at breaking Joe Namath's all-time single season passing record of 4,007 yards. Fouts can set another NFL mark with his seventh 300-yard game of the year. _A clawing Denver defense, known for its big-play tradition, tackling the NFL's most explosive passing attack in 12 years. ``It's going to be a great game,'' said Fouts, who needs 156 yards in the air to surpass Namath's 1967 mark. Favored by six points, San Diego is still smarting from a 7-0 loss at Denver 10 weeks ago. ``We have a score to settle,'' said Fouts, who bore heavy criticism for the loss _ San Diego's only shutout of the season. A victory would give the Chargers the home field advantage throughout the playoffs. The loser must travel to Houston next week for a wild card elimination match with the 10-6 Oilers. Of utmost concern to San Diego is the status of wide receiver John Jefferson's ribs. One of the NFL's most-feared deep threats, Jefferson is questionable after a collision last week in a 35-0 victory over New Orleans. Chargers' Coach Don Coryell sounded confident that Jefferson, who has 10 touchdown passes and 1,090 yards in receptions, would be available. If he can play, Jefferson will wear a special flak jacket to protect his tender ribs. ``Those things stop bullets. You can hit somebody in the ribs with a baseball bat and it won't hurt. He'll play,'' said Coryell. Fouts, with a 200-yard game, could boost the Chargers past the 1967 Jets as the No. 2 passingest team in NFL history. The 1961 Houston Oilers are No. 1 with 4,392. Fouts expects two things from the Broncos: heavy pressure from Denver's linebackers and more passing from Craig Morton. ``They probably have the best linebackers in the game as a quartet,'' said Fouts. ``We have to apply some (pass rush) pressure on Fouts like we did in the game before,'' said Denver coach Red Miller. ``You can't give him the same defensive look play after play or he'll kill you. You have to mix up the coverages.'' ****0826EST 4860 *** r a *** PM-SexSurvey 12-17 0215 Among 20,000 women sending in answers to a questionnaire, more than half said ``feeling close to someone'' and ``my children'' were most important to them, according to McCall's magazine. Good sex was fifth among the choices given. McCall's said its questions were addressed to women who were married or living with a man. With the women permitted to give more than one answer, the question ``What is most important to you now?'' was answered ``feeling close to someone'' by 61 percent, and ``my children'' by 54 percent. Other answers checked were: ``my home,'' by 43 percent; ``financial security,'' by 33 percent; ``satisfying sex'' by 23 percent, and ``job or primary activity'' by 17 percent. The magazine said only 31 percent called themselves ``very satisfied'' with their sex lives and that the foremost dissatisfaction was not having enough sex. More than half the women answering were between 21 and 34 years old, the magazine said. Eighty-two percent were married, 8 percent single, 5 percent living with a man, 4 percent separated or divorced and 1 percent widowed. Seven out of 10 were mothers. Sexual infidelity to their mates was admitted by 32 percent of those answering, the magazine said. ****0828EST 4870 *** d a *** PM-MBTAMeeting 12-17 0196 Officials of the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authorit; said today was the last day for it to get an additional $15.8 million in operating funds for the year, but the agency's advisory board was expected to deny the request. Transit authority chairman Robert Foster threatened to shut down the system through the end of the year if the money was not provided, but the advisory board was not expected to budge from its earlier refusal when it met this afternoon. The system carries more than 200,000 people a day. The advisory board, which consists of members from each of the 79 communities served by the system, has refused to grant the budget supplement because of what it calls ``unauthorized expenditures'' by Foster. The Carmen's Union has warned it will strike if there is no money for salaries Tuesday, but Gov. Edward J. King has vowed to take emergency measures to ensure the system does not shut down. King also has threatened to call the Legislature back into session to ram the budget increase through legislatively. ****0829EST 4880 *** r a *** PM-55PoundCard 12-17 0216 A 55-pound Christmas card signed by approximately 22,000 Florida Panhandle residents was on its way to the hostages in the U.S. Embassy in Tehran today, said a spokesman for the radio station that sponsored the project. The card is 10 feet tall and 64 feet long when opened, said WGNE spokesman Dave Camp. He said Guinness Book of World Records officials asked him to send information about the card in the belief it may be the world's largest. The station began the project last Monday, constructing the Christmas card out of cardboard and paper over a two-day period, Camp said. It was put on display for signatures Wednesday at a shopping mall and was on its way to Iran via Canada this morning, he said. Republic Airlines was shipping the card to Canada as a public service, Camp said, and it was to be flown from there to Tehran by Air France. The front of the card bears a Christmas snow scene. An inscription on the inside cover reads: ``Though you cannot be with us, our hearts are with you _ Signed, the people of Panama City, Florida, U.S.A.'' Twelve other panels, each 55 inches wide, are filled with the signatures. ****0829EST 4310 *** r n *** PM-OilSpill 12-17 0063 Cleanup of a 3,000-gallon spill of No. 6 industrial oil was underway in Everett today. The oil leaked from the tanker Caledonia at the Exxon terminal last night, the Coast Guard reported. The ship was said to be owned by the Nueva Valencia Co. of Monrovia, Liberia. ****0838EST 0100 *** r f *** PM-Dollar-Gold 12-17 0401 *** e0850 *** d n *** PM-RhodesScholars 12-17 0417 Thirty-two U.S. students have been chosen to receive Rhodes Scholarships for two years of study at Oxford University in England, the Rhodes Scholarship Trust announced Sunday. The American students join an international group chosen from 16 other countries and announced earlier. American candidates for the scholarship must be U.S. citizens, unmarried and between 18-and 24-years-old. They are judged on excellence in intellectual attainment, character, leadership and physical vigor. The announcement was made Sunday by William Barber, an economics professor at Wesleyan University and the American secretary of the Rhodes Scholarship Trust Fund. The Rhodes Scholarships were established in 1902 by the will of Cecil Rhodes, a British philanthropist and colonial pioneer in southern Africa, for whom Rhodesia was named. Rhodes hoped the scholarships would contribute to world peace. His will specifies that no student shall be qualified or disqualified for a scholarship on the basis of race or religion. Here are the scholarship winners and the U.S. colleges they attend, with their enrollment at Oxford University subject to ratification by the Rhodes Trustees after acceptance by one of the colleges of Oxford: Ronald Jacob Van de Krol, Peabody, Mass., Middlebury College; Barry Nalebuff, Newton, Mass., Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Eli Nathans, Baltimore, Yale University; Adam W. Rome, West Hartford, Conn., Yale University; Susan Goodkin, Suffern, N.Y., Radcliffe College of Harvard University. Also, Andrea Lee Hollen, Altoona, Pa., U.S. Military Academy; Mortimer N. Sellers, Philadelphia, Harvard University; Craig Hall Underwood, Huntington, W.Va., West Virginia University; David Schatz, Charlottsville, Va., Yale University; Robert Allen Long Jr., Clemmons, N.C., University of North Carolina; Linda Lucille Fletcher, Clarksville, Tenn., Vanderbilt University. Also, Christopher Durward Miller, Memphis, Tenn., U.S. Air Force Academy; Ihor O. Fedorowycz, Livonia, Mich., University of Michigan; Gordon Crovitz, Durham, N.C., University of Chicago; Adam Schulman, Pittsburgh, University of Chicago; Betsy L. Anderson, Eagle River, Wis., Johns Hopkins University. Also, Ann K. Jorns, Manhattan, Kan., Kansas State University; Adam Daniel Helfer, Rochester, N.Y., Washington University; Karen Sue Walker, St. Louis, Williams College; William H. Bender, Iowa City, Iowa, Dartmouth College; Susan L. Karamanian, San Antonio, Texas, Auburn University; William G. Altman, New Ulm, Texas, Texas A & M University; Clark Kent Ervin, Houston, Harvard University; Stephen Reeder Morillo, New Orleans, Harvard University. Also, Mary King, Saratoga, Calif., Stanford University; Ronald Lee, Granada Hills, Calif.; Princeton University; Ross H. Frank, Arroyo Hondo, N.M., Yale University; Atham James Shaka, Salt Lake City, Utah, Harvey M ****0841EST 1690 *** a a *** PM-MulliganStew Adv19 12-17 1127 A card in the mail this morning invites me to a neighbor's house for a Christmas tree decorating party. I regret sending my regrets. As a keen observer of humankind, I would be truly interested in seeing how people can have a good time, laugh and drink and be civil to one another, while decorating a Christmas tree. At our house in my youth, trimming the tree was necessarily a very private affair, the closest the family ever came to civil war. Because of the thinness of the walls, the neighbors may have shared in the event and even taken sides in the various skirmishes over tinsel vs. snow, colored bulbs over all-of-a-kind, blinking or regular lights, etc., but they never were invited in to join the hostilities. These always took place on Christmas Eve. The tradition was more economic than sentimental. My father always waited until the last minute of closing time, certain that the merchants would drop their prices drastically rather than be stuck with a surplus of unsellable trees on the day after Christmas. We three boys _ I was the middle one with a year's difference on each side _ sweated out the Christmas countdown in fear that the best trees or perhaps even all of them would be gone by the time Father made his move. That happened one year and we had to go down to the railroad yards and buy a tree from the men who cleaned out the flatcars. Or at least that's where they said they got them. Our tree had to be big, ``branchy'' and straight. Under the strung-out bulbs in front of the grocer's or the butcher shop, where trees were usually sold in those pre-World War II days, we boys fluffed out and studied the various possibilities, while Father shamelessly invoked our joy and eagerness to get the price down to around 50 cents. Our eyes, of course, were always larger than our apartment, as we found out the minute we tried to get the tree over the banister and make the turn at the first landing. This invariably brought out the Italian ``super'' and his wife from their street floor back flat with excited instructions and sweet anise cakes for us amid delectable garlicky aromas from the kitchen. Every year the tree had to be hacked off at the top to fit into the front room, as the parlor was called in those Depression days. Mother's best carving knife, volunteered ungraciously, always suffered a couple of nicks coping with the gooey, sap-bleeding upper branches. Then there was the annual problem with the tree holder, a three-legged cast iron contraption with screws that had to be tightened just so to make the tree stand perfectly vertical, which it rarely did. It usually heeled 20 degrees to starboard from a bend in the trunk or imprecise tuning of the holder. Sometimes we had to hack at the stem of the tree with a hatchet to make it fit the claws of the holder. Next we all paraded down to the cellar to carry up the Christmas ornaments from the padlocked storage closets that the tenants in our four-story apartment building were allocated behind the coal bins. We blew off the coal dust from the cardboard cartons, trying to figure out which one held the lights or the extension cords or crib figurines, while solemnly assuring each other that this time when the tree came down we would write the contents in large crayoned letters on the outside of each box. Should we start at the top or the bottom? Do the lights go on first or the ornaments? Perhaps this year we should start with the tinsel ``rain'' or first hang those striped candy canes we got at school on the outer branches? Such decisions were never taken quietly or unanimously in our family. Mother often turned on carols on the radio to drown out father's oaths. When the ornaments were all aboard, one section of the tree, near the middle or at the side facing the window, looked bare. The problem was a deficiency of foliage there. The tree had to be delicately turned around, so the awkward bald spot faced the wall, which invariably twisted up the starched muslin sheet that served as a snowy landscape for the nativity scene leaning against the iron holder. Then came the sublime monent of truth. Father got down on all fours, crept beneath the lower branches, sorted out the ganglia of extension cords and triple sockets, and inserted the prongs into the outlets. Let there be light. And there was, in some areas. But at least four of the nine sets of lights were not on. In those days one dead bulb knocked out a whole set, and so began the irritating, exacting, at times jolting job of testing each light without blowing a fuse or falling off the ladder into the tree from a sudden shock. But at last the job was done. Every light sparkled. Even the bulbs with chipped paint had been discarded and we had all played the game of making sure that two reds or two greens were not next to each other. The tree was topped off with all the ceremony of steel workers proclaiming the upper limits of a new skyscraper. The gleaming silver star was planted on the topmost branch, which always immediately flopped over and threatened to deposit a falling star into the water bucket behind the tree. Somehow, it hung in there, perhaps not pointing heavenward but at least precariously clinging to its perch. Father, in control of himself and his language, retired to the kitchen for a nightcap and a fried egg and onion sandwich, his Christmas Eve favorite. Mother made us take a bath, shine our shoes and lay out our altar boy cassocks for early Mass next morning, then hurried us off to bed so she could place the presents beneath the tree. The steam heat was turned off in the front room, to keep the tree from shedding its needles, and remained off until the Christmas season was over, except on days when company came. One Christmas morning, among the earliest in my memory, we arose with a clatter to the tumble of church bells and stampeded into the front room. And what to our wondering eyes should appear? Marcus Tullius Cicero, our cat, asleep in the branches halfway up in the tree amid a chaos of broken ornaments. That was some party, let me tell you. ****0843EST 0860 *** r n *** AM-VtNull 12-17 0290 Orleans County State's Attorney Leroy Null says that perjury charges against him are part of a politically-motivated ``witch hunt.'' A county grand jury on Friday indicted Null and Orleans County Sheriff James Murphy on perjury charges and indicted Deputy Sheriff Reginald LeBlanc on a false pretenses charge. The indictments followed a lengthy investigation into allegations that the department billed the towns of Orleans and Barton for patrols that were never made. Murphy has declined comment on the indictments, while LeBlanc said Sunday he could not understand why the charges were brought. Null, who was deputy sheriff for five years until being elected county prosecutor last winter, said Sunday that he was certain he would be acquitted of the charges. ``How can there be a crime, when the `victims,' the towns of Barton and Orleans, don't think there is a crime,'' Null said. He said he could not understand why Special Prosecutor Norman Blais and Attorney General M. Jerome Diamond were ``going after this with the seriousness of a double murder trial when the towns of Barton and Orleans saw no problem.'' He also criticized the publicity surrounding the case. ``It is obvious that Norm Blais and the attorney general's office are giving daily press releases about the `witch hunt' in violation of every legal or ethical mandate that they are supposed to uphold,'' Null said. ``It is another indication that this is a political prosecution,'' he said. The three men are scheduled to be arraigned in Orleans County Superior Court on Friday. Allegations of the false billing first came to light last spring, when a former deputy sheriff told the attorney' general's office about them. Murphy subsequently fired the deputy. ****0847EST 4970 *** r a *** PM-LIRR 1stLd-Writethru a4440 12-17 0430 *** e0870 *** r n *** PM-VtFatal 190 12-17 0197 *** m0740 *** r s *** PM-DavisCup Bjt 12-17 0403 Yes, the United States is the first country in the 79-year history of the Davis Cup to win the final in straight sets. And yes, their beaten opponents say America could have played its reserves and still won the Cup for the second straight year. But no, says the American captain, the United States is not building an international tennis dynasty. ``It's easy to talk about a dynasty,'' captain Tony Trabert said Sunday, moments after his squad polished off Italy 5-0 for the 1979 crown. ``But we have to play the first match next year in Mexico in February. And if we win, we play Argentina in that snake pit in Buenos Aires against (Guillermo) Vilas and (Jose-Luis) Clerc, two pretty good players. ``In a short series, anything can happen. And as soon as we think we're a dynasty, that's when they'll come get us.'' Despite Trabert's caution, it was hard to see a weakness in the American team here. Even without Jimmy Connors, not one of the four matches was close. John McEnroe was devastating, even when not going full speed after the title was won. Vitas Gerulaitis played perhaps his best tennis of the year. And Stan Smith and Bob Lutz, likely to be replaced by McEnroe and Peter Fleming next year, bid a fond farewell to Cup competition by beating an inspired Italian doubles team. ``Why does everyone seem to play great against me?'' Adriano Panatta, a loser to all four Americans, moaned after dropping Sunday's final match to Gerulaitis 6-1, 6-3, 6-3. ``I think that's the best I've seen Vitas play this year,'' Trabert said. ``And his father said the same thing.'' ``I played hard because I knew that Adriano would be,'' Gerulaitis admitted. ``But once the score gets to 3-0 they should call it like the World Series. It's a nice exhibition but there is no reason to play.'' Earlier, McEnroe beat Antonio Zugarelli 6-4, 6-3, 6-1, to extend his Cup unbeaten string to 10 matches and 28 sets. Zugarelli was a last-minute replacement for Corrado Barazzutti, injured Friday against Gerulaitis. ``I didn't feel like playing 3 out of 5 sets when we already won,'' McEnroe said. ``I had nothing to gain. I tried hard but I don't think I hit the ball as well as I did against Panatta.'' ****0851EST 4320 *** r n *** PM-SuffolkDowns 12-17 0042 Racing at Suffolk Downs was canceled today because the track surface was frozen. The race track is closed on Tuesday. Racing will resume Wednesday. ****0854EST 4890 *** r a *** PM-LIRR 1stLd-Writethru p4220 12-17 0430 *** a4990 *** r i *** PM-Carswell 12-17 0172 *** e0890 *** d n *** PM-Governors-Immigration 12-17 0391 A report prepared for the Coalition of Northeast Governors says federal policy on illegal immigrants fails to take into account the problems of the Northeast. The report, by Eugene F. Sofer of the coalition's Policy Research Center in Washington, says the presence of illegal immigrants provides a ``complex issue'' for the region's governors. The apparent increase in the number of illegal immigrants in the Northeast could create a ``permanent underclass'' of people with no way out of poverty, the report says. Citing another report prepared by the Tri-State Regional Planning Commission of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut and based on figures from the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service, Sofer says in his study that those three states are the home of 1.8 million illegal aliens. About 1.5 million are in New York, 300,000 in New Jersey and 7,000 in Connecticut, the figures show. While noting that reliable figures on the number of illegal immigrants are unavailable, the Sofer report says settlement patterns for legal immigrants indicate that about two-thirds of illegal aliens will settle in New York, California, New Jersey, Illinois, Texas and Massachusetts. The report says it is also ``likely'' that New York, New Jersey and Connecticut receive the bulk of illegal immigrants from the Caribbean. Requested by New York Gov. Hugh Carey, Sofer's study says the Northeast was able to assimilate European immigrants earlier in this century because they could participate in the political process and take advantage of public services. ``Illegal immigrants can do neither without fear of arrest and deportation,'' the report says. Yet they ``use social services and, to an unknown degree, represent direct costs to state and local governments in the region,'' it adds. Connecticut Gov. Ella Grasso, chairwoman of the coalition, said the report ``demonstrates the urgent need for increased state attention to immigration policy-making, administration and enforcement.'' Mrs. Grasso said that although immigration policy is created by the federal government, state and local governments feel the impact of the policy and ``are helpless to deal with its effects.'' ``The Northeast is just beginning to realize the extent of the burdens placed upon its economic and social structure'' by illegal immigrants, she said. The coalition includes governors of seven states: New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and Vermont. ****0902EST 4910 *** r i *** PM-Carswell 12-17 0172 Deputy U. S. Treasury Secretary Robert Carswell, in meetings with Japanese officals, today urged Japan's cooperation with U.S. economic measures against Iran aimed at freeing U.S. hostages in Tehran. Carswell told Prime Miniter Masayoshi Ohira the Western countries, including Japan, must be united in coping with the problems arising from the crisis, officials of the foreign ministry said. Ohira told Carswell that Japan and the United States have deepened their mutual understanding on the problems through talks, including Ohira's meeting last week with U.S. Ambassador Mike Mansfield. Ohira assured Carswell that the government will place tighter controls over purchases of Iranian oil by Japanese business firms on the high-priced spot market. These purchases had brought U.S. criticism that Japan was updermining U.S. efforts to free the hostages. Foreign Minister Saburo Okita told Carswell that Japan has to purchase Iranian crude oil at a time when major international oil companies are cutting supplies to Japan, although he understands American feelings. Japan depends almost entirely on imported oil. ****0903EST 0900 *** d n *** PM-Conn.WhoConcert 12-17 0203 Increased security was in place and no serious trouble was reported during a weekend concert by the British rock group ``The Who,'' but 70 concert-goers were arrested, police said. Authorities _ concerned about a Cincinnati concert two weeks ago where a stampede left 11 dead _ placed a contingent of 40 police officers and 85 security guards at New Haven Veterans Memorial Coliseum Saturday night, a larger number than usual. Most of those arrested were released on bond. Charges included breach of the peace, disorderly conduct, criminal trespass and at least one count of assault, police said. The arrests, both inside and outside the coliseum, were ``nothing unusual from what we've come to expect at certain concerts,'' said Daniel Blackmon. He did not know how the number of arrests Saturday night compared to arrests at past concerts at the coliseum. One key difference between the New Haven concert and the one in Cincinnati was that all of the coliseum's 11,000 seats were reserved, police said. In Cincinnati, many seats for ``The Who'' concert were not reserved, resulting in a rush of fans to get the best ones, officials said. ****0905EST 5000 *** r i *** PM-Levebvre 12-17 0103 Traditionalist Archbishop Marcel Levebvre was reported today to have had secret talks with Vatican officials over his defiance of reforms of the 1962-65 Ecumenical Council. The Vatican declined formal comment on the latest development in Lefebvre's case, but sources said he had been at the Vatican last week and held talks with Cardinal Franjo Seper, prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, formerly the Holy Office. Lefebvre, a French prelate, was suspended from his priestly functions by Pope Paul VI for his refusal to accept council reforms, including changes in the Mass. ****0906EST 0770 *** u n *** PM-LIRR 1stLd o103 12-17 0083 The Long Island Rail Road said it was having ``a pretty good day'' this morning despite some minor delays as it resumed service for 180,000 daily commuters following a week-long strike. ``It's about the same as a regular day,'' said spokeswoman Nina Mule. ``We have some scattered five-to 10-minute delays and one train almost an hour late, but I'd say it's a pretty good day.'' ****0912EST 0910 *** u n *** PM-SuperiorCourt 12-17 0113 A top aide to Gov. Hugh Gallen said today that Supreme Court Clerk George Pappagianis of Nashua looks like a leading candidate for an opening on the New Hampshire Superior Court. Pappagianis is a leading candidate for the opening created on the 16-member court when former Gov. John King was named to the Supreme Court, the source said. Appointed clerk on Feb. 1, 1970, Pappagianis may face some opposition from Executive Councilor Dudley Dudley, usually a strong supporter of Gallen's nominations, another source said. Pappagianis was attorney general from Feb. 11, 1966, until he resigned when the was appointed to be clerk of the court. ****0918EST 0780 *** r s *** PM-Briefs 2Takes 12-17 0474 John McEnroe and Vitas Gerulaitis scored convincing singles victories in the Davis Cup finals, giving the United States a 5-0 victory over Italy. The U.S. team stopped Italy from winning a single set in the 15 sets spread over five matches. The victory means the Davis Cup will remain in the U.S., which won last year in the finals against Great Britain. The U.S. team sewed up the title Saturday when Stan Smith and Bob Lutz won their doubles match, giving the Americans an unbeatable 3-0 lead. However, both teams reserved their most spectacular play for the last match when Gerulaitis defeated Adriano Panatta 6-1, 6-3, 6-3. Earlier McEnroe trounced Antonio Zugarelli 6-4, 6-3, 6-1. ADELAIDE, Australia (AP) _ Australian Kim Karwick defeated South Africa's Bernie Mitton 7-6, 6-4 in the final of the South Australian Open. The match was delayed for three hours because of rain and was reduced from five sets to the best-of-three. NASSAU, Bahamas (AP) _ Harold Solomon battled to a 7-5 tiebreaker victory then coasted to a 6-1 second-set win to defeat Van Winitsky in the $15,000 Bahamas International Tennis Open. Solomon, the world's seventh-ranked professional, picked up a $5,000 purse in the tournament. TOKYO (AP) _ Tracy Austin, the 1979 U.S. Open champion, easily beat Martina Navratilova 6-2, 6-1 and won a $200,000 international women's tennis tournament. Austin collected $100,000 for the victory.  ****0923EST 0110 *** r v *** PM-CTAStrike 12-17 0284 *** v0130 *** r v *** PM-CTAStrike 12-17 0289 *** e0920 *** u n *** PM-Conleysuit 12-17 0080 A suit by the chairman of the New Hampshire Commission on the Handicapped, who is seeking to keep his job, was to be held today at Merrimack County Superior Court. Republican Sen. Raymond Conley, of Center Sandwich, a strong advocate for the handicapped, filed suit after Gov. Hugh Gallen decided to replace him with Democratic Rep. Theodora Nardi of Manchester. Opponents of the change have said Gallen's action is a political move. ****0929EST 5050 *** r i *** PM-IranianBjt 1st-Lead-a4090 420 12-17 0445 *** p4940 *** r w *** PM-Kennedy 1stLd-Writethru p4390 12-17 0687 *** a5060 *** r w *** PM-Kennedy 1stLd-Writethru a4660 12-17 0687 *** f0150 *** r f *** PM-Britain-Economy 12-17 0309 Britain is heading for a serious recession next year, with living standards falling 2.5 percent, the economy contracting by 2 percent, and inflation hitting 20 percent, a leading firm of stockbrokers said today. The forecast by brokers Phillips and Drew predicted an increase of 400,000 in unemployment in the next 18 months. Currently 1.35 million persons are listed as unemployed in Britain, 5.6 percent of the work force. The report foresaw a 1980 balance of payments deficit of 1 billion pounds, equal to about $2.2 billion, for 1980, despite rising production of British North Sea Oil. The government has predicted a deficit of 2.5 billion pounds, or $5.5 billion, deficit for this year and 2 bllion pounds, or $4.4 billion, for next. At the same time, the brokers said, oil production will tend to keep the pound high and discourage exports. Recently the pound has been about $2.20, compared to as little as $1.56 three years ago. Adding to the gloomy picture, Phillips and Drew said Britain's spring budget is expected to contain a 2 billion pound, or $4.4 billion, dose of deflation _ combining government spending cuts and higher indirect taxes on alcohol, tobacco, and gasoline and other items. The inflation rate currently is 17.4 percent. The report said Britain is suffering ``high and rising inflation, an appalling current deficit, an exchange rate which is crippling the corporate sector while boosting import penetration, an interest rate structure which is deterring genuine investment without necessarily curbing private sector loan demand, and an atmosphere of hostility between the unions and the government.'' The stockbrokers criticized the 6-month-old Conservative government's efforts to combat these problems: ``Sole reliance on interest rate movements to alter the structure of our economy and attitudes to work, against this background, seems a somewhat inadequate response to the problems we face.'' ****0940EST 0780 *** r n *** PM-NH-JailGuard 12-17 0109 *** e0930 *** r n *** PM-NH-JailGuard 12-17 0109 One of the two Hillsboro County jail guards fired after state Rep. Lawrence McLaughlin committed suicide in his jail cell was to come before the county Personnel Committee today for a public hearing. Guard Earle Dubois was fired for allegedly failing to follow instructions to keep a constant watch on McLaughlin, who was considered suicidal. Alfred Kelley, the other guard, died of undisclosed causes soon after he was fired. McLaughlin was being held in the county jail overnight awaiting transfer to the state prison to serve time for a burglary conviction. He was found hanged in the cell the next morning. ****0944EST 5170 *** r n *** PM-RIBriefs 12-17 0384 The Rhode Island Lottery sold $10.8 million in tickets during the first four months of the current fiscal year, up $1.5 million from the same period last year, officials say. Net income for the first third of the fiscal year was more than $4.1 million, up from last year's figure of $3.85 million, according to Peter J. O'Connell, executive director of the lottery. For the month of October, gross sales totaled $2.9 million and net income was almost $1.1 million, O'Connell said. ****0950EST 0830 *** r s *** PM-HalasJrObit 12-17 0166 George S. Halas Jr., president of the National Football League Chicago Bears, has died from a massive heart attack at his home in Chicago, a family spokesman says. He was 54. Halas, who died early Sunday, was the son of George Halas Sr., the Bears' owner. He became president of his father's team in 1963 and worked with the Bears for 30 years, mainly in front office capacities, said Ted Harris. Halas graduated from Loyola University, attended Loyola Academy and served in the U.S. Naval Reserve during World War II. He also served on the board of directors of the Chicago Association of Retarded Children, United Cerebral Palsy and was a trustee of the Pop Warner Football League. He also was a member of the executive committee of the NFL Management Council. Before becoming president of the club, Halas served as treasurer since 1953. Hapas is survived by his wife, Pat, and two children. Funeral arrangements are pending. ****0951EST 0840 *** r s *** PM-UNMProblems 12-17 0159 After taking the weekend to mull over the future of basketball Coach Norm Ellenberger, University of New Mexico President William Davis was expected to announce his decision today. Davis has the power to fire the flamboyant coach, which is what the university's Athletic Council recommended he do after a day-long meeting Friday to consider Ellenberger's status. Davis said after receiving the recommendation Friday that he would take it under advisement and make known his decision Monday. Ellenberger, 47, and his chief recruiter, Manny Goldstein, were suspended by Davis Nov. 30 in the midst of an FBI investigation into possible mail fraud and bribery involving the alleged doctoring of transcripts for a junior college transfer on the UNM basketball squad. Goldstein resigned Thursday. Meanwhile, the Albuquerque Journal suggested Sunday in an editorial that Davis and the university's board of regents resign to ``help salvage the reputation of the University of New Mexico.'' ****0955EST 1790 *** u s *** BC-HKO--Disband 12-17 0183 The manager of the Victoria Cougars of the Western Hockey League says the Great Falls Americans have decided to disband the team for the rest of the 1979-80 season. Paul Panchyshyn said the Montana team is having financial troubles, and the franchise may be relocated in one of four or five other locations next season. Meanwhile, Americans' players were be dispersed through the league in a special draft Monday. The New Westminster Bruins will receive the first two picks and the rest of the team will make selections in reverse order of league standings. Panchyshyn says the players drafted will remain the property of the Americans franchise and will be returned to the club when it is relocated and operating again. The Americans, with a dismal record of only two victories and a tie in 28 games so far this season, were having trouble attracting fans in Great Falls. Panchyshyn said the Great Falls area is economically depressed and it may have been a bad decision to locate the team in the Montana city. ****0957EST 1710 *** a i *** PM-RefugeeCamp Adv21 12-17 0522 Dance lessons, English classes, ball games, beach excursions, movies every night. This is the way it is at a U.S. Navy-run camp for 547 Vietnamese boat people ranging from infants to oldsters. The activities, a Navy spokesman said, are needed to solve the refugees' biggest problem _ boredom. They have plenty of food, running water, double-deck beds with thick mattresses and fresh bedsheets. All of this makes the camp here Southeast Asia's most sumptuous. Camps in other parts of Southeast Asia, which have far greater numbers of refugees, have been criticized because of a lack of sanitary conditions, health services and overcrowding. But international relief organizations have begun to improve conditions in many of the camps. ``We are very lucky,'' said Nguyen Than, a former South Vietnamese army lieutenant who was elected the camp's chairman. He then told a group of visiting reporters what a typical breakfast consists of: two eggs, bacon or ham, cereals, coffee or tea for adults and juice or milk for the children. The boat people were among more than 800 Vietnamese rescued by U.S. 7Th Fleet ships in the South China Sea since July 21. Those picked up during the first months of the rescue operations ordered by President Carter were turned over to officials in Thailand and the Philippines with guarantees they all would eventually be accepted for resettlement in the United States. The others were brought here to Subic, 50 miles northwest of Manila, and the camp was established in September when it became clear the Philippine government was not ready to take the refugees. Chief Petty Officer Joel Jacobs said as time went on boredom became a problem in the camp. ``That's why we had to organize not only English classes but provide them movies every night. There are ball games and even dance clinics. You can see there are teen-agers and they like disco, too.'' Occasionally excursions to some of Subic's several beaches are organized. In charge of running the camp is Senior Chief Petty Officer William Smalley, who is assisted by three other Navy men who rotate every month ``to prevent anybody developing a strong attachment to any of the refugees.'' Of the 15 Quonset huts in the camp, normally used as barracks for Marines, nine are used as the refugees' living quarters, four as rest rooms, one as mess hall and another for administration. Each hut has an elected ``captain,'' Smalley said, adding that he meets the captains twice a day to find out what problems there are and to ensure that the camp is kept clean. Machinist Mate 2nd Class Dennis P. Schulik, 25, a native of Euclid, Ohio, said his regular job on the base is with security. At the camp, he also is chief security officer, with a difference: ``Here, it's been very fulfilling because I find I am able to help somebody directly. I jumped at the job when it was offered to me.'' ****0958EST 0860 *** r n *** PM-SolarFridge 12-17 0205 *** e0940 *** u n *** PM-USM-Writing 12-17 0193 *** e0950 *** u n *** PM-N.H.Fatal 12-17 0071 A Milford man has died in an accident in Hudson, according to Hudson police. Police said Kent Clarke, 37, was alone when his car and another car collided Sunday afternoon at the intersection of Cape Drive and Melendy Road. Clark was pronounced dead on arrival at Memorial Hospital in Nashua, officials said. The driver of the second car was not injured, police said. ****1003EST 0120 *** a s *** PM-Bears Adv19 12-17 0564 North Georgia's first bear season in memory has shown there's a growing popultion of the big game animals skulking on the mountainsides. Hunters took 20 bears during six two- and three-day hunts on wildlife management areas and at least one other animal was killed illegally in another area, according to David Carlock, who is in charge of bear research for the state Department of Natural Resources. ``It indicates that there is a healthy bear population in north Georgia,'' Carlock said. ``None of the 20 taken was among the 100-odd bears we've got tagged. That points to the fact that we must have a lot of bears if we didn't pick up one of our tagged animals.'' Carlock said he hasn't seen all of the data on the animals taken and hasn't had time to analyze any of it. ``But from what I've seen, we killed young bears,'' he said. ``As far as I've seen, none were over 200 pounds. Most of those taken were under 4 years old.'' ``Our data indicates that we have quite a few animals in the 10-to-12-year class, and it's not uncommon for them to get to be 20 years old,'' he said. The data has been gathered during bear studies begun in 1972. The studies were done to see how the bear population has recovered since being hunted almost to extinction this century. In addition to the legal kills, a 348-pounder was found shot during the Lake Burton Wildlife Magagement Area deer hunt. It was tagged at Coleman River last year. ``A younger age class of animals indicates good reproduction,'' Carlock said. Older animals aren't likely to be taken because ``the older they get the more wary they get,'' Carlock said. ``We don't catch many large, older animals (in the trapping program). It's just like deer. If you're looking for the bigger ones, you are going to have to look longer and harder.'' But the fact that no large bears were taken is a good sign, he said. An older female, which had been equipped with a radio collar and then released, was in Coleman River _ the most rugged Wildlife Management Area in Georgia, during the Nov. 29-Dec. 1 bear hunt. ``She was in the heaviest-hunted area for the first two days,'' Carlock said. ``But on the third day we found she'd moved out the night before into some real rough country.'' Despite the high turnout of hunters, no bears were taken at Coleman River, probably because of the terrain and heavy cover, Carlock said. Eight bears were killed in a three-day hunt at the Rich Mountain area, which had a very good bear population, and seven at Chestatee, Carlock said. ``The only real surprise was Chestatee,'' Carlock said. ``They killed more than I expected. The bears were concentrated. Three adult females were taken in one 1,000-acre drainge. There shouldn't be that many females in one area.'' ``We had a lot of hunters that came up just for bear,'' Carlock said. ``Many thought it would be like deer hunting _ you'd at least see some even if you didn't get a shot. They found out it's not that way.'' ****1004EST 1810 *** a s *** PM-Bears Adv19 12-17 0564 *** t0120 *** a s *** PM-Bears Adv19 12-17 0560 *** m0870 *** r n *** PM-Nurses 12-17 0377 Everything was back to normal today at Women and Infants Hospital following approval of a new contract by striking workers, but an unrelated strike by 180 nurses at St. Joseph's Hospital continues with no end in sight. The tentative contract was ratified Saturday 348-11, according to David Pickus, area director of District 1199 of the New England Health Care Employees Union. The union represents 550 workers at the hospital, including registered and licensed practical nurses, housekeeping, dietary and service personnel. The workers returned to their jobs Sunday. The strike is the first in the 95-year history of the privately run Women and Infants, where an average 6,000 babies are born yearly. The settlement reached Friday at a federally mediated bargaining session provides an average 10 percent raise the first year, 8 percent the second and a wage reopener clause the third, with both sides agreeing to accept binding arbitration if necessary. Pickus said it also includes wage increments for all job classifications and a three percent increase in pension and other fringe benefits. ``Nobody wants a strike. Nobody wants to see a strike, but it's clear this has been a tremendous victory for our workers,'' said Pickus. He said the agreed-upon wage increases are about five percent higher than the hospital's best offer before the walkout. The union had been seeking a two-year contract with an average 14-percent increase the first year and a wage reopener the second. The strike began Dec. 2, prompting the hospital to cancel elective surgery and draft doctors for nursing chores. The patient population was reduced in anticipation of the walkout. Hospital spokesman Winthrop Wilson said the 30 nurses hired as temporary replacements during the strike will be discharged. ``We're pleased this has been settled amicably at last and we can go back about the business of running a hospital,'' he said. The nurses at St. Joseph's walked out Nov. 24 after contract talks broke down. They are seeking wage boosts of 13.5 percent and 21.4 percent in a two-year contract. The hospital, run by the Roman Catholic Diocese of Providence, has offered an 8.5-percent raise with no second-year proposal on the table. There are no contract talks scheduled in the dispute. ****1008EST 0250 *** r n *** PM-NavajoWeather 12-17 0281 Pinon nuts are scarce, the deer are still in the hills and the moon isn't blue, indicating a mild dry winter, according to Navajotradition. James Charles, a Flagstaff archeologist, said he trusts the forecast because his Navajo grandmother explained the signs to him. ``Where I come from on the reservation, around Ganado, if the pinon crop was more abundant than usual, it meant a long, hard winter, and that mammals would have enough food to last,'' he said. ``If there weren't many nuts, moderate months were coming.'' Hoskie Cody, 41, said his mother taught him in their hogan that ``if the winter is going to be long and hard, the deer realize it and they come down from their high places. ``If they stay up there late, though, there won't be much snow.'' Steve Gallizioli, of Italian descent, said he doesn't know about the duration and severity of the winter, but he will attest to the fact that the deer have yet to come down from the high country. The wildlife chief for the Arizona Game and Fish Department recently spent five days hunting deer on the North Rim of the Grand Canyon. ``I didn't even see any fresh sign,'' he said. Gallizioli said he did see a bear with a cub near Stoneman Lake, weeks after they should have been hibernating. Cody also said the moon is an indicator of the weather. ``If the moon is blue, if there are blue rings around it, there will be storms. But the moon hasn't been blue,'' he said. ``This winter will be mild and short. My mother was right nine out of 10 times.'' ****1009EST 0130 *** d s *** AM-HKN--Flyers'Streak 12-17 0541 Thursday night, the Philadelphia Flyers go after a piece of hockey history. Don't bet against them getting it. The Flyers will carry a 27-game unbeaten streak into their home game with the Pittsburgh Penguins. The Montreal Canadiens set the National Hockey League record for consecutive games without a loss in 1977-78, when they went 28 games before losing. ``We pretty much downplayed the streak because it wasn't important to us for a long time,'' said Flyers Coach Pat Quinn, who took over the team last February and has a 38-9-12 record at the helm. ``But, now that we're within a game ... we'd be classified as idiots if we say we're not playing to tie the streak Thursday. I might coach 100 years and not be in this position again. It's a once in a lifetime thing and I'd like to get it.'' The Flyers' one loss came in their second game of the year, a 9-2 debacle in Atlanta. Since then, Philadelphia is 19-0-8 for a 20-1-8 seasonal mark. That's the best start in NHL history. Yet, not everyone is satisfied. ``We still have a lot of work left,'' noted Bobby Clarke, the keystone of the hallmark Flyer clubs that won Stanley Cups in 1974 and '75. ``I think we can get better as the season goes on. ``Sometimes we don't play well until the third period. But I never realized we could turn it on the way we do.'' Even when they haven't been able to turn it on they've found ways to win _ or, at least, not lose. ``We had been in a lull in the last week,'' admitted Quinn. ``We weren't really playing so well. Just because we weren't losing doesn't mean we were at the peak.'' But the Flyers snapped out of their ``doldrums,'' during which they tied four of five games and, in the one victory, a 9-4 blasting of Los Angeles, fell behind 3-0 in the first period. They rallied from a 3-1 deficit in the last 10 minutes to beat Quebec 6-4 on Dec. 13, then came from a goal behind to edge Buffalo 3-2 last Saturday. On Sunday, they played with fierce intensity in tying the New York Rangers 1-1 to move within a game of the record. ``It was obvious in that game that the streak had affected us,'' said Quinn. ``We were more tentative than usual in the third period, protecting the point ... and the streak. The third period is supposed to be our strong period.'' Against the Penguins, look for the Flyers to put together three strong periods. The streak might not have been utmost in their minds before. It will be Thursday. ``Every night we try to go about our business and give a solid effort,'' said veteran defenseman Jimmy Watson. ``But, against Pittsburgh, I think we'll give it that little extra.'' And, if they beat or tie the Penguins, it's on to Boston for an afternoon game Saturday. ``I'll be tickled if we win Thursday,'' said Bill Barber. ``We know enough to take it one game at a time. So let's just think about Thursday.'' ****1010EST 1820 *** d s *** AM-HKN--Flyers'Streak 12-17 0541 *** t0130 *** d s *** AM-HKN--Flyers'Streak 12-17 0541 *** a5070 *** d w *** PM-MinettiObit 12-17 0142 Funeral services will be held Wednesday for Jean Kerr Minetti, widow of Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy and wife of a former member of the Civil Aeronautics Board. Mrs. Minetti died Saturday of a cerebral hemorrhage at Suburban Hospital in nearby Bethesda, Md. She was 55. Mrs. Minetti was remarried in 1961 to G. Joseph Minetti, the former vice chairman of the CAB, and was active in various art programs in Washington. McCarthy, a Wisconsin Republican, died in 1957. While in the Senate, he conducted hearings into alleged communist infiltration of government agencies and his name became synonymous with the anti-communist fervor of the post-World War II period. Besides her second husband, Mrs. Minetti is survived by a daughter, Tierney Elizabeth Minetti. The funeral will be conducted at the Church of the Little Flower in Washington. ****1011EST 5070 *** d w *** PM-MinettiObit 12-17 0141 *** a5080 *** r i *** PM-MailBomb 12-17 0172 A package bomb blew up in a mail bag here today, injuring two postal workers in a sorting office, police said. The men were taken to the hospital suffering from shock but were believed not seriously hurt, authorities said. ``It could have hurt a lot of people, but it wasn't being handled at the time it went off,'' a Dover police spokesman said. ``It was shielded by other mail.'' Scotland Yard anti-terrorist detectives and explosive experts were investigating. The last rash of letter bombs occurred in June when at least a dozen were found in central England, most of them blamed on the Irish Republican Army. Postal service was crippled as experts combed piles of mail at sorting depots. Of the 12 bombs, five went off in Birmingham sorting offices, slightly injuring six people, and another exploded in the mail bag of an Oxfordshire postman who had luckily left it on his bicycle as he went to deliver some letters at a door. ****1014EST 5080 *** r i *** PM-MailBomb 12-17 0172 *** a5100 *** r a *** PM-CTAStrike 4thLd-Writethru a4810 12-17 0572 *** a5100 *** r a *** PM-CTAStrike 4thLd-Writethru a4810 12-17 0572 *** b1720 *** a i *** PM-Lesotho Adv24 12-17 0613 The African kingdom of Lesotho, overshadowed by bigger neighbors with bigger conflicts, is embroiled in a no-less dangerous insurrection. Hundreds of refugees have streamed recently into South Africa, which surrounds Lesotho, amid unconfirmed reports of at least 20 persons being killed in fighting between Lesotho's security forces and armed opponents of the regime. Much of the turmoil has taken place in isolated mountain regions in the north. A Johannesburg newspaper reported this month that opponents of the prime minister of Lesotho, Chief Leabua Jonathan, announced the establishment of a ``liberation army'' to oust him by force. Insurrection _ mainly bomb explosions in public buildings, some of them resulting in fatalities _ has simmered in Lesotho since 1970, when the first elections were held after independence from Britain in 1966. Chief Jonathan, prime minister at independence, suddenly nullified the elections when it became evident that the opposition, the Basutoland Congress Party, was about to unseat his Basutoland National Party, which had won pre-independence elections in 1965. Basutoland was the pre-independence name for Lesotho. Chief Jonathan has ruled this mountain nation, about the size of Belgium, with semi-dictatorial powers and a largely rubber-stamp Parliament, which he himself appointed. The latest violence has been serious enough for Foreign Minister Roelof Botha of South Africa to instruct his country's representative at the United Nations to seek U.N. help for an estimated 500 refugees, a number which keeps growing. Mostly women and children, the refugees have been crossing into South Africa and seeking shelter and food at border farms. South Africa wants the U.N. High Commission for Refugees to investigate the situation. The Basutoland Congress Party, banned since the 1970 election, is behind the new ``liberation army,'' according to press reports here. The Sunday Times of Johannesburg quoted Congress Party sources as saying that Lesotho police tossed a hand grenade into a room full of children, killing one and wounding others while searching for armed insurgents in northern Lesotho. The sources also claimed that 20 other persons had been killed in the northern region during skirmishing, but these claims could not be independently confirmed. Police have erected roadblocks in the Butha Buthe region, where most of the violence has been reported. Butha Buthe is near the border with South Africa on the north. Chief Jonathan went to the region recently and claimed at a public rally that explosives used by the insurgents came from South Africa, an inplication that South Africa might be behind the resurgence of violence. Foreign Minister Botha, reacting to similar claims by Lesotho earlier, called them ``deliberate and contemptible.'' Lesotho lives mainly on subsistence farming and its annual per capita income of around $160 makes it one of the world's poorest countries. Lesotho can provide jobs for only about 7 percent of its work force in a total population of 1.2 million, so about 120,000 men are working in South Africa at any given time, most of them in gold and coal mines where explosives are available. Lesotho depends on South Africa for almost all of its exports and imports, despite Lesotho's political strategy of criticizing the white-minority regime in South Africa and its race policies. South african officials have generally taken a hands-off attitude toward Lesotho, presumabaly because it poses no threat. But the establishment of diplomatic relations with Cuba last year by Lesotho and an increasingly warm relationship between Lesotho and Marxist-governed Mozambique have provoked veiled hints from South Africa that Chief Jonathan and his government are on a dangerous path. ****1019EST 0910 *** d n *** PM-Arrests 12-17 0237 The state may not prosecute some or all of the 79 men arrested recently on charges of loitering for prostitution because city police failed to tape record the conversations of the men as they allegedly solicited sex from undercover policewomen. The reason: the police tape recorders all were broken. Edward J. Caron, executive assistant to Attorney General Dennis J. Roberts II, said the failure to tape the conversations violates Roberts' policy for handling such cases. Without the tapes, the chances of winning convictions is ``substantially diminished,'' Caron said. ``They knew going back two years that corroborating evidence in the form of tape recordings has been necessary to insure conviction,'' Caron said. ``I don't know what evidence they have in these cases. But it's certainly going to be difficult to prosecute without those tapes,'' he said. The 79 men were arrested as part of an attempt by Providence police to eliminate street vice in the Elmwood and West End neighborhoods. After the arrests, Public Safety Commissioner Sanford Gorodetsky said the department's taping devices all were broken at the time of the arrests. Gorodetsky said he was unaware of any policy by Roberts for taping all conveersations in prostitution cases. Mayor Vincent A. Cianci Jr., who ordered the crackdown, said he still wanted the cases prosecuted _ tapes or no tapes. But he acknowledged it was ``easier with tapes'' to win convictions. ****1024EST 5110 *** r i *** PM-Israel-Abortion 12-17 0361 *** p5000 *** r i *** PM-Israel-Abortion 1stLd-Writethru p4620 12-17 0363 *** t0140 *** d s *** AM-FBN--Broncos-Chargers 12-17 0349 *** s1840 *** d s *** AM-FBN--Broncos-Chargers 12-17 0349 *** p5010 *** r i *** LaserphotoNY5. 12-17 0648 The 13-nation Organization of Oil Exporting Countries convened here today and Saudi Arabian Oil Minister Ahmed Zaki Yamani said he does not expect the cartel to raise prices again after the recent hikes by several OPEC members. Yamani said Saudi Arabia, which produces one-third of OPEC's oil, would not raise prices beyond the $24 level announced last week and would maintain production at 9.5 million barrels a day during the first three months of 1980. World oil prices were about 100 percent above last year's levels as the cartel's oil ministers convened behind tight security in this Venezuelan capital to debate another possible price hike. Even if the price is not raised any further during the OPEC conference American retail gasoline and heating oil prices could go up by as much as 11 cents a gallon. The latest hike by Saudi Arabia raised its prices 33 percent above previous levels, but just barely above the $23.50 ceiling price set by OPEC in June. Other countries, such as Libya, passed that ceiling months ago and are pressing for further increases. ``The industrialized countries can pay whatever we ask,'' Libyan Oil Minister Izzedin al Mabrak told a reporter. ``They have shown they can stand a price increase.'' Libya, which breached the OPEC ceiling in October, announced another price increase Sunday. It hiked the price of its high-quality crude oil _ prized for its high yield of gasoline _ by $3.73 to $30 a barrel retroactive to Nov. 1. Mabrak also said Libya, which ships nearly half of the 2 million barrels it produces daily to the United States, will reduce production next year, but he did not say how much. Indonesia also boosted its price by $2 to $25.50 for a 42-gallon barrel. Iran's official Pars news agency said the price of Iranian crude had been raised $5 to $28.50, but Iranian Oil Minister Ali Akbar Moinfar called the report a rumor. The pre-conference splurge of price hikes was begun last week when a bloc of OPEC moderates, led by Saudi Arabia, bumped their prices up $6 to $24 a barrel. The Saudi-led bloc said it raised prices early to head off even greater price increases at the Venezuela conference. In addition to Saudi Arabia, the world's largest oil exporter, the bloc includes Venezuela, the United Arab Emirates and Qatar, Together they account for about half of OPEC's daily output of 30 million barrels. Kuwait's oil minister said Sunday his country was ``supporting'' the $24 a barrel price, and sources said Ecuador was likely to go along with it. But Algeria raised its base price to $26.27 a barrel in October and Nigeria went to $26.20 in November. Yamani said before the meeting his nation would seek to maintain the $24 price ``for as long as possible.'' UAE Oil Minister Mana Said al Oteiba also said he would not press for new increases. In addition to fixing a new rate card, the OPEC ministers are expected to discuss the future of the dollar, the currency all OPEC countries except Iran use to transact business. The Iranians, locked in a bitter feud with the United States over their holding of 50 American hostages in Tehran, dumped the dollar earlier this month after President Carter impounded Iranian assets in the United States when Iran tried to pull them out. Several members have called for replacement of the dollar with a ``basket'' of several strong currencies. ``We have to protect ourselves against currency fluctuations,'' said the Libyan oil minister. ``We have suffered a lot of losses due to the fluctuations of the dollar. The dollar is adrift.'' ****1033EST 5130 *** r i *** PM-EuropeStorms 12-17 0369 *** p5020 *** r i *** PM-EuropeStorms 12-17 0369 *** f0170 *** r f *** PM-JapanAutos 12-17 0355 Japan's two largest automobile manufacturers announced today record vehicle production for November. Toyota Motor Sales Co., the marketing arm of Toyota Motor Co., Japan's biggest automobile producer, announced that its motor vehicle production last month reached a record 291,826 units, up 2.5 percent from October and up 17.6 percent from November 1978. Passenger car output in the month totaled 206,088 units, up 1.5 percent from the previous month and up 14.1 percent from a year ago. Production of trucks and buses also rose, Toyota said. Toyota Motor Sales officials said the good performance was due mainly to brisk sales of passenger cars in both domestic and foreign markets. Domestic sales in the month totaled 151,518 units, a record for November, up 9.5 percent from October and up 1.1 percent from a year earlier. Exports totaled 138,055 units, up 9.7 percent from the previous month and up 51.9 percent from November 1978. Exports to the United States totaled 62,770 units, up 14.8 percent from October and up 44.5 percent from a year earlier. Nissan Motor Co., Japan's second-biggest automobile manufacturer, said its motor vehicle production in November totaled a record 212,690 units, up 2 percent from October and up 11.9 percent from a year earlier. The previous November record was 200,075 units set in 1977, said Nissan, maker of Datsun vehicles. Overall sales reached 112,110 units, up 20.4 percent from the previous month and up 0.4 percent from a year ago. Exports amounted to 104,653 units, up 0.3 percent from October and up 51.5 percent from the year before. Exports to the United States totaled 50,729 units, up 8.7 percent from October and up 39 percent from the year before. A Nissan Motor official attributed the growing production mainly to brisk sales of passenger cars in the domestic market. Passenger car output set a record for any month, totaling 158,899 units, up 4.4 percent from October and up 12.1 percent from a year earlier. The previous record was 155,474 units set in September 1977, Nissan said. Truck production fell from October levels, but exceeded that of November last year. ****1036EST 0800 *** u n *** PM-NHFuelDeliveries 12-17 0410 *** e0980 *** u n *** PM-NHFuelDeliveries 12-17 0410 *** m0940 *** d s *** PM-OlympicBobsleds NYS 12-17 0318 *** f0180 *** r f *** BC-Potatoes 12-17 0059 (USDA) _ Major potato markets FOB shipping points U.S. 1A Friday in 100 lb sacks: Minnesota round reds 4.00-4.25; Minnesota norgolds 4.00-4.50; Wisconsin round whites 3.00-3.50; Wisconsin rrussets 4.00; Colorado red McCures 5.50-6.00; 50 lb cartons: Washington russets 10.00-10.50; Colorado centennials 10.00-11.00; Wisconsin russets 11.50; Idaho russets 11.50-12.00; California-Oregon russets 10.50-11.00. ****1037EST 4360 *** u n *** PM-HoJo 12-17 0061 *** e0990 *** u n *** PM-NH-IranCards 12-17 0134 *** g0810 *** u n *** PM-NH-IranCards 12-17 0134 A Manchester bank is offering free holiday greeting cards to help its customers send greetings to the 50 American hostages being held in the American embassy in Iran. The bank is distributing cards which carry a holiday prayer for the hostages. ``You are in our minds and hearts. We pray daily that you will soon be released and reunited with your families,'' the card said. Andrew Partridge, marketing manager for the Manchester Federal Savings and Loan Asso., said the post-card, which is also pre-addressed to the hostages, was the brainchild of an employee in the marketing departmente. He said the bank has had 10,000 cards printed so far. He had no estimate on the number distributed by mid-morning today, the first day the cards were offered. ****1041EST 0190 *** u f *** PM-WallStreet10:30am 12-17 0253 *** a5150 *** r w *** PM-Carter-Thatcher 1stLd-Writethru a4220 12-17 0667 *** m0970 *** u n *** PM-HoJo 12-17 0051 *** e1000 *** u n *** PM-MaineYankee 12-17 0357 *** a5160 *** r a *** PM-SamBrown 12-17 0258 *** e1010 *** u n *** PM-HoJo 12-17 0051 Howard Johnson Co. announced today that its proposed merger with a subsidiary of London-based Imperial Group Limited was approved by stockholders. A statement from the the restaurant-motel chain said the approval came in London today at a special meeting of stockholders. ****1049EST 5040 *** r a *** PM-SamBrown 12-17 0258 *** p5050 *** r w *** PM-Carter-Thatcher 1stLd-Writethru p4160 12-17 0666 *** a5170 *** r i *** PM-Rhodesia 12-17 0389 *** m0980 *** d s *** PM-OlympicPrison 12-17 0490 One or two passing motorists sounded catcalls, but most residents and tourists in this Adirondack mountain village ignored a handful of demonstrators who showed up to protest plans to turn the Olympic Village into a prison after the Winter Games here are over. Seven protesters from the National Moratorium on Prison Construction and affiliated groups got a polite but largely uninterested reception from those who did stop for a leaflet on their way to a pre-Olympic hockey tournament. The athlete's village, located in nearby Ray Brook, is too far away from the urban areas most inmates will come from when it is turned into a medium security prison after the February Games, critics contend. ``Federal Bureau of Prisons regulations say prisons should not be located more than 50 miles from a metropolitan area,'' said one of the demonstrators, David Striebinger of Albany, N.Y. ``It's 11 hours to get here from New York City, with bus transfers and everything. That kind of isolation is what breeds your Attica kinds of things,'' he said, referring to the upstate New York prison where dozens of inmates and guards died in a 1971 uprising. ``There's a cultural thing, too, when you get youths from New York City being guarded by people from around here, because this is such a conservative, rural area,'' Striebinger added. Although the demonstrators here Sunday promised to be back during the Olympics, the anti-prison movement lost a lot of steam when the Lake Placid Olympic Organizing Committee agreed to bring in trailers to ease crowding when up to 2,000 athletes and officials jam into a facility planned for 500 inmates. A number of athletes, including many Americans, will be housed in private lodgings outside the village for at least part of the Games. The LPOOC has agreed to put no more than two athletes to a cell, and many countries say they will house their delegations in the future prison. Participating countries are charged a per diem for each athlete and official, whether or not they use the village. Olympic Villages have usually been designed for conversion to civilian housing, but the prospect of up to 200 future jobs and $26 million in federal funding convinced organizers to go with the prison. The prison buildings, nestled in mountains, could be mistaken for a college campus, were it not for the two fences that surround the area. LPOOC officials say only one of those fences will remain when the village is converted to a prison: the second fence is there to protect athletes from possible terrorism in the wake of the 1972 attack on Israeli athletes at the Summer Games in Munich, Germany. The protestors want the buildings converted into an environmental center or housing for athletes who wish to train here in the future. ****1055EST 1030 *** u f *** PM-WallStreet10:30am 12-17 0252 *** a5180 *** d w *** PM-US-Iran 1stLd-Writethru a4480 12-17 0489 *** m0990 *** u f *** PM-WallStreet10:30am 12-17 0252 The stock market managed a slight gain today as Wall Street kept an eye on the conference being held by oil-exporting countries in Caracas. The Dow Jones average of 30 industrials edged up .94 to 843.69 in the first half hour. Advances outnumbered declines by close to a 3-2 margin in the early tally of New York Stock Exchange-listed issues. At the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries meeting, which convened today, Shiek Ahmed Zaki Yamani of Saudi Arabia said he did not expect any further price increases beyond those announced in the past week by various OPEC members. Saudi Arabia and several other countries considered to be OPEC's ``moderates'' announced price hikes last week to $24 a barrel, in what was interpreted as a move to forestall some larger increases sought by the militant forces within the cartel. But those forces were still pushing for higher prices. Today's early volume leaders included Boeing, up | at 49{; International Telephone & Telegraph, down [ at 26[, and Chrysler, up [ at 6{. On Friday the Dow Jones industrial average rose 6.66 to 842.75. Gaining issues outnumbered losers by close to a 2-1 margin on the NYSE. Big Board volume totaled 41.80 million shares, up from 36.69 million in the previous session. The NYSE's composite index gained .67 to 62.35. At the American Stock Exchange, the market value index was up 1.89 at 240.61. ****1100EST 5190 *** r a *** PM-Lance 12-17 0352 *** a5210 *** r a *** AM-NationalBriefs 12-17 0612 *** a5220 *** d a *** AM-AsbestosAwards 12-17 0326 *** m1000 *** d n *** PM-Bigotry 12-17 0263 Massachusetts has had more anti-Semitic incidents in the last six months than any state in the country, except one, an official of the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith has charged. And, Stephen Kay of Brookline, chairman of the league's New England Regional Board, said the league is working with the Department of Justice and the FBI because of such incidents. Kay said Friday there had been 18 incidents in Massachusetts during the last six months. He did not say what state had more, but did say there had been two incidents in Rhode Island, both in Providence. Nationally, there have been more than twice as many anti-Semitic incidents this year than last, said Alan Dershowitz, Harvard law professor and chairmnan of the league's Civil Rights Committee. He said there have been at least 129 incidents reported this year, compared with 49 in 1978. Included were desecration of cemeteries, stoning of synagogues and homes, arson, fire-bombings, Nazi swastikas and other graffiti on buildings, anti-Semitic stickers and obscene telephone calls. Kay and Dershowitz also said not all incidents are reported. Kay said the league's New England's office ``has been deluged with complaints. ``Nazi stickers have appeared on the doors of synagogues and on the MBTA Green Line. Vile anti-Semtic slander has been spray-painted on elevators, hospitals, homes and houses of worship,'' he said. Leonard Zakin, director of the Civil Rights Committee, said the anti-Semtic incidents in Massachusetts have occurred in Acton, Boston, Bridgewater, Brookline, Lexington, Malden, Milton, Needham, Newton, Randolph, Scituate, Sharon and Swampscott. ****1106EST 1040 *** u n *** PM-NH-TaxSentence 12-17 0115 A Moultonboro man who thinks government tax forms invade his privacy has been ordered to complete 800 hours of charitable work as a sentence for not paying income taxes for two years. The sentence was handed down this morning in U.S. District Court in Concord for Robert Judge, 53. Judge was placed on three years probation, with a one-year prison sentence and $2,000 fine suspended. Judge claims he is not opposed to paying taxes. He said if he filled out detailed tax forms 29 federal agencies could use the information against him. He was convicted in November of failing to file tax returns for 1974 and 1975. ****1107EST 1010 *** d n *** PM-AdamsObit 12-17 0367 Rachel White Adams, 74, wife of former New Hampshire Gov. Sherman Adams, died Sunday after a brief illness at her home. A spokesman for the family said she suffered a heart attack. A native off Belmont, Vt., she was the daughter of Edward White and Mary Louise Sheehan White. She was graduated from Northfield Seminary in Northfield, Mass., in 1923. She was awarded an honorary doctorate of humane letters by New England College in 1973. She was the first lady of New Hampshire from 1949 through 1953 and joined her husband in Washington when he was assistant to President Dwight D. Eisenhower from 1953 through 1958. As wife of a governor, congressman and presidential assistant, Mrs. Adams was a public servant. In Washington she helped organize an international group of wives of diplomats and White House staff members to promote friendship and understanding among women. An artist and author, she published an autobiography, ``On the Other Hand'' in 1963. She was a member fo the New Hampshire Commission on the Arts 1965-71 and served as a trustee of The New Hampshire Youth Orchestra. She was a member of the Lincoln School Board 1949-50, 10-year chairman of the town chapter of the American Red Cross, 18-year Girl Scout leader, and head of Lincoln's bicentennial celebration in 1964. She organizewd the Lincoln Opera House Theater and was its producer from 1964 to 1969. In 1971 she organized the Lincoln Arts Council. In 1948 she was chosen New Hampshire's Mother of the Year. She received the Ben Thompson award from the Univerity of New Hampshire in 1959 and the Woman of Achievement Award from the Pemi Valley Business and Professional Women's Club in 1979. In addition to her husband, she is survived by three daughters and a son, two sisters and 11 grandchildren. Private family services will be held at the Church of the Messiah in North Woodstock on Tuesday at 10.a.m A memorial service for friends and neighbors will be held at St. Joseph's Church at 2 p.m. Tuesday. In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made to the Rachel White Adams Scholarship Fund at New England College, Henniker. ****1114EST 1020 *** d n *** BC-Georges-Press 12-17 0056 A news conference on the Georges Bank oil drilling rights sale has been switched to the Veterans Memorial Auditorium Monday at 2 p.m. instead of the Biltmore Plaza Hotel because of picket lines at the hotel, the U.S. Department of the Interior announced Sunday. ****1115EST 1050 *** u n *** PM-MaineYankee 12-17 0357 *** m1030 *** u n *** PM-PensionCharge 12-17 0235 Six labor unions representing about 30,000 state employees today accused the state government of labor law violations, including withholding bargained contract benefits. The state negotiated contracts with the employees earlier this year but then ordered budget cuts and other changes that violate the contracts, said attorney Donald Pogue, spokesman for the unions. ``They weren't dealing with us in good faith. They weren't telling us the truth,'' Pogue said during a news conference at the state Labor Department headquarters. The unions claim the Gov. Ella Grasso's administration failed to obtain enough money from the General Assembly to pay for the negotiated contracts. They also say the governor ordered budget cuts that could further erode the benefit package provided for by the contract. The unions also accused the state with trying to undercut the unions by bargaining pensions based on a 3 percent cost of living increase while extending 5 percent cost of living pension increases to non-union and supervisory employees. The complaint was filed with the state Board of Labor Relations by the Connecticut State Employees Association, District 1199 of the New England Health Care Employees Union, the Connecticut State Federation of Teachers, American Association of University Professors, the Congress of Connecticut Community Colleges, and the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees. ****1121EST 1060 *** u n *** PM-MallarResignation 12-17 0120 *** g4800 *** u n *** PM-HardmanRetirement 12-17 0284 *** s1880 *** d s *** BC-BjornBorg 12-17 0319 *** s1880 *** d s *** BC-BjornBorg 12-17 0479 *** t0160 *** d s *** BC-BjornBorg 12-17 0479 ``I played him once before in Wimbledon in 1974, and he beat me. Today I get my revenge,'' said a smiling Bjorn Borg, the world's No. 1 tennis player. The Swedish player, winner of four straight Wimbledon titles, was referring to his first time at Wimbledon when he was beaten in the eighth round by Egypt's Ismail El-Shafei, 31, who recently has shunned international tennis competition. Borg got his revenge Sunday, beating Shafei 6-2, 6-3, in a one-hour match. He won the $50,000 first prize in Egypt's first international round-robin, and was handed the winner's cup by Egypt's first lady, Johan Sadat. Shafei collected $25,000. Also competing in the tournment were two Americans, both ranked among the top 30 in the world, Bill Scanlon, 23, and Elliott Teltscher, 20. They received the third and fourth prizes, $15,000 and $10,000, respectively. Borg spoke with confidence of his tennis career, his past victories and his future ambitions. ``I enjoy tennis, I always have and think I always will. My ambition is to win as many big tournaments as possible,'' Borg said. His immediate ambition is to win the Grand Slam in 1980, the four major tournaments in the world: the French Open, Wimbledon, the U.S. Open and the Australian Open. ``That would be very nice,'' he said, ``but it'll be difficult.'' Not too difficult for someone who, at 15, had to choose between a career in hockey or in tennis. He made his choice, ``apparently the right one,'' he said, and went after it doggedly. ``I'm stubborn, I always wanted to be something good. It doesn't matter what match I play, it's important for me to win,'' he said. ``I gave much for tennis, made a lot of sacrifices, I couldn't do what my friends were doing because I had to train or sleep. I was working very hard, but I enjoyed it so much,'' he said. When he started taking tennis seriously Borg used to train six to seven hours each day. ``Now I train four hours every day. but I don't have a special diet, I eat everything. When you play so much you can eat anything,'' he said. Borg said there were no ``secrets to my success,'' just some basics. ``Concentration. it's very important. I like to keep my mind on the game, that's why I'm always so serious, I never smile or laugh on the court,'' Borg said. Borg goes home (Monaco) on Tuesday, ``to rest.'' Borg plans to be married next year, to his fiancee Romanian tennis player Mariana Simionescou. ``For sure I'll keep playing till I'm 30. Then I will raise my family, and maybe have tennis clinics to teach kids to play, or something else involved with tennis. When you've always been in tennis, it's difficult to change.'' ****1134EST 0310 *** r f *** PM-TokyoRound 12-17 0189 The United States, Japan, the nine-nation European Community and nine other states today formally signed trade reform agreements worked out in the Tokyo Round talks here. Officials of the 84-nation General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), which administered the talks, said the number of signatories to the Tokyo Round tariff reductions and trade codes now totals 29 nations. Other signers today included Austria, Argentina, Canada, Finland, Hungary, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden and Switzerland. GATT officials said not all signed all agreements but a detailed breakdown of who signed what was not made available. Chile had signed parts of the treaty last October and eight other countries _ Dominican Republic, Egypt, Iceland, Israel, Ivory Coast, Jamaica, Singapore and Zaire_signed a protocol for lowering tariffs a few weeks ago. A total of 99 states, more than two-thirds of them developing countries, had participated in the Tokyo Round negotiations, which began in 1973. Most Third World states and some industrial countries have failed to accede to any of the agreements so far, but at least some of them were expected to join later. ****1137EST 5290 *** d w *** PM-SleepingPills 12-17 0428 *** e1080 *** u n *** PM-HardmanRetirement 12-17 0267 *** p5070 *** d w *** PM-SleepingPills 12-17 0428 *** a5310 *** r i *** PM-Israel-Abortion 12-17 0416 The Israeli Parliament voted today to restrict abortions, ending a crisis which had threatened to topple Prime Minister Menachem Begin's coalition government. The Knesset voted 58-53, with nine abstentions, to repeal a law allowing abortions for social or economic reasons, but the bill must pass two more readings before it becomes law. Outside the Knesset building, a group of about 100 social workers carried placards and chanted slogans against the vote and a poll by the Public Opinion Research Institute, published by the newspaper Haaretz, indicated 71 percent of Israeli women and 67 percent of Israeli men opposed changing the law. Because of a threat by a four-member ultra-Orthodox party to drop out of the coalition, Begin declared the vote to be a vote of confidence in his rule, forcing recalcitrant coalition supporters to vote in favor of the repeal. Nevertheless, two Cabinet ministers voted against the bill and five Knesset members were absent. Had the Agudat Israel coalition contingency walked out, it would have left Begin with a 61-59 majority in the 120-member Knesset. That would be an unworkable majority and probably force elections, so the moral issues which stirred liberal opponents of the repeal were largely buried as the vote became a life-and-death issue for Begin's rule. Throughout last week, Knesset whips from the majority and minority were busy rounding up independent votes and recalling legislators from abroad to appear the the crucial vote. The Agudat Israel Party had insisted the government repeal the liberal abortion clause to fulfill a 1977 agreement that brought the party into the government. First vote on repeal last month resulted in a 54-54 tie. Nine members of Begin's coalition voted against it or abstained, enabling the opposition to block passage. The Council of Torah Sages, the board of rabbis that runs the Agudat Israel Party, then ordered its legislators to leave the government unless the bill passed on a second try. The repeal bill would prohibit women from obtaining abortions on social or economic grounds. Critics claim this would hit hardest at poor women, since expensive, illegal abortions are readily available from private doctors. Agudat Israel wants to enforce orthodox Jewish law, which permits abortions only when the mother's life is endangered. The repeal bill would not change existing law permitting abortion in cases of rape, incest, for health reasons, or if the mother is over 40, or it appears the child will be born deformed. ****1140EST 1070 *** u n *** PM-HardmanRetirement 12-17 0267 *** p5080 *** d w *** PM-Chrysler 12-17 0442 *** p5090 *** r a *** PM-Lance 12-17 0352 *** a5320 *** d w *** PM-Chrysler 12-17 0442 *** a5330 *** d w *** PM-Council-Viscusi 12-17 0132 A Northwestern University economist was named today as deputy director of the president's Council on Wage and Price Stability. W. Kip Viscusi, 30, will take a one-year leave of absence from his associate professorship at the Evanston, Ill., university, the council said. Viscusi replaces R. Robert Russell, who became director of the council last fall when Barry Bosworth left the post. The council oversees the president's anti-inflation program, including enforcement of the voluntary wage and price guidelines. Viscusi holds a Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University. He joined the Northwestern faculty in 1976 and also has been a research associate for the National Bureau of Economic Research. From 1970 to 1972, he worked for Ralph Nader's Center for the Study of Responsive Law in Washington. ****1141EST 5110 *** d w *** PM-Carter-TVTime 12-17 0234 *** a5340 *** d w *** AM-NewstoUse 12-17 0526 *** a5350 *** d w *** PM-Carter-TVTime 12-17 0234 President Carter's re-election committee has decided to purchase 30 minutes of prime time next month on the ABC television network, a campaign spokeswoman said today. Linda Peek said ABC's offer to sell a half-hour on Jan. 6 had been selected over NBC's offer of air time on Jan. 2. Officials declined to comment on how much the television time would cost the re-election committee. The 30-minute segment purchased from ABC begins at 7 p.m. on Sunday, Jan. 6, opposite the top-rated ``60 Minutes'' program on CBS. NBC had offered a half-hour beginning at 10:30 p.m. on Jan. 2. The Carter-Mondale Presidential Committee, which has prepared a special TV feature on the president's administration, had originally sought the half-hour this month to coincide with Carter's re-election announcement Dec. 4. All three major networks refused the committee's request, arguing that December was too early for a presidential campaign and the sale of such a large block of air time. The Federal Communications Commission subsequently upheld a re-election committee complaint, ruling the networks had acted unreasonably. But the networks won a temporary stay from the U.S. Court of Appeals here and the case is pending. The Carter committee finally decided to accept an offer from CBS and purchased 5 minutes of air time for this month's re-election announcement, but made it clear it would continue to seek a full half-hour. ****1143EST 5360 *** d a *** BC-SpiderBiteSuit190 12-17 0215 A woman who lost both feet after being bitten by a spider in a hospital had a $500,000 award to her reinstated Monday by the Tennessee Supreme Court. According to the opinion, Mary Pullins, 22 at the time, was bitten on July 20, 1973 while she was a patient at Fentress County General Hospital. She had been hospitalized for about six weeks after the birth of a child. Reversing the state Court of Appeals, the Supreme Court upheld aCircuit Court jury award to Mrs. Pullins and her husband, Norman E. Pullins, against the Hospital and All-American Exterminating Co. The held that the Court of Appeals tryied the case instead of deciding if there was evidence in the record to justify the verdict. The appeals court had reversed the trial court verdict by a 2-1 majority. Acknowledging that there was a dispute as to what caused the woman's problem, the Supreme Court reviewed medical and other testimny and said, ``In our opinion, the jurors, as reasonable people, could conclude from the available recited evidence that the defendant hospital failed to discharge its duty to make the premises safe for the plaintiffs and other patients ...'' ****1143EST 5370 *** d w *** PM-ElectronicMail 12-17 0375 *** m1080 *** u n *** BC-Neuhausser 12-17 0184 *** p5140 *** d w *** PM-ElectronicMail 12-17 0375 *** a5380 *** r a *** PM-PlaneCrash 1stLd-Writethru a4390 12-17 0482 *** f0340 *** r f *** BC-JolietLivestock 12-17 0110 Hogs: 1,400, trading moderately active; barrows and gilts steady to 1.00 higher, with the most increase on select 1-2 210-240 lb barrows and gilts; 1-2 210-240 lb 41.50-42.50; mixed 1-3 200-250 lb 41.00-41.50; 1-3 260-270 lb 37.50-38.50; sows 1.00 higher; 1-3 350-600 lb 31.00-31.50; boars 200-250 lb 30.00. Cattle: 3,200, trading moderate; slaughter steers steady to 50 higher; slaughter heifers steady to 25 higher; slaughter steers mixed high choice and prime 3-4 1,150-1,300 lb 68.00-68.50, 3 loads 68.50; choice 2-4 1,050-1,300 lb 67.00-68.00; slaughter heifers mixed choice and prime 3-4 950-1,100 lb 66.25-66.50, 2 loads 66.75; choice 2-4 900-1,050 lb 6.50-66.25. ****1146EST 5390 *** d a *** BC-Neuhausser 12-17 0167 *** f0350 *** u f *** PM-WallStreet11am 12-17 0211 *** p5150 *** d a *** BC-Neuhausser 12-17 0167 A 16-year-old high school basketball player pleaded innocent Monday to charges of kidnapping and murder in the abduction and stabbing death of 12-year-old Katherine Ebersold. Ron Neuhausser of Burlington, Conn., entered his plea with his father at his side in Superior Court here. He chose a trial by a three-judge panel rather than 12 jurors. No trial date was set. His defense lawyer, James A. Wade, had said he planned to ask that the charge be reduced to manslaughter because of psychiatric tests he contends show Neuhausser was emotionally disturbed on the day of the slaying. He has until Jan. 17 to file pre-trial motions. Miss Ebersold was abducted last July as she rode homeward on her bicycle in Burlington after going to a town recreation area. Neuhausser was arrested several weeks later. He was indicted two weeks ago. Neuhausser was returned to Cheshire Correctional Institute, where he is being held in lieu of $100,000 bond. ****1147EST 1890 *** a a *** PM-BusinessMirror Adv18 12-17 0861 The house in the 1970s wasn't just a man's castle. It also was his hedge against inflation, his savings, his tax break, his investment, the hope for his children's education and his retirement. Single-family homeowners now have an equity of more than $1.5 trillion in more than 55 million units, or $28,000 per unit, compared with 1970 figures of $656 billion on 46.8 million units, or $14,000 per unit. Attitudinal changes were even greater. The use of ``his'' to denote home ownership became dated sociologically if not as an adage. Women insisted on equality; their paychecks helped pay the monthly note. Other attitudes changed too. Unmarried couples obtained mortgages, and singles did too. Business partners bought homes for rental income and tax writeoffs. Middle-income families bought vacation homes. Prices changed as much as anything. The median sale price of existing single-family homes in 1970 was $23,000. The National Association of Realtors found a median of $56,000, 143.5 percent higher, in 1979. New home prices rose even faster. Commerce Department figures show the typical single-family home sold for $23,400 in the first year of the decade, and about $64,200 in the last, a difference of 174 percent. Postwar babies, the population surge that began after World War II and which earlier had changed education, art and politics, had a lot to do with it. ``These were new buyers,'' explained a real estate analyst. ``They didn't sell one home to buy another. They were brand new demand.'' They demanded singles, duplexes, apartments, mobiles, coops, condos. In the decade of the 1970s the housing stock of the country grew by 15 million units, from 67.7 million to 82.8 million, despite the loss of roughly a half-million old units a year, mostly in inner cities. Inflation spurred the boom, among other things forcing renters to seek a piece of the action, to buy their own home rather than continue to pay ever-higher rents. Even the swinging singles joined in. Owning a home, people found, was indeed a hedge, with median prices year after year rising more than inflation in general, often as much as 25 percent or 30 percent more. In mid-1979, the consumer price index was growing at a 13.2 percent annual rate, but existing single-family homes had risen 17.2 percent in the preceding 12 months. All gain, said owners. For first-time house shoppers it was another story. Down payments and monthly carrying costs soared, and many would-be buyers found they couldn't afford to buy or, if they did, to meet the monthly payments. As the decade began, 20 percent down and a 7 percent rate was thought hard to handle. As it ended, those who could afford to do so grabbed at 12 to 15 percent. They had to be well-heeled, perhaps from selling another house, because lenders sought 30 or 40 percent down. Operating costs rose too. Heating oil that cost 20 cents a gallon in 1970 was headed in some areas to a dollar a gallon in 1979. Taxes rose. Overall, monthly payments on new purchases quadrupled those of 1970. Consider this example of financing costs alone: The $23,400 home of 1970 required a down payment of no more than 20 percent or $4,680, a mortgage of $18,720 at 7.5 percent and 240 monthly payments of $150.82. The $64,200 home of 1979 required 30 percent or $19,260 down, a mortgage of $44,940 at 11.5 percent and 300 monthly payments (high prices forced lenders to extend maturities) of $457.84. Maintenance costs forced many families to raise to 35 to 45 percent the portion of income spent on housing, compared with a traditional 25 percent. Inflation had made them rich; it had made them poor. Some solved the latter problem by refinancing or taking out second mortgages. With their inflated houses hoarding thousands of dollars in equity, and with mortgage rates so high, lenders obliged them. It was the way some families sent their youngsters to college. The fact that interest rates were tax-deductible helped ease the pain. Apartment house landlords also made riches and then began strangling on expenses. They raised rents to space-age figures, from $300 in 1970 for a two-bedroom New York apartment to more than $1,000 in 1979, for example. Many found the solution to their plight by combining two needs _ their need for cash, and the tenant's desire for ownership. Owners thus tapped their equity by converting to cooperatives or condominiums. The picture is changed as the decade ends. The prices and financing bear little resemblance to those of the 1970s. Some talk fearfully of a coming price deflation, others of more inflation. For certain, the 55 million owners of single-family dwellings, and the condo and coop owners and landlords who bring the total housing stock to 82.8 million, have built up enormous equity, along with huge (by 1970 standards) carrying charges. So much so that some ask: Is a house a home or an investment? ****1149EST 1090 *** r n *** PM-Students-Injunction 12-17 0301 A judge today granted a permanent injunction prohibiting the University of Rhode Island from taking disciplinary action against four students charged with sex-related offenses. A university spokesman said he expected the ruling by Superior Court Judge John S. McKiernan would be appealed to the Rhode Island Supreme Court. McKiernan was acting on motions filed by lawyers for the students, who contended that their clients were denied their constitutional rights by the University Board on Student Conduct. The board handed down penalties ranging from probation to expulsion against the students. The student board hearings were convened in October based on complaints filed by two freshmen women. One said she was raped by Kenneth L. Brekka of North Babylon, N.Y., John R. Brubacher of Storrs, Conn. and Patrick T. Boyle of Barrington over a three-day period. The other said Geza M. Henni Jr. of South Kingstown, Brekka and Brubacher tried to extort sexual favors from her. All except Boyle are members of the URI soccer team that finished the season ranked No. 1 in New England and ninth nationally. The incidents allegedly occurred in September, when the university was closed because of a faculty strike. McKiernan said today that the four men could not be considered to actually have been students at the time because no classes were being held. The judge said they could more appropriately have been considered boarders of the state of Rhode Island. Therefore, he said, the student conduct board could not take disciplinary action against the men. Roger C. Craft Jr., director of student relations at URI, said university officials planned to meet with the school's lawyers today to discuss the ruling. ``I think you can be assured we will be appealing in some fashion,'' he said. ****1150EST 5400 *** d w *** PM-Whistleblowers 12-17 0330 *** a5410 *** r w *** PM-Udall-Kennedy 12-17 0196 *** p5170 *** r w *** PM-Udall-Kennedy 12-17 0196 Rep. Morris Udall of Arizona, who was Jimmy Carter's principal liberal opponent for the 1976 Democratic presidential nomination, is ready to endorse Sen. Edward M. Kennedy for the 1980 nomination, political sources said today. The sources, who declined to be named, said Udall would announce his backing of Kennedy at a news conference Tuesday morning. Until recently, Udall was noncommittal on the presidential race, saying only that he would support the Democratic nominee. Advisers to the congressman, who faces a difficult re-election campaign next year, urged to him to stay out of the presidential race. Udall's ties to the Kennedy family go back to the time he and his brother, Stewart, delivered the Arizona delegation at the 1960 Democratic convention to John F. Kennedy. Stewart Udall served as secretary of the interior in the Kennedy administration. A leader of the liberal bloc in the House of Representatives, Udall sought the presidential nomination in 1976, and finished second to Carter in the New Hampshire, Wisconsin and Michigan primaries. While Udall was re-elected easily in 1976 to a 10th House term, Republicans are mounting a strong campaign to defeat him next year. ****1153EST 5420 *** r i *** PM-IranianBjt 3rd-Lead-Writethru 12-17 1214 *** p5160 *** d w *** PM-Whistleblowers 12-17 0330 The Merit System Protection Board today upheld the reassignment by the U.S. Marshals Service of three deputy marshals who said they were being punished for disclosing wrongdoing in the service's Atlanta office. The board was created under President Carter's civil service reform act to protect ``whistleblowers'' within the government from reprisals for their activities. The board ruled, 2-0, that its special counsel had not proven during several days of hearings last summer that the transfers were ordered as a punishment. The board ordered a fourth transfer rescinded. Deputies Terry E. Love, Charles E. Morris and William C. Reilly contended they were reassigned after complaining to aides of Sen. Herman E. Talmadge, D-Ga., and Rep. Wyche Fowler, D-Ga., about drinking and gambling at a shooting range where the deputies had gone to test their ability with firearms. Chief Marshal Roger Angel portrayed the event as an afternoon of ``fellowship'' intended to raise morale in the office. He said he paid for $82 worth of spareribs out of his own pocket. The board revoked the transfer of deputy Robert J. Frazier Jr., ruling that his reassignment from the Atlanta office to San Antonio, Texas, was triggered by his work as equal employment opportunity counselor in the Atlanta office. During several days of hearings this summer, Justice Department lawyer William Z. Elliott, defending the Marshabs Service, called the four deputies troublemakers who had demonstrated ``disruptive, counterproductive and hostile attitudes.'' The board ruled that the three deputies whose transfers were upheld had made ``legitimate disclosures, particularly with respect to mismanagement and abuse of authority in the Atlanta office.'' But it also found no evidence that William E. Hall, director of the Marshals Service, knew of the marshals' activities when he ordered them transferred. Instead, the board said, the transfers were based on sound management judgment because the marshals were alienated from the management of the Atlanta office and were disrupting its work. ****1155EST 5430 *** d w *** PM-Capacity 12-17 0160 *** f0038 *** r f *** BC-CashGrain 12-17 0053 Wheat No 2 hard red winter 4.12{n Monday; No 2 soft red winter 4.24{n. Corn No 2 yellow 2.68{n (hopper) 2.55{n (box). Oats No 2 heavy 1.72\n. Soybeans No 1 yellow 6.40n. No 2 yellow corn Friday was quoted at 2.69}n (hopper) 2.57}n (box). ****1209EST 0519 *** u f *** BC-CashGrain-CX 12-17 0051 Wheat No 2 hard red winter 4.12{n Monday; No 2 soft red winter 4.24{n. Corn No 2 yellow 2.68{n (hopper) 2.55{n (box). Oats No 2 heavy 1.72\n. Soybeans No 1 yellow 6.40n. No 2 yellow corn Friday was quoted at 2.69}n (hopper) 2.57}n (box). ****1211EST 0193 *** d s *** AM-OlympicBobsleds 2 12-17 0342 *** g0404 *** h n *** AM-Chad'sBirthday 12-17 0504 *** t0020 *** d s *** AM-OlympicBobsleds 2 12-17 0342 Jeff Gadley is the new breed of American bobsledder, a winter sport that pits man and machine against a narrow, curving, icy run down a mountain. Gadley, a black man in a previously white man's sport, is part of a new move to attract top notch athletes to bobsledding. At Plattsburgh State in New York, Gadley placed in the top 10 in the decathalon in NCAA track and field championships for small colleges. Two years ago, he was the decathalon champion in the Empire State Games, an Olympic-style competition sponsored by New York state for its top amateur athletes. And he has plans of making some future Summer Olympics in the decathalon, an event he trains for daily. Right now he is trying to make the American Olympic bobsled team, which has not won a medal since 1956. Although he has been involved in bobsledding less than a year, his ambition is not far fetched. In one of his first rides last winter, Gadley was a brakeman on the two-man American sled driven by Brent Rushlaw of nearby Saranac Lake, N.Y. He placed 10th in the world championships. In his attempt to make the Olympic team, he is braking a two-man sled driven by Bob Hickey of Keene, N.Y., a driver with extensive international experience. Gadley says his athletic abilities will be an asset in bobsledding, and he is not alone. Along with the traditional bobsledders on Mt. Van Hoevenberg for the pre-Olympic trials are several former football players, like Sandy Kellen of Phoenix, Ariz., a one-time linebacker for Northern Arizona University, and Willie Davenport, the former world record holder and Olympic champion hurdler. ``As far as I can see there was no strong effort in the past to put trained athletes in the bobsleds until the Europeans started doing it,'' Gadley said. Gadley says his strength and speed can best be used on giving the 400-pound sleds a good start. ****1213EST 0520 *** d w *** PM-Capacity 12-17 0160 *** e0110 *** u n *** PM-MallarResignation 1stLd- 12-17 0370 *** f0043 *** u f *** PM-Capacity 12-17 0167 The nation's manufacturing plants operated at 84.4 percent of capacity in November, the lowest operating level in 17 months, the Federal Reserve Board reported today. Last month's rate was the lowest since 84.3 percent capacity utilization in June 1978. It was down 0.6 of a percentage point from October and was 1.9 percentage points below the rate for November 1978, the report said. The decline had been expected because production at the nation's factories fell about 0.5 percent in November. The report blamed ``a substantial part'' of the November decline on ``a drop of nearly a fourth in production of motor vehicles and parts.'' Industrial production plants operated at 85.9 percent of capacity in November, down 0.8 of a percentage point from October and 2.2 percent points from November 1978, the report showed. In the peak year of 1973, utilization rates were 88 percent of capacity for manufacturing and 92.6 percent for industrial materials.'' ****1218EST 0044 *** u f *** PM-WallStreetNoon 12-17 0241 *** f0042 *** r f *** PM-ElectronicMail 12-17 0385 *** a0545 *** d w *** AM-ElectronicMail 12-17 0407 *** e0111 *** r n *** BC-VtCETACUTS 12-17 0177 Cutbacks in federal Comprehensive Employment Training Act funds for Vermont may actually be a blessing, according to Richard Coutant of the Champlain Valley Work and Training Program, which administers local CETA funds. ``My personal view is that we were overfunded,'' Coutant said. Vermont stands to lose about $10 million next year because of reductions in the federal program, bringing its share of CETA funds down to about $11 million. Coutant said the problem facing his agency is that the cuts will all come at the same time. But in the long run, he said, Champlain Valley may be better able to help those most in need if it has less money. He said administrators have had so much money that they've had to spend most of their time trying to fill all the available job slots. ``In some cases, it required that we put people into jobs that were less likely to get them anywhere in the long run than I'd like to see,'' Coutant said. ****1222EST 0403 *** h n *** AM-SolarFridge 12-17 0311 *** a0546 *** d w *** AM-FECSuit 12-17 0527 *** e0112 *** r n *** BC-VtMedicalPlan 12-17 0234 A health insurance plan that would compete with Blue Cross-Blue Shield will be available to Vermonters within the next 18 months, according to Dr. William Allard, president of the Vermont Medical Society. The program is being developed by the Health Planning and Development Agency and should help reduce overall health costs in the state, Allard said. Under the plan, interested Vermonters would pay a flat monthly fee to the agency, he said. In return, a doctor in the program would agree to treat participants for any illness they incur, with no additional charges. Allard said the fee rate has yet to be set, but will probably be about $80 dollars a month per family _ the same rate now charged for certain Blue Cross plans. But he said the plan will provide more complete coverage than Blue Cross-Blue Shield now offers and will not involve any deductions. The program will first be offered only to residents of Chittenden and Washington counties, but will gradually be extended to other areas of the state, Allard said. He said the program will give doctors an incentive to treat patients more efficiently and should reduce the number and duration of hospitalizations. The plan does not require new legislation, but Banking and Insurance Commissioner Stewart Ledbetter has prepared a bill detailing the role of the new program, Allard said. ****1226EST 0113 *** r n *** BC-VtJeffords-Stamps 12-17 0148 Rep. James Jeffords, R-Vt., says he has not dropped his efforts to win passage of a measure to recover food stamp overpayments, despite the amendment's rejection by the House Agriculture Committee. ``I intend to re-offer it when the Food Stamp bill reaches the House floor,'' Jeffords said in his weekly newsletter. ``But rejection by the committee is a set-back, and demonstrates the effectiveness of lobbying tactics by the (Carter) Administration.'' Under the proposal, the Internal Revenue Service would cross-check incomes against lists of food stamp recipients and would recover money owed the government by deducting it from income tax refunds. Jeffords said the program would recover overpayments made to food stamp recipients whose incomes suddenly rose above eligibility levels. He said food stamps benefits given to people who filed fraudulent applications could also be recovered under the plan. ****1230EST 0548 *** r a *** AM-People 12-17 0440 *** e0114 *** r n *** BC-VtRunaways 12-17 0144 Runaways from state juvenile programs ``appear to be declining under the reorganized juvenile services system,'' according to the state Department of Social and Rehabilitation Services. The SRS said a preliminary study shows that the runaway rate among juveniles committed to state programs declined from 27 per hundred in 1978 to eight per hundred in 1979, although all the data for this year has not been completed. The decline reverses a four-year trend, state officials said. They said the one exception involves juveniles in special schools, where the runaway rate increased this year. The rate went down for juveniles committed to institutions, foster homes, group homes and natural homes, according to state officials. SRS Commissioner Kent Stoneman attributed the decrease to ``more appropriate programming for juveniles, as well as improved management control over the system.'' ****1233EST 0117 *** r n *** BC-MilkBank 12-17 0241 The first human milk bank in the metropolitan area has been opened at North Shore University Hospital here. ``This is a non-profit human milk bank for sick, premature and-or allergic infants who need this milk in order to thrive or survive,'' said Dr. Concepcion Sia, assistant chief of perinatal medicine at the hospital. Experts say human milk helps protect infants from infections. Three to five infants need as much as 60 ounces of human milk each day at the hospital, a teaching center of Cornell University Medical College. Twice last year, hospital officials had to plead for milk from as far away as Europe to save the lives of two infant girls, Cynthia Callow and Theodora Birsimijoglou. The new bank will include an office containing a screened area for gowning, handwashing, breast pumps and a freezer for storing milk at 10 degrees below zero Celsius. Milk collected there is processed in an adjoining room, where it is pooled, pasteurized and canned. The donors of the milk are not paid, according to Judith Palsgraf, the milk bank's coordinator. She said patients at the hospital and women who have head of the new program have offered their milk. The women are all screened, Mrs. Palsgraf said. Both they and their physicians fill in questionaires. One-year funding for the bank's operation has come largely from the March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation and from private donations. ****1234EST 0550 *** d w *** PM-Chrysler 1stLd-Writethru a5320 12-17 0565 *** f0047 *** r f *** PM-Japan-Trade 12-17 0224 Japan's current accounts deficit climbed to a record $2.22 billion in November, widening from a $1.13 billion deficit in October, the Finance Ministry announced today in a preliminary report. The November deficit compared with a $635 million surplus in November 1978. The previous record deficit was $1.53 billion last August. Finance Ministry officials attributed the loss mainly to higher prices paid for imported crude oil. ``In a word, it's oil,'' one official said. ``Oil explains almost all the deficit we had in the month.'' Overall payments in November were in deficit by $1.56 billion, compared to a $3.47 billion deficit in October and a $267 million deficit in the corresponding month in 1978. The November trade balance was in deficit by a record $1.22 billion, compared with a $360 million deficit in the previous month and a $1.43 billion surplus a year earlier. The trade deficit was the largest ever following a $885 million loss recorded in January this year. Finance Ministry officials noted that export prices of almost all the products rose in the month, although the prices of oil accounted for a large portion of the deficit. Imports were also a record, at $9.62 billion, a steep 40 percent increase from a year before. Imports a year before totaled $6.74 billion and in October $9.09 billion. ****1234EST 0048 *** r f *** BCNatlStockyards 12-17 0213 Hogs: 7,500, trading fairly active; barrows and gilts steady to 50 higher; 1-2 200-230 lb 41.00-41.25; 230-240 lb 40.50-41.00; 1-3 230-250 lb 39.50-40.50; sows 1.25-2.00 higher; 1-3 300-650 lb 31.75-33.00; small lot over 550 lb 33.50; boars over 350 lb 27.00-28.00; under 250 lb 29.00-30.00. Cattle and calves: 2,600, trading moderately active on slaughter steers and heifers, active on cows and bulls; as compared to last Tuesday, slaughter steers opening uneven, generally steady; slaughter heifers 50-1.00 higher; cows mostly 1.00 higher; bulls 1.00-2.00 higher; supply mainly choice and mixed choice and prime slaughter steers; slaughter steers mixed choice and prime 2-4 1,050-1,300 lb 66.50 to mostly 67.00, load and part load 67.50; 3-4 1,125-1,325 lb 66.00-66.50; choice 2-4 900-1,200 lb 64.00-65.00; good 2-3 900-1,175 lb 62.00-64.00; standard to good 2-3 1,075-1,350 lb holsteins 58.50-61.00; slaughter heifers mixed choice and prime 2-4 875-1,050 lb 65.50-66.00; choice 2-4 800-1,050 lb 64.00-65.50; mixed good and choice 2-4 700-975 lb 62.50-64.00; good 2-3 700-950 lb 61.00-62.50; cows utility and commercial 2-4 46.00-49.00; boning utility 1-2 49.00-51.00; cutter 1-2 44.00-48.00; canner and low cutter 1-2 38.00-44.00; bulls YG 1-2 1,100-1,900 lb 55.00-60.00, individual YG 1 1,875 lb 61.00. Sheep: 100, not enough on offer to test prices. ****1237EST 0523 *** u f *** PM-WallStreetNoon 12-17 0228 The stock market advanced slightly in active trading today as traders watched for developments from a meeting of oil-exporting countries in Caracas. The Dow Jones average of 30 industrials managed a .77 gain to 843.52 by noontime. Advances outnumbered declines by a 3-2 margin in the mid-day tally of New York Stock Exchange-listed issues. At the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries meeting, which convened today, Shiek Ahmed Zaki Yamani of Saudi Arabia said he did not expect any further price increases beyond those announced in the past week by various OPEC members. Saudi Arabia and several other countries considered to be OPEC's ``moderates'' announced price hikes last week to $24 a barrel, in what was interpreted as a move to forestall some larger increases sought by the militant forces within the cartel. But those forces were still pushing for higher prices. Gulf Oil led the active list, up 1\ at 36~. A 256,200-share block traded at 36. Other oils among the volume leaders included Exxon, off \ at 56[, and Occidental Petroleum, down } at 26\. The NYSE's composite index gained .22 to 62.57. At the American Stock Exchange, the market value index was up 2.83 at 243.44. Volume on the Big Board reached 19.90 million shares by noontime, up from 17.78 million at the same point on Friday. ****1238EST 0049 *** r f *** PM-Bonds 12-17 0110 *** g0522 *** h s *** AM-BBC-RITourney-430 12-17 0397 *** m0118 *** r n *** AM-Mayors 12-17 0455 Mayor Edward I. Koch said today that he thought Sen. Edward M. Kennedy's presidential campaign has been in a ``mudslide'' ever since his interview with CBS newsman Roger Mudd a month ago. He made the comment at a news conference in which 16 Democratic mayors endorsed President Jimmy Carter, saying he has ``wide and deep'' support in the cities because of his urban policies. Koch was asked if Kennedy's standing in the polls might get better once the Iranian situation calms down. ``For him it's getting worse and everybody knows it. The fact is that since the Roger Mudd interview, it's been a mudslide,'' the mayor quipped. Kennedy critics have said he was not as articulate as usual in responding in the interview to questions about the fatal auto accident at Chappaquidick a decade ago. Asked if he had any advice for Chicago Mayor Jane Byrne, who last month nnounced her support of Kennedy, Koch said only that ``the train has left the station.'' He and the other 15 mayors met at breakfast at his official Gracie Mansion residence overlooking the East River. They decided to hold regional hearings throughout the country on the needs of the cities. Lee Alexander, mayor of Suracuse, said, ``we'll hear from ordinary people and extraordinary people,'' then have a draft committee produce an urban policy just as the Democrats did in 1976. More focus will be given this time to energy and inflation, he said. Mayor Coleman Young of Detroit praised Carter's urban policies and said, ``there is a wide and deep support for the President among almost every mayor across the nation (because)...the president advanced the first national urban program. ``He realized that to save and stabilize the nation, it is necessary to save and stabilize the cities.'' Young said federal aid under Carter has turned Detroit around from ``the murder capital and a dead city to one in which crime is declining and a renaissance city.'' He said the $30-million Joe Louis arena there was built ``with Jimmy Carter money.'' The mayors said Carter has ``pumped billions of dollars into jobs'' in the cities and that 8 million more people were employed now than when he took office. Presidential aide Jack Watson, who attended the meeting, said Carter would be ``working with mayors and small town leaders to continue to shape uban policy.'' Among the mayors present at the session were Maurice Ferrer of Miami, Fla.; Henry Marsh of Richmond, Va.; George Buvovich of Youngstown, Ohio; Richard Caliguiri of Pittsburgh; Thomas Ryan of Rochester, N.Y.; Dan Whitehurstof Fresno, Calif., and John Mandanici of Bridgeport, Conn. ****1248EST 0196 *** r s *** AM-FBN--Bucs-Playoffs 12-17 0448 *** a0552 *** u a *** AM-Carter-Poll 12-17 0974 *** a0553 *** d a *** AM-Facts-Poll 12-17 0449 *** m0119 *** u f *** PM-WallStreet11am 12-17 0213 *** e0201 *** u f *** PM-WallStreet11am 12-17 0213 The stock market pushed ahead in active trading today as traders watched for developments from a meeting of oil-exporting countries in Caracas. The Dow Jones average of 30 industrials rose 2.13 to 843.69 in the first hour. Advances outnumbered declines by a 3-2 margin in the mid-morning tally of New York Stock Exchange-listed issues. At the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries meeting, which convened today, Shiek Ahmed Zaki Yamani of Saudi Arabia said he did not expect any further price increases beyond those announced in the past week by various OPEC members. Saudi Arabia and several other countries considered to be OPEC's ``moderates'' announced price hikes last week to $24 a barrel, in what was interpreted as a move to forestall some larger increases sought by the militant forces within the cartel. But those forces were still pushing for higher prices. Gulf Oil led the active list, up } at 36]. A 256,200-share block traded at 36. Big Board volume totaled 11.95 million shares in the first hour. The NYSE's composite index gained .22 to 62.57. At the American Stock Exchange, the market value index was up 2.55 at 243.16. ****1302EST 0197 *** r s *** AM-FBN--Broncos-Chargers 12-17 0349 *** a0556 *** u a *** BC-NavyJet 12-17 0227 *** a0555 *** r a *** AM-Topic-Gays'Defender 12-17 0814 *** p0608 *** r a *** AM-People 12-17 0440 Sportscaster Joe Garagiola and Chrysler Corp. are splitting up after 22 years of commercial bliss. Garagiola is ending his two-decade stint as Chrysler's television spokesman in April, because of possible conflicts with his primary employer _ NBC. NBC thinks ``it's better if an announcer or talent not do a commercial during an event that he's working,'' Bert Zeldin, NBC's vice president of sports sales, said Saturday. Garagiola recently signed a four-year contract with the network that calls for him to work on NBC's coverage of regular season baseball, the World Series and the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow. ``We're convinced he certainly helped move a lot of iron for Chrysler,'' said Joseph Hickey, account supervisor of Chrysler's corporate advertising. He said the company did not have anybody in mind yet as a replacement. ___ NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) _ Comedian Minnie Pearl will be represented at a country-western museum by a pair of her battered shoes and a gold-plated yo-yo. The 67-year-old entertainer presented the items to country music singer Roy Acuff during an appearance on the Grand Ole Opry. Acuff, who does yo-yo tricks, will place the gifts in a museum that bears his name at the Opryland USA entertainment complex. Miss Pearl said during the Saturday night Opry appearance that the 40-year-old pumps are ``mighty worn and mighty ugly to a lot of people. But they mean as much to me as any material possession ever could.'' ___ VENICE, Italy (AP) _ Angelo Rizzoli, head of Italy's biggest publishing empire, and Italian actress Eleonora Giorgi were married in a secret ceremony over the weekend, friends of the couple said Monday. Rizzoli publishes Italy's largest circulation daily, Corriere della Sera of Milan, and numerous magazines and periodicals. Miss Giorgi rocketed to fame with erotic films a few years ago, but she has since turned to character acting. ___ DETROIT (AP) _ Their romance bloomed in Paris. They honeymooned in Acapulco, the Riviera and the Bahamas. They're splitting in Wayne County Circuit Court. Henry Ford II, the retired chairman of Ford Motor Co., and his estranged wife, Cristina, probably will begin their divorce trial there on Feb. 18. Circuit Judge John R. Kirwan announced the tentative date for the trial over the weekend. The couple met at dinner party in Paris. Ford divorced his wife, Anne, in 1964, and married Cristina a year later. The Fords separated in January 1976, and Mrs. Ford filed a lawsuit seeking separate maintenance 11 months later. Ford countered with a suit seeking legal separation in 1978, then filed for divorce later that year. ****1306EST 0609 *** r a *** AM-NationalBriefs 12-17 0612 McCall's magazine says more than half of the 20,000 women who responded to a questionnaire said ``feeling close to someone'' and ``my children'' were most important to them. ``My home'' was third on the list and ``financial security'' was fourth. A good sex life ranked fifth. McCall's said its questions were addressed to women who are married or living with a man. The women were asked ``what is most important to you'' and could give more than one response. ``Feeling close to someone'' was listed by 61 percent and ``my children'' by 54 percent. ___ PANAMA CITY, Fla. (AP) _ A 55-pound Christmas card signed by 22,000 Florida Panhandle residents was sent Monday to the American hostages being held in Iran. Dave Camp, a spokesman for radio station WGNE, said the card is 10 feet tall and 64 feet long when opened. He said the card was constructed from paper and cardboard in two days, then was put on display at a shopping mall Wednesday for people to sign. Camp said Republic Airlines was carrying the card to Canada as a public service. It is to be flown from Canada to Iran by Air France. ___ LOS ANGELES (AP) _ Violence and rumors of drug deals at John Muir Junior High School have spurred two school board members to urge a crackdown on the campus, while a group of local residents wants the school's principal to resign. Police Detective John Bunch said, ``We have reports of students running around with shotguns, handguns _ it's gotten to the point where it's ridiculous.'' Two students from the south Los Angeles school have been murdered _ one of them off campus _ in the last two months. School officials say incidents on or near the campus this fall have included assaults on teachers, students and a security guard, burglary and drug possession. ___ EAST JORDAN, Mich. (AP) _ Five members of a Charlevoix County family died in an early-morning fire that swept through their two-story wood-frame home Monday, authorities said. Sheriff's deputies said the blaze killed everyone at the house. Dead were Kathleen Thompson and her four children, Michael, 15, John, 10, Mark, 8, and Mary, 5. Deputies said the fire began shortly after 1:30 a.m. and that it appeared to have been accidental. ___ PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) _ The showing of a movie based on Robert Louis Stevenson's classic ``Kidnapped'' was stopped at a children's Christmas party after some adults objected to the film as violent. About 1,700 people attended the party sponsored by the Oregon Journal for underprivileged and handicapped children on Saturday. The festivities continued after the movie was stopped. Dorothy Odell objected to the movie, approved for viewers of all ages by the Motion Picture Association of America, as ``unfit to be shown to our kids.'' The showing of the rest of the film was canceled when six to 10 other mothers supported her objection. ___ PINEY POINT, Md. (AP) _ A skipjack has been added to the Chesapeake Bay skipjack fleet, the last working sailing fleet in North America. It was the first new boat in the fleet since 1956. ``I'm tickled to death,'' said Jack Russell, who launched the vessel Sunday at the mouth of the Potomac River. The new boat, the Dee of St. Mary's, joins joins a fleet of fewer than 30 skipjacks, oyster harvesting vessels whose lineage goes back to the 1870s. At the height of their popularity, in the 1880s, there were more than 2,000 skipjackss dredging the Chesapeake for oysters. The wind-powered boats have begun to look good to oystermen again because of soaring fuel prices. ****1307EST 0605 *** d a *** AM-AsbestosAwards 12-17 0326 Four shipyard workers have been awarded $435,000 each by a federal court jury that found they had been harmed by prolonged exposure to asbestos fibers. The four, all pipecoverers with Newport News Shipbuilding & Drydock Co., were exposed to asbestos for from 22 to 40 years. Three of them, Hugh V. Reynolds, Fred R. Walker and James T. Oman, are on disability retirement. The fourth, Willie A. Gibbons, 50, still works at the yard. Asbestos was used extensively for years in insulation materials aboard ships and in other pipe coverings. It has been blamed for a lung disease called asbestosis and a form of cancer called mesothelioma. The four had asbestosis, causing their lungs to be incapable of performing normal blood gas exchanges. The disease creates other problems, such as starving vital organs and affecting the heart. The verdict came Friday after 16 days of testimony before U.S. District Judge J. Calvitt Clarke Jr. The jury ordered the defendants _ asbestos manufacturing and supply companies, including Johns-Manville Corp., H.K Porter Co., and Owens-Corning Fiberglass Corp. _ to pay a total of $1.7 million to the four men, to be split four ways. Actions against the federal government andthe shipyard were dropped. In June 1978, a federal jury ordered Johns-Manville to pay $750,000 in damages to the widow of Ira Dishner, who died in December 1977 of cancer allegedly contracted because of long years of exposure to asbestos at the Amoco oil refinery at Yorktown. Richard S. Glasser, who represents about 180 employees or their families, declined comment on Friday's rulings. He said he did not want to say anything that could affect pending cases. That judgment was later resettled for $250,000 prior to an appeal. Appeals are expected in the latest cases. Judge Clarke will rule on a motion to set aside Friday's verdicts after written briefs are filed. ****1307EST 0611 *** r a *** AM-Carter-Poll Bjt 12-17 0975 For the second time since President Carter took office, his handling of a foreign crisis has sparked a major positive surge in Americans' judgment of his efforts, an Associated Press-NBC News poll says. The jump in Carter's ratings because of his work on the Iranian crisis is the largest since he took office, even bigger than the rise that followed his first foreign policy crisis, the 1978 Camp David summit that led to the peace treaty between Israel and Egypt. Carter's overall job rating has leaped 21 points since the crisis began and 15 points since the last AP-NBC News poll three weeks ago. His foreign policy rating is up 24 points since mid-October. Following the Camp David summit, Carter's job rating jumped 16 points. The latest surge is directly linked to his responses to the holding of 50 American hostages in Iran. The poll found Americans approve of his handling of the Iranian crisis by a 7-2 margin. This surge has been coupled with a slippage in public judgment of Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, who is challenging Carter for the 1980 Democratic presidential nomination. Kennedy's decline can be linked in part to public disapproval of his statements on the Iranian crisis and the deposed Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. Forty-five percent of those questioned Dec. 11-12 said Carter's work overall is excellent or good. Forty-one percent said his work has been ``only fair'' and 12 percent rated it poor. Two percent of the 1,595 adults interviewed nationwide by telephone were not sure. In mid-October, before the hostages were seized Nov. 4, 24 percent rated his work excellent or good and another 24 percent rated it poor. Half called his efforts only fair. The rest were undecided. The AP-NBC News poll taken Nov. 27-28 found 30 percent rated his work excellent or good, 49 percent only fair and 18 percent poor. Three percent were not sure. On foreign policy, 48 percent said Carter's work has been excellent or good, up from 24 percent in October. Thirty-three percent said it has been only fair, down from 43 percent. Fifteen percent gave Carter poor marks and 4 percent were undecided. On the specific issue of the Iranian crisis, Carter continued to draw overwhelming backing. Sixty-nine percent said they approve of the way he is handling the situation. Twenty-one percent disapprove. Nine percent were not sure and 1 percent had not heard of the crisis. Of course, public opinion is always subject to changes _ just as Carter's ratings have risen recently, they can also drop in the months to come. This was certainly true after the Camp David summit in 1978. After the 16-point jump in Carter's overall rating in September 1978 because of the summit, Americans' opinions of his work began to slip almost immediately as the public saw him unable to tame the twin demons of inflation and energy problems. By the end of 1978, six points of the bulge had evaporated and by July of this year, Carter's job rating reached the lowest point for any president in more than two decades. As public opinion about Carter improved, Kennedy's standing slipped, again because of the Iranian crisis. On Dec. 2, Kennedy said in an interview with a San Francisco television station that the shah ``ran one of the most violent regimes in the history of mankind'' and that he had come to this country ``with his umpteen billion dollars that he'd stolen from Iran.'' Fifty-six percent of those questioned said Kennedy should not have made any statements on Iran at this time. Only 12 percent said it was proper for Kennedy to speak out as he did. Five percent were not sure and 27 percent said they were not aware of Kennedy's statements. The Massachusetts Democrat has been criticized for shifting attention from the plight of the hostages and for appearing to undermine Carter's efforts to get the hostages freed. But public opinion has not totally changed on Kennedy and Carter. In terms of effectiveness, the judgment is that Carter is proving he is more effective than they thought in the past, while Kennedy has lost a bit of his reputation for effectiveness. But Kennedy is still perceived as more effective than Carter, at least among Democrats. Twenty-four percent of tme Democrats said Kennedy would be a very effective president, 51 percent said he would somewhat effective, and 17 percent said he would not be effective. That finding is down from the 33 percent who rated him very effective only three weeks ago, 50 percent who said somewhat effective and 11 percent who said he would not be effective. But Kennedy's current effectiveness rating is still above Carter's even though Carter's has risen. Now 13 percent of the Democrats rate Carter as very effective, 73 percent somewhat effective and 12 percent not effective. In the November AP-NBC News poll, 12 percent rated him very effective, 60 percent somewhat effective and 25 pecent not effective. In each case, the rest was undecided. As with every sample survey, the results of the AP-NBC News poll can vary from the opinions of all those with telephones across the country because of chance variations in the sample. For polls with about 1,600 interviews, the results should vary no more than 3 percentage points either way simply because of sample error. That is, if one could talk to all adults in the country, there is only one chance out of 20 that the results would vary from the findings of this poll by more than 3 percentage points. For results based solely on interviews with self-described Democrats, the error margin is 6 percentage points. Of course, the results could also vary because of differences in question wording, timing of the interviews and the methods of interviewing. ****1309EST 0120 *** u f *** BC-Butter-Cheese 12-17 0050 (USDA)_Butter offerings steady, prices unchanged. Wholesale prices on bulk cartons (fresh) creamery, 93 score AA 1.38\-1.39. 92 score A 1.36\-1.37. Cheese offerings steady, prices unchanged. Wholesale sale, American Cheese (wholemilk). Single Daisies fresh 1.44}-1.51, Flats aged 1.66-1.86} Processed American pasteurized 5 lbs. 1.23\-1.47{. ****1309EST 0204 *** r n *** AM-USM-Writing 12-17 0199 More than 90 percent of the freshmen at the University of Southern Maine have passed a special campus-wide test of basic writing skills. The test was given for the first time two weeks ago to the more than 400 students enrolled in introductory writing classes. One hundred students failed. But 93 of those 100 took the test again last Tuesday, and this time only 30 failed. The test was devised by English professor Philip R. Rutherford, who decided that everyone enrolled in introductory writing courses should be writing coherently at this point in the semester. The test, graded on a pass or fail basis, allowed students to write an essay on any one of four topics, ranging from personal experiences to topical affairs. ``On the test, we were looking for minimum competency, an average C-level. We weren't looking for great writing because that's what you look for in the classroom and in the classroom exams, not in a (general) test like this,'' said Rutherford. The 30 students who failed the test the second time will have to start the three-credit introductory writing course from the beginning. ****1310EST 0613 *** u a *** BC-NavyJet 12-17 0227 *** a0559 *** r i *** PM-Tabriz-Grenade 12-17 0292 *** p0614 *** r a *** AM-Topic-Gays'Defender 12-17 0814 The magazines in his solemn, wainscoted law office range from the most-recent editions of the corporate guidebook, Fortune, to those of Christopher Street, a slick journal for homosexuals. Once branded ``the fairy lawyer'' by less tolerant colleagues, Paul Goldman has been battling on behalf of Chicago's gay community for half a century. The 73-year-old Goldman smoothes a tuft of gray hair as he sits in his office across from City Hall and talks about the homosexual world, a world through which he moves freely, albeit not as ``an intimate at their cocktail parties.'' ``The entire thing was happenstance. I was involved defending some 150 people after a Chicago bathhouse was raided (in 1929), and the exposure was substantial,'' said Goldman. ``People labeled me `the fairy lawyer.' It was a common expression, and they would call my cases `pansies or fruits.''' Goldman said he has ``argued cases on behalf of homosexuals in almost every state in the country'' and has spoken on gay legal issues at seminars ``from the East Coast to the West.'' But his motivation to join legal battle was the result of more than happenstance. He believes the 1926 suicide of his roommate while in law school at the University of Illinois gave him the courage and compassion to chart an unpopular course. His roommate swallowed poison. Goldman found the note which told of the roommate's heretofore hidden homosexuality. Goldman was heartbroken. ``I knew nothing about homosexuals, except what I had read in toilets,'' he recalled. ``I never had known one, at least to my knowledge. My roommate's death had a terrific impact on me because I truly loved the boy. ``His family came, and we took him home and buried him. ... I reflected on the plight of this group and this person whom I had loved so deeply. Since I was a poor boy without any family connections in the law business, I decided that human civil rights _ and particularly those of the homosexual _ were as attractive a field as any I could pursue.'' Goldman worked briefly for several Chicago law firms but soon opened his own practice. Clients came from the ranks of bar and bathhouse operators whose establishments, catering to homosexuals, were the frequent targets of police raids. ``In the early days, such places and their patrons were the subjects of constant harassment,'' Goldman said. ``It seemed the police at that time were notorious in their conduct. ``Homosexuals were not unified, and there was nobody willing to stand up for their rights and seek redress. And th5 attitudes of the court were reflective of the attitudes of the general public.'' Goldman became the legal champion of the Chicago homosexual community. As word of his practice spread, his nucleus of gay clients grew. In the late 1950s, he was a consultant to the Wolfenden Committee, appointed by the Church of England (Episcopal) to examine the state of homosexuals in Britain. The committee recommended, and eventually saw enacted, the lifting of legal penalties for sexual acts performed by consenting adults. ``After my rooomate's death and the load of cases in my own practice, it seemed like a natural progression,'' Goldman said of his move into public advocacy. ``I was at that time becoming rather prominent in what was a sparse field anyway. The committee looked like a good way to further some of the goals I was already working towards.'' Goldman also directed efforts against Illinois' anti-sodomy law, which mandated penalties of one to 10 years in prison. ``It was a crime without a victim, but because of that provision, homosexual couples lived in the pale of the penitentiary,'' Goldman said. ``Our desire to change the law was not prompted by the instance of prosecution, but its psychological threat.'' In 1961, Illinois became the first state to repeal its anti-sodomy law. Forty states still have such laws. Two years later, Goldman won an agreement from Chicago's newspapers to cease printing the names of defendants arrested at raids on businesses frequented by homosexuals. ``I remember the trauma these people all experienced seeing their names printed in the papers,'' he said. ``That agreement was something of a local milestone.'' Goldman, slowed considerably in recent years by failing vision and illness, is preparing to turn his practice over to his son. With the growth of gay activism, the bulk of his homosexual clientele now seeks advice on more routine matters _ mortagages, divorces, wills. Goldman sees homosexual marriages as the next gay legal issue. ``Marriage should be legalized because homosexuals, like the rest of us, need some solemnization of their commitment,'' he said. ``When Jim and Joe live together for 25 years ... there should be some responsibilities.'' ****1312EST 0561 *** r w *** PM-Carter-Thatcher 2ndLd-Writethru a5150 12-17 0761 *** p0616 *** r i *** PM-Tabriz-Grenade 12-17 0292 A grenade exploded accidentally during a military training session for young girls, killing the instructor and a girl and seriously injuring 13 others, a Tehran newspaper said today. The training is part of a nationwide program ordered by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. The daily Ettelaat said a Palestinian-trained instructor was explaining the use of a hand grenade to 14 girls at a training session in a mosque, when the explosive went off. The paper did not say when the accident occurred. The training program, ordered by Khomeini to prepare the Iranian nation against possible military action by the United States, usually is conducted in mosques, and is supplemented by nightly television programs. The United States sent warships to the Arabian Sea after militant Iranian students occupied the U.S. Embassy Nov. 4 and took the staff hostage, demanding the former shah be extradited from the United States. The shah left for Panama on Saturday, but Iran continues to hold 50 Americans. About 1,500 students marched to the American consulate in this capital of East Azerbaijan Province today shouting anti-American slogans. The consulate has been occupied by students since the Tehran embassy takeover, but no hostages were taken here. The consulate already had been closed. Today's demonstrators burned an American and an Israeli flag in front of the consulate. Two Palestinian flags hung from the entrance and an occupier said, ``in the near future this will be Palestine's headquarters in Tabriz.'' The Palestine Liberation Organization and the new Iranian regime are on friendly terms. Last week dissident ethnic Turks who live in this region rebelled over the new Islamic constitution that gives Khomeini sweeping powers for life and denies them the autonomy they sought for Azerbaijan. ****1313EST 0606 *** d w *** AM-FECSuit 12-17 0527 A liberal-conservative coalition led by Eugene J. McCarthy and Sen. Gordon J. Humphrey, R-N.H., said Monday it will file a series of court challenges to many of the contribution and spending limits imposed by the Federal Election Campaign Act. The first suit, brought in the name of multi-millionaire Stewart R. Mott, calls upon the U.S. District Court in Washington to strike down restrictions on spending by individuals or groups who act outside the official campaign apparatus of a particular candidate. Future suits, said McCarthy, will ask the court to ban contribution limits to all challenging candidates and minority parties, and to remove the $25,000 ceiling on the total amount an individual may contribute in any year. The group also will seek the abolition of special postage rates now enjoyed by Democratic and Republican committees, he said. The coalition is receiving legal assistance from the American Civil Liberties Union and the Washington Legal Defense Foundation, and is backed by the Conservative Victory Fund, the Libertarian Party, the Ripon Society, Young Americans for Freedom and several other groups. McCarthy, then an independent presidential candidate, teamed with former Sen. James L. Buckley in a similar challenge in 1976 which resulted in the Supreme Court declaring some sections of the act unconstitutional. Buckley also is backing the latest moves. Although the 1976 case struck down limits on independent spending, ``Congress and the FEC have ignored much of what the court said,'' said McCarthy. ``They have tried to do indirectly what the court said they may not do directly.'' The 1974 act limited individuals to expenditures of $1,000 for independent activity in behalf of _ or against _ a candidate, meaning actions taken outside of the official campaign structure and without the candidate's approval. The Supreme Court declared that limit unconstitutional. However, while it is now possible for an individual to spend any amount he desires _ say $30,000 for newspaper advertising _ so long as he acts independently of the candidate, he must do so alone. If he teams with another individual, and each, say, puts up $15,000 for that same ad, he and his friend are judged by the FEC to have formed a ``political committee'' and are in violation of the agency's rules. Those rules bar contributions exceeding $1,000 to a single-candidate committee, or $5,000 to a multi-candidate committee, regardless of whether they act with the candidate's blessing. ``There have been few, if any, examples in our history of such a direct and blatant infringement of the right of freedom of association by the federal government,'' said a coalition statement.j Humphrey declared that ``growing government regulations and restrictions on the political process are the single most dangerous threat to freedom inside our country. ``It has become ever more difficult and even risky to participate in the election process,'' he said. Asked if the actions sought by the coalition wouldn't open the door to candidates simply buying their way into office, Humphrey replied: ``there's some danger of that. But the least ideal situation is one in which our constitutional rights are impinged. That's what we have now.'' ****1313EST 0607 *** d w *** AM-ElectronicMail 12-17 0407 *** p0610 *** d w *** AM-NewstoUse 12-17 0526 Sure, you've heard all the warnings about cigarettes but still can't quit. Well, if you insist on smoking, there are some things that can make it less harmful. First of all, says the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, choose a cigarette with lower tar and nicotine. The difference between brands can be as much as 2-to-1 and even more. Second, don't smoke your cigarette all the way down, suggests the department. You get the most tar and nicotine from the last few puffs because the tobacco itself acts as a filter. If you smoke the cigarette halfway, you get only 40 percent of the nicotine and tar. Also, if you just take fewer puffs on each cigarette you'll reduce your smoking without really missing it. And take short, shallow drags instead of inhaling. Another way to cut down is to postpone that first cigarette of the day. Perhaps until after breakfast or until you arrive at work. It's easier to postpone when you know you'll be having a cigarette later. These suggestions and others are contained in a government booklet that smokers may find helpful. The booklet, ``Unless You Decide to Quit, Your Problem Isn't Going to be Smoking; Your Problem's Going to be Staying Alive,'' is available for 80 cents from the Consumer Information Center, Dept. 34G, Pueblo, Colo., 81009. Besides the smoking tips the booklet also discusses the diseases that have been associated with heavy smoking, their warning signs and when to see a doctor. ___ A CHRISTMAS PUPPY? _ One of the great delights of Christmas can be a fuzzy little puppy scampering under the tree, but if that's what you have in mind, there are things to consider. First, say Agriculture Department experts, think about what the adult dog will be like. Visit the home of the puppy you buy if possible, and study it. The puppy should be alert and playful, with clear eyes and a round stomach. And there should be no signs of diarrhea. While poodles and German shepherds have been most popular in recent years, there is no best breed of dog. There is more variety in dogs than in any domestic animal and you should consider what will be best for your family. Some dogs shed their hair while others must be trimmed. With children, a medium sized dog may be best. And remember, a dog's personality depends on how much attention it receives, especially early in life. ___ WINTER OLYMPIC MAP _ The U.S. Geological Survey has prepared a special map of the Lake Placid, N.Y., area for use during next February's Winter Olympics. The full-color sheet contains a topographic map of the area on one side, and on the reverse there are detailed highlights of key areas. The Olympic map is available for $2 from the Branch of Distribution, U.S. Geological Survey, 1200 S. Eads St., Arlington, Va., 22202. The map also will be available from private dealers in Lake Placid and other areas, but prices will vary. ****1315EST 0557 *** d w *** AM-WashingtonBriefs 12-17 0647 *** p0612 *** d a *** AM-Facts-Poll 12-17 0449 Interviews with 1,595 adults across the country Dec. 11 and 12 were the basis for the Associated Press-NBC News poll on President Carter. Telephone numbers for interviews were chosen at random in a manner that assures every household in the country with a telephone a roughly equal chance of being selected. A procedure was used in the interviewing to assure the proper balance of male and female respondents. As with every sample survey, the results of the AP-NBC News poll can vary from the opinions of all those with telephones across the country because of chance variations in the sample. For polls with about 1,600 interviews, the results should vary no more than 3 percentage points either way simply because of sample error. That is, if one could talk to all adults in the country, there is only one chance out of 20 that the results would vary from the findings of this poll by more than 3 percentage points. Of course, the results could also vary from other polls for other reasons. These can include differences in question wording, variations in the methods of interviewing and differences in when the polling was conducted. Here are some of the questions asked on the AP-NBC News poll: 1. What kind of a job do you think Jimmy Carter is doing as president? Do you think he is doing an excellent job, a good job, only a fair job or do you think he is doing a poor job? 2. What kind of a job do you think Jimmy Carter is doing handling our foreign affairs? Do you think he is doing an excellent job, a good job, only a fair job or do you think he is doing a poor job? 3. Have you heard or read about Americans being held hostage in Iran? (If yes) do you approve or disapprove of the way President Carter is handling this situation? 4. Have you heard or read anything about Sen. Edward M. Kennedy's views about the situation in Iran? (If yes) how do you feel about Sen. Kennedy's statements about the situation? Do you think it was proper for him to make these statements or do you think he should not have made any statements about the situation at this time? 5. How effective do you think Jimmy Carter has been in solving the problems that face this country ... very effective, somewhat effective or not effective at all? 6. If Ted Kennedy were elected president, how effective do you think he would be in solving the problems that face this country ... very effective, somewhat effective or not effective at all? ****1317EST 0558 *** d a *** AM-WashingtonStorm 12-17 0203 *** a0560 *** d w *** AM-ColorTV 12-17 0215 *** p0615 *** d w *** AM-ColorTV 12-17 0215 A labor-industry coalition Monday urged the Carter administration to limit for three more years the number of color televisions imported into the United States. ``There will be no more color television industry in the United States in a short time'' without the relief, argued Allen W. Dawson, of the Committee to Preserve American Color Televisions. The current import limits, Dawson said, have helped the ailing U.S. color television industry, but economic problems persist. Direct employment in the industry has declined from 42,000 in 1972 to 26,000 this year; the number of U.S. companies making color televisions have fallen from 25 to ll, of which only seven are American-owned, and only 46 percent of color television plants are being used, the coalition said. The coalition did not specify the limits it wants, but under a 1977 agreement, Japan can import only 1.75 million sets and sub-assemblies. Earlier this year, color television imports from Korea and Taiwan also were limited. The coalition insisted that current import limits have not been inflationary, as argued earlier by the Council on Wage and Price Stability. While Dawson acknowledged that color television prices would rise ``slightly'' in 1980, he said prices _ at the wholesale level _ have been virtually stagnant since late 1976. ****1317EST 0617 *** d a *** AM-WashingtonStorm 12-17 0203 *** p0618 *** d w *** AM-WashingtonBriefs 12-17 0646 The Iranian crisis is having its effect on children this Christmas season. ``One kid asked for `peace on earth and the end of the Aya-Cola,''' said Helen Scarr, Santa Claus at the Woodward and Lothrop department store in downtown Washington. ``A few have confused me with the ayatollah because of my white beard. That's how much the situation has been on kid's minds.'' ___< ****1319EST 0023 *** d s *** BC-HarnessAwards 12-17 0219 *** s0198 *** d s *** BC-HarnessAwards 12-17 0219 Tender Loving Care, the fastest female harness horse in history, and Try Scotch, the world champion pacing gelding, have been named Aged Pacers of the Year in the U.S. Trotting Association's annual poll of harness writers and racing secretaries. Doublemint and the mare Keystone Pioneer _ both from the Bill Haughton Stable _ were chosen Aged Trotters of 1979. Lloyd and Nancy Arnold's Tender Loving Care won 11 races and earned $185,275 this year. Her most impressive performance was a 1:52 4-5 for the mile _ the third fastest time in the 173-year history of harness racing. Tender Loving Care, trained by Richard Farrington and driven most often by Shelly Goudreau, received 192 of the 237 votes cast. Try Scotch, a 4-year-old gelding owned by Tom Crouch, Craig Mahlstedt and Steve Newcom of Naperville, Ill., trained by Jim Dennis and driven frequently by Goudreau, earned $499,499 during 1979. Lana Lobell Farms' Keystone Pioneer, a 7-year-old mare, increased her earnings to $1,005,527 in 1979, the fifth best among all-time trotters. Em Ar El Stable's Doublemint won seven of 11 races during the year, including the prestigious Roosevelt International Trot, and earned $234,605. ****1319EST 0562 *** d a *** AM-BeerStrike 12-17 0232 *** o0211 *** r n *** AM-BoatFamily 12-17 0482 *** p0620 *** r w *** PM-Carter-Thatcher 2ndLd-Writethru p5050 12-17 0761 British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher publicly pledged British support for United Nations sanctions against Iran today. ``We indicated very clearly that when the United States wishes to go to the Security Council for further powers under Chapter 7 (the part of the U.N. charter dealing with sanctions), Great Britain will be the first to support it,'' Mrs. Thatcher said after she, President Carter and their advisers met at the White House. ``You expect nothing less and you will receive nothing less,'' she said. ``There are no differences between us,'' Carter told reporters. He described their talks as ``extensive and productive.'' The prime minister's statement amplified the general pledge of support she made at an arrival ceremony this morning. ``At times like this, you are entitled to look to your friends for support. We are your friends. We do support you, and we shall support you. Let there be no mistake about this,'' Mrs. Thatcher said. Carter, in his welcoming remarks, told Mrs. Thatcher that ``from the very first moment the hostages were captured, your government has been in the forefront of those who have helped us. You have been staunch allies and friends, and I deeply appreciate it. Neither Carter nor Mrs. Thatcher mentioned specific steps that might be taken jointly against Iran. Wintry winds and temperatures below freezing greeted Mrs. Thatcher as she stepped out of her limousine at the south entrance to the White House. She and Carter listened to a military band play the U.S. and British national anthems, then walked past a military honor guard. When the speeches were over, Carter shook Mrs. Thatcher's hands and kissed her on the cheek. Then they went into the White House for a two-hour meeting, their only private conversation of the visit. Mrs. Thatcher arrived at Andrews Air Force Base outside Washington Sunday night, greeted by Secretary of State Cyrus Vance. She made no public statement. After Carter's decision Saturday to lift economic sanctions against Rhodesia, the question of cooperation against Iran stood atop the agenda for Mrs. Thatcher's two-hour talk with the president. She also planned to visit Capitol Hill, hold a news conference, and attend a state dinner in her honor this evening. Mrs. Thatcher has in the past voiced consistent support for the American position on the Iranian situation. The British also have refrained from increasing their purchases of Iranian oil and have stopped arms shipments to Iran. But Mrs. Thatcher's ambassador to Washington, Sir Nicholas Henderson, indicated last week that the British have their doubts about further economic steps against Iran. The British feel no boycott or embargo against Iran will be successful unless it is universally observed, Henderson told reporters. He expressed doubt that the Soviet Union would cooperate. The Soviets could veto a resolution for sanctions in the U.N. Security Council. And since they share a common border with Iran, they could also thwart any joint effort to deny food or other commodities to Iran through a trade embargo. Furthermore, Henderson said, the British would probably have to pass special legislation to enact an embargo. And the British courts might foil any effort to pressure Iran through a banking freeze. Henderson's caution contrasted with the assessments of senior State Department officials traveling with Vance in Europe last week. They told reporters the British were set to cooperate in an effort to impose sanctions at the United Nations. If that move failed, the American officials said they expected European support for voluntary sanctions. The prospects for Anglo-American cooperation improved Saturday when Carter approved the end of American economic sanctions against Rhodesia. In doing so, he acted in accordance with Mrs. Thatcher's wishes and against the advice of some members of his administration, including U.N. Ambassador Donald McHenry. McHenry urged unsuccessfully that the administration wait until the Security Council acted to end the sanctions, since it was the council that enacted the sanctions in the first place. But the British argued strongly that once their new governor, Lord Soames, arrived in Salisbury last week, the country reverted to the status of a colony. Therefore, they said, maintaining sanctions against Rhodesia was tantamount to keeping them against Britain itself. Mrs. Thatcher planned only one full day in Washington. On Tuesday, she plans to fly to New York for a quick visit to the United Nations. She also will visit an energy research facility in Linden, N.J. ****1322EST 0199 *** r s *** BC-DeadCoach 12-17 0059 Former University of Detroit assistant football coach and athletic director Jim Leary died of a heart attack while playing racquetball, his wife, Elizabeth, said. Leary, 53, was a graduate of Notre Dame and served as assistant to University of Detroit football coach Wally Fromhart in the late 1950s. ****1323EST 0566 *** r a *** AM-Garwood 12-17 0377 *** a0567 *** r w *** AM-Carter-Politics 12-17 0602 *** e0207 *** r n *** AM-VtFatal 190 12-17 0195 State police said Monday that they were looking for the unknown driver of a car that was involved in a fatal accident in Pownal. Cynthia Beal, 22, of Bennington was killed Sunday when her car was struck almost head-on by another vehicle along U.S. Route 7, two miles north of the Green Mountain Racetrack, police said. Police said Ms. Beal was driving south at about 7:50 p.m. when another car, which was traveling north, crossed the center line and struck her vehicle. The two cars came to rest along the side of the road and the driver of the second car left the scene on foot, police said. They said the man is believed to be seriously injured. Ms. Beal was pronounced dead at the scene. A passenger in Ms. Beal's car, Jaya Mehja, 22, of Princeton, N.J., received numerous contussions and a passenger in the other vehicle, William Crandall, 30, of Troy, N.Y., suffered a cut forehead, police said. They were taken to Putnam Hospital for treatment. State Police asked that anyone with information about the accident contact the Shaftsbury state police barracks. ****1325EST 0619 *** d a *** AM-BeerStrike 12-17 0232 As sheriff's deputies stood by, a strike by 1,500 production workers at the Miller Brewing Co. plant here entered a second day Monday. Five pickets and a truck driver who attempted to run the strikers' line were arrested Sunday. Three of the pickets were fined and jailed for trying to block vehicles from entering or leaving the plant. Oswego County Sheriff's Lt. James McDermott said two of those arrested were charged with motor vehicle law violations for having alcoholic beverages in their cars. Workers unhappy with a company offer of a one-time, $1,100 payment instead of a cost-of-living clause in a new contract walked off their jobs early Sunday. A Miller Brewing spokesman said the strike has resulted in a ``severe curtailment of production.'' The company was attempting to meet with representatives of Local 2587, International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers in an attempt to resume bargaining. Sheriff Raymond Miller posted 20 deputies at the plant after the first arrests, but reduced the number of officers on hand as the number of pickets dwindled from 60 to 20 in the 20-degree cold. The Miller plant here, the company's largest brewery, is being expanded to boost capacity to 10 million barrels of beer annually. The plant is one of the largest employers in the Syracuse area. ****1325EST 0056 *** u f *** PM-OPEC 12-17 0779 *** a0568 *** r i *** PM-U.N.-Hostages 12-17 0119 *** p0625 *** r a *** AM-Garwood 12-17 0377 After nearly nine months of preparation, the Marine Corps on Tuesday begins unveiling its case against Pfc. Robert Garwood, who faces charges of desertion and collaboration with the enemy in Vietnam. Prosecutors said they would offer about 15 witnesses, many of them former prisoners of war in Vietnam, in an effort to convince the hearing officer that Garwood should be court-martialed. If convicted of either desertion or collaboration with the enemy, Garwood could be sentenced to death. Garwood spent nearly 14 years in Vietnam after he disappeared near Danang. He was then 19. He returned to the United States last March, speaking and thinking in Vietnamese but declaring he had been a prisoner since 1965. The Marine Corps launched an investigation of allegations made by other prisoners that Garwood had deserted and helped the enemy, including guarding other Americans. Last month, after nearly elght months of silence, the Marine Corps announced it would pursue charges against the lanky 33-year-old Marine with an Article 32 hearing, roughly equivalent to a civilian grand jury. Although testimony begins this week, it will be at least next month before Garwood learns if he will face a court-martial. The hearing will recess for two weeks after Friday for Garwood's Christmas leave. Garwood denies the allegations against him, contending he was merely a prisoner. His civilian and military attorneys have indicated they will argue that anything Garwood did was done with one motive _ survival. ``When I came home, I thought I had won the battle. I had survived. But now I'm still fighting,'' Garwood said last summer. His rank frozen at private first class, he has worked since May as a mail clerk at Camp Lejeune in eastern North Carolina. Maj. T.B. Hamilton Jr., a military judge, is to preside at the hearing. He could recommend a court-martial on any of the charges against Garwood. In addition to desertion in time of war and collaboration with the enemy, Garwood is charged with unauthorized absence for 13{ years, soliciting American combat forces to refuse to fight, attempting to cause insubordination and disloyalty among other POWs and hitting an American POW in the ribs. ****1327EST 0563 *** d a *** AM-SentenceRuling 12-17 0216 *** p0626 *** r w *** AM-Carter-Politics 12-17 0602 *** p0627 *** r i *** PM-U.N.-Hostages 12-17 0119 The U.N. General Assembly today unanimously adopted a treaty making hostage-taking an international crime and requiring governments to prosecute or extradite any hostage-takers who enter their jurisdictions. In a resolution approved without a vote, the 152-nation assembly also opened the agreement for signature. Assembly President Salim Ahmed Salim of Tanzania announced that governments could sign it in the office of U.N. legal counsel Erik Suy Tuesday afternoon. The action climaxed a campaign for such a treaty started by West Germany in the 1976 assembly session. The approval came as 50 Americans are held hostage by Iran in the occupied U.S. Embassy. The Security Council has called for immediate release of the Americans. ****1328EST 0569 *** r a *** AM-SamBrown Bjt 12-17 0451 *** f0058 *** r f *** BC-Livestock-KX 12-17 0122 Quotations for Monday: Cattle 500: Bulk of receipts to be held over for auction later in the week. Hogs 2,000: Barrows and gilts 25 to mostly 50 higher; 1-2 200-240 lb 40.75-41.00; 240-250 lb 40.00-40.50; 1-3 250-260 lb 39.00-39.50; few 260-270 lb 38.50-38.75; 2-3 270-280 lb 37.50-38.00; few 280-290 lb 36.50; few 290-330 lb 34.50-35.50; 330-360 lb 33.00-33.50. Sows weights under 500 lb 1.50-1.75 higher. Offerings over 500 lb 2.50-3.00 higher. 1-3 300-500 lb 32.00-32.25; 500-650 lb 33.00-33.50. Sheep 75: Slaughter lambs steady; slaughter ewes scarce. Slaughter lambs few choice and prime 85-110 lb with No. 1 pelts 67.00, wooled 85-105 lb 64.00 Estimated receipts for Tuesday: Cattle 1,300; hogs 2,000; sheep 100. ****1329EST 0628 *** r a *** AM-SamBrown Bjt 12-17 0451 Sam Brown, 12, headed for Egypt on Monday with six pipes, some jars of honey and a scarf knitted by his mother _ gifts to thank Anwar Sadat for offering him the expenses-paid trip. Besides knitting the scarf, Sybil Brown also crocheted a cape and beret for the Egyptian president's wife. Sam was invited by an aide to Sadat after the seventh-grader, inspired by a television program on the Egyptian leader, wrote Sadat of his impressions. He recalls saying he ``admired him for trying to make peace with Israel, admired him as a man and I felt for him for spending that time in that prison (in the 1950s).'' Though he has no firm appointment, Sam said he was certain he'd meet with Sadat. ``I know I'm going to,'' he said as he packed his three suitcases and made other last-minute preparations at the family's mobile home. He'll send postcards to his family and to ``excited and happy'' schoolmates at Easley Junior High. And when he gets back on Christmas Eve, he'll write a report to his class. A trip to Egypt would never have been possible if the family had to pay. Sam's father, Don, has been unable to work as a grocery store manager since a back operation 1{ years ago and the family has had a tough time, Mrs. Brown said. Complicating their financial situation have been illnesses, including pneumonia, which required Sam's 4-year-old sister to be hospitalized six times. Mrs. Brown has been hospitalized another half-dozen times with bursitis and other ailments. Some of the money donated to Sam by Easley residents to help pay for incidental expenses has already been spent, she said. Sam is taking along $100, she said, adding: ``I hope he doesn't need it.'' Arrangements for the flight, via New York, Rome and Athens, were made by the Egyptian tourist office in New York. Since he wrote Sadat this summer, Brown has been a celebrity in the town of Easley, near Greenville, and has been on national television several times. Last week he stood quietly as several hundred persons gathered at City Hall to hear the day proclaimed in his honor by Mayor Charles Ellenburg ``in recognition of the determination and accomplishments of Sam Brown, who has been a credit to himself, his family, his city and his country.'' His fifth-grade teacher, Ann Gunther of Elberton, Ga., where the Browns lived at the time, recalled, ``We had a letter-writing class in school. Sam enjoyed writing and getting mail back. We nearly drove the principal crazy.'' She said the school still gets mail addressed to Sam. ****1330EST 0621 *** d a *** AM-SentenceRuling 12-17 0216 A criminal defendant sentenced to prison has no constitutional right to receive credit for days spent in jail prior to trial, the Colorado Supreme Court ruled Monday. The court denied a petition by Fidel Perea that he be given credit for 101 days spent in jail prior to his trial on first- and second-degree assault charges. At the trial, Perea was convicted of the lesser charge of reckless endangerment and sentenced to six months in jail. The high court said Colorado law requires only that the judge be aware that pre-sentence confinement might boost the total prison stay to more than the statutory maximum for the given charge. The judge has the discretion to deny credit for pre-sentence confinement if such action is deemed appropriate, the court said. Justice Jean Dubofsky dissented from the ruling, arguing that such credit was Perea's constitutional right and that he stayed in jail prior to his trial only because he could not afford bail. ``He is serving a sentence which a richer person would not serve,'' Ms. Dubofsky said. She cited U.S. Supreme Court rulings holding that a person's indigency should not be the sole factor behind a sentence more severe the tthe statutory maximum. ****1330EST 0200 *** d s *** AM-FBN--Bengals-Rice 12-17 0346 Homer Rice says he's not concerned about his future with the Cincinnati Bengals. ``I never have been, never will be,'' said Rice after the National Football League team's final game on Sunday. A 16-12 victory over Cleveland gave the Bengals a 4-12 record for the year. ``I have complete confidence in (General Manager) Paul Brown and what he thinks is right,'' Rice added. So far, Brown has been silent about what he thinks is right, but there has been no lack of guessing about what is going to happen. There has been considerable speculation that Brown would replace either Rice or some of his staff at the end of the season. Rice was asked Sunday if he would still have ``complete confidence'' if Brown decided to fire him. ``I don't have to answer that,'' Rice said. ``I'll take the Fifth Amendment on that. But whatever his decision is, that's the way it willbe. It's no use asking me about it. I'm just going to do my best, anywhere, anytime.'' The Bengals coach was asked whether the team's having only 10 men on the field on several occasions in recent weeks was a reflection on the coaching. ``That's strictly players,'' Rice said. ``It happens to everybody, It happens to Pittsburgh, Miami. It's strictly a player, not a coaching thing. We can't run these guys down on the sidelines. We practice this every day, work on it every practice. It's just something that happens.'' Rice, obviously pleased with the victory over Cleveland, found time to joke about the year. ``Well, we've finally turned our program around,'' he laughed. ``This takes a little sting out of a very tough year.'' Before the game, Rice said he told team members, ``Go out and play this one for yourselves. This one is for you.'' Some of the players said they felt there would would be some changes in the coaching ranks. ``I'd like to see them stick around, but you can feel it in the air. Something's going to happen,'' said wide receiver Don Bass. ****1331EST 0024 *** d s *** AM-FBN--Bucs-Playoffs 12-17 0447 *** s0201 *** d s *** AM-FBN--Bucs-Playoffs 12-17 0447 Linebacker Dewey Selmon knew the Tampa Bay Buccaneers were ready for the playoffs, the National Football Conference Central Division title and the Kansas City Chiefs. ``There was no talking before the game. It was like a morgue,'' he said. The Bucs bounced back from three straight losses Sunday and won their first division title and a playoff spot at home Dec. 29 or 30, blanking the Chiefs 3-0. But there was plenty of talking afterwards. ``Now we'll be on national TV at least once and, who knows, maybe more. Maybe we'll get to the Super Bowl,'' said Tampa's star running Ricky Bell. The Bucs slipped and skidded up and down a soggy rain-drenched field, collecting a total of 269 yards and a 19-yard fourth-quarter field goal by Neil O'Donoghue, but it was the rugged defense that wore down the Chiefs. _They held Kansas City to a total of 80 net yards _ the fewest ever gained; _They chalked up their first regular-seson shutout; _They limited Kansas City's ball possession to 19:38; _And they gave the Bucs some distinguished NFL marks. The Bucs lead the league in fewest points allowed (237), fewest total yards (3,973) and fewest yards per play (just under four). ``We just took their game away,'' Selmon said. ``They couldn't run or pass on us.'' More than 63,600 long-suffering fans braved the monsoon-like weather only to find another damper on any wild celebration. As victory chants of ``Goal post, goal post,'' went up in the end zones, scores of policemen and highway patrol troopers guarded the aluminum stanchions as if they were gold. The Bucs relied on Bell and quarterback Doug Williams to rack up 224 yards rushing. Bell rushed for 137 yards and his 39 attempts were two short of the NFL's one-game record held by Franco Harris. Bell increased his season total to 1,263 yards _ surpassing his goal by 63. ``Everything fell into place,'' Bell said. ``We won the Central. I got my 1,200 yards. We made the playoffs and Christmas is next week.'' Williams, who had nine interceptions in two games, completed only 5 of 13 for 51 yards and had two more passes picked off by the Chiefs. But he piloted the Bucs on a 63-yard march to the successful field goal, then a subsequent drive that used up the game's final 7:42. The Chiefs' offense had the ball only long enough to run three plays in the fourth quarter. ``We were a little tight in the beginning,'' said Bell. ``But we knew we were going to get the ball in the end zone. The key to the game, though was the defense.'' ****1332EST 0202 *** d s *** AM-FBN--RutiglianoBrite 12-17 0072 *** a0570 *** d a *** AM-RallyDeaths 12-17 0242 *** p0629 *** d a *** AM-RallyDeaths 12-17 0242 The 14 men charged in connection with the slaying of five persons at an anti-Ku Klux Klan rally will be arraigned during the week of Jan. 7 before a special Superior Court judge, authorities said Monday. Dallas Cameron, assistant director of the state Administrative Office of the Courts, said he expected Superior Court Judge James M. Long of Yanceyville to be named as the presiding judge in the trial. Michael Schlosser, Guilford County district attorney, said the exact date had not been set for arraignment of the 14, many of them self-proclaimed Nazis and Klansmen. At the arraignment, indictments will be formally read and motions will be heard, he said. Cameron said Long was scheduled to hold court in Greensboro early next year anyway, and that he would be removed from the regular court calendar and given the shootings case. ``We feel it will have numerous motions and be a complicated case,'' Cameron said. ``We thought it would be better to have one judge follow the case all the way through.'' A grand jury last week returned indictments against 14 men, charging 11 with murder and rioting, and three others only with rioting. The charges stemmed from a Nov. 3 ``Death to the Klan'' rally where shooting broke out. Five members of the Communist Workers Party, which sponsored the rally, were killed in the gunfire. ****1333EST 0203 *** d s *** AM-BBN--Reds-Tickets 12-17 0080 *** s0204 *** d s *** AM-FBO--Anderson-Brite 12-17 0075 Earlier this year, Cincinnati Bengals quarterback Ken Anderson asked his 4-year-old son Matt if he had made any career choices. ``Yes, daddy, I want to be a football player,'' the boy said. Anderson wondered where his son wanted to play. ``I don't know,'' Matt said. ``What about the Bengals?'' Anderson asked. ``Nope,'' the boy replied. ``They always lose.'' Not always. The Bengals finished the season with a 4-12 record. ****1336EST 3090 *** a e *** AM-Khambatta Adv17 12-17 0578 She never had acting lessons, carries a shrine filled with pictures of gods everywhere she goes and went bald for her latest film role. But Persis Khambatta says she's just an old-fashioned gal. ``When I left India 10 years ago, I took India with me,'' Ms. Khambatta said. ``My values are still the same. Fidelity is important. ``I still feel it's a man's world and the man has to chase a woman,'' she said. ``I don't feel sex is better than breakfast and you can sleep around anytime. Relationships are more important to me.'' Even though, she said, ``this business is constantly who you know and what your bank account is. ``Right now, there's a lot of frustration,'' she said. ``I'm sort of being pushed into a corner where people want me to change. They can't deal with fidelity and sensitivity and honesty. But if I become tough, I`m going to hate myself.'' Ms. Khambatta, a former Miss India, shaved her head for the role of Ilia in ``Star Trek, The Motion Picture.'' Her hair has since grown out in all its thick dark richness. ``I love acting,'' she said, ``because I feel one is made of a lot of personalities. One day I hope as an actress I will be able to express my soul to people. When I can touch people's souls and make them laugh, I will feel good.'' It was while making the film, ``The Wilby Conspiracy'' with Sidney Poitier, that he told her she was ``an instinctive actress'' _ a performer who could do the work without ever really studying the craft. Ms. Khambatta said she feels more secure with camera work than stage work. ``I know this was my destiny and I know I have further to go,'' she said. ``I like challenges. I`ve taken a chance every time _ when I went to London, when I went to New York.'' She started modeling in India when she was 13. But at age 17, she left with less than $15 and went to London to pursue her career there. Although this was unusual for a young Indian woman, Ms. Khambatta nevertheless had the support of her family. ``Growing up in India was difficult for me because my parents were separated when I was 2, and in India, the man is the strongest thing in the house,'' she said. ``It put a stigma on me because I didn't have a father. My mother was both mother and father to me.'' Today, her mother shies away from the noteriety of her actress-daughter. ``Mother is coming for the premiere but she doesn't want to ride in the limousine with me because of all the picture-taking.'' But there was a time when there weren't limousines and papparazzi. She can remember walking through the snow in London looking for modeling work and having nothing to eat except a plastic bag filled with potatoes. She also recalls the frustration of seeking modeling work in New York after her porfolio had been stolen. ``What I have in life, I worked for,'' she said. ``But there's nothing in this world that I need so desparately that I cannot do without. And if I had to die now, I would have absolutely no regrets.'' ****1337EST 0025 *** d s *** BC-FBC--LearyObit 12-17 0056 Jim Leary, former University of Detroit assistant football coach and athletic director, died of a heart attack Monday while playing racquetball, his wife, Elizabeth, said. Leary, 53, was a graduate of Notre Dame and served as assistant to University of Detroit football Coach Wally Fromhart in the late 1950s. ****1339EST 0571 *** r i *** AM-ForeignBriefs 12-17 0765 *** f0061 *** r f *** PM-Cotton 12-17 0073 *** a0572 *** r i *** PM-Rhodesia-Zambia 12-17 0309 Britain's colonial governor to Rhodesia today ordered a lifting of a food blockade against neighboring Zambia, imposed last month to force the Zambians to control guerrilla traffic across the border. A spokesman for Lord Soames, who arrived here last week to reassume British control over the rebel African colony, said the order was ``a first step toward normalization of links with neighboring countries.'' ``A restoration of normal patterns of communication and trade will be of great benefit to all countries of central and southern Africa,'' the spokesman said. The government of Prime Minister Abel Muzorewa imposed the blockade on railroad shipments of corn, a staple in the Zambian diet, to force Zambian President Kenneth Kaunda to stop guerrillas from moving into Rhodesia from havens inside Zambia. Zambia aids black guerrillas fighting in Rhodesia by allowing them bases, but the landlocked nation depends on the Rhodesian railroad for exports and imports arriving from ports in Mozambique and South Africa. During the bitter seven-year-old guerrilla war, which the British hope to end with a negotiated cease-fire, Rhodesian forces have repeatedly raided guerrilla havens inside Zambia, and recently, Kaunda claims, have been blowing up strategic rail and road bridges. Before Muzorewa yielded power he imposed the embargo on corn, but allowed continued travel of other imports and exports. The Zambian economy, already strained from backing the guerrillas and warding off Rhodesian attacks, was almost immediately hit with food lines as Zambians sought bags of corn, and the pressure reached Kaunda, who was a strong supporter of the peace talks. Rhodesia's white minority leaders broke with Britain in 1965 to head off black rule, that eventually led to the bloody war, and Britain is making what many say is a final attempt to help the colony achieve legal independence and peace. ****1342EST 0573 *** d w *** AM-HostageAid 12-17 0351 *** t0027 *** d s *** AM-BBN--Reds-Tickets 12-17 0080 Opening day of the 1980 baseball season still is nearly four months away, but the Cincinnati Reds report that they already have sold more season tickets than the total season sale for last season. ``We went over the 14,500 mark this week,'' said Ann Klausing, director of season sales for the Reds, ``and that includes more than 1,000 seats for new season customers. Our renewals are well ahead of other years at this time.'' ****1345EST 0028 *** d s *** AM-FBN--RutiglianoBrite 12-17 0072 After his team had lost its final National Football League game of the season to the Cincinnati Bengals on Sunday, Cleveland Browns Coach Sam Rutigliano was asked if falling temperatures were a major factor in the number of turnovers committed by his team. ``I checked everybody before the game and they were all 98.6,'' retorted Rutigliano, whose team lost three fumbles during Sunday's 16-12 defeat. ****1346EST 0574 *** d w *** AM-DisabilityInsurance 12-17 0372 *** t0029 *** d s *** AM-FBN--Anderson-Brite 12-17 0075 Earlier this year, Cincinnati Bengals quarterback Ken Anderson asked his 4-year-old son Matt if he had made any career choices. ``Yes, daddy, I want to be a football player,'' the boy said. Anderson wondered where his son wanted to play. ``I don't know,'' Matt said. ``What about the Bengals?'' Anderson asked. ``Nope,'' the boy replied. ``They always lose.'' Not always. The Bengals finished the season with a 4-12 record. ****1347EST 0084 *** u n *** AM-Govs-Immigration 12-17 0397 *** p0630 *** r i *** AM-ForeignBriefs 12-17 0749 East German authorities, commemorating the 30th anniversary of their communist-ruled government, released 21,928 prisoners, the official ADN news agency reported Monday. The most prominent political prisoners released were dissident Marxist economist Rudolf Bahro, conscientious military service objector Nico Huebner and Dr. Werner Schaelicke, a Leipzig doctor imprisoned for supporting Soviet dissidents. ADN said the granting of amnesties ended Dec. 14 and included 149 foreigners. Additionally 1,272 persons did not have to go to prison after sentencing, and 130 life sentences were reduced to 15 years in prison. Quoting the prosecutor general's office, ADN said the prison sentences of another 34,115 persons were suspended or reduced to fines. During the last such action in 1972, the East German regime released 25,351 political and criminal offenders from prison and 6,344 persons from investigatory custody. ___ SANTOS, Brazil (AP) _ A tropical rainstorm in this coffee port caused mudslides which killed at least nine poor residents of hillside slums, city officials said. Santos' Mayor Carlos Caldeira Filho called the mudslides ``a tragedy _ the worst we've had here in a long time.'' ___ BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) _ Three former Iraqi officials and a businessman were executed by hanging and two others were sentenced to life in prison over the weekend for communicating ``secret information'' to unnamed foreign companies in return for payment, the official Iraqi news agency reported Monday. The agency said Saeed al Ali, former undersecretary of the Irrigation Ministry, former chief irrigation engineer Naji al Rawi, agricultural official Karani Mohie and businessman Nadim Howeiz were executed Sunday. The men sentenced to prison were attorney Ali al Bayati and Taher al Dabbagh, former head of the government statistics office, the agency said. ___ PEKING (AP) _ A 3,000-year-old female corpse, part of an exhibition in Shanghai, is believed to be the oldest and best preserved discovery of its kind, the official Xinhua news agency reported Monday. The purplish-brown corpse had somewhat elastic flesh at the time of excavation in the Xinjiang Autonomous Region in September 1978, and was so well preserved that finger and toenails are intact and internal organs are in place. Plaited blonde hair covers the head and fine hair and eyebrows can be seen on the woman, believed to have died in her 20s. According to carbon dating, the corpse is several hundred years older than a female corpse found in 1972 in Hunan Province, previously believed the oldest. Archaeologists found the corpse, wooden utensils, pottery and other artifacts of the new stone age in the cemetery of a primitive society where 29 tombs already have been unearthed. Experts said the Xinjiang corpses were dried by nature, unlike the Egyptian mummies which were embalmed and preserved. ___ KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) _ President Godfrey Binaisa announced Monday that the notorious State Research Bureau, where thousands of Ugandans were tortured and murdered during the eight-year reign of deposed dictator Idi Amin, will be turned into a national museum of atrocities. The government's Uganda Times newspaper quoted Binaisa as saying the museum will ``basically teach the future generations the effects of dictatorial rule,'' and will feature displays depicting the murderous aspects of Amin's regime. The president also said that Namanve Forest, dumping ground for victims during the Amin years, will be turned into a national cemetery outside this capital city. ___ WARSAW (AP) _ Authorities on Monday held about 75 Polish dissidents out of 108 detained over the last four days in connection with the ninth anniversary of bloody food price riots in Baltic cities, dissident sources said. Ms. Anka Kowalska said 33 others had been released from custody but that more arrests were possible. She said the prosecutor's office issued formal arrest warrants for 11 of those still detained, but authorities held several persons longer than the legal limit of 48 hours after which they must be charged. ``But despite obstacles, we managed to put some 14,000 posters on the walls in Warsaw, inviting people to come to the requiem Mass for the fallen workers of Gdansk and Gdynia,'' she said. Masses were scheduled for Monday in Roman Catholic churches in Warsaw and Wroclaw. A wreath-laying ceremony was scheduled Tuesday at the shipyard gate in Gdansk where angry workers protested food price hikes in December 1970. Fifty-five people are known to have died when security forces fired on the protesters and the resulting controversy ended the administration of Wladyslaw Gomulka and brought Edward Gierek to power as first secretary of the Communist Party. ****1352EST 0206 *** r s *** AM-FBN--Giants 12-17 0507 *** a0575 *** u w *** PM-CongressRdp 1stLd-Writethru a4240 12-17 0690 *** p0631 *** d w *** AM-DisabilityInsurance 12-17 0372 *** e0212 *** u n *** AM-Govs-Immigration 12-17 0397 A report released Monday by the Coalition of Northeast Governors says federal policy on illegal immigrants ignores the problems of New England's borders and the Northeast. The study, requested by New York Gov. Hugh Carey, was prepared by coalition's Policy Research Center in Washington, and says the presence of illegal immigrants provides a ``complex issue'' for the region's governors. ``This preliminary report shows that illegal immigration cannot be treated as simply a concern of the Southwest,'' said Carey. New Hampshire Gov. Hugh Gallen said Monday the problem must be given equal attention on both borders. ``Studies have shown that illegal immigration is as much a problem along New England's borders as it is in the south and therefore should receive the same level of official attention,'' Gallen said. In a recent series, The Associated Press reported that the 786 miles of Canadian border along Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine was randomly guarded by overworked border patrolmen and many of the official crossing points were unsupervised at night. The interviews showed that thousands of Haitians and other West Indians are presently waiting in Montreal, for arrangements to be made to smuggle them into the United States. Immigration officials also said that many New England communities provide sanctuaries for an workforce of thousands of Canadians illegally working in this country. While noting that reliable figures on the number of illegal immigrants are unavailable, the report says settlement patterns for legal immigrants indicate that about two-thirds of illegal aliens will settle in New York, California, New Jersey, Illinois, Texas and Massachusetts. The report says it is also ``likely'' that New York, New Jersey MAssachusetts and Connecticut receive the bulk of illegal immigrants from the Caribbean. Connecticut Gov. Ella Grasso, chairwoman of the coalition, said the report ``demonstrates the urgent need for increased state attention to immigration policy-making, administration and enforcement.'' Mrs. Grasso said that although immigration policy is created by the federal government, state and local governments feel the impact of the policy and ``are helpless to deal with its effects.'' ``The Northeast is just beginning to realize the extent of the burdens placed upon its economic and social structure'' by illegal immigrants, she said. The coalition includes governors of eight states: New Hampshire, New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and Vermont. ****1355EST 0632 *** d w *** AM-HostageAid 12-17 0351 The House on Monday tentatively approved a measure urging President Carter to provide ``appropriate financial compensation'' for the 50 U.S. hostages in Iran once they are released. ``They should receive more than a medal or a welcome-home celebration,'' said Rep. William S. Broomfield, R-Mich. The nonbinding resolution does not specify a dollar amount. But Rep. Jonathan B. Bingham, D-N.Y., the chief sponsor, said ``Congress would look with disfavor on mere token awards.'' The proposal was approved by voice vote, but final action was delayed until Tuesday for a formal roll call vote. While vowing financial restitution for the hostages, the resolution also expresses ``determination to spare no effort to maintain Americw's honor and obtain the safe release of the hostages.'' Rep. Clement J. Zablocki, chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, told the House that captivity can't help but take a psychological toll on the hostages, who have been held since Nov. 4 in the U.S. Embassy in Tehran. ``It may take some time for them to overcome this ordeal. This helps to financially alleviate the trauma to which they have been subjected,'' Zablocki, D-Wisc., said. Not all members were enthusiastic about the resolution. Rep. James M. Collins, R-Texas, complained that, ``We should never speak about the price of patriotism.'' And Rep. Robert E. Bauman, R-Md., said if the hostages are to be paid, the money should come from frozen Iranian assets in this country. He said paying them out of U.S. funds would set a bad precedent. Bingham said, while the money might eventually be charged against the frozen Iranian accounts, ``the hostages should not have to wait. ``I agree that you cannot put a price on patriotism, but these were entirely unexpected obligations that they were exposed to,'' Bingham said. ``The U.S. government should take the appropriate action.'' He said he did not know how much would be the right amount to pay the hostages, but said the $5-a-day the government award to U.S. prisoners of war in Vietnam was so low it was ``a disgrace.' ****1356EST 0577 *** r w *** AM-Thatcher 12-17 0489 *** t0030 *** d s *** AM-FBN--Giants 12-17 0513 Giants Coach Ray Perkins planned to take Monday and Tuesday off before beginning preparations Wednesday for the 1980 National Football League season. ``This season was a big learning process for all of us, the players as well. I eagerly look forward to next season and I'll start working for next season Wednesday,'' Perkins said Monday, one day after the Giants completed their second straight 6-10 season. New York played perhaps it worst overall game, dropping a 31-7 decision to the Baltimore Colts. ``We've got some players that realize we need some more talent. We got some spots to fill on offense as well as defense. We want to upgrade our backup people so we don't have to use frontline players 25-30 plays on the special teams, like (Brad) Van Pelt and (Brian) Kelley,'' he added. Losing miserably to Baltimore put a damper on a season during which Perkins felt the Giants made significant strides. After losing their first five, they won six of eight _ including four in a row _ before losing their last three. ``I think we lost that intensity the second half of the Dallas game (in game No. 14),'' Perkins. ``It was kind of obvious we had quite a few guys who weren't busting their tail. I'm disappointed to end the season like that, especially in front of our fans. Both they and us deserve better.'' Perkins was at a severe handicap preparing for the 1979 season because General Manager George Young got his job Feb. 14 and Perkins was hired Feb. 22. A three month public feud between Giants owners Wellington and Tim Mara set the team back in its search for new leadership. ``The biggest thing I learned in my first year is that it's really tough for a new coach and staff to go in and evaluate totally with just three mini-camps and training camp,'' he said. ``It takes more of an extended period of time to formulate a track record _ now we have that.'' The Giants' defense is solid, but there's no depth. The offense can use help on the line, fullback, tight end and a breakaway type runner. ``There won't be wholesale changes, but we'll look to upgrade wherever we can,'' Perkins said. ``George and I will have to sit down. This is the exciting part of this business, the guts of this business _ personnel. We will try to upgrade without trading the future away. We're not going to trade real good players unless we got players backing up now in that position.'' The Giants will have the eighth pick in the first round of the draft, no choice in the second round, and then a selection on every round thereafter, with two selections in the seventh. ``From the fifth round on it's like shooting darts,'' Perkins said. ``We have to do a good job of seeing as many people as we can _ we got a lot of work to do.'' ****1358EST 0578 *** d w *** AM-Kennedy 12-17 0569 *** p0633 *** u w *** PM-CongressRdp 1stLd-Writethru p4180 12-17 0692 *** f0062 *** r f *** AM-ElectronicMail 12-17 0417 The Postal Service received a green light Monday to offer an electronic mail service, a concept that eventually could significantly change the tradition-laden U.S. Mail. Under the electronic mail concept, letters are not carried from the sender to the receiver. Instead, modern electronic technology is harnessed to bounce computerized messages off satellites or send them over wires. A facsimile of the original message is printed at a receiving post office and delivered with the regular mail. The service approved by the Postal Rate Commission is designed for business mailers, but the commission said it approved of the concept of electronic mail. This is important for individual mailers because the Postal Service is preparing proposals for other electronic services designed for them. Telecommunications firms have opposed the electronic mail concept, saying the government should not offer services that private companies want to provide. Private electronic message networks already are in use and experts think they will expand greatly as the technology advances in coming years. Under the specific service approved by the commission, businesses could use private telecommunications companies that employ electronic technology to send messages to specially equipped post offices. The service would be appropriate for the types of mail already going to computerized lists, such as bills sent to a company's customers. Commission Chairman A. Lee Fritschler said individuals are unlikely to use this type of computerized mail service ``unless they have a Christmas card list that boggles the mind.'' However, other electronic mail services that could be adopted could supplant a large part of the current mail volume in future decades. Fritschler said the larger issue in the case was whether the Postal Service would be allowed to enter the electronic mail area. The answer was yes. The commission's action is a ``recommended decision'' that the Postal Service still will have to approve before the service can be offered. The commission modified the Postal Service's proposal for ``electronic computer originated mail'' before approving it. Fritschler said the differences were such that ``the Postal Service would not be inhibited at all from entry'' into the field. These modifications include decentralizing the plan and providing for more competition. Instead of contracting with a single common carrier, as the Postal Service had proposed, the commission's recommended system would allow competing communications firms to compete over connections at the 25 ``serving post offices'' around the nation. ****1400EST 0063 *** r f *** BC-So.St.PaulLivestock 12-17 0275 Cattle and calves 3,500 Monday; slaughter steers slow steady to weak; a few loads yield grade 3 and 4 1175-1300 lbs unsold at 10 a.m; slaughter heifers slow; mostly steady slaughter cows moderately active steady; slaughter bulls steady; choice 2-4 1050-1250 lbs slaughter steers 64.50-65.50; 3-4 1150-1350 lbs 63.00-64.50; mixed good and choice 2-3 1000-1200 lbs 64.00-64.50; good 1-3 62.50-64.00; choice 2-3 1200-1500 lb Holsteins 60.00-60.50; mixed good and choice 2-3 59.00-60.00; good 1-2 1100-1500 lbs 57.00-59.00; choice 2-4 900-1100 lb slaughter heifers 64.00-65.00; mixed good and choice 2-3 800-1100 lbs 63.00-64.00; good 1-3 750-1150 lbs 58.00-63.00; utility and commercial 2-4 slaughter cows 46.00-49.50; high dressing at 50.00; cutter 1-3 45.00-47.50; canner and low cutter 1-2 40.00-45.00; yield grade 1-2 1400-2100 lb slaughter bulls 56.00-60.00; 1000-1400 lbs 51.00-57.00; medium frame No. 1 feeder steers 925-1075 lb fleshy 65.00-68.00; vealers 300; steady choice and prime 140-250 lbs 75.00-85.00; few 90.00100.00; good and choice 100-140 lbs 50.00-75.00; 70-100 lbs 30.00-50.00. Hogs 8,800, including 2,800 feeder pigs; barrows and gilts active; 50-1.00 higher; weights over 250 lbs 50-1.50 higher; 1-2 200-250 lbs 40.00; few lots 40.50; 1-3 240-260 lbs 39.00-40.00; weights over 250 lbs rather scarce; 1-3 260-280 lbs 37.00-39.00; 2-3 280-300 lbs 35.00-37.00; 2-3 300-350 lbs 33.00-35.00; sows active 2.00-3.00 higher; 1-3 300-650 lbs 32.00-32.50; boars over 300 lbs 21.50-22.00. Sheep 600; all classes steady; choice and prime 90-120 lb wooled slaughter lambs 63.00-66.00; choice and prime 90-120 lbs shorn slaughter lambs with No. 1 & 2 pelts 64.00-67.00; utility and good slaughter ewes 15.00-20.00; cull 10.00-15.00; choice and fancy feeder lambs 60-90 lbs 65.00-75.00. ****1400EST 0207 *** r s *** AM-FBN--Mazzetti 12-17 0311 *** s0208 *** r s *** AM-BKC-BigSkyPlayers 12-17 0122 Weber State center Richard Smith and Montana guard Craig Vanon were named Monday co-winners of the Big Sky player of the week honor. Vanon, a 6-foot-6 junior, scored 47 points in two games as Montana won its fourth straight game. Vanon connected on 15 of 24 field goal attemts, and had 10 rebounds and two assists as Montana defeated Carroll College and Denver University. Smith, a 7-foot-1 center from Green River, Wyo., scored 53 points and pulled down 24 rebounds in Wildcat victories over Rhode Island, New Mexico and St. Francis. Others nominated for the weekly honor were Idaho forward Gordie Hurbert, Idaho State center Joe Fezekas and Northern Arizona Center Mike Evans. ****1401EST 0579 *** d a *** AM-AtomicWorkers 12-17 0348 *** e0215 *** d n *** AM-NH-Ski 12-17 0188 *** p0634 *** d w *** AM-Kennedy 12-17 0569 *** a0580 *** r a *** AM-CTAStrike Bjt 12-17 0661 *** p0635 *** d w *** AM-Thatcher 12-17 0489 *** p0636 *** d a *** AM-AtomicWorkers 12-17 0348 Union members began returning to work Monday following the settlement of a seven-month strike at Goodyear Atomic Corp.'s uranium enrichment plant, the only facility in the nation producing enriched uranium for nuclear weapons. The walkout by 1,500 members of the Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers union Local 3-689 had not stopped the plant's operation, company officials said. Company spokesman Tim Matchett said strikers would be given a week to return to work. ``There are a lot of adminstrative things to be done,'' he said. ``There's the transition from two shifts of 12 hours back to three 8-hour rotating shifts. There are work assignments to be given. But the (uranium enrichment) process continues to run for 24 hours like it has for 27 years.'' The plant, which is controlled by the U.S. Department of Energy, is one of three in the nation that produce enriched uranium fuel for nuclear reactors and is the only facility producing enriched uranium that can be used in nuclear weapons and submarine reactors. The highly automated nature of the enrichment process enabled the plant to continue operations throughout the strike with supervisors carrying out the duties of union members. Many of the 1,500 strikers are painters, carpenters, groundskeepers or other maintenance workers whose services ultimately are essential to the plant but are not necessary for the daily production of enriched uranium, plant officials said. The strikers on Sunday approved a contract calling for pay raises of 8 percent the first year, 7 percent the second and 6 percent the third. The pact also provides for cost-of-living adjustments and improvement in health benefits and the pension plan. Local president Dennis Bloomfield also said the pact retains portions of the previous contract concerning seniority rights and other work rules that the company had wanted to drop. The strike, which was the third at the plant since 1978, began last May 3 in a dispute over those seniority issues. But the dispute later took in other issues, including wages and plant safety. ****1408EST 0121 *** r n *** AM-SolarFridge 12-17 0305 *** f0070 *** u f *** PM-WallStreet2pm 12-17 0249 *** g0085 *** r n *** AM-HardmanRetirement 12-17 0262 *** e0216 *** d n *** AM-FuelUse 12-17 0317 New Hampshire fuel dealers say warm weather and an increased use of wood for heating have put a large dent in the state's use of fuel oil thus far this winter. Some fuel dealers say oil use is down about 50 percent, others say sales are down about 30 percent, but they all agree the decreased consumption cannot be attributed solely to balmy temperatures. Hank Downey, sales manager for New Hampshire's largest heating oil supplier, Sprague Energy, said he has spoken to nearly 90 heating oil dealers throughout the state over the past several weeks ``and while it's early to tell what the ultimate impact will be sales by some dealers are off by as much as 50 percent.'' ``The balance of decreased consumption are the result of conservation measures, some switching to the use of natural gas, and dramatic increases in the use of wood heating,'' he said. Stacey Cole, of the New Hampshire Petroleum Council, a group that represents major petroleum suppliers, said: ``I think there's a lot of the old New England belief in self-reliance causing the decreased consumption of oil. As a result people are using wood and as long as they see trees growing they feel safe.'' Wilfred Hall, executive director of the Better Home Heating Council, said he believes sales by dealers are down about 20 percent, of which 10 percent can be attributed to the weather. ``If indeed the average fuel oil customer is saving 10 percent, his rate of savings will have doubled over last year. The average homeowner was burning 1,000 gallons of fuel two years ago, this year it should be down to 850 gallons,'' he said. He also said that some fuel oil dealers are concerned because decreased sales mean lower profits, which combined with the difficulty in getting prompt payments could drive some dealers out of business. ****1412EST 0031 *** u s *** PM-FBN--RiceFired 12-17 0062 *** s0209 *** u s *** PM-FBN--RiceFired 12-17 0062 *** p0637 *** r a *** AM-CTAStrike Bjt 12-17 0661 The nation's highest paid transit workers defied a court order and struck Chicago's bus and train system on Monday, leaving a million commuters to fend for themselves on the coldest day so far this fall. Rush hour traffic swelled in the nation's second-largest city as thousands of additional cars crowded onto freeways. Private suburban commuter railroads added cars and reworked their schedules, but the trains were packed and ran late. Many youngsters walked to school in the bitter cold but others did not bother trying. The temperature was only a few degrees above zero early in the morning and a high of 20 was forecast. Chicago Transit Authority spokesman Bill Baxa said there were no plans to use supervisors to provide service in place of the 11,000 strikers. ``There are not enough to make it effective,'' he said. The strike, the first to hit the city transit system in 57 years, was expected to hurt downtown businesses during the important Christmas shopping season. But it was good for cab companies. Business was ``absolutely fantastic,'' said Jerry Feldman, president of Checker Taxi Co. ``It's what's called a cab driver's dream.'' Feldman said every available cab hit the street, and drivers honored a City Hall request to take as many passengers as possible. The key issue in the strike is management's attempt to end a long-time contract provision requiring unlimited pay adjustments for inflation. The clause has boosted bus drivers' wages to $10.58 an hour, highest in the nation. In New York, meanwhile, the Long Island Rail Road was back in operation Monday after President Carter ordered a temporary halt to a week-long strike. The line carries about 180,000 riders a day. And in Boston, officials of the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority were threatening to shut the transit system down for the rest of the year unless the agency's advisory board comes up with an additional $15.8 million in operating funds. That system carries more than 200,000 people a day. The Chicago transit system shut down at 3 a.m. as motormen stopped their trains and drivers took their buses back to garages. Eugene Barnes, transit authority chairman, said the best way to get the strikers back on the job was to make sure they were informed of the injunction issued Sunday night against the strike. Mayor Jane Byrne noted union leaders would not be in defiance of the court order until they were formally notified, and officials were preparing the orders for serving Monday. The mayor had said previously that unemployed people would be hired if necessary to keep the buses and trains running. But Monday, she said: ``I don't believe it will have to go that far. I think the drivers will abide by the law. The law hasn't been broken until the papers are served.'' However, bus driver James E. Jones said: ``If they (union leaders) say a strike is the way to go, that's the way we go. We're 11,000 strong.'' Cook County Circuit Judge Donald J. O'Brien, who issued the temporary restraining order, scheduled a hearing for Wednesday on a transit authority suit seeking $500,000 a day from the union in damages for each day of the strike. Officials of the Amalgamated Transit Union Locals 241 and 308, which reprzsent the strikers, said management's ``contempt'' for its employees had brought on the strike. John M. Weatherspoon, president of Local 241, predicted the strike would last ``only a week or two.'' Union workers have been without a contract since Dec. 1. The union leadership and transit authority announced an agreement Dec. 8 to put a 14 percent ceiling on the cost-of-living adjustment, but workers rejected the agreement. Union members said they had made contract concessions and received nothing in return. Other contract issues were unsettled when the walkout was called. ****1414EST 0210 *** d s *** AM-BBC-RITourney-430 12-17 0391 *** g0086 *** d n *** AM-NH-Ski 12-17 0188 *** e0217 *** d n *** AM-HardmanRetirement 12-17 0262 *** a0581 *** u w *** PM-CongressRdp 2ndLd-Writethru a0575 12-17 0713 The Senate voted today to limit debate on the oil ``windfall-profits'' tax, indicating final action on the measure could come later in the day. The vote to invoke cloture, which limits debate and bars consideration of unrelated amendments, was 84-14. Three earlier attempts had failed to gain the 60 affirmative votes necessary. With final action on the tax bill approaching, the Senate rejected on technical grounds an amendment aimed at ensuring that a bigger share of oil-industry earnings are reinvested in energy projects. The parliamentarian ruled the amendment out of order on grounds it introduced a new subject _ reinvestment _ into the bill written by the Finance Committee. The rejected amendment, sponsored by Sen. Henry M. Jackson, D-Wash., chairman of the Energy Committee, required producers to put back into energy development all oil revenues that benefit from a lower level of ``windfall'' tax. Failure to do so would subject those revenues to the full tax rate. A frequent complaint during congressional consideration of energy legislation in recent years has been that oil companies are moving their profits out of energy development and into more lucrative investments. Jackson's proposal would apply to revenues that are subject to a windfall tax of only 10 or 20 percent, rather than the general tax rate of up to 75 percent. Once the tax bill is disposed of, Democratic Leader Robert C. Byrd will try to force quick action on a bill to aid the financially strapped Chrysler Corp. The company says it is facing bankruptcy early next year without such assistance. The House will start voting Tuesday on one version of the Chrysler bill. Three versions are pending in the Senate, but how quickly one can be passed depends in large part on whether opponents attempt a filibuster. Sen. Lowell Weicker, R-Conn., who had been quoted earlier as saying he would filibuster, said Saturday he has not decided what to do. If he or any other opponent desires, the bill could be delayed for days just by a prolonged discussion of whether it could even be brought up for consideration. The tax bill and Chrysler aid are the two major issues leaders want to complete before ending the first session of the 96th Congress. A month-long recess is due to start Friday. Unless both measures are enacted by that time, Byrd has said, senators will have to come back to work Dec. 27. If the windfall tax is passed today or Tuesday, Senate and House conferees likely could work out a compromise this week between the Senate's $178-billion tax and the $277-billion version passed by the House. That compromise would be subject to a final vote by both chambers, and that would send the bill to President Carter. Still to be considered before the tax bill is passed are, in addition to Jackson's reinvestment proposal, amendments to impose a 50-cent-per-gallon tax on gasoline and to give money savers and investors an income-tax break of up to $200 per person ($400 per couple) per year. The gasoline-tax proposal will not even come up for a vote if, as expected, the Senate agrees to limit debate on the bill. But the second amendment, aimed at encouraging Americans to save more and spend less, is certain to pass. Seventy-seven of the 100 senators are sponsoring it. The windfall tax is a central part of Carter's energy program, designed to provide the money for developing non-oil fuels, improving the nation's transportation system and helping poor Americans pay rising fuel costs. Consumers will pay an estimated $1 trillion in higher fuel costs over the next 11 years because of Carter's decision to phase out price controls on U.S.-produced crude oil in an effort to stimulate greater production. Existing state and local taxes would take about half that ``windfall'' from the oil industry. The new tax, which would capture up to 75 cents out of each dollar of price increase above current levels, would leave the industry with a windfall of roughly $300 billion. While the tax would not apply directly against profits, it would, like any other tax, ultimately mean lower profits. ****1418EST 0407 *** r n *** AM-ForeignInvestment 12-17 0318 The King administration announced a one-stop program Monday __ ``Massachusetts Unlimited'' _ to compete for foreign investments that could create new jobs in the Bay State. Gov. Edward J. King said at a news conference that the program is aimed at creating 5,000 new jobs. It will offer potential investors a single office to aid in the development. King said the state has not been getting its fair share of the foreign dollar. He also announced an application for $400,000 federal grant for a two-year pilot program recruiting foreign investments for the creation of manufacturing jobs in urban areas. Joining King for the unveiling of ``Massachusetts Unlimited'' were former U.S. Rep. Michael J. Harrington, chairman of the Foreign Business Council, and David W. Davis, the governor's successor as executive director of the Massachusetts Port Authority. Massachusetts Unlimited, according to King, will unify efforts of the state Commerce Department, the Port Authority and the Massachusetts Foreign Business Council to seek foreign investments and to expand state exports. It was one of the rare times that Davis, who had been a top campaigner for former Gov. Michael S. Dukakis, appeared in public with the incumbent governor. An attempt in King's first months to restructure MassPort and replace Davis was aborted, largely because of Davis' opposition. Harrington, sitting on his left, introduced Davis, sitting on King's right, rather than the governor. However, at the end of the presentation, King turned to Davis, shook hands and said, ``Thank you, David.'' ``The drop in the dollar has made us essentially what Europe was to us for 20 years after World War II,'' Harrington said. Davis said that cooperation with the King program ``is part of our commitment to the economic vitality of our region.'' He said that Massachusetts Unlimited ``can become another innovative program whose success will herald companies from foreign shores.'' ****1419EST 0211 *** r s *** AM-FBN--Anderson-RushingTitle 12-17 0475 *** m0122 *** r n *** AM-Chad'sBirthday 12-17 0496 *** h0230 *** u s *** PM-FBN--RiceFired 12-17 0052 *** g0087 *** u n *** AM-NHFuelDeliveries 12-17 0410 *** a0582 *** r i *** AM-Israel 12-17 0505 *** e0218 *** u n *** AM-NHFuelDeliveries 12-17 0410 Gov. Hugh Gallen announced Monday that he is asking the state's 240 fuel dealers to be more liberal in giving their customers credit this winter. Gallen announced his voluntary guidelines for the dealers at a news conference. ``I am hoping that the fuel dealers will cooperate with these guidelines, but I learned long ago that it does not work to try to interfere with the private sector, so I am not going to make them mandatory,'' Gallen said. The dealers will be asked to continue delivering fuel to customers, even if they owe from earlier deliveries, if they agree to pay for the new delivery and offer at least 10 percent of the overdue bill. Wilfred Hall, of the New Hampshire Better Home Heat Council, said the council, which represents dealers in the state, had agreed unanimously to support Gallen's guidelines. However, Hall said that because fuel dealers are already straining to meet the high cost of fuel this winter, they will not forced to extend the credit. Normally, fuel dealers do not make deliveries to customers who owe them money unless the customers are part of a fixed-payment plan. The guidelines also say that the deliveries will be made within 48 hours of a customer's request, that there will be a minimum delivery of 100 gallons and that the dealers may, in some cases, impose surcharges. The surcharges may be charged, Gallen suggested, if the deliveries are made after normal business hours or if the customer wants an emergency delivery. Eariler this year, Gallen met with the state's bankers in efforts to get them to extend credit to fuel dealers to enable them to be more liberal with their customers. Hall said that many of the dealers had been able to secure credit from banks but that some marginal fuel dealers were bound to be forced out of business this winter because of high cost and decreased demand. Gallen said also that the $1.2 million sent to New Hampshire by the federal government as the first payment for fuel assistance for the poor and elderly has already been paid out and a second check for the same amount is on the way from Washington. The federal government is committed to sending the state $13.5 million in all this winter for fuel aid assistance. The state began distributing the money earlier this month. ****1425EST 0034 *** d s *** BC-HKO--IzvestiaHockey 12-17 0101 *** g0408 *** r n *** AM-TaxpayersFoundation 12-17 0220 The Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation is demanding further belt-tightening by the state to avert tax increases. In its annual budget summary Monday, the private agency that monitors public spending said projected expenditures for the coming fiscal year cannot be met based on current taxes. ``The alternative is tighter control of state expenditures,'' the MTF reported. ``It should mean a policy of strict enforcement of personnel replacement to bring down payroll costs.'' Richard A. Manley, MTF president, said the problem cannot be estimated accurately because of variables which include the cost of new labor contracts, inflation, and the business recession. ``The state is entering a period of great danger if it does not curtail spending,'' Manley said. ``We would urge members of the administration and the Legislature to steel themselves for some extremely difficult decisions in the year ahead.'' The current $5.6 billion budget was up 8.9 percent, nearly half of which was due to increased local aid. Further, the MTF said, the Legislature authorized a $400 million increase in the state's debt. ``The obvious result,'' the MTF said, ``is a continued rise in our debt service costs. With amortization payments of close to $260 million, the commonewealth continues to add debt at a pace faster than it pays it off.'' ****1426EST 0088 *** r n *** AM-Oil-Canada 12-17 0133 *** s0214 *** d s *** BC-HKO--IzvestiaHockey 12-17 0101 Finland and Czechoslovakia tied 4-4 Monday in a hard-fought match in the Izvestia Ice Hockey Tournament and Sweden crushed Canada 7-2 Monday. Finland built a 3-1 lead in the first period before the Czechs rallied and went ahead 4-3. Bohuslav Ebermann scored a pair of goals for Czechoslovakia. Tapio Koskinen's goal with three minutes left in the final period enabled the Finns to salvage the tie. A five-goal outburst in the second period carried Sweden to its victory over Canada, which lost its second game. Steve Tambellini and Kevin Primeau scored for the Canadians. ****1426EST 0583 *** d a *** AM-PlaneCrash 12-17 0323 *** g0089 *** r n *** AM-Ford-Canada 12-17 0083 *** e0219 *** r n *** AM-Oil-Canada 12-17 0133 The Toronto Star says a top Iranian oil official has warned that Canada will not be given a drop of oil to replace supplies lost during the Iran-U.S. crisis. The newspaper quoted the official as saying this is a means of punishing Canada for ``not dealing with Iran directly in the past and relying instead on Big Daddy American oil companies.'' The official, speaking on condition his name not be used, said he was involved in setting policies of the National Iranian Oil Co., which handles production and sales of Iran's oil. Last year, Canada imported $590 million worth of Iranian crude, much of it through American multinational companies. This year, Canada bought $525 million worth, about 5 percent of all its oil imports for the year. ****1428EST 0073 *** u f *** BC-Dollar-Gold 12-17 0514 *** p0638 *** u f *** PM-WallStreet2pm 12-17 0237 The stock market moved ahead slightly in active trading today as Wall Street waited for developments from a meeting of oil-exporting countries in Caracas. The Dow Jones average of 30 industrials managed a 4.60 gain to 847.35 by 2 p.m. Advances outnumbered declines by a 5-4 margin in the over-all tally of New York Stock Exchange-listed issues. At the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries meeting, which convened today, Shiek Ahmed Zaki Yamani of Saudi Arabia said he did not expect any further price increases beyond those announced in the past week by various OPEC members. Saudi Arabia and several other countries considered to be OPEC's ``moderates'' announced price hikes last week to $24 a barrel, in what was interpreted as a move to forestall some larger increases sought by the militant forces within the cartel. But those forces were still pushing for higher prices. Gulf Oil led the active list, up 1[ at 36}. A 256,200-share block traded at 36. Most other energy issues also gained ground, including Mobil, up 1} at 59[; Texaco, up | at 29}, and Standard Oil of California, { higher at 58~. But Exxon slipped [ to 56\. The NYSE's composite index rose .36 to 62.71. At the American Stock Exchange, the market value index jumped 4.02 to 244.63. Volume on the Big Board reached 30.37 million shares with two hours to go. ****1429EST 0074 *** r f *** PM-BoardofTrade Open 12-17 0067 *** f0075 *** u f *** PM-BoardofTrade 1stLd 12-17 0063 *** f0076 *** r f *** BC-Butter-Eggs 12-17 0038 (USDA) _ Butter: issued only on Tuesday, Thursday and Friday. Eggs steady Monday; carton sales delivered to volume buyers unchanged: A extra large 76-78; A large 74{-75; A mediums 69{-70. ****1429EST 0035 *** d s *** AM-FBN--Mazzetti 12-17 0314 The discovery came too late to salvage a losing season, but Atlanta Falcons placekicker Tim Mazzetti says he has found the reason for his kicking slump. ``It was such a simple thing,'' Mazzetti said after he kicked four extra points and a field goal in the Falcons' 31-21 National Football League victory over San Francisco on Sunday. ``I was setting up with my plant-foot six inches too close to the ball.'' Mazzetti, who had the best field goal percentage in the National Football Conference last year, missed six extra points and 12 field goals during the 1979 season. At least two of the missed field goals would have meant a victory or a tie. Mazzetti said he discovered the key to his problem before Sunday's game with San Francisco, the last match of the season for both teams. ``Somebody made an off-the-wall comment: `You sure line up close to the ball,''' he said. ``I checked and noticed it was true. You figure our everything _ how to keep your head down, how you're aiming _ and you don't even see something that simple. ``As I approached the ball, I was stopping. I wasn't swinging through. I had no consistency.'' Mazzetti said he'd like to put the season behind him now. ``I've gone through a slump as bad as any kicker in the league,'' he said. ``Every time I've been out there it's been an adventure. There have been times I've come close to hanging it up. I could never go through a season like this again.'' But the Atlanta placekicker, a former bartender, is hoping the Falcons will give him another chance next year. ``They're gonna bring in somebody,'' he said. ``Maybe several people. Maybe a draft pick. But that will be good for me. I've been through it (competition for the job) before, and I've kicked well.'' ****1430EST 0090 *** r n *** AM-Telco-Canada 12-17 0064 *** p0640 *** r i *** AM-Israel 12-17 0505 Prime Minister Menachem Begin's government Monday won a crucial vote in Parliament on an abortion measure, preventing a walkout by a religious party that would have virtually wrecked the ruling coalition. The vote was seen by observers as a test of Begin's powers of survival because coalition dissenters passed up an opportunity on the abortion issue to deliver a crippling blow to the government. By a 58-53 vote, the Knesset repealed a clause in the law allowing legal abortions in social hardship cases. Nine Knesset members were absent or abstained. The ultra-orthodox Agudat Israel party withdrew its threat to leave the coalition following the vote. The departure of the four-man party would have left the coalition with a threadbare 61-59 seat majority. The same bill was defeated in a 54-54 tie one month ago, sparking the crisis that threatened to bring down the government. Coalition members agreed the two-seat majority could not last more than a few weeks. The earlier attempt failed with the help of nine coalition defectors, among them several who clearly were unhappy with Begin's policies on finance and on building Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank of Jordan. To prevent an immediate walkout by the four rabbis of Agudat Israel, Begin invoked a law allowing him to eject ministers from the Cabinet whose supporters voted against the government bill. In effect, he turned the abortion issue into a vote of confidence. The refusal of the rebels to oppose the bill Monday in defiance of coalition discipline was a clear sign that they were not ready to risk new elections. Agudat opposed the abortion law two years ago, but made peace with those clauses allowing the abortion to save the mother's life. ``But we saw the social clause as a desecration,'' said Rabbi Shlomo Lorencz after the vote. The bill must still pass two more votes before taking effect, but the lineup was not likely to change. Close to half of the 18,000 abortions performed last year under legal supervision were carried out for social or economic reasons. Outside the Knesset building, about 100 social welfare workers staged an angry demonstration. The visitor's gallery was filled to capacity, mostly by women who applauded at each ``nay'' vote during the roll call. Public opinion polls said about 70 percent of those questioned were against the repeal of the social clause. Begin's adviser on women''s affairs, Rifka Bar-Yosef, resigned in protest. Critics say the repeal measure would mainly affect lower income women, since unsupervised abortions are available privately for about $400.. Begin beamed as Knesset Speaker Yitzhak Shamir announced the results and shook hands with his Cabinet colleagues. Joseph Tamir, a veteran of the Liberal party in Begin's Likud bloc, announced he was leaving the coalition, partly in protest against the decision to force coalition members to vote against their consciences. At the same time, an independent member, Assaf Yaguri, said he was joining the Likud, preserving Begin's 10-seat Knesset advantage. ****1430EST 0220 *** r n *** AM-Ford-Canada 12-17 0083 The first recall of Ford Motor Co. of Canada Ltd. employees in Ontario was announced Monday, and a company spokesman said it indicates that auto production at other plants will rally. Fifty-seven employees at the company's glass plant in Niagara Falls will return to their jobs Jan. 7, Ford spokesman Tony Fredo said. Some of the workers have been laid off since August. The recall leaves 14 hourly rated employees on layoff at the plant. ****1430EST 0639 *** d a *** AM-PlaneCrash 12-17 0323 *** g0409 *** r n *** BC-GasHearing 12-17 0079 A public hearing on gasoline rationing will be held at the Statehouse by the federal Department of Energy Jan. 3-4. The department's regional office also announced Monday that other regional hearings will be held the same days in Chicago, New Orleans, San Francisco and Washington. The agency is seeking public comment on proposed rationing plans which would be imposed in the event of a 20 percent gasoline shortfall. ****1431EST 0584 *** d w *** AM-Banking 12-17 0503 *** e0221 *** r n *** AM-Telco-Canada 12-17 0064 Soon, switchboards won't light up like Christmas trees, as the cliche goes, in St. John's. The plug-in switchboard will be a thing of the past for telephone operators by the time next Christmas season rolls around. The Newfoundland Telephone Co. says it is installing a computerized Traffic Operator Position System to replace the old-fashioned board. ****1432EST 0585 *** d a *** AM-Gurfein 12-17 0348 *** t0036 *** d s *** AM-FBN--Anderson-Rushing 12-17 0483 Ottis Anderson said tears welled in his eyes as he stood idly on the sidelines and watched the final quarter of the St. Louis Cardinals' humiliating loss to the Chicago Bears. He realized that the National Football League rushing title he wanted so much would elude him. ``Even after the great year I've had,'' he said following the Cardinals' 42-6 setback at the hands of the Chicago Bears, ``I came to realize that the rushing title just wasn't meant for me to have.'' Anderson, a 6-foot-2, 210-pounder out of Miami of Florida, had entered the season finale in Chicago with a 3-yard advantage over Houston's Earl Campbell for the NFL lead and a 113-yard advantage over the Bears' Walter Payton in the National Football Conference race. ``I knew I'd definitely need to run for over 100 yards to have a chance. I figured that Houston was going to give Earl the ball enough times that he'd get a 100, but I was looking for the 100-plus day,'' said Anderson, who established a record for yards rushing in a season by a rookie. But Anderson, who was forced to leave the game in the third quarter with a bruised knee, only was able to gain 39 yards in 14 carries against the Bears' stingy defense. Campbell, meanwhile, rushed for 134 yards against Philadelphia to claim the NFL crown with 1,697 yards for the season. And to add insult to injury, Payton _ who had all but been counted out of the race _ rolled up 157 yards in 33 carries and wrested the NFC title away with 1,610 yards to Anderson's 1,605. ``You can never count a man out,'' said Anderson, who admitted he was disappointed but not really upset. ``I'd said it all week. `Look out for Walter too.' I know how this game is and how things can turn around from day to day. ``A lot of the veterans were telling me not to worry about it. I could see what they meant when they said don't go out there if you hurt too bad,'' said Anderson. ``I've played hurt before, but when it's the knee you don't mess around.'' Anderson said the rushing title was a team goal. ``We came here (Chicago) to do two things. First we wanted to win the game and second we wanted to get the rushing title,'' Anderson said. ``We failed on both, but the effort was there. There's always next year.'' ``I gave it my best. I'm just sorry I couldn't do more for the people who did the blocking for me. They wanted that title just as much as I did.'' Anderson smiled when he was asked to sum up his rookie year as briefly as possible. ``Exciting, different and a lot of fun,'' he said. ****1433EST 0124 *** r n *** AM-HardmanRetirement 12-17 0262 James A. Hardman Jr., editor of the Transcript of North Adams since 1946, announced his retirement Monday effective Dec. 31, ending a 46-year career at the newspaper. The 70-year-old Hardman's announcement, which was made in a letter to Transcript employees, ends an association between his family and the newspaper that dates back to 1896. In that year his grandparents, Aaron W. Hardman and Susan Bryant Hardman, purchased the Transcript shortly after it had become a daily newspaper. Hardman, who was born in New York City, spent most of his childhood in North Adams, where his father was editor and publisher of the Transcript. After graduation from Deerfield Academy, Hardman took his first newspaper job with the New York Journal. He subsequently worked for the Middletown (Conn.) Press and the Biddeford Journal and Sanford Tribune in Maine. He returned to North Adams in 1933 to join his family's newspaper as a reporter. During World War II he became the Transcript's managing edtor, and in 1946 he succeeded his father as editor and became co-publisher with his brother, Robert Hardman. He stepped down as publisher but remained editor in 1976, the year the Transcript was purchased by Affiliated Publications Inc., parent company of The Boston Globe. Earlier this month it was announced that the paper would be purchased by Ingersoll Publications Co. of Sharon, Conn. Hardman is a member of the American Society of Newspaper Editors, the New England Society of Newspaper Editors and the National Conference of Editorial Writers. ****1434EST 0586 *** r w *** AM-Chrysler 12-17 0488 *** a0587 *** d a *** AM-IllTenants 12-17 0234 *** a0588 *** r i *** AM-CassavaGas Bjt 12-17 0534 *** p0645 *** r w *** AM-Chrysler 12-17 0488 *** p0642 *** d w *** AM-Banking 12-17 0503 *** p0643 *** d a *** AM-Gurfein 12-17 0348 Judge Murray I. Gurfein of the 2nd U.S. Court of Appeals, who issued a historic injunction in the Pentagon Papers case, has died at his home in Manhattan. He was 72. Gurfein, born and educated in New York City, was appointed to the appeals court in 1974 after serving as a federal district court judge in the Southern District in Manhttan since 1971. Gurfein died Sunday. Public announcement of his death was made Monday by Chief Judge Irving R. Kaufman at the opening of the court's session in Foley Square. ``Words cannot express the scope of a life as rich and meaningful as his,'' Kaufman said. ``He was a superior scholar and a beloved friend to us all. He leaves a void in this court and we shall miss him.'' Survivors include his wife, Eva Hadras, two married daughters and six grandchildren. Funeral services were scheduled for 2 p.m. on Tuesday at Riverside Memorial Chapel in Manhattan with burial at Mount Hebron Cemetery in Flushing, Queens. During his earlier career, Gurfein established himself as an able prosecutor and trial lawyer. From 1931 to 1933, he served as an assistant prosecutor in the office of the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District. He also served as an assistant with the late Gov. Thomas E. Dewey from 1935 to 1938 when Dewey was a special state anti-rackets prosecutor. During World War II, Gurfein was an Army officer and later assisted in the prosecution of Nazi war criminals at the Nuremburg trials. On becoming a federal judge in 1971, one of Gurfein's first cases was the government effort to stop the New York Times from publishing the so-called Pentagon Papers, government documents on the origin and conduct of the Vietnam war. Gurfein issued a temporary restraining order, blocking the newspaper from publishing the documents until he made a final decision. He eventually ruled that the newspaper had a right to publish the papers. The case went to the U.S. Supreme Court, which upheld the Times' right to publish the papers. ****1439EST 0037 *** d s *** BC-AustralianTennis 12-17 0260 *** s0216 *** d s *** BC-AustralianTennis 12-17 0260 Former Israeli Army Sgt. Shlomo Glickstein upset defending champion Tim Wilkison of the United States 6-2, 6-4 Monday in the first round of the New South Wales Open tennis tournament. The little-known Glickstein treated the crowd to a scintillating display of power tennis in blitzing the seventh-seeded Wilkison. ``I've only been playing tennis outside Israel since finishing my national service in March,'' Glickstein said. ``I'm ranked No.1 at home, but I think my world rating is only about 265.'' Glickstein, whose trip to Australia was sponsored by the owners of a large tennis complex near Tel Aviv, had to win three qualifying matches before making the first round. ``After getting through the qualifying rounds, I was a little disappointed when I discovered I'd be playing last year's winner,'' Glickstein said. ``But I am becoming used to that sort of thing. In Stockholm recently, I made it through the qualifying rounds and then drew John McEnroe first.'' Glickstein took McEnroe to three sets before losing 6-0, 3-6, 6-3. Against Wilkison, Glickstein won the first set easily. The second set looked destined for a tie-breaker, but in the 10th game with Glickstein leading 5-4, Wilkison's game came apart. Wilkison had rocketed to a 40-0 lead on service, but was helpless as Glickstein rallied to take the next five points and the match. ``That wasn't one of my better performances,'' said Wilkison. While Wilkison was losing, there were several American winners in the first round, including Sherwood Stewart, Bill Maze, George Hardie and Hank Pfister. ****1439EST 0646 *** d a *** AM-IllTenants 12-17 0234 A mysterious allergy-like reaction has struck a number of residents of a new apartment complex in this San Francisco suburb, health officials said Monday. ``We've been sick for months,'' said Carol Funk, manager of the 123-unit Amberwood Apartments which houses 150 elderly and handicapped tenants. She said residents have complained of headaches, congestion, sore throats, itchiness, dizzy spells, and swelling and watery eyes. Many residents have consulted doctors individually, but didn't immediately realize the problem was spread throughout the complex, she added. Jose Ibara, an industrial hygienist at the San Mateo County Department of Occupational Health, said a sample of carpet from the apartments is being checked to see if it is to blame. ``Right now, we don't know what's causing the symptoms,'' said Ibara. ``There are lots of possibilities.'' A chemist for the county, Martha Waters, said possible sources of chemical contaminants include paint, carpets, carpet pads, glue used on the pads, compounds used in particle board and plywood cabinets and ceiling materials. ``We may never know the answer,'' she said. The $5 million-complex opened in March. Rents are subsidized by the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development. Fire Marshal Ray Ganma said he knows of nothing unusual being used in the buildings. ``It was a normal project. I don't know what's going on,'' Ganma said. ****1440EST 0648 *** u f *** BC-Glance 12-17 0022 Markets at a glance: ****1440EST 0218 *** r s *** AM-BKC--SouthernPlayer 12-17 0085 Western Carolina's Ronnie Carr, a freshman scoring at nearly a point a minute, was named Monday as the Southern Conference basketball player of the week. Carr, a 6-foot-3 forward, scored 59 points in 64 minutes of playing time as the Catamounts beat Davidson and Appalachian State last week. For the week, Carr made 28 of 48 attempts from the floor, mostlsy on long jumpers. Carr was a unanimous choice of sportswriters and broadcasters participating in the poll. ****1443EST 0649 *** r i *** AM-CassavaGas Bjt 12-17 0534 Cassava, the tropical plant that produces tapioca, is being used as a source for alcohol to supplement or replace more expensive gasoline and experts here have high hopes for it. For several years Brazil has been using some of its massive sugar cane output to produce substantial quantities of alcohol as a fuel or fuel additive. But a pound of cassava yields three times as much alcohol as sugar cane so the government built a plant here, 385 miles north of Rio de Janeiro, to crank out 16,000 gallons of alcohol from the root daily. ``Our cassava distillery basically is an experiment, even though it's already producing on a relatively large scale. The idea is for Brazil to structure knowhow in this field, which is completely new,'' said Vicente Menezes Ferreira, an alcohol specialist with Petrobras, the government oil company. Brazil has drawn world attention for its work with gasahol _ a gasoline alcohol mix for cars _ and one fuel outlet in the nearby city of Belo Horizante routinely sells gas with a 20 percent cassava alcohol mix, which cars can use without modification. About 2,000 cars in the nation are designed to run strictly on alcohol and the auto industry plans to have 250,000 alcohol-run cars in operation by next year. Officials said alcohol-burning cars get 10-15 percent poorer mileage than gas burners because alcohol is a lower octane, but they point out sugar-produced alcohol costs $1.01 a gallon, while premium gasoline costs $3 a gallon, and Brazil imports 85 percent of its oil. The chief engineer at the Curvelo plant, Paulo Augusto Correa da Silva, says cassava fuel could be sold for 89 cents a gallon. ``Everybody knows gasoline prices will keep going up. Cassava fuel, however, will become cheaper,'' Correa da Silva said. ``Our production methods here will become more efficient, and our costs will come down. ``Cassava, of course, is a renewable fuel _ unlike oil. When you need more cassava, you just plant it. And this stuff grows anywhere _ even in fields full of rocks,'' said da Silva. Cassava is a plant with fat starchy roots that look like wrinkled, elongated potatoes. The roots are eaten like sweet potatoes, or ground into tapioca, or fermented into a liquor. Indians have been cultivating the plant for 1,000 years, and its production has been basically limited to small subsistence patches, mostly by Indians, but the government, if its experiment works, undoubtedly will begin major cultivation. ``We want to change cassava from something you plant for eating to something you plant for selling,'' one Petrobras executive said. Most farmers now get six or seven tons of cassava per acre, and agronomists say with modern farming techniques, the total could be pushed up to 25 tons an acre. Production of cassava for alcohol leaves a brown sludge, which is highly toxic and could endanger plants and animals and pollute water supplies, officials said. But scientists are said to be experimenting with methods to neutralize the byproduct, then turn it into a high-potassium fertilizer to be sprayed on cassava fields to increase production. ****1444EST 0589 *** d w *** AM-Kennedy 1stLd-Writethru a0578 12-17 0605 *** f0077 *** a f *** AM-ExplainingtheEconomy- 12-17 0737 The prime rate is the most closely watched interest rate around, but it affects most people only indirectly and is set as a result of a complex combination of economic and political forces. The rate has now dropped to 15 percent at many banks, from the high of 15} percent set last month. Some analysts are confident the rate will keep declining, but others think the low may have been reached and the next move will be upward. Following are some questions and answers about the prime rate. Q. Who pays the prime rate? A. Banks charge the rate to their best corporate customers, and many loan agreements provide that the interest rate on outstanding loans will change when the bank changes its prime rate. In addition, other commercial and industrial borrowers pay rates based on the prime rate, such as two points over the rate, which would now mean 17 percent, or 110 percent of the rate, which would now be 15.5 percent. Q. Does the rate affect other loans, such as auto loans or mortgage loans? A. Not directly, but it can be an indication of the direction other rates are moving. Those rates are often at least partly regulated by state law, and as a result consumers now can sometimes borrow money for lower rates than are available to major corporations. Q. How is the rate set? A. The only major bank that announces its formula is Citibank, which sets the rate at one and one-half percentage points above the three-week average rate on 90-day negotiable certificates of deposits. That formula now calls for a rate between 14} percent and 15 percent, and Citibank last week chose the higher rate. Q. What does the formula hold for the future? A. It may bring an increase. The rate on CDs has risen to nearly 14 percent in the last two weeks. ``If this rate holds,'' says Henry Kaufman of Salomon Brothers, ``a reversal of the downward trend in the prime rate would probably occur in a few weeks.'' Q. What other factors play a role in the prime rate? A. Loan demand plays a significant role. Banks will sometimes adjust the rate because they have more money to lend or because customers want to borrow more than the bank has readily available. And of course banks can boost their profits if they charge higher rates. Q. What about politics? A. In 1974, political pressures grew as interest rates rose, with government officials criticizing bankers for the high rate. The prime rate did not rise after setting a record at 12 percent, although most other interest rates rose so high that a 14 percent prime rate seemed justified to bankers. Q. What did the banks do instead of raising the prime rate in 1974. A. Some tightened up on loan standards, refusing to give loans at the prime to companies that might have qualified earlier. Many banks also imposed additional requirements, such as requiring borrowers to keep high compensating balances that had the effect of reducing the amount of money available to the borrower. Then in 1975, when interest rates were declining, the banks cut the prime rate more slowly than other rates dropped, recovering profits they woud otherwise have earned the year before. Q. Have politics played a role this year in setting of the prime rate? A. The only major politician to voice concern over the prime rate has been Rep. Henry Reuss, D-Wis., the chairman of the House Banking Committee. He has gained little visible support from other governmental officials, many of whom see high interest rates as a way of fighting inflation. But Citibank did not raise the rate to 16 percent, which its formula called for one week, and Reuss's criticism may have played a role in that. Q. What about the prime rate in 1980? A. That depends largely on how other interest rates move, which in turn will be affected by whether inflation slows and how deep the recession turns out to be. Most economists think rates will move slowly down, but Kaufman thinks a prime rate high of 16 to 17 percent will come within the next six months. ****1446EST 0644 *** a f *** AM-ExplainingtheEconomy-PrimeRate 12-17 0730 The prime rate is the most closely watched interest rate around, but it affects most people only indirectly and is set as a result of a complex combination of economic and political forces. The rate has now dropped to 15 percent at many banks, from the high of 15} percent set last month. Sove analysts are confident the rate will keep declining, but others think the low may have been reached and the next move will be upward. Following are some questions and answers about the prime rate. Q. Who pays the prime rate? A. Banks charge the rate to their best corporate customers, and many loan agreements provide that the interest rate on outstanding loans will change when the bank changes its prime rate. In addition, other commercial and industrial borrowers pay rates based on the prime rate, such as two points over the rate, which would now mean 17 percent, or 110 percent of the rate, which would now be 15.5 percent. Q. Does the rate affect other loans, such as auto loans or mortgage loans? A. Not directly, but it can be an indication of the direction other rates are moving. Those rates are often at least partly regulated by state law, and as a result consumers now can sometimes borrow money for lower rates than are available to major corporations. Q. How is the rate set? A. The only major bank that announces its formula is Citibank, which sets the rate at one and one-half percentage points above the three-week average rate on 90-day negotiable certificates of deposits. That formula now calls for a rate between 14} percent and 15 percent, and Citibank last week chose the higher rate. Q. What does the formula hold for the future? A. It may bring an increase. The rate on CDs has risen to nearly 14 percent in the last two weeks. ``If this rate holds,'' says Henry Kaufman of Salomon Brothers, ``a reversal of the downward trend in the prime rate would probably occur in a few weeks.'' Q. What other factors play a role in the prime rate? A. Loan demand plays a significant role. Banks will sometimes adjust the rate because they have more money to lend or because customers want to borrow more than the bank has readily available. And of course banks can boost their profits if they charge higher rates. Q. What about politics? A. In 1974, political pressures grew as interest rates rose, with government officials criticizing bankers for the high rate. The prime rate did not rise after setting a record at 12 percent, although most other interest rates rose so high that a 14 percent prime rate seemed justified to bankers. Q. What did the banks do instead of raising the prime rate in 1974. A. Some tightened up on loan standards, refusing to give loans at the prime to companies that might have qualified earlier. Many banks also imposed additional requirements, such as requiring borrowers to keep high compensating balances that had the effect of reducing the amount of money available to the borrower. Then in 1975, when interest rates were declining, the banks cut the prime rate more slowly than other rates dropped, recovering profits they woud otherwise have earned the year before. Q. Have politics played a role this year in setting of the prime rate? A. The only major politician to voice concern over the prime rate has been Rep. Henry Reuss, D-Wis., the chairman of the House Banking Committee. He has gained little visible support from other governmental officials, many of whom see high interest rates as a way of fighting inflation. But Citibank did not raise the rate to 16 percent, which its formula called for one week, and Reuss's criticism may have played a role in that. Q. What about the prime rate in 1980? A. That depends largely on how other interest rates move, which in turn will be affected by whether inflation slows and how deep the recession turns out to be. Most economists think rates will move slowly down, but Kaufman thinks a prime rate high of 16 to 17 percent will come within the next six months. ****1447EST 0591 *** r w *** AM-UnityDay 12-17 0094 *** a0590 *** d a *** AM-DelhiHandouts 12-17 0509 *** t0039 *** d s *** AM-FBN--Staubach Bjt-2 12-17 0436 *** p0650 *** u f *** BC-BoardofTrade Close 12-17 0100 *** s0219 *** d s *** AM-FBN--Staubach Bjt-2 12-17 0436 *** f0079 *** r f *** AM-PennForecast 12-17 0214 The University of Pennsylvania plans to sell a controlling interest in its Wharton Econometric Forecasting Associates unit, according to an official. Lee R. Morris, president and chief operating officer, said ``negotiations are well under way'' with a trio of would-be buyers as part of a plan to convert WEFA ``from a not-for-profit into a profit-making'' organization. Morris declined to identify the prospective buyers. WEFA needs ``an infusion of capital,'' Morris said, ``so we can become more aggressive'' in marketing its forecasting services to business and other clients. The unit would continue to be operated by economist Lawrence Klein, its founder, chairman and chief executive officer, Morris said. He said the Wharton name probably would be retained. WEFA employs 120 persons, including 35 professional economists. Klein, who is also an adviser to President Carter, and his key staff could receive stock in the restructured unit if a deal is consummated, Morris said. He said the unit would remain near Penn, which would retain an undisclosed minority ownership. In terms of revenues, between $5.5 million and $6 million, WEFA ranks as the third largest econometric service. Klein and his staff use computer techniques in making economic forecasts. The two larger companies are Data Resources Inc. and Chase Econometric Associates. ****1449EST 0412 *** r n *** AM-GoldHeist 12-17 0120 Police hunted thieves Monday who bypassed an electronic alarm system at Stowell's jewelry store in Newton and escaped with an estimated $100,000 in gold chains and rings. Police said the thieves apparently were well acquainted with the alarm system at the Chestnut Hill Mall store. They were able to break a glass door and enter without disturbing four silent alarms late Sunday night. They opened display cases, cleaned out the jewelry and then walked out the front door, according to Newton police. The bandits removed a large section of the seven-foot-high glass door and stepped in and out undetected. A cleaning man discovered the break and called police. ****1449EST 0652 *** r w *** AM-UnityDay 12-17 0094 Tuesday has been designated as ``national unity day'' by President Carter, who signed a congressional resolution asking Americans to show their support for the 50 hostages in Iran. In signing the resolution Sunday, Carter asked individual Americans and organizations ``to observe that day by prominently displaying the American flag.'' Carter said Americans are unanimous in their concern for the hostages and have demonstrated their feelings by ringing church bells, writing letters to the Iranian mission at the United Nations and by sending messages to the hostages themselves. ****1449EST 0651 *** d a *** AM-DelhiHandouts 12-17 0509 Christmas or not, there will be no more room at the jail in this north Louisiana town for hard-luck cases traveling on busy Interstate 20. This community of about 4,000 people has always made it a habit to help people in need, and its churches have even set up a special bank fund to help the indigent. However, the town council voted 4-0 last week to stop letting clergymen use the jail to house panhandlers and others who beat a path to the town's churches, often in the middle of the night. Officials said they were worried about liability problems. ``The state of the economy has put a lot of people on the road,'' said Mayor Mike Thompson. ``Some of these people are just looking for a reason to sue you, and it could cost a lot of money if there was a jailbreak and somebody got shot or if they fell from a top bunk.'' Thompson said town officials would continue to check out transients for churchmen on the FBI's national crime computer to weed out scoundrels. The mayor also said he thought the town's reputation was drawing too many people seeking handouts. ``... Transients get wind through their grapevine of a town that will take care of them,'' he said. ``Some will come through about two or three in the morning and ask, `Don't y'all have a group that will take care of us?' It's a game with some of them, but I think we now have a system of checks and balances.'' When a transient _ or a transient family _ goes to a church for aid, he is taken to the town hall, where personal information is checked with the FBI computer. If everything checks out, the transient is taken to a restaurant, grocery or service station where needs are attended to and he is sent on his way. No money changes hands. The bill is taken care of through the bank account administered by the ministerial alliance. The fund, financed by an annual Thanksgiving collection, stands at $700. The Rev. Louis Clark of the First Baptist Church disagreed about closing the jail to transients, but he agreed with the mayor that there are more transients on the road these days, especially couples with children. ``A lot of them bring lists in!,'' he said. ``They'll want a particular type of diaper. The man never comes in. He'll send the woman in, usually with a little dirty baby and have it crying. ``You'd be surprised how much gall some of them have, and they get indignant if you don't give them exactly what they want. They really get mad sometimes.'' A hungry child is never turned away, Clark said, but sometimes charity brings disappointment. ``I've been doing this for 35 years and one interesting thing is that I've never yet had anybody pay money back or write to the community or the church and say `Thank you.''' ****1450EST 0080 *** r f *** BC-WeeklySteel 12-17 0140 Steel production rose to 2.318 million tons in the week ended Saturday, an increase of 1.2 percent from the previous week's 2.290 million tons, the American Iron and Steel Institute reported Monday. The industry's production amounted to 80.1 percent of capacity during the week, compared with 79.1 percent in the previous week. Estimated figures for the year to date showed production at 130.401 million net tons, an increase of 0.1 percent from the 130.260 million net tons in the previous year. Production so far this year used 87.7 percent of capacity, compared with 86.3 percent a year earlier. Net tonnage by district for the week ended Saturday: Northeast Coast 280,000; Buffalo 51,000; Pittsburgh 398,000; Youngstown 133,000; Cleveland 142,000; Detroit 175,000; Chicago 558,000; Cincinnati 92,000; St. Louis 71,000; Southern 252,000; and Western 166,000. ****1450EST 0592 *** d a *** AM-BoatFamily 12-17 0416 *** f0082 *** r f *** BC-Grease 12-17 0025 Choice white grease was 16~ cents a pound Monday; bleachable fancy tallow 19~ and ``B'' white special tallow 17{. ****1451EST 0653 *** d a *** AM-BoatFamily 12-17 0307 *** f0083 *** u f *** BC-BoardofTrade Close 12-17 0132 Grain and soybean futures fell Monday, erasing earlier gains made on uneasiness over the Middle East. Prices retraced Friday's late rally that came on reports of unrest at the Iraqi-Iranian border. Stepped-up country cash sales of corn and soybeans over the weekend led to easier prices, and offerings at Gulf of Mexico export terminals were sufficient to meet demand. A holiday quiet prevailed, with an absence of significant new export business. Commission house selling accelerated the decline. At the close, soybeans were 7 to 9{ cents lower, January $6.59\; wheat was { to 7\ cents lower, December $4.26{; corn was 1} to 3 cents lower, December $2.69; and oats were 1\ to 2\ cents lower, December $1.42{. ****1452EST 0085 *** r f *** BC-CashGrain-KX 12-17 0079 Wheat 108 cars: } to 4} lower; No. 2 hard 4.47}-4.63{; No. 3 4.46-4.65N; No. 2 red wheat 4.25-4.32N; No. 3 4.23-4.31N Corn 78 cars: unchanged to { lower; No. 2 white 3.10-3.35N; No. 3 2.90-3.30N; No. 2 yellow 2.65; No. 3 2.7l} Oats 0 cars: { higher; No. 2 white 1.80{-1.91{N; No. 3 1.70{-1.90{N No. 2 milo 4.46-4.86N No. 1 soybeans 6.31-6.35N Sacked bran 120.50-121.00 Sacked shorts 127.50-128.00 ****1453EST 0224 *** d s *** AM-BBC-RITourney-430 12-17 0394 *** a0593 *** r w *** AM-OilTaxes 12-17 0707 *** a0594 *** r i *** AM-PanamaShah Bjt 12-17 0580 *** m0127 *** d s *** AM-BBC-RITourney-430 12-17 0394 Boston College Coach Tom Davis, who faces the unenviable task of playing nationally ranked Duke in the opening round of a basketball tournament Friday, says he has no special plans to combat Duke's overwhelming height advantage. ``One of the secrets to our success is that our opponents laugh when we get introduced on the court. They can't believe the listed sizes in the program are correct,'' Davis told a pre-tourney news conference Monday. The psychological letdown which follows has helped BC to win four of its first five games and average 23 more points than their opponents. Despite having only one starter over 6-foot-5, the Eagles are outrebounding opponents by 20 caroms a game. But it will take more than laughter for BC to beat Duke. Led by center Mike Gminski and three other starters 6-foot-5 or better, the Blue Devils have breezed to a 6-0 record and first place in the Atlantic Coast Conference. Their opening win came against Kentucky, which defeated top-ranked Indiana last weekend. The game will be somewhat of a homecoming for four Duke starters. Gminski, forwards Gene Banks and Kenny Dennard and guard Bob Bender all were on the Blue Devil team which won the NCAA Eastern Regionals at the Civic Center three years ago. The other opening round match pits 4-1 Providence College against 2-3 Stanford. ``We really bleed for points,'' says PC Coach Gary Walters, noting his squad is shooting only .438 from the floor and averaging 59.8 points. The Friars' top scorer, Rudy Williams, is averaging 9.6 points per match. But PC will be playing on the Civic Center court, where they have won 110 of 127 games. Both PC and Stanford are holding opponents to under 60 points per game, so it looks like a defensive match. Stanford is paced by Brian Welch, a 6-foot-7 sophomore guard who is averaging 15.6 points per game. Forward Kimberly Belton, the team's captain, is averaging 10.4 rebounds a game and is the school's No. 4 career rebounder. Despite booking teams three years in advance, tournament sponsors have been very lucky in picking hot squads. In addition to Duke this year, top-ranked Michigan highlighted the initial 1976 competition. The annual event is sponsored by Industrial National Bank. ****1456EST 0087 *** r f *** AM-DisabilityInsurance 12-17 0381 Many Americans are overinsured for disability by ``a crazy quilt of overlapping benefits'' that discourage workers from seeking rehabilitation, the health insurance industry claimed Monday. In some cases, a disabled worker would lose money if he returned to his old job, the Health Insurance Association said. ``Too many people are almost being forced to remain disabled because of the financial incentives,'' Robert Froehlke, the association president, charged at a news conference. A cap is needed on the total disability benefits any person can draw, he said. Froehlke declined to specify where the line should be drawn, but an industry study suggested limiting benefits to 55 percent to 65 percent of pre-disability gross income would encourage disabled workers to seek rehabilitation. Since disability benefits are tax-free, the worker needs only 65 percent to 75 percent of his previous gross pay to maintain his standard of living, the study said. The study catalogued the array of goverment and private disability plans that pay an estimated $35 billion a year to 16 million disabled Americans and their families. The bulk is spent by Social Security, Workmen's Compensation, Veterans and other government programs. ``We are not saying that disabled people who receive excessively high benefits from a combination of plans are lazy cheats,'' said Froehlke, but he said the ``crazy quilt of overlapping benefits'' and inadequate rehabilitation programs discourage the disabled from seeking work. Larry K. Lance, a Hartford Life Insurance Co. vice president who headed the study, acknowledged the industry does not know how many people could be rehabilitated. Also, benefits are too low for some people, he said. Some workers could be both overinsured and underinsured, depending on how they were disabled, Lance said. A 42-year-old unmarried salesman making $15,000 a year would get only half his net salary from Social Security if he were disabled by a heart attack. But if he were paralyzed in a car crash, his benefits could be 14 percent larger than his take-home pay, Lance said. Social Security and Workmen's Compensation together are limited to 80 percent of previous salary, but a person also could get benefits from auto insurance or private disability plans. ****1456EST 0221 *** u s *** AM-FBN--ChokeNoMore 12-17 0221 *** f0088 *** r f *** BC-CashGrain-MP 12-17 0204 *** s0222 *** r s *** BC-FBN--GiantsSked 12-17 0097 Games against the top four clubs in the AFC Western Division highlight the 1980 Giants National Football League schedule. Under the NFL schedule formula, the Giants, as the fourth place team in the NFC East, will face: Home: the loser of Monday night's San Diego-Denver game; Oakland, Los Angeles and Green Bay. Away: the winner of Monday night's San Diego-Denver game; Seattle, San Francisco, Tampa Bay. The Giants will also meet division rivals Dallas, Washington, Philadelphia and St. Louis home and away to round out the 16-game schedule. ****1457EST 0654 *** r i *** AM-PanamaShah Bjt 12-17 0580 *** g0091 *** r i *** AM-QuebecDemo 12-17 0174 *** p0655 *** r w *** AM-OilTaxes 12-17 0707 The Senate headed Monday toward passage of a $178-billion ``windfall-profits'' tax on the oil industry after voting to limit debate on the measure and bar unrelated amendments. Within minutes of the 84-14 vote to shut off debate, the maneuver claimed its first victim. An amendment by liberals and moderates, aimed at forcing the oil industry to reinvest more of its profits in the search for energy, was ruled out of order. That ruling was likely to expedite passage of the tax bill because it also blocked consideration of several proposals that would allow the oil industry to escape a part of the tax if profits were reinvested. Also dying because of the debate-limiting vote was an amendment that would have imposed a new gasoline tax of 50 cents per gallon to encourage conservation. However, an earlier agreement kept alive an unrelated amendment, sponsored by 78 senators, that would allow a single person to avoid federal income taxes on up to $200 worth of income from dividends or interest per year. The tax break would be $400 a year for a couple filing a joint return. The amendment, sponsored chiefly by Sen. Lloyd Bentsen, D-Texas, was awaiting a vote. The windfall tax would pay for President Carter's energy program and help lower-income Americans pay soaring fuel costs. While the Senate bill would cost the oil industry an estimated $178 billion in the 1980s, the House version would bring in $277 billion. Carter asked for about $297 billion but generally embraced the House measure. Carter proposed the misnamed tax _ it applies to price increases, not directly to profits _ so that Congress would not block his action to phase out price controls on U.S. crude oil. He wants to decontrol prices to encourage increased domestic oil production so the nation will have to rely less on imported oil. The tax also would take away part of the extra money that U.S. oil companies will take in solely because foreign oil producers raise the world market price of oil. The amendment to ensure that more U.S. oil profits are invested in energy, rather than in non-energy businesses, was sponsored by Sen. Henry M. Jackson, D-Wash. Jackson's amendment would have affected only U.S. crude oil that is subjected to a lower ``windfall'' tax than other domestic production. Those categories are known as heavy oil, newly discovered oil and increased oil production brought about by expensive ``tertiary'' recovery techniques. The Senate agreed last week to a tax of 10 percent to 20 percent on those categories, compared to a rate of 60 percent to 75 percent on other types. The amendment would have allowed a producer to take the lower tax rates only if all money from such types of production was reinvested in the search for more energy. Oil-state senators concentrated their opposition on another part of Jackson's amendment, which would have automatically increased the rate of the ``windfall-profits'' tax on all types of U.S. oil if the average price climbs above $30 a barrel. American oil that is not subject to price controls already is approaching that level. ``This is a last-ditch attempt to wreck the industry,'' said Sen. Robert Dole, R-Kan. He said it would be unheard of for Congress to grant its tax-increasing power to the secretary of the treasury, as the Jackson amendment would do. Jackson noted that foreign oil producers are meeting to raise prices, and predicted that within a year the average price in the United States will be $50 a barrel. ``Who gets the money _ the oil companies or the consumers?'' he asked. The estimate of the money the tax will bring in is based on the assumption that the average oil price will reach $30 a barrel by the end of the month. But the tax does not cut off once that figure is reached. In general terms, the windfall tax would take away a portion of each dollar of price increase above current levels. Current levels, ranging from $6 to $20 a barrel, depending on the category of oil, would be raised each year by 2 percent plus enough to offset the inflation of the previous year. ****1459EST 0595 *** d w *** AM-DischargeUpgrade 12-17 0081 *** p0656 *** d w *** AM-DischargeUpgrade 12-17 0081 The Pentagon announced Monday a 15-month extension of a deadline for former military personnel with undesirable discharges to apply for upgrading them to honorable. Officials said the deadline is being extended to April 1, 1981, in part because a number of veterans organizations have urged such an action. Discharge review boards have heard about 3,500 cases. Nearly 5,600 are still pending. The upgrading program applies to former service personnel discharged before Jan. 1, 1965. ****1459EST 0225 *** d n *** AM-SolarFridge 12-17 0305 The world's first solar-powered refrigerator will be on the market this spring, developed by a Natick firm, Zeopower Co. ``We're not trying to compete with the big companies,'' said Dr. Dimiter Tchernev, a Bulgarian scientist who heads the firm. ``We're aiming at the recreation industry.'' The small fridge is designed for motor homes, boats and backyards _ especially in warm weather locales where cookouts are common nine months of the year. The refrigerator will be a free-standing appliance, powered exclusively by solar rays. Tchernev, president of the Natick firm and inventor of the refrigerator, says it has no moving parts except a door and can produce up to 15 pounds of ice a day. The appliances, standing 44 inches tall, 30 inches wide and 48 inches deep, will sell initially for $500 if they can be made in groups of 1,000, according to company spokesman Peter Downing. The price could drop to $250 in assembly line production. ``It operates on a combination of water vapor, used as a working fluid, and naturally occuring silicon compounds called zeolites used as absorbers,'' Downing said. ``The result is a solar refrigeration unit which is more efficient and economical than conventional solar coolers.'' The refrigerator can keep things cool for about three days without sunshine, the company said. Tchernev started his research and development firm four years ago after working for CBS in Connecticut and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The solar refrigerators, he says, eventually will represent a 50 percent savings for consumers. Tchernev figures that they currently pay twice for a refrigerator powered by electricity _ once when it's purchased, and a second time through the years for power costs. The solar version, however, apparently has only a one-time tab: the purchase price. ****1500EST 0596 *** r a *** AM-Brites 12-17 0514 *** p0657 *** d w *** AM-Kennedy 1stLd-Writethru p0634 12-17 0605 Sen. Edward M. Kennedy is far behind President Carter in raising money for his presidential campaign although he has pumped an estimated $3 million into his treasury since entering the race last month, campaign officials said Monday. A spokesman for the Carter-Mondale Presidential Committee said about $6 million has been raised since the campaign organization was formed last March to promote the president's re-election bid. Stephen Smith, Kennedy's campaign manager and brother-in-law, says the Massachusetts senator has raised about $3 million since he announced his candidacy on Nov. 7 in Boston. ``Three million dollars in five weeks, I think, is quite good,'' Smith said while attending a $1,000-a-person fundraising reception at the home of Ethel Kennedy, widow of Kennedy's brother, Robert. ``I don't know who else has done it.'' In a report filed with the Federal Election Commission on Oct. 10, the president's committee reported it had raised $4.2 million. But a campaign official, asking not to be identified by name, said a series of fundraising dinners held to coincide with Carter's formal declaration of candidacy earlier this month swelled the total considerably. Kennedy did not file a report with the government in October because he was not yet a candidate. All candidates must file their next disclosure statements next month. The event at Mrs. Kennedy's Hickory Hill estate in suburban McLean, Va., produced more than $400,000 for her brother-in-law's campaign, organizers said, and capped a heavy round of fundraising by Kennedy. Meanwhile, Kennedy abruptly scrapped scheduled appearances for Illinois and Wisconsin, a change aides said he made so he could remain in the Senate for votes on the so-called ``windfall profits tax.'' Aides said Kennedy will leave Tuesday for a two-day trip to Iowa. He is scheduled to leave Washington again Thursday for trips to New Hampshire and Massachusetts before returning on the weekend. Meanwhile, political sources reported that Rep. Morris Udall, D-Ariz., would endorse Kennedy on Tuesday. Udall was Carter's principal liberal opponent for the 1976 Democratic presidential nomination, finishing second to the eventual winner in primaries in New Hampshire, Wisconsin and Michigan. The trip to Iowa will be Kennedy's fourth in six weeks to the state he says will provide the first real test between himself and the president. Despite the effort Kennedy is making there, Smith declined to predict victory in the Iowa caucuses. ``I think we're going to get the nomination,'' he said when asked about the likely outcome of the Jan. 21 caucuses. Kennedy himself also has avoided making victory predictions in Iowa, apparently as part of an overall campaign strategy of portraying Carter as the clear frontrunner in their battle for the nomination. In a weekend interview with the New York Times, Kennedy said he believes Carter is the leader in the race and will remain so until after the Iranian crisis ends and the public focuses attention again on economic issues. Carter has been gaining steadily in recent public opinion polls, increases that coincide with the Iranian crisis in which 50 Americans are being held hostage at the American embassy in Tehran. In the most recent AP-NBC poll, taken last week, 70 percent of Democrats surveyed gave Carter a favorable rating overall, while 23 percent gave him a unfavorable rating. That's up 14 points from the 56-33 rating in a poll taken last month. By contrast, Kennedy had a 68-19 edge in favorable ratings among Democrats last month. That slumped to 43-35 in last week's survey. ****1502EST 0128 *** r n *** AM-RegionalGas 12-17 0310 Regional gasoline consumption will drop 47 percent in the last quarter of this century, despite a 23 percent increase in the number of miles vehicles travel, according to a study by the Tri-State Regional Planning Commission. The drop, from 17,493,000 to 9,328,000 gallons per average weekday, will be accomplished almost entirely from improved fuel efficency, according to the report. Auto fuel efficiency is expected to increase from 12 miles per gallon in 1975 to 27.5 miles per gallon in 2000. Taxi fuel efficiency is expected to jump 97 percent, from 9.4 miles per gallon to 18.5 miles per gallon. Automobiles are expected to use 46 percent less gas, while consumption by taxis and light-duty trucks is expected to drop 44 percent and 54 percent, respectively. The report assumes that planned expressways are built, but if those roads never come to exist, gasoline consumption will only increase nominally, according to the commission. Building of limited-access roads in the region has just about ceased. In 1977, 4.4 miles of expressways were built in the area, and none was built in 1978, compared with an average of 31 miles annually for the past 15 years, another commission report noted. A third report indicated that there was approximately a 9 percent decrease in vehicular traffic during June 1979 _ the height of this year's gas shortage _ compared with the same month the year before. It appeared that traffic on those roads carrying mostly recreational travelers declined more than on roads that carried predominantly commercial traffic, the report said. The report said that ridership on public transportation rose about 3.7 percent in June, compared with a 3.6 percent gain in February, 1974, the peak of the 1973-74 gas crisis. Suburban rail transit experienced the most trip increases due to this year's gas shortage. ****1502EST 0089 *** r f *** AM-Banking 12-17 0514 The House approved a bill Monday to allow interest-paying checking-type accounts to continue nationwide for at least three more months. By voice vote, the House agreed to delay until March 31, 1980, the effective date of a federal court ruling that otherwise would outlaw interest-bearing checking-type accounts outside of New York and New England as of Jan. 1. The bill now goes to the Senate, which passed a similar bill last week. The Senate's version, however, included a provision overriding state usury laws on mortgage loans and on business and farm loans over $25,000. State usury laws, which limit how much interest a bank can charge for a loan, have been blamed for making mortgage money hard to obtain in about 20 states. Rep. Fernand J. St Germain, D-R.I., chairman of the House Banking Committee's financial institution subcommittee, said the usury provision was eliminated from the House bill to avert a possible roadblock in approving the three-month delay in the court ruling. If Congress fails to approve a delay in the court ruling before it adjourns Friday, credit union share draft accounts and automatic savings-to-checking transfer accounts would be outlawed as of Jan. 1. Such accounts, which allow consumers to receive interest on their money until it is needed to cover a check, were authorized by federal bank regulatory agencies. However, last April, the U.S. Appeals Court in Washington ruled the agencies had exceeded their authority. By law, interest-paying checking accounts _ known as negotiable order of withdrawal or NOW accounts _ are permitted only in New York and New England. St Germain blamed Senate ``intransigence'' for a stalemated conference committee that has been considering proposed banking law changes, including nationwide NOW accounts. The conference deadlocked earlier this month over a House bill that would legalize interest-paying checking accounts nationwide and a much broader Senate bill that also would phase out federal ceilings on the interest that banks can pay on passbook accounts. Meanwhile, a separate Senate bill that would override state usury laws drew support Monday from several federal bank regulatory agencies and the banking industry. The bill, sponsored by Sens. Dale Bumpers, D-Ark., and David Pryor, D-Ark., would establish a new ceiling for state banks at one percentage point above the Federal Reserve discount rate, the amount the Fed charges member banks for borrowing money. The discount rate is now 12 percent. The discount rate plus one percentage point is the usury ceiling for mortgage loans that currently applies to federally chartered banks. The Bumpers-Pryor bill would also allow states to reimpose their own usury ceilings if they so choose. Frederick H. Schultz, vice chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, told the Senate Banking Committee that most members of the board generally support the Bumpers-Pryor bill although some expressed concern about preempting state law. Jay Janis, chairman of the Federal Home Loan Bank Board, said the bill was ``a way to help housing without spending a cent of federal money.'' ****1503EST 0658 *** r a *** AM-Brites 12-17 0514 *** e0226 *** r i *** AM-QuebecDemo 12-17 0174 About 35 students belonging to the Mouvement Etudiant pour le Oui assembled outside a federal government armory Monday and burned a copy of the British North America Act, Canada's federal constitution. Spokesman Christine Beauregard said the group, which calls itself by the abreviated title ME Oui (pronounced mais oui), chose ``foreign territory'' to burn the Act as a protest against the Supreme Court of Canada ruling last week that sections of Quebec's language laws are unconstitutional. She added that members of ME Oui also would burn copies of the federal constitution in Ottawa outside the Supreme Court building, in Montreal, and in 16 other centers across Quebec. The students gathered outside the Quebec National Assembly, where they were joined by Parti Quebecois backbencher Jean-Pierre Charbonneau and marched a block to the armory, chanting: ``Le Quebec aux Quebecois (Quebec for Quebecers).'' They placed a cardboard box, marked in English only ``BNA Act, 1867,''at the base of a flagpole on which the Canadian flag flew in a stiff breeze. ****1504EST 0091 *** r f *** AM-Chrysler 12-17 0496 *** m0129 *** d n *** AM-NH-Ski 12-17 0188 New Hampshire's multi-million dollar ski industry, plagued by high fuel prices, warm weather and lack of snow, is getting nervous about the winter. With just five days until the start of Christmas vacation, only six of the state's 35 ski areas are open. Not only has there been a shortage of natural snow, but warm weather has hindered artificial snowmaking operations. Ski area operators are praying for a heavy snowfall before Christmas to bail them out of a potential financial disaster. Areas operating mostly on man-made snow are Cannon Mountain, Loon Mountain, Waterville Valley, Bretton Woods, Wildcat and Pat's Peak. At the Mt. Washington Valley Chamber of Commerce in North Conway, Joyce Lucy said people are getting nervous about the Christmas holidays. ``Right now it looks like we are going to have a full house. However, some cancellations have come in,'' she said. In the Monadnock Region, Dave Currier said Christmas week and George Washington's Birthday are two big income producing weeks for ski areas. ``If we don't get snow for Christmas week, the whole industry will be hurt,'' he said. ****1506EST 0598 *** r w *** AM-Japan-ArmsSales 12-17 0062 *** t0041 *** d s *** AM-FBN--ChokeNoMore 12-17 0227 ``Chomp, chomp, chomp,'' began the column Monday after the Tampa Bay Buccaneers finally clinched the National Football Conference Central Division title and a National Football League playoff berth. ``That's me eating `Chokeneer,''' wrote Tom McEwen, sports editor of the Tampa Tribune. He went on to explain that ``Chokeneer'' was ``the word invented here one week ago after the Tampa Bay Buccaneers had avoided winning three straight games to set up Sunday's opportunity to: win the National Football League's choke of the year award or regroup and do what they had to do to win the most important game in the history of the franchise.'' The choke reference triggered a flap last week that brought Coach John McKay to the boiling point with sports writers in a profanity-thick press conference. Actually, it all started with linebacker David Lewis when he emerged from the locker room after a humiliating 23-7 loss to lowly San Francisco Dec. 9 and announced he told his teammates they were choking. Sports writers jumped on it and said the Bucs were becoming a laughingstock in the league after a 5-0 start as the only undefeated team to three upset losses in a row. McKay was furious. And he said so, in many words. ``Chomp, chomp, chomp,'' said McEwen. ``It's eaten and digested now.'' ****1506EST 0660 *** r w *** AM-Japan-ArmsSales 12-17 0062 The Pentagon told Congress Monday it plans to sell Japan anti-ship missiles and air defense guns for a total of $45.8 million. The proposed sale involves 24 Harpoon ship-to-ship missiles to be installed on three Japanese destroyers now under construction, and six rapid-firing Phalanx guns, which will provide the destroyers with defense against air attack. ****1507EST 0599 *** d a *** AM-NavyCrashes 12-17 0233 *** s0223 *** r s *** AM-CrossCountrySki 12-17 0219 *** g0092 *** r n *** AM-MaineYankee 12-17 0369 *** a0600 *** d a *** AM-NewNewspaper 12-17 0218 *** e0228 *** r n *** AM-MaineYankee 12-17 0369 An eight-week refueling shutdown of the Maine Yankee nuclear power plant will cost consumers roughly $32 million, a spokesman for the state's largest utility estimated Monday. ``Virtually all'' the replacement power will be oil-generated, said Peter Thompson, a spokesman for Central Maine Power Co., majority owner of the Maine Yankee Nuclear plant at Wiscasset. Some members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries raised prices 33 percent last week. And an OPEC meeting is underway this week in Venezuela. So it is not clear how much the customers of Maine Yankee's utilities in five New England states will pay for that oil-fired replacement power. But Thompson said a barrel of oil cost around $20 before the latest round of price hikes. That is roughly two-thirds more than it did last spring, when Maine Yankee was closed for a check of its ability to withstand earthquakes. Last spring's shutdown cost was approximately $500,000 a day. It was that 82-day safety check which led to the mid-winter shutdown. Maine Yankee had originally planned its refueling for September, when demand is much lower than in January and February. But when the plant was closed for those weeks in the spring, the nuclear fuel wasn't consumed, so there was no need to replace the fuel in the early fall. Thompson said the increased power costs that pile up during the January-February shutdown won't show up at home until March, exactly one year after the Nuclear Regulatory Commission ordered the earthquake safety checks. Since the upcoming shutdown was scheduled in advance, the utilities which are forced to switch to oil power won't have to pay spot market prices for the oil, as they did last spring when the plant was shutdown almost overnight. Spot market prices can be double the regular oil prices. Other factors that could cut the cost of the mid-winter closure include conservation and a good hydroelectric period if there is a January thaw. Bangor Hydroelectric Co. and Maine Public Service Co. also own shares in Maine Yankee, as do utilities in Massachusetts, Connecticut, Vermont and New Hampshire. ****1513EST 0042 *** d s *** BC-BBA--YanksMoves 12-17 0097 *** s0224 *** d s *** BC-BBA--YanksMoves 12-17 0097 The New York Yankees traded minor league outfielder Tommy Cruz from their Columbus farm club to Minnesota's Toledo affiliate Monday in exchange for outfielder Dave Coleman. Cruz batted .297 with nine home runs and 66 runs batted in at Columbus last season while Coleman hit .237 at Toledo with 20 home runs and 63 RBI. In another transaction, the Yankees purchased shortstop Andre Robertson from Toronto's Syracuse farm club. Robertson, who was assigned to Columbus, batted .216 in 70 games with the Blue Jays' Dunedin farm team last year. ****1514EST 0095 *** u f *** PM-WallStreet3pm 12-17 0251 The stock market eked out a moderate gain in active trading today as traders waited for developments from a meeting of oil-exporting countries in Caracas. The Dow Jones average of 30 industrials was up 4.78 at 847.53 an hour before the close. Advances outnumbered declines by a 4-3 margin in the broad tally of New York Stock Exchange-listed issues. At the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries meeting, which convened today, Shiek Ahmed Zaki Yamani of Saudi Arabia said he did not expect any further price increases beyond those announced in the past week by various OPEC members. Saudi Arabia and several other countries considered to be OPEC's ``moderates'' announced price hikes last week to $24 a barrel, in what was interpreted as a move to forestall some larger increases sought by the militant forces within the cartel. But those forces were still pushing for higher prices. Gulf Oil led the active list, up 1\ at 36~. A 256,200-share block traded at 36. Most other energy issues also gained ground, including Mobil, up 1~ at 59\; Texaco, up } at 29~, and Standard Oil of California, { higher at 58~. But Exxon slipped ] to 56}. The NYSE's composite index rose .37 to 62.72. At the American Stock Exchange, the market value index jumped 3.79 to 244.40. Volume on the Big Board reached 35.66 million shares with an hour to go. ****1516EST 0043 *** d s *** BC-SIPlayers 12-17 0121 *** s0225 *** d s *** BC-SIPlayers 12-17 0121 Terry Bradshaw and Willie Stargell, Pittsburgh's football and baseball heroes, have been selected as 1979 Sportsmen of the Year by Sports Illustrated magazine. Bradshaw quarterbacked the Steelers to a 35-31 victory over the Dallas Cowboys in Super Bowl XIII last January, while Stargell was the top slugger and inspirational leader of the Pirates, who beat the Baltimore Orioles in seven games in the World Series in October. The winners, announced Monday, are only the second pair to share the annual award. John Wooden, the former UCLA basketball coach, and tennis star Billie Jean King were co-winners in 1972. Last year's winner was golfing great Jack Nicklaus. ****1517EST 0601 *** d a *** AM-WashingtonStorm 12-17 0286 *** f0096 *** r f *** AM-EC-Economy 12-17 0337 The latest round of oil price increases will cut the Common Market's 1980 economic growth rate to at least 1.5 percent, down from 2 percent predicted only 14 days ago, Irish Finance Minister Michael O'Kennedy said here Monday. O'Kennedy, president of the community's Finance Ministers Council which met Monday, also estimated the new oil prices will boost inflation in the nine Common Market countries by 1 to 1.5 percentage points, producing an inflation rate next year in the range of 10 to 10.5 percent. The latest gloomy forecast revises a 1980 economic outlook published only two weeks ago by the European Commission, the body that runs the Common Market's day-to-day business. In its outlook, the commission said it expected economic growth in the community as a whole to slide to 2 percent in 1980 from 3.1 percent this year. ``The forecasts in the (commission) report have been changed for the worse ... as a result of the increases in oil prices,'' O'Kennedy told the finance ministers Monday. Oil producing nations are currently meeting in Caracas, Venezuela, and are expected to hike their prices by an estimated average of at least 30 percent. Last week, four oil countries _ Saudi Arabia, Venezuela, the United Arab Emirates and Qatar _ raised their oil prices to $24 a barrel, an increase of $6. A commission official said after the finance ministers meeting it will take at least two weeks for the Common Market countries to compile the effects of the oil price increases on their individual economies and forward their calculations to Brussels. But he added that if average prices next year surpass an estimated 58 percent in a recent private study ``our growth is going to come down a lot.'' The finance ministers also briefly discussed the crisis within the community set off by the European Parliament's rejection of the community's 1980 budget. The Common Market's member states are Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, West Germany, France, Italy, Great Britain, Ireland and Denmark. ****1518EST 0602 *** r u *** AM-OPEC 12-17 0737 *** s0226 *** d s *** BC-HKO--BrooksLockout 12-17 0292 *** t0044 *** d s *** BC-HKO--BrooksLockout 12-17 0292 Coach Herb Brooks of the U.S. Olympic team left his office at the Olympic Fieldhouse here Monday _ then was not allowed to return to it. The 42-year-old Brooks, also coach of the University of Minnesota team, walked through the double doors by the locker room area and past one of the sentries who are stationed every 50 feet or so near the dressing rooms at this arena, the site of the 1980 Winter Games. Brooks dropped off some reports in an office about 25 feet in front of the guard, then walked back to the double doors that lead to his office. ``I have to see your pass,'' said the guard, speaking of the white credential all the athletes and represntatives of teams competing here must wear to gain access. ``Aw, c'mon,'' said Brooks. ``I just walked out of there. Let me back in.'' The sentry stood fast in Brooks' path and the coach _ normally mild-mannered _ proceeded to get annoyed. The chief of security came over to find out about the hubub, then backed his sentry's decision. So finally, a team employee went into Brooks' office, got the white tag, and handed it to the coach. Brooks held it up to the guard, and passed. ``He's got a job to do, but the same thing happened between periods last night,'' said Brooks, whose Olympians opened the round-robin pre-Olympic tournament with a 4-2 triumph over Sweden Sunday. ``I took about three steps out of the room, asked the guard, `Hey, how're you doing?' And then he wouldn't let me back in. I had to send somebody back into the office to get the thing then, too.'' ****1520EST 0227 *** d s *** AM-BKC--NCAA-Ads 12-17 0345 Indianapolis businessmen are eagerly handing over up to $2,000 for advertisements in the 1980 NCAA basketball tourney championship program. ``Two months before the Feb. 1 deadline for ads, we had already sold more ads than were sold in last year's program, says John Bain, a partner in the advertising firm that's handling the program for the March 22-24 tourney at Market Square Arena. The price range for the ads runs from $800 to $2,000. And the large volume of requests for ad space may be an important factor in bringing the NCAA tourney back to Indianapolis in 1985, Bain said. ``The more success that can be generated for this tournament, the better our chances of getting the 1985 tournament,'' he said. ``The fact we had more than 50,000 requests for the 4,935 tickets that were available to the public shows the Midwest area is a tremendous drawing area for the tournament. If the NCAA can get additional money from the programs and we can build an aura of success, the NCAA may look more favorably on coming back here.'' Bain got the job to sell ads for the 1980 program because one of his firm's clients is Market Square Arena. The arena was tapped years ago, when the tournament was in Atlanta, for an ad in the program down there,'' he said. ``So when the tournament came here, I figured the program printers probably would need someone to help with the local ads. I just volunteered.'' The programs_a yearbook on Indianapolis and a complete history of the tournament from 1939-78_will feature former Indiana State All-American Larry Bird on the cover, since the Sycamores were one of the four finalists in last year's tourney. About 50,000 programs will be printed, for sale to the sellout crowds of more than 17,000 and through the mail to thousands of others. At the tourney last year in Salt Lake City, more than 15,000 programs were sold at the arena at $3 a copy. Another 18,000 were sold for $4 each through the mail. ****1521EST 0603 *** r w *** BC-MilwaukeeRoad 12-17 0186 The Transportation Department says that a plan proposed by employees and shippers to preserve the Milwaukee Road as a transcontinental rail line does not meet the necessary financial tests set by Congress. A shortfall of more than $600 million from 1981 to 1986 was estimated by the department in comments filed at midnight Friday with the Interstate Commerce Commission. The ICC is evaluating a plan proposed by a coalition of shippers and owners to take over ownership of 3,550 miles of routes from the Milwaukee Road, which has been in bankruptcy court since 1977. A DOT analysis concluded that the plan's traffic and increased revenue projections are overestimated, while the time needed for the line's rehabilitation is underestimated in relation to the service necessary to capture new business. As a result, the department said, the new railroad would be operated at a substantial deficit until at least 1986. The employee-shipper coalition, known as New Milwaukee Lines, proposes operating the railroad over tracks extending from Portland and Seattle in the Northwest, to Minneapolis-St.Paul, Milwaukee, Chicago and Louisville. ****1522EST 0228 *** r s *** AM-SCLC-Mays 12-17 0269 The Southern Christian Leadership Conference announced Monday that it plans to launch an investigation into possible racial bias in professional football and baseball. ``Considering the contributions blacks have made in professional sports, there certainly should be equal opportunity for black involvement in every level of operations in both baseball and football,'' said Joseph Lowery, president of the civil rights organization. Lowery said the SCLC will seek meetings with the commissioners of baseball and football and will ask the Congressional Black Caucus and the National Conference of Black Lawyers to join the investigation. Lowery said he wants to ask baseball Commissioner Bowie Kuhn in particular about his recent ruling that Willie Mays of the New York Mets could not accept a job with a gambling casino. Kuhn ruled that if Mays acccepted the casino job, he could not remain with Mets. Mays had two years remaining on a $50,000 per year contract as coach and goodwill ambassador with the Mets. ``The commissioners' decision regarding Willie Mays seems to be inconsistent with reports that have reached our offices relative to the involvement of other baseball personnel, including owners, with companies that own or operate gambling enterprises,'' Lowery said at a news conference. He did not elaborate. The SCLC president said he also was concerned that ``there are not any, nor have there ever been, black coaches and no offensive or defensive coordinators'' in the National Football League. ``We would like to know the extent to which blacks are functioning as scouts and are present in general management and executive positions'' in the league, Lowery said. ****1522EST 0088 *** r f *** BC-CashGrain-MP 12-17 0204 Wheat receipts Monday 203, year ago 263; spring wheat cash trading basis unchanged to down 2-4; prices down 4{-8{. No. 1 dark northern 11-17 protein 4.11-4.64 nominal. Test weight premiums: one cent each pound 58 to 60 lbs; one cent discount each { lb under 58 lbs. Protein prices; 11 per cent, 4.11 down 8{;12, 4.11 down 8{; 13, 4.08 down 8{; 14, 4.10 down 6{; 15, 4.23 down 6{; 16, 4.56 nominal down 4{; 17, 4.64 nominal down 4{. No. 1 hard Montana winter 4.18 nominal down 4{. Minn-S.D. No. 1 hard winter 4.18 nominal down 4{. No. 1 hard amber durum, 4.80 nominal-5.50 nominal unchanged to up 10; diversion 4.80 nominal-5.50 nominal unchanged up 10; discounts, amber 10-15; durum 30. Corn No. 2 yellow 2.34\-2.41\ down 2{-9{. Oats No. 2 extra heavy white 1.54 nominal-1.60 unchanged. Barley, cars 88, year ago 140; Malting 65 Pl, Larker-Morex 2.70-3.30 unchanged; Beacon 2.50-2.70 unchanged; Blue 2.70-3.15 unchanged; feed 2.16 unchanged; Duluth 2.30 unchanged. Rye No.1 2.50-2.52 nominal unchanged to down 2; No. 2 2.40 nominal-2.45 unchanged to down 2. Flax No. 1 6.15 unchanged. Soybeans No. 1 yellow 6.04\ down 9{. Sunflowers 8.90 unchanged; Duluth 8.80 unchanged. ****1523EST 0229 *** d n *** AM-Chad'sBirthday 12-17 0496 Chad Michael Green would have celebrated his fourth birthday Tuesday. Instead, his parents will share anecdotes of their towheaded toddler's impish antics prior to his quiet death last October in Tijuana, Mexico, where his family had lived in exile in the midst of a cancer treatment controversy that goes on even without Chad. Gerald, 29, and Diana Green, 26, buried little Chad in Hastings, his birthplace, several weeks ago after a two-year battle against leukemia and a Massachusetts court that attempted to dictate how the boy's disease would be treated. They challenged the court's action and, after losing several appeals, secretly flew with Chad to Tijuana where he received treatment with the controversial drug, Laetrile, and later died. Like much in the Chad Green case, the cause of the boy's death is unsure. But, Chad's parents are certain of one thing in the confusion and conflict surrounding their son's case: they must continue their legal struggle to win for others the right to choose or not choose varying forms of treatment. ``We have a lot to do,'' Green said from his mother's rural Glenville home in south-central Nebraska. ``Chad is gone. We have to go on.'' The Greens, who found hundreds of sympathizers in their battle with Boston's medical and legal community, were harshly criticized last month when they were quoted as saying they wanted ``a million dollars'' for Chad's story. The Greens do plan to have a book written about their son, their legal struggle and their mission. But, any royalties will go into a newly created foundation named for Chad to finance research for all types of cancer therapy. ``The American people sent us about $15,000, while we were in Tijuana,'' Mrs. Green said. ``And they've written letters supporting us, words that carried us through a lot of this. We have a lot to repay.'' Chad's case drew national attention when his parents started their legal battle. Now, the young parents chuckle sarcastically, sadly, when questioned on differing accounts of their case. Quotes attributed to doctors, lawyers and other professionals in the case are usually contradictory. Even an autopsy apparently was muffed, and its results found inconclusive because Chad's body was embalmed before the surgery. ``The truth is buried pretty deep,'' Green said. ``It's been hidden and twisted by lies and fear since the beginning.'' ``Even now,'' Mrs. Green said, ``the news media tries to make it sound like we're selling our story to the highest bidder. What we want is to find somebody who will let us tell our story. We don't want a big sensational story. We want to tell the truth.'' ``A lot of big people will be involved,'' Green said. ``But, we're not after any one person. We're after a system that puts big business or professional pride ahead of a person's health, a child's life.'' ****1523EST 0229 *** r s *** AM-CrossCountrySki-Sums 12-17 0111 *** f0098 *** r f *** AM-NationalStockyards: 12-17 0213 Hogs: 7,500, trading fairly active; barrows and gilts steady to 50 higher; 1-2 200-230 lb 41.00-41.25; 230-240 lb 40.50-41.00; 1-3 230-250 lb 39.50-40.50; sows 1.25-2.00 higher; 1-3 300-650 lb 31.75-33.00; small lot over 550 lb 33.50; boars over 350 lb 27.00-28.00; under 250 lb 29.00-30.00. Cattle and calves: 2,600, trading moderately active on slaughter steers and heifers, active on cows and bulls; as compared to last Tuesday, slaughter steers opening uneven, generally steady; slaughter heifers 50-1.00 higher; cows mostly 1.00 higher; bulls 1.00-2.00 higher; supply mainly choice and mixed choice and prime slaughter steers; slaughter steers mixed choice and prime 2-4 1,050-1,300 lb 66.50 to mostly 67.00, load and part load 67.50; 3-4 1,125-1,325 lb 66.00-66.50; choice 2-4 900-1,200 lb 64.00-65.00; good 2-3 900-1,175 lb 62.00-64.00; standard to good 2-3 1,075-1,350 lb holsteins 58.50-61.00; slaughter heifers mixed choice and prime 2-4 875-1,050 lb 65.50-66.00; choice 2-4 800-1,050 lb 64.00-65.50; mixed good and choice 2-4 700-975 lb 62.50-64.00; good 2-3 700-950 lb 61.00-62.50; cows utility and commercial 2-4 46.00-49.00; boning utility 1-2 49.00-51.00; cutter 1-2 44.00-48.00; canner and low cutter 1-2 38.00-44.00; bulls YG 1-2 1,100-1,900 lb 55.00-60.00, individual YG 1 1,875 lb 61.00. Sheep: 100, not enough on offer to test prices. ****1524EST 0604 *** r i *** AM-ChurchillAffair 12-17 0420 *** p0661 *** r u *** AM-OPEC 12-17 0737 *** f0099 *** r f *** AM-Harrah's 12-17 0272 *** p0662 *** d a *** AM-NavyCrashes 12-17 0233 *** p0663 *** d a *** AM-NewNewspaper 12-17 0218 Plans for a new afternoon newspaper aimed at commuters homebound from Manhattan were announced Monday by Michael Goldstein, founder and former publisher of the Soho Weekly News. The five-day-a-week paper, to be known as the Wall Street Final, is planned for publication during the first quarter of 1980, he said. It will sell for 25 cents a copy Monday through Friday on 100 newsstands in Manhattan only, he said. Goldstein said the paper would concentrate on closing stock quotations and other late business news, plus some national and international news. He said the paper would need to sell 10,000 copies a day and have two pages of advertising to gross $20,000 a week and break even. The goal is 20,000 copies and four to five pages of ads. He said the paper would range from 12 to 20 pages, and he estimated the start-up cost at $1 million. The staff of the Wall Street Final is expected to total five editorial and five production staff members. The only other afternoon daily in Manhattan is the New York Post, which sells more than 640,000 copies a day. Goldstein, 41, sold the Soho Weekly News, a Manhattan tabloid, to the London-based Associated Newspapers earlier this year. ****1527EST 0605 *** d w *** AM-SleepingPills 12-17 0472 *** a0606 *** d w *** AM-Carter-Christmas 12-17 0091 *** f0101 *** r f *** AM-BurgerKing-Casino 12-17 0157 Horn & Hardart Co. of New York, whose holdings include part of the Burger King restaurant chain, won state approval Monday to take over the Royal Inn hotel-casino in Las Vegas. The Nevada Gaming Commission approved the $15 million purchase by Horn & Hardart, which also owns the Hanover House Industries mail order business and restaurants in New York. Horn & Hardart also pioneered the old Automat restaurants featuring food dispensed from machines. Clark County commissioners in Las Vegas were scheduled to decide later Monday whether to approve the plan. The state Gaming Control Board recommended last week that the plan be approved. But the board had suggested a six-month limited license. The commission modified that to allow a full license. Aaron Oberlander, longtime Nevada gaming figure, was given a three-month conditional license as general manager at the Royal Inn. The new operators take over from the Gaughan family. ****1530EST 0664 *** r i *** AM-ChurchillAffair 12-17 0420 *** p0665 *** d w *** AM-Carter-Christmas 12-17 0091 President Carter will forego his usual trip home to Plains, Ga., for Christmas because of the situation in Iran, White House Press Secretary Jody Powell announced Monday. Powell said the president would spend the holidays at the White House and at Camp David, Md. ``He simply feels that his traditional Christmas at home would not be appropriate under the circumstances,'' Powell said. ``In addition, he will be in a better position to monitor the situation in Iran'' by staying near the White House, Powell added. ****1531EST 0666 *** d w *** AM-SleepingPills 12-17 0472 The government, opening a new educational campaign, said Monday that doctors and 60 million Americans with sleep disorders aren't well-informed about the ailments or the prescription drugs used to treat them. Surgeon General Julius B. Richmond and a team of Public Health Service specialists said medical practice and public awareness have not kept pace with recent research on sleeping pills and insomnia. The three-year initiative, known as ``Project Sleep,'' is designed to improve diagnosis and treatment of insomnia and sleep disorders, promote better prescribing practices, improve public knowledge on these subjects and identify gaps in the scientific knowledge as targets for future research. A variety of consumer, medical and public service groups are being asked to collaborate. Some $250,000 will be spent during the current fiscal year. Sleep-related disorders are widespread among Americans. Between 29 and 38 percent of persons over 18 _ from 45 to 60 million people _ believe they have trouble sleeping. About 10 million see a doctor about it, and half of them get a prescriptions for sleeping medication. More than 2 million Americans take sleeping pills each night over several months, despite questions about the safety and effectiveness of long-tzrm consecutive use. Thirty-nine percent of the prescriptions are written for persons over 60. Yet they make up only 15 percent of the population. The elderly are more vulnerable to side effects from the drugs because they are more likely to have disorders which could be aggravated by taking the medications. They also are more likely to be taking other drugs, making them more susceptible to toxic interactions. About six percent of the adult population, nearly 9 million persons, used a prescription hypnotic in 1977. Problems in treating insomnia arise because some of the drugs accumulate in the body after several nights' use. They can impair a person's alertness and coordination and interfere with safe driving or machine operation. Sleeping pills can be particularly dangerous when mixed with other drugs or with alcohol. Dr. Charles Krauthammer, a scientist with the Alcohol, Drug Abuse and Mental Health Administration who will coordinate the project,said the ``knowledge base about insomnia and hypnotic drugs is incomplete.'' But research has shown that insomnia is often a symptom of some other ailment and treating it with sleeping pills may not be appropriate. ``Depression is almost always accompanied by insomnia,'' he said. ``And yet sleeping pills are not the correct treatment.'' Other ways of dealing with insomnia which are being evaluated include behavioral therapy, counseling and psychotherapy. There has been a slight decline in the prescription of hypnotic drugs as sleeping pills in recent years, partly because some drugs in the category have been restricted. Nevertheless, in 1978, 37 percent of the 6,000 drug induced deaths involved hypnotic drugs, Krauthammer said. ****1532EST 0607 *** r i *** AM-IranianBjt 12-17 0809 *** f0102 *** r f *** AM-FordPrediction 12-17 0295 *** a0608 *** r a *** AM-Brites 1stLd a0596 12-17 0086 *** a0609 *** d a *** AM-FordPrediction 12-17 0261 *** a0610 *** d a *** BC-Harrah's 12-17 0219 The Nevada Gaming Commission voted Monday to approve the sale of two casino operations to two corporations, one of which includes one of the nation's largest hotel franchising operations, the other which includes a large fast-food operation. In one case, the commission approved the $300 million sale of the late Bill Harrah's Reno-Lake Tahoe casino-hotels to Holiday Inns, of Memphis, Tenn. And the Horn & Hardart Co., whose holdings include part of the Burger King restaurant chain, won state approval to take over the Royal Inn hotel-casino in Las Vegas in a $15 million transaction. Under the sale plan, Holiday Inns of Memphis, Tenn., will acquire the the Harrah holdings by buying out stockholders for cash or with a mixture of cash and debentures. Harrah, who built the $300 million Harrah Empire from a single bingo parlor that opened in 1937, died on June 30, 1978. The federal Securities and Exchange Commission and stockholders of both Harrah's and Holiday must also approve the plan. The Royal Inn-Horn &Hardart transaction must be approved by Clark County commissioners in Las Vegas. Horn & Hardart, based in New York, owns the Hanover House Industries mail order business and restaurants in New York. It also pioneered the old Automat restaurants featuring food dispensed from machines. ****1538EST 0502 *** r n *** unbx 12-17 0513 The U.S. Interior Department will try for the third time Tuesday to hold the sale of offshore oil leases in the Georges Bank. Opponents of the sale, fearing damage to the area's rich fishing grounds, have succeeded in blocking the sale in court since January 1978. A new legal effort to block the oil and gas exploration is still pending in federal appeals court in Boston. Frank Basile, the manager of the New York Outer Continental Shelf office who will conduct the sale, told a news conference Monday he expected the bidding procedure to finally take place. ``I think I've made a career out of holding this briefing,'' he joked. ``As of right now, there is no bar that I can think of, or anyone in the Interior Department can think of, to holding this sale tomorrow.'' Oil companies started submitting bids early Monday afternoon for the 116 tracts, each nine square miles in size. The tracts are located from 63 to 157 miles off Cape Cod. Basile said the oil rigs expected to start exploration next summer will not be visible to vacationers. The bidding was complicated by a strike by 250 unionized employees at the Biltmore Plaza Hotel, where the procedure was to have taken place. Basile said that under federal law the bids must be received and opened at the hotel to avoid a legal challenge. Bids also will be accepted at a downtown auditorium because some participants might object to crossing the picket lines, he said, and the bids will be read there. The sale was last scheduled for Nov. 5. A federal appeals court granted a preliminary injunction to allow environmentalists and New England officials to ask the U.S. Supreme Court to hear the case. The high court refused Nov. 9 to block the sale. Later that day, drilling opponents initiated a new court challenge. A hearing on their request was held Dec. 6 in the federal appeals court in Boston. No decision has been issued. Basile said he doubted that the legal wrangling over the sale might deter prospective bidders. He said most mineral programs have a long history of litigation. ``It's frustrating and tends to make people look for alternatives,'' he said. ``It doesn't change the geological characteristics of the area. If there is potential in the area, it's still there.'' Federal geologists estimate the 116 tracts contain a potential 123 million barrels of oil and 870 million cubic feet of natural gas. Basile refused to estimate how much money would be bid for the tracts. He said there was a minimum bid of $154,000 per tract plus a royalty on any oil or gas found. Government officials will have 45 days to examine the bids and determine whether they are high enough. Once a bid is approved, an oil company would have to spend an additional six to seven months obtaining necessary permits before any exploration could begin. ****1540EST 0231 *** d s *** PM-BKC--Hinkle's80th-ADV 12-17 0453 Tony Hinkle, one of college basketball's winningest coaches before stepping down nearly 10 years ago in a mandatory retirement, turns 80 on Wednesday, still active in promoting Butler University and still outspoken on the game he says ``has been my life.'' Hinkle, absent from the northwestside Indianapolis campus only three years during World War II since he reported in 1920, carved a 559-399 record in basketball. He also coached baseball and football and won more than 1,100 games in the three sports. He was also athletic director for almost 40 years. Since his retirement as coach a decade ago, he has stayed with the university in a job that carries the title ``special assistant to the president for community relations.'' ``They gave me this job (in 1970) which was very nice of them,'' said Hinkle, who still lives near campus in the same two-story house he has called home since 1938. ``I go out to places where I think the university should be represented and people still call me wanting me to be chairman this or chairman that.'' Hinkle's introduction to college athletics came as a student at the University of Chicago, where he earned nine letters in football, basketball and track from 1918-20. He was a guard on Chicago's 1920 Big Ten championship basketball team. A native of Deer Creek, Ind., Hinkle was lured to Butler as an assistant to Pat Page, his former coach at Chicago. He also became baseball coach at that time, head basketball coach in 1926 and athletic director in 1931. He also was football coach in 1926, lost that job after a 3-6 season, and then got it back in 1935. During World War II, he coached at the U.S. Navy's Great Lakes training station, notching impressive records of 19-4-1 in football and 73-6 in basketball against major college teams. After the war, Hinkle returned to Butler with the rank of a full commander and resumed his multi-faceted job with the Bulldogs. ``My job was football, basketball, baseball and director of athletics, recruiting and all that,'' Hinkle said in a recent interview with the Indianapolis Star. ``Really my job was my hobby, my entertainment, my everything. I used to take two weeks off in the summertime when my wife was living, but that was about all. I got more relaxation_and do now_by going over to the Fieldhouse. It was everything,'' he said. The 15,000-seat arena was renamed Hinkle Fieldhouse before the 1965 season in which he became one of just a handful of college coaches to pass 500 career victories.  ****1540EST 0668 *** r i *** AM-IranianBjt 12-17 0809 Militants holding the U.S. Embassy ruled out a Christmas release for any of their 50 hostages and declared on Monday that all the Americans would face trial. Their stand clashed with the new, more conciliatory official line. Meanwhile, Tehran's chief Islamic judge, Mohammad Gillani, who could be the man to judge the hostages if the long-threatened espionage trial should be held, told reporters the captives were ``a bunch of spies.'' He also dismissed the idea that the Americans would have defense lawyers, saying Islamic lawyers would be unwilling to represent them. Iran claimed the deposed shah's departure from the United States for Panama on Saturday as a victory and a partial U.S. acceptance of Iranian demands. Foreign Minister Sadegh Ghotbzadeh even said some hostages might be freed before Christmas. But the students have maintained they would not free the hostages until the shah was returned to stand trial. Iranian strongman Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini has remained silent on the subject but it is unlikely that Ghotbzadeh would have reacted as positively as he did to the shah's move to Panama if he had not had Khomeini's backing. Ghotbzadeh said the Revolutionary Council was putting together an international ``grand jury,'' to start early in January to investigate the U.S. role in Iran. He said a hostage trial date was not even being considered now but that they might testify before the international tribunal. In Washington, State Department spokesman Hodding Carter said the administration draws no distinction between the hostages being tried on spy charges or being called as witnesses before the tribunal. ``The United States has no reason to view any use of these prisoners under whatever guise or pretext as anything but an involuntary act produced by their captivity, contrary to international law and therefore repugnant to everyone concerned,'' he said. Carter said implicitly that those invited by Iran to assume such a role should not take part. In a newspaper interview here, Ghotbzadeh announced the first two persons Iran will invite to sit on the international tribunal: former Amnesty International President and Nobel Peace Prize winner, Sean MacBride, and French lawyer Louis-Edmond Pettiti, who heads the Paris Bar Association and the International Organization of Catholic Jurists. Both men said they had not received an invitation. Islamic judge Gillani appeared before reporters in a courtroom in Tehran's maximum-security Evin prison, flanked by four other mullahs, or priests, and four civil lawyers. . Asked whether he expected to try the hostages, Gallini said through an interpreter that the order for the trial would come from the Revolutionary Council and Khomeini personally. Gallini added that the Americans were special cases as spies and that Khomeini himself would decide whether sentences would be carried out. ``The imam could agree with a verdict for them to be killed, or the imam could forgive them, or the imam could fine them, or the imam could free them,'' he said. Gallini dismissed the notion of the Americans' getting defense lawyers _ who would have to be Islamic lawyers _ as virtually impossible. ``It would be very difficult to imagine what Islamic lawyer would come to assist a bunch of spies,'' the turbaned official remarked. The interpreter also quoted Gallini at one point as referring to the Americans as ``criminals.'' When reporters pressed their point that any judgment from Gallini appeared to ba a foregone conclusion, the interpreter said Gallini had used the word ``accused.'' In other developments: --British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, on a visit to Washington, pledged to President Carter that if he decides to seek United Nations sanctions against Iran, ``Great Britain will be the first to support him.'' --Interior Minister Hashemi Rafsanjani announced that elections for the president under the new constituton will be held Feb. 9, and elections for legislators 20 days afterward. The presidency is essentially a figurehead post. Khomeini is the absolute power is Iran. --In a step designed to punish Panama for accepting the shah, Oil Minister Ali Akbar Moinfar called off a proposed oil deal with the Central American country, Tehran Radio said. ``A country that favors America cannot be considered non-aligned,'' said Moinfar. On Sunday Panama said it had not bought oil from Iran since 1973. --Two persons were killed and 13 injured when a grenade exploded in a mosque in the northwest capital of Tabriz during a military training session for young girls, the Tehran daily, Ettelaat, reported. Khomeini ordered widespread military training after the crisis with the United States began. --A little Christmas spirit came to the embassy when a Los Angeles radio reporter, Alex Paen, delivered more than 3,000 Christmas cards from Americans _ the first batch of cards flooding into Tehran following Paen's broadcasts saying he would relay the mail to the embassy for the hostages. ****1545EST 0104 *** r f *** BC-CashGrainLd-CX 12-17 0097 Wheat was nominally lower Monday; basis higher; corn was nominally lower; basis unchanged to lower; rail car receipts were 7,000 cars; oats were nominally lower; basis unchanged; soybeans were nominally lower; basis unchanged. Truck receipts: wheat 340,261 bushels; soybeans 36,136 bushels. Wheat No. 2 hard red winter 4.06{n; No. 2 soft red winter 4.24{n. Corn No. 2 yellow 2.67\n (hopper) 2.54\n (box). Oats No. 2 heavy 1.71\ n. Soybeans No. 1 yellow 6.36\n. No 2 yellow corn Friday was quoted at 2.69}n (hopper) and 2.57}n (box). ****1545EST 0611 *** d a *** AM-FreighterAground 12-17 0280 *** t0046 *** d s *** AM-FBN--Jackson-ProBowl 12-17 0066 *** s0234 *** d s *** AM-FBN--Jackson-ProBowl 12-17 0066 Linebacker Tom Jackson of the Denver Broncos will replace Jack Ham of Pittsburgh on the American Football Conference Pro Bowl team for the Jan.28 all-star game in Honolulu, the National Football League said Monday. Ham suffered an ankle injury in the Steelers' 20-17 loss in Houston Dec.10 and will miss the playoffs as well as the Pro Bowl. ****1549EST 0604 *** r i *** AM-ChurchillAffair 12-17 0420 Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher said Monday there is no need for a security inquiry into an affair between Conservative lawmaker Winston Churchill and Soraya Khashoggi, English-born ex-wife of a Saudi Arabian billionaire. ``I am satisfied there has been no breach of security in the public service,'' Mrs. Thatcher said in a written statement read in the House of Commons as the Tory premier was in Washington for talks with President Carter. The statement was in reply to a question put by Labor lawmaker James Wellbeloved, Royal Air Force minister in the previous Labor government, whether security officials needed to look into the affair which Churchill admitted over the weekend. ``The private affairs of an MP are no concern of mine,'' Wellbeloved told reporters later. He said Mrs. Thatcher's assurance ``that no security issues are involved closes this matter as far as I am concerned. ``If the criterion for this place is that you haven't committed any infidelity, then there would be a hell of a lot of by-elections,'' Wellbeloved added. The disclosure of the relationship between Churchill, 39-year-old grandson of wartime leader Sir Winston, and the former wife of entrepreneur Adnan Khashoggi, came as a result of a headline-grabbing court case involving sex, blackmail and corruption at Scotland Yard. In the trial that ended last week at London's Old Bailey criminal court, three detectives were jailed for blackmailing Mrs. Khashoggi in 1977. A defense lawyer for one of them claimed the detective had only been investigating a possible national security problem after discovering Mrs. Khashoggi was having an affair with a politician. Mrs. Khashoggi, 38, admitted to the affair and agreed to write the name of the politician on a piece of paper which was read by the judge and jury. The man was referred to as ``Mr. X.'' Churchill's lawyers released a statement early Saturday in which Churchill admitted he was Mr. X to ``avoid further speculation affecting other members of Parliament.'' During the trial, Mrs. Khashoggi _ born Sandra Jarvis-Daley in Leicester, England _ made clear she had not visited Churchill's office or seen any of his papers. Churchill was his party's defense spokesman 1976-1978 when the Tories were in opposition. Churchill married Minnie D'Erlanger in 1964 and they have four children. Mrs. Khashoggi was divorced by her husband, considered one of the world's major arms dealers, in 1974 and is reportedly seeking the biggest ever settlement _ put at $2 billion by the British press _ in Los Angeles. ****1550EST 0669 *** d a *** AM-FreighterAground 12-17 0280 One-way traffic was the rule on a narrow stretch of the St. Lawrence Seaway on Monday, as ships proceeded slowly past a grounded Greek freighter. Two tugs and a barge from the Montreal salvage company McAllister Towing and Salvage Ltd. were headed for the 601-foot freighter Archangelos, which ran aground Sunday after an engine failure. The company was expected to begin unloading the freighter's cargo of scrap metal Tuesday. The freighter is aground just west of the St. Lawrence County community of Morristown. The unloading may take ``a couple of days,'' said Madelyn Pruski, a St. Lawrence Seaway Corp spokesman. Once the freighter is lightened, the company will try to refloat it and move it from the seaway. Seaway officials are only permitting one-way traffic around the freighter, slowing traffic through the seaway linking major world ports with the Great Lakes. The freighter, which was headed from Hamilton, Ontario to Montreal, is one of 12 ocean-bound vessels which must clear the seaway before it closes for the winter because of ice. The ocean-bound ships must clear Cape Vincent by midnight Tuesday. The Liberian vessel Federal St. Clair is not expected to make that deadline and could face an ``operational surcharge'' of $80,000. The other ships are proceeding in an ``orderly fashion'' out of the seaway, according to Ms. Pruski. The grounding of the Archangelos could cause some additional delays when it is refloated, but is not expected to cause ships to miss the closing deadline, she said. The 2,342-mile-long seaway closes each winter before the channel freezes. Some ice is already forming in bays along the seaway. ****1551EST 6380 *** r i *** AM-Rhodesia 12-17 0539 *** s0235 *** r s *** AM-FBN--Rice-Fired 12-17 0492 The Cincinnati Bengals, concluding that ``it was rather obvious to all that a change had to be made,'' fired head coach Homer Rice and all of his assistant coaches Monday. General Manager Paul Brown, in announcing the housecleaning, announced that a search would begin immediately for a new coach for the Bengals, which finished the year with their second straight 4-12 record. ``It was obvious we weren't getting it done,'' Brown said. ``I'd go out week after week hopeful, but things began to happen so much of the time. Something always seemed to be happening to us. These little things have got to be controlled.'' Brown said he had some people in mind for the National Football League coaching job, ``but I don't draw the line anywhere.'' ``He has to be a strong type of personality,'' Brown said. ``He has to be someone who knows the game, but who at the same time is strong in a demanding way.'' Exiting along with Rice were Mike McCormack, offensive line coach; Boyd Dowler, receivers; Charley Winner, defensive backfield; Chuck Studley, defensive line' Howard Brinker, defensive coordinator; George Sefcik, offensive backfield; and Frank Gansz, special teams coach. Brown said he would be glad to see Rice stay on as an administrative assistant for the Bengals. Rice's entrance into the pro coaching ranks was a troubled one. The Bengals' fortunes had slipped since the team had posted an 11-3 mark in 1975, the last year that Brown coached the team. The Bengals slipped to 10-4 in 1976 under Bill Johnson and 8-6 in 1977. Rice joined the team as a quarterback coach in 1978, and found himself in the head coaching job after Johnson resigned when the team lost its first five games. ``We made the move because it was the least disruptive to the organzation,'' Brown recalled of Rice's hiring. ``It looked like we could make it and still salvage something out of the season. ``At the time, a lot of people didn't know how far we could go.'' Rice convinced a lot of people, including Brown, when he finished the year by winning three straight games. ``We decided to give it a full shot,'' said Brown, who admitted he had high hopes for this season. ``You could have knocked me over with a feather when we didn't get it done. No one was more surprised than I was when we didn't do well.'' Brown, in a news conference which ran nearly three-quarters of an hour, several times repeated how difficult it was to fire Rice. ``I dreaded to get up this morning,'' Brown said. He said he came to the office and told Rice first and then informed the assistant coaches. The 71-year-old Brown was asked if he would stay on as general manager of the club he helped found in 1968. ``I sure as hell will,'' Brown said. ****1554EST 0670 *** d a *** AM-WashingtonStorm 1stLd_Writethru p0617 12-17 0289 Torrential rains driven by 40-knot winds buffeted parts of western Washington on Monday and rivers that have claimed two lives in the last week continued at flood stage. The trouble Monday was centered in Clallam, Snohomish and Whatcom counties, with Clallam the hardest hit. Bill Logan, a Clallam County sheriff's deputy, said residents of the Lower Elwha Indian Reservation had been notified to be ready to evacuate. About 100 families returned to the reservation Sunday after being driven out by high water on Thursday and Friday. Logan said the Elwha River measured at 17.5 feet and rising early Monday. Sixteen feet is flood stage. Weather forecasters predicted rain throughout the day. Several roads were closed and a detour was recommended on U.S. 101 south of Forks, meaning parts of the Olympic Peninsula were inaccessible from the South. Tom Pelloquin, coordinator of the Emergency Services Department in Snohomish County, said rivers there were high and rising fairly fast. `It's just wait-and-see and hope the weather cooperates,'' he said Pelloquin said an accurate measurement of the Snohomish River was unavailable because of a broken gauge. But he said the Snohomish, Skyomish and Stillaguamish were at their banks. Authorities called off their search Monday for George Ericksen, about 50, of Davenport, Iowa, who apparently drowned when his boat swamped Saturday in the swollen Skagit River. Russell H. Barker, 44, of Forks died Friday when his dump truck plunged through a gap in the road into the brimming Bogachiel River, which had washed out an approach to the U.S. 101 bridge south of Forks. ****1555EST 0612 *** r i *** AM-OPEC Bjt 12-17 0745 *** m0130 *** r n *** unbx 12-17 0508 *** e0231 *** r n *** unbx 12-17 0508 *** e0232 *** u n *** BC-NYSLottery 12-17 0083 The winning number drawn Monday in New York state's Daily-Weekly lottery was 9 4 2. The bonus number was 5. In the game, one three-digit and a single-digit number are picked each weekday afternoon. Persons who have bought tickets previously win $300 if they match the three-digit number. If the bonus number is the doubler or tripler number on their tickets, the prize is $600 or $900. ****1559EST 0047 *** r s *** AM-CrossCountrySki 12-17 0217 Alison Owen-Spencer won her third consecutive Gitchi Gami Games trophy Monday as she led the U.S. cross country skiing team to a sweep of the 7.5-kilometer race at the North American championships. Owen-Spencer, 26, of East Wenatchee, Wash., had no problems handling the fast, hard track at Mount Telemark, leading a field of 33 skiers with a time of 24 minutes 57.76 seconds. Beth Paxson, Leslie Bancroft and Betsy Haines strengthened their bids to join Owen-Spencer on the 1980 U.S. Olympic team by finishing second, third and fourth. ``I felt really good out there,'' said Owen-Spencer, who won two races against a strong international field here last year. ``I was hoping I could do it again.'' She said she hasn't reached top form yet, saying, ``I'm just warming up. I'm working to peak for the Olympics in February.'' Paxson, 19, of Morehead, Ky., finished in 25:06.92, nine seconds behind Owen-Spencer. Bancroft, 20, of Paris, Maine, was third in 25:35.16. Haines, 19, of Anchorage, Alaska, was timed in 25:39.14, and fifth place went to Canadian Shirley Firth, of Banff, Alberta, who finished in 25:52.73. Kristen Petty, 15, of Townsend, Vt., won the North American junior championship 7.5 kilometer race in 26:24.11, and Canadian Monique Wattereus was second in 27:15.52. ****1600EST 0413 *** u n *** rnbx 12-17 0191 *** a0613 *** r w *** AM-Thatcher 1stLd-Writethru a0577 12-17 0611 *** a0614 *** d a *** AM-BoatFamily 1stlead_a0592 12-17 0427 *** a0615 *** r a *** AM-PlaneCrash 1stLd-Writethru a0583 12-17 0396 *** p0672 *** d a *** AM-Brites 1stLd a0658 12-17 0086 Bus riders who climb aboard a Citifare bus this week may think they're seeing things. Santa Claus will be driving a bus from Wednesday through Monday. And, people who get on a bus Santa is driving will get to ride for a quarter _ less than half the regular fare. And, they'll get a free candy cane to boot. ****1603EST 0048 *** d s *** AM-BBO--SCLC-Mays 12-17 0269 The Southern Christian Leadership Conference announced Monday that it plans to launch an investigation into possible racial bias in professional football and baseball. ``Considering the contributions blacks have made in professional sports, there certainly should be equal opportunity for black involvement i every level of operations in both baseball and football,'' said Joseph Lowery, president of the civil rights organization. Lowery said the SCLC will seek meetings with the commissioners of baseball and football and will ask the Congressional Black Caucus and the National Conference of Black Lawyers to join the investigation. Lowery said he wants to ask baseball Commissioner Bowie Kuhn in particular about his recent ruling that Willie Mays of the New York Mets could not accept a job with a gambling casino. Kuhn ruled that if Mays acccepted the casino job, he could not remain with Mets. Mays had two years remaining on a $50,000 per year contract as coach and goodwill ambassador with the Mets. ``The commissioners' decision regarding Willie Mays seems to be inconsistent with reports that have reached our offices relative to the involvement of other baseball personnel, including owners, with companies that own or operate gambling enterprises,'' Lowery said at a news conference. He did not elaborate. The SCLC president said he also was concerned that ``there are not any, nor have there ever been, black coaches and no offensive or defensive coordinators'' in the National Football League. ``We would like to know the extent to which blacks are functioning as scouts and are present in general management and executive positions'' in the league, Lowery said. ****1605EST 0109 *** u f *** AM-OPEC 12-17 0772 *** a0616 *** r i *** AM-Rhodesia 12-17 0522 *** t0049 *** d s *** BC-BKN--NBAPlayer 12-17 0105 *** s0237 *** d s *** BC-BKN--NBAPlayer 12-17 0105 Dan Roundfield, the Atlanta Hawks' power forward, has been named the National Basketball Association's Player of the Week for the period ending Dec. 16. The 6-foot-8 Roundfield helped the Hawks to a 3-0 record last week with victories over the Atlanta Hawks Tuesday and the Philadelphia 76ers Friday and Saturday. Roundfield had 53 points and 37 rebounds in the three games. Roundfield beat out center Swen Nater of San Diego and guards Foots Walker of Cleveland, Norm Nixon of Los Angeles and Paul Westphal of Phoenix for the weekly honor. ****1608EST 0233 *** r n *** AM-MallarResignation 2 12-17 0446 Transportation Commissioner Roger L. Mallar handed in his resignation Monday, one day before a special highway funding panel is expected to recommend a tax hike to pull his department out of the red. Mallar, 47, is one of Augusta's most influential bureaucrats, and his judgment carries considerable weight among legislative committees which make crucial funding decisions. ``From now on, it's going to be tough sledding for that department,'' one legislative source lamented. The Transportation Department faces a $16.7 million deficit during the current budget cycle, and Gov. Joseph E. Brennan's highway funding task force predicts the shortfall will reach roughly $60 million over the next three years. Tuesday the task force is expected to recommend the creation of a gasoline sales tax to supplement revenues generated by the existing 9 cent-per-gallon tax. Because the department's budget and functions are linked directly to the automobile, its fortunes can be expected to decline as conservation increases. A sales tax tied to gas prices would help compensate for that lost revenue. But Brennan would face an uphill battle in trying to get a tax increase through the Legislature, especially in an election year. Party leaders are split on the virtues of the gas tax. Mallar, who supported the tax hike as a member of the task force, said it was not a reason he decided to retire. ``I obviously would have preferred to see our highway funding program on more solid footing,'' he said, adding that he would advise Brennan even after leaving state government. Mallar will retire effective Dec. 28, six years to the month after he took over as Maine's transportation chief. ``It is time to move on,'' he said in a brief statement. Mallar said he will work as a part-time consultant to a firm that is considering launching a statewide energy company. He did not identify the firm or elaborate on what services a statewide energy company would provide. David Flanagan, Brennan's counsel, said Mallar is leaving the administration on ``amicable'' terms and that the move is something Mallar had been planning for some time. In a brief statement Brennan congratulated Mallar but accepted his resignation ``with regret.'' Mallar began working for the Transportation Department as a survey rodman 23 years ago. His two years' service in the Army qualifies him for an early retirement. ``With the availability of the 25-year retirement option and opportunities apparently available in the energy and economic development fields, it is time to move on,'' he said.  M 608EST 0673 *** r i *** AM-Rhodesia 12-17 0522 *** g0503 *** h n *** PM-GeorgesBank RIBjt 12-17 0494 *** e0234 *** u n *** rnbx 12-17 0181 New England Power Co. announced Monday it has dropped plans to build a nuclear power plant at the abandoned naval auxiliary landing field in Charlestown, R.I. The decision came after the company tried unsuccessfully since 1974 to acquire title to the landing field. The federal government, through the General Services Administration, turned down the requests. The power company appealed the GSA's decision but was blocked by a federal district court decision in Washington, D.C. earlier this month. The power company then decided to discontinue the appeal. ``We reached this conclusion with great regret,'' said New England Power Vice President Frederic E. Gereenman. ``We strongly believe that thge Charlestown property is the best remaining site for a nuclear power plant in southern New England and should have been kept available for future development.'' New England Power, a subsidiary of the New England Electric System, issued a statement advocating speedy completion of nuclear plants in New Hampshire, Massachusetts and Connecticut _ to combat oil price hikes imposed from the Middle East. ****1612EST 0617 *** r a *** AM-NavyCrashes 1stLd-Writethru a0599 12-17 0310 *** g5030 *** h n *** PM-GeorgesBank RIBjt 12-17 0482 *** a0618 *** r a *** AM-Escape Bjt 12-17 0598 *** f0117 *** u f *** PM-WallStreetClosing 12-17 0128 *** e0236 *** r n *** AM-VtOCCSA 12-17 0132 Northeast Kingdom residents will have a chance to express their views on the Orleans County Council of Social Agencies during a public hearing next month. Ivan Ashley, Boston regional director of the federal Community Services Administration, said he is sending a federal hearing officer to Vermont to gather public opinion about the anti-poverty agency. The session probably will be held in Newport, Ashley said. The CSA decided earlier this fall not to refund OCCSA, which it has accused of financial mismanagement. But the OCCSA board has appealed that decision. Ashley said that once the hearing officer completes his report, the CSA will make a final decision about refunding OCCSA. But he said that decision probably won't be made until sometime in February. ****1618EST 0131 *** r n *** AM-IndianPoint 12-17 0512 The quality of emergency planning at the Indian Point nuclear power plants gets a public airing Tuesday, with discussion expected to focus on renewed efforts to have the facility shut down. The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission public hearing comes at a time when opposition to operation of the plants, located on the Hudson River 24 miles north of New York City, continues to mount. The NRC itself is ``seriously considering'' closing the facility, according to Robert G. Ryan, director of the NRC's office of state programs, who has termed the location of the plants as ``insane.'' The three plants _ one was shut in 1974 for lack of an emergency core cooling system _ are located in Buchanan, within 50 miles of 20 million people in the most densely populated region of the country. Although the NRC wants to make nuclear plant operators more responsible for overall emergency planning, under current regulations the operators are responsible for evacuations only at the plant site. State and local authorities are supposed to handle the rest of the citizenry in the event an accident requires mass evacuations. The hearings, set to begin at 9 a.m., will be held by the NRC's Emergency Preparedness Task Force at the Westchester Inn. The federal agency's acceptance criteria for emergency plans, with an emphasis on state and local responsibilities, will be discussed in the morning session. Beginning at 1:30 p.m., the NRC committee will review the current emergency plans of plant operators Consolidated Edison and the Power Authority of the State of New York and those of the state government and surrounding communities. The public will be allowed to comment from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m., although officials say that period may be extended _ possibly into the next day _ if necessary. A large contingent of anti-nuclear activists is expected. The plans for the hearing have been filled with controversy. When the NRC first scheduled two days of public hearings in September, news releases announcing the sessions arrived at news media offices after the hearings had started. The NRC blamed slow mail service. Then, after reports circulated of what Westchester area congressmen termed ``de facto secret meetings,'' plans for a day of new hearings were announced. Several days later, a new date and location was announced. But it wasn't long before officials had to announce still another change. It turned out that the National Guard Armory in Peekskill was not available, so the site had to be moved to the Westchester Inn. The NRC mailed an announcement to that effect a week and a half ago. Emergency planning at Indian Point has been roundly criticized as grossly inadequate. Just last week, Ryan admitted to local legislators that it would be extremely difficult to evacuate the 325,000 persons living in a 10-mile radius of the plants in the event of a ``fast-breaking'' accident. ``The population risk in this area is enormous,'' Ryan said. ``I ****1619EST 0619 *** d a *** AM-Lance 12-17 0421 *** p0674 *** r a *** AM-PlaneCrash 1stLd-Writethru p0639 12-17 0396 Investigators searched Monday for the key to the crash of a twin-engine plane that slammed into a field and burned shortly after takeoff, killing seven Atlanta-area residents. E.L. Edgington Jr., deputy Clark County coroner, said the victims, four men and three women, were from the Atlanta area and ranged in age from 23 to 38. Five worked for an Atlanta architectural design company, Design Management. Edgington identified the victims of the Sunday night crash as Dale Raulerson, 34, company president; Cynthia Wells, 31, vice president for operations; Bonnie Edwards, 27, chief designer; Mark Patrick, 23, and Joe Morgan, 31, company employees; Jeff McConnell, the pilot; and Kay Stevens, 38, a passenger not connected with design company. He said the identifications would not be positive until dental records had been checked. Joe Spivens, an air traffic controller at Blue Grass Field, said the plane's pilot was registered to Peachtree Air Service of Atlanta. But a spokeswoman for the Peachtree said it didn't own the twin-engine Beechcraft. The plane went down about 10 minutes after takeoff, shortly before 6 p.m. Thomas Kindler, 28, whose farm is near the crash site, said it looked like the pilot was trying to find a place to land. Five seconds after the craft disappeared behind a hill, he saw a burst of flames. Clark County Sheriff Larry Lawson said the plane may have hit a barn before going down. The aircraft plowed 75 yards down a gently sloping hill, coming to rest upside down near a creek on a farm. Wreckage was scattered over an area 150 feet long and 15 feet wide. Only the tail section of the plane remained intact. ``The aircraft was in flames when we arrived at the scene,'' Lawson said, ``but there was no way we could get near it until the fire trucks got here. There wasn't a good deal we could do at that point.'' Jack Lipscomb, an air safety investigator with the National Transportation Safety Board, would not speculate on the cause of the crash. He said on-site investigation probably would be completed in a couple of days, but that a report would take about two months. ****1621EST 0095 *** r n *** AM-Salmon 12-17 0253 *** e0237 *** r n *** AM-VtAcidRain 12-17 0197 Two University of Vermont scientists have gotten into a sparring match over the effects of acid rain on agriculture. Acid rain is formed when pollution is picked up by clouds and then dropped back to earth as precipitation. UVM agricultural agronomist Winston Way issued a statement Monday saying that acid rain may damage lakes and high-level forests, but that it is ``generally beneficial to agriculture'' because it puts nitrogen and sulfur in the soil. Nitrogen and sulfur are ``important plant nutrients without which no plants can grow,'' Way said. But UVM plant ecologist Hubert Vogelmann called Way's comments ``a really dangerous statement.'' ``To say any compound that has nitrogen and sulphur is beneficial is really ridiculous,'' Vogelmann said. He said that when nitrogen and sulphur fall in acid rain they combine with water to form nitric and sulfuric acid. ``Ask him why he doesn't recommend fertilizing plants with nitric acid and sulfuric acid,'' Vogelmann said. He said he did not think anyone could believe that acid rain is beneficial for agriculture. ``I couldn't point to a shred of evidence to back that statement up,'' Vogelmann said. ****1622EST 0414 *** r f *** AM-HoJoApproval 450 12-17 0472 *** p0675 *** r a *** AM-Escape Bjt 12-17 0598 *** a0620 *** r i *** AM-OPEC lstLd-Writethru 12-17 0817 *** p0677 *** r w *** AM-Thatcher 1stLd-Writethru p0635 12-17 0611 British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher pledged to President Carter Monday that if he decides to seek United Nations sanctions against Iran, ``Great Britain will be the first to support him.'' Carter and Mrs. Thatcher met for two hours at the White House on her first state visit to the United States. Iran, Carter told reporters afterward, was a major item on the agenda. Expressing appreciation for Britain's ``firm and unequivocal support'' in the crisis, Carter said, ``there are few, if any, differences between the people of Great Britain and the people of the United States.'' Mrs. Thatcher told reporters, ``We indicated very clearly to the president that when the United States wishes to go to the Security Council for further powers under Chapter 7 (the chapter in the U.N. charter dealing with sanctions), Great Britain will be the first to support him. You expect nothing less. You will receive nothing less.'' The president and prime minister, who met for about 25 minutes privately and for about two hours with their advisers, discussed arms control, Iran, Rhodesia, the Middle East and Northern Ireland, among other topics, said White House press secretry Jody Powell. Powell said that when the two met, the president was not aware that the Patriotic Front had initialed a cease fire agreement in London. The press secretary said Carter described the agreement, worked out to end the fighting in Rhodesia, as ``a magnificent achievement'' and he promised ``out continued support'' for the British effort. He said Carter also expressed thanks for British support of the American position in the Iranian crisis. Neither Mrs. Thatcher nor Carter amplified on the specific types of economic sanctions the United States might ask from the Security Council or when that step might be taken. Nor did they say whether Britain would be prepared to join an informal group of American allies imposing sanctions if the U.N. effort is blocked by a Soviet veto. But Carter and his chief foreign policy advisers, Secretary of State Cyrus Vance and national security adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski, were grinning broadly as they escorted Mrs. Thatcher and British Foreign Minister Lord Carrington to their car. Administration officials have indicated in recent days that they probably will ask the U.N. to impose sanctions. Vance is supposed to meet later this week with Soviet Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin to learn whether the Soviets will support such a move. Mrs. Thatcher arrived amid the traditional pomp and splendor accorded heads of government on their first visits to the White House. A military band played ``God Save the Queen'' and ``The Star-Spangled Banner.'' Scores of flags snapped in the freezing, wintry wind as she and Carter reviewed the formal honor guard assembled on the South Lawn of the White House. Carter said Mrs. Thatcher had ``exhibited greatness'' in facing ihternational problems during her first seven months in office. The American people ``have been deeply grateful and filled with admiration'' for the British efforts to settle the civil war in Rhodesia, he said, adding his ``hope that soon that nation will be blessed with a majority-rule government and peace.'' Their remarks came only hours after the United States' economic sanctions against Rhodesia formally ended, contributing to the friendly atmosphere of Monday's meeting. In ending the sanctions before a formal settlement of the Rhodesian conflict, Carter acceded to British wishes and overruled some advisers who said the United States ought to wait for the U.N. Security Council to lift the sanctions. ``We are particularly grateful'' for American support on Rhodesia, Mrs. Thatcher said. ****1627EST 0621 *** r i *** AM-Iranian 1stLd-Writethru 12-17 0818 *** a0622 *** r i *** PM-Iraq-Iran 12-17 0219 *** e0239 *** r n *** AM-Salmon 12-17 0253 Fisheries Minister Jim McGrath is going ahead with plans to help the Atlantic salmon fishery. But opposition critics say he should wait until after the Feb. 18 election. McGrath has appointed Walter Carter, former Newfoundland fisheries minister and defeated Progressive Conservative candidate in a Newfoundland byelection last month, to head the Atlantic Salmon Board. The board will oversee programs to save and restore the Atlantic salmon off the East Coast and in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. Bill Rompkey, Liberal fisheries spokesman, said McGrath should wait until after the vote before proceeding with the salmon plan which has yet to be debated in Commons. McGrath has also appointed Wilfred Carter, executive-director of the International Atlantic Salmon Foundation, vice-chairman of the board. The board will have 25 members. Work is under way on the selection of representatives from the federal department, the governments of Quebec, Newfoundland and the Maritime provinces as well as commercial and recreational fishermen and natives. The Atlantic salmon has fallen on hard times because of overfishing at sea and poaching at home. Commercial salmon fishing was banned in New Brunswick and Quebec in 1972 and further reductions in commercial salmon fishing for Newfoundland are planned. The policy also calls for committees to manage the salmon fishery river by river and changes in fishing sesons to allow more salmon to return to their spawning rivers. Tougher penalties for poaching are planned and provincial governments will be asked to take over patrolling of the salmon rivers. ****1631EST 0128 *** r f *** AM-FrontWheel-Ford 12-17 0347 Ford Motor Co. will follow the lead of other automakers and build most of its cars with front-wheel drive by the middle of the next decade, a trade publication reported Monday. The Metalworking News edition of American Metal Market said Ford's entries would trail those planned by General Motors Corp. and Chrysler Corp. GM is known to be planning to put front-wheel drive on most of its models by the 1984 model year _ perhaps as much as 85 percent of its cars. Chrysler already has said all its U.S.-built cars would have front-wheel drive by 1985. Attributing its information to ``well-placed sources within the company,'' Metalworking News said Ford planned to redesign its larger cars with front-wheel drive by the middle of the 1985 model year, perhaps converting other car lines 12 to 18 months later. A few specialty models may retain rear-wheel drive, the weekly said. A Ford spokesman who asked not to be identified said the company would have no comment. Front-wheel drive _ pioneered in this country by Chrysler's subcompact Dodge Omni and Plymouth Horizon models introduced halfway through the 1978 model year _ offers the advantage of greater interior room because the car has no drive shaft and transmission hump. Those reasons and the combination of the transmission and differential into one unit permit a car to be 100 to 200 pounds lighter, depending on size, even without any other weight-saving measures. The industry rule of thumb is that 400 pounds off a full-size car boosts full economy by one mile per gallon. Ford has said it will replace its imported subcompact, the German-built front-wheel drive Fiesta, and the dometic rear-wheel drive subcompacts Pinto and Mercury Bobcat in 1981 with a new front-wheel drive model bearing the company code name ``Erika.'' Otherwise, the company had planned to stick with the familar _ and cheaper because of fewer tooling requirements _ rear-wheel drive for most models. Front-wheel drive will require new transmission and suspension designs, modification of engines for transverse placement and chassis and body changes. ****1631EST 0241 *** r s *** AM-FBN--LionsPick 12-17 0474 *** p0679 *** r i *** AM-OPEC lstLd-Writethru p0667 12-17 0818 A major split developed among the 13 OPEC members Monday as the oil cartel opened its winter meeting on prices. Saudi Arabia, which produces nearly one third of OPEC's oil and supplies nearly 20 percent of U.S. petroleum imports, refused to boost prices above the $24 a barrel level it set last week when it hiked prices 33 percent from $18. Libya and other price ``hawks'' have raised prices to as much as $30 a barrel, and months ago breached the $23.50 a barrel ceiling set at the June meeting of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries. Saudi oil minister Ahmed Zaki Yamani said there ``will be no increase over the $24 level'' for the first three months of 1980, and perhaps ``more (longer) than that.'' He also said Saudi Arabia would maintain its current daily production rate of 9.5 million barrels ``at least for the first quarter, and after that we will decide.'' The oil ministers spoke briefly to reporters who were allowed past gun-toting security guards onto conference room floor at the plush Tamanaco Hotel. Armored personnel carriers lined the street outside the hotel, where the conference is being held and the delegates are staying. Yamani would not rule out new price increases by other producers. OPEC members that have so far raised prices account for about one fifth of the oil needs of the United States, which imports about 40 percent of the 20 million barrels of oil it consumes daily. The Saudi price hike was expected to cost U.S. consumers about three cents a gallon on gasoline and heating oil. The combined effect of last week's price increases by moderates and hawks could raise U.S. gasoline prices between 4 and 11 cents. Libyan Oil Minister Izzedin al Mabruk told a reporter, ``The industrialized countries can pay whatever we ask. They have shown they can stand a price increase.'' He also said Libya, which ships nearly half its daily 2 million barrels of production to the United States, will reduce that by an unspecified amount next year. Algerian oil minister Belkacem Nabi said he thinks his country would be able to persuade the Saudis to boost prices. Later, asked if he thought the Algerians would be successful, Iranian oil minister Ali Akbar Moinfar said: ``Anything can happen. Would you have believed a month ago that the price of Saudi crude would have gone from $18 to $24?'' The list of nations announcing price hikes grew longer as the OPEC meeting approached. Among the latest to hike prices were Iran, up $5 to $28.50 a barrel, Libya, up $3.73 to $30, and Indonesia, up $2 to $25.50. Additionally, Iraq was reported about to rasise prices $2 to $24. Earlier, Venezuela, the United Arab Emirates and Qatar followed the Saudi move to $24, and Ecuador and Gabon were said to be backing the moderate Saudis. UAE Oil Minsister Mana Saeed Oteiba said in an interview with NBC-News tgat his nation will not raise prices for at least six months. He anticipated a worldwide economic slowdown next year which he said could trim demand for oil, cause a temporary glut and could force higher-priced producers to cut prices. uwaiti Oil Minister Ali Khalifa al Sabah, who said earlier his country was ``supporting'' the $24 a barrel ceiling, told reporters Kuwait has not made a decision on production levels for 1980 and has made no price decision. Sources said Ecuador was likely to go along with the $24 ceiling. The head of the Nigerian national oil company, A.A. Hart, said his nation ``shall have no objection'' to an increase in its $21.27 a barrel price to at least $30 dollars if it is ``in conformity with general price levels worldwide.'' Hart said production cuts ``will not be necessary'' next year in Nigeria, which supplies nearly 6 percent of total U.S. consumption. Nigerian oil is in great demand because of its high gasoline yield. He would not confirm reports that Nigeria had already boosted prices, but said an announcement would be made ``in due course.'' Conference sources said it is becoming increasingly clear that the ministers will not be able to agree on a unified price structure. They predict instead that several more producers will simply raise prices to re-establish at a higher level the price split that has prevailed among OPEC members since the first three months of 1979. Libya and other militants are expected to make token demands for an increase in the benchmark price, set by Saudi Arabia, but Yamani said his nation will refuse. The benchmark price is theoretically fixed by a consensus of all OPEC members but Saudi Arabia also has `sovereign control' over its own prices. ****1633EST 0680 *** r i *** AM-Iranian 1stLd-Writethru p0668 12-17 0819 Militants holding the U.S. Embassy ruled out a Christmas release for any of their 50 hostages and declared on Monday that all the Americans would face trial. Their stand clashed with the new, more conciliatory official line. Meanwhile, Tehran's chief Islamic judge, Mohammad Gillani, who could be the man to judge the hostages if the long-threatened espionage trial should be held, told reporters the captives were ``a bunch of spies.'' He also dismissed the idea that the Americans would have defense lawyers, saying Islamic lawyers would be unwilling to represent them. Iran claimed the deposed shah's departure from the United States for Panama on Saturday as a victory and a partial U.S. acceptance of Iranian demands. Foreign Minister Sadegh Ghotbzadeh even said some hostages might be freed before Christmas. But the students have maintained they would not free the hostages until the shah was returned to stand trial. Iranian strongman Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini has remained silent on the subject but it is unlikely that Ghotbzadeh would have reacted as positively as he did to the shah's move to Panama if he had not had Khomeini's backing. Ghotbzadeh said the Revolutionary Council was putting together an international ``grand jury,'' to start early in January to investigate the U.S. role in Iran. He said a hostage trial date was not even being considered now but that they might testify before the international tribunal. In Washington, State Department spokesman Hodding Carter said the administration draws no distinction between the hostages being tried on spy charges or being called as witnesses before the tribunal. ``The United States has no reason to view any use of these prisoners under whatever guise or pretext as anything but an involuntary act produced by their captivity, contrary to international law and therefore repugnant to everyone concerned,'' he said. Carter said implicitly that those invited by Iran to assume such a role should not take part. In a newspaper interview here, Ghotbzadeh announced the first two persons Iran will invite to sit on the international tribunal: former Amnesty International President and Nobel Peace Prize winner, Sean MacBride, and French lawyer Louis-Edmond Pettiti, who heads the Paris Bar Association and the International Organization of Catholic Jurists. Both men said they had not received an invitation. Islamic judge Gillani appeared before reporters in a courtroom in Tehran's maximum-security Evin prison, flanked by four other mullahs, or priests, and four civil lawyers. . Asked whether he expected to try the hostages, Gillani said through an interpreter that the order for the trial would come from the Revolutionary Council and Khomeini personally. Gillani added that the Americans were special cases as spies and that Khomeini himself would decide whether sentences would be carried out. ``The imam could agree with a verdict for them to be killed, or the imam could forgive them, or the imam could fine them, or the imam could free them,'' he said. Gillani dismissed the notion of the Americans' getting defense lawyers _ who would have to be Islamic lawyers _ as virtually impossible. ``It would be very difficult to imagine what Islamic lawyer would come to assist a bunch of spies,'' the turbaned official remarked. The interpreter also quoted Gillani at one point as referring to the Americans as ``criminals.'' When reporters pressed their point that any judgment from Gillani appeared to ba a foregone conclusion, the interpreter said Gillani had used the word ``accused.'' In other developments: --British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, on a visit to Washington, pledged to President Carter that if he decides to seek United Nations sanctions against Iran, ``Great Britain will be the first to support him.'' --Interior Minister Hashemi Rafsanjani announced that elections for the president under the new constituton will be held Feb. 9, and elections for legislators 20 days afterward. The presidency is essentially a figurehead post. Khomeini is the absolute power is Iran. --In a step designed to punish Panama for accepting the shah, Oil Minister Ali Akbar Moinfar called off a proposed oil deal with the Central American country, Tehran Radio said. ``A country that favors America cannot be considered non-aligned,'' said Moinfar. On Sunday Panama said it had not bought oil from Iran since 1973. --Two persons were killed and 13 injured when a grenade exploded in a mosque in the northwest capital of Tabriz during a military training session for young girls, the Tehran daily, Ettelaat, reported. Khomeini ordered widespread military training after the crisis with the United States began. --A little Christmas spirit came to the embassy when a Los Angeles radio reporter, Alex Paen, delivered more than 3,000 Christmas cards from Americans _ the first batch of cards flooding into Tehran following Paen's broadcasts saying he would relay the mail to the embassy for the hostages. ****1634EST 0676 *** d a *** AM-Lance 12-17 0421 An attorney for former federal budget director Bert Lance blamed Sen. Charles Percy, R-Ill., Monday for starting the prosecution that led to Lance's indictment on bank fraud charges. Nickolas Chilivis, charging that Lance was a victim of selective prosecution, said Percy acted vindictively because he had been embarrassed by Lance during Senate Governmental Affairs Committee hearings in 1977. Chilivis, who heads Lance's defense team, said Percy's ringing denunciation of Lance at the close of those hearings was responsible for the opening of a Justice Department investigation and, eventually, for Lance's indictment. Percy had no immediate comment. The comments came during a hearing before U.S. District Judge Charles A. Moye on Lance's motion to dismiss the case against him on the ground that he was prosecuted for ``improper motives.'' Lance and three associates were indicted in May 1979 on charges of bank fraud and bank fraud conspiracy involving $20 million in loans to the defendants, their friends and families. The trial is scheduled to start Jan. 14. Chilivis told Moye that several investigations of Lance's banking practices conducted before Lance became President Carter's budget director in January 1977 found no cause for criminal action. ``Then Lance became director of the Office of Management and Budget and Mr. Lance on national television embarrassed Sen. Percy.'' In a written brief, Chilivis said that during the hearings in July 1977, Percy had suggested that Lance might be guilty of tax fraud. Chilivis said Lance was able to rebut the inference and show that the Illinois senator's statement had been irresponsible. At the close of a subsequent hearing in September 1977, Percy, ranking Republican on the committee, criticized Lance harshly and urged him to resign. Lance resigned a few days later. Chilivis attributed the harshness of Percy's comments to his embarrassment at the previous hearing. Lance's lawyer said Percy sent a copy of his statement to then-Atty. Gen. Griffin Bell, who referred it routinely to the Justice Department's fraud division. ``It does seem to be an odd coincidence that it was after that that they decided to prosecute Mr. Lance,'' Chilivis said. A federal magistrate recommended Friday that Moye deny Lance's motion, in which the former federal budget director also contends he was the victim of tactical pre-indictment delay, manipulated parallel civil and criminal investigations and a broken commitment not to prosecute him. The government will have a chance Tuesday to respond to the defense arguments. ****1634EST 0678 *** d a *** AM-BoatFamily 1stlead_Writethru a0653 12-17 0428 A family of five has finally found a home on a 33-foot cabin cruiser, but officials want them to abandon ship. Ocean Township wants Jeff and Margie Shinka and their three children to move off ``Southern Comfort'' at the Liberty Harbor Marina.They cite health and safety problems and say the Shinkas must pay local taxes. But Mrs. Shinka, 30, says they can't afford to live anywhere else and don't want to, anyway. ``I've fought them before,'' she says. ``The board of health, building inspector and child welfare have been here. There's no way we're going to move. It's against the constitution to stop us from living on the boat. If people can live in a shack, why can't we live here?'' Mrs. Shinka says her husband, 37, can't work because he suffers from dyslexia, a reading impairment. She says the family, which includes Agnes, 10, Butch, 6, and Laura Lynn, 5, couldn't afford to pay $390 a month to rent a house in Toms River until, last July, her father gave them his cabin cruiser. The Shinkas pay $120 a month to dock the boat. Township officials say a boat is no place for a family. ``It's a dangerous situation,'' says Building Inspector Robert Mears. ``There are no toilet facilities on the boat. I'm concerned about their health and fire safety.'' And Township Committeeman Joseph Clayton says: ``They're taking unfair advantage of the community. If you send kids to school here, you should pay taxes. I think we're asking for trouble by allowing people to live in boats all year round without proper facilities.'' The Shinkas have a kerosene heater bolted to the floor and get meals from an electric stove. Instead of a regular toilet, they use a retaining tank, which is emptied regularly at the marina's rest rooms. The Shinkas will be able to get hot and cold running water from the marina, at least until the business closes for the winter. The children have a Christmas tree on the deck. ``There's nothing wrong with my kids. I've got no complaints from school,'' says Mrs. Shinka. ``These kids have had it rough. They know what it's like to do without water, heat and electric.'' Marina owner William Miller says township officials are harrassing the family. ``I don't particularly like kids living on a boat. These kids can be a nuisance,'' he said ``but it's their constitutional right.'' ****1635EST 0242 *** d s *** BC-CrossCountrySki-Sums 12-17 0093 *** t0051 *** d s *** BC-CrossCountrySki-Sums 12-17 0093 The top 10 finishers in the women's 7.5-kilometer race at the North American cross country skiing championships Monday: 1. Alison Owen-Spencer, East Wenatchee, Wash., 24 minutes, 57.76 seconds. 2. Beth Paxson, Morehead, Ky., 25:06.92 3. Leslie Bancroft, Paris, Maine, 25:35.16 4. Betsy Haines, Anchorage, Alaska, 25:39.14 5. Shirley Firth, Canada, 25:52.72 6. Joanne Musolf, East Wenatchee, Wash., 26:01.66 7. Jennifer Caldwell, Putney, Vt., 26:07.97 8. Joan Groothuysen, Canada, 26:15.92 9. Judy Rabinowitz, Fairbanks, Alaska, 26.23.26 10.Angela Schmidt, Canada, 26.24.03. ****1635EST 0624 *** r w *** AM-US-Iran 12-17 0372 *** f0132 *** u f *** BC-Cotton 12-17 0055 Cotton futures No. 2 closed 45 cents a bale lower to $1.50 higher Monday. The average price for strict low middling 11-16 inch spot cotton advanced 102 points to 66.74 cents a pound Friday for the ten leading markets, acccording to the New York Cotton Exchange. ****1636EST 0134 *** u n *** BC-ConnPoll Bjt 12-17 0450 *** p0682 *** r i *** AM-Iraq-Iran 12-17 0219 The government told Iran on Monday it would withdraw all Iraqi citizens, including embassy personnel, from neighboring Iran if 16 detained Iraqi teachers were not released by Wednesday, the official news agency said. Foreign Minister Hamed Alwan summoned the Iranian charge d'affaires in Baghdad for an urgent meeting in an effort to win the release of the 16, arrested in the southern city of Khorramshahr last week on charges of possessing weapons and explosives. Iranian Foreign Minister Sadeh Ghotbzadeh, quoted on Tehran Radio, monitored in London, confirmed receipt of the demand and said all but two detainees he said were military officers ``masquerading as teachers'' had been released. In the radio report, Ghotbzadeh said there was no doubt the 16 had the explosives and weapons and had distributed them. He did not elaborate. Iran charges that Iraq was backing revolt in the largely Arab province of Khuzestan, which includes Khorramshahr, and accused Iraqi forces of driving three miles across the border into Iran's oil-rich southwestern region last Friday. Iraq denies the allegations. Iraq has repeatedly criticised Iran for the Nov. 4 seizure of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, saying it runs counter to diplomatic tradition and invites U.S. military intervention in the Persian Gulf area. ****1637EST 0134 *** r f *** AM-HoJoApproval 12-17 0316 *** p0683 *** r w *** AM-US-Iran 12-17 0372 The refusal of Iranian students to release the U.S. hostages will lead to their country paying ``an increasingly higher price,'' President Carter's spokesman said Monday. White House press secretary Jody Powell also challenged the Iranians to allow neutral and unbiased observers into the embassy to visit the hostages. ``If conditions are so wonderful, if the treatment has been so above-reproach,'' Powell said, why are no third-party visits being allowed?. He said the administration was no closer to deciding whether to seek United Nations economic sanctions against Iran. Earlier in the day, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, meeting with Carter, offered Britain's support for such a move. ``That decision has not been made,'' Powell told reporters at a White House briefing. ``There are other avenues which would also help.'' While stating that he was not attempting to hint at a change in course, Powell said: ``The continued holding of our people can only cause an increasingly higher price to be paid by Iran.'' Pressed to explain, he said ``as usual, we would be very unlikely to foreshadow our options.'' With Iran continuing to appear on the path of seeking an international tribunal to investigate the conduct of deposed Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi and U.S. foreign policy in Iran since 1953, Powell said ``such grievances are not relevant at this point... .so long as Iran stands in defiance of the World Court and the United Nations and world opinion.'' The International Court of Justice _ the World Court _ in The Hague released a preliminary finding over the weekend criticizing the Iranians. Since the students, who are holding 50 Americans, seized the embassy in Tehran on Nov. 4, Carter's policy has been directed at focusing attention on the seizure and not on the shah or U.S. policy. Within the past week, the students holding the hostages have allowed several to call family members in the United States and to receive some mail. Powell suggested these actions may be occurring to distract attention from the fact that third-party observers have not been visiting the hostages. ``As Christmas approaches, we whould not lose sight'' that such visits are not taking place, the spokesman said. ****1638EST 0416 *** r n *** BC_Arts Adv.21 2Takes 12-17 0432 *** p0684 *** u f *** PM-WallStreetClosing 12-17 0184 The stock market advanced slightly today while Wall Street waited out developments from a meeting of oil-exporting countries. Trading was active. At the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries meeting, which convened today, Shiek Ahmed Zaki Yamani of Saudi Arabia said he didn't expect any price increases beyond those announced in the past week by various OPEC members. Saudi Arabia and several other countries considered to be OPEC's ``moderates'' posted price hikes last week to $24 a barrel, in what was interpreted as a move to forestall some larger increases sought by the militant forces within the cartel. But those forces were still pushing for higher prices. The Dow Jones average of 30 industrials gained 1.87 to 844.62. Advances outnumbered declines by a 5-4 margin on the New York Stock Exchange. Big Board volume totaled 43.83 million shares, against 41.80 million in the previous session. The NYSE's composite index rose .26 to 62.61. At the American Stock Exchange, the market value index was up 3.54 at 244.15, hitting a record high for the fourth straight session. ****1639EST 0685 *** u f *** BC-Indexes 12-17 0127 Closing New York Stock Exchange Index: ****1641EST 0412 *** h n *** BC_Arts Adv.20 2Takes 12-17 0435 *** s0243 *** d s *** AM-FBN--LionsPick 12-17 0462 *** e0240 *** r f *** AM-HoJoApproval 450 12-17 0466 *** g0096 *** d n *** BC-ConnPoll 430 12-17 0447 *** a0625 *** r w *** AM-SALT 12-17 0592 *** a0594 *** r i *** AM-PanamaShah Bjt 12-17 0580 *** t0052 *** d s *** AM-FBN--LionsPick 12-17 0462 Detroit Coach Monte Clark says he hasn't decided who the Lions will make the No.1 pick in the National Football League draft of college players April 29. ``We need a game-breaker,'' Clark said Monday. ``I haven't sat down and talked with our scouts about it yet, though, so I just can't say who it might be.'' The Lions earned the right to the No.1 pick, even though they tied the San Francisco 49ers as the worst team in the NFL during the 1979 season. In a case of identical records, the team with the worst record against the weakest schedule gets priority in the draft, and that team was Detroit. The Lions got their 2-14 record against teams with a composite record of 133-123 while the 49ers went 2-14 against teams with a 135-121 composite record. ``I'm not even going to think about the draft for a couple of weeks yet,'' said Clark, who has the final say over the club's picks. Clark's desire for a ``game breaker,'' coupled with veteran running back Dexter Bussey's desire to be traded, make either Oklahoma's Billy Sims or Southern California's Charles White appear to be prime candidates. Both have won the Heisman Trophy and both are seniors. ``They're both good backs,'' Clark said. The Lions, along with many other pro teams, also are high on Jackson State running back Perry Harrington, who has been clocked at 4.4 seconds for the 40-yard dash. Bussey, who gained only 625 yards, still wound up as the Lions' leading rusher this season. Bussey was expected to combine with quarterback Gary Danielson to provide the 1-2 punch needed to carry Detroit to the title in the National Football Conference Central Division, but all that was lost when Danielson suffered a knee injury and missed the entire season. Despite Detroit's obvious need for offensive firepower, the Lions also need help at the receiver position _ particularly with Gene Washington's intention to retire _ and at linebacker. In other words, the Lions need a lot of help. So much help, in fact, that they just might trade their rights to the No.1 pick in exchange for some veteran players. The Seattle Seahawks did that when they traded the rights to Tony Dorsett to the Dallas Cowboys in exchange for several proven _ but less glamorous _ players three years ago. The move proved to be exactly right for the Seahawks, who finished a solid 9-7 this year. ``It would have to be something very, very special (to trade away the No.1 pick),'' Clark said. ``But we have needs in so many areas, so we certainly wouldn't close our minds to such a proposal.'' ****1646EST 0626 *** d w *** AM-FCCActions 12-17 0242 The Federal Communications Commission said Monday it had made the following decisions: _Granted assignment of license of KLIF-AM, Dallas, Texas, from Fairchild KLIF Inc., to Susquehanna Broadcasting Co., in consideration of $4.25 million. _Granted acquisition of positive control of Brewer Broadcasting Corp., licensee of KXXK-FM, Chickasha, Okla., by Jackie G. Brewer through purchase of stock from James R. Brewer in consideration of $10,000. _Granted acquisition of positive control of Sooner Broadcasting Corp., KWCO-AM, Chickasha, Okla., by Jackie G. Brewer through purchase of stock from James R. Brewer in consideration of $193,007. _Granted transfer of control of Brewer Communications Inc., KOKL-AM and KLLS-FM, Okmulgee, Okla., from James R. Brewer and Jackie G. Brewer to James R. Brewer in consideration of $14,507. _Granted assignment of license and construction permit for KXBQ-FM, Ontario, Ore., to Duane G. Kerttula and Wenona L. Kerttula, doing business as the Ontario Broadcasting Co. _Decided, as part of the recent restructuring of the broadcast facilities division, to assign processing of public radio and TV and other non-commercial edcational FM, TV and auxiliary service applications to specially designated staffs. The goals of the new special units will be to reduce the average processing time from the current 9-to-12 months to 6-to-9 months. _And amended its rules to allow an administrative law judge to move a hearing to Washington if all parties agree, without the need to solicit approval from the chief administrative law judge. ****1646EST 0627 *** r a *** AM-Escape 1stLd-Writethru a0618 12-17 0654 *** e0241 *** u n *** AM-McLaughlin 12-17 0142 *** g0097 *** u n *** AM-McLaughlin 12-17 0142 Members of the Hillsboro County Delegation visited the county jail in their investigation of the suicide of a state legislator in his cell. The legislative delegation's Personnel Committee met for more than two hours on Monday to investigate the death of Rep. Lawrence McLaughlin, R-Nashua, who hanged himself while being held to be transferred to the State Prison after being convicted of burglary. The committee heard from Frederick Cleveland, jail supervisor, who said he told guard Earle Dubois to watch McLaughlin constantly. Dubois has denied that he was told to watch Mclaughlin constantly. He has said he saw a note that said McLaughlin should be watched closely. The 66-year-old guard has worked at the jail nearly 15 years. Other testimony showed that during a nine-year-period, Dubois saved 13 people who were trying to commit suicide. ****1647EST 0594 *** r i *** AM-PanamaShah Bjt 12-17 0580 *** s0244 *** r s *** AM-BKN--McGinnis-Kersey 12-17 0202 *** a0628 *** r i *** AM-PanamaShah 1stLd-Writethrua0594 12-17 0589 *** p0686 *** r w *** AM-SALT 12-17 0592 Senate Democratic whip Alan Cranston said Monday that arms-control and defense advocates are developing a consensus that could bring Senate ratification of the SALT II treaty by next spring. He said it is not likely senators seeking to delay a vote on the treaty until after the 1980 elections will prevail. And President Carter's spokesman, Jody Powell, told reporters Monday at the White House that Carter won't hold the treaty back from Senate consideration because ``it is obvious that prolonged delay could have unfortunate consequences.'' They commented in the aftermath of a letter to Carter in which 19 senators said their votes for SALT II rest on whether or not their concerns can be allayed in a number of areas, both in and outside the scope of the pact itself. They suggested Carter might consider delaying consideration by the Senate if those concerns can't be met soon. ``I expect the treaty to come up in late January or early February and be disposed of in late March or early April,'' Cranston said. Senate leaders had said earlier this year they wanted consideration to begin by last month. Cranston said he likely will be able to vote both for increased spending levels for defense and for a SALT II provision which would enable the treaty to be terminated if deep cuts in strategic nuclear arms are not achieved in SALT III negotiations. He said a consensus is developing between advocates of a strong defense, represented by Sen. Sam Nunn, D-Ga., and of the mandatory arms control approach proposed by Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan, D-N.Y. Cranston said the administration believes there are ways to meet defense-minded senators' concerns without enacting ``killer amendments'' likely to cause Soviet rejection. He said one way would be to reserve certain rights for the United States without making changes in the text of the treaty itself. Nunn appeared to agree with this approach, telling reporters, ``You don't necessarily have to kill the treaty to improve it.'' President Carter indicated last week he was not ruling out the approach taken by Moynihan who says SALT II should be terminated if deep arms cuts are not achieved in SALT III talks by Jan. 31, 1981. ``I think it might be possible to pass the SALT treaty without the Moynihan amendment,'' Cranston said. ``But ratification would be far more certain with the Moynihan amendment.'' He said he would be ``very apt to vote for it.'' Sen. John Warner, R-Va., told reporters he is the author of a paragraph of the letter which suggests that consideration of the treaty be postponed until after the November 1980 elections if it becomes clear there are not sufficient votes to amend the treaty or to ratify it. He said delay is advisable because defeating the treaty would ``send out another shock signal'' in an already troubled world. He said also that it will take time to convince the Senate that the Carter administration is sincere in its plan for increased defense spending to meet growing Soviet military threats. The plan was made public last week. ``We need a president that can make a solid four-year commitment to national defense,'' Warner said. In their letter to Carter the senators said the treaty needs to be strengthened and ambiguities and loopholes eliminated. And they presented a list of concerns outside the treaty's scope ranging from a call for specific proposals to deal with increasing Soviet strategic strength to hopes for strengthening the U.S. intelligence-gathering system. ****1650EST 0629 *** u a *** AM-NavyJet 12-17 0288 *** m0135 *** r f *** AM-HoJoApproval 450 12-17 0466 Shareholders on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean approved on Monday the $620 million sale of an American institution, the Howard Johnson restaurant chain, to a British beermaker. The sale is conditional on the buyer, Imperial Group, Ltd., getting permission to operate in states forbidding liquor manufacturers, wholesalers or importers from operating restaurant chains, Frank Lionette, a Howard Johnson group vice president said. ``Imperial has indicated they now have agreements with 27 of 40 jurisdictional agencies involved,'' said Lionette, in charge of marketing for the chain noted for its orange-shingled roadside restaurants selling fried Ipswich clams and 28 or more flavors of ice cream. He said the sale was conditional on Imperial getting complete approval by Sept. 30, l980. Massachusetts, where the chain started 54 years ago, fell in line behind the Imperial purchase Dec. 5, said John P. Larkin, chairman of the Alcoholic Beverage Control Commission. Larkin said the permission was in a letter to Imperial lawyers and was on the condition Imperial did not sell any of its alcoholic beverages through the chain. Howard Johnson operates about 1,041 orange-roofed HoJo and Ground Round restaurants and 528 motor lodges and Red Coach Grill restaurants. Larkin said Massachusetts law forbids ownership of retail restaurant outlets by any liquor manufacturer, wholesaler or importer. Imperial makes John Courage-brand, a popular British brew, as well as food items and operates a chain of pubs in Great Britain. The company is Britain's sixth largest corporation, with l978 sales of about $7.6 billion. ``The problem was posed to us by Imperial counsel as a hypothetical problem,'' Larkin explained. ``Looking behind the statute to its legislative intent, to prevent a tied house, we decided the hypothetical case posed no practical problem since Howard Johnson would not be selling products produced by the manufacturer in question.'' A tied house, said Larkin, is used by a wholesaler or manufacturer to push its own products. Lionette said the sale price of $28 a share was firm no matter when the deal was consummated. Howard Johnson closed Monday on the New York Stock Exchange at $22.375 a share, up 75 cents from Friday's price. Shareholders of both firms met in London and Boston, said Lionette. Howard B. Johnson, son of the Howard D. Johnson, who founded the firm in his Quincy, Mass., drug store in l925, officiated at the Boston session. Howard Johnson shareholders approved the sale by a stock vote of about 14 million to about one million, said Lionette. Johnson, the firm's board chairman, was not available for comment. Lionette said Johnson has said the British firm has agreed to operate the chain as a separate entity with American management. He said Johnson planned to remain head of the chain's management. ****1651EST 0140 *** d f *** AM-ClevelandDeficit 12-17 0234 *** p0687 *** r a *** AM-Escape 1stLd-Writethru p0675 12-17 0654 Fearing four prison escapees could be hiding in the homes of residents who may have been taken hostage, Police Chief Jess Sosa on Monday asked the city's residents to check on their neighbors. Under ``Operation Concern,'' Sosa urged citizens to call on their neighbors and report any unusual activity to police. The mood of this city of 50,000 was tense Monday, eight days after 11 men escaped from the New Mexico State Penitentiary in the largest prison breakout in state history. Seven men were recaptured within two days. Fear among residents heightened Sunday when they learned that one of the fugitives held an elderly Santa Fe couple prisoner in their home for about 36 hours. The couple managed to escape. According to Sosa, a similar hostage situation may be occurring elsewhere in Santa Fe. ``We're gearing our law enforcement efforts with that kind of theory,'' he said. Sosa went on radio early Monday to announce ``Operation Concern.'' ``We're asking neighbor to call neighbor and see if things are normal. We are checking out vacant homes where people are on vacation,'' he said. ``We are asking to be informed if people don't report to work without any apparent reason.'' Police tentatively identified the fugitive who held the couple as Harmon Ellis, 44. He was serving a 60-year sentence for escaping during transfer from Arizona. Sosa said the prisoner gained entrance to the home Friday night through an unlocked garage door. He said the escapee admitted to the unidentified couple that he was a prisoner and told them he planned to stay at their home until the manhunt eased. The police chief said the escapee who held the couple was armed with a hunting knife, but did not injure them. The couple escaped through a window while their captor was in another room. They went to a neighbor's home to notify police, but the prisoner had fled by the time officers arrived and eluded capture despite a stepped-up search. The prisoner fled dressed in clothing he stole from the couple, leaving behind a small bag of money, Sosa said. State Police Capt. Charles Anaya said he believes one of the four missing prisoners, William Smith, 26, a convicted double murderer, may have succeeded in leaving Santa Fe. Anaya said a truck was stolen from the vicinity of the prison on the night of the escape and has not been recovered. ``There have been some sightings of Ellis, William Norush and Richard Chapman in this area,'' Anaya said. ``But there have been no reports on Smith.'' Norush, 29, has habitual offender status and was serving a sentence of from 50 to 100 years for burglary, escape. Chapman, 26, was serving a murder sentence. District Attorney Eloy Martinez' office said information on the Dec. 9 escape will be presented this week to the Santa Fe County grand jury. The 11 convicts face indictment on felony charges of escape from prison. Assistant District Attorney Joe Shattuck said some of the escapees may be charged later with a number of other offenses committed while they were free. ``These could range from theft and burglary to kidnapping and aggravated battery,'' Shattuck said. However, he said the district attorney will wait until all the convicts are back in custody before sorting out who was involved in what crimes. An elderly Seton Village resident, Richard G. Dew, was attacked and stabbed by four inmates on the night of the escape. He remained hospitalized Monday in satisfactory condition. Another rural Santa Fe resident, Mrs. Joe Ramos, was assaulted last week by a man believed to be an escapee when she found him hiding in her barn. ****1652EST 0630 *** d a *** AM-GeorgesBank 12-17 0491 The U.S. Interior Department will try for the third time Tuesday to hold the sale of offshore oil leases in the Georges Bank. Opponents of the sale, fearing damage to the area's rich fishing grounds by oil and gas exploration, have succeeded in blocking it in court since January 1978. A new legal effort to block sale is still pending in federal appeals court in Boston. Frank Basile, who will conduct the sale, said Monday that he expects the bidding procedure to finally take place. ``I think I've made a career out of holding this briefing,'' he joked to reporters. ``As of right now, there is no bar that I can think of, or anyone in the Interior Department can think of, to holding this sale tomorrow.'' Oil companies started submitting bids early Monday afternoon for the 116 tracts, each nine square miles in size. They are located from 63 to 157 miles off Cape Cod. Basile said the oil rigs expected to start exploration next summer will not be visible to vacationers. The sale was last scheduled for Nov. 6. A federal appeals court granted a preliminary injunction to allow environmentalists and New England officials to ask the U.S. Supreme Court to hear the case. The high court refused Nov. 9 to block the sale. Later that day, drilling opponents initiated a new court challenge. A hearing on their request was held Dec. 6 in the federal appeals court in Boston. No decision has been issued. The bidding was complicated by a strike by 250 employees at the Biltmore Plaza Hotel, where the bidding was to have taken place. Basile said the bids must be received and opened at the hotel to avoid a legal challenge. But he said bids also will be accepted at a downtown auditorium because some participants might object to crossing the picket lines. They will be read at the auditorium. Basile said he doubted that the legal wrangling over the sale might deter prospective bidders. He said most mineral programs have a long history of litigation. ``It's frustrating and tends to make people look for alternatives,'' he said. ``It doesn't change the geological characteristics of the area. If there is potential in the area, it's still there.'' Federal geologists estimate the 116 tracts contain a potential 123 million barrels of oil and 870 million cubic feet of natural gas. Basile refused to estimate how much money would be bid for the tracts. He said there was a minimum bid of $154,000 per tract plus a royalty on any oil or gas found. Government officials will have 45 days to examine the bids and determine whether they are high enough. Once a bid is approved, an oil company would have to spend an additional six to seven months obtaining necessary permits before any exploration could begin. ****1652EST 0688 *** r i *** AM-PanamaShah 1stLd-Writethrup0654 12-17 0589 Panamanian politicians and the media differed sharply Monday about whether the deposed Shah of Iran should have been permitted to settle on this resort island. Some tourists who favor the hideaway also were unhappy. ``Panama does not need millions bathed in blood,'' said Radio Hogar commentator Nino Macias, broadcasting from Panama City, 35 miles to the northwest. The station is privately owned, but the commentator is considered a government opponent. The opposition Liberal Youth Party said, ``The shah's millions will influence Panama's politics... we don't want the shah here. His presence is repulsive to the Panamanian people.'' But the pro-government Critica newspaper said President Aristides Royo's deicision to give exile to the deposed Iranian monarch ``was an act of human nobility...our country prefers to run this great risk in defense of authentic human rights, one of which is defense of life itself.'' Some of the tourists here said just knowing Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi and his wife, Empress Farah Diba, were here worried them. ``It is more our safety than the disruption of our privacy that is bothering us,'' said Tom Mikus, an engineer from Watchung, N.J. he and a friend, Robin Goldstein, said they had come here to ``get away from it all'' but now find themselves ``in the middle of the world's biggest news item.'' The shah arrived here Saturday from San Antonio, Texas, where he was being treated at an Air Force hospital following gallstone surgery and cancer treatment in a New York hospital. His move here was seen an as effort to win release of 50 Americans held hostage in Tehran, but militants holding them said they face spy trials because the United States did not extradite the shah to Iran. Contadora Island covers two square miles which the wealthy use as a getaway spot. It has a huge hotel with a casino, golf course, scuba diving and marlin fishing facilities, but the shah is staying in one of the handful of private homes on the island. Contadora Hotel manager Ralph Tursi said it was his ``personal opinion'' the shah's presence would not hurt business. ``We'll start finding out today if anyone is going to begin canceling Christmas reservations,'' he told a reporter. He said the hotel was booked solid from Dec. 23 to Jan. 6, with tour groups and individuals from Europe and the United States. ``I don't see them.. I don't hear them and I don't want to know anything about them,'' Tursi said referring to the shah and his party, which includes seven aides and a undisclosed number of security agents. Tursi said the hotel was providing maid service and a cook to the shah and his party in the house, owned by Panamanian Gabriel Lewis Galindo, a former Panamanian ambassador to the United States. Security is tight around the house, located on a 50-foot bluff overlooking a small bay. A Panamanian gunboat sits 200 yards offshore, and at least a dozen guards _ some carrying automatic rifles _ patrol the rocky shoreline below. News photographers and reporters taking a tour around the island were intercepted by a small rubber speedboat with Panamanian national guards when the journalists' craft got within 50 yards of the beach, and were ordered to stay farther from shore. Armed soldiers stood guard on the island's tiny airstrip but there were no signs of security in or around the 220-room hotel. ****1653EST 0689 *** u a *** AM-NavyJet 12-17 0288 A Navy jet loaded with ammunition crashed into an airport hangar, bursting into flames and killing one person, after its pilot ejected on takeoff Monday. The jet smashed through the concrete-block hangar and damaged a half-dozen planes at Yuma International Airport. Debris was scattered for 300 to 400 yards. The pilot, identified by a Marine spokesman as Patrick Coyle, 24, a Phildelphia resident stationed at Chase Field at Beeville, Texas, was not reported injured. ``I saw this jet coming toward me for a mile,'' said attorney Brian Smith, who was ordered by the control tower to abort a takeoff in his small plane. ``It wasn't more than 10 feet above the ground. I thought sure there was a pilot in it.'' ``The plane clipped a small building, disappeared behind it and came out banking to the left,'' Smith said. ``It hit the concrete-block end of the hangar and came out the front door. I couldn't believe it. It was incredible, just incredible.'' Other witnesses said the hangar _ an 80 foot-by-100 foot building _ erupted in flames ``like it had been hit by a napalm bomb.'' Killed was Paul Burch, 67, mwner of the hangar. The airport is used by commercial and military planes. The military has target ranges in the desert around this city on the Mexican-U.S. border. The jet, a TA4 trainer carrying ammunition for a weapons-training flight, was taking off on the north-east runaway when it veered to the north. The reason the pilot ejected was not known. A board of inquiry was ordered by officials of the Marine Corps' Yuma Air Station to determine the cause of the crash. ****1653EST 0053 *** d s *** AM-FBN--RiceFired Bjt-2 12-17 0517 *** s0245 *** d s *** AM-FBN--RiceFired Bjt-2 12-17 0517 *** e0242 *** r i *** amFisheries 12-17 0380 *** g0098 *** r i *** amFisheries 12-17 0380 New Brunswick's 5,486 fishermen have been promised legislation granting them the right to unionize, Fisheries Minister Jean Gauvin said Monday. Gauvin said the provincial government has approved a recommendation by a special study group on the fishery that was formed last May and calls for legislation to allow fishermen's unions and associations to be certified and bargain collectively with fish buyers. The announcement came at a news conference where the report of the study group on primary marketing and commercial relationships in the New Brunswick fishery was released. The report says fishermen want to be organized and want to have more control over their own affairs. Lorne Grant, a retired federal civil servant with experience in fish marketing and Aurele Young, a professor of economics at the Universite De Moncton, backgrounded their report to 1974 when the Conservative government was first asked by the Maritime Fishermen's Union to allow fishermen to organize under the Industrial Relations Act. Grant and Aurele said there are problems trying to organize the fishermen because of the diversity of the industry and the concentration of fishermen into three geographical regions of the province. Because of this, Gauvin said, the province will be drafting legislation that will give fish- ermen the option of joining a union. He said this applies particularly to fishermen who are members of cooperatives, ``where the fishermen and the buyer are one and the same person'' and collective bargaining would be meaningless. The legislation, to be known as the Fishing Industry Collective Bargaining Act, will be administered by the fisheries department rather than the labor department. Disputes will be sent to a fishing industry relations board instead of the traditional Industrial Relations Board. Gauvin said a series of public meetings will be held in the three fishing regions, starting in January. He said the fisheries department wants to hear reactions of fishermen and processors to the report and suggestions for drafting the legislation. Gauvin said joint committee of fishermen and processors then will be organized to set up the framework of the legislation. He said the joint committee should be able to produce a draft bill by August, 1980. That would push introduction of the legislation into the 1981 spring session of the legislature. ****1655EST 0247 *** u s *** AM-FBN--Steelers 12-17 0438 *** t0055 *** d s *** AM-BKN--McGinnis-Kersey 12-17 0219 Jess Kersey, a National Basketball Association referee, was released from Swedish Hospital Monday following a Sunday night collision at the Seattle Kingdome with George McGinnis of the Denver Nuggets. After Kersey was knocked to the floor, McGinnis was ejected from the game with 6:14 remaining and a technical foul was assessed. The Seattle SuperSonics beat Denver 123-121. Kersey finished officiating the game but went to the hospital afterward. A hospital official refused to say if Kersey had suffered a concussion. ``We are gathering evidence for the NBA,'' said Sonics spokesman Jim Bennett. ``Our in-house television camera was following the ball and there apparently were no television crews who shot the incident, either. ``So the NBA has asked us to have all persons who witnessed the incident call them so they can make sworn affidavits.'' A spokesman for the NBA confirmed that the league was investigating the incident, but had no further comment. After the game, Kersey refused to talk to reporters but McGinnis heatedly denied he intentionally ran into the official. ``It was a ridiculous, gutless call,'' McGinnis fumed. ``The commissioner and everybody who needs to will be contacted,'' said Hugh Evans, the other official in the game. ``George just ran over him,'' said Denver Coach Donnie Walsh. ``It's happened in basketball before.'' ****1658EST 0235 *** d s *** AM-FBN--Broncos-Chargers Bjt 12-17 0366 Standing on the National Football League sidelines, Jim Hanifan sometimes seems busier than a cop trying to unsnarl a rush-hour traffic jam. Hanifan, assistant coach of the San Diego Chargers, is pro football's version of a third base coach. Without saying a word, he acts out a arm-waving pantomime that puts the Chargers' high-powered in motion. Hanifan was hoping the Chargers would improve Monday night over their first showing against Denver when the Broncos blanked them 7-0. At stake in the season's final Monday night game was the American Conference West championship, with the loser settling for an AFC wild-card playoff berth. Because head Coach Don Coryell doesn't trust the traditional messenger system, Hanifan handles the relay to quarterback Dan Fouts by hand signals. It's a semaphore system to behold. At first glance, one might assume Hanifan was afflicted with a serious nervous disorder. His hands fly, he kicks his feet and generally acts as if he has an incurable itch. But there is a method to this madness. ``You have more mistakes when you send in the play with a messenger,'' explained Coryell, ``and you can convey more information with hand signals.'' Coryell invented the system during his four seasons as head coach of the St. Louis Cardinals. ``Jim sends a lot of information to Dan _ the formation, the motion, the blocking, all sorts of things. Messengers sometimes forget what they hear. It's like asking five people to describe an accident; everybody has a different story.'' The elaborate process starts in the press box, with offensive coordinator Joe Gibbs selecting a play and whispering it into Hanifan's headphones. From there Hanifan's artful acting is transmitted to Fouts, who is enjoying the greatest season of his career. To make it work requires hours of rehearsal between the two. Besides being a gifted passer and leader, Fouts is blessed with speed reading ability. In the event that the opposition is trying to crack the code, Hanifan is shielded by Phil Tyne, the team's strength coach. After that, it's up to Fouts. ****1658EST 0631 *** r a *** AM-ClevelandDeficit 12-17 0277 *** a0633 *** d a *** AM-NuclearPlant 12-17 0182 Plans to build a nuclear power plant at the abandoned naval auxiliary landing field in Charlestown, R.I., have been dropped, New England Power Co. announced Monday. The decision came after the company decided to discontinue legal action to acquire title to the landing field. The General Services Administration in June said the site could not be used for a nuclear plant, citing environmental and legal considerations. The company appealed the GSA decision, but a federal district judge in Washington, D.C., dismissed the appeal earlier this month. ``We reached this conclusion with great regret,'' said New England Power Vice President Frederic E. Gereenman. ``We strongly believe that the Charlestown property is the best remaining site for a nuclear power plant in southern New England and should have been kept available for future development.'' New England Power, a subsidiary of the New England Electric System, issued a statement advocating speedy completion of nuclear plants in New Hampshire, Massachusetts and Connecticut _ to combat price hikes in oil from the Middle East. ****1700EST 0248 *** u s *** AM-FBN--Haslett-Foot 12-17 0385 *** t0056 *** d s *** AM-FBN--Steelers 12-17 0445 Coach Chuck Noll, pointing toward a fourth Super Bowl title for his Pittsburgh Steelers, summed up the 1979 regular National Football League season Monday. ``I think it went pretty well,'' said Noll, who notched his 100th regular season victory as Pittsburgh coach when the Steelers beat Buffalo 28-0 Sunday to clinch their sixth straight AFC Central Division title. ``We had a few more difficulties. I think we had more people hurt,'' Noll added after a 12-4 campaign that included road losses to Cincinnati, Philadelphia, San Diego and Houston. ``In past seasons we are able to keep our starters going through most of the season. This season we had to rest some of them. But our backup people performed very well for us.'' Among the backups who stepped to the fore after injuries to regulars were defensive linemen Gary Dunn and Tom Beasley, offensive lineman Steve Courson, linebacker Dennis Winston, and wide receiver Jim Smith. The Steelers learned Sunday that All-Pro linebacker Jack Ham would be lost until next season with an ankle injury sustained the week before in Houston. He's been replaced by Winston. ``Dennis is a fine football player,'' said Noll. Meanwhile, the rest of the squad will get two weeks to recover from the regular season grind before Pittsburgh's playoff opener here. The foe _ either Miami, Denver or San Diego _ won't be determined for another week. ``I really haven't got a preference,'' Noll told reporters. ``I don't care who we play.'' The Steelers, who were unbeaten at home this season, are assured the homefield in their playoff opener. If Denver beat San Diego in their Monday night game, Pittsburgh also would have been assured the home field in the AFC title game. But a San Diego victory over Denver would have given San Diego the home field in an AFC title clash with Pittsburgh. ``We play the first game first,'' said Noll. ``First things first. One at a time. Whatever happens after that, we'll take. We won't build up anything against anything. We'll take it as it comes.'' Noll said he would give his players an extra day off this week. They won't resume practice until Thursday. ``I think we need a little more rest, a little more time to get away from it,'' he said. After Sunday's victory over Buffalo, Steeler captain Joe Greene suggested Pittsburgh would have to play better than ever to win another Super Bowl. Noll didn't quite agree with that. ``I think if we play like we played last year, it should be good enough,'' Noll said with a thin smile. ****1701EST 0634 *** r w *** AM-Chrysler 1stLd-Writethru a0586 12-17 0569 *** e0243 *** r n *** BC_Arts Adv.21 2Takes 12-17 0429 The hit musical ``Annie'' may be based on a comic strip, but a big thing to Norwood Smith, who portrays Oliver `Daddy'' Warbucks, is that the characters don't come on as cartoons. ```Annie' is a love story between two orphans. If the love story doesn't work, you haven't got a show,'' Smith said in a recent interview. ``The construction in this play is the most fabulous I've ever come across. It's not a cartoon of Annie. You see her as a human being, not as a cartoon character.'' The same is true of Warbucks, he said. Neither is seen in cartoon get-up _ Annie in curls and simple dress, Warbucks in tuxedo with huge diamond _ until the end of the play. ``It's a story of human beings until that one moment, and the audience goes crazy when she (Annie) comes down the staircase as `Little Orphan Annie,''' Smith said. ``It struck me as so important that `Daddy' Warbucks and Annie did not come on as cartoon characters (until the end), which I thought was a marvelous piece of writing,'' he said. ``There are moments when, if you're human, the tears come, but before you get maudlin, there's a block-buster laugh....'' Smith has been a show business professional for 34 of his 64 years, and he's starred in the likes of ``Show Boat,'' ``Guys and Dolls,'' ``Can-Can'' and ``The Music Man.'' But, he says ``Annie,'' now playing at the Colonial Theatre in its second run in Boston in two years, is ``the most rewarding show I've ever done.'' It's the audience reaction that makes it so, he said. ``Practically everybody loves `Annie,' the show. When you're taking the curtain calls, and you look down at those happy faces _ and they are happy _ and the hands clapping, that's the reward. ``When you send them out of the theater humming the tunes..., that's the thrill of it,'' he said. ``We are so aware that the audence is with us. At least a dozen times, men have come up to me and said how much they enjoyed the show and how they were dragged to it. ``The wonderful thing about the show is that the whole family enjoys it,'' he said. ``A lot of people have said, `Are you having as much fun as you seem to be?' And we are, we are.'' MORE ****1702EST 0249 *** u s *** AM-FBN--Oilers 12-17 0448 *** p0691 *** r a *** AM-ClevelandDeficit 12-17 0277 A review of Cleveland finances by a major auditing company shows a city budget deficit of more than $111 million, Mayor George V. Voinovich said Monday. The amount is more than three times the deficit the new mayor had said he expected to face when he took over last month after defeating the re-election bid of former Mayor Dennis J. Kucinich. Voinovich made his previous estimates without an formal survey and without the books. The mayor said the report, supervised by the Cleveland-based company of Ernst and Whinney, shows current obligations are about $81 million higher than receivables. And the mayor said there was a cash deficiency of $30 million in the general fund, resulting from mixing of funds that were intended for specific uses such as bond repayments. A year ago, Cleveland defaulted on $14 million in notes held by six city banks _ the first major U.S. city to default since the Depression _ and for more than a year the city's ratings on the municipal bond markets have been slipping. The state Legislature recently approved a bill aimed at helping cities such as Cleveland through financial crises. That measure will enable the city to borrow up to $60 million. It also provides for setting up a panel to supervise the city's spending practices. Voinovich also announced appointment of Phillip C. Allen as budget managing director. Allen holds a similar position in Akron. An aide to the mayor said Allen's primary responsibility will be to restore the office of budget management, which he claimed was virtually eliminated by the previous administration. ****1703EST 0138 *** u n *** BC-NeuhausserPleas Bjt 12-17 0339 *** p0692 *** r w *** AM-Chrysler 1stLd-Writethru p0645 12-17 0569 Chrysler Corp. officials said Monday the company needs short-term financing to tide it over while raising money to meet requirements for $1.5 billion in federal loan guarantees. Bills being considered in Congress would provide the loan guarantees on condition that Chrysler come up on its own with an amount varying in the different bills from $1.5 billion to $2.13 billion. In a statement distributed to senators and representatives, Chrysler board chairman Lee A. Iacocca said delay in passage of a Chrysler aid bill ``has reduced the time available to assemble the total financial package.'' He also said new Chrysler aid bills being considered in both houses require new labor contracts, ``a time consuming procedure which must precede other commitments by lending institutions.'' ``As a result of these delays which cannot be avoided, Chrysler will need short-term interim financing while the labor contract and the final financing packages are being renegotiated,'' Iacocca wrote. Iacocca did not say how much interim financing is needed or how it would be provided. Sources on Capitol Hill and in the auto industry, asking not to be quoted by name, said Chrysler is asking for a $500 million loan guarantee, to be repaid by March 3l. House Speaker Thomas P. O`Neill Jr., D-Mass., asked if he saw support in Congress for helping the firm with short-term financing, replied, ``I don't see how we could possibly put that together.'' O`Neill also said he does not believe Chrysler aid legislation can be sent to a House-Senate conference committee before the end of the week. Unless this can be done, he said, the House will return Jan. 3 to wrestle with the issue. Senate Democratic Leader Robert C. Byrd of West Virginia has said he would call the Senate back Dec. 27 if Chrysler aid and the Carter administration's ``windfall profits'' tax are not disposed of this week. The Chrysler bill is on the House calendar for Tuesday and is expected to be taken up in the Senate. Byrd said a vote would be taken Thursday in an effort to end a filibuster by Sen. Lowell Weicker, R-Conn., an opponent of any assistance to the failing auto manufacturer. Byrd said there was ``a good chance'' Chrysler would be dealt with by the time the Senate adjourns Saturday. But Acting Republican Leader Ted Stevens of Alaska, said, ``There will have to be a lot of Christmas spirit and not many Scrooges for that to happen.'' Chrysler, the nation's l0th largest corporation, lost $721.5 million in the first nine months of this year and expects to lose more than $1 billion, a record for an American business, during the entire year. The legislation now being considered would require Chrysler to come up with $1.83 billion on its own, including $400 million in wage concessions from the United Auto Workers, to match the proposed loan guarantee. This would require renegotiating a recent three-year contract with the UAW, which contained $200 million in concessions. Chrysler and the Carter administration announced Friday that the company will run out of cash in mid-January, a few weeks earlier than had been anticipated. At the end of the week, Congress is scheduled to adjourn until Jan. 22. ****1704EST 0635 *** r i *** AM-NaziDoctor 12-17 0245 *** f0145 *** u f *** AM-Dollar-Gold 12-17 0552 *** t0057 *** d s *** AM-FBN--Haslett-Foot 12-17 0389 Coach Chuck Noll of the Pittsburgh Steelers said Monday the incident that got a rookie Buffalo linebacker ejected from a game here was no accident. ``It was, no question, an intentional act,'' Noll said after reviewing game film of the play that sent Buffalo's Jim Haslett to the sideline and left Steeler quarterback Terry Bradshaw with a bloody scrape on his forehead. The incident, which Haslett said was not intentional, occurred in the second period of Pittsburgh's 28-0 National Football League victory Sunday over Buffalo. After a 10-yard scramble, Bradshaw was tackled near the Buffalo 2-yard line. As Bradshaw was on the synthetic turf, Haslett arrived on the run. He appeared to step on either Bradshaw's helmet or the back of his neck. The helmet came off and Bradshaw scraped his forehead along the turf, leaving a half-dollar-sized abrasion. Bradshaw said after the game that he had no hard feelings toward Haslett. He said he didn't know if he had been kicked at all, and that he figured Haslett had tried to jump over him. ``He (Haslett) was coming over and he had to stride a little extra,'' Noll said, disputing Bradshaw's theory. ``All you had to do was see it one time (on the game film). There was no question.'' Haslett, a Pittsburgh-area native who played at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, was ejected. Bradshaw went to the sideline, but returned two plays later. In the locker room after the game, Haslett declined to discuss the play. ``I got nothin' to say. Talk to the referees,'' he said. He also told a photographer to lower his camera or, ``I'll break it over your head.'' However, later Sunday before the Buffalo team plane left Pittsburgh, a cooler Haslett called the Pittsburgh Press. ``I didn't want to hurt anybody, especially him (Bradshaw),'' Haslett told a Press writer. ``I felt so bad after the game, and I didn't know what I should say, so I didn't say anything. ``Terry's helmet flew off the ground, and I was just trying to get away from the bodies. I didn't know whether to jump over him or what. I started hurdling him and I just got hit from the side. I don't think I cut him, not with a turf shoe. I didn't want it to happen.'' ****1705EST 0099 *** d n *** BC-NeuhausserPleas 300 12-17 0336 Ron W. Neuhausser stood quietly in Superior Court Monday, his hands folded in front of him, and whispered ``not guilty'' twice to charges of murder and kidnapping in the death of 12-year-old Katherine Ebersold. With his father by his side, the 16-year-old high school basketball player from Burlington also elected to be tried by a panel of three judges rather than a jury. Neuhausser was arrested several weeks after Miss Ebersold's stabbed body was found in a wooded area near her Burlington home July 27. A grand jury charged Neuhausser with first-degree kidnapping and murder two weeks ago. Defense attorney James Wade said he planned to file several motions in the case, including some on the grand jury proceedings, but had to wait until the transcript of the grand jury session was completed. Judge John Brennan gave Wade until Jan. 17 to file motions. No date for the trial was set. Wade had no comment after the five-minute court apeparnce. Earlier he said he would ask that the charges be reduced to manslaughter because of psychiatric tests he contends show Neuhausser was emotionally disturbed the day of the slaying. Burlington, a small town northwest of Hartford, was rocked by the slaying. Hundreds of volunteers showed up to search heavily wooded areas for clues in the case, including the bicycle Miss Ebersold was riding home from a Burlington recreation area when she was last seen alive. The bicycle was found by two motorcyclists in neighboring New Hartford. Many townspeople were stunned when Neuhausser was arrested. He wore a rust-colored, three-piece corduroy suit Monday, his blond hair still nearly shoulder length as it was at the time of his arrest. The only times he spoke were when he was asked his age and birth date and what his plea was on each charge. After his appearance he was returned to the Chesire Correctional Institute, where is being held on $100,000 bond. ****1706EST 0147 *** u f *** AM-WallStreet 12-17 0507 *** a0636 *** r a *** AM-NavyCrashes 2ndLd-Writethru a0617 12-17 0327 *** a0637 *** d w *** AM-AbortionAudits 12-17 0311 *** g0505 *** h s *** PM-BBC-RITourney RIBjt 12-17 0473 What do you do when you face one of the best college basketball teams in the country and you have one big man against their four? If you're Boston College Coach Tom Davis and you face Duke in a college basketball tournament game here Friday, you play your normal game and hope that Duke will suffer a letdown when they see the size of your players. ``One of the secrets to our success is that our opponents laugh when we get introduced on the court. They can't believe the listed sizes in the program are correct,'' Davis told a pre-tourney news conference Monday. ``My philosophy is a pressing defense and a fast break. I'm not going to change my style. I don't care if I'm playing the No. 1 team in the country or someone struggling and having a bad year.'' Brave words, and Davis' strategy has worked so far. BC has won its first four games, averaging 23 more points than their opponents. And despite having only one starter over 6-foot-5, the Eagles are outrebounding opponents by 20 caroms a game. But opponents like Bentley and LeMoyne aren't in a class with Duke. Few teams are. Led by center Mike Gminski and three other starters 6-foot-5 or better, the Blue Devils have breezed to a 6-0 record and first place in the Atlantic Coast Conference. Their opening win came against Kentucky, which defeated top-ranked Indiana last weekend. The other opening round match of the tournament pits 4-1 Providence College against 2-3 Stanford. The game will be somewhat of a homecoming for four Duke starters. Gminski, forwards Gene Banks and Kenny Dennard and guard Bob Bender all were on the Blue Devil team which won the NCAA Eastern Regionals at the Civic Center three years ago. ``We really bleed for points,'' says PC Coach Gary Walters, noting his squad is shooting only .438 from the floor and averaging 59.8 points. The Friars' top scorer, Rudy Williams, is averaging 9.6 points per match. But PC will be playing on the Civic Center court, where they have won 110 of 127 games. Both PC and Stanford are holding opponents to under 60 points per game, so it looks like a defensive match. Stanford is paced by Brian Welch, a 6-foot-7 sophomore guard who is averaging 15.6 points per game. Forward Kimbery Belton, the team's captain, is averaging 10.4 rebounds a game and is the school's No. 4 career rebounder. Despite booking teams three years in advance, tournament sponsors have been very successful in picking hot squads. In addition to Duke this year, top-ranked Michigan highlighted the initial 1976 competition. The annual event is sponsored by Industrial National Bank. ****1709EST 0638 *** d a *** AM-MarkLane 12-17 0339 *** t0058 *** d s *** AM-FBN--Oilers 12-17 0448 Houston Oiler Coach Bum Phillips, who has seen Earl Campbell clobbered out of bounds two weeks in a row, said Monday opposing players should be more aware of where the sideline is located. ``When you go across about six feet of white line, more Astroturf and then the dirt, I think a guy should realize that he's off the playing field,'' Phillips said. Campbell won the National Football League rushing title for the second straight season in a 26-20 loss to Philadelphia Sunday, but the second out-of-bounds incident in as many weeks raised Phillips' ire. ``Yes, I wanted them to call a penalty, I talked to the officials about it,'' Phillips said. ``I don't think it was so much a cheap shot as they just wouldn't turn him loose.'' Phildelphia's Carl Hairston piled into Campbell from behinnd in the second quarter of Sunday's regular season finale. Pittsburgh's Dennis Winston carried Campbell far out of bounds in a game Dec. 10 in the Astrodome. No penalty was called on either play. Phillips said Campbell didn't complain about either incident and in fact apologized following the hit by Winston. ``Earl finially threw him down instead of the other way around,'' Phillips said. ``He came back to the sidelines and said `I'm sorry, Coach, but I couldn't get him off me any other way.''' The Eagles' victory sends the Oilers, 11-5, into the American Football Conference playoffs for the second straight year with a loss, but Phillips and Oiler players didn't appear too dejected. Playoff positions virtually were assured before the kickoff, and the Oilers were something less than intense, especially in the first quarter when they were flagged with six penalties. ``If we'd kept our first team offense and defense in the game, there's no way they would have won,'' middle guard Curley Culp said. ``Personally, I'm just happy to be in the playoffs. We're all right. We have better depth and confidence than we did at this time last year.'' Phillips characteristically took the blame for Houston's lacklustre performance. ``I think I let them (the starters) think all week that I didn't intend to play them the whole game,'' Phillips said. ``Pittsburgh had already beaten Buffalo, and the only important thing for us was to get out without any injuries.'' Phillips also gave credit to Philadelphia. ``I don't want this to sound wrong, but it seemed they needed to prove they could beat us more than we needed to prove we could beat them,'' Phillips said. ``We played like a veteran team and they played like a rookie team (with more enthusiasm).'' ****1710EST 0151 *** u f *** AM-GasolinePrices 12-17 0575 Several major oil companies, responding to increasing crude-oil prices, have raised gasoline prices by up to 6 cents a gallon, leading to predictions that the price of the fuel will rise even more in coming weeks. ``The price increases are going to be pretty steep,'' Mark Emond, editor of the Lundberg Letter, a Los Angeles-based newsletter that covers the gasoline industry, said Monday. The increases come as members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries meet in Caracas to discuss a crude-oil price increase that will boost gasoline prices further. The national average price of all grades of gasoline is currently $1.03 a gallon, according to the Lundberg Letter. Among the increases announced, the first in several weeks, were 3 cents a gallon each by Mobil Corp. and Texaco Inc., 2 to 3 cents by Standard Oil Co. of Indiana (Amoco), 2 cents by Sun Co. and 1 cent by Citgo. The Sun increase came Monday, on the heels of earlier actions by the other firms. The largest increase in the price of a gallon of gasoline was posted by Standard Oil Co. of California, which raised its wholesale price 6 cents a gallon. It imposed a similar increase in the price of heating oil. Sellers Stough, vice president and comptroller of Standard of California, which markets its gas under the Chevron brand, said the increase was made in response to Saudi Arabia's decision Thursday to raise its crude-oil price 33 percent, retroactive to Nov. 1. Standard of California, Mobil, Texaco and Exxon Corp. depend on Saudi Arabia for much of their oil, and analysts expected them to have to raise prices as a result of the Saudi decision raising the crude oil price from $18 a barrel to $24. Mobil's price increase was announced before the Saudi move in what the company said was a response to increases in other costs; Texaco's was announced after Saudi Arabia raised its price. Normally, under federal price controls, the companies could not raise their prices until a month after the increase in the cost of crude oil. But because Saudi Arabia made its price increase retroactive, the companies could lift their prices immediately. The other firms that have raised gasoline prices have done so as a result of inflation and the rising cost of oil on the spot market. Many oil companies that relied on Iranian oil directly or indrectly to meet their needs have had to turn to higher-priced sources since Iran stopped selling oil to U.S. companies Nov. 13. ``We had bought some very high-priced crude and some very high-priced finished product on the spot market,'' said Carl Meyerdirk, a spokesman for Standard of Indiana, in explin his firm's gasoline-price increase. In addition to the increases in the wholesale price, a change in the government's price regulations that became effective Saturday will allow gasoline dealers to increase their prices slightly. The Department of Energy widened the mark-up gasoline dealers are allowed to take on each gallon of gasoline from 15.4 cents to 16.1 cents. As the full effect of the Iranian embargo and the OPEC price increase hit oil markets, American drivers can expect even more increases in the price of gasoline, according to analysts. ``The brunt of it will hit in February,'' said Emond. ``I think we're going to get really socked in February.'' ****1713EST 0639 *** r w *** AM-Carter-Politics 1stLd-Writethru a0567 12-17 0828 President Carter's campaign workers complained Monday that the president, avoiding political distractions, is not paying as much attention as they would like to his race with Sen. Edward M. Kennedy. Robert Strauss, chairman of the Carter-Mondale Presidential Committee, said that with Carter concentrating on Iran, his ``mind isn't on politics now as much as his campaigners would like for good politics. He doesn't like to be distracted.'' ``The preoccupation of the president with Iran has prevented the proper development'' of the campaign's central themes, Strauss said. He conceded that one of the likely themes, the economy, ``is a very serious problem for us.'' Strauss and Timothy Kraft, the president's campaign manager, reviewing the president's political effort as the election year approaches, told reporters that by Dec. 31 the committee will have raised $6 million and will have spent $4 million. ``We ought to go into the first of the year in good financial shape,'' Strauss told reporters at a breakfast briefing. Both Carter's and Kennedy's short-term political emphasis is on Iowa, where caucuses on Jan. 21 will begin the year's selection process of delegates to the Democratic National Convention. Both sides have an interest in being portrayed as the underdog, with hopes of claiming to have outperformed expectations on Jan. 22. Strauss called the Iowa campaign ``a flat-out horse race,'' and said Kennedy's forces seem ``to be pouring all their resources'' into the state, while Carter saw no need to ``go-for-broke'' there. ``He needs a win in Iowa desperately,'' Strauss said of Kennedy. ``We'd like to have one. It would be good. But we'll be at the same old stand for a long time.'' So, continuing to leave avenues of escape if his candidate does not do as well as he would like in Iowa, Strauss said ``hell, yes,'' when asked whether Carter could afford to lose in the state. Kennedy has made at least three recent trips to Iowa, while Carter, as a result of the crisis posed by the seizure of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, has had to cancel a planned visit to the state and several other days of political travel. Carter, Kennedy and California Gov. Edmund G. Brown Jr. are scheduled to meet in Iowa on Jan. 7 for a debate, and Strauss said that even with American hostages remaining captive in Tehran, ``the president would do his utmost'' to take part. ``The president wants to get to those debates,'' said Strauss, to counter suggestions that the president may use the Iranian crisis as an excuse to duck the confrontation now that he has passed Kennedy in a public opinion poll. Both candidates have wound up initial fund-raising drives, with Kennedy claiming to have cornered $2.5 million in contributions in a cross-country trip last week. But Strauss, questioning the accuracy of that estimate, said ``I'd like to have the difference to live on.'' Strauss said that during the first week in December, when Carter formally announced his candidacy, the president's committee grossed about $3.25 million, with about $2.6 million being raised at a series of dinners held across the country that were addressed by Rosalynn Carter and by Vice President Walter F. Mondale. However, Kraft said said the money and the federal matching funds that will start to flow into the campaign after Jan. 1 must be stretched through the Democratic National Convention in August. He said an incumbent president is expected to have a ``massive organization'' in each state. ``That's the perception we work from in trying to allocate what are rther meager resources.'' Meanwhile, at the White House, press secretary Jody Powell criticized Kennedy and Chicago Mayor Jane Byrne, a Kennedy supporter, for making what he asserted were misstatements of the Carter record. Kennedy has said Carter offered to support construction of a new nuclear aircraft carrier if conservative Sen. Jesse Helms, R-N.C., withdrew observers he sent to the Rhodesian peace conference in London. ``He apparently dreamed that up,'' the press secretary said, adding that the statement was one of ``a series of statements that have characterized his campaign'' that have not been true. ``At some point, candidates have to be responsible for the misstatements they make,'' Powell said. ``The senator may want to support his statement or withdraw it and apologize.'' Kennedy later revised his charge and said that Carter went along with the nuclear carrier in return for the elimination of a Senate mandate that would have required the president to lift trade sanctions against Rhodesia weeks ago. Mayor Byrne had suggested that the White House had a role in an Internal Revenue Service action tying up Chicago school funds. ``That allegation that the White House was involved in that sort of decision for political reasons is absolutely ludicrous,'' Powell said. If it is not supported, he said, ``common decency would require that it be withdrawn.'' ****1714EST 0236 *** d s *** AM-Shorts 12-17 0416 Opening day of the 1980 baseball season still is nearly four months away, but the Cincinnati Reds report that they already have sold more season tickets than the total season sale for last season. ``We went over the 14,500 mark this week,'' said Ann Klausing, director of season sales for the Reds, ``and that includes more than 1,000 seats for new season customers. Our renewals are well ahead of other years at this time.'' ___ ****1715EST 0640 *** d w *** AM-AFSCME-Politics 12-17 0408 Leaders of the nation's largest union of government workers have voted to remain neutral in the Democratic presidential contest for the time being because of unhappiness with the economic stands of both President Carter and Sen. Edward Kennedy. The executive board of the million-member American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) had been believed to be tilting toward Kennedy, according to political observers. Instead, an AFSCME official said Monday, the board decided to continue its neutrality ``hoping Kennedy will make a stronger economic statement or Carter will reverse his positions.'' With politically active chapters around the country, AFSCME can be a potent ally to a presidential candidate, and both Carter and Kennedy have been seeking the union's endorsement. The AFSCME official, legislative director Betsy Wright, said the union is unhappy with Carter's anti-inflation policies, particularly his drive for a balanced federal budget, which could mean a cutback in aid to states and cities that employ AFSCME members. Kennedy, however, has failed to state his case against inflation other than to say he is against it, she said. ``So far he has been very superficial in his dealings with economic issues,'' said Ms. Wright, who added that she hoped the union's leadership ``won't remain neutral very long.'' According to Ms. Wright, a majority of AFSCME members prefer Kennedy to Carter, but about 40 percent are undecided between the two principal rivals for the 1980 Democratic presidential nomination. Union sources said AFSCME's leadership also appears to prefer Kennedy, but if he fails to take a strong economic position to its liking, it may wind up endorsing Carter. Such a move from a large, liberal union that has been cast as part of Kennedy's natural constituency could be viewed as a major setback for the Kennedy campaign. One labor movement official who is a Kennedy backer said AFSCME's decision to remain neutral is a response to the senator's poor campaign start. ``At first everyone thought he'd (Kennedy) win in a walk, but now it looks like a real race, so they're hedging their bets,'' said the official, who declined to be named. Carter's rating in public opinion polls has soared because of his handling of the Iranian crisis, while Kennedy's standing has fallen. Carter and Kennedy each has won endorsements from eight unions or union presidents. Most unions, however, have not taken sides yet in the contest. ****1715EST 0245 *** d n *** BC-ConnPoll 430 12-17 0447 President Carter's handling of the Iranian crisis has increased his popularity among Connecticut residents, while Massachusetts Sen. Edward Kennedy's popularity is down, according to the latest Connecticut Poll. The poll, conducted by the University of Connecticut's social science data center, also shows that Carter has edged ahead of Kennedy as the candidate respondents would ``most like to see elected president in 1980.'' In a Connecticut Poll taken in late October, 22 percent of those questioned gave Carter ``excellent'' or ``good'' marks generally, and 75 percent rated him either ``fair'' or ``poor.'' However, in the most recent poll, taken in the seven days ended Dec. 5, Carter was rated excellent or good by 41 percent of the 500 respondents and he was judged fair or poor by 57 percent. ``Much of the increase seems to be related to the Iranian crisis,'' officials said of Carter's overall popularity, ``Not only did Connecticut give the president high marks for his handling of the crisis, but slightly over half of those rating him excellent or good on Iran gave him one of those ratings in general, while only 13 percent of those giving him the two less favorable ratings on Iran thought he was doing well in general.'' The Connecticut Poll is accurate to within plus or minus 5 percentage points, poll officials said. In the October poll Carter was swamped by Kennedy, 33 percent to 10 percent, as the candidate respondents would most like to see elected president next year. But in the December poll, Carter edged Kennedy, 22 percent to 21 percent. The situation among Republican candidates for president ``remains somewhat unclear'' in the current poll, officials said. ``The only Republican mentioned spontaneously by more than 5 percent of our sample was Ronald Reagan,'' officials said. ``At this stage of the campaign, however, this reflects name recognition as much as anything else.'' However, when respondents were asked to choose among six possible candidates _ former President Gerald Ford, Reagan, John Connally, George Bush, Sen. Howard Baker and Sen. Robert Dole _ Reagan edges Ford, 23 percent to 21 percent. Bush and Connally ``are virtually tied for third place, followed by Baker with Dole a very distant sixth,'' poll officials said. ``These findings paint the portrait of a state still very much in flux,'' officials said. ``The race between Carter and Kennedy obviously has changed a good deal in a short period of time. ``The situation among Republican contenders is still quite volatile. Gerald Ford, despite his removing himself from consideration, clearly occupies an important place in the GOP firmament at the present time.'' ****1716EST 0238 *** d s *** AM-FBN--Staubach Bjt 12-17 0467 Until Harvey Martin hurled a funeral wreath into the Washington Redskins' locker room late Sunday, all they could talk about was Roger Staubach and the Dallas Cowboys' two-minute offense. Even Redskins tackle Diron Talbert, who has carried on a running feud with Staubach for years, admitted: ``Today he showed why he's been all-pro all those years. The Cowboys have always been a team that will come back on you and mainly it's because of Staubach. You can't ran off and leave them on the scoreboard because of him and that two-minute offense. He makes it all happen.'' Staubach's two fourth-quarter touchdown passes, including an 8-yard alley-oop toss to wide receiver Tony Hill with 39 seconds to play gave Dallas a wild 35-34 victory over the Redskins and the National Conference East title. It was the 14th time in Staubach's 11-year National Football League career that he has brought Dallas from behind to victory in the last two minutes. The 37-year-old Staubach has engineered 21 triumphs with Dallas either tied or behind in the fourth quarter. Even Cowboys Coach Tom Landry and center John Fitzgerald, a close personal friend, had just about given up hope Sunday when Dallas trailed 34-21 with less than seven minutes to play. ``Hell, yes I doubted we could come back,''said Fitzgerald. ``If I said no, that I didn't have any doubt, then I think everybody in the world would call me a liar.'' ``I wasn't too optimistic,'' was the way Landry put it. Here are some of Staubach's greatest comebacks, operating mostly out of the spread offense: _Two Staubach touchdowns passes in the final 90 seconds of the game to beat San Francisco 30-28 in 1972. _A 50-yard ``Hail Mary'' pass to Drew Pearson in the final 24 seconds for a 17-14 victory over Minnesota in the NFC playoffs in 1975. _Put 10 points on the board in the final 64 seconds, including a 21-yard TD pass to Drew Pearson for a 20-17 victory over Philadelphia in 1975. _Has brought Dallas from behind in the final two minutes three times in 1979, including a 22-21 victory over St.Louis in the season opener, a 24-20 victory over Chicago and 16-14 victory over the New York Giants in the final 2:24. What does Staubach think about in the final two minutes? ``You are really not thinking of pulling it out,'' he said. ``You know what the score is and what the situation is and you are just thinking about executing the play. ``You are not thinking ahead as far as winning, nor are you thinking about losing. Mainly you are just thinking about each play ... what the situation is ... and anticipating what kind of defense they will be using.'' ****1719EST 0641 *** r i *** AM-Rhodesia 1stLd-Writethrua0616 12-17 0548 *** a0642 *** r a *** AM-ElvisDoctor 12-17 0262 *** e0246 *** r n *** AM-PrisonHearings 12-17 0237 For the second time in as many months, U.S. District Judge Edward T. Gignoux will bring his courtroom into Maine's only maximum-security prison Tuesday. Gignoux is expected to hear final testimony concerning two class action suits filed by inmates at Maine State Prison by Friday. The judge has suggested that the state negotiate an out-of-court settlement with the inmates, but an attorney for the Mental Health and Corrections Department said department officials feel they will win the court battle. ``Basically there won't be any settlement as far as we're concerned,'' said Gail Ogilvie. She asserted that Gignoux suggested a negotiated settlement to speed up the resolution of the case, and not because of the merits of the inmates' charges. The prisoners allege that life inside the prison's isolation cells constitutes cruel and unusual punishment, in violation of their constitutional rights and consent decrees issued in 1973 and 1975. Gignoux took inmate testimony for three days at the prison in October, and devoted two days last month to more of the inmates' witnesses at his courtroom in Portland. Ogilvie said the state plans to present eight witnesses, including Warden Richard Oliver and other prison officials, this week. Testimony should be completed before Friday, she said. Robert Lovell, who was released from prison last Friday, said he will continue to serve as the inmates' paralegal. ****1722EST 0239 *** d s *** AM-FBN--RiceFired Bjt 12-17 0483 The Cincinnati Bengals, concluding that ``it was rather obvious to all that a change had to be made,'' Monday fired head Coach Homer Rice and all of his assistants. General Manager Paul Brown, in announcing the housecleaning, said a search would begin immediately for a new coach for the Bengals, who finished the National Football League season with their second straight 4-12 record. ``It was obvious we weren't getting it done,'' Brown said. ``I'd go out week after week hopeful, but things began to happen so much of the time. Something always seemed to be happening to us. ``These little things have got to be controlled.'' Brown said he had some people in mind for the coaching job, but ``I don't draw the line anywhere.'' ``He has to be a strong type of personality,'' Brown said. ``He has to be someone who knows the game, but who at the same time is strong in a demanding way.'' Exiting along with Rice were the following assistant: Mike McCormack, offensive line coach; Boyd Dowler, receivers; Charley Winner, defensive backfield; Chuck Studley, defensive line; Howard Brinker, defensive coordinator; George Sefcik, offensive backfield, and Frank Gansz, special teams. Rice said he was accepting Brown's invitation to remain with the club as an administrative assistant. Rice said he thought Brown did the right thing in ordering the housecleaning. ``I think trying to change a coach here or there was not the answer,'' Rice admitted after hearing the news. ``It's time for a fresh, new thing. Paul Brown did what he thought was right and I believe in him.'' Rice's entry into the pro coaching ranks came during troubled times. The Bengals' fortunes had slipped since the team posted an 11-3 mark in 1975, the last year Brown served as coach. The Bengals were 10-4 in 1976 under Bill Johnson, then 8-6 in 1977. Rice joined the team in 1978 as a quarterback coach and found himself in a head coaching job after Johnson resigned when the team lost its first five games. ``We made the move because it was the least disruptive to the organization,'' Brown said of Rice's hiring. ``It looked like we could make it and still salvage something out of the season. ``At the time, a lot of people didn't know how far we could go.'' Rice convinced a lot of people when he finished the year with three straight victories. ``We decided to give him a full shot,'' said Brown, who admitted he had high hopes for this season. ``You could have knocked me over with a feather when we didn't get it done. No one was more surprised than I was when we didn't do well.'' Brown, 71, asked whether he would stay on as general manager of the club he helped form in 1968, answered: ``I sure will.'' ****1724EST 0643 *** d a *** AM-Dollar-Gold 12-17 0549 Gold continued its record-setting spiral Monday, trading as high as $474 an ounce in Zurich before falling back a bit at the close as the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries began meeting on a new round of oil price increases. The dollar declined in most European markets but recovered against most major foreign currencies in later New York trading. Dealers on both sides of the Atlantic said activity was light. Bullion dealers in Europe said the latest spurt in the gold price was caused by the continuing U.S.-Iran crisis and expectations of further oil price hikes at the OPEC meeting in Caracas, Venezuela. In Zurich the price of gold soared to $474 a troy ounce before some profit-taking late Monday afternoon pushed the gold price down to $469.50 an ounce at the close. It finished at $470 in London, Europe's other major gold trading center. This was a jump of more than $12 in both centers and a record closing price for each. Gold closed last Friday at $457.30 in London and $457 in Zurich. In the later New York bullion market, gold finished at $469.50, up from the previous record close of $464 an ounce on Friday, according to Republic National Bank. On the Commodity Exchange of New York, the spot contract gained $4.10 to $468.20. The price of gold is buoyed by the likelihood of higher oil prices because the Middle East producers _ already big investors in the metal _ would thus have more revenue to spend on gold. Gold is also a traditional hedge in times of monetary uncertainty and thrives in the inflationary spiral fueled by oil price hikes. The profit-taking that pushed the bullion price down from its Zurich peak, dealers said, was a statement by Saudi Arabian Oil Minister Sheikh Ahmed Zaki Yamani that his country would not agree to further oil price hikes in Caracas. In New York currency markets, dealers said trading was exceptionally light and the dollar gained on most European currencies largely because of corporate commercial demand. The dollar did fall sharply against the Japanese yen. In Tokyo a dealer said speculation that OPEC countries would include the yen in a basket of currencies for pricing oil appeared to be a major reason. The dollar is the currency used in the international oil trade. But oil producers have complained the dollar's decline in the past two years has slashed their revenues in real terms. In Tokyo the dollar closed at 239.80 yen, down from 243.10 yen at Friday's close. In New York, dollar rates as of 4 p.m. Monday, compared with Friday included: 1.7352 West German marks, up from 1.7340; 4.0720 French francs, up from 4.0600; 1.6045 Swiss francs, up from 1.6000; 238.25 Japanese yen, down from 243.85. The dollar brought 1.1740 Canadian dollars, up from 1.1707. The British pound cost $2.2010 less than $2.2080 Friday. Late rates for the dollar in key European financial centers, compared with Friday: Frankfurt, 1.7375 marks, down from 1.7435; Zurich, 1.6075 Swiss francs, down from 1.6155; Paris, 4.070 French francs, down from 4.0830; Milan, 813.40 Italian lire, down from 813.60, and Amsterdam, 1.9155 Dutch guilders, down from 1.9225. In London it took $2.2010 to buy a British pound late Monday compared to $2.1970 late Friday. ****1724EST 0153 *** r f *** AM-Bonds 12-17 0113 Corporate bond prices rose Monday, with industrials up ] point in quiet trading and utilities up point in fair trading. Government issues were up 10-32 in intermediate and 19-32 in long maturities. Short-term governments advanced 2-32, according to the investment banking firm of Salomon Brothers. Three-month Treasury bills were unchanged at 12.25 percent; six-months bills fell 3 basis points to 11.95 percent; and one-year bills declined 2 basis points to 10.92 percent. Dolalr bonds rose \ to ] point in quiet trading. General obligations were unchanged in light activity. Federal funds, the loans of uncommitted reserves among Federal Reserve System member banks, traded at 14{ percent. ****1725EST 0644 *** r a *** AM-ClevelandSchools 12-17 0453 *** p0693 *** d a *** AM-MarkLane 12-17 0339 Lawyer Mark Lane has filed a $12 million libel suit against The New York Times, claiming his professional reputation was damaged by the newspaper's stories about the 1978 People's Temple suicides. The lawsuit was filed on behalf of Teresa Buford, a former administrator of the People's Temple in Guyana, and Lane, who represented the Rev. Jim Jones, leader of the religious cult. More than 900 followers of Jones committed suicide or were slain in November 1978 near Jonestown, Guyana. The suit, filed Friday, names as defendants the Times; its board chairman, Arthur Ochs Sulzberger; and reporters David Binder and John M. Crewdson. A Times spokesman who asked not to be named said The Times would not comment on the suit pending receipt and review of the court papers. U.S. District Judge Harry Wellford, assigned to hear the case, has not yet scheduled a hearing. The suit said that on Dec. 16, 1978, the Times published a story indicating Ms. Buford and Lane were going to Switzerland to withdraw $8 mpllion from a secret People's Temple bank account. The information, the lawsuit said, was attributed to Justice Department sources. The same statement was repeated in another article Dec. 20, 1978, the suit said. At the time the stories alleged the two were on the way to Switzerland, the suit said, Ms. Buford was in Memphis and Lane was in Paris. Lane said in the suit that he had demanded retractions but that none was printed in the Times. However, the suit said, the second story carried Lane's denials. Lane also claimed the Justice Department wrote the newspaper and told them no spokesman for the department told the reporters that Lane and Ms. Buford were going to Switzerland. Lane is asking $3 million for alleged damage to his professional reputation and loss of lecture and book offers. He asks an additional $5 million in punitive damages. Ms. Buford seeks $1.5 million for loss of her good name and $2.5 million in punitive damages. ****1726EST 0253 *** r s *** BC-BKC--ACCPlayer 12-17 0159 Albert King, who has taken over the lead in the Atlantic Coast Conference scoring race, has been named ACC Player-of-the-Week. The 6-foot-6 Maryland junior scored 28 points Saturday as the Terrapins defeated Catholic, 113-79, in the team's only outing last week. The game was the third this season in which King scored 28 points and it upped his average to 24.2 points per game this year. In the game against Catholic, King connected on 10 of 14 field goal attempts and added eight free throws in 10 tries. King is eighth in the ACC with a .595 shooting percentage from the floor. This is the second time the Brooklyn, N.Y., native has been selected for Player-of-the-Week honors. He was also honored during the final week of December last year. A committee of the Atlantic Coast Sports Writers Association selected King for the title. ****1727EST 0694 *** r i *** AM-NaziDoctor 12-17 0245 A West Berlin appeals court upheld a $283,000 fine Monday against a former SS doctor who allegedly injected gasoline in the veins of Jewish concentration camp inmates and sent others to their deaths in gas chambers. The court found Dr. Aribert Ferdinand Heim, 65, guilty of violating the city's de-Nazification law after examining depositions by former inmates of the Mauthausen concentration camp in Austria. Heim, sought by German police since 1962 when he disappeared from his home in the southwestern spa city of Baden-Baden, again was represented in absentia by his Frankfurt-based lawyer Fritz Steinacker. The appeals court said it was convinced Heim killed an unknown number of persons at Mauthausen concentration camp in 1941 and 1942 by injecting gasoline and chloride of magnesium into their hearts. Judge August Kayser said three murders in particular were proven beyond doubt: Heim murdered a young Czechoslovak man suffering from infected legs by cutting open his abdomen; a child crying for its mother on the operating table, and a young Jewish man who had called him a murderer by injecting poison into his heart. Steinacker previously had denied all allegations. He also refused to disclose his client's whereabouts, a right granted him by German law. The fine, designed to bring about the forced sale of a West Berlin apartment building owned by the fugitive Heim, was first levied against him June 13. Steinacker appealed the sentence. ****1727EST 0695 *** r a *** AM-ClevelandSchools 12-17 0453 The two-month-old Cleveland teachers strike will force a delay in the desegregation of Ohio's largest public school system, a federal judge was told Monday. Al Tutela, head of student assignments and busing preparations for the schools, told U.S. District Judge Frank J. Battisti it would take 55 working days after the strike ends before the next step of desegregation could begin. Thomas Atkins, a lawyer for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, said he was dismayed by the delay. ``The NAACP believes it would be both tragic and inexcusable if the peaceful September beginning of desegregation, for which all can be justifiably proud, should now become bogged down,'' he said. Battisti held a three-hour conference on the status of desegregation in the 92,000-pupil school system with a two-thirds black enrollment. Meanwhile, some of the 5,000 members of the striking Cleveland Teachers Union began receiving ballots Monday for a vote by mail on two proposed contract offers. The ballots are to be returned by Dec. 27. Leaders of the union have recommended rejection of the offers. One offer would provide a 7 percent raise, retroactive to Sept. 1, and another 9 percent in September 1980. The other offer would provide 10 percent Dec. 31, and another 10 percent Dec. 31, 1980. Teachers are seeking 27 percent in raises over that period. A starting Cleveland teacher now earns $9,828 a year, with the average Cleveland teacher paid $16,466 a year. Limited desegregation of 22,000 pupils in 33 of the city's 146 schools began in September, with the busing of about 8,000 students. Under Battisti's timetable, 17 junior high schools with 20,000 pupils are to be desegregated Jan. 28, and about 5,000 more pupils bused. James P. Murphy, a lawyer for the school board, said problems with buses and bus drivers could hold up the timetable. Production of 50 of the 125 buses ordered by the district had been delayed by a strike at International Harvester, he said. Layoffs of bus drivers and security officers during the strike could result in resignations by workers needed to carry out desegregation, he said. Battisti ordered the school district to provide figures on layoffs and staff resignations by Friday. Tutela said once the strike ends, five days would be needed for principals to get organized; 10 days to find out how many students had moved during the strike and how many are still in the system; 30 days to complete student assignments and bus routes and 10 days to notify parents. Schools were officially closed Nov. 6, about three weeks after the strike began. ****1729EST 0696 *** r a *** AM-ElvisDoctor 12-17 0262 Elvis Presley's physician faces a Jan. 14 hearing before the state Board of Medical Examiners on allegations he overprescribed drugs for the late rock 'n' roll king and other patients. The state board filed an amended 59-page complaint Monday against Dr. George Nichopoulos of Memphis. The doctor has had no comment on the accusations since they were first lodged Sept. 24. He is accused of prescribing uppers, downers, tranquilizers and other narcotic drugs over several months for Presley _ including some Aug. 16, 1977, the day the singer died. The original complaint was based on a routine audit of the records of Memphis pharmacies by Health Department inspectors. The board has the power to suspend or revoke Nichopolous' license to practice medicine if the complaint is sustained, subject to appeal through the state court system. The cause of Presley's death is not at iswue in the state Board of Medical Examiners hearing. A hearing on the allegations against Nichopoulos had been scheduled for Nov. 7, but was postponed by agreement of Frank Scanlon, the assistant state attorney general who represents the board, and Nichopoulos' lawyers. The Health Department also denied a request by Nichopoulos' lawyers that parts of the hearing be closed to the public to protect the privacy of some patients. On the advice of the state attorney general's office, the board said the hearing _ to be held in Memphis _ was covered by the state Open Meetings Act that requires such proceedings to be public. ****1729EST 0060 *** d s *** BC-HKN--Canadiens 12-17 0097 *** s0254 *** d s *** BC-HKN--Canadiens 12-17 0097 Defenseman Larry Robinson and right wing Mario Tremblay will join the Montreal Canadiens in St. Louis, a spokesman for the National Hockey League club said Monday. Robinson was released from a hospital, where he had been admitted last Thursday with stomach pains. Doctors said something he ate caused the problem. A team spokesman also said that X-rays of defenseman Guy Lapointe's wrist, slashed in the second period of a 6-2 loss to the Jets at Winnipeg on Saturday night, proved negative. The Canadiens play the Blues in St. Louis Tuesday night. ****1730EST 0645 *** d w *** AM-Iran-Assets 12-17 0187 *** p0697 *** d w *** AM-AbortionAudits 12-17 0311 After completing audits of eight state programs where federal money is used for abortions, government auditors said Monday that Texas is the only one whose use of funds was not being challenged. Results from five audits of Medicaid programs, including the one for Texas, were made public for the first time. They showed that the federal government claimed New Jersey should repay $101,370 because it misused some federal money while Georgia should repay $38,784, Ohio should repay $20,000 and Colorado should repay $14,097. Reports were released earlier on Pennsylvania, where $1.5 million was in dispute, New York, where $1.2 million was questioned and Illinois, where $473,947 was claimed by the government. Repayment schedules are being worked out. The audits are performed by the inspector general for the Department of Health, Education and Welfare and are part of a series of 12 financial checks being made in states with some of the largest Medicaid programs for abortion reimbursements. Each audit covers a period beginning as far back as Aug. 4, 1977, when severe restrictions on federal funding of abortions went into effect. Federal funding is limited to cases where a woman's life would be endangered if a fetus was carried to term, where severe and long-lasting physical health damage would occur or where cases of rape or incest have been reported promptly to authorities. The federal government pays about half the cost of an abortion for a Medicaid recipient if those terms are met. Most of the mistakes were made when states claimed reimbursement for abortions which did not fit the federal criteria. Some were the result of clerical errors. The federal auditors generally recommended administrative actions to prevent a recurrence of this type of error. Other audits are being performed in Washington State, Massachusetts, Missouri and California. ****1730EST 0646 *** r i *** AM-Shooting 12-17 0277 *** p0698 *** d w *** AM-Iran-Assets 12-17 0187 *** e0249 *** r n *** AM-VtCamley 12-17 0213 Prosecutors began their cross-examination of Seth Camley on Monday, trying to show that the Morrisville man planned the deaths of his wife and her lover. Camley's lawyers acknowledge that he killed his estranged wife Earlene Camley and Clifford Manosh of Morrisville in March, but say the killings were not premeditated and therefore not first-degree murder. Prosecutors cited remarks Camley made after the killings, expressing relief that his struggle to make his wife stop seeing Manosh was over. Camley, 37, acknowledged that he made the statements, but said he did not plan to kill the pair when he came across them making love in Mrs. Camley's car, which was parked on an isolated back road. ``Yes I was glad to get them,'' Camley said. ``I didn't like Mr. Manosh or what he was doing to my family, but I didn't mean to kill them two people.'' Camley added that his ``one wish is to bring them back.'' When he approached the car, Camley said, Manosh made a sudden move as if reaching for a gun. Camley said he remembers that the gun he was holding went off. But beyond that, he said, ``I don't really remember what happened _ it all happened so fast.'' ****1731EST 0699 *** u f *** AM-WallStreet 12-17 0394 Energy issues led the stock market to a small gain in an active session Monday as oil-exporting countries convened a meeting in Caracas. The Dow Jones average of 30 industrials, coming off a gain of close to 31 points in the past three weeks, added another 1.87 to 844.62. Volume on the New York Stock Exchange reached a three-week high of 43.83 million shares, against 41.80 million Friday. Riding the crest of the latest wave of buying in energy stocks, the market value index at the American Stock Exchange reached a record high for the fourth straight session, up 3.54 at 244.15. Among Amex volume leaders, Houston Oil & Minerals climbed 1] to 24{ on turnover of better than 560,000 shares as of the 4 p.m. close in New York. C&K Petroleum rose 1 to 24; McCulloch Oil 1 to 11; Imperial Oil class A } to 37[; Dome Petroleum 1{ to 42, and Gulf of Canada 4 to 103{. At the Big Board, where the big international oil issues are listed, the story was much the same: Gulf, the volume leader, up 1\ at 36~; Exxon, ahead | at 57; Mobil, up | at 58, and Texaco, } higher at 29~. ``On both the listed and unlisted markets, anything related to oil is being gobbled up as if there was no tomorrow,'' said Newton Zinder at E.F. Hutton & Co. A split was reported within OPEC over pricing strategy for the start of the 1980s. Shiek Ahmed Zaki Yamani of Saudi Arabia said he didn't expect any price increases beyond those announced in the past week by various OPEC members. Saudi Arabia and several other countries considered to be OPEC's ``moderates'' posted price hikes last week to $24 a barrel, in what was interpreted as a move to forestall some larger increases sought by the militant forces within the cartel. But those forces were still pushing for higher prices. The daily tally on the NYSE showed about five losers for every four stocks that gained ground, and the exchange's composite index added .26 to 62.61. Standard & Poor's index of 400 industrials was up .48 at 122.78, and S&P's 500-stock composite index rose .41 to 109.33. In the over-the-counter market, the NASDAQ composite index picked up .53 to 150.56. ****1733EST 0700 *** r i *** AM-Shooting 12-17 0276 Four right-wing extremists shot a 24-year-old man dead from ambush Monday, apparently mistaking him for a left-wing lawyer, police reported. tThey said four persons fired pistol shots from a parked car at Antonio Leandri near a bus stop in the city's northern Trieste section. Police arrested all four after a shootout and a wild automobile chase through the streets. Police sources quoted the attackers as saying their intended target was Giorgio Arcangeli, a 42-year-old lawyer who has defended a number of left-wing extremists. Arcangeli was at his officelnearly a mile away at the time of the attack, police said. One terrorists was slightly wounded, police said. An automatic rifle, four pistols and a firebomb were found in the car. Among those arrested was Sergio Calore, 27, long sought by police in connection with a number of terrorist raids _ including a bombing at Rome's Campidoglio, the city hall designed by Michelangelo. The April 19 blast destroyed the portals and caused structural damage. Shortly after the Monday attack, the government put into effect new anti-terrorism measures including mandatory life sentences without parole for killers of judges, police officers, lawyers, union leaders and court witnesses, and stiffer terms for those who collaborate with terrorist. There is no death penalty in Italy. The measures allow police to hold terrorist suspects for up to 48 hours for questioning without their lawyers and, in hot pursuit of terrorists, to search homes and other buildings. Another measure requires banks to identify all persons who make deposits or withdrawals of more than 20 million lire _ $22,000 _ a move aimed at tracing money from kidnap ransoms. ****1733EST 0647 *** r a *** AM-SpaceShuttle 12-17 0417 *** p0701 *** r a *** AM-NavyCrashes 1stLd-Writethru p0662 12-17 0329 The fatal crash of a Navy EA-6B Prowler jet near Palermo, Sicily, was the ninth accident in six weeks for Atlantic Fleet aircraft. Twelve aviators have died in the crashes. The EA-6B struck three empty houses Sunday night, the Navy reported. Three of the crewmen parachuted to safety, but a fourth was killed. No civilians were hurt. Officials at the Atlantic Fleet headquarters here said the plane was from the Norfolk-based carrier Nimitz, while its crew was from Tactical Electronics Squadron 134 at Whidby Island, Wash. For the Nimitz, it was the third crash and fifth fatality since Nov. 4. The giant carrier left Norfolk on Sept. 10 for operations with the 6th Fleet. Navy officials said the latest crash occurred as the jet was attempting to make an emergency landing at the Palermo airport after apparently developing engine trouble. Navy officials say they could offer no reason for the number of recent crashes. Six of the crashes and nine of the deaths occurred in the Mediterranean, two crashes and one death in the United States and one crash and two deaths in the Caribbean Sea. There are 1,800 aircraft in Atlantic Fleet units, which operate from the North to the South poles and from the East Coast of the United States to the Mediterranean Sea. In another Navy aircraft crash in Yuma, Ariz., a jet plowed through an airport hangar and caught fire Monday after the pilot ejected on takeoff. One person on the ground, Paul Burch, 67, the owner of the hangar, was killed, and several other planes were damaged. The pilot, Patrick Coyle, 24, of Philadelphia, stationed at Chase Field at Beeville, Texas, was not injured, authorities said. The jet was carrying ammunition for a weapons-training flight. The cause of the crash was not immediately known. ****1735EST 0250 *** r n *** AM-VtBlindStand 12-17 0189 Three years after the state helped Cheryl Bloomfield start running a snackbar, the state is putting the blind woman out of business. Ms. Bloomfield has been told that the state cannot continue to subsidize the foodstand she runs in the basement of the federal building in Montpelier. Ms. Bloomfield said Monday that although the state Division for the Blind subsidized her business, it didn't give her adequate training to make it self-supporting. She added that because she was technically listed as self-employed, she is now unable to collect unemployment benefits. Ms. Bloomfield said she can understand that the state doesn't want to continue subsidizing a business that doesn't make money. ``But if the state can close me down, then I'm not really self-employed,'' she said. Ms. Bloomfield said she expects to close the stand before Christmas. ``They teach you budgeting and management, but it's not a realistic work situation,'' she said, of the four-month business training course the state paid for. She added that local suppliers have charged her ``outrageous'' prices, often higher than those in local groceries. ****1736EST 0155 *** u f *** AM-FordPrediction 1stLd- 12-17 0346 The U.S. auto industry will sell slightly fewer cars and trucks next year than it will this year, the president of Ford Motor Co. said Monday. The prediction by Philip Caldwell, who took over as Ford's chief executive officer in October, fell below that of General Motors Corp. Chairman Thomas A. Murphy, who forecast 10.6 million cars and 3.5 million trucks, the same as this year's. In his first end-of-year statement, Caldwell said, ``Industry-wide sales in the United States are likely to be below those of 1979 _ perhaps by as much as 10 percent.'' In recent years, Ford's annual predictions have been slightly below GM's. In the good years GM's have been closer to the mark, but this year's 10.6 million car sales were well under initial forecasts. In his first end-of-year statement as head of Ford, Caldwell disclosed higher figures for predicted capital spending in the next few years. ``During the 1979-84 period, capital spending at Ford will average about $4 billion a year, about two-thirds of which will be spent in North America,'' Caldwell said. Last year's statement said such spending for new plant and equipment would average $3 billion a year in the 1980-82 period. Ford officials since then have spoken of $20 billion from 1978 through 1985, but Caldwell's figures mean $24 billion in a shorter period. Much of that money will go to meeting the much-discussed government requirements on pollution, safety and fuel economy. Caldwell noted, ``One uncertainty that has plagued the auto industry in recent years is behind us. It is now clear that in the 1980s American consumers will want and buy smaller more fuel-efficient cars and trucks.'' Caldwell called on the federal government to decontrol gasoline prices and drop the allocation program; to encourage capital formation, particularly through faster depreciation rules; and to increase regulatory flexibility, specifically to permit manufacturers to apply fuel economy gains three years forward or backward instead of one. ****1737EST 0255 *** r s *** AM-FBN--Armstrong-Bears 12-17 0446 *** a0648 *** d w *** AM-Cambodia 12-17 0148 The House of Representatives called Monday for the convening of an international conference to devise a means to end the famine in Cambodia. The resolution, approved by voice vote without dissent, calls for withdrawal of all foreign troops from Cambodia and ``internationally supervised elections.'' ``Two million Cambodians now face the prospect of imminent starvation,'' Rep. Stephen J. Solarz, D-N.Y., told the House. Efforts by the United States and other nations to provide food for Cambodian have been largely unsucessful and the food has not been distributed, Solarz said. ``We stand on the threshold of the worst catastrophe of the human race,'' he said. Solarz and Rep. John Anderson, R-Ill, were the prime sponsors of the measure. The resolution is simliar to one recently adopted by the United Nations General Assembly, had bipartisan support in Congress and is endorsed by the Carter administrtion. ****1737EST 0702 *** r a *** AM-SpaceShuttle 12-17 0417 Astronauts conducted tests on the space shuttle Columbia's cockpit controls Monday, buoyed by the first successful firing of engines designed to propel the shuttle into orbit, officials said. The rockets roared with ``storybook'' success Monday at a National Aeronautics and Spac5 Administration facility in East St. Louis Bay, Miss., said NASA spokesman Rocky Raab. At the Kennedy Space Center here, a backup crew of shuttle astronauts was testing cockpit controls in preparation for a simulated liftoff set for Monday night. The backup crewmen, Air Force Col. Joe Engle and Navy Cmdr. Richard Truly spent 30 minutes checking out the computer systems in the reusuable spaceship in preparation for the test. The shuttle, designed to glide back through the atmosphere on airplane-type wings for use in future missions, will carry satellites, experiments and scientists into space. Its launch has been repeatedly postponed by problems with the engines during tests. Attachment of heat-resistant tiles to the shuttle's exterior also caused delays. Five more full-duration rocket firings are needed before NASA will certify engines for the mission. Each engine costs about $28 million and weighs some 6,850 pounds. The first shuttle launch is scheduled for June 30, but NASA officials said recently there was only a 10 percent chance of meeting the target date, a 50 percent chance of launching next December and a 20 percent chance of a delay until 1981. The primary crew for the first shuttle mission _ mission commander John Young, a former Navy captain who was on the crew of two Gemini missions and two Apollo missions, and Navy Cmdr. Robert Crippen _ were expected to conduct further cockpit tests Tuesday. So far, scientists and astronauts have checked out launch and navigation systems, the computer program, environmental control units, an on-board television camera and the star tracker, Young said. Engle and Truly also made electrical checks. During a simulated launch, tests are made on solid booster rockets, which eject two minutes after takeoff, and on the separation of the external tanks. The tanks provide fuel for the three main engines and take the spacecraft almost into orbit. Also checked in a simulation is the maneuvering system used to secure the craft into orbit. In an actual launch, the boosters would separate and parachute into the ocean where they would be recovered for later missions. External tanks would be lost in space. ****1738EST 0143 *** u n *** BC-AirQuality 12-17 0046 Air quality was moderate in all areas of Connecticut Monday, except Greenwich, Danbury and Enfield where it was good, said the state Department of Environmental Protection. The department said all areas of the state will have good conditions Tuesday. ****1738EST 0703 *** r i *** AM-Rhodesia 1stLd-Writethru p0673 12-17 0536 The Patriotic Front guerrilla alliance initialed agreements Monday for a cease-fire and political settlement aimed at bringing peace and internationally recognized independence to the maverick British colony. ``This is an important day for Rhodesia,'' Deputy Foreign Secretary Sir Ian Gilmour told a news conference. ``It means the end of the war.'' Official sources said British and former Salisbury government representatives had agreed over the weekend to a guerrilla demand to open an assembly area in west central Rhodesia, in addition to at least 15 others where guerrillas can gather when the 7-year bush war ends and a campaign period begins, leading toward a spring election. In Salisbury, Bishop Abel Muzorewa, who resigned as prime minister last week when Lord Soames, the new British governor took control of the territory, said: ``It is nothing suprising, it is welcome.'' Muzorewa said he would say Tuesday whether he would fly to London for a ceremonial cease-fire agreement signing, scheduled for Wednesday, formally ending a 14-week-old peace conference. In the agreement tentatively approved Monday by the Front co-leaders, Zambia-based Joshua Nkomo and Mozambique-based Robert Mugabe, the British additionally agreed to instruct Soames to open up new assembly areas wherever the Patriotic Front could muster 1,000 or more fighters, officials said. ``That suits us fine,'' a Front spokesman told The Associated Press. ``We know we can produce the fighting men and so we cannot refuse the precise British assurance.'' As the cease-fire portion of the talks dragged on here, the Front demanded more than the 15 assembly points offered in frontier regions far from Rhodesia's big cities, and the concession this weekend gave them what they wanted. Soames said 15 British policemen, all above the rank of superintendent, had been dispatched over the weekend in groups of three to the five provinces where they were to help monitor guerrilla gathering areas. About 1,200 Commonwealth soldiers soon will arrive in Rhodesia, and will encircle the guerrilla sites and the bases of Rhodesian security forces to monitor the truce. Monday's accord in London allows the parties of Mugabe and Nkomo to return to legal activity in Rhodesia. They said they will enter the elections with a united front, and without elaborating, said they planned to return to their homeland soon. Some key clauses of the agreement included: _Acceptance by both sides of Soames' authority pending the elections. _Acceptance of a constitution, which gives the country's 230,000 whites one-fifth of the seats in the 100-member legislature for the next 10 years. _Renunciation of the use of force for political ends and pledges to campaign peacefully. In a separate move Monday, Soames ordered the lifting of a food blockade against neighboring Zambia, imposed last month to force the Zambians to control guerrilla traffic across the border, and a spokesman for Soames said the move was ``a first step toward normalization of links with neighboring countries.'' Rhodesia's white minority leaders broke with Britain in 1965 to head off black rule. That eventually led to the bloody war, and Britain is making what many say is a final attempt to help the colony achieve legal independence and peace. ****1741EST 0649 *** r a *** AM-Landers 12-17 0330 *** s0256 *** d s *** AM-FBN--Browns-Rutig 12-17 0379 *** g0418 *** u n *** AM-MBTA 12-17 0509 Municipal authorities who govern the budget of the Boston transit system refused to bail out the nearly broke system Monday, daring Gov. Edward J. King to intervene. Spokesmen for the governor said he would do just that by declaring a transit emergency _ perhaps as soon as Tuesday afternoon. Under such an arrangement, the state would temporarily underwrite the system's mounting expenses but later bill area communities for some of those costs. The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority, operator of the system, had been trying for weeks to get permission to overspend its current $285 million budget by nearly $16 million through the end of the month. Last week, as a compromise gesture, it scaled down its request to $12.1 million. However, the MBTA Advisory Board, a panel of municipal officials who hold veto power over the budget, refused to budge Monday, quickly rejecting the original $16 million proposal as well as two smaller amounts offered as further compromises. ``It's like feeding and feeding a monster,'' complained Chelsea Mayor Joel Pressman, an opponent of the bail-out. ``The governor was elected as a can-do administrator. This is his opportunity to step in and see what he can do.'' Earlier, MBTA officials had predicted the subway, bus and trolley network would face a fiscal crunch by Thursday, the day its $2.5 million weekly payroll comes due. Budget analysts for the advisory board contended the system might be able to scrape up enough cash for this week's payroll but conceded it would need at least $2.5 million more to cover wages for the balance of the month. John Weaver, representing Holbrook, suggested that the budget overseers approve the $2.5 million as a stopgap measure, but his proposal was shouted down. The same treatment was given to a proposal by Sumner Kaplan, a board member from Brookline, for $8.6 million covering not only wages but also fringe benefits, pensions and a payment to the Boston and Maine Railroad for commuter rail service. The key reason for the board's opposition was its fear that area property taxes would have to be raised to finance some of the extra MBTA spending. If increases are inevitable, board members argued, then King should be made to bear responsibility for them. Barry Locke, King's transportation secretary, said that during the ``emergency'' period, the system will continue to be run by MBTA Chairman Robert L. Foster, King's appointee. Locke said Foster would be directed ``to follow, as he has, the tightest possible expenditures.'' Foster indicated he planned to use the $12.1 million figure as his guideline for emergency spending. He conceded cities and towns might have to bear some of that extra cost _ perhaps $2.7 million _ but termed it ``just a small amount.'' Up until now, the communities' share of the MBTA deficit for the entire year has been estimated at about $86 million. The $2.7 million would be an addition to that cost. ****1745EST 0651 *** r i *** AM-EuropeStorms 12-17 0502 *** t0061 *** d s *** AM-FBN--Armstrong-Bears 12-17 0451 Chicago Bears Coach Neill Armstrong said he never gave up hope of making the National Football League playoffs even though it loomed as a virtual impossibility for the final four weeks of the season. The Bears, riding a four-game winning streak which had improved their record to 7-5, lost to the Detroit Lions _ winners of only one other game in 1979 _ on Thanksgiving Day. The 20-0 whipping came less than three weeks after Chicago had beaten the Lions 35-7. Armstrong said the loss could have shaken his confidence in the Bears' ability to come back and make the playoffs, but didn't. ``I said all along that our best chance to make the playoffs was as the (NFC Central) division champion,'' Armstrong said after the Bears completed the season at 10-6 with a 42-6 victory over St. Louis and moved into the playoffs with the help of a Dallas victory over Washington. ``With four weeks to go, I thought we had a real shot at it,'' said Armstrong. ``The only problem was we had to rely on so many other teams to help us. ``I thought we had a good chance of winning our last four and although I didn't expect it to happen, I thought Tampa Bay could lose its last four and we'd be in,'' he continued. The Detroit loss put a damper on the situation. But Tampa Bay did the next best thing to losing four in a row _ they lost three, while the Bears won twice, including a 14-0 triumph over the Bucs. That gave the teams identical records 9-6 records heading into the season finale. The Bucs, who stood to lose the division crown as well as a playoff berth if they lost to Kansas City on Sunday, beat the Chiefs 3-0 to claim the NFC Central title with a better division record. Chicago's lopsided victory and Dallas' 35-34 triumph over Washington, meanwhile, enabled the Bears to overcome a 33-point net point differential and beat the Redskins out for a wild-card spot in the playoffs. The Bears will open the playoffs on Sunday in Philadelphia against the Eagles. If they win, Dallas would be the Bears' next opponent on Dec. 29 or Dec. 30 in Dallas. ``Philadelphia is a good team and they're going to be tough for anybody to beat in the playoffs,'' said Armstrong. ``They have a fine running game, they pass well and have a good defense. ``I really don't know just what our strategy will be,'' he continued. ``I guess we'll have to look at some films and try to figure that out.'' ****1747EST 0705 *** r i *** AM-EuropeStorms 12-17 0502 The first winter storm hit northern Europe with hurricane-force winds, snow and heavy rain, causing destruction on land and sea and leaving at least 30 persons dead or missing. Dozens were reported injured. The weekend bad weather continued into Monday in some areas. Winds gusting up to 120 miles mph were reported in Ireland and Scotland. In other European countries, trees were felled, roofs were ripped away and structures toppled by the fierce winds. Many ships in the English Channel were forced to run for cover. Two French fishing boats with a total of 11 crew were missing and air searches continued with little hope. The Lobster boat Ker Guen, with six men aboard, broke off radio contact early Saturday as it battled 30-foot waves between Ushant, off the western tip of Brittany, and the Scilly Isles, near the entrance to the Channel. An empty lifeboat was found from the fishing boat Atra Sunday night off southwest England. One Danish seaman was reported missing when he was swept off the deck of his vessel at sea, the French authorities reported. Hopes of finding the seven crewmen of the British fishing boat Ocean Monarch were dashed after two empty life boats were found. A woman was killed Monday when a tree fell on the car in which she was riding near Ballantrae in southwest Scotland. In Glasgow, a woman was struck and killed by a falling chimney, reports said. In Sussex, southern England, winds blew a light plane into a quarry wall, killing the pilot, officials said. Two other Britons, a climber and a fisherman, were missing and believed dead. On the French mainland, a woman was killed when her car was hit by a falling tree branch and a workman died instantly when he was blown off a house under construction, authorities said. In Liege, Belgium, police said a woman was killed when heavy winds blew a wall down on top of her. In central Norway on Saturday, a five buses skidded off icy highways, killing three youngsters and injuring 30 and in the Valais alpine region of Switzerland, a bus carrying 26 children skidded from a slick road and plunged into a meadow, injuring seven youngsters, reports said. Helicopters plucked more than 500 North Sea oil workers from a giant Texaco crane barge Saturday night as it drifted in gale-lashed seas off the northeast Scottish coast, government officials said. In another dramatic rescue, 10 crewmen were airlifted to safety from the Greek freighter Skoplos as winds drove the listing ship toward the coast of Cornwall in southwest England. Two French fishing trawlers were given up for lost until they limped back to port, their radio and communications equipment knocked out but their crews safe, French authorities said. One of the vessels was caught in huge seas and hovered for hours near a dangerous bed of rocks off Brest until a larger fishing trawler towed it to shore, reports said. ****1749EST 0706 *** r a *** AM-Landers 12-17 0330 Advice columnist Ann Landers says she got the news that her 36-year marriage was on the rocks over dinner. ``I have something to tell you,'' she quotes her former husband, Jules Lederer, as saying, ``I'm seeing another woman.'' ``My, that's quite a bomb to drop between the soup and salad,'' she says she replied. Miss Landers, who calls her 1975 divorce ``the major tragedy of my life,'' wrote in January's Ladies Home Journal that she asked how serious the affair was and was told he was very fond of the girl. ``Well, if that's the way it is, then this is the end of our marriage,'' replied Miss Landers, now 62. ``He was offering to have an `arrangement,' I guess, but I decided if he could live with that kind of duplicity, it was finished for me ... He had some psychological problem I can't quite figure out,'' the columnist wrote of the decision to divorce. She surmises that Lederer ``lost his way, I think, maybe because he sold his business (Budget Rent-A-Car, for $10 million) and needed some excitement. I was shocked. I had absolutely no idea.'' The woman, who Lederer later married, was an English nurse he met in a doctor's office. Miss Landers says she went shopping for her husband one last time _ buying socks and boxer shorts. She also gave him telephone numbers for the doctor and optician and had her chauffeur and housekeeper stock his apartment with staples ``because here was a man who totally depended on me for such things for 36 years.'' Miss Landers' said she would like to marry again. She described her ideal husband-to-be as a nondrinker and nonsmoker ``whose own success wouldn't be overwhelmed by mine. A very good doctor or lawyer in his fifties or maybe early sixties. Frankly I would have to be turned on by him.'' ****1749EST 0157 *** r f *** AM-UAWTractorTalks 12-17 0527 Members of the United Auto Workers who have been on strike for 78 days against the Caterpillar Tractor Co. began voting Monday on a new three-year contract with the construction machinery maker. Voting was to continue through mid-week with the Peoria-based UAW Local 974, which represents more than half the 40,000 workers on strike, scheduled to vote Wednesday. Pat Grezthouse, UAW vice president, predicted the tentative agreement would be ratified overwhelmingly by the rank and file. Meanwhile, contract negotiations between the UAW and the strike-bound International Harvester Co. have collapsed and the prospects looked dim for 35,000 striking workers to return to work until after the holidays. ``I doubt that both sides will get back together this year,'' Cletus Williams, chairman of the union's bargaining committee, said Monday. The key stumbling block in the Harvester talks is the company's attempt to add mandatory overtime to the contract. Bill Greenhill, a company spokesman, said the firm's officials feel some contract provision is needed to counter absenteeism on Saturdays. The UAW and Caterpillar reached agreement on a new contract late Saturday night after 11 straight days of bargaining. The tentative agreement would provide 3 percent wage increases each of the three years of the contract, plus cost-of-living adjustments. Under the old contract, the average hourly wage for a Caterpillar employee was $9. Under the new agreement, employees would receive increases of 43 cents to 51 cents an hour in the first year. UAW Locals in Aurora, Pontiac and Decatur, Ill., and at Memphis, Tenn., and Denver voted Monday on the new contract. Locals in Davenport, Iowa and York, Pa., scheduled ratification votes for Tuesday. Workers in Denver voted 150-26 Monday to ratify the pact; in Pontiac the vote was 126-5 in favor of ratification. The deciding vote will come Wednesday when 23,000 members of UAW Local 974 in the Peoria area, the heart of Caterpillar's multinational operations, will be given a chance to vote on the agreement. Company officials say the UAW strike in the central Illinois city has cost about $100 million in lost wages for hourly Caterpillar employees. And it has meant a loss of an average of $4,100 to striking UAW members. Members of the UAW local in Mentor, Ohio, will not return to work until they resolve local issues with the company. Both sides were unable to come to terms on local issues during negotiations last week in Peoria. The key issue dividing the two sides in Mentor is a union claim that the firm uses non-union subcontactors. Cliff Hathway, Caterpillar vice president, said he hoped the firm would have its plants back in operation this week, although he cautioned that assembly line workers in Aurora and Decatur might have to wait a few days because of a shortage of engines and parts. Other provisions in the new contract include an increase in the number of full-time union representatives paid by Caterpillar in each plant; an extra holiday during Christmas; an increase in the amount of time off permitted for employees with good attendance records, and a 35-cent per hour increase in night shift differential pay. ****1750EST 0158 *** r f *** AM-Iran-Assets 12-17 0187 Iranian banks in New York and San Francisco will be allowed to bring in $30 million for use by Iranian students in the United States, the Treasury Department said Monday. Special licenses allowing Bank Sepah in New York to bring in $20 million and Bank Melli in San Francisco to bring in $10 million are necessary because President Carter moved Nov. 14 to freeze all assets of Iran in the United States. Treasury earlier issued a license to allow Bank Melli in New York to bring in $20 million for students. It also unblocked four Iranian Embassy bank accounts with some $7 million in Iranian Embassy funds, some of which goes to students. The asset freeze was imposed by Carter after Iran threatened to pull an estimated $8 billion in funds from the United States. The action could have preceded an Iranian decision to renege on payment of debts, administration officials said. The Iranian funds allowed into the United States to assist some of the 50,000 Iranian students cannot by attached by U.S. creditors of Iran, Treasury said in a statement. ****1750EST 0062 *** d s *** AM-FBN--Browns-Rutig 12-17 0379 Cleveland Browns Coach Sam Rutigliano said Monday he is disappointed with his team's 9-7 National Football League record, especially with losses in the final two games of the season. Rutigliano told reporters in his final weekly news conference of the year he believed the Browns should have been 11-5. On Sunday, the Browns ended the regular season with a 16-12 loss at the hands of Cincinnati, a week after bowing to Oakland. ``If we had executed like we should have, we could have controlled that football game in the fourth quarter and then blown Cincinnati out,'' the second-year coach said. ``Our lack of execution and our continued mistakes were the reasons we lost those two key games.'' Looking back on the season, Rutigliano said the Browns failed to survive the loss of running back Greg Pruitt to knee surgery and the loss of defensive tackle Jerry Sherk to a knee infection. Sherk, who has lost 35 pounds in as many days of hospitalization at the Cleveland Clinic, still suffers pain and swelling in his knee and will remain on antibiotics for another two to three weeks, Rutigliano said. He said that even if Sherk starts a rehabilitation program with weights by March, he has serious doubts he would be ready for opening day 1980, adding, ``He is still a very sick football player and this worries me a great deal.'' But he said of Pruitt, who was also sidelined for part of last year, ``I expect him to rebound next year and accept the challenge to prove he is a great football player.'' Rutigliano said he was happy with the development of fullback Mike Pruitt, no relation to Greg Pruitt, and the growth of quarterback Brian Sipe. ``Among the minuses I've seen this year, we did not do the basic things that great teams do to win every Sunday, play mistake-free football,'' the Browns' coach added. ``As we turn the corner looking to 1980, we definitely need depth in the defensive line and we need more quality depth at running back ... As an organization, we won't let our memory fail us in January, February or March. We must make player acquisitions to make the Browns a much better football team.'' ****1750EST 0238 *** d s *** AM-FBN--Anderson-RushingTitle 12-17 0284 Ottis Anderson said tears welled in his eyes as he stood idly on the sidelines and watched the final quarter of the St. Louis Cardinals' humiliating loss to the Chicago Bears. He realized that the National Football League rushing title he wanted so much would elude him. ``Even after the great year I've had,'' he said following the Cardinals' 42-6 setback at the hands of the Chicago Bears, ``I came to realize that the rushing title just wasn't meant for me to have.'' Anderson, a 6-foot-2, 210-pounder out of Miami of Florida, had entered the season finale in Chicago with a 3-yard advantage over Houston's Earl Campbell for the NFL lead and a 113-yard advantage over the Bears' Walter Payton in the National Football Conference race. ``I knew I'd definitely need to run for over 100 yards to have a chance. I figured that Houston was going to give Earl the ball enough times that he'd get a 100, but I was looking for the 100-plus day,'' said Anderson, who established a record for yards rushing in a season by a rookie. But Anderson, who was forced to leave the game in the third quarter with a bruised knee, only was able to gain 39 yards in 14 carries against the Bears' stingy defense. Campbell, meanwhile, rushed for 134 yards against Philadelphia to claim the NFL crown with 1,697 yards for the season. And to add insult to injury, Payton _ who had all but been counted out of the race _ rolled up 157 yards in 33 carries and wrested the NFC title away with 1,610 yards to Anderson's 1,605. ****1751EST