Columbia Missourian Newspaper 1979-02-15

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71st Year No. 132 Cowl Morning! It's Thursday. February 15. 1979 2 Sections 24 Pages 15 Cents
Guerrillas attack U. S. embassy in Iran
By Nicholas Gage
New York Times
TEHRAN Armed urban guerrillas attacked
the American ambassy Wednesday morning,
trapping Ambassador Willaim H. Sullivan and
his staff inside for more than two hours. Two
VS. Marines were injured and two Iranians
were reported killed.
Embassy employees attributed the low
number of American casualties, despite heavy
fire, to the cool leadership of Sullivan, who
ordered the 19 Marine guards in the compound
not to engage the enemy with firearms and
collected his staff in protected rooms of the
chancellery.
" They attacked the compound from three
sides," Sullivan said later. " They shot up my
home, my office and the chancery. We
telephoned the Khomeini people and they
arrived in the nick of time. An interesting
Valentine's Day."
It was not clear who led the attack. Some
supporters of revolutionary leader Ayatollah
Ruhollah Khomeini placed the responsibility on
the Communist Tudeh Party, while others said
the invaders were Fedayeen, a Marxist guerilla
group, which denied responsibility later in the
day.
Whoever was responsible, the assault
dramatized the failure of the Ayatollah's forces
to bring the country under complete control.
Khomeini was defied Wednesday by large
numbers of his followers who did not heed his
order of Tuesday to turn in weapons seized when
the country's armed forces capitulated last
weekend. Rival groups waged pitched battles at
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several points in the capital Wednesday night,
including Iran's national televisoion center.
In an effort to end the chaos in the country, the
Ayatollah issued a proclamation Wednesday
asking all Iranians to return to their jobs on
Saturday, the beginning of the Moselm week.
" Now that you have demolished the pillars of
the Pahlavi dynasty and the revolutionary
temporary government has been
established ... all workers, merchants, office
staffs, students and teachers are hereby
requested to resume work on Saturday," the
proclamation said.
Because of strikes, " the country is now in such
a state" that the economy must be immediately
revived, the proclamation said. " Those who
disobey the revolutionary government will be
regarded as opponents of the revolution."
In several cities outside the capital, armed
opposition to the Khomeini forces has been
reported. In Tabriz, the capital of the northeast
Azerbbaijan province, pitched street battles
have been fought for the past two days. Reports
said that both loyalists to Shah Mohammed
Reza Pahlavi and left wing Azerbaijan
separatists were fighting revolutionary forces.
Eyewitnesses in the city said there were a
number of casualties in Wednesday's fighting
but that no figures were available.
Piecing together the various accounts of the
embassy attack, it appeared likely that ex- teremi- sts
called Khomeini commando posts,
reported SAVAK agents had occupied the
embassy and were firing from it, knowing the
commandoes would rush to the scene and open
fire themselvs. The extremists apparently
hoped to kill a number of Americans, thereby
disrupting relations between Washington and
the Khomeini government.
Police officer I
cracks some '
' tough nuts9
By Scott Morgan
Missourian staff writer
Columbia Police Sgt. Bob Muse calls it teamwork.
His peers say it is his uncanny knack for wheedling
confessions from crooks.
Whatever his secret, there is no disagreement that
Muse has cracked some of the toughest nuts in town
when others couldn't
Police found a Columbia woman stabbed to death in
a field north of the city. The prime suspect was an ex- convi- ct,
suspected by St. Louis police of kidnapping
and murdering a 13- year-- old girl, who had just moved
to Columbia.
But there wasn't enough evidence to charge the man
unless he admitted his guilt. He had refused to confess
under interrogation by St Louis authorities, and
Columbia police weren't optimistic that they would
have any better luck.
Muse says he " sat down and talked with the man
face to face." A few hours later, the nut cracked.
Police had a confession and a case.
" I still can't figure out why he copped out when he
was able to stand up to the St. Louis experts," Muse
says. " He was smart enough to know we didn't have a
chance of convicting him on what we had."
Columbia Police Chief David Walsh says, " Muse's
greatest expertise is his ability to communicate with
crime suspects. And this expertise has been used on
many occasions to bring difficult cases to successful
conclusions. x
" There have been many cases where we were
stopped dead. We couldn't make the right connections.
Then Muse stepped in and put everything together for
us."
Muse says simply, " I do my homework. When I talk
to them, I baffle them silly with what I know about
them."
The detective, who is " somewhere around 40,"
spends most of his working day staying in contact with
those he calls " street people." He investigates rapes,
robberies, asaults and murders.
" My life is threatened usually every day," he says.
" A lot of people I've busted, people that I've sent up to
the pen, hate my guts. They want to get even with me."
Although he says he has " learned to live with
threatening phone calls," he still is afraid for his
family's safety and is careful not to reveal anything
about his home life.
Muse describes a typical day at the police station as,
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Insight
Polar ice
could melt
into disaster
By Walter Sullivan
New York Times
GENEVA There is a real
possibility that some people now in
their infancy wiD live to a time when
the ice at the North Pole will have
melted, a change that would cause swift
and, perhaps catastrophic changes in
climate.
Although many uncertainties affect
the possibility, the change could come
about because of rapid increases in
foel- bumi- ng and a consequent rise in
atmospheric carbon dioxide.
Carbon dioxide allows sunlight to
enter the atmosphere and heat the
earth, hut it inhibits the escape of heat
radiation into space.
This soolled " greenhouse effect"
was discussed by several specialists
reporting to the World Climate Con-ference
here, and the conferees were
urged to assign top priority to assessing
thecarbon dioxide threat in the 20- ye- ar
world climate program now in
preparation. '
In a study being presented to the
conference by the International In-stitute
to Applied Systems Aiiarysis in
Aestria, it is projected that global
energy use may increase from tfcrcc to
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Tentative sites
for gasification
plants selected
By Mary Wells
Missourian staff writer
The sites for the two Missouri coal
gasification plants, one near Columbia,
have been tentatively selected by the
proponents of the project.
Neither site is in the area originaDy
announced in the phase II study
completed last year, but will be located
within five miles ( eight kilometers) of
those selections.
Russell Streich, project manager of
Consumer Energy Corp., the nonprofit
organization supporting the coal gas
plants near Columbia and in northern
Missouri, said Wednesday the primary
and secondary sites for each plant have
been selected pending a final in-vestigation.
The phase II study said possible sites
in mid- Misso- uri were near Rocheport,
northwest Howard County or either
Putnam or Sullivan counties.
Another plant will be located in the
Green Hills region of north central
Missouri.
Streich said the new sites are no more
man five miles ( eight kilometers) from
the original sites. The plants will gasify
high- sulph- ur Missouri coal and bum the
gas to produce electricy. Proponents
also hope to be able to sell the excess
synthetic gas and the sulphur
byproduct.
The proposals have been the subject
of heated debate in Columbia. A special
city task force in 1977 criticized the
project, saying it was ill- concei-ved
and
questioned whether the technology
exists to make the project work.
Additional, glimpses into the progress
of the proposals are offered in a
progress report obtained this week by
the Columbia Missourian.
The report, written by the Kansas
City, Kan., engineering consulting firm
of Lutz. Daily and Brain, was submitted
Dec. 17 to the Ozark Regional Com-mission.
The cover letter to the report states
that some of the engineering firm's
original concepts have been
" modified" and that there are evident
" differences in the marketing outlook
between the two regions."
The letter's author, Henry H. Sch- mal- l,
refused to say what the
modifications are or answer any
questions about the report.
The report does reveal, however, the
following glimpses of the project:
- Consumer Energy plans to seek a
grant from the U. S. Department of
Energy for funds to conduct an en-vironmental
impact study and
engineering feasibility study.
- Consumer Energy will try to
finance construction of the plants
through industrial revenue bonds.
Each plant will seek to entice
industries to an industrial park located
at the plant sites, but the industries
may be different for each plant. These
will be crucial to the success of the
projects, Streich said.
Streich said he has " received many
inquiries from industries wishing to
purchase gas from the facilities."
9 a. m. Boone County Court meets,
fifth floor, County- Cit- y Building. In SAWn 7: 30 D-- m- " The Mousetrap."
J8. M & VWKH University Main Stage Theater.
7: 30 p. m. All- Ci- ty Secondary Vocal tlay Concert, Jefferson Junior High.
Movie listings on Page 15A
gpi . -- mjgf m Portillo criticizes gas veto,
9 but talks ' relaxed, friendly9
From onr wire services
MEXICO CITY Mexican President Jose
Lopez Portillo publicly criticised President Carter
Wednesday for vetoing the sale of Mexican gas to
the United States two years ago, warning that
" surprise moves and sudden . deceit" could
backfire on VS. interests.
Lopez Portillo eluded Carter for tfiie sudden VS.
interest in Mexico's newly discovered ofl and gas
reserves and warned that the United States
should not take the oil for granted.
On the whole, though, the two leaders' opening
discussions were described by aides as a " frien-dly,
relaxed exchangs" of assessments of global
and regional affairs, skirting the overriding issues
of oil and aliens.
Carter, looking weary after a night in which he
was awakened several times to be informed of
developments in Iran and Afghanistan, had
considered delaying his departure for Mexico, a
White House aide said. Carter decided to leave as
scheduled only after receiving word that the
American Embassy in Iran was secure, and the
Americans were safe.
In a welcoming ceremony under smog- leade- n
sides at Juarez International Airport, the two
presidents exchanged handshakes, as their wives
gave each other the traditional Latin abrazo, or
embrace. About 3,000 onlookers sat in a makeshift
grandstand, with floral decorations of the
American and Mexican flags, and portraits of the
two leaders. Military' and mariaehi bands
provided the music, and the spectators waved
pompons and sounded noisemakers.
" Very objectively, Mr. President, few countries
in the world have so much to talk about, so many
matters as we do," Lopez Portillo told Carter.
The Mexican president, speaking in Spanish,
spoke of the " enormous interest" and great ex-pectations
with which his countrymen viewed
Carter's visit, and said that " you will find this
expectation in all mass communication media,
press, radio, television, in the streets and also on
signs on the wall."
The visit appeared to generate little enthusiasm
on the streets of Mexico City, however. No crowds
lined the routes traveled by the official motorcade,
although the lampposts were adorned by portraits
of the two leaders and their wives.
Carter, speaking first in Spanish and then in
English, said that " I cannot imagine a more ap-propriate
day for our own reunion and to express
the feelings that the people of my country have
toward yours."
" Happy St. Valentine's Day," Carter told his
guests. " Long live Mexico." Carter and Lopez
Portillo then drove to the National Palace for a
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Outgoing Beck sees a smooth changeover
By Wayne J. Heflman
MisHmrian staff writer
Acting City Manager Ray Beck is preparing to
turn over his duties Monday to City Manager- designa- te
Stuart Campbell. ltjBHWlMWjl
He reflected Wednesday on BBpfflrBBlSHl
his eight months in the city's HE& KbHH
He said he has a favorable HhBHSH
first impression of Campbell, HwBBHH
who was hired by the council lWffl
deteriorated. Beck would not IsHhSBS
say whether be would apply MmGutmSM
for any other dry manager i ' mBHSBom
Jobs. He plans to return to his hSEBSHSt
old Job us city public works '" HIB" director. BCCK
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Beck said he expects an orderly transition when
Campbell arrives in Columbia. He cited his own
work with four city managers and nine councils
during Ma 17 years as public works director as an
example of bis flexibility. The only problem Beck
said he will leave Campbell is the appointment of a
new water and light director before J. H. Lund- stea- d
retires March 1.
Referring to the selection process of Campbell,
however, Beck said the City Council fchould have
followed the guidelines set up by the International
City Management Association during its search.
But Beck refused to elaborate on how the city may
not have followed those guidelines.
' Tvegotreflectionson it, but I think it's better if
I keep it. to myself," he said, adding that Ms
feeltagsafe eat necessarily derogatory.
Beck was one of five finalists encouraged to
apply for the Job by the council, but he was not
picked. At one print in the eight- mont- h selection
process, Beck was offered the job, but he refused it
because he had not applied.
Turning to other issues Wednesday, Beck
blamed delays of the West Broadway wktening on
pressures applied on state officials by opponents of
the project. He said the cost of the $ 1.5 million
project will increase because the project cannot
begin during this year's construction season.
Beck also denied the city has lost 3,300 tons
( 2,970 metric tons) of coal listed as unaccounted
for in the city's 1977- 7- 8 audit by Price- Waterhous- e
Inc. The status of the coal, worth $ 105,000, is the
subject of an investigation.
The coal was not in the dry's stockpile, though it
was still listed in its inventory. Beck said the
difference was probably due to an inaccuracy in
weighing the coal before it is put in the power
plant's boilers.
Housing code rule
called no 6big deal9
By B. J. Martin
Mbsoarlan staff writer
Acting City Manager Ray Beck said
Wednesday it is " next to impossible" to
enforce a section of the housing code that
requires the city to notify tenants is? sub-- --
standard housing when legal action Sf taken :
against their landlord.
Furthermore, Beck said during erem
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