Columbia Missourian Newspaper 1977-11-19

              I In town
I today
f 8 a.m. Workshop on autism at
I Woodhaven Learning Center,
1 Nifong Boulevard
9:41 a.m. First annual meeting
of the Missouri Folklore Society
I in rooms 208 and 210, Brady
Commons, University
12:39 p.m. Teacher booth at
I Parkade Plaza, sponsored by the
I Columbia chapter, National
Education Association
7:30 p.m. "King Lear,"
Stephens College Playhouse
'
- See Sunday's Vibrations
magazine for exhibit schedule
Movie listings on page IS
Insight
Why was
porno trial
in Kansas?
Publisher claims
Nixon conspiracy
By Hoeil Warren
Associated Press Writer
KANSAS CITY, Kan. "The next
trial will be in Saudi Arabia," said
Alvin Goldstein, the 41-year-- old, 285-pou- nd
New Yorker who hit a pot of gold
in publishing two erotic tabloids.
It was the first shot in a renewal of
the flamboyant propaganda campaign
he has waged since Fall 1974 against the
federal government's effort to send him
to jail or at least fine him for sending
obscene matter through the mails.
He fired the shot a few minutes after
nine jurors who wanted to acquit him
gave up trying to win over three who
insisted his Screw and Smutpapers are
obscene. The resulting mistrial, after
almost three days of jury deliberation,
removed for the time being the
possibility that Goldstein could be
sentenced to as much as 60 years in jail
and fined up to $65,000.
Would the government again go after
Goldstein, James L. Buckley, who is 33
and was Goldstein's partner in 1974,
and their Milky Way Productions Inc.
of New York?
It won convictions against them at
Wichita, Kan., on June 18, 1975. after a
' four-wee-k trialr-fe- ut Judge Frank G,-The- is
overturned that verdict on
grounds a prosecutor's final argument
was inflammatory.
Ben Burgess, the quiet young
assistant U. S. Attorney who prosecuted
the second trial, said the fact eight
jurors were for acquittal almost from
the start of deliberations was not
particularly significant.
- He will make a recommendation to
his boss within two weeks or so and they
will consult with the Department of
Justice in Washington before deciding
whether to proceed.
: Burgess also alluded to the possibility
of some plea bargaining. At one point, it
was apparent Goldstein was willing to
plead guilty and pay fines if no one had
to go to prison.
Goldstein's instant reaction that the
government would go to a third trial fits
into his contention that he is the target
of a conspiracy which was hatched in
theftixon White House.
He was on the White House "enemies
list" not for the pornographic pictures
and lascivious language he published,
he contends, but for the sprinkling
among them of political criticism and
an echoing of the plaint that the war in
! Vietnam was obscene.
Defense lawyers were able to trace to
! ' Washington, but not to the White House,
the decision to prosecute the publishers
and to prosecute them in Kansas
! which Goldstein forthwith likened to
Nazi Germany.
Rayfield P. Lombardi, veteran postal
inspector in New York, engineered the
construction of the chain of evidence.
He sent application forms, money
orders and instructions to postal em-ployees
at Salina, Lawrence, Hut-chinson
and Pratt, Kan., having them
subscribe to the two tabloids. Copies
they received were returned unopened
(See JUDGE'S, Page 11)
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70th Year No. 56 Gmnl Morning! It's Saturday Nov. 19. 1 977
Sadat may ask Israel to withdraw
By United Press International
Egypt's ambassador to the United States said
Friday Egyptian President Anwar Sadat will call
for total Israeli withdrawal from the occupied
territories and the establishment of an Arab
Palestinian state on the West Bank in his address
to the Israeli parliament.
Ambassador Ashraf Ghorbal spoke to reporters
after a 30-minu- te talk with Secretary of State
Cyrus Vance in which they discussed the Sadat
trip.
"The president has indicated that he'll explain
to. the representatives of Israel that it is in the
interest of Israel to have peace with justice in the
area," Ghorbal said.
He said Sadat would also tell the Knesset that
"we all could live in peace with the Jewish state of
Israel."
Ghorbal said be and Vance "emphasized the
positive" in their meeting and "we all share the
same prayer for the success of this historic
mission."
Meanwhile, Egyptian flags fluttered over Israel
Friday. Banks traded in Egyptian pounds and
telephone calls to Cairo were completed. An ar-med
force of 10,000 men stood on street corners,
rooftops and highways to protect the man once
regarded as Israel's greatest foe.
Israel labored until the start of the Sabbath to
give Egyptian President Anwar Sadat a hero's
welcome. Tel Aviv's city hall was decked out with
a "Welcome Sadat" sign written in Hebrew.
A 60-m- an Egyptian delegation headed by
Hassan Kamel, the director of Sadat's cabinet,
was greeted by cheers on arriving Friday to make
ftnal arrangements for Sadat's 36-ho-ur visit to the
Holy City of Jerusalem starting Saturday and to be
highlighted by an address to the Israeli parliament
Sunday.
A crowd of several hundred spectators, in-cluding
Israeli El Al airline employees, stood on
the observation deck of Lod airport terminal and
burst into applause as the Boeing 737 jetliner, with
the words "Arab Republic of Egypt" painted in
black on its silver fuselage, drew to a stop.
In the background, airport workers hammered
on a hastily-bui- lt two-ti- er grandstand to hold 1,000
newsmen arriving for the visit.
"Thank you, thank you," Kamel said to Israeli
officials at his side. Eliahu Ben-Eliss- ar, top aide to
Israeli Prime Minister Menahem Begin, led the
greeting committee.
Border police vans lined the runways upon the
(See EGYPTIAN, Page 11)
Arabs react with violence to Sadat trip
From our wire services
Angry Arab students stormed the Egyptian
embassy in Athens Friday and a powerful ex-plosion
tore apart Egypt's embassy in Beirut in '
mounting violence against President Anwar
Sadat's trip to Jerusalem this weekend.
One Egyptian diplomat was killed and at least 19
persons wounded in the two incidents.
Saudi Arabia, a moderate Arab state and
Egypt's most powerful ally in the Middle East,
joined the criticism of Sadat's unprecedented and
historic trip to Israel to appeal directly to the
Israeli parliament for peace.
In Beirut, a powerful blast ripped through the
first floor of the heavily-guarde- d Egyptian em-bassy
near a Palestinian refugee camp, killing one
unidentified diplomat and wounding at least four
soldiers, officials said.
Conflicting reports said the blast was caused by
either a bomb or a mortar fired from an un-determined
location.
In Athens, Arab students attacked the Egyptian
embassy but were driven off by gunfire from in-side
the building and tear gas fired by police, a
police spokesman said.
Police said 15 persons were injured, including
two policemen and two bystanders, in the melee,
which lasted nearly two hours. One of the injured
students was reported to be in critical condition.
The attackers used a garage entrance to get i
inside the embassy grounds, where embassy '
staffers firing from the windows held them at bay
with gunfire until police armed with tear gas were
given permission to enter the grounds, a police '
spokesman said.
Some 60 students, identified as "mostly Iraqis 1
and Jordanians," were arrested.
A spokesman for the Arab League security force I
in Beirut, which is composed of mostly Syrian
officers and soldiers, said the embassy blast was
caused by a "mortar fired from a long distance.' '
But witnesses disputed this, noting the embassy
is situated on a narrow street and surrounded by
taller buildings.
"There was an enormous blast," said a resident
rf the building directly opposite the embassy.
'There was shooting all over the place. It was like
i war had broken out," said the resident, Roula
Paris.
There was no immediate indication who was
See DIPLOMAT, Page 11)
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Bella Abzug, National. Women's Conference
chairman, helps carry the International
Women's Year torch to the Houston Convention
Center on the last leg of a run that began in
UPItcfcpbato
Seneca, N.Y., site of the first women's rights
convention in 1848. About 2,000 women carried
the torch from Seneca. Story on Page 2.
Fast-foo- d firm negotiating
City may want land
MlssooriEE staff writer
. Mayor Les Proctor will introduce a
council resolution Monday expressing
the city's interest in land a fast-foo- d
restaurant is negotiating to buy for a
reported $300,000.
Hardee's Hamburgers is negotiating
to buy a lot on the southeast corner of
.Providence Road and Locust Street to
iByDbuaildnRaayrestaurant and an office building. The land belongs to the estate
of the late Jimmie Proctor, a distant
cousin of Mayor Proctor.
:-- The property is in Fiat Branch, the
area bounded by Providence Road,
Stewart Road, Fifth Street and
Broadway. The city is looking into
trays to fund redevelopment in the
r..w:Ptoctor,cal)sa "blighted
part of town."
A proposal being developed for the
area by former Mayor Bob Pugh in-cludes
a convention center, high-ris-e
apartments, office space, shops, a
multi-lev- el parking garage and a
pedestrian parkway along the Missouri-Kansas-Tex- as
railroad right-of-wa-y,
which the dty is negotiating to buy.
Money for the land, which would
become, a part of' the total project,
would come from the city's public
improvement fund.
Proctor said bis resolution, which
rails for a public bearing on the
proposed purchase by the dty, is. to
indicate the dty's interest in the area,
and "not to scare them (Hardee's) off.
They have a perfect tight to purchase
thatproperty.
"It makes sense to let all parties
know" --that the dty may want to pur-chase
the property, he said. "Since it's
still up in the air, we should indicate to
their corporation that this property is
being considered" for purchase.
Proctor said he called Hardee's
corporate headquarters to inform the
company of the dty's interest in the
property.
If the council approves Proctor's
resolution, a public hearing would be
held on Jan. 16.
. In related action Monday night, the
council will appoint five members to
the inactive iiand Clearance for ,
Redeveloproent Authority. This group
would draw up a land-us- e plan for the '
Flat Branch .area add would have
power? to acquire .land through pur-chase,
vcondemnation or threat of
condemnation. ''"--' '
UMKC's Russell
attacks budget
By Sara Thomasson and Jeff Gordon
Missourian staff writers
KANSAS CITY The economic
crisis facing the University was once
again the major subplot at the Board of
Curators meeting Friday.
However, this time a new character
took the stage in the continuing drama
of spiraling inflation and limited
resources.
In his first address to the curators,
George Russell, recently appointed
chancellor of the University of Missouri
at Kansas City, said his campus's
facilities are "totally inadequate" to
meet its educational needs.
The phrase "totally inadequate" was
used often by both Russell and
University President James Olson
while discussing Universitywide
physical facilities.
Russell said the Kansas City campus
facilities are insufficient for the size of
the student body and "that does not
lead to good morale or anything but
problems.
"Stress and morale of faculty are
further exacerbated by low salaries.
They are not competitive with the
campus from where I came. It is a
severe problem."
Russell was appointed chancellor last
month after serving as vice chancellor
of research at the University of Illinois
in Champaign-Urban- a.
He warned that lack of financial
support will "produce negative results
that will be felt for decades." Quoting
an old Broadway tune about Kansas
City, he said the University has "gone
about as far as it can go" in com-promising
its academic excellence.
"It is a sham and insult to intelligent
people to say tbay wiH get a 10 percent
raise and then reduce the general
budget by 2 or 3 percent."
In the general operating budget for
the next fiscal year, Olson has placed
top priority on a 10 percent increase in
the salary base for faculty and staff
but will cut the general budget by $4.5
million.
While faculty and staff will benefit
from the salary increase, the overall
budget cut will eliminate positions, said
Russell.
Russell was particularly upset about
poor office space for the history
department half of which is in old
residential buildings.
The problem is not unique to Kansas
City. At last month's board meeting,
Chancellor Herbert Schooling cited the
poor facilities in residential structures
(See PROJECTS, Page 14)
Loop, sick from birth,
buried; age 6 months
The Downtown Loop died Friday
after an illness that lasted its entire life.
It would have been six months old next
week.
The Loop was conceived in 1974 by the
Planning and Zoning Commission and
consultants Hare and Hare as part of
the Central Area Plan.
During its short life, the Loop saw
many changes. Parking places were
removed, a parking lot was added.
Signs and traffic signals were put up.
Parts of some traffic islands were
removed.
Some say the Loop had hardly been
given a chance to show its colors
(mainly no-parki- ng yellow) before the
changes were made.
Survivors include four concrete
islands and a traffic light timing
system that thinks the Loop is still
visible and mandatory.
The Loop was preceded in death by
the Wayland-We- ir plan, the Hank
Waters Loop, the 9-- 5 loop, and the Elm
Street Trafficway. Especially dear to
the Loop were Loop de Loop shopping
days and the Downtown Broadway
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, Lori Schranz, left, and Karin Gffliland are one of the premier
- women's doubles foosball teams in the country .
Foshall
fanatics
It was not all fun and games at the
recent World Championship Foos
Festival in St. Louis. Foosball
aficionados fought fatigue, sweaty
palms and aching musdes to win a
share of the $250,000 in prize money.
Vibrations celebrates
Thanksgiving this week by talking
turkey and showing how the
domestic birds can be a peck of
troubles for their owners.
If you've been following the Rams,
you probably know they signed on a I
new player this fall. She's eight
. years old and her goal was to play
football for the Rams in Columbia's
Mighty Mite football league. Read
about her success In Sunday's
. Vibrations magazine . in the
. Columbia Missourian.