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-.-- - ..: t rue v.- - cisty . : . i-- r .' 7. ,- E-RV C- L'J'J-jI.' i, a.. 65211 75thYear No. 268 Good Morning! It's Tuesday, July 26, 1983 2 Sections 1 2 Pages 25 Cents Swim time Mike Waid, an instructor at the Macher Swim SchooLat Columbia College, helps Toni Hart, 7, daughter of Jamie and Donnie Hart, as she attempts an elementary backstroke, above. At right, Jean Macher helps Patrick King, 3, son of Michael and Linda King, 1930 Jackson St., into the pool as Mark Long, center, and Matt Papino await their turns. Latin Embry - -- , N. -- ''- -- feci v xfiaffiaF ... , yZMgBSa. agBBBgsEg ' Vietnam type of crisis9 WASHINGTON ( UPI ) - As cnt voiced concern about deepening U. S. involvement in Central America, Henry Kissinger said Monday the presidential commission he heads will seek to avert a nationally divi-sive " Vietnam type of crisis." President Reagan and Kissinger discussed how the 12- mem- ber com-mission named last week will recom-mend ways to ease the economic and social ills that underlie troubles in the hemisphere. But the public stress on non- mili- ta- ry solutions to what Reagan has termed " the first real communist aggression on the American mam- land- " was offset by a growing con-troversy over military exercises in the area and a new report of plans to step up paramilitary activity against Nicaragua. The New York Times reported the administration is planning an expan-sion in CIA- direct- ed operations that would involve " the most extensive covert operations mounted by the United States since the Vietnam war." Reagan scheduled a nationally broadcast news conference for to-night, and aides said hp would prob-ably open with a statement about Central American policy. At the same time, the Pentagon announced U. S. combat troops will join Honduran forces in maneuvers that may involve as many as 4,000 Americans. Navy sources said an eight- shi- p battle group led by the aircraft carrier Ranger has arrived on station 100 miles off the Ce -- al American coast in the first stage ot a U. S. show of naval force in the re-gion " I think it is imperative that we avoid the bitter debate that charac-terized the Vietnam period and also that we avoid the same kind of un-certainty about objectives and what was attainable," Kissinger, who served as secretary of state in the Nixon and Ford administrations, told a news conference at the State Department On Capitol Hill, House Speaker Thomas O'Neill called the adminis-tration's latest moves in Central America " absolutely awful" and " an unneeded show of strength." " It would be inaccurate to say that there isn't a deep anxiety over the current dev elopments and our policy in Central Amenta generally." as-sistant House Democratic leader Thomas Foley . D- Wa- sh . also said While he called the Kissinger com-mission " a positive step" toward forging a needed national consensus, Foley warned the hint of deeper U S military involvement could revive " the Vietnam ana losv " Military escalation could lead to fighting in Central America MANAGUA. Nicaragua ( UPI) One of Nicaragua's rulers accused President Reagan Monday of a " ma-jor military escalation" that could lead to war, in ordering U S warships depbyed off Nicaragua's Atlantic and Pacific coasts. Luis Carrion, one of the nine mem-bers of the Sandinista directorate, said Nicaragua hoped world opinion will hold off a U. S attack but is pre-pared to defend " the fatherland and the revolution." The charge came as Reagan met with special Central American ad-viser Henry Kissinger in the White House amid warnings from cntics against expanding secret CIA opera-tions against the leftist government and making an " unneeded show of strength" in the region. Carrion said the deployment of Amencan warships off Nicaragua is " a major military escalation that could lead to a generalized war in Central Amenca " Last week the U. S. Navy an-nounced that two task forces, includ-ing aircraft earners, are being de-ployed to both the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of Central Amenca and will practice blockade maneu-vers against Nicaragua. " We have made peace offers. Acne drug causes birth defects WASHINGTON ( UPI) - Three women using the new acne drug Ac-cutane during pregancy, despite warnings not to do so, have given birth m recent weeks to deformed babies, the drug's manufacturer said Monday. Hoffman- L- a Roche Inc said that, following reports of severe birth de-fects, it has sent letters to about 500,- 00- 0 doctors and druggists nationwide to remind them that the capsules, which are available only by pre-scription, should not be taken during pregnancy. Spokesmen for the Nutley, N. J., pharmaceutical firm said central nervous system disorders in the three cases were similar to those found earlier and reported during animal studies on the drug. The Food and Drug Administra-tion approved Accutane in May 1982 Spokeswomen for the FDA and Hoffman- L- a Roche said there was no thought of removing the drug from the market. Instead, they said, there will be increased efforts to warn the public against use of the medication during pregnancy. Accutane, a vitamin A denvative, is presenbed for cystic acne, one of the most severe and disfiguring forms of the skin disorder. An esti-mated 360,000 Amencans suffer from the illness. Ever since Accutane went on the market last fall, Hoffrnan- I.- a Roche has warned against use during preg-nancy, citing birth defects in animal experiments The animal studies in-dicated the danger was greatest dur-ing the first trimester of pregnancy Dr. PJ Del Vecchio, the drug firm's director of professional sen-- lce- s, wrote the letter to doctors In the letter, he reiterated the product's package insert warning against use during pregancy. as well as its cautionary note " Should pregnane, octur during treatment, the physician and patient should discuss the desirability of continuing the pregnancy " GTE to get rate hike but less than sought By Jonalyn Schuon Missourian staff writer John Trice, 62, traveled 100 miles from Ava, Mo., to Jefferson City Monday to testify at a General Tele-phone Co. rate increase hearing. The hearing was canceled, but Trice said the trip was worthwhile. " I heard what I came to Jeff City to hear," he said. " Our base month-ly rates aren't going up." Monday's hearing was postponed for four days after Ed Cadieux, the assistant general counsel to the staff of the Missouri Public Service Com-mission, announced that PSC and GTE had reached a settlement Fri-day that recommends a $ 937,003 rate increase for the company les3 than a fifth of the company's origi-nal $ 5.4 million request, but still $ 2 million more than a recent PSC au-dit showed was needed. The audit originally called for a rate decrease of $ 1 million to ( 1.4 million. The increase, scheduled to go into effect in August, probably will be granted largely at the expense of businesses that lease switchboards and terminal equipment provided by the phone company, Cadieux said. Only about $ 13,000 will come from in-creased service charges, he said. ' A restructuring of rates for ex-tended area service will boost Co-lumbians' bills, but Cadieux could not say by how much. EAS allows for non- to- ll calls to areas that would or-dinarily be considered long- distanc- e. Columbians now pay a built- i- n fee for EAS to Ashland and Hallsville, and soon will be paying a bit more for it, Cadieux said. " Installation charges will also in-crease," Cadieux said, " but not by nearly the amount the company was asking for." GTE's original proposal called for a 50 to 100 percent basic monthly in-crease, and a near doubling of instal-lation and equipment charges to res-idents and businesses. GTE officials said the increase is needed to cover the costs of inflation and modernization. Opponents of the increase charge that federal anti- tru- st action is to blame. In 1984 the operating compa-nies of the AT& T system will be-come independent, and local calls no longer will be subsidized by charges for long- distan- ce calls. Local tele-phones will have to be connected with the long- distan- ce networks of AT& T, MCI and other companies, and local and long- distan- ce charges are expected to increase. Trice said he was relieved that the base monthly rates are to remain stable. " A large base increase is what people down in Ava are afraid of. Most of them are on fixed in- - comes," he said. If the base rates leaped by 100 percent, he said, many people would have to give up their phones to pay for food. The compromise figure was reached at pre- hean- ng conferences, where GTE pointed out errors in the PSC audit, Cadieux said. Accounting corrections wiped out the proposed decrease, Cadieux said. The groups then addressed differences in opin-ion as to the real financial needs of the company and came up with the new figure. Cadieux said $ 997,000 was about as low as the commission staff could have expected to whittle GTE's pro-posal. Individuals probably will be allowed to speak at Friday's meet-ing, he said, although the hearing primarily will be for the formal joint recommendation from GTE and PSC staff that the commission adopt the settlement Man leads Utah police to bodies of five dead boys SALT LAKE CITY ( UPI) The bodies of five boys kidnapped during the last five years were found in the Wasatch Mountains Monday by au-thorities led there by statements from a man accused of what officials call the largest mass murder in Utah's history. Assistant Salt Lake County Attor-ney John T. Nielsen said routine questioning of Roger W. Downs, 30, a bookkeeper at a Salt Lake City lum-ber company, Monday about the dis-appearance of a 13- year-- old youth led police to the bodies. He said first- degre- e murder charges would be filed later this week. The county attorney would not say if Downs confessed to the murders. " I did not say he made a confes-sion As a result of talking to him, we were able to determine the location of the graves," Nielsen said. Three of the bodies ere in shal-low graves and two were in a river. The victims were identified as Alonzo Daniels, Salt Lake City, who was 4 when he disappeared Oct. 16, 1979; Kimley Peterson, Sandy, who was 11 when he disappeared Nov. 8, 1980; Danny Davis, Salt Lake Coun-ty, who was 4 when he was abducted from a South Salt Lake supermarket Oct 20, 1981; Troy Ward, Salt Lake City, 6, who vanished June 22; and Graeme Cunningham, 13, Salt Lake City, who disappeared July 14. Nielsen declined to say how the boys were killed. " This is the worst case I can ever remember," said Salt Lake County Sheriff Pete Hayward. " I don't be-lieve we've ever had a case where one person faced capital homicide charges for five murders." Daniels, Davis and Peterson were found buried in shallow graves southeast of Cedar Fort, just west of Utah Lake and about 50 miles south of Salt Lake City. The disappearance of Davis was the third tune in as many years mat a young boy had vanished in the Salt Lake area with-in two weeks of Halloween. The bodies of Ward and Cunning-ham were found in Big Cottonwood Creek, 20 miles southeast of Salt Lake City in the Wasatch Mountains. They both disappeared from the Lib-erty Park area in central Salt Lake City. Nielsen said Downs was acquaint-ed with Cunningham and ifwas the investigation of that relationship that led to the break in the case. " This arrest concludes four years of intensive, combined investigation by the Salt Lake City Police Depart- - , m ment, Salt Lake County Sheriff's Of-fice and South Salt Lake Police De-partment," he said. Detectives had surmised a connec-tion between three of the kidnap-pings because they occurred around Halloween in successive year. The investigations of the kidnap-pings included the hiring of psy-chics, the offering of a $ 20000 award by local businessmen and a statewide child- fingerprinti- ng pro-gram launched by the PTA that in-volved more than 35,000 Utah chil-dren. The frustration also led the Utah State Legislature earlier this year to pass what is considered the toughest child kidnapping law in the nation. The law calls for a minimum of five- yea- rs to life for first- tim- e offenders and escalates to 15- years- to- - ufe for third time offenders. making proposals that . ire m. iture. objective, sennas . in ' t. ilisuc' Carrion said Sunday remomes marking formation os , . onibat battalions " Wo have confidence lh. it sensible and responsible fun es in the world and in the Unitt d . suites c an stop this escalation toward war." he said Carrion echoed sentiments mu'd Sunday by Interior Minister lomjs Borge at ceremonies celebrating the 22nd anniversary of the founding of the Sandinista Natum. il Uberalioii Front Borge is the only sun i or of three original founders of the revolu-tionary mo ement " These hands, the hands ot the people, are prepared to ur. ib a pen to write accords. Borne s. ml But they are also prepared to grab a ri-fle " leftist Nicaragua and Honduras -- a strong U. S ally have exchanged mortar fire across their common border in past weeks, triggering fears the two countries could go to war and bring in U S troops Reagan insists he has no plans to send troops to Central America, and U S opinion polls show most men- can- s are against increased mvolve- men- t in the region Rain gives farmers eight- da- y reprieve By C A. Bnceno and Denlse- Mari- e Santiago Missourian staff writers Area farmers got an eight- da- y reprieve from gloomy crop fore-casts thanks to showers Sunday that dumped almost two inches of ram throughout the county. If the hot, dry penod had con-tinued for another week, corn yields in some parts of Missouri may have dropped by as much as 90 percent, said Zane Helsel, a University agronomist. Despite the ram, the entire corn crop cannot be salvaged, Helsel said He predicts that as much as 10 to 15 percent of the year's out-put already is lost to the unremit-ting sun The reduction translates into one billion fewer bushels from the 6.5 billion earlier pro-jected throughout the nation. It was a timely ram, Helsel said, because it came when a sub-stantial amount of Missouri's corn plants were tasseling, a pen-od in which soil moisture is vital to the formation of corn kernels. Helsel said that not all the state received ram Sunday. He said he called farmers in Kirksville and Ridgeway, located in northern Missoun, and was told it had not rained there. Helsel warned that if it does not rain soon in those dry areas, some of which have not had rain since early July, yields may de-cline 40 to 50 percent and up to 90 percent by the end of the week. Joe Bomgartner, a Boone Coun-ty corn farmer, predicts corn yields from his 140 acres will fall about 25 percent, from 125 bush-els per acre harvested last year to only 80 this year. i. But Bomgartner is predictably happy about Sunday's ram. Had it come any later, he said, " Our corn would have been burnt " The ram, which amounted to 1 64 inches officially at Columbia Regional Airport, wall keep soil moisture in Boone County at the appropnate level for no more than eight to 10 days. Bomgartn- er'- s corn is in good shape for the next few days, he said, but more rain must follow, or " our corn will be in trouble again " Unfortunately, not much rain is in the forecast The National Weather Sen'ice office at the Co-lumbia airport reports that tem-peratures for today and Wednes-day will be about normal with average highs m the upper 80s and lows in the upper 60s. There is Little chance of ram for the next four or five days, said Bart Hagemeyer of the National Weather Service. By then, tem-peratures should be back up to the 90s As for long- ter- m predictions, he said that temperatures will be above normal through August and rain levels will remain below normal. Columbia's five- da- y peak alert, an advisory in which people are asked to use less energy from 2 to 7 p. m., was canceled Fnday, and Raymond Davis, a supervisor for the Columbia Water and Light Department, hopes that tempera-tures remain cooler. " I don't believe we're going to have a peak alert for the next few days," he said " We look in pretty good shape until temperatures get up to 100 degrees. ' ' 1 I
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Item.Transcript | -.-- - ..: t rue v.- - cisty . : . i-- r .' 7. ,- E-RV C- L'J'J-jI.' i, a.. 65211 75thYear No. 268 Good Morning! It's Tuesday, July 26, 1983 2 Sections 1 2 Pages 25 Cents Swim time Mike Waid, an instructor at the Macher Swim SchooLat Columbia College, helps Toni Hart, 7, daughter of Jamie and Donnie Hart, as she attempts an elementary backstroke, above. At right, Jean Macher helps Patrick King, 3, son of Michael and Linda King, 1930 Jackson St., into the pool as Mark Long, center, and Matt Papino await their turns. Latin Embry - -- , N. -- ''- -- feci v xfiaffiaF ... , yZMgBSa. agBBBgsEg ' Vietnam type of crisis9 WASHINGTON ( UPI ) - As cnt voiced concern about deepening U. S. involvement in Central America, Henry Kissinger said Monday the presidential commission he heads will seek to avert a nationally divi-sive " Vietnam type of crisis." President Reagan and Kissinger discussed how the 12- mem- ber com-mission named last week will recom-mend ways to ease the economic and social ills that underlie troubles in the hemisphere. But the public stress on non- mili- ta- ry solutions to what Reagan has termed " the first real communist aggression on the American mam- land- " was offset by a growing con-troversy over military exercises in the area and a new report of plans to step up paramilitary activity against Nicaragua. The New York Times reported the administration is planning an expan-sion in CIA- direct- ed operations that would involve " the most extensive covert operations mounted by the United States since the Vietnam war." Reagan scheduled a nationally broadcast news conference for to-night, and aides said hp would prob-ably open with a statement about Central American policy. At the same time, the Pentagon announced U. S. combat troops will join Honduran forces in maneuvers that may involve as many as 4,000 Americans. Navy sources said an eight- shi- p battle group led by the aircraft carrier Ranger has arrived on station 100 miles off the Ce -- al American coast in the first stage ot a U. S. show of naval force in the re-gion " I think it is imperative that we avoid the bitter debate that charac-terized the Vietnam period and also that we avoid the same kind of un-certainty about objectives and what was attainable," Kissinger, who served as secretary of state in the Nixon and Ford administrations, told a news conference at the State Department On Capitol Hill, House Speaker Thomas O'Neill called the adminis-tration's latest moves in Central America " absolutely awful" and " an unneeded show of strength." " It would be inaccurate to say that there isn't a deep anxiety over the current dev elopments and our policy in Central Amenta generally." as-sistant House Democratic leader Thomas Foley . D- Wa- sh . also said While he called the Kissinger com-mission " a positive step" toward forging a needed national consensus, Foley warned the hint of deeper U S military involvement could revive " the Vietnam ana losv " Military escalation could lead to fighting in Central America MANAGUA. Nicaragua ( UPI) One of Nicaragua's rulers accused President Reagan Monday of a " ma-jor military escalation" that could lead to war, in ordering U S warships depbyed off Nicaragua's Atlantic and Pacific coasts. Luis Carrion, one of the nine mem-bers of the Sandinista directorate, said Nicaragua hoped world opinion will hold off a U. S attack but is pre-pared to defend " the fatherland and the revolution." The charge came as Reagan met with special Central American ad-viser Henry Kissinger in the White House amid warnings from cntics against expanding secret CIA opera-tions against the leftist government and making an " unneeded show of strength" in the region. Carrion said the deployment of Amencan warships off Nicaragua is " a major military escalation that could lead to a generalized war in Central Amenca " Last week the U. S. Navy an-nounced that two task forces, includ-ing aircraft earners, are being de-ployed to both the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of Central Amenca and will practice blockade maneu-vers against Nicaragua. " We have made peace offers. Acne drug causes birth defects WASHINGTON ( UPI) - Three women using the new acne drug Ac-cutane during pregancy, despite warnings not to do so, have given birth m recent weeks to deformed babies, the drug's manufacturer said Monday. Hoffman- L- a Roche Inc said that, following reports of severe birth de-fects, it has sent letters to about 500,- 00- 0 doctors and druggists nationwide to remind them that the capsules, which are available only by pre-scription, should not be taken during pregnancy. Spokesmen for the Nutley, N. J., pharmaceutical firm said central nervous system disorders in the three cases were similar to those found earlier and reported during animal studies on the drug. The Food and Drug Administra-tion approved Accutane in May 1982 Spokeswomen for the FDA and Hoffman- L- a Roche said there was no thought of removing the drug from the market. Instead, they said, there will be increased efforts to warn the public against use of the medication during pregnancy. Accutane, a vitamin A denvative, is presenbed for cystic acne, one of the most severe and disfiguring forms of the skin disorder. An esti-mated 360,000 Amencans suffer from the illness. Ever since Accutane went on the market last fall, Hoffrnan- I.- a Roche has warned against use during preg-nancy, citing birth defects in animal experiments The animal studies in-dicated the danger was greatest dur-ing the first trimester of pregnancy Dr. PJ Del Vecchio, the drug firm's director of professional sen-- lce- s, wrote the letter to doctors In the letter, he reiterated the product's package insert warning against use during pregancy. as well as its cautionary note " Should pregnane, octur during treatment, the physician and patient should discuss the desirability of continuing the pregnancy " GTE to get rate hike but less than sought By Jonalyn Schuon Missourian staff writer John Trice, 62, traveled 100 miles from Ava, Mo., to Jefferson City Monday to testify at a General Tele-phone Co. rate increase hearing. The hearing was canceled, but Trice said the trip was worthwhile. " I heard what I came to Jeff City to hear," he said. " Our base month-ly rates aren't going up." Monday's hearing was postponed for four days after Ed Cadieux, the assistant general counsel to the staff of the Missouri Public Service Com-mission, announced that PSC and GTE had reached a settlement Fri-day that recommends a $ 937,003 rate increase for the company les3 than a fifth of the company's origi-nal $ 5.4 million request, but still $ 2 million more than a recent PSC au-dit showed was needed. The audit originally called for a rate decrease of $ 1 million to ( 1.4 million. The increase, scheduled to go into effect in August, probably will be granted largely at the expense of businesses that lease switchboards and terminal equipment provided by the phone company, Cadieux said. Only about $ 13,000 will come from in-creased service charges, he said. ' A restructuring of rates for ex-tended area service will boost Co-lumbians' bills, but Cadieux could not say by how much. EAS allows for non- to- ll calls to areas that would or-dinarily be considered long- distanc- e. Columbians now pay a built- i- n fee for EAS to Ashland and Hallsville, and soon will be paying a bit more for it, Cadieux said. " Installation charges will also in-crease," Cadieux said, " but not by nearly the amount the company was asking for." GTE's original proposal called for a 50 to 100 percent basic monthly in-crease, and a near doubling of instal-lation and equipment charges to res-idents and businesses. GTE officials said the increase is needed to cover the costs of inflation and modernization. Opponents of the increase charge that federal anti- tru- st action is to blame. In 1984 the operating compa-nies of the AT& T system will be-come independent, and local calls no longer will be subsidized by charges for long- distan- ce calls. Local tele-phones will have to be connected with the long- distan- ce networks of AT& T, MCI and other companies, and local and long- distan- ce charges are expected to increase. Trice said he was relieved that the base monthly rates are to remain stable. " A large base increase is what people down in Ava are afraid of. Most of them are on fixed in- - comes," he said. If the base rates leaped by 100 percent, he said, many people would have to give up their phones to pay for food. The compromise figure was reached at pre- hean- ng conferences, where GTE pointed out errors in the PSC audit, Cadieux said. Accounting corrections wiped out the proposed decrease, Cadieux said. The groups then addressed differences in opin-ion as to the real financial needs of the company and came up with the new figure. Cadieux said $ 997,000 was about as low as the commission staff could have expected to whittle GTE's pro-posal. Individuals probably will be allowed to speak at Friday's meet-ing, he said, although the hearing primarily will be for the formal joint recommendation from GTE and PSC staff that the commission adopt the settlement Man leads Utah police to bodies of five dead boys SALT LAKE CITY ( UPI) The bodies of five boys kidnapped during the last five years were found in the Wasatch Mountains Monday by au-thorities led there by statements from a man accused of what officials call the largest mass murder in Utah's history. Assistant Salt Lake County Attor-ney John T. Nielsen said routine questioning of Roger W. Downs, 30, a bookkeeper at a Salt Lake City lum-ber company, Monday about the dis-appearance of a 13- year-- old youth led police to the bodies. He said first- degre- e murder charges would be filed later this week. The county attorney would not say if Downs confessed to the murders. " I did not say he made a confes-sion As a result of talking to him, we were able to determine the location of the graves," Nielsen said. Three of the bodies ere in shal-low graves and two were in a river. The victims were identified as Alonzo Daniels, Salt Lake City, who was 4 when he disappeared Oct. 16, 1979; Kimley Peterson, Sandy, who was 11 when he disappeared Nov. 8, 1980; Danny Davis, Salt Lake Coun-ty, who was 4 when he was abducted from a South Salt Lake supermarket Oct 20, 1981; Troy Ward, Salt Lake City, 6, who vanished June 22; and Graeme Cunningham, 13, Salt Lake City, who disappeared July 14. Nielsen declined to say how the boys were killed. " This is the worst case I can ever remember," said Salt Lake County Sheriff Pete Hayward. " I don't be-lieve we've ever had a case where one person faced capital homicide charges for five murders." Daniels, Davis and Peterson were found buried in shallow graves southeast of Cedar Fort, just west of Utah Lake and about 50 miles south of Salt Lake City. The disappearance of Davis was the third tune in as many years mat a young boy had vanished in the Salt Lake area with-in two weeks of Halloween. The bodies of Ward and Cunning-ham were found in Big Cottonwood Creek, 20 miles southeast of Salt Lake City in the Wasatch Mountains. They both disappeared from the Lib-erty Park area in central Salt Lake City. Nielsen said Downs was acquaint-ed with Cunningham and ifwas the investigation of that relationship that led to the break in the case. " This arrest concludes four years of intensive, combined investigation by the Salt Lake City Police Depart- - , m ment, Salt Lake County Sheriff's Of-fice and South Salt Lake Police De-partment," he said. Detectives had surmised a connec-tion between three of the kidnap-pings because they occurred around Halloween in successive year. The investigations of the kidnap-pings included the hiring of psy-chics, the offering of a $ 20000 award by local businessmen and a statewide child- fingerprinti- ng pro-gram launched by the PTA that in-volved more than 35,000 Utah chil-dren. The frustration also led the Utah State Legislature earlier this year to pass what is considered the toughest child kidnapping law in the nation. The law calls for a minimum of five- yea- rs to life for first- tim- e offenders and escalates to 15- years- to- - ufe for third time offenders. making proposals that . ire m. iture. objective, sennas . in ' t. ilisuc' Carrion said Sunday remomes marking formation os , . onibat battalions " Wo have confidence lh. it sensible and responsible fun es in the world and in the Unitt d . suites c an stop this escalation toward war." he said Carrion echoed sentiments mu'd Sunday by Interior Minister lomjs Borge at ceremonies celebrating the 22nd anniversary of the founding of the Sandinista Natum. il Uberalioii Front Borge is the only sun i or of three original founders of the revolu-tionary mo ement " These hands, the hands ot the people, are prepared to ur. ib a pen to write accords. Borne s. ml But they are also prepared to grab a ri-fle " leftist Nicaragua and Honduras -- a strong U. S ally have exchanged mortar fire across their common border in past weeks, triggering fears the two countries could go to war and bring in U S troops Reagan insists he has no plans to send troops to Central America, and U S opinion polls show most men- can- s are against increased mvolve- men- t in the region Rain gives farmers eight- da- y reprieve By C A. Bnceno and Denlse- Mari- e Santiago Missourian staff writers Area farmers got an eight- da- y reprieve from gloomy crop fore-casts thanks to showers Sunday that dumped almost two inches of ram throughout the county. If the hot, dry penod had con-tinued for another week, corn yields in some parts of Missouri may have dropped by as much as 90 percent, said Zane Helsel, a University agronomist. Despite the ram, the entire corn crop cannot be salvaged, Helsel said He predicts that as much as 10 to 15 percent of the year's out-put already is lost to the unremit-ting sun The reduction translates into one billion fewer bushels from the 6.5 billion earlier pro-jected throughout the nation. It was a timely ram, Helsel said, because it came when a sub-stantial amount of Missouri's corn plants were tasseling, a pen-od in which soil moisture is vital to the formation of corn kernels. Helsel said that not all the state received ram Sunday. He said he called farmers in Kirksville and Ridgeway, located in northern Missoun, and was told it had not rained there. Helsel warned that if it does not rain soon in those dry areas, some of which have not had rain since early July, yields may de-cline 40 to 50 percent and up to 90 percent by the end of the week. Joe Bomgartner, a Boone Coun-ty corn farmer, predicts corn yields from his 140 acres will fall about 25 percent, from 125 bush-els per acre harvested last year to only 80 this year. i. But Bomgartner is predictably happy about Sunday's ram. Had it come any later, he said, " Our corn would have been burnt " The ram, which amounted to 1 64 inches officially at Columbia Regional Airport, wall keep soil moisture in Boone County at the appropnate level for no more than eight to 10 days. Bomgartn- er'- s corn is in good shape for the next few days, he said, but more rain must follow, or " our corn will be in trouble again " Unfortunately, not much rain is in the forecast The National Weather Sen'ice office at the Co-lumbia airport reports that tem-peratures for today and Wednes-day will be about normal with average highs m the upper 80s and lows in the upper 60s. There is Little chance of ram for the next four or five days, said Bart Hagemeyer of the National Weather Service. By then, tem-peratures should be back up to the 90s As for long- ter- m predictions, he said that temperatures will be above normal through August and rain levels will remain below normal. Columbia's five- da- y peak alert, an advisory in which people are asked to use less energy from 2 to 7 p. m., was canceled Fnday, and Raymond Davis, a supervisor for the Columbia Water and Light Department, hopes that tempera-tures remain cooler. " I don't believe we're going to have a peak alert for the next few days," he said " We look in pretty good shape until temperatures get up to 100 degrees. ' ' 1 I |