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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.
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' 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.
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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
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