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Iranian militants refuse to see Waldheim From our wire services

TEHRAN U. N. Secretary General Kurt

Waldheim encountered frustrations Wednesday

in his mission to find common ground with Iran

for a solution to the crisis that has developed

over the American diplomats held hostage

here.

A spokesman for the militants who have oc-cupied

the U. S. Embassy since Nov. 4 asserted

Wednesday night that they would not see Wald-heim

and would allow him access to the hos-tages

only if Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini,

Iran's spiritual and political leader, approved.

The afternoon newspaper Kayhan quoted an un-identified

member of the ruling Revolutionary

Council as insisting that Khomeini would. not re-ceive

the secretary general.

Waldheim, who arrived in Tehran Tuesday,

met for two hours and 50 minutes Wednesday

morning with Foreign Minister Sadegh Ghotb- zade- h

in a wide- rangi- ng session that included a

lengthy airing of Iranian grievances against the

United States and the United Nations.

A statement issued after

their meeting said that the otSmL

two men had " a useful pre-- fiKsjRJSIS'

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and planned to continue talk-- '

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they never discussed the r

American hostages.

Wednesday night, Ghotbzadeh abruptly an-nounced

that a plot against Waldheim had been

uncovered and thwarted, causing the cancella-tion

of his afternoon program. For this reason,

the foreign minister said. Waldheim's future

activities here would be carried out without

prior announcement.

Wednesday afternoon, Waldheim had been

scheduled to visit an exhibit of alleged atroci-ties

under the deposed shah, set up in a former

military officers club. The visit was called off

after about 1,500 shouting demonstrators wav-ing

placards and clenched fists were massed m

front of the building.

The evident purpose of Waldheim's delicate

mission is not to press for the release of the hos-tages,

which would be unlikely in any case, but

rather to establish a relationship of confidence

with the Khomeini regime so that it will be will-ing

to accept the good offices of the United Na-tions

in resolving the matter.

During his visit, Waldheim and his hosts have

been careful to speak of " fact- findin- g" rather

than " negotiation," though the plight of the

American hostages, in their 60th day of captivi-ty

Wednesday, is an unspoken ingredient. Wald-heim

has also distanced himself from the re

cent Security Council resolution that threatens

economic sanctions against Iran if it does not

release the hostages by Jan. 7.

Since his arrival, Waldheim has been con-fronted

with a complaint, whichwas voiced

again by Ghotbzadeh Wednesday morning, that

the United Nations did nothing to stop the op-pression

of the shah's regime and has become

concerned only now that the United States is

protesting the treatment of its diplomats here.

According to Ghotbzadeh " the superpowers

and their satellites continue their sordid ma-neuvers

to manipulate the U. N. machinery for

their own ends." Waldheim has also been at-tacked

personally in the Tehran press for his

diplomatic contacts with the shah's regime.

The morning newspaper of the Islamic Re-public

Party loyal to Khomeini Wednesday pub-lished

an old photograph of Waldheim shaking

hands with the shah, who was portrayed with

the Star of David superimposed on his face.

Concerning Iran's domestic affairs press re-ports

state that four more persons have been

executed by firing squads on orders from Is-lamic

revolutionary courts here tnree for

armed robbery and one for rape.

The executions brought to 693 the total of

those killed by firing squads since the over-throw

of Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi's re-gime

in February- -

Meanwhile, in Beirut, Lebanon, an Iranian

religious leader said thousands of volunteers

from his country will soon make their way to

southern Lebanon to fight alongside Palestinian

guerrillas against Israel .

Hojatoleslam Mohammed Montazin declared

at a news conference that determination by the

Lebanese government to bar Iranian volun-teers

will not deter them from getting to the

border area with Israel.

Science use

improving

police work

Lt. Kenneth Miller of the Missouri

State Highway Patrol Crime Lab in

Jefferson City says there are at least

40 different categories of crimes the

laboratory investigates.

The use of science in police work is

an ever- expandin- g, ever- growi- ng field

in today's society where increased

technology makes its use practical and

efficient in conducting police investiga-tions.

This article, the first in a three- pa- rt

series discussing the practical applica-tions

of science in maintaining the city

This report on the use of science in the

operation of the city of Colombia was

written by Shawn Baitfarop, Lauren

Brannan, Bobbie Hcttenhower and

Merrie Morris of tbe Colombia Missoo- rian'- s

special team oc science.

of Columbia, examines the realm of po-lice

science forensic chemistry,

tests and methodology and the use of

relatively inexpensive equipment. The

second article will examine the use of

science by the fire department.

" Drugs and narcotics violations

make up 47 percent of the investiga-tions

the crime labs conduct," Lt. Mill-er

says. This figure reflects conditions

throughout the state. Weapons charges

are the second highest incidence of in-vestigation,

making up 10 percent of all

police probes.

Lt. Miller says the field of police sci- en- ce

is expanding due to increases in

population, increases in the incidence

of crime and expansions in technology

( See TECHNOLOGY, Page 12A)

In fewi today

9 a. m. Boone County Court meets,

County- Cit- y Building, fifth floor.

7: 30 p. m. Board of Commissioners of

the Columbia Housing Authority, Pa- qu- in

Tower Recration Room, 1201 Pa- quin- St.

Thirteen- year- ol- d Angela Harris, of Birming-ham,

Ala., glides on her new rollerskates under

the entrance gates at Legion Field, site of the

. Cliff Sctaappa

Hall of Fame Bowl. Missouri, ranked 20th by

United Press International, beat currently un- rank- ed

South Carolina 24- 1- 4 in the bowl game.

Mideast conflicts fuel

ever- risin- g gold prices

LONDON ( UPI) The rumble of

Russian tanks in Afghanistan sent

gold speculators scrambling into

world bullion markets Wednesday

and the price soared $ 35 an ounce to

a record $ 559.50 in London. Econo-mists

predicted the 5600 harrier

would be breached in " a matter of

days."

I " Tbe growing tensions between

the US. and Russia over Soviet

troops in Afghanistan, the escalat-ing

cost of ou and its isspsct on the

dollar, plus the unresolved situation

of the American hostages in Iran,

all contributed to the massive move

into the precious metal Wednes-day,"

a dealer for bullion brokers

Sharps Pixley said.

A Paris dealer for the firm of

Jean- Clau- de Melendes also attrib-uted

gold's continuing price surge

to problems in the Middle East.

" The markets are watching the

United States being trampled by the

Soviet Union. What happens in Pa-kistan

will be very important If

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there are clashes on the Afghan- Pakist- an

border and the U. S. contin-ues

to retreat, the market for gold

will go crazy."

In Paris, panic buying on the do-mestic

gold market drove the price

up to a record $ 581 before Bank of

France officials stepped in and

halted trading. A dealer from the

Paris firm of Hayaux Du Tilly pre-dicted

tbe shutdown would lead to

even more panic

" The decision by the Bank of

France to stop selling gold was bad-ly

done. The decision will reach the

provinces and prompt small inves-tors

to panic. They wiD now want to

buy gold an effect paradoxical to

the bank's intention.

A top banker said recently,

" There will be few people around

this year who will scoff at predic-tions

about the future price of gold.

As the world heads deeper into re-cession,

it must seem the sky is the

limit on how far the price can go

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ILN. may meet

on Afghanistan

From our wire services

The U. N. Security Council is ex-pected

to hold an urgent meeting, per-haps

as soon as Friday, to consider a

demand for the wititdrawal of Soviet

troops from Afghanistan.

A draft of a letter calling for the

meeting was circulating at the United

Nations Wednesday. Its supporters ex-pected

, to have a least 20 signatures

from jsiem and other Third World

nations as well as Western European

representatives.

The letter is due to be handed to the

TsountaPs isew president, Jacques Lep- iBtt- e

of France, on Thursday.

Meanwhile, these other devel-opments

in the Afghan situation oc-curred

Wednesday :

v No matter what the political tem-perature

is between East and West.

Lord Kilianin, president of the Interna-tional

Olympic Committee, made clear

Wednesday the 1980 games in Moscow

will go ahead s planned.

In a statement from his home m

Dublin, Kilianin said everybody should

remember that " the athletes come

first" at the Olympic Games and no po-litical

pressures should be imposed on

them not to compete.

The idea of a boycott in response to '

the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan was

mentioned at an emergency session of

the NATO council in Brussels on New

Year's Day.

v BabraK Karmal, making his first

public appearance in Afghanistan

since gaining power last week in a

coup, appealed to the people of his

country to " come together and support

our glorious revolution," the Kabul ra-dio

reported Wednesday.

" Resistance by the enemies of Af-ghanistan

will be overcome by the

forces of patriotism," Karmal de-clared,

addressing government leaders

at a meeting in an old palace just out-side

Kabul.

Jamiat Islami guerrillas and re-bel

army officers have freed the north-western

Afghan city of Herat from So-viet

occupation, according to Afghan

exile sources in Iran.

- Ten thousand crack Soviet troops,

backed by heavy armor and war- plane- s,

Wednesday launched an all- o- ut

offensive against Moslem insurgents

south of the Afghan capital of Kabul,

the news agency Press Trust of India

reported.

As the fighting continued in Afghani-stan,

the United Nation readied itself

for a possible meeting on the invasion

of Russian troops.

Even those nations most strongly be--

Pakistaa wants T3. S. aid. See analysis,

Page5A.

hind the urgent meeting were reluctant

to identify the key backers of the

move. There was what amounted to an

agreement to give the create the great-est

possible appearance of having

sprung spontaneously from an out-raged

world.

Western and Third World envoys

who want to air the Afghanistan issue

agreed that the Soviet Union could use

its power in the council to veto, any res-olution

but may avoid doing so to pre-vent

embarassment in the eyes of the

world. The resolution is not likely to

name Moscow directly and simply de-mand

the removal of foreign troops.

In Washington, President Carter

called back the U. S. ambassador to

Moscow for consultations and sum-moned

the National Security Council to

an afternoon meeting, citing a " serious

threat to peace" posed by the invasion.

The State Department said that

among the things being considered as

response to the Soviet invasion was

" the relationship between the United

States and the Afghan government."

The statement appeared to indicate

that the administration is considering

a break in relations with the Kabul re-gime.

The Soviet army's involvement in

Afghanistan's battle against Moslem

insurgents grew another degree

Wednesday, according to Indian news

agency reports. It reported that a Sovi-et

armored division rolled out of Kabul

before dawn, heading for a showdown

with anti- Commun- ist Moslem rebel

( See KARMAL, Page 14A)

Housing agency faces judgment

By Terry Home

Missourian staff writer

Orion Gene Nettles used to chase

Paul Rievley out of his shoe repair

store for feeding pieces of hotdog to

Big Boy. Rievley was just a kid then

and Big Boy was Nettle's pet piranha.

Rievley grew up, the fish died and

Orlcn Gene Nettles retired from the

shoe repair business when his emphy-sema

and chronic bronchitis kicked up

Ave years ago. Today Netties spends

most of his time lying down. The clear

tube connecting him to a large green

oxygen tank doesn't reach very far.

In October, Rievley and Nettle were

reacquainted. Boone County con-tracted

with the Housing Development

Agency of Mid- Misso- uri to repair

Nettles' home, on Route 8, and bring it

up to the standards required by the De-partment

of Housing and Urban Devel-opment.

Rievley is the KDAMM construction

foreman who worked on Nettle's home.

" When a strong wind was blowing,

there weren't a curtain that didn't

move," Nettles recalled.

Bis five- roo- m house was the second

to be rehabilitated by HDAMM. The

county's grant application to Depart-ment

of Housing and Urban Devel-opment

called for 30 houses to be reha-bilitated.

The money came through in

April, but so far not even Nettle's

house has been officially stamped com-pleted.

Troubles abound.

Only recently has the county gotten

ahead of the HDAMM crew in applica-tions

from owners or landlords of

houses to be rehabilitated.

And for the past two weeks, Mid- Mis- so- un

Council of Governments, which

administers the HUD grant for the"

county, has been investigating

HDAMMs charges for the five or six

houses it has worked on.

Northern District Judge Dick Farm-er

and County Clerk Chris Kelly both

said the HDAMM billings were only the

accounting errors of an agency still

getting its feet wet.

HDAMM began as 3 spinoff of the

Human Development Corp. in Feb-ruary.

However, Presiding Judge Bill

Freeh is not ready to dismiss these er-rors

and is reserving judgement until

HDAMM appears before the court to-day.

If the errors continue, " We won't do

business with them," Freeh said.

After meetings with HDAMM and

Deputy Clerk Stephanie Martin

Wednesday, MMCOG Executive Direc-tor

Jeanne Lineberry said the county

might amend its contract to renego-tiate

the way HDAMM's administra-tive

costs are paxd.

Although HDAMM has withdrawn its

incorrect biHings for ineligible items

and its double billings, Ms. Lineberry

said $ 200 still remained that was " ei-ther

a labor expense or a start- u- p type

expense."

Meanwhile, the cost of rehabilitating

houses continues to climb.

The county allotted $ 4,100 for each

house when it applied to HUD in 1978.

Today, that figure eliminates from

consideration some homes in need of

repair.

" Unfortunately, we're up in the

neighborhood of $ 7,000 to $ 9,000," said

Richard Thayer, acting executive di-rector

of HDAMM.

HDAMM is now working on a hiuse

that will cost the county $ 200 more than

its limit. But the county's community

development committee felt it was ei-ther

spend the extra money or pay

HDAMM's crew to sit idle, said Co- Chairm- an

Raymond Morris.

The committee has now approved

seven bouses for rehabilitation. Two

have been completed.

By contrast, the city allocated $ 4,500

to $ 5,000 for each house and since

March 1, 30 of the 48 allotted houses

have been completed, said Neighbor-hood

Improvement Director Pat Daug- hert- y.

And the city only uses private con-tractors.

HUD regulations do not require the

county to contract with HDAMM, and

Freeh said the county might consider

private contractors if the billing prob-lems

are not straightened out.

But to be fair, there are reasons both

for and against using HDAMM or pri-vate

contractors. Although the- co- st

may oe comparable " it gets to be a

philosophical thing," said Thayer.

Other towns and cities in the eight- coun- ty

region served by HDAMM have

reached different conclusions.

Hallsville, Rocheport and Columbia

all elected to use private contraefGra.

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( See TWO, Page MA)