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Voters to decide Flat Branch, New Haven issues
By Shawn Baltlwop
Missourian staff writer
The issues have been related, debated arid
elaborated.
Columbia voters will decide today the fate cf
the $ 31.5 million Flat Branch redevelopment
project, and will fill two seats on the Columbia
Board of Education.
Voters In the New Haven School District will
decide Wiistho to. continue as an autonomous
school district or request annexation into the
Columbia School District The polls opened at 6
a. m. and will close at 7 p. m.
Boone County Clerk Chris Kelly said Monday
he expects a relatively heavy voter turnout.
There are about 41,000 registered voters in the
dry. " If 25 percent of the people vote in the
city, that would be a heavy turnout," he said.
Both proponents and opponents of the Flat
Branch issue said a heavy voter turnout would
favor their cause. .... Mark Landrum, vice chairman of the Land
Clearance for Redevelopment Authority, said
he expects the Flat Branch referendum to pass.
" I think an organized opposition, just like a
revolutionary group, is close knit and can
marshal a certain area of support," he said. If
the turnout is small, this group would comprise
a larger percentage of the -- vote than in the case
of a largo turnout he said.
Jay Jones, of the Flat Branch opponents, said
a heavy turnout would more likely favor his
cause than that of the proponents. For that rea--
son, he said, the opponents are hoping for good
weather. " It will encflittfee the average citizen
to vote, and the; 9onge citizen, I think, is
against Flat Branch," he said.
The forecast includes a high of 60 degrees F
( 16 C) with a 40 percent chance of shoirers or
thundershowers this afternoon and an 80 per-cent
chance tonight.
The proponents of the Flat' Branch project
have said the plan would bring in about $ 20 mil-lion
in private investment for the rejuvenation
cf a blighted section of downtown Columbia at a
cost of $ 5.6 million dollars in local and federal
tax dollars. The project would also create about
220 additonal full- tim- e jobs in the Columbia
area.
The proposed development in the Flat Branch
area also would provide the community with a
convention center, a major hotel, a variety of
retail specialty shops and additional low- inco- me
housing. Existing businesses in the area
would be relocated. The plan's proponents also
have said the plan has sufficient flexibility to
allow it to change as economic ccaditions dic-tate.
Opponents of the redevelopment project have
said the economic times are not right for such a
major undertaking. Many of them also oppose
the project on philosophical grounds they
are opposed to government intervention in busi-ness,
an area they say should be reserved for
private enterprise. They have said the reloca-tion
of existing businesses is unfair and might
cause some of those businesses to fail.
However, one businessman in the Flat
Branch area told the Columbia Missourian Saturday
he did not oppose the project
Perry Philips; owner of Philips and Co., the
largest business in the affected area, said an
advertisement placed by project opponents,
which showed his business, was misleading and
unfair.
" It will be Inconvenient for us to move," he
said Saturday, " but it will be worth the trouble
to see that area cleaned up."
The Flat Branch issue will share the spotlight
today with school concerns.
There are three candidates for two Columbia
Board of Education seats. One seat is now held
( See NEW, Page 12A)
72nd Year No. 169 Good Morning! It's Tuesday, April 1, 1980 2 Sections 18 Pages - 15 Cents
Breakthrough in Iran crisis seems near From our wire services
A major break appeared imminent Monday in the
150- day- o- ld impasse over the 50 American hostages
in the U. S. Embassy in Tehran.
The Carter administration, insisting that it had
made no conciliatory overtures to Iran, was report-ed
Sunday in the midst of a major diplomatic effort
with its Western allies to put pressure en Iran to
take steps to release the American hostages or face
new economic and political isolation.
Little was being said publicly about the diplo-matic
moves since there were some signs from Tehran
suggesting that the Iranian government was
considering some fresh actions of Us own to resolve
the crisis.
Press Secretary Jody Powell said Monday that it
was likely something would happen in the next day
or two to make it clear what had been going on.
The Iranian Revolutionary Council was reported
ready to take jurisdiction of the hostages. At the
same time, Congressional leaders in Washington
said President Carter planned to take retaliatory
measures today unless there is substantial progress
towards a settlement.
" The president was very clearly resolute," said
Sen. Robert Packwood. R- Or- e., following a meeting
with Carter Monday. " Tomorrow is the deadline,
and tomorrow he will announce what be is going to
do if the message is not satisfactory, period. I think
he has decided in his ownmindthattomorrowis it"
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Powell said Carter met Monday with the National
Security Council and the bipartisan congressional
leadership " to review developments in Iran."
Sen. Jacob Javits, R- N.- Y., said Carter will ad-dress
the nation today and told reporters " the United
States has to plow ahead with actions which will
make the Iranian government understand that we
sre determined to get these hostages released."
CBS News reported the Revolutionary Council de-cided
to move, the hostages from the embassy after
a 4- h- our " special" meeting Sunday night mat was
attended by Iranian President Abolhassan Bani Sadr.
The Washington Post said " informed sources" re-ported
that Iranian Foreign Minister Sadegh Ghotbzadeh
swayed the council to that position by using a
message alleged to have been sent by Carter that
was '" conciliatory" ia tone.
The United States acknowledged that it had sent
two written messages to Iran in the last several
days through the Swiss government, but again den-ied
that any conciliatory communication bad been
transmitted to Ayataliah Ruhollah Khomeini or any
other Iranian official.
The two written messages, one official said, were
toughly worded and warned the Iranians of the re-taliatory
measures that were planned. Thus, there
was considerable uncertainty here en why the Iranians
made public a'coajdliatory- soundin- g statement
that officials said was not sent to them.
According to the Iranian version, carried by Pars
news agency, the " conciliatory" Carter letter pro-posed
the formation of a joint committee to solve
the problems between the two countries and said the
seizure of the embassy was an " understandable re-action."
Pars quoted the letter as saying " I would like to
emphasize that as soon as the issue of the American
hostages in Tehran is solved by their official trans-fer
to the government of Iran, we will be ready to
adopt a friendly attitude for resolving the problems
between us."
Tehran Radio, in a broadcast monitored by the
BBC, quoted Baui Sadr as saying the message from
Carter ' is a victory for our nation and those who
are responsible for the affairs cf the country.
" It shows that we are light and their ( the American)
propaganda was not justified,' he added. " But
our action should he in ime with the interests of our
country and the revolution, and we cannot take a de-cision
on the basis of a letter unless we see it is put
into effect and whatever needs to be done is dene."
Some officials speculate that the Iranians might
be preparing to make a major move, such as trans-ferring
control of the American hostages away from
the militants, as a first step toward their release,
and were using the pretext of a fictitious Carter
statement as a face- savin- g move. -
The State Department said no administration offi-cials
were authorized to send a message such as the
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Nuclear technology apt to spread
By Henry L. TrewMtt
Baltimore Sun
WASHINGTON After more than
two years of study, a report by more
than 60 nations will rebuff President
Carter's appeal for a pause in devel-opment
of technology that could
spread nuclear weapons.
In effect the report, to be issued
soon, will confirm a general commit-ment
to the fast- breed- er reactor and
the nuclear processor. Both systems
produce plutonium, the radioactive fis-sionable
core of nuclear weapons.
Carter tried to set an example in ear-ly
1977 by deferring work on a com-mercial
reprocessing plant at Bam- wel- l,
S. C., and a fast- breed- er at Clinch
River, Tenn. At the same time he
urged studies of the dangers in these
technologies and of alternative sys-tems.
The pending report is called the In--
Insight
tematianal Fuel Cycle Evaluation Study.
It does not repudiate Carter's con-cerns,
informed sources said, but
neither does it offer alternatives that
would measurably slow the spread of
technology that produces plutoaium.
In a fast- breed- er reactor, the pluto-nium
fuel produces more plutonicm
during the nuclear chain reaction, un-like
conventional uranium reactors,
which gradually exhaust their radioac-tive
fuel supply. The reprocesscr ex-tracts
plutonium from used uranium
fuel rods.
The nuclear industry long has seen
the plutonium reactor as its hope for
the future, because fuel supplies wxild
be inexhaustible.
Carter administration specialists
lost their critical objective several
months ago, informed officials say,
when other participants in the study
rejected language calling for a mora-torium
on breeders and reprocessors.
However, administration specialists
emphamp that they never expected to
get everything they wanted from the
study. Carter himself, they point out,
specifically disavowed any intention to
dictate to others when he asked for the
review.
" It never would have gotten off the
ground," one official said, " if we had
tried to turn the dock back, asking
some of our allies to give up the ad-vances
they already have made."
He termed it progress that the report
underscores the hazards in both proc-esses.
It urges caution in their spread
to non- nucle- ar nations and explores the
alternative systems 009 being' dewel- -
( See NUCLEAR, Page 11A)
j III town
today
9 a. m. Boone County Court meets,
fifth floor, County- City Building.
Noon Lunch ' N Learn: University
Chancellor Barbar Uebling speaks
oa " Prospects for higher education
in Columbia," Downtown Best
Western, 1111 E. Broadway.
2 pan. College baseball double- heade- r,
Missouri vs. Bradley University,
Simmons Field.
2 pjcn. Women's Softball, Missouri
j vs. Northeast Missouri, Cosmopolitan
Park.
Inside
today
Urban dilemmas
Inflation, federal budget cufcs and
an eroded urban political base have
brought economic and labor wts to
the cities. Mayors see themselves
boxed in politically and fiscally, bat
are reluctant to cut services Ar in-crease
taxes. Predictions & e that
things will worsen in the " 80s. Turn
to Page SA for an analysis ci the
problems facing urban America.
Journalism
tickets on gale
Tickets for the annual Journalism
Week banquet are available at the
dean's office at the University
School of Journalism, Ninth and
Elm streets.
Tickets are $ 15 apiece. The ban-quet
will be at 7 pan. April 11 at .
Gocd Time Country, Route4. i
Allen H. Neuharth, chairman and
prssident of Gannett Co., Sac, the
largest newspaper group in the
United States, will speak.
Carter submits balanced bwflget
WASHINGTON ( UPI) President Carter Monday
sent Congress the nation's first balanced budget in a
decade with a threat to veto any congressional spend-ing
mat would push the government into deficit
again.
As the centerpiece of his anft- inflatio- c program,
Carter slashed into the 1961 speeding plans of almost
every department including defense to cut $ 15 hfllicsi
out of the budget he submitted in January.
He also proposed $ 2.6 billion in reductions in the
current fiscal year.
Vowing " we will succeed in having a balanced bud-get,"
Carter signed a revised plan which for the first
' time in 12 years would not spend more money than
the government takes in.
Even the Pentagon faced belt tightening. The de-fense
budget still would be bigger than ISStPs at $ 147
billion, but would include $ 1.4 billion in cuts from the
January proposal.
Saturday mail service was threatened by a reduc-tion
in the federal subsidy to the Postal Service. The
president also proposed elimination of state revenue
sharing to save $ 1.7 billion and dropping $ 1 billion in
antirecession aid to cities.
Carter, however, provided a half billion dollars for
cities badly hurt by the cutoff in state revenue shar-ing.
" We -- have a real fight ahead" if inflation is to be
curbed, Carter said at me budget signing in the White
House Cabinet Room.
He urged Congress to approve the budget cuts,
threstciftd to use his veto if legislators overspend,
and said if that fails he will ask Congress for " a tem-porary
grant of extraordinary budget restraint pow-ers."
Congress, angered by President Nixon's refusal to
spend appropriated funds, several years ago took
away the president's power to impound money voted
for approved programs.
Budget committees in both houses of Congress al-ready
have started slashing the president's January
budget and the House committee has gone beyond
Carter's proposal by suggesting $ 1.5 billion more in
cuts more than me president asked.
Congress will approve its own version of the budget
targets after Easter and will pass the final budget in
the fall.
Carter also urged " prompt and constructive ac-tion"
by Congress on his proposed $ 2.6 billion in
spending cuts this fiscal year which ends Sept. 30.
" The cuts are fair," Budget Director James McIntyre
said at a briefing for reporters. " No single group
will bear a significant part of the austerity."
McIntyre asserted the administration has not bal
anced the budget " en the backs of the poor," a re-sponse
to charges by liberals that the poor would bear
a disproportiorate shars. ofthe economic burden.
McIntyre noted the administration did not cut funds
for Social Security, Medicaid or Aid to Families with
Dependent Children. However, the cuts did delay
planned food stamp and child welfare reforms, ex-pansion
of Medicaid and Medicare and the new Child
Health Assurance Program; eliminate 50,000 CETA
public works jobs and cut funds for health services
and education.
Included in the package is a $ 250 million cut in pay-ments
to the U. S. Postal Service in 1981, which the
budget document says " is expected to reduce normal
delivery of mail to five days per week." -- v
However, Mclntyre said it would be up to the Postal' --
Service to decide how to cut mat amount of money.
The chairman of the House Post Office ( Committee
said last week that a cut of $ 250 million would leave
enough money to retain Saturday mail deliveries.
A new projection by the president's economic ad-visers,
included in the revised budget, estimates con-sumer
prices will rise 12.8 percent during fiscal 1930,
the same as 1979. It projected 9 percent inflation for
1981.
In January, the administration had estimated 10.7
percent inflation this year and 8.7 percent for 1981.
Hemlines, ranging from extreme minis to ankle
length, are the hottest topic at the Paris fashion
shows. This slinky dress bares the kneecaps.
Skimpy skirts join
fall's fashion line
PARIS ( UPI) If you've kept any of those skimpy skirts
of the ' 60s, now is the time to pull them out because they're
coming back in fashion. -
Although the mini- ski- rt is being revived in the fall- wint- er
Paris ready- to- we- ar collections that run through Wednesday,
they are also competing with moremodest lengths.
From mid- thig- h to ankle- to- p, designers in the Paris rag
trade are giving women the choice over bow much or now
little they want to expose next season.
The radical lengths reflect the desire to present a dramatic
but salable style.
Concerned about a 12 percent drop in sales to the United
States, Paris designers are determined to protect their over-all
$ 175 million export market in the increasing rivalry with
their Milan counterparts.
Qincbed- i- n waists have moved over for the dropped waist
look, which was done especially well in Chloe's showing Monday.
In mini's, Chloe was fond of a criss- cross- ed V- ne- ck knit
dresses mat just covered the derriere. They were teamed up
with a low- slun- g belt and an oversized cardigan that was an
inch or two longer than the mini.
At Christian Dior's showiag Monday, dropped waists listi- ng around the hips were emphasised with short puckered
skirtaln suits, Dior strutted a grey flannel pleated skirtJust covering the knee worn with a long, doubte- breste- d quoted
jacket in pink and grey stripes.
In their showings Sunday, designers Muriel Gratean and
Emansel Ungaro veered away from the raini- skir- t trend and
put hesoimes right at the knee or a little above it in states
that were elegant and sophisticated. Ungaro was especially
fond of topping his dresses and slacks with loose- fittin- g black
and black- and- whi- te plaid jackets.
like other designers this week, Ungaro favored " pinky"
heels sometimes no higher than an inch, black stockings and
small caps accented with feathers. Sleeves were slightly
puffed and there was blackvelvet asdlace for ttecyenfeg.
Stripes were also seen at Tariaei's show, used inrnini1
skirts and sweat suit- lik- e pants outfits. Unfortuoatiey for
women with a few extra pounds, the stripes were borizaolal.