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Tcmi and Virgil Stekmann, parents of hostage Matins Sgt. Rodney to free the U. hostages in Iran. Jubilation at the couple's Rra--
' Rocky' Sickmana, lead family members and friends in a cham- - kow, Mo., home waned later in the day following reports that for--
pagne toast Monday morning to celebrate news of the agreement mal release of the hostages had hit asnag.
Delay tempers hostage family's joy
By Rabin SSaekejraadSbecsrl Have?
BSssooriaa stSwriters
KRAKOW, Ma Rocky Sickmann is
cominghome. But when?
That question grew more critical as
Monday wore oa for Virgil and Tom
Sickmann, parents of the 23- year-- oJd
Marine Corps sergeant who is one of
the American hostages. The Sick- jnan- n's
long day began with jubilation
before dawn, bat it ended with the
gnawing doubt that the latest move to
free the hostages may be yet another
false alarm.
After a 3: 15 ajn. call from the State
Department confirming the deal to
free the 52 hostages, they emerged
from their borne at 8 ajn. to meet
more than 40 reporters roosting in this
little town of 300.
Their champagne glasses raised, the
Sickmann family proclaimed it a late
" Happy NewYear."
But by late Monday Rocky and the
other hostages remained at the airport
in Tehran because snags reportedly
had developed in the financial trans-actions
relating to the hostage trans-fer.
For the Sickmann family, relief
gave way to unease, according to Wil-liam
Kimme, the Washington, Mo., at-torney
who serves as the Sickmann
spokesman.
" After two or three days of trying to
restrain yourself, then thinking this is
it, this is it, plus staying up all night
and then having this happen, you can
imagine how the Sickmanns and 51 oth-er
families feel," Kimme said. " If it
doesn't come soon, it could be cata-strophic."
like too many of last 444 days, the
Sickmanns found themselves on the
emotional roller coaster, with diplo
mats halfway around the world at the
controls.
About 7 ajn., Bernard WDkens, a lo-cal
Catholic priest, conducted a pri-vate
Mass at the Sickmann borne. Then
the Sickmanns, their two daughters,
one of their other two sons and Jill
Ditch, Rocky's 19- year-- old girlfriend,
joined seven grandchildren to meet re-porters
on the front lawn.
" I'm trying not to get too emotion-al,"
said Virgil Sickmann, bis red--
( See SICKMANNS, Page 14)
Insight
England's
economic
horror story
BectoaGkbe
LONDON Every 30 seconds, an-other
person loses a Job in Great Brifr
ain. The unemployment dock, now
ticking at the rate of an additional 1
million out of work each year, marks
the time for white- colla- r and blue- coll- ar
workers alike.
In the steel town of Consett, half of
the community is unemployed. In
Loagwick, dive Morton, ace a
9GD, 00( ta- yea- r executive, saw his first
newyearin25witboatajob.
Britain rang out an economically di- sastr- ous
year and 19M promises to be
even worse.
" We knew it was going to be long,
hard slog," Prime Minister Margaret
Thatcher said in a cheerless, year- en- d
message. She added, " What can we
look forward to in 1981? It will be an-other
hardyear."
Bees was a characteristically bold
statement, coming as it did on the eve
of new unemployment figures that
jolted the country with another dose of
dire economic realism. As of mad- Decemb- er,
unemployment had reached a
new postwar high of 12 nuEon per-sons,
or 9.2 percent of the work force,
making a 64 percent rise in unemploy-ment
lastyear alone.
The new figures underscore that the
strict monetarist policies of the
Thatcher government have not
worked, at least to date, and that
Thatcher entered the new year with
considerably worse economic prob-lems
than she inherited 19 months ago.
Britain is now the Western country
( See THATCHEB, Page 14)
Council OKs portions of rezoning plans
By Greg Rasa, SteveaThorpe and Mike Saute
Mhtsourian staff writers
In a marathon meeting that went past mid-night,
the Columbia dry Council Monday spent
most of its time on two controversial zoning deci- sjo- ns
before turning to the rest of its lengthy agen-da,
which included placing the West Broadway
widening issue on this spring's city elections, as
well as a proposal by the Cable Television Com-mission
to approve extending cable service into
surrounding Boone County.
Compromise was the watchword when two
aides in a rezoning dispute dashed in public hear- in- g
before the council over whether three tracts of
land sooth of the dry should be designated for cf- fi- ce
buildings and multiple- famil- y dwellings.
The council voted 4-- 3 to change the zoning of
two of the three tracts of land, owned by Bart
Backus and located at the southwest comer of
Providence and Green Meadows roads, from sin- gle- fam- uy
dwelling to two muitiple- famfl- y desig-nations.
The proposals origmaQy requested rezoning at- -
lowing a shopping center comparable to Cross-roads
West Shopping Center, plus the multiple- famil- y
dwellings. But the downgraded version
Backus took to the council specified the office
space and multiple- famil- y designations.
The ordinance proposals came to the council
with a recommendation for denial from the city
planning department and were the subjects of
more than two hours of public testimony and
council discussion.
Fourteen of Backus' neighbors did not feel that
changes were desirable- - Among the dissenters
wasSbelia Plummer, 113 E. El Cortez Drive.
" The real estate agent that sold me my prop-erty
assured me that this property ( belonging to
Backus) was zoned for a church and R-- l ( single- famuy- ),"
she said. " Bad I known what was com-ing
before us in the time we have lived in the
house, we would not have bought the house."
Many dissenters feared water runoff problems
from the construction of parking lots on the prop-erty.
Most feared the amount of traffic in the
area, noting the heavy flow of traffic already on
Green Meadows Road and the large number of
children in the area, and said more apartment
and commercial devdopment was unwelcome.
Changes were made in the rezoning requests to
provide a buffer zone of single- famil- y dwellings
between the Rock Bridge Estates area south of
the Backus property and the three tracts, accord-ing
to CuDen Chne, Backus' attorney.
After the vote, Backus said he was " not unhap-py"
with the changes that were made and indi-cated
he would seek more rezoning in the area.
On another issue the council approved part of a
Planning and Zoning Commission recommenda-tion
to approve an ordinance initiating the " down- zonin- g"
of a 14- tra- ct, 37- ac- re area in the central
city from its present multi- famil- y residential dis-trict
status to single famfly status.
The council approved the downzoning requests
for five of tiie tracts and defeated nine.
Downzoning increases restrictions on devd-opment
in an area. In this case, the rezoning pro-posal
required that future structures in the area,
populated mostly by elderly blacks, adhere to sin- gle- family- dwe-
Ding
guidelines. However, existing
structures that do not conform to the restriction
may remain.
The council addressed each tract individually,
calling for public feedback on each as they went
along. Feedback was plentiful and spiced with
emotion.
One elderly woman living in the area said she
was upset over the amount of crime and noise, as
well as possible loss of values for homes in the
area, that a multi- lev- el structure now in the area
has brought.
" Now I'm afraid in my home." said Christine
E. Horrell, 12 E. Switzler. " These are our last
days, and we would like to live in peace in our
neighborhood."
Opponents of the downzoning ordinance includ-ed
Tatie Payne, president of the Columbia Board
of Realtors. Speaking on behalf of the board, she
said the 450- memb- er group supports continuation
of multi- lev- el zoning for the area.
Her sentiments were echoed by Larry Woods,
an attorney representing landowners in six of the
tracts, who said that passing the downzoning
would run counter to the will of the area landown-ers.
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Fired as cUefdepnty
Sheriff Foster fires deputy
because of ' personal dispute9
ByJmLyachandBcbSteiaert
MiiatwmLui staff writers
Neither will say why, but Boone County Sheriff
Charlie Foster Monday fired his chief deputy, who
had been with the sheriff's department since 1975.
Mai. Bui Whitehead confirmed with obvious emo- tio- n
mat he had been dismissed, saying Foster and he
had a " personal dispute" Friday. According to White-head,
Foster decided to fire htm over the weekend
and informed himMonday morning.
" There was no reason for the dismissal," White-head
said, " tt resulted from a personal disagreement
between the sheriff and myself."
Foster also had no comment.
" You better go back to who told you that ( White-head
had been fired) and taHt to them," he said.
SheruTs deputies and other officials dose to the sit--
nation also declined comment.
Whitehead and Foster had worked closely together
since Foster's election in 1976. Together they with-stood
at leasttwo major controversies.
In 1979, both were sued by Mehrin Leroy Tyler, a
convicted rapist who accused the two of " mental and
physical croetty" while he was a prisoner in Boone
County Jafl. The Boone County Circuit Court ruled for
Whitehead and Foster.
Also in 1979, the FBI investigated Whitehead and
Foster after another prisoner said he had been beaten
by them. Connie E. Pollock, accused of burglary,
brought the allegation, The FBI cleared Foster and
Whitehead.
In 1976, Whitehead seriously considered condwting
a write- i- n campaign for sheriff. In the 1980 election,
be endorsed Foster over opponent Lee Koury, a Co- hnnf- cia
private investiga tor.
Release of Americans
delayed at final hour
From our wire services
Iran said Tuesday it would give a
deadline to American banks for trans-ferring
frozen Iranian funds in ex-change
for freeing the 52 American
hostages or " harsher decisions will
definitely be made."
The new threat, which was not
spelled out, was issued by chief Iranian
hostage negotiator Behzad Nabavi in a
taped interview on Tehran Radio.
The State Department said it was
aware of the statement, but had no
comment.
The threat followed Nabavi's
statement Monday in which he said ac-cused
U. S. banks of " underhanded ma-neuvers"
to change the accord signed
hours earlier to exchange the hostages
for $ 9 billion in Iranian assets. UJS. of-ficials
said the delay, which they
blamed on Iran's failure to complete
its end of the paperwork, meant the
hostages would not be freed until today
at the earliest, when President Carter
hands over the White House to Ronald
Reagan.
Two Algerian planes stood by in Teh-ran
to fly the hostages to freedom on
the 444th day of their captivity. At one
point, Iranian officials said the hos-tages
had been taken to the airport,
ready to depart as soon as Algeria sig-naled
that the transfer of $ 9 billion in
frozen assetshad begun.
In Tehran, Algiers and Washington,
negotiators worked feverishly through-out
the night to resolve the last heart- stoppi- ng
snag as the dock ticked away
the final hours of Carter's presidency.
In an apparent effort to pressure ne-gotiators
to reach a solution before
Carter's term ended at neon EST to-day,
Nabavi issued his new threat at
4: 30 ajn. in Iran ( 11: 33 p. m. Monday).
" We have asked the Algerian dele-gation
for a meeting in half an hour's
time so tfest we can tdl them car latest
views and give a deadline to the Amer-ican
banks to put the deposit to the ac-count
of the Central Bank olBritain.
" H this is zwt done, harsher decisions
will definitely be made."
Nabavi did not say what those deci-sions
might be.
Officials conceded the hostages
would not be released in time for Car-ter
to fly to West Germany to greet
them before be leaves office as he had
hoped. They said be accepted an invi-tation
from Reagan to make the trip as
a private citizen after he leaves office
at noon.
White House spokesman Jody Powell
also warned Iran that if the agreement
is not implemented by the time Carter
leaves office, Reagan was under no ob-ligation
to abide by its terms.
Generally, State Department and
White House officials insisted that
there was no reason for despair, and
they said they believed everything
would be worked out.
A complication was that key senior
officials, such as Secretary of State
Edmund S. Muskie and Treasury Sec-retary
G. William Miller, and many of
their top aides were leaving office
Monday night, and their successors
had not yet taken over.
A Treasury Department spokesman
said that Miller and Deputy Secretary
Robert G. Carswell planned to contin-ue
work today until the hostages were
freed or until they were dismissed by
Reagan.
Reagan appointed a panel, headed
by Secretary of State- designat- e Alex-ander
M. Haig, Jr., to coordinate with
the outgoing administration, on devel-oping
strategy for the Iranian negotia-tions,
in the event that problems were
not resolved by today.
First word of the last minute snag
came from Algerian mediators in Teh-ran,
who said technical problems had
arisen with the creation of an escrow
account to handle what was believed to
be the biggest financial transaction in
history.
However, American banks holding
frozen Iranian assets said Monday that
the problems that bad unexpectedly
delayed the freeing of the American
hostages could be quickly resolved.
Spokesmen for the banks denied an
Iranian assertion that the banks had
sought to deny Iran any of its ' rightful
claims" or were otherwise responsible
for thwarting the release of the hos-tages
at the last minute.
According to a report by the official
Iranian press agency, Nabavi con-tended
Monday morning that the
American banks had presented an 11- pa- ge
appendix to an agreement that
had been reached early Sunday morn-ing.
Nabavi asserted that the appendix
required Iran to drop any further
claims against the banks beyond the
approximately 8 billion that is to be
placed in an escrow account at the
Bank of England. This, he said, contra-dicted
the terms of the agreement and
represented an '' underhanded maneu-ver."
In a statement issued Monday
evening, Citibank declared that the
banks had no part in the disputed ap-pendix.
" The banks weren't party to
it," said a Citibank spokesman, " and
had no part in its drafting."
As spokesman for the 12 major banks
involved in the negotiations, he added,
" It is an agreement among govern-ments,
and we believe the administra-tion
will clarify that it is in no way in-tended
to force Iran to drop any
( See IRAK, Page 14)
In town today
9: 30 ajn. Boone County Court
meets, county court chamber,
fifth floor, Coupty- Qt- y Building.
4 pan. Meeting, Columbia ( Sty
Council Audit Committee, fi-nance
department offices, mez-zanine,
County- Cit- y Building.
7 pan. Meeting, Columbia Hu-man
Rights Commission, fourth- flo- or
conference room, County- Cit- y
Building.
7 pan. Meeting, Columbia
Youth Advisory Commission,
county court chamber, fifth I
floor, Coanty- CSt- y Building. I
7 p. m-- Meeting, Columbia 1
Commission on Bicycling, third- - 1
floor conference room. County-- 1
Ory Building. I
7: 39 p. m. Speaker, Sen. George 1
McGovern, Missouri United I
Methodist Church, 294 S. Ninth I
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