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. t f t ''" " 7". . vf ."- - 73rd Year No. 107 Good Morning! It's Tuesday, January 20, 1981 14 Pages 25 Cents Iran threatens harsh action on hostages BBflBJBJ -- " Ti- 1-- 1- ! 75:'' 55? " 1HMBM'"" BBBBJB :-- '" 5' ii$ r-- - -- j! 91 HBm " v" W - 35, SrfJ Aft""' is ' -- " - BBBBbE' BBBBHBk ' t nfc BBB r HbHB9BBRb S? iE T"" jiPBSrHi S" ' BB . jvmbmBBBBBBR Vk mHBBL BBBBBBBIb cfr'iMivaKfi4MM vk BBh '. " tbbRbbI tfr itt y bbhHbbbY - - -- " J Ix? bb9bbV BBk v mbbb khZHBHlB LJSfifr T"' bYbVsBb Bm mM bYbYbTbV w ZjWjrfBwf IsYflB JBBBB', BflBPflVflBBl . ' tBPWsBF BflBEflflBYj wBYBVr Mm m. BBYflYflS BKTtR IVflU 9HT jjB - ? B bYbhbbhIf IHbv flKArHHH wiPEs- - Iflfl 2k jebbbbbb jfejr. jsr 4 bSbWbw ff iJHr iii " BWSwibiiii jNlHi H bVbht 5R jE. jfeejQp - ' jBtf . ti bhbbIVbbb BMBttBiBBBHri3bT! abBHBBYBxK6tt& IIBfti, mkAyaB M b - SEi. BN Bf" ' BBbAIBvvHvSBE'j., iSBB lflBjBVjtflBVflVjBjBflBVjBVjvjBHBBBBBB. BbAVJt' . 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C IbVbVmHBBbBjBBE1"' ' llvflvWr ' bTeVaV v J ' rM'yHJKJBtjBHBBclBy' ' "' AVB iv BBJBBBVflB8E( S " -- ""' iu-'' 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. BBflBB9BflBHBf ' JBHBBBBBSBHt ' JkBw? vB BffiWUfcfeead 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 SL I
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C IbVbVmHBBbBjBBE1"' ' llvflvWr ' bTeVaV v J ' rM'yHJKJBtjBHBBclBy' ' "' AVB iv BBJBBBVflB8E( S " -- ""' iu-'' 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. BBflBB9BflBHBf ' JBHBBBBBSBHt ' JkBw? vB BffiWUfcfeead 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 SL I |