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HG7I7ATTE 5. HLI..: R7.7? IC.'' 7.'. ," C" rL""'' .; CjL'Jissi.- i- , i:-- . . b3::,: 74th Year No. 257 Good Morning! It's Friday, July 16. 1982 2 Section - 12 Pajie 23 Out --'' aSHEr s JSSSSGXSG& r gffsSKS sEsKifflSBEK38By ftiBiwTOa IffljijMlSlgBEflBloBBM lffffiMjfly pnTnWinmfflHffliKSSi3iEi s& tSSBUKyiiKKSJSssgKmKS Sm BSSwjKgtHB b3 BMIIgmlftffHSBSBmBBlBWB Hk llpill JPsHMifflllBig5- - MMy aJBBHSTOSfflF'fflWC ! BlBBBJLBMmfflfl ag$ M5gtt5KBpaBB TMnigg sire I looking up ! Men and their flying machines de-light a group of summer school chil-dren at Centaire Ultralight Airport. George Rosenthaw, the Flying Farm-er from Mexico, Mo., demonstrates his hot air balloon. At right, ( from left) Brian, 5, and Scott Jamison, 3, sons of Bruce and Jeanne Jamison, 5385 N. Clearview Road, and Craig Woodward, 3, son of Scott and Jill Woodward, 2501 Morris Drive, wave at the Ultralight aircraft buzzing over the heads of the crowd in a finale to the field trip. SBBBiaBsate" t '- -. 5. ' -- sgy- v :'--"- .- --.'. Ij. -- " MMaiiXl'lVita? $ d '& s --: -- , -.-;- Ha " i Tb " SR''" 4T& t " K- - rsl ni " 1 ts ua t& T$ T 1 CE- i- 1- - ZE- tl-'- 0- 1 1 CEll WASHINGTON ( UPI) About 200,000 Ira-qi and Iranian troops are locked in what may be the biggest single battle since World War II in a determined thrust by Iran to destroy Iraq's army, U. S. intelligence sources said Thursday. Iranian forces waves of infantry as-saults backed by tanks and artillery charged six to 10 miles into Iraq and en-gaged entrenched Iraqis in a 20- mi- le pocket of flat terrain several miles northeast of Iraq's southern oil port of Basra, the Arab country's second largest city, the sources said. " A very serious, large- scal- e battle is in progress" with 100,000 men on each side, said one source. " This is the telling battle," he said, one which will spell victory for ei-ther side in the 22- month- - oId Iran- Ira- q war. Another U. S. intelligence assessment con-flicted with earlier reports on the fighting and said Iran initially committed only up to 30,000 men of its 100,000- stron- g invading army in the battle against the Iraqis They said it appears as if the defending Iraqis were " holding their own" against the Iranians and that " no great successes" were achieved by either side thus far. Non- Ara- b Iran's military objective is to in-flict " a decisive defeat and decimate the Ira-qi army" as part of a larger political strate-gy to topple the regime of President Saddam Hussein and gain a foothold in the Arab world for Islamic fundamentalism, said the sources, who requested anonymity. An Iranian victory would send shudders through the Arab world, most notably in neighboring Persian Gulf countries such as Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, because of a threat Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini's re-gime would export its Shiite revolution to Sunni- dominat- ed Arab nations. The United States, with virtually no politi-cal leverage over either country, has offered support to its Persian Gulf allies, but Penta-gon spokesman Henry Catto said none of Students lament war back home By Chuck Ervin Missourian staff writer Jawad Al- Jana- bi, 32, is a civil engineering student at the University. So is 20- year-- old Yoseph Babazadeh. Both expect to receive their degrees in December. The parallels end there. If the two Middle Easterners return to their homelands after graduation ceremo-nies in Columbia, they could find themselves on opposite sides in a war that already has produced the largest single battle since World War IT. Al- Jana- bi is Iraqi. Babazadeh is Iranian. Both say they will fight if called upon to do so bv their countries. But neither is eager to kill." " Nothing is achieved by war," says Baba-zadeh, who opposes the conflict raging back ( See IRAN P. 8A) those countries have requested aid. Iran opened its attack against fortified Ira-qi troops from several directions Tuesday with a night- tim- e suicidal human wave in-fantry assault led by Khomeini's zealously religious Revolutionary Guards, the sources said. Iraq claimed to have stopped the invad-ers and to have repelled them in places. Iran apparently is willing to take " mas-sive casualties" by using human wave as-saults, similar to those employed by the Chinese against U. S. forces during the Ko-rean war, the sources said. Attorneys: DWI law was hyped By Deborah Kay Newell Mlssourian staff writer Missouri's highly touted drunken driving law goes into effect Aug. 13. Throughout an emotional llth- ho- ur legislative battle and in subsequent media stories, the law was sold to the public as being " tougher" on drunken drivers. But that assessment might be nothing more than hyps. Some local attorneys believe the law waters down existing legislation and actual-ly is easier on drunken drivers. " It is the biggest fraud perpe-trated on the public by the Missouri media that I've ever seen," says Da-vid Strauss, Boone County Defense Attorney. The county's assistant prosecuting attorney, Rusty Ante!, agrees: " The new DWI law has been presented by its sponsors as being tougher on drunken drivers. In fact, the bill sub-stantially decreases the penalty for first offenders. The public may be-lieve that the legislature has clamped down on drunken drivers, but this simply is wishful thinking." The new law's sponsor, Sen. Har-riet Woods, D- S- t. Louis, says exist-ing legislation too soft on offenders. She and other supporters, including a citizens group of parents of chil-dren killed by drunken drivers, be-lieved a tougher law was needed to keep chronic drunken drivers off Missouri roads. The law they helped pass was meant to discourage repeat offend- - ers by increasing the driving- while- intoxicat- ed convictions in the state. The law also was meant to prevent drunken drivers from hiding behind a suspended imposition of sentence. A suspended imposition of sentence lets a driver found guilty of DWI off without a conviction, and no record is made of the charges. During the past year, Antel has prosecuted every person charged with DWI in Boone County. He ex-plains that the legalities of drunken ( See CRITICS P. 8A) : ' In town toiisay 7: 33 pan. " Carousel," Ma- plewo- od Barn Theater, Nifong Park. Tickets are $ 2 for adults, $ 1 for senior citizens and students. g 8: 15 pan. " Dames at Sea," I Summer Repertory Theater, I University Theater. Tickets I are $ 6 for adults, $ 4 for senior citizens and $ 1 for students. I index Classified 6A Comics... 4f & 1 Opinion LSports Hecord 4s Florida plays bally name game By Lecaae McKee Missourian staff writer Sidney has nearly everything a one- month-- old could ask for. Except a last name. His parents gave him one, but the State of Florida says he can't keep it. So his parents, Dean Skylar and Chris Ledbetter, both graduates of the University School of Journalism, are taking the secretary of Florida's Department of Health and Rehabili-tative Services to ccurt. It may sound like a Hollywood plot, something from the author who gave us " Justice For AH," but to Skylar and Ms. Ledbetter, it's a se rious constitutional issue. When Ms. Ledbetter married Sky-lar in 1977, she defied tradition by re-taining her maiden name. On June 7, the day after Sidney was born, they defied tradition once more and Florida law, as well by entering the name Sidney Skybetter on their sen's birth certificate. According to a 1915 Florida stat-ute, a woman married at the time she gives birth must enter her hus-band's last name as the surname on the chfld's birth certificate. Skylar and Ledbetter say they were aware of the law before they completed Sidney's birth certificate but decided to name their child Sky- bett- er anyway. " We are dealing with a basic tra-dition, one we don't think is nec-essary," says Skylar. " There was never any question that Sidney would have a different last name." They liked the name Skybetter, which they created by fusing their own last names together, Ms. Led-better explains, because it would give their son a chance to start off in life with his own name, his own iden-tity. " Hyphenating our names would have made his too bulky," she says. " It was a very modem name, very two thousandish." The State of Florida isn't the only one unconvinced that modern is nec-- ( See SKYBETTER, P. SA) Governor considering second special session By Beth A. Hughes State capital bureau JEFFERSON CITY Gov. Christopher Bond confirmed Thursday that he has dis-cussed with legislative leaders the possibili-ty of a special General Assembly session in late autumn, apparently to give legislators a chance to vote on pay raises for government officials including themselves. The possibility of a special session in No-vember came up during a press conference at which Bond announced he was scheduling an earlier special session for Aug. 16 to dis-cuss appropriation of $ 75 million in revenue from the sale of bonds. The bond issue was approved in a special election in June. The bond money has been earmarked for state building, economic and soil erosion projects, but specific projects have not been identified. That will be the purpose of the Au-gust session. Senate President Pro Tern Norman Mer- rel- l, D- Monticel-lo, said a second session af-ter the November election would allow law-makers to consider the politically sticky issue of pay increases for government offi-cials. " It's not worthy of discussion in August," Merrell said. " We couldn't have realistic dis-- cussion on the matter." Earlier this year, Bond requested pay in-creases for department directors, whose sal-aries are set by law at $ 40,000. In the House, there was a move to include legislators in the pay raise Dackage. The measure eventually died in the House Budget Commmittee. Legislators would prefer to discuss salary issues after the November election rather than during the August session, Merrell said. " No one wants to discuss pay raises before an election." He said some legislators are anxious to de-cide the pay raise issue in November rather than waiting until the regular January ses-sion so the increases can go into effect more quickly. According to the Missouri Constitution, a legislative pay increase cannot take effect until the next two- ye- ar General Assembly term. This means if the pay raise is ap-proved before January, it can become effec-tive in January 1983. If not approved until January 1S83 or later, it could take effect un-til January 1985. Merrell said he has not decided whether he will support a second special session. " I am hesitant on having a session to dis-cuss nothing more than pay raises when lay-offs are becoming more prevelant for Mis-souri workers," he said. Opportunities Walsh finalist for 3 jobs ByS. L- Wyke- s Missourian staff writer David E. Walsh, former Colum-bia police chief who last May was forced from his job by City Man-ager Richard Gray, is among top candidates for police chief jobs in Kissimmee, Fla., Prairie Village, Kan., and Waterloo, Iowa. Kissimee city manager Sam Ackley Thursday confirmed that he and five police chiefs from oth-er Florida towns will interview- Wals- h early next week. Ackley said he expects to name a new chief later that week. Background checks and pre- employm- ent polygraph tests will be required of candidates, he said. The committee also will consult with the FBI and the Fed-eral Drug Enforcement Adminis-tration. " We are looking for someone with professional capability and good training who is familiar with the National Crime Commission's goals and standards," Ackley said. " Our department and town have come from rural to urban in the last 10 years and we need a well- round- ed chief." Kissimmee is host community for Disneyworld and a soon- to- be- complet- ed, billion- doll- ar Disney theme park, the Experimental Prototype City of Tomorrow. Ackley said population growth from 7,000 in 1970 to 18,900 today has changed local law enforce-ment. Kissimmee's current police chief Jimmie Watford, 48, is leav-ing the job to become special as-sistant to the city manager. j In November 1981, a commis-sioned management study de-scribed Watford as " disinterested and unresponsive" to a majority of Kissimmee's 45 police officers. Ackley, who became city man-ager a short time later, gave Wat-ford four months to reorganize and improve the department Ackley announced Watford's transfer April 13 and a national search for a new chief began the next day. The Kissimmee police I officers' union then announced its I intention to apply for deunioniza-- I tion as a gesture of goodwill to the in- comi- ng chief. 8 The final five candidates, in-cluding Walsh, were selected from 60 applicants. The chief's ( See FLORIDA, P. SA)
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Item.Transcript | HG7I7ATTE 5. HLI..: R7.7? IC.'' 7.'. ," C" rL""'' .; CjL'Jissi.- i- , i:-- . . b3::,: 74th Year No. 257 Good Morning! It's Friday, July 16. 1982 2 Section - 12 Pajie 23 Out --'' aSHEr s JSSSSGXSG& r gffsSKS sEsKifflSBEK38By ftiBiwTOa IffljijMlSlgBEflBloBBM lffffiMjfly pnTnWinmfflHffliKSSi3iEi s& tSSBUKyiiKKSJSssgKmKS Sm BSSwjKgtHB b3 BMIIgmlftffHSBSBmBBlBWB Hk llpill JPsHMifflllBig5- - MMy aJBBHSTOSfflF'fflWC ! BlBBBJLBMmfflfl ag$ M5gtt5KBpaBB TMnigg sire I looking up ! Men and their flying machines de-light a group of summer school chil-dren at Centaire Ultralight Airport. George Rosenthaw, the Flying Farm-er from Mexico, Mo., demonstrates his hot air balloon. At right, ( from left) Brian, 5, and Scott Jamison, 3, sons of Bruce and Jeanne Jamison, 5385 N. Clearview Road, and Craig Woodward, 3, son of Scott and Jill Woodward, 2501 Morris Drive, wave at the Ultralight aircraft buzzing over the heads of the crowd in a finale to the field trip. SBBBiaBsate" t '- -. 5. ' -- sgy- v :'--"- .- --.'. Ij. -- " MMaiiXl'lVita? $ d '& s --: -- , -.-;- Ha " i Tb " SR''" 4T& t " K- - rsl ni " 1 ts ua t& T$ T 1 CE- i- 1- - ZE- tl-'- 0- 1 1 CEll WASHINGTON ( UPI) About 200,000 Ira-qi and Iranian troops are locked in what may be the biggest single battle since World War II in a determined thrust by Iran to destroy Iraq's army, U. S. intelligence sources said Thursday. Iranian forces waves of infantry as-saults backed by tanks and artillery charged six to 10 miles into Iraq and en-gaged entrenched Iraqis in a 20- mi- le pocket of flat terrain several miles northeast of Iraq's southern oil port of Basra, the Arab country's second largest city, the sources said. " A very serious, large- scal- e battle is in progress" with 100,000 men on each side, said one source. " This is the telling battle," he said, one which will spell victory for ei-ther side in the 22- month- - oId Iran- Ira- q war. Another U. S. intelligence assessment con-flicted with earlier reports on the fighting and said Iran initially committed only up to 30,000 men of its 100,000- stron- g invading army in the battle against the Iraqis They said it appears as if the defending Iraqis were " holding their own" against the Iranians and that " no great successes" were achieved by either side thus far. Non- Ara- b Iran's military objective is to in-flict " a decisive defeat and decimate the Ira-qi army" as part of a larger political strate-gy to topple the regime of President Saddam Hussein and gain a foothold in the Arab world for Islamic fundamentalism, said the sources, who requested anonymity. An Iranian victory would send shudders through the Arab world, most notably in neighboring Persian Gulf countries such as Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, because of a threat Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini's re-gime would export its Shiite revolution to Sunni- dominat- ed Arab nations. The United States, with virtually no politi-cal leverage over either country, has offered support to its Persian Gulf allies, but Penta-gon spokesman Henry Catto said none of Students lament war back home By Chuck Ervin Missourian staff writer Jawad Al- Jana- bi, 32, is a civil engineering student at the University. So is 20- year-- old Yoseph Babazadeh. Both expect to receive their degrees in December. The parallels end there. If the two Middle Easterners return to their homelands after graduation ceremo-nies in Columbia, they could find themselves on opposite sides in a war that already has produced the largest single battle since World War IT. Al- Jana- bi is Iraqi. Babazadeh is Iranian. Both say they will fight if called upon to do so bv their countries. But neither is eager to kill." " Nothing is achieved by war," says Baba-zadeh, who opposes the conflict raging back ( See IRAN P. 8A) those countries have requested aid. Iran opened its attack against fortified Ira-qi troops from several directions Tuesday with a night- tim- e suicidal human wave in-fantry assault led by Khomeini's zealously religious Revolutionary Guards, the sources said. Iraq claimed to have stopped the invad-ers and to have repelled them in places. Iran apparently is willing to take " mas-sive casualties" by using human wave as-saults, similar to those employed by the Chinese against U. S. forces during the Ko-rean war, the sources said. Attorneys: DWI law was hyped By Deborah Kay Newell Mlssourian staff writer Missouri's highly touted drunken driving law goes into effect Aug. 13. Throughout an emotional llth- ho- ur legislative battle and in subsequent media stories, the law was sold to the public as being " tougher" on drunken drivers. But that assessment might be nothing more than hyps. Some local attorneys believe the law waters down existing legislation and actual-ly is easier on drunken drivers. " It is the biggest fraud perpe-trated on the public by the Missouri media that I've ever seen," says Da-vid Strauss, Boone County Defense Attorney. The county's assistant prosecuting attorney, Rusty Ante!, agrees: " The new DWI law has been presented by its sponsors as being tougher on drunken drivers. In fact, the bill sub-stantially decreases the penalty for first offenders. The public may be-lieve that the legislature has clamped down on drunken drivers, but this simply is wishful thinking." The new law's sponsor, Sen. Har-riet Woods, D- S- t. Louis, says exist-ing legislation too soft on offenders. She and other supporters, including a citizens group of parents of chil-dren killed by drunken drivers, be-lieved a tougher law was needed to keep chronic drunken drivers off Missouri roads. The law they helped pass was meant to discourage repeat offend- - ers by increasing the driving- while- intoxicat- ed convictions in the state. The law also was meant to prevent drunken drivers from hiding behind a suspended imposition of sentence. A suspended imposition of sentence lets a driver found guilty of DWI off without a conviction, and no record is made of the charges. During the past year, Antel has prosecuted every person charged with DWI in Boone County. He ex-plains that the legalities of drunken ( See CRITICS P. 8A) : ' In town toiisay 7: 33 pan. " Carousel," Ma- plewo- od Barn Theater, Nifong Park. Tickets are $ 2 for adults, $ 1 for senior citizens and students. g 8: 15 pan. " Dames at Sea," I Summer Repertory Theater, I University Theater. Tickets I are $ 6 for adults, $ 4 for senior citizens and $ 1 for students. I index Classified 6A Comics... 4f & 1 Opinion LSports Hecord 4s Florida plays bally name game By Lecaae McKee Missourian staff writer Sidney has nearly everything a one- month-- old could ask for. Except a last name. His parents gave him one, but the State of Florida says he can't keep it. So his parents, Dean Skylar and Chris Ledbetter, both graduates of the University School of Journalism, are taking the secretary of Florida's Department of Health and Rehabili-tative Services to ccurt. It may sound like a Hollywood plot, something from the author who gave us " Justice For AH," but to Skylar and Ms. Ledbetter, it's a se rious constitutional issue. When Ms. Ledbetter married Sky-lar in 1977, she defied tradition by re-taining her maiden name. On June 7, the day after Sidney was born, they defied tradition once more and Florida law, as well by entering the name Sidney Skybetter on their sen's birth certificate. According to a 1915 Florida stat-ute, a woman married at the time she gives birth must enter her hus-band's last name as the surname on the chfld's birth certificate. Skylar and Ledbetter say they were aware of the law before they completed Sidney's birth certificate but decided to name their child Sky- bett- er anyway. " We are dealing with a basic tra-dition, one we don't think is nec-essary," says Skylar. " There was never any question that Sidney would have a different last name." They liked the name Skybetter, which they created by fusing their own last names together, Ms. Led-better explains, because it would give their son a chance to start off in life with his own name, his own iden-tity. " Hyphenating our names would have made his too bulky," she says. " It was a very modem name, very two thousandish." The State of Florida isn't the only one unconvinced that modern is nec-- ( See SKYBETTER, P. SA) Governor considering second special session By Beth A. Hughes State capital bureau JEFFERSON CITY Gov. Christopher Bond confirmed Thursday that he has dis-cussed with legislative leaders the possibili-ty of a special General Assembly session in late autumn, apparently to give legislators a chance to vote on pay raises for government officials including themselves. The possibility of a special session in No-vember came up during a press conference at which Bond announced he was scheduling an earlier special session for Aug. 16 to dis-cuss appropriation of $ 75 million in revenue from the sale of bonds. The bond issue was approved in a special election in June. The bond money has been earmarked for state building, economic and soil erosion projects, but specific projects have not been identified. That will be the purpose of the Au-gust session. Senate President Pro Tern Norman Mer- rel- l, D- Monticel-lo, said a second session af-ter the November election would allow law-makers to consider the politically sticky issue of pay increases for government offi-cials. " It's not worthy of discussion in August," Merrell said. " We couldn't have realistic dis-- cussion on the matter." Earlier this year, Bond requested pay in-creases for department directors, whose sal-aries are set by law at $ 40,000. In the House, there was a move to include legislators in the pay raise Dackage. The measure eventually died in the House Budget Commmittee. Legislators would prefer to discuss salary issues after the November election rather than during the August session, Merrell said. " No one wants to discuss pay raises before an election." He said some legislators are anxious to de-cide the pay raise issue in November rather than waiting until the regular January ses-sion so the increases can go into effect more quickly. According to the Missouri Constitution, a legislative pay increase cannot take effect until the next two- ye- ar General Assembly term. This means if the pay raise is ap-proved before January, it can become effec-tive in January 1983. If not approved until January 1S83 or later, it could take effect un-til January 1985. Merrell said he has not decided whether he will support a second special session. " I am hesitant on having a session to dis-cuss nothing more than pay raises when lay-offs are becoming more prevelant for Mis-souri workers," he said. Opportunities Walsh finalist for 3 jobs ByS. L- Wyke- s Missourian staff writer David E. Walsh, former Colum-bia police chief who last May was forced from his job by City Man-ager Richard Gray, is among top candidates for police chief jobs in Kissimmee, Fla., Prairie Village, Kan., and Waterloo, Iowa. Kissimee city manager Sam Ackley Thursday confirmed that he and five police chiefs from oth-er Florida towns will interview- Wals- h early next week. Ackley said he expects to name a new chief later that week. Background checks and pre- employm- ent polygraph tests will be required of candidates, he said. The committee also will consult with the FBI and the Fed-eral Drug Enforcement Adminis-tration. " We are looking for someone with professional capability and good training who is familiar with the National Crime Commission's goals and standards," Ackley said. " Our department and town have come from rural to urban in the last 10 years and we need a well- round- ed chief." Kissimmee is host community for Disneyworld and a soon- to- be- complet- ed, billion- doll- ar Disney theme park, the Experimental Prototype City of Tomorrow. Ackley said population growth from 7,000 in 1970 to 18,900 today has changed local law enforce-ment. Kissimmee's current police chief Jimmie Watford, 48, is leav-ing the job to become special as-sistant to the city manager. j In November 1981, a commis-sioned management study de-scribed Watford as " disinterested and unresponsive" to a majority of Kissimmee's 45 police officers. Ackley, who became city man-ager a short time later, gave Wat-ford four months to reorganize and improve the department Ackley announced Watford's transfer April 13 and a national search for a new chief began the next day. The Kissimmee police I officers' union then announced its I intention to apply for deunioniza-- I tion as a gesture of goodwill to the in- comi- ng chief. 8 The final five candidates, in-cluding Walsh, were selected from 60 applicants. The chief's ( See FLORIDA, P. SA) |