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a group of summer school chil-dren
at Centaire Ultralight Airport.
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from Mexico, Mo., demonstrates
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left) Brian, 5, and Scott Jamison, 3,
sons of Bruce and Jeanne Jamison,
5385 N. Clearview Road, and Craig
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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)
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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.
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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)