Columbia Missourian Newspaper 1982-09-15

              75th Yar --- No. 2 (; od Morning! Ii WilneclH. SirmlMr 15. I82 9 Sections 60 Page 25 Cent
Lebanese president- elec- t assassinated
BEIRUT, Lebanon ( UPI) Lebanese Presiden-t-
elect Besbir Gemayel was assassinated
Tuesday in a bomb explosion that demolished
his Phalange Party headquarters and plunged
Lebanon into a deep crisis.
At least eight people, including other senior
Phalange officials, were killed in the explo-sion,
which carried a force equivalent to near-ly
a quarter- to- n of TNT. No one has claimed
responsibility for the blast.
Government sources said the 34- year-- old
Christian leader, scheduled to be sworn in as
president Sept. 23, died about six hours after
the blast outside the east Beirut building
where he was meeting senior officials of his
party.
Gemayel's death left the country in a void at
a moment when many believed the new gov-ernment
was about to take control of the coun-try
after almost eight years of anarchy.
Government sources said outgoing President
Elias Sariris had the option of calling new elec-tions
before Sept. 23, when his term expires, or
appointing a Presidential Council an emer-gency
cabinet that would be headed by a Maro- nite. Catno- lic
and rule until it decided elections
could be held.
An extension of Saritis' six- ye- ar term would
require a change in the constitution.
" This plunges half the country into despair
and the other half into terror," one university
professor in west Beirut said.
The government sources said Gemayel's
body was taken to the Hotel Dieu hospital in
the Ashrafiyeh section of east Beirut, the same
neighborhood where he died.
For more than an hour after his body was
dug from the debris, official Beirut Radio
played funereal music without interruption.
The Voice of Free Lebanon radio, operated
by Gemayel's party, made no mention of his
death but issued statements telling members
of the Phalangist Lebanese Forces militia not
to venture out in uniform or carry guns without
specific orders.
It was the first time in the history of Leb-anon,
which gained independence from French
mandate in 1943, that a president or a preside-nt-
elect had been assassinated.
A former commander of the Christian Pha-langist
militia, Gemayel had been the target of
two previous assassination attempts. In one at-tempt
in 1980, his infant daughter and a body-guard
died in a car bomb explosion intended
for Gemayel.
Gemayel was a fiercely controversial figure
who was bitterly resented by Lebanese Mos-lems
as well as other Christian groups for his
cooperation with Israel and his ruthless mili-tary
tactics.
Israel and the United States had hoped his
election as president would allow the Lebanese
government to re- establi- sh control over the
troubled country now that Palestinian guerril-las
have been evacuated from Beirut.
But the assassination rekindled fears that
Lebanon would be plunged into bitter internal
fighting akin to the 1975- 7- 6 civil war.
Gemayel's aides originally said he narrowly
survived the blast and was discovered only
when his left hand beckoned to rescuers from a
pile of rubble. Phalange sources quoted him as
giving " thanks" to God for his survival.
But the government sources said several
witnesses saw Gemayel's body pulled out of
the rubble of the offices just after 10 a. m. ( 2
p. m. CDT), more than six hours after the
blast.
His assassination came amid reports of omi-nous
tank movements in eastern Lebanon fol-lowing
punishing Israeli air strikes Monday
against Syrian and Palestinian forces. The
leftist As Safir newspaper said three Syrian ar-mored
brigades moved into the Bekaa Valley
from Syria, and Israel reportedly sent 55 tanks
up to the front ' lines in what appeared to be a
prelude to a major showdown.
" Political observers are unanimous in re-garding
the situation in the Bekaa as explosive
and of the utmost seriousness," the indepen-dent
newspaper An Nahar said. " The coming
hours may bring some dramatic devel-opments."
U. S. envoy Morris Draper arrived in Israel
to start discussions with Foreign Minister Yitz-hak
Shamir on securing an Israeli and Syrian
withdrawal from Lebanon.
But Chief of Staff Gen. Rafael Eitan told the
Knesset's Foreign Affairs and Defense Com-mittee
that Israeli troops in Lebanon esti-mated
by U. S. intelligence at 75,000 were
preparing to stay for the winter.
In the only bright note in the region Tuesday,
King Hussein of Jordan praised President Rea-gan's
" courageous" proposals for peace in the
Middle East, which call for full Palestinian au-tonomy
in the occupied West Bank and Gaza
under Jordanian supervision.
" I believe it to be very constructive and a
very positive move. I would certainly like to
see it continue and evolve," Hussein said in an
interview with British television.
Washington welcomed the king's statement
his first on the Reagan initiative but Is-rael
dismissed it as nothing new.
Beshir Gemayel
Lebanese leader killed Princess Grace
of Monaco dies
MONTE CARLO, Monaco ( UPI)
Princess Grace of Monaco, who
abandoned the pinnacle of stardom
in Hollywood for a real- lif- e marriage
to a handsome prince, died Tuesday
of injuries suffered in a fiery car
crash, a palace spokesman said. She
was 52.
Former film star Grace Kelly of
Philadelphia, wife of the ruler of Mo-naco,
Prince Rainier m, died at 3: 30
pjn. CDT.
The spokesman, George
Tjikomski, said the princess died of
a cerebral hemorrhage.
The princess suffered a broken
right thighbone, collarbone and ribs
. Monday when the British- mad- e 3500
she was driving went out of control,
plunged down a 45- fo- ot embankment
at Cap D'Ail and burst into flames.
Earlier Tuesday, she had been re-ported
as " suffering greatly" from
her injuries.
Ijikomski read an official palace
communique that said the princess'
condition deteriorated beyond the
point of medical remedy.
Her youngest daughter, Stephanie,
17, is recovering from the shock and
bruises she suffered in the accident.
In Philadelphia, Princess Grace's
brother, John B. Kelly Jr., said he
learned of her death from his sister,
Liz, who had been in touch with doc-tors
and family members in Monaco.
Kelly said news of his sister's
death came as a shock. He had no
details of funeral arrangements.
Grace Patricia Kelly was born
Nov. 12, 1929, in Philadelphia. Her
father, John Brendan Kelly, son of
an Irish immigrant, worked his way
up from bricklayer to wealthy build-ing
contractor and Democratic city
chairman in Philadelphia, a rise
helped by his fame as the winner of
three Olympic rowing titles.
Princess Grace attended the Ra- venh- ill
Convent school and the Ste-vens
School, both in Germantown,
then studied for two years at the
American Academy of Dramatic
Arts in New York. She also worked
as a photographer's modeL
She made her professional acting
debut in July 1949 at the Bucks Coun-ty
Playhouse in New Hope, Pa.,
where she appeared in " The Torch
Bearers," a comedy by her uncle,
George Kelly,- - the Pulitzer Prize- winni- ng
playwright. Her debut on
Broadway came later that year in
Strindberg's " The Father," starring
Raymond Massey.
She appeared frequently in tele-vision
drama before going to Holly-wood
in 1951. A year later she por-trayed
Gary Cooper's Quaker wife in
the film classic " High Noon."
" Sexual elegance" was the phrase
Alfred Hitchcock coined to describe
her cool beauty. She starred in two
Hitchcock movies " Dial M For
Murder" and " Rear Window." She
also starred in " Mogambo" with
Clark Gable and won the New York
Film Critics Award and an Academy
Award as best actress in 1954 for
" The Country GirL"
It was while she was on the Rivie-ra
in 1954, making the Hitchcock
film " To Catch A Thief" with Cary
Grant, that she first met Prince
Rainier m, a member of the Gri- mald- is,
Europe's oldest royal family.
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Princess Grace of Monaco made a rare Hollywood appearance
in March 1980 to pay tribute to actor Jimmy Stewart. The for-mer
actress died Tuesday of injuries suffered in an auto wreck.
Lifestyle top cause
of cancer problem
SEATTLE ( UPI) Saying you
dont have to know the cause of
cancer to prevent it, a noted re-searcher
Tuesday urged Ameri-cans
to change their lifestyles by
quitting smoking, moderating
drinking and eating low- fa- t, high- fib- er
foods.
Dr. Ernst Wynder also had
some good news.
The president of the American
Health Foundation said his pop-ulation
studies showed no reason
to get worried about some reports
issued recently on possible can-cer
causes.
He said, for example, that he
found no correlation between
such things as saccharin and hu-man
cancer, coffee and pancreat-ic
cancer, and hair dyes and
breast cancer.
Wynder said cancer does not
have to be an inevitable conse-quence
of aging and be said the
American public and doctors
need to be better educated about
a safer lifestyle.
He said most family doctors
have been more concerned with
healing than preventing, and " I
think American medicine would
see a better day if, in addition to
being healers, we were also pre- venter- sof
disease."
Wynder is credited with pro-ducing
the first studies linking
cigarette smoking to lung cancer
and be told the 13th International
Cancer Congress that smoking re-mains
a major problem. He pre-dicted
that by 1985 lung cancer
will overtake breast cancer as the
leading cancer killer of women,
as it already is for men.
" Here we know the cause and
as a society we haven't been able
to stop it," be said.
He said numerous studies have
shown that alcohol, while proba-bly
not a cause of cancer by itself ,
can promote its development in
conjunction with some other
agent, such as smoking. Alcohol'
consumption ' is strongly asso-ciated
with cancers of the mouth,
larynx and esophagus.
Numerous studies, including
his own, have found an associa-tion
between fat in the diet and
cancers of the breast and colon.
He said fat also appears to work
as a promoter of tumors.
Wynder recommended that the
American diet be limited to no
more than 25 percent of calories
in the form of fat He said the av-erage
fat intake now accounts for
40 percent of the total calories.
" This means we ought to eat
only lean meat, since 40 percent
of our fat calories come from
meat, and we ought to encourage
the meat industry to produce
leanermeats."
Wynder said Americans, in-cluding
children, should drink
skim or low- f- at milk and not
whole milk.
He said the intake of food fiber
should be increased, vegetable
proteins should be increased and
salt intake should be cut.
" If the housewives of this coun-try
and the restaurants begin to
realize that you can cook lean and
yet gourmet foods, I think we're
going to be healthier people."
Code's fee plan
stirs up trouble
By John Boudreau
Missourian staff writer
The Boone County Court was
greeted with a flurry of opposition
Tuesday after it adopted wording for
the Nov. 2 ballot question about
levying permit fees for a building
code.
The fee schedule calls for a charge
of 6 cents per square foot of con-struction.
Presiding Judge Bill Freeh did not
allow public input on the permit is-sue
because he said the County
Court's vote on the matter was not a
public hearing.
But a debate ensued following the
court's vote.
Building Codes Commission Chair- man'B- ob
Bassett vowed to fight the
partial implementation of codes the
court approved last Thursday. He
also asked the court to hear a recom-mendation
from his commission.
The court, however, refused to listen
to the commission's request at its
regular meeting. But it did convene
an informal meeting afterward to
hear the commission's complaints.
The court also received a mem--,
orandum from Assistant Prosecut-ing
Attorney Kandice Johnson, who
said the ballot wording is legal.
Southern District Judge Kay Rob-erts
said Ms. Johnson, who was not
at the meeting, told her that the
court's action is legal " to the best of
my knowledge."
After the 2-- 1 court vote that ap-proved
the ballot wording, Bassett
requested that the court take a 10- min- ute
recess so the codes commis
sion could vote on whether to peu- tio- n
the court to remove the fees
from the Xov. 2 ballot. If the codes
are not applied countywide, the com-mission's
members don't want any
codes, he said.
" We had hoped to change your
mind today and to put building codes
in Boone County in its entirety,"
Bassett said. " I will fight it as it is
now. If I were an average informed
voter on this issue, I would vote
against it."
On a motion by Freeh, the court
last Thursday voted 2-- 1 to adopt
codes for the structural, plumbing,
and electrical facets of new con-struction
for the " urban service
area" surrounding Columbia, major
subdivisions, and all commercial, in-dustrial
and recreational buildings.
The vote Tuesday was again 2-- 1 to
place permit fees on the ballot, with
Freeh and Mrs. Roberts supporting
it. Northern District Judge Dick
Fanner opposed the measure be-cause
he said the public might be-lieve
it is for all- coun- ty codes in-stead
of partial implementation.
Besides, he said, there is no guar-antee
the Planning and Zoning Com-mission
will adopt the court's code
recommendations.
Urban service areas are those
parts of the unincorporated county
favorable for development. At pre-sent,
the county has no building
codes.
The legal question focuses on plac-ing
the fees on the November ballot
before the codes have been legally
( See VOTERS, Page 14A)
City still faces funding choices
By Leslie Werstein
Missourian staff writer
Although the City Council has ap-proved
next year's $ 64 million bud-get,
not all the city's spending deci-sions
have been made.
On Sept 20, the council will decide
which social service categories de-serve
city funds, and then 20 social
service agencies will compete for
the available money. Although the
city increased its budget for social
service contracts by 43 percent
from $ 352,000 to $ 502,000 money is
still tight for the agencies because of
reduced federal grants.
The total amount the agencies
have lost in federal grants is not yet
known, according to Barbara McDo-nald,
chairman of the Boone County
Community Services Advisory Com-mission,
but a committee has been
appointed to gather that data.
The council will meet with social
Insight
service agencies at 5 p-- m. Thursday
in the County- Cit- y Building to ac-quaint
council members with the op-erations
of the agencies before fund-ing
decisions are considered.
While the social service decisions
remain to be made, other facets of
the 1983- 8- 4 budget were firmed up
last week. The new budget which
is 14 percent higher than last year's
$ 56 million one will reduce prop-erty
taxes, raise utility rates and
give bigger paychecks to city em-ployees.
The council actually has adopted
several separate budgets, including
an $ 18.7 million general fund budget,
which finances city governmental
programs such as the Police, Fire
and Public Works departments.
Of the remaining $ 47.4 million in
the budget, $ 44.3 million goes to " en-terprise"
expenses for various utili-ty
services. The rest goes to internal
service funds, which include rent on
public buildings, printing costs and
vehicle maintenance.
Here are summaries of major pro-visions
in next year's city budget,
followed by some of the " spending
proposals the council did not ap-prove.
The property tax will drop by 52
percent, from 64 cents per $ 100 of as-sessed
valuation to 31 cents, the first
change since 1979, when the tax
dropped 24 percent from 84 cents.
The resulting $ 700,000 drop in reve-nue
will be covered by the s- e- ent
sales tax increase approved by vot-ers
in April.
Several utility bills are sched-uled
to increase. Sewer bills will in-crease
10 percent to generate ap-proximately
$ 178,000 for additional
construction, as well as operating
and staff costs, for the $ 57 million
sewage treatment plant under con-struction.
The plant is scheduled to
begin operating Dec. 1.
For the first time in eight years,
residents also will see their " water
bills increase. The 3 percent in-crease
is necessary, according to the
Water and Light Advisory Board, be-cause
of decreased water sales and
increased maintenance costs.
Average sewer bills for a familv of
four will climb from $ 4.77 a month to
$ 5.25 a month, according to Citv
Manager Dick Gray. Water bills will
increase from an ayerage $ 9.35 per
month to $ 9.63.
" City employees will receive a
7.6 percent cost- of- livi- ng increase
and a 0.4 percent increase in fringe
benefits. The cost- of- livi- ng hike
raised some controversy because in-flation
was only 6.5 percent, but the
( See CITY, Page 14A)
Cedar Creek expansion halted
By Jeff Fox
MiMourian staff writer
Another budget cut has hit Boone
and Callaway counties quietly.
The National Forest Service is no
longer buying land in the Cedar
Creek area in eastern Boone- and- '
western Callaway counties.
-- The federal government has
owned much of the land since the
1940s, and in November 1972 the area
was designated as a " purchase unit"
a government term that means it
will buy land within an established
area as parcels become available.
Of the the 90,000 acres in the Cedar
Creek area, the government owns
. about 15.000 acres today. In 1972,
plans called for purchasing up to 35,- 0- 00
acres.
As public property, hikers and
campers can use the land the Dev-il's
Backbone area is popular with
overnight hikers as can cattle
owners, who rent pasture lands
there.
The Reagan administration, how-ever,
has virtually halted further
land purchases.
In February 1981 the administra-tion
closed the Historic Conservation
and Recreation Service, the agency
that bought land in places like Cedar
Creek. The agency's duties have
been passed to the National Park
Service, which has no funds for such
purchases.
Jim Turner, staff assistant at
Mark Twain National Forest in
Rolla, says there are only two wavs
left to expand the Cedar Creek area".
One would be to exchange land the
Forest Service owns in the area for
land it wants to own. The service is
concentrating on acquiring areas
surrounded by federal property,
Turner says, which would allow con-solidation
of land already under fed-eral
ownership.
The other way would be to' spend
funds available from the sale of fed-eral
timber. But that process is com-plicated
and offers no real prospect
of iponey for the Cedar Creek area. Turner says.
In town
today
7 p. m. " Support Group for
Children of Alcoholics," Wom-en's
Center, 1 Gentry Hall,
University. Free and open to
the public.
Index
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Classified .2- 4- D
Comics 12A
Opinion 4A
People MB
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