Banner Graphic, Volume 9, Number 301, Greencastle, Putnam County, 27 August 1979 — Page 2

The Putnam County Banner Graphic, August 27,1979

Moral torture? Mother appeals to Carter for ballerina's release

NEW YORK (AP) The mother of ballerina Ludmilla Vlasova appealed to President Carter to end the “cruel moral torture” as her daughter and 52 other Soviet citizens remained aboard an Aeroflot jetliner grounded at Kennedy International Airport since Friday. Carter was "closely involved,” a State Department official said, as negotiations dragged into another day over the fate of the wife of Bolshoi Ballet star Alexander Godunov, who defected last week. American officials want assurances that Miss Vlasova, also a member of the internationally renowned troupe, was returning to the Soviet Union voluntarily. But Soviet officials said Miss Vlasova, 36, wanted to return to her homeland and was afraid to leave the plane to meet privately with American authorities for fear that they would spirit her away. Chief U.S. negotiator Donald McHenry, deputy U S. representative to the United Nations Security Council, told reporters late Sunday that the crisis would soon be over. However, McHenry did not disclose the basis for his optimism.

Jail seige Inmate killed, hostage wounded as gunfire erupts

LAS VEGAS, Nev. (AP) Gunfire erupted today in the city jail where inmates were holding three guards hostage and one prisoner was killed and a hostage guard was wounded, officials said. The wounded guard and his two fellow hostages, both of whom were unharmed, emerged from the second-floor lockup, said Police Lt. JO. Smith. He said some of the 84 inmates had apparently turned against their ringleaders. "They (the dissidents) are in charge now,” he said. Smith said police met all but three of the 18 demands made by the prisoners. “They didn’t like all of them (the police responses), but they’re conceding the ones they don’t like,” he said. The points that were denied included demands for better representation by public defenders, improved facilities for Sunday religious services and radios in every cell. Smith said the first two demands could not be met be-

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cause they were outside police jurisdiction, and the third was impossible because not all jail cells had electrical outlets. Earlier today, the prisoners issued a separate demand that their terms and the police reaction to them be published in a local newspaper. Smith said while the department has agreed in principle to release the information, “that’s still one of the items we’re negotiating.” Once agreement on that issue is reached, he added, the method of surrender also would have to be worked out. Smith said the three guards

Explosion kills Mountbatten

DUBLIN, Ireland (AP) Earl Mountbatten, uncle of Prince Philip and a top British military commander in World War 11, was killed today in an explosion on a boat at his summer residence in Ireland, police said. Irish terrorists claimed responsibility for the blast. Police said a local boatman, Paul Maxwell, also was killed, and four or five other persons were missing, including a grandson of the 79-year-old Mountbatten. The explosion occurred in Donegal Bay outside Mullaghmore, an Irish Republic village just miles from the border with Northern Ireland, where guer-

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Meanwhile, Orville Schell, Godunov’s lawyer, said he and Godunov were certain Miss Vlasova wanted to remain in the United States. The dancer was standing by near the airport, the attorney said. And the Soviet news agency Tass on Sunday published the text of a telegram from the ballerina’s mother, Alexandra Gerasimova Drozhdina, asking Carter to end the “cruel abuse of elementary human rights.” “For two days my daughter has been subjected to cruel moral torture,” it said. The woman charged: “The American authorities are setting absolutely illegal conditions for the departure of the aircraft with my daughter and other Soviet passengers aboard.” The Soviet Union has formally protested to both the United States and the United Nations the decision to hold the plane until U.S. officials could talk privately with Miss Vlasova. Henry Owen, U.S. ambassador at large, said President Carter was being briefed on the stalemate "several times a day” during his weekend at Camp David, Md. Owen said Carter was making policy decisions in the nego-

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were “all still in good shape.” He would not offer any prediction about their release. Demands ranged from complaints about cold food and lukewarm showers to requests for better medical care, better access to court records and an exercise room or yard. The prisoners demanded more frequent and better laundry service, complaining: ‘“When we do get our laundry, it isn’t much cleaner than the dirty stuff we are sending out. ” They argued poor laundry service “makes us look even worse when we go to court and confront the judge.”

rillas of the Irish Republican Army’s “Provisional” wing have been fighting to end British rule. Mountbatten, a great-grand-son of Queen Victoria and cousin of Queen Elizabeth 11, had just set out with a group of friends on a fishing trip from the harbor at the County Sligo village of Mullaghmore, in the northwest corner of the Irish Republic, police said. They said the cause of the blast could not be determined immediately, but they were working on the theory that a timebomb had been placed aboard. “But everything is very con-

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In response to the first set of 10 demands, authorities tried to alleviate problems, police said. But the inmates expressed complete satisfaction only with pledges for improved dental care and increased access to telephones. Police responded to a new list of eight demands Sunday night, but declined to say whether they had agreed to any more demands. At least five of the 84 inmates in the second-floor lockup were involved in negotiations, said police Capt. Dan Stopka.

fused. A lot of vessels are out there searching for wreckage,” a police spokesman said. The Irish National Liberation Army, a splinter group of the Provisional IRA, claimed responsibility for killing Earl Mountbatten in a telephone call to the Irish Independent newspaper group in Dublin. Police said the two bodies had been recovered. Also in the boat were Mountbatten’s son-in-law and daughter, Lord and Lady Braboume, and their sons Nicholas and Timothy. Police said Nicholas was missing.

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tiations, but declined to specify whether he was referring to talks at the airport and elsewhere in New York. Meanwhile, the passengers aboard the Aeroflot jetliner were probably “quite uncomfortable” as a result of their long confinement, McHenry said. At one point, the air conditioning failed, but it was restored. A suggestion that the passengers be transferred to a secluded airport lounge was rejected, McHenry said. Forty-nine Americans and 10 other non-Soviets left the Mos-cow-bound plane early Saturday. McHenry, who was not permitted on the aircraft, rejected a Soviet suggestion that U.S. journalists be allowed to talk with Miss Vlasova. McHenry said U.S. officials wanted Miss Vlasova to get off the plane and tell them she was leaving of her own volition, but said there were “other alternatives,” which he did not specify. He said one reason the government acted was because Miss Vlasova had been “under heavy escort since the defection of her husband.” Tass quoted Miss Vlasova as saying the grounding was “out-

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Despite Iranian turmoil Oil production sets new record

By DEBORAH WOOD By The Associated Press World crude oil production set a record during the first six months of 1979 despite fears that political turmoil in Iran would worsen critical petroleum shortages, an industry journal reports. However, “there’s no assurance the brisk pace can be maintained for the rest of the year,” said the Oil and Gas Journal, adding that because of the uncertainty, prices will continue to rise unless consumption drops drastically. The Tulsa-based journal said in its Aug. 27 edition world production averaged 61.892 million barrels a day from January to June, compared with 58.736 million barrels a day in the first

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half of 1978. The report comes after months of concern over energy shortages marked by long gasoline lines and rising fuel bills. It was accompanied by other reports of favorable trends: —The Lundberg Letter, an authoritative oil marketing journal, said its survey of 16,700 service stations showed U.S. Department of Energy gasoline pricing regulations are being followed. —Rep. Les Aspin, D-Wis., said a study showed American homes and businesses may have stockpiled an extra 1 billion gallons of heating oil, and the excess could ease a threatened shortage this winter. The reports coincided with the 120th anniversary of the

rageous.” Earlier, in the presence of Soviet officials, she had told American negotiators, “I love my husband, but he made his decision to stay here and I made mine to leave.” However, Schell said Miss Vlasova and Godunov had agreed to defect together. He said Miss Vlasova “began to waffle” two days before Godunov sought asylum. Schell said he had warned the State Department on Thursday that Godunov feared his wife would be forced to return to Moscow and had been “reassured that she would not get on the plane.” Godunov, the first defector from the Bolshoi, was granted asylum in the United States on Thursday, saying he wanted to explore new areas of dance. The rest of the Moscow-based troupe left New York early today for Chicago, where they were to continue their American tour. Schell said Miss Vlasova was married previously but had no children by either marriage. He said he did not know if Godunov left relatives in the Soviet Union.

investigating. After some four hours of standing on the steeple, police managed to rescue Kitteredge. (AP Wirephoto).

completion of the world’s first commercial oil well. On Aug 27, 1859, Edwin Drake’s well near Titusville, Pa., struck an oil pocket, starting a petroleum fever that began U.S. dependence on oil. His success was discovered Aug. 28 Oil Discovery Day. In the first six months of 1979, average non-communist production reached 47.8 million barrels a day, according to the Oil and Gas Journal, despite a shortfall of production in Iran. The six-month average was 5.8 percent higher than the average for the same period in 1978, the Journal said. Saudi Arabia, the largest producer in the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, averaged almost 9 million

Melon breaks record--too late HOPE, Ark. (AP) eight ounces in three hours to weigh in at 200 pounds. It was a record, but those ounces and a few pounds more cost him SIO,OOO. Not to worry, he says. The seeds alone were selling Sunday for about $8 apiece. And within three years Bright figures the giant melon will be the proud papa of a 225-pounder. Hope, a town of 9,000, is the self-proclaimed watermelon capital of the world and the Advertisement and Tourism Commission had offered the big cash prize to the farmer who could produce a 200-pound melon by midnight Friday. Bright’s entry in the annual melon festival weighed 185 pounds on Wednesday and had gained another 10 pounds by Saturday. At 6:30 a m. Sunday, the melon weighed 199.5 pounds. Bv 9:30, it hit the mark Bright cut it from the vine in the sandy southwest Arkansas soil, it was “a big 200.” For his effort, Bright received S3OO from the Chamber of Commerce and a dollar a pound from a local car dealer. The melon, a cross between a North Carolina and a Cobb Gem. is going to the state fair. We just want the watermelon,” said the pleased farmer. “If we had won, it would have been taken to New York and that would have been the last of it. ” Bright says he needs the champion seeds to grow even larger melons. In three years, he says, he’ll have a 225pounder on the vine. Hope residents claim the largest watermelon on record had been a 195-pounder harvested in 1935 by the late O.D. Middlebrook, but the 1979 editon of the Guinness Book of World Records lists a 197 pound melon grown by a North Carolina man. Pod Rogers, Hope's watermelon promoter, says the claim weakens his faith in the book “I think of it as a hoax,” he said, adding that when he went to Tarboro, N.C., to check the 1975 champion, ‘‘we couldn't even find anyone there that had seen it.

barrels a day during the period its self-imposed ceiling. Communist production averaged more than 14 million barrels a day, a 3.8 percent increase over the same period in 1978, and the Journal said the Soviet Union, the world’s largest producer, boosted daily output to 11.5 million barrels, up 2.7 percent from last year. The United States, ranked third behind Saudia Arabia and the Soviet Union, averaged 8.6 million barrels a day, up 0.4 percent. Publisher Dan Lundberg said dealers seem to be obeying federal rules that limit profit margins. He attributed rising prices to wholesale price increases.