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The Putnam County Banner-Graphic, May 7,1983

Mayor, aldermen file suits

Chicago goes from simmer to full boil

(c) 1983 Chicago Sun-Times CHICAGO Mayor Harold Washington broke up a meeting of aldermen with a veto Friday, then lost a Circuit Court fight to cirb another meeting set for Saturday. The mayor and 29 aldermen led by Edward R. Vrdolyak sued each other after a surprise veto canceled Friday’s session of Vrdolyak supporters. The Vrdolyak 29 drove around the mayor’s roadblocks and pressed on with plans to meet again Saturday to ratify minutes of their momentous Monday meeting at which they selected committee chairmen and adopted rules in defiance of Washington. On Saturday, they plan to approve the May 2 City Council

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Tornadoes, dust storms riddle Midwest; three persons killed

By DEBORAH ZABARENKO Associated Press Writer Powerful thunderstorms drove through the Midwest today after a tornado ripped a five-mile trail of destruction through Topeka, Kan., killing an elderly man, and two motorists died in blinding dust storms on Illinois highways. Thunder clouds stretched today from northwest Illinois through central Missouri and northeast Oklahoma, also threatening more flood devastation in waterlogged towns along the swollen Mississippi River. At least a dozen twisters touched down Friday night in Nebraska, lowa and Kansas, the National Weather Service said. In Topeka, a 59-year-old man died when a tornado destroyed his trailer in the Ridgewood Estates mobile home park, police said. Hospitals reported 19 injuries. “I heard a low roar like a low-

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Journal, the official record of proceedings, showing they took their actions by rollcall votes after Washington declared the session adjourned. The Vrdolyak group filed a suit asking the Circuit Court to stop Washington from “hindering and obstructing’’ them in their lawful duties. The surprise veto canceled Friday’s session, but the 29 promptly exercised the right of any three aldermen to call a special session. Waehington then filed a lawsuit asking the court to bar council consideration of the disputed minutes at Saturday’s session. But Judge Joseph M. Wosik ruled in an emergency hearing that he would not interfere with an argument bet-

flying jet,” said Sylvia Godlove, standing in her doorway with her two children when the twister approached. “I looked out the front door and just saw the wind and the whirling of stuff and I yelled, ‘Head for the basement.’ And it hit as I ran down.” Ms. Godlove’s home was one of about 130 dwellings damaged or destroyed as the tornado ripped a five-mile swath through Topeka, officials said. But none of her family was hurt. Two other tornadoes struck the Kansas towns of Burlingame and Auburn, destroying a dozen homes and overturning three mobile homes, state officials said. The cold front that spawned the violent weather Friday pushed into the Midwest today, with more rain and tornadoes possible, especially in the Ohio Valley, said Hugh Crowther at the National Weather Service’s Severe Storms Center in Kan-

Prison vaulter clears the wall OROVILLE, Calif. (AP) An inmate captured after escaping from the Butte County jail admitted it looked suspicious—but there was really a simple explanation. The prisoner, Glenn Kalina, told authorities he was practicing his pole-vaulting, he slipped, and the “next thing I knew I was in Chico,” a town 28 miles away. Kalina’s narrative in a probation report didn’t win any favor from Superior Court Judge Reginald Watt, who sentenced him Friday to three years, eight months in prison for the escape and a burglary charge to which he had previously pleaded guilty. Sheriff’s deputies said there was nothing Kalina could have used for pole-vaulting, and that he had simply climbed over the jail wall on March 31. Kalina was recaptured April 1 in Chico.

ween the executive and legislative branches. Attorney Donald Page Moore, representing Washington, attacked the May 2 journal and said the 29 aldermen were intent on “casting in concrete” actions that were unlawful. William Harte, representing the aldermen, said it was a classic case of an executive asking the courts to restrain the legislative branch. In ruling, Wosik said courts are “too often used as scapegoats” in arguments between the two branches of government. Pending in Judge James C. Murray’s court is the Vrdolyak bloc’s suit accusing the mayor of meddling in their governmental affairs.

sas City, Mo. An Indiana man died Friday in a nine-car pileup caused by swirling dust on Interstate 57 about 150 miles southwest of Chicago, said Illinois state police Cpl. Lloyd Smith. “The visibility was zero and when the front vehicle stopped it caused a chain reaction,” Smith said. Nine other people were injured. Near Lincoln, 111., a 76-year-old man died in a dust storm when his car slammed head-on into a semi-trailer truck as he tried to pass a church bus carrying 41 passengers. Four bus passengers were injured. In Omaha, Neb., high winds peeled away the roof of a car wash. “I heard a gush of wind,” said customer Rich Harbert. “The wind pushed me up against the wall and the roof just rose up and left ... It was just spectacular.”

Committee confirms Ruckleshaus

(c) 1983 Boston Globe WASHINGTON - The nomination of William Ruckelshaus as administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency advanced to the Senate floor Friday when a Senate committee voted 16-0 in favor of his confirmation. Approval by the Committee on Environment and Public Works followed three days of unusually thorough but friendly hearings this week. Though there was little doubt the committee would recommend Ruckelshaus, who served from 1970-73 as the first EPA administrator, senators had sought assurances that he would have the independence and authority, as well as the will, to enforce the nation’s environmental laws. The Senate will take up his confirmation next week,

A spokesman for Washington said Friday night that the mayor will preside at Saturday’s legally constituted session. The spokesman, Grayson Mitchell, said, “I imagine there will be some debate on the journal, and the mayor will be bound by a majority vote of the membership.” Mitchell said Washington will respond next week to the aidermen’s suit. Meanwhile, he said, the mayor will seek a political solution through compromise. Earlier, Washington made public a letter he sent to City Clerk Walter S. Kozubowski, scolding him for the way he recorded the May 2 actions and charging his journal was tainted with “political con-

Senate panel okays end to Central America funds

c. 1983 N.Y. Times News Service WASHINGTON The Senate Intelligence Committee approved a measure Friday that would enable Congress to cut off future financing for covert operations in Central America unless the president submits a plan for the region that meets with the approval of the congressional intelligence committees. However, the committee, in a bipartisan vote of 13 to 2, approved the continuation of covert activities in Central America through this fiscal year, which ends Sept. 30. The action marked the first time that one of the congressional intelligence committees had formally asserted what it considered its right to approve specific covert activities, according to a member of the coomittee. “We are no longer simply to be informed,’ 1 said Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan, D-N.Y. “We want to be part of the process.” According to a compromise plan the committee adopted after three hours of briefings and deliberations in a secret session, sl9 million for covert activities in Central America next year would be contingent upon approval of President Reagan’s assessments and goals for the region bythe House and Senate intelligence committees. “We want a redefined program on Central America,” said Sen. Barry Goldwater, R-Ariz., the chairman of the committee and the author of the compromise measure. “I want him to tell us in plain language just what it is he wants to do relative to Nicaragua and other countries.” Under current law, the president is required to inform the intelligence committees of covert actions, but the committees have no right to disapprove them. The committee’s action was based on its power to authorize funding of the Central Intelligence Agency. The Senate committee deliberately chose not to embrace this week’s House Intelligence Committee plan to cut off funds for covert aid

Fighting resumes near Beirut

BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) - Christian and Druse militamen battled stubbornly through the night in hills overlooking Beirut bringing residential neighborhoods under indiscriminate artillery and rocket bombardments. The fighting, which entered its third straight day today, claimed at least 18 lives, wounded 70 people and marked the worst violence involving Beirut since last summer’s war between Israeli troops and Palestinian guerrillas. Lebanon asked U.S. envoy Morris Draper to request that Washington intervene and pressure Israel to control the fighting in mountain regions un-

possibly on Tuesday, after President Ronald Reagan returns to Washington. The White House has tentative plans for Reagan himself to swear in Ruckelshaus to underscore administration concern for environmental issues. If approved by the Senate, Ruckelshaus will be taking over an agency that he described this week as “crippled” and “in trouble”. In the past two months, the former administrator, Anne M.Burford, and 13 other top EPA officials have left amid scandal, controversy and a series of congressional investigations into mismanagement of the Superfund program, established to clean up abandoned toxic waste dumps. The nomination of Ruckelshaus to replace Burford

siderations.” In another development, it was learned that Illinois Senate President Philip J. Rock will meet sparately with the mayor and Vrdolyak Saturday in quest of a compromise. As the legal action swirled Friday, aldermen objected bitterly to Washington’s action in sending police to their homes at midnight Thurday, bearing messages that both Monday’s and Friday’s meetings of the Grdolyak camp were illegal. Some likened the action to Nazi raids. “Anybody who compares the Chicago police to the Gestapo has me to deal with,” the mayor told a press conference. He appeared confident and in good spirits throughout the day,

by the CIA to anti-Sandinist rebels. The House committee, voting along party lines Tuesday, authorized S3O million for the remainder of this fiscal year and SSO million for the next fiscal year for overt operations designed to help friendly Central American nations stop the flow of weapons to El Salvador. The Reagan administration repeatedly has argued that the purpose of covert action in Central America is to stop the flow of weapons from Cuba and the Soviet Union through Nicaragua to rebels in El Salvador. Critics of the president’s plan contend that the purpose of the covert action is to destabilize the Sandinist government of Nicaragua. Reagan, speaking in Phoenix Friday, warned that congressional committees were “indifferent to another Communist takeover on our doorstep” and added: “Running away from this clearcut responsibility would reward aggression and bring dishonor to the good name of the United States. It would swell the tide of political and economic instability, creating a new army of refugees and bring danger closer and closer to home.” Meanwhile, Powell Moore, assistant secretary of state for congressional relations, reaffirmed that the number of American military training officers in El Salvador has not exceeded 55 since the spring of 1981. He said, however, the Reagan administration hoped Congress would not seek to restrict the training programs. “To the extent that available funds permit, we would be prepared to provide additional training at facilities outside of El Salvador,” he wrote in a letter to Sen. Charles H. Percy, the Illinois Republican who heads the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. “At the same time, we would strongly oppose any rigid legislative constraint that would preclude reasonable modifications to the structure of our training program.”

der Israeli control about seven miles east and southeast of the capital. The artillery, rocket and mortar duels escalated dramatically Friday afternoon shortly after reports spread of a major breakthrough in U.S. efforts to forge an agreement for the withdrawal of Israeli and Syrian forces from Lebanon. Christian militiamen accused the Druse of escalating the fighting to undermine a troop withdrawal agreement. The Druse charged the Christians were fighting to consolidate their positions in the Aley and Chouf mountains hoping to take

was seen as an attempt to limit the political damage that the environmental controversy was causing the administration. In contrast to Burford, who came to the EPA as an antiregulation ideologue and Washington amateur, Ruckelshaus is a moderate Republican with government experience and environmental credentials. During this crisis of credibility at the Burford EPA, it was alleged that politics, not public health, had dictated decisions about the clean-up of dumps; that the agency made sweetheart deals with the companies responsible for these dumps; and that “hit lists” compiled by conservative grouls guided EPA appointments to scientific advisory panels. These hit lists had contained comments about the candidates’ political, rather

but he clearly regretted the uproar that has split his government in its first week of business. He said the courts aren’t the proper place to resolve legislative disputes, adding, “We didn’t willingly enter into any battle. ... We have attempted to work out an accommodation.” But he said, “They don’t want to compromise, that’s pretty clear.” His forces are garnering some more votes, he said, but offered no headcount of aidermen. Earlier, Washington told a meeting of business executives, “We have a council who doesn’t understand who the mayor is.”

control of the strategic hilltops if the Israelis withdraw. Caught in between were residents of east Beirut’s Christian neighborhoods, who were forced to spend the night in basements and shelters for protection against artillery shells and rockets, Lebanon’s state radio said. Jouniyeh, a lively summer resort some 12 miles north of Beirut, was also bombarded by multiple-rocket launchers, according to Beirut radio. The city is full of beach hotels, motels and casinos and usually crowded with weekenders, but there was no report on casualties in the port city.

than scientific, qualifications. In the two years of the Burford EPA, 50 scientists were removed from these panels. Because it appeared the EPA was more interested in protecting business than the environment, cartoonists began to portray Burford as the head of the Environmental Pollution Agency. During the hearings, Ruckelshaus said there had been “an abuse of process” in the enforcement of environmental laws at the EPA and said that his biggest task would be to regain the public trust that had been lost. In a prepared statement after Friday’s vote, Sen. Robert Stafford (R-Vt.), chairman of the Senate Environment Committee, expressed confidence Ruckelshaus would “restore the integrity of the agency”.

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ABC drops plans

NEW YORK (AP) Actress Elizabeth Taylor says she’s “extremely gratified” by ABC-TV’s decision to drop plans for a docu-drama based on her life. “I have long believed that the so-called docu-drama misleads the public by combining fact and fiction in such a way that the two are indistinguishable,” she said in a statement released Friday. Miss Taylor, 51, sued ABC last October, asking a federal court to prevent the network and David Paradine Television Inc., a production company, from doing the film. ABC spokesman Bob Wright said in a statement Friday that the project was dropped for “creative reasons.” He refused to elaborate. • LOS ANGELES (AP) says he will answer a subpoena from a judge in Italy who is investigating an international weapons and drug smuggling ring. Brazzi, 67, said Judge Carlo Palermo has subpoenaed him, but the actor said he faces no charges and is free to move about freely. Police sources in Rome told The Associated Press they searched Brazzi’s apartment there as part of Palermo’s investigation. But Brazzi said Thursday he was not aware of the search. The judge and police officials refused to comment on the search, reportedly conducted by customs officials April 29. Brazzi, who is in the United States making a movie called “Fear City,” said he had heard of the case and had talked to police in Rome by telephone. “They’ve been calling me from Italy,” he said from the Los Angeles office of his agent, Lew Sherrell. “I know one person who has been arrested, but there are no charges for me.” Brazzi, best known as the suave, romantic star of the 1958 musical “South Pacific,” said he would probably return to Italy next week. • LOS ANGELES (AP) A cocaine trafficking charge against Robert Troy Kimball, lead singer for the Grammy Award-winning rock group Toto, should be dropped because the evidence against him is circumstantial, his attorney says. “We say there’s no evidence to bind him over for trial,” attorney John Murphy said Friday after asking a municipal court judge to drop the charge. Kimball was charged after an undercover sheriff’s deputy bought four ounces of cocaine from two women on Dec. 15,1981. Lindsay Kapsinow, 30, and Donna L. Hahn, 28, both facing trial on drug charges, allegedly told deputies they got the cocaine from someone in the music industry. Murphy said the evidence against his client was circumstantial and the two women never identified Kimball by name. Kimball was arrested in his car near a restaurant where the deputy allegedly bought the drug from the women, the lawyer said. • RIVERSIDE, Calif. (AP) Nan Wood Graham, the dour-faced woman in her brother’s famed painting, “American Gothic,” at first hated the portrayal. But now, 53 years after agreeing to pose, she says it saved her life from being “very drab.” Grant Wood convinced his sister in 1930 to be the model for the prim woman in the dull dress, next to the bespectacled man grasping a pitchfork. The painting has become a symbol of the American Midwest. Mrs. Graham, 83, says her brother wooed her into posing by promising no one would recognize her. He was wrong. Today she admits being stung at first by critics who said she had a face that would “sour milk,” but later she began to relish the attention. “Grant made a personality of me,” she says. “I would have had a very drab life without it.” Despite America’s fascination with the sturdy couple outside a white frame house, Mrs. Graham said in a recent interview that the painting has always been misinterpreted. She said her brother didn’t intend to depict a married couple, but a small town father with his spinster daughter. The model didn’t fit the role Nan Wood was 30 and married when Wood sought her help. The male model was Wood’s 60-year-old dentist, Byron H. McKeeby. LOS ANGELES (AP) Vaughn Taylor, a character actor in TV and film productions from “Playhouse 90” to Jailhouse Rock,” died of a cerebral hemmorhage on April 26. He was 72. Taylor appeared on “Robert Montgomery Presents,” “General Electric Theater” and “Kraft Television Theater. His film credits included “Up Front,” “Meet Danny Wilson,” “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof,” “The Unsinkable Molly Brown,” and “In Cold Blood.”