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Mississippi swept by tornadoes WATER VALLEY, Miss. (AP) Workers labored today to restore power and phone service to this tornado-ravaged town, as prison inmates and church groups joined to aid victims of a series of twisters that killed 15 people and injured at least 100 others in northern Mississippi. Gov. Bill Allain toured the “totally devastated” community of Water Valley on Sunday after declaring 10 Mississippi counties disaster areas. Some of the town’s 4,500 residents attended Easter services in littered church parking lots while state penitentiary inmates helped clear roads of debris. Water Valley where seven people were killed, 45 homes were destroyed and more than 50 other dwellings damaged was the hardest hit when a wave of wind funnels spawned by thunderstorms raked northern Mississippi late Saturday afternoon. “We stood there like Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz and watched the house blow away around us,” said Jo Alexander, who was visiting her mother in Water Valley for Easter. All that was left of Louis Edwards’ house was the central hallway. But amid the devastation, there was optimism. “I guess you might say we were lucky it wasn’t worse,” said Yalobusha County Sheriff Lloyd Defer. “I’ll tell you one thing, as bad as it is, these folks are going to bounce back. We won’t worry about this thing too long.” Three Water Valley churches were severely damaged, but many residents still managed to attend Easter services. “This is not the worst thing that could happen to us,” the Rev. Guy Reedy told his congregation Sunday in the parking lot of First Baptist Church in Water Valley. Most of the roof and the wing housing the church’s kindergarten program had been destroyed, and a w all had been toppled by the force of the tornado.

Uncle Sam needs to borrow more

Senate poised to raise debt ceiling...again

WASHINGTON (AP) While the administration scrambles for ways to salvage its policies in Central America, Congress returns to work on Tuesday to face the necessity of raising the government’s borrowing authority by hundreds of billions of dollars to pay the bills for another year. Despite general congressional agreement on tax and spending cuts designed to shrink federal deficits by up to $lB2 billion over the next three years, the Treasury is just days away from bumping up against the current national debt ceiling of $1.49 trillion. So the Senate, back from a 10-day Easter recess, must act soon on the administration’s request to lift the debt limit to just under $1.6 trillion over the next five months and to $1.83 trillion through Sept. 30, 1985, the end of the next fiscal year. The new levels already have cleared the House. Regardless of how the debate over current spending and taxes evolves, the bureaucracy could grind to a halt early next month without the new line of credit.

Porno battle

Feminists, conservatives join forces in Indianapolis

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) Feminists and fundamentalists are finding themselves on the same side of an issue opposition to violent pornography and support for a city ordinance to make promoters of it subject to civil lawsuits. The controversial antipornography ordinance comes before the wcity-County Council today. Under the measure, violent pornography would constitute sexual discrimination. Both Beulah A. Coughenor, who headed the Indiana effort to stop passage of the Equal Rights Amendment, and Minnesota attorney Catharine A. MacKinnon, a feminist champion of women’s rights, agree when it comes to this issue. "We knew that basically fundamentalists and feminists were together on this particular issue because pornography shows women in just their basest light,” said the Rev. Greg Dixon, pastor of Indianapolis Baptist Temple and former national secretary of Moral Majority. The seeds for this battle bet-

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Libya will evacuate London embassy Sunday

LONDON (AP) - Libya reportedly has decided to evacuate its besieged embassy in London next Sunday just a few hours before a deadline set by Britain when it broke diplomatic relations with the North African nation. “We will go on the last day, on the Sunday, in the afternoon,” Britain’s domestic news agency, the Press Association, quoted a Libyan spokesman as saying today. The spokesman, reached by telephone in the embassy, declined to be identified. There was no official confirmation from Tripoli, the Libyan capital. A Scotland Yard spokesman who declined to be identified told The Associated Press, “They have to make plans to leave and we are making plans to assist them. As for where, when and how they leave, we know the answers to most of

ween those supporting free speech and those concerned with women’s rights were planted three months ago in Washington. Mayor William Hudnut, attending a meeting of municipal officials there, met a Minneapolis City Council member who had led the nation’s first attempt to pass such a law. Minneapolis Mayor Donald Fraser had just vetoed his council’s narrow 7-6 vote in favor of the antipornography ordinance. Hudnut, however, wants the ordinance approved by a council dominated by his fellow Republicans. However, an Indianapolis News poll of council members indicates the measure may not be supported by a majority. The ordinance was introduced here by City-County council member Beulah Coughenour. She says it was developed with the backing of Hudnut and Marion County Prosecutor Stephen Goldsmith after she met with Charlee Hoyt, who introduced the vetoed measure in Minneapolis.

square has been completely closed off to the public in the wake of last Tuesday's shooting incident in which a British policewoman was killed. (AP Laserphoto)

these questions, but we cannot make them public.” Britain broke relations and ordered the evacuation Sunday in a move designed to end a diplomatic standoff that began last Tuesday when a submachine gun was fired from an embassy window at Libyan exiles demonstrating against Col. Moammar Khadafy’s regime. Constable Yvonne Fletcher was killed and 11 protesters were injured. The embassy has been ringed by police marksmen since then. Libya expressed “astonishment and displeasure” at the British order and declared it “holds the British government responsible for this decision and its consequences.” Nevertheless, Britain said the building in St. James’s Square will lose its diplomatic status and immunity from assault

Meanwhile, the White House is searching for new approaches in its efforts to salvage an aid package for El Salvador and other Central American nations, especially in the wake of severe congressional fallout over the disclosure that the CIA played a direct role in the war being fought by rebels against the leftist regime in Nicaragua. Before taking the Easter break, both the House and Senate passed non-binding resolutions that effectively condemned the mining of Nicaraguan harbors and expressed the sense of Congress that no such activities would be financed by U.S. funds in the future. The administration wanted to provide s2l million in direct aid to Nicaraguan rebels, but that package is all but dead in the House, where Democratic leaders had steadfastly opposed it even before the disclosures about direct CIA involvement in the harbor mining and commando attacks against port facilities. Moreover, President Reagan has dipped into discretionary ac-

The newspaper said its poll found growing support for the proposal, which says pornography is a form of sexual discrimination and thus a violation of women’s civil rights. The newspaper said its poll indicated 13 of the 29member council were prepared to support the bill, which would allow the city or individuals to file civil action in state courts to block distribution of pornographic items. But opposition to the proposal has been growing, too, with seven members indicating disapproval. “I just think it’s not real es-

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at midnight Sunday, freeing police to search the embassy. Home Secretary Leon Brittan said the emerging Libyans would be searched for arms but will be given safe passage home. Britain conceded the Libyans would be able to move out any arms in diplomatic bags, which are inviolate under the 1961 Vienna Convention on diplomatic relations, and official sources said there was little chance of finding the killer of Constable Fletcher. Brittain said the investigation into the shooting would continue as a"matter of record.” “Taking account of the need to rid the country of this dangerous presence in that bureau and the safety of our fellow countrymen in Libya, we concluded that what we’re doing is the right thing,” he said.

fective. I think it’s not real enforceable. I think it’s just going to cause us problems in court (and) be real expensive,” said Patrica Nickell, who is leaning against the measure. Other opponents say the measure violates free expression provisions in the Constitution, or say it will dilute city efforts to combat race and sex discrimination Laurence Tribe, a Harvard constitutional law professor, endorsed the Minneapolis proposal. He called it “the first sensible approach to an area which has vexed some of the best legal minds.”

Wayne Townsend

State senator's second bid for governor going better

First in a series of Indiana gubernatorial candidate profiles By JOHN M. DOYLE Associated Press Writer SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) - Wayne Townsend recently was talking to an industrialist who told him that if his company was run the way Indiana is, “they wouldn’t be in business very long. “He said ‘I think Indiana is still in the 19th century,’ and I agree,” said Townsend. The 57-year-old farmerlawmaker is seeking the Democratic nomination for governor for the second time in a row. He’s in a three-way race for the party’s nomination next month with Virginia Dill McCarty, the former U.S. attorney for the southern district of Indiana, and Donald Mantooth, a retired airline worker. Townsend lost the 1980 Democratic primary to industrialist John Hillenbrand 11, who in turn was defeated in the general election by Republican Robert D.Orr. Although he claims the endorsement of two-thirds of Indiana’s Democratic county chairmen, Townsend won’t acknowledge being the front runner. He admits, however, that things are going better for him now than they did four years ago. “I was playing catch-up in 1980.1 got into the race late and was running against an opponent with an organization and money who started early,” said Townsend. Townsend’s campaign manager, Don Michael, a former State Democratic chairman, estimated the Townsend campaign has raised $600,000.

Zatarain's purchased

FORT WAYNE, Ind. (AP) - Central Soya Co., a Fort Waynebased agribusiness and food processing company, has reached a stock purchase agreement for the acquisition of Zatarain’s Inc., a manufacturer and processor of specialty food products. Officials of Central Soya said

counts to send assistance to El Salvador, lacking specific approval by Congress, and his broader program of $8 billion in aid to the Caribbean region over the next five years is mired in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass., asserted over the weekend that there are “serious questions about whether U.S. military personnel in El Salvador and Honduras are being intentionally and systematically introduced into situations involving direct combat or other hostilities.” In a letter to Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger, Kennedy said that “Congress and the country are already deeply concerned over the administration’s secret war in Nicaragua and our lack of knowledge about the direct and growing role of CIA personnel in that area. There is no justification whatever for the administration to defy the Constitution and laws of the United States by permitting the escalation of similar combat activities by U.S. forces.”

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That far surpasses what the other candidates have socked away. Also unlike the 1980 campaign, Townsend has nothing but good things to say about his primary opponents. Some political observers felt Townsend muddied the 1980 race with charges that Hillenbrand’s family owned company was an-ti-union. Why is Townsend trying for the governor’s chair again? “Because I think I can do a better job than Bob Orr,” he says without hesitation, adding that he considers Orr the opponent not the other Democrats. Townsend says the Orr administration has lurched from one crisis to another over the past three years. “He lets things get to a crisis stage before he’s willing to make a decision,” said Townsend, a state legislator for 20 years. If he gets the nomination, Townsend says he will campaign against Orr’s record on

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such diverse issues as education, utility reform and the state’s patronage-controlled auto license branch system. Townsend has been holding a series of news conferences around Indiana outside local license branch offices, calling attention to the system which has been run by the Republican Party since 1969. A portion of the profits go to the party in power. Earlier this year, grand juries in Delaware and St. Joseph counties indicted several people for allegedly stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars from license branch offices in Muncie and Mishawaka. Despite the scandals, Republican leaders have done little to reform the system, says Townsend. “They are taking a big risk, but there is so much money involved they are willing to take that risk,” Townsend said, adding that the license branch controversy will contribute to undoing the GOP’s lock on the Statehouse because “the public feeling out there (against the system) is bad.” But license branches are not the weakest part of the GOP’s armor, says Townsend.

450 help plant trees

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - Some 450 people braved heavy rains to participate in the Indianapolis observance of Arbor Day. The volunteers helped plant 1,600 seedlings Saturday. Garry Petersen, director of the Irvington Forestry Foundation, said the tulip, redbud and white ash seedlings were planted along a 3V 2 -mile stretch

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“I think they are the most vulnerable on the utility reform issue,” he said, calling it the “major issue of the campaign." Townsend says that profits for Indiana’s investor-owned public utilities are the highest in the nation. Townsend’s campaign literature states that his roots are deep in Indiana’s soil. A farmer, like his father before him, Townsend oversees some 1,500 acres in Grant and Blackford counties. Townsend said he raises “com, hogs and kids” on the farm. Married to the former Helen Hardin, they have five children a daughter and four sons ranging in age from 20 to 29. Bom and raised in Upland, Townsend received a bachelor’s degree in agriculture from Purdue University in 1951. After a 2year stint in the Army, Townsend studied political science at Georgetown University before returning to Indiana. Now in his fourth term in the state Senate, Townsend is proud of his farm background. “Agriculture will still be one of the major employers in the state a year from now or a generation from now,” he said.

of Pleasant Run Parkway and Pleasant Run Creek in Indianapolis. Groups of volunteers also helped pick up litter along the parkway, said Petersen, whose foundation sponsored the event. Mayor William H. Hudnut attended the opening of the day’s activities, which included an Easter egg roll.

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