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Townsend wants license branch tally INDIANAPOLIS (AP) Republican Gov. Robert D. Orr’s Democratic rival is calling for a full disclosure of how much money the GOP gets from Indiana’s politically controlled license branch system. “They say not much. We don’t believe it. The accountants don’t believe it,” Wayne Townsend told reporters Friday. The Hartford City farmer-legislator repeated his claim that profits from the license branch system are at least sl6 million. He disputed Orr’s statement the Republican Party gets no more than $1 million from the license branches. “The governor could with a stroke of a pen tell us how much is involved. But he won’t,” Townsend said. Orr’s press secretary, Mark Lubbers, said license branch fees for 1983 amounted to $14.8 million and that’s before expenses for salaries, rent, utilities and other operating costs are deducted. Lubbers insisted the contributions to the state party come from license branch managers in their individual capacities. Some branch managers haven’t made a contribution in two years, he said. “Wayne keeps thinking the public will believe that the reason the Democratic Party hasn’t been able to elect a governor is because of the license branch system. The problem is the Democratic Party can’t put up a qualified candidate,” Lubbers said. For Marion County alone, Townsend estimated the nine branches turn a profit of $2.9 million. The profit figures were derived by taking Bureau of Motor Vehicles data on the number of transactions from each branch and then multiplying those by the statutory fee for each category, Democratic aides said. Townsend said his profit projections were on the conservative side because they didn’t include patronage contributions from branch employees and premiums for giving motorists lownumbered license plates. The candidate also released the financial report of the Republican State Central Committee for Jan. 1, 1983, through April 8, 1983. He said the report shows the state committee took in nearly $200,000 during the period from license branches around the state. The smallest sum came from the Parker City license branch, which donated $7.05. The biggest for the period came from Indianapolis Branch No. 232, which rented a $5,734 contribution.

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Shells explode near ambassador's residence

BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) Shells crashed early today near U.S. Ambassador Reginald Bartholomew’s residence, where a State Department team is staying while it investigates the suicide bombing of the U.S. Embassy annex. Bartholomew, recovering from injuries suffered in Thursday’s bombing, and U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Richard Murphy slept through the four-hour battle between Lebanese troops and Druse militiamen in the hills above the residence, an American woman who answered the telephone there said. The State Department said in Washington that the embassy offices had been moved Friday from the bombed annex to Bartholomew’s residential compound. A Lebanese army unit of about 25 soldiers with one armored personnel carrier set up a checkpoint on the road leading up the hill to the bombed annex and allowed no one except American officials through today.

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Murphy arrived in Beirut on Friday evening to head an eight-man State Department team investigating the bombing. He and the team made a short visit to the site, in suburban Aukar north of Beirut, and drove back toward east Beirut this morning without talking to reporters, according to witnesses at the checkpoint. At midmorning, Bartholomew left the residence and visited the Lebanese military hospital in central Beirut’s Badaro neighborhood, presumably to call on some wounded Americans believed under treatment there. The woman’s statement contradicted reports by Beirut radio stations that Murphy, Bartholomew and senior antiterrorist expert William Buckley spent part of the night at the bomb shelter of the residence during the flare-up. “There was shelling around us from the Ministry of Defense to Souk el-Gharb,” said the woman. The residence in suburban Yarze, five miles east of Beirut, is a half mile from the Defense Ministry compound.

Soviet visit among most fascinating, Rev. Graham says

c. 1984 N.Y. Times MOSCOW The Rev. Billy Graham concluded a tour of the Soviet Union Friday, saying the 12 days had been among “the most unforgettable and fascinating of my entire ministry.’’ Addressing a news conference after preaching in Baptist and Russian Orthodox churches in Moscow, Leningrad, Tallinn and Novosibirsk, Graham said there had been “no restriction” on his preaching, and that the only limitation was that “in accordance with Soviet law, all services have been held only on church property.” Evidently mindful of the controversy over his first visit to the Soviet Union, in 1982, when he was criticized for appearing to restrict his attention and contacts to state-sanctioned churches and churchmen, Graham said he had privately raised the issue of religious and other dissidents. But he declined to give details, saying, “It is not my practice to reveal details of private conversations I have with political leaders.” From the time of his arrival, Graham

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Job security gains are historic: UAW's Bieber

DETROIT (AP) The tentative United Auto Workers contract that sent workers back to General Motors Corp. assembly lines includes the first basic wage hike in three years for 350,000 employees and a $1 billion program to aid displaced workers, sources say. Workers ended walkouts by early today at 16 of the 17 plants which had struck the company over local disputes. But 4,050 members of Local 645 remained off the job at a VanNuys, Calif ~ plant that assembles Pontiac Fieros and Chevrolet Camaros. Announcing the national settlement early Friday, UAW President Owen Bieber called its job security guarantees “historic,” and chief CM bargainer Alfred Warren termed it a “win win situation” that would make GM more competitive. But some of the 92,000 workers who had been on strike since Sept 14 prompting 19,000 layoffs and costing the company an estimated $l5O million said the call to halt picketing took away local bargaining power. Some of the workers were back at their jobs as early as Friday, and others were returning today and Monday. The union and Ford Motor Co. extended their expired contract while the UAW bargained at GM. Bieber said the union now will try to match the pact at Ford. Union leaders hope the agreement’s new pension provisions will encourage more UAW members to retire, making jobs available for younger, laid-off workers. “This really is part of job security making room for lower-seniority workers,” one UAW official said Friday. Details of the settlement are not to be released officially until the union’s 300member GM Council meets Wednesday in St. Louis. But several union members discussed the outlines of the pact on condition they not be identified. They said the agreement provides for a wage increase of more than 7 percent over three years. The wage currently is $9.63 an hour with another $3.04 in cost-of-living allowances. The pact was also said to include retention of the 1982 profit-sharing formula that could pay the average worker more than SI,OOO this year; and a safety net of extended pay and retraining for workers who lose their jobs because of subcontracting to foreign or non-union companies.

had insisted that his primary purpose was “to preach the gospel of Jesus Christ, just as I have done in many other parts of the world.” His last sermon Friday was at the Cathedral of the Epiphany, seat of Patriarch Pimen of Moscow and All Russia, who attended. Graham declared Friday that he had fulfilled his mission, and that he would like to return again. Critics of Graham’s visits to the Soviet Union, however, have questioned whether the price for permission to preach at selected, sanctioned churches has been to give the impression of endorsing the state’s policy toward the churches, which includes strict controls on church activities, sharp restrictions on religious education and repression of believers who step outside the permissible bounds or who refuse to register their denominations with the state. His appearances in Moscow were closely monitored by dozens of plainclothesmen, while the official Soviet press depicted his visit largely as one devoted to peace, rather than to the Gospel that he described as the focus.

GM workers end walkout at Indianapolis plant; callbacks at Marion Monday

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - Striking union workers at the General Motors’ truck and bus factory put away their picket signs and returned to the job after a two-day walkout. The plant, the only one of 10 GM facilities in Indiana to be struck, reached agreement on local issues with union bargainers about noon Friday. “We’re pretty happy with what we have,” said William Hayes, president of United Auto Workers Local 23. The local contract centered on seniority rights, overtime, shift preference and “numerous grievances through the last couple years,” he said. Hayes said employees returned for the second and third shifts Friday and a full workday for all three shifts was scheduled today. Workers sent home by GM from the Indianapolis and Marion Stamping plants earlier in the week also were returning to work. Company officials said each of the 200 laidoff Indianapolis workers was called and notify to return to work. The company furloughed those workers Monday because of reduced work requirements at other striking GM plants. About 600 workers idled at the Marion plant are scheduled to return to work Monday, company officials said. The announcement that the Indianapolis strike was over proved the optimism expressed earlier in the day by Dallas Denton, a long-time GM em-

The pension for a retiree with 30 years’ service would rise S9O a month from the current $935 in each year of the contract. The union said the job security guarantees will be in force for six years. Workers with more than a year’s seniority who lose their jobs because of outside contracting, automation or produc-

Town's 10-year-old feud erupts in gunfire again

BROOKLYN, 111. (AP) Authorities say a 10-year-old feud between a former police chief and a massage parlor owner has erupted in gunfire again, and fearful residents insist the battle “has got to stop” before bystanders are hurt. “People don’t know what to expect,” said Craig Miller, 34, who lives in a trailer park near the scene of this week’s shooting in this Mississippi River community. “They’ve been fighting a long time.” Brooklyn is “a town where the law of the jungle has prevailed for many years, where whorehouses and gambling joints stand side by side and are accepted as regular places of business,” said St. Clair County Judge John J. Hoban, who acquitted former police chief Frank A. Skinner of shooting Fred “Sonny” Henry Jr. in April. Police say the ill feelings flared up again in a gun battle Wednesday still

Terre Haute plant to produce audio discs

TERRE HAUTE, Ind. (AP) - America’s first compact audio disc manufacturing plant, a joint effort of CBS Inc. and the Sony Corp, is underway. Production at the s2l million facility began Friday with industry officials from New York City and Toyko joining Gov. Robert D. Orr, Lt. Gov. John M. Mutz and Terre Haute Mayor P. Pete Chalos at the official opening. The manufacturer, Digital Audio Disc Corp., is a subsidiary of a joint venture of

ployee, was justified. As company and union officials met behind closed doors, Denton was on picket duty outside anticipating that he’d be back on the job by Monday. Denton, a semi-driver from Mooresville who has worked for the automaker 26 years, wasn’t upset that he didn’t know the details of the national settlement announced in Detroit. And he wasn’t unhappy that the union hadn’t informed him about the “local issues.” “Job classification was a key issue,” Denton said. “The union has worked a long time for senority by job classification.” Workers at the Indianapolis plant joined the nationwide strike Wednesday, complaining that seniority wasn’t being considered when the company laid off employees due to the walkout. Tentative settlements on local issues were reported earlier at two of Indiana’s 10 GM facilities, Delco Battery in Muncie and Central Foundary in Bedford. Those pacts are to be voted on Sunday. No date for a ratification vote by members of Local 23 in Indianapolis has been set. Hayes said the vote will be held at the same time as the vote for ratification of the tentative national contract reached Friday in Detroit.

tivity increases will be eligible for job retraining and would continue getting paychecks for an extended period, sources said. They said the company set aside $1 billion for that purpose. Following next week’s council review, the rank and file will vote on the contract. That is expected to take about a week.

under investigation. At least 20 shots were fired, with bullets ripping through Skinner’s pickup truck, Henry’s van and a mobile home Henry entered during the fray, police said. No arrests were made, but results of the probe should be presented to the state’s attorney’s office next week, Larry Trent, special agent for the Illinois Division of Criminal Investigation, said Friday. Brooklyn Mayor Marcellus West said he hoped state investigators would solve the matter “once and for all.” Skinner and Henry are longtime antagonists with a history of threats and violence against each other. The trouble began when Henry testified against Skinner in 1974 when the thenBrooklyn police chief stood trial for fatally shooting the leader of an armed vigilante group in a street confrontation.

CBS Inc. and Sony Corp. that was created last year to produce the discs. Officials believe the product will revolutionize the stereo industry. The first “made in the USA” disc that rolled off the plant’s production line was Bruce Springsteen’s “Born in the USA.” Officials say the plant, which currently employs 100 people, will be capable of producing 300,000 discs a month by the end of the year.