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Tupelo, Mississippi, Monday Morning, September 15, 1980
Vol. 107 No. 143
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Iran Parliament Starts Hostage Debate Tuesday United Press International The speaker of Iran's parliament received a letter from a group of U.S. congressmen Sunday and said the legislative body will start debate Tuesday and " make a decision" on the fate of the Americ an hostages. The border war .with Iraq spread to a Persian Gulf port and Iran shot down . two Iraqi MiG fighter planes, Tehran radio said. It was the 316th day of captivity for the 52 U.S. hostages. "A decision was made in the Majlis today regarding a reply to the letter by the U.S. Congress, and substantial discussion on the hostages will begin on Tuesday and the Majlis will make a decision," Ayatollah Hashemi Rafsanjani said in a Tehran radio broadcast monitored in London. ,·
Iranian armed forces " shot down two Iraqi MiG fighters, killing the pilots and co-pilots north of Qasr-e-Shirin in the western Gerdeh region" while President Abolhassan Bani-Sadr, Prime Minister Mohammed Ali Rajai and acting chief of the joint staff, Gen . Fallahi, were inspecting battle zones, the radio said. The radio claimed Iran has downed nine Iraqi MiGs "in recent days." In the first naval battle of the recent border conflicts four Iraqis were killed when two Iranian vessels returned fire on two Iraqi frigates in fighting near the port ' of Abadan in southern Iran, 30 Continued on Page 18
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By JACK ELLIOTT JACKSON (UPI) - Mississippi municipal officials are impatiently waiting for the U.S . Census Bureau to release final population figures. The figures involve some high stakes for most of the cities. The "high stakes" are millions of dollars in federal grants and programs prorated to cities around the country on the basis of population - rural and urban, young and old, black and white. Earlier this month, Census Bureau officials in Atlanta said they will complete gathering data in the Southeast in the next few weeks and the final totals would be rele ased after being reviewed
by Washington. The Census Bureau was swamped with critical mail and correspondence earlier this year by municipal officials who felt they had been short-changed in preliminary population data . Mississippi Census coordinators at first expressed optimism about a 9 percent growth rate over the 1970 population count of 2,233,848 - ari increase of 55,707 over 1960 figures. How e v er , a s gr um bJ in g increased from municipalities, the Census officials tried· to play Continued on Page 18
YELLOW CREEK NUCLEAR PLANT - A containment vessel for the Unit 1 n uclear reactor building at Tennessee Valley Authority's Yellow Creek Nuclear Plant is partially complete . When it is finished, the containment vessel will be a 1
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has a strong enough case to prosecute him. Gray, Felt and Miller are accused of conspiring to approve warrantless break-ins - "black bag jobs" - and other illegal surveillance in a hunt for fugitive members of the terrorist Weather Underground in 1972-73. Chief U .S. District Judge William Bryant is bringing the case against Felt and Miller to trial Monday after 21/2 years of legal haggling over the disclosure of classified information during testimony. The problems revolve around Continued on Page 18
More than 20 Northeast Mississippi high school students are expected to be named National Merit Scholarship semifinalists this week, the Daily Journal has learned. The list includes nine students from Tupelo High School, two from Pontotoc High School, one from W.P. Daniel High in New Albany, four from Oxford High, one from Corinth, one from Aberdeen High School and one each at Amory High School and
Ingomar High.School. Semifinalists were selected on the basis of high achievement on the Preliminary Scholastic Aptitude Test. About 15,000 semifinalists will be named, representing the top half of one p.ercent of each ...state's high school senior class. · The selection is made by the National Merit Scholarship Corporation, headquartered in Evanston, Ill. About 90 percent of the semi-finalists are expected to
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BERGLAND SPEAKS -Secretary of Agriculture Bob Bergland, right, fielded questions Saturday at Mississippi State University. with Rep. David Bowen, D-Miss., left, and Extension Service W.M. Bost.
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advance to finalist status next son of Mr. and Mrs. M.C. Ellis February and compete for 4,500 III; Kirsten Patterson, daughter meritscholarshipsatthenation's of Mr. and Mrs. Jim E. colleges and universities. Many Patterson; Mike Conwill, son of merit scholarships are donated or .· 'Mr. and Mrs. Doug Conwill; Mark endowed by major businesse.s and Allen, son of Mr. and Mrs. Larry industries. Since the program Allen : Mike Bender, son of Mr. began in 1956 more than · $175 and Mrs. David Bender; Ben million in scholarships have been Logan, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ben awarded. Logan; Carol Rutledge, da ughter Tupelo High School students of Mr. and Mrs. Craig Rutledge; honored wer e: Wallace · McMillan, son of Mr. and Mrs. T. Continued on Page 18 Morton McMillan Jr.; Mel Ellis,
Tenn-Tom Waterway Gets Bergland Support
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By PHYLLIS HARPER during the week, so I'm writing De ar J ennifer Elizabeth: them down for you to read later. I'm writing this to tell you about First of all you are a perfect a miracle - the miracle of your miracle. birth. Had I not been able to ascertain Like occurrences since tim e · that for myself, I would have began have made the birth of a known it from f he look in your ')baby like you no less miraculous. mother 's eyes each tim e she held ' I'm glad I could t ake a'vacation you close and pronounced your from my typewriter and share perfection again and again in a your first week on Earth , flow of soft endearing words. But I 'm not sure · you'll I learned more about the · remember all the things I told you miracle that is you just from
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'Black Bag Jobs' Lan~ Ex-FBI Chiefs In Court WASHIN GTON (UP I ) - In an unprecedented criminal trial of high U.S. intelligence officials, two former FBI chiefs Monday face charges that they approved illegal break-ins, wiretaps and mail openings in the early 1970s. The long-delayed trial of W. Mark Felt, the FBI's form er associate director, and Edward S. Miller, its former intelligence · chief, will focus a criminal jury's ~ attention for perhaps the last time l on the abuses of the Nixon era . Form er acting FBI Director L. Patrick Gray faces the prospect of a separate trial later on the charges, but federal sources have expressed doubt the government
sphere-shaped building constructed of steel plates 1. 75 inches thick. Overall . construction on the nuclear plant is 16 percent complete. About 2,450 people are working at the construction site. ·
watching your father's face as he looked at you and your mother together - or leaned over your cradle to touch you gently. From his look of a we when he held you so very carefully, one would think you were the first such miracle that ever happened. But your mother and I know better, becaµse as wom en do, I've told her so many times about the miracle of her birth. You see, your mother was the
firstborn of her parents, just as you are of yours.Being first is special, but there is also a special place for each sibling that follows as the miracle repeats itself. It never grows old. I thought about the generations of such mir.a cles as I sang the Scottish lullabies my mother ·s a ng to me as her firstborn . I helped your mother sing the Continued on Page 18
By DAVID COMER Staff Writer STARKVILLE - Secretary of Agriculture Bob Bergla nd Saturday backed Tenn esseeTombigbee Waterway construction, defended the U.S. em bargo on grain exports to the U.S.S.R. and predicted "tremendous exports" of U.S. soybeans to Asia in the 1980s. Speaking at a press .conference at Mississippi State University, Bergland said ·he s upports construction of the Tenn-Tom because he believes it "will make a significant contribution" to the development of a more efficient national transportation system. "I've heard that the Tennessee· Tombigbee Waterway will enhance the whole transportation system in the United States1" Bergland told reporters . and employees of the Mississippi Cooperative Extension service, "If that's true, I 'm for it. I favor develop·ment of the waterway and all our transportation systems." · He said he also favors deregulation of railroads and other modes of transportation, adding that "the market place should be the basic determinant" of what forms of transportation are most efficient. . Bergland said he supports rail transportation, "but I am critical Of the way the I railroads have mana ged their affa irs, " he added, noting that five ma jor
railways ha ve gone bankrupt. " We can't just let the railroad industry go down the drain," he said. "It's a use-it-or-lose-it situation . We do need the railroads, but we don't need them every seven miles in the United States." Bergland said the U.S. embargo on grain shipments to the Soviet Union has not hurt American farmers but that it has been a "m ulti -bill io n-dollar inconvenience" for the Russians. "The. Russian people are not' going to starve, but they will have to put up with major food problems," he said. He said grain prices in this country have stayed a bove 1979 levels despite the embargo, while in the Soviet Union the embargo caused meat production to decline by 11 percent in June and by 15 percent . in July. "Dealing with the Russians is .a messy business, " Bergland said. "The Russians are a tough bunch. You can't back down because you never know what they may do next. We have got to let them know they can'~ make war on innocent people and get by with it." Am erican farmers can look a head to " an enormous demand" for their products in the world market in the 1980s, particularly Continued on Page 18
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kraft steps aside Pr esident Carter's cam paign manager Tim Kraft took a leave of absence Sunday to fight char ges he used cocaine in New Orleans three years ago. Page 2.
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weather Hot a nd dry ·t hrough Wednesday. Highs, upper 90s ; low s, low 70s.
nuclear plant.idle An idle Sequoyah Nuclear Plant, Tennessee's first nuclear plant, has cost TVA $29.8 million in lost power revenues this summ er, agency officlas -say. Page 10.
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Northeast Mississippi, where te mpe ratures have ' hover ed around the 100-degree mark since July, appears to be the hardest hit by the worst drought in the state since 1977. Page 5.
Ole Miss and Mississippi State had fairly easy football victories this weekend - State over Louisiana Tech 34-11, the Rebels 61-7 over Memphis State. Page 21.
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airliner hijacked A Delta Airlines plane, the 12th plane to be hijacked to Cuba this year, returned safely to Atlanta Sunday. Page 19.
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