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CM CM UJ CQ r- zd rn i voo a. oo cm txj r-4 CL l- I 3 st -0 O- t- to a 2: 3 1 LJ 57 DECATUR, ILLINOIS, THURSDAY, JULY 5, 1979 2 Sections plus Supplement(s) 25 CENTS nr? N. LU LiJ I i q- 0DCQ7L 0 1 rv Thousands going hungry in capital Briefly Speaking The World Tuesday surrounded by rebels. The Sandinistas were peppering the church with small arms fire and an occasional round from a cannon. The guerrillas held 26 prisoners who they said were government soldiers.

The guerrillas have held Matagalpa since June 6 and stormed the national guard headquarters there Sunday night. The Sandinistas now are well-armed with automatic weapons, mortars, heavy machine guns, a few armored vehicles and, in Leon Nicaragua's second-largest city with a Sherman tank. Many of the weapons were captured from the national guard. The rest were bought on the international black market. The armaments are vastly superior to the older weapons, hunting rifles, and pistols, with which the Sandinistas and their supporters tried to oust Somoza in a four-week uprising last September.

In that fighting, 1,500 persons died, and an estimated 10,000 Nicaraguans have been killed in battles in the past month alone. Estimates show 50,000 to 75,000 families have lost their houes. An estimated 150,000 Nicaraguans, or about one in every 16, is classified by the Red Cross as a refugee. The three major American television networks, which withdrew most of their people from Nicaragua after ABC correspondent Bill Stewart was slain by a national guardsman two weeks ago, returned to Nicaragua in force Tuesday. In Costa Rica, the government said it has evidence Nicaraguan national guardsmen tried to enter Costa Rica to dynamite two bridges on the Pan American highway to prevent the passage of Sandinista guerrillas.

It said the national guard patrol was surprised by a Sandinista attack near Monte de Oro, about one mile from the Cabalceta River bridge and about 500 yards inside Nicaragua. The guerrillas are fighting to oust Somoza, whose term as president does not expire until 1981. His family has run the country since U.S. Marines opened the way for his father to to take control 42 years ago. Related story on Page 44 By Joe Frazier Managua, Nicaragua (AP) President Anastasio Somoza on Wednesday airlifted reinforcements to the south where his command is caught between two guerrilla forces, one entrenched along the Costa Rican border and the other battling for control of the provincial capital of Rivas.

Unconfirmed reports said the rebels held all but the guard headquarters in Rivas, where the Sandinistas plan to establish a provisional five-member government. The national guard said its forces repulsed a guerrilla attack on Rivas and controlled the town, and was cleaning out a few snipers. An Italian reporter who telephoned a source who lives a block away from the guard headquarters, said a Sandinista answered the phone. Leading from Rivas to the southwest is a road to a critical national guard re-supply position and command post near the Pacific coast, 12 miles north of the Costa Rican border. The guerrillas now control 23 cities.

A government source said, "Realistically, we're looking to another three months of fighting." He said Somoza, who is under heavy pressure from the Organization of American States including the United States to resign, had reaffirmed his vow not to step down until he wins a military victory. Late Wednesday, the national guard said it shot down two light aircraft just south of Managua. A spokesman would say only that the planes were flown by mercenaries. There was no word on the fate of the planes' occupants. Managua Red Cross vice president J.

Wilfrid Cross said more than 100,000 persons in the capital are going hungry because not enough food is being airlifted in. He speculated the thousands of hungry refugees in town may soon start breaking into private homes. "It will definitely get worse if we don't get in enough food," he said. In Matagalpa, 55 miles north of Managua, reporters found about 20 national guardsmen holed up in a church NURSES CARRY babies from the maternity ward of 100 persons were evacuated and four persons received Touro Infirmary in New Orleans after a general minor injuries before the fire was brought under con-alarm fire broke out on the hospital's 10th floor. About trol.

(AP Laserphoto) as-conscious Americans close to hday oime spend ho By the Associated Press With their freedom to travel curtailed by doubts about gasoline, Americans spent their one-day Fourth of July holiday close to home, picnicking and parading to celebrate the anniversary of their nation's Gas supplies bolstered by fresh July allocations were reported adequate to plentiful in states as widespread as Wisconsin, IS'ew Mexico, and Kentucky. But the horror stories of late June kept traffic unusually light. By Wednesday night, nearly 100 people had died in traffic accidents. This compared to a National Safety Council prediction that 120 to 180 persons might die by midnight. Holiday spots normally packed on the Fourth were begging for customers.

But at Lake Lanier Islands, about a half-hour's drive north of Atlanta, "they're backed up with double lines a quarter of a mile trying to get in," said Susan White at the resort's welcome center. "We're probably crowded because, with the gasoline shortage and all, it's not far from Atlanta." More than 2,500 persons gathered in a light rain in Philadelphia's Independence National Park, across from the historic building where the Second Continental -Congress declared the American colonies independent of England 203 years ago. Precisely at 2 p.m., two Philadelphia cousins Stacy and Kevin May hew, descendants of Declaration signer John Hart of New Jersey tapped the cracked Liberty Bell 13 times, indicating the original states, in a symbolic ringing ceremony. In the nation's capital, the holiday was commemorated with an "Honor America Day" theme. The Rev.

Billy Graham led a crowd estimated at 10,000 persons in prayer near the Capitol steps, with music by a U.S. Army band. Near the White House, marijuana advocates staged a "smoke-in." Parades with plenty of brass, cymbals and drums from enthusiastic marching bands were held all over the Carter cancels energy speech Camp David, Md. (AP) President Carter on Wednesday unexpectedly and without explanation canceled a nationwide address he was to give on the energy crisis tonight. A White House official said Carter received a draft of the speech at Camp David at 1 p.m.

Wednesday, three hours before the cancellation was announced. The official, who had access to that draft, said, "My guess is he read it and he decided he or it wasn't ready." Carter canceled a planned vacation in Hawaii to return to the United States for meetings this week with advisers on how to deal with the latest oil price hikes imposed by the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries. He had been granted air time by all three networks for the speech. Carter spent the Fourth of July his family at his Camp David retreat. Five gang members slain in house Charlotte, N.C.

P) Four men and a woman all members of the violence-prone Outlaws motorcycle gang were methodically shot and killed early Wednesday in the two-room green frame house that served as their local headquarters, police said. One of the men was found sitting with a gun in his lap on a porch, where he apparently had been posted as a guard. 'it very possibly and probably was somebody they knew," said police Capt. L.L. McGraw, noting that there were no signs of a struggle inside the house.

The victims were not tied and all were fully clothed. The Outlaws, with members scattered across the country, have had clashes with other gangs in the past, and police said they believed the rival Hell's Angels may have been involved in the slayings. VW, Chrysler consider joint U.S. engine project Berlin (AP) Volkswagen and Chrysler Corp. are considering joining forces to build economical automobile engines in the United States, VW general manager Toni Schmuecker said Wednesday.

Schmuecker also did not rule out a possible diesel engine deal with the Ford Motor Co. Both Volkswagen and Chrysler have denied reports published last month that VW might take over Chrysler Corp. Festive Fourth Long Creek's fire department continues its winning ways in the Fourth of July waterball contest in Nelson Park. SEE PAGE 16 Firecracker 400... Neil Bonnett wins the Firecracker 400 stock car race over Benny Parsons.

SEE PAGE 23. Hansen twins Their first family photograph shows that separated Siamese twins Lisa and Elisa Hansen are no longer "sickly little girls." SEE PAGE 19. Cancer An element found in grain may help fight cancer, according to University of Illinois researchers. SEE PAGE 30. Today's weather For central Illinois: Sunny and pleasant.

Highs in the upper 70s or low 80s. Tonight ft ir and cool. Lows in the mid 50s. Sunny Friday. Highs in the mid 80s.

Index Good Morning Refugees to be towed to sea in other boats country. But when the parade passed by in Carrollton, no one was watching. They were all marching in the town's first parade without spectators. About 500 persons joined in, finishing at a park where they feasted on watermelons donated by area farmers. Not everyone celebrated the holiday.

Toledo, Ohio, postponed its parades and other festivities until Labor Day because of the unsettled labor situation with police and firefighters. And Boston had to do without Fiedler, fireworks or the fury of the "1812 Overture" at its annual concert on the banks of the Charles River. Boston Pops conductor Arthur Fiedler, who originated the Fourth of July musical extravaganza in 1923, is ailing, the city nixed fireworks because of crowd control problems, and the company that has supplied the booming cannon and ringing bells for Tchaikovsky's music backed out with money problems. a fiasco? Was the Fourth of July Earlier this week on the island of Bali, Vance pledged the United States would double its refugee quota to 14,000 a year. Meanwhile Wednesday, Malaysian Interior Minister Ghazali Shafie said he would lead the Malaysian delegation to the special July 20 United Nations conference on refugees in Geneva, where he said his government would call for the establishment of a giant refugee center in Vietnam.

He said the proposal would call for a facility capable of housing 1.2 million refugees who could be taken out of Vietnam for resettlement without having to make the dangerous boat journey to other Southeast Asian nations. United Nations officials estimate 30 to 40 percent of all refugees who set off from Vietnam in rickety wooden boats are lost at sea. Shafie said Malaysia also would recommend camps be set up in the United States, Australia, French territories, China and other nations for housing the estimated 350,000 refugees already crowding Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, Singapore and Hong Kong. On Tuesday, the Common Market announced it had suspended its $34 million aid package for Vietnam and would use the money to help feed the boat people. The move was seen as a protest to Vietnam for the refugee problem.

Ben Bella given the signal for the dissolution of archs speaking foreign tongues than the British Empire, most of the major ever they were on King George." In oil-producing regions of the world would fact, it continued, "Today Americans today be under British control." observe Independence Day when they If the British flag still flew over all have neer been so dependent in their those oil reserves, "sound adminis- lives." tration from Whitehall would have ensured continuity of supply, moderation "Although it is too late now for har- in price and a freedom to pursue hap- boring regrets and although we wish piness instead of gasoline," the editorial our cousins well on their national day of said. rejoicing or atonement," the editorial The Guardian conceded that George concluded, "it is hard not to feel that a III was "in some ways, a deficient mon- less abrupt course of action 203 years arch," but it argued that today "Ameri- ago would have stood their country in cans are much more dependent on mon- better stead." New York Times News Service London The Manchester Guardian pointed out Wednesday that if the British Empire had not been dissolved, the West might have a good deal more oil than it has, and it gently blamed "our cousins" in the United States for having started the trend in 1776. "By proclaiming themselves independent, the Americans set a fashion which they must now regret," the paper declared in an editorial titled "The Fourth of July Fiasco." "Had they not Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (AP) Four hundred Vietnamese refugees who eluded a naval blockade to land in Malaysia damaged the engine of their wooden boat beyond repair and tried to set the craft afire to avoid being put back to sea, refugee officials reported Wednesday. But Malaysian officials said they will put the 400 refugees in other boats, probably those abandoned by earlier arrivals, and tow the Vietnamese back out into the South China Sea. The Malaysian navy has towed more than 15,000 refugees out to sea in 80 boats since it announced last month it would accept no more boat people.

About 76,000 Vietnamese are already in camps in Malaysia awaiting resettlement in other countries. In Australia, U.S. coordinator for refugee affairs Dick Clark said Wednesday that if the nations of the world would double the number of refugees they accept to a total of 250,000 annually the problem would be solved. Clark was in Canberra for the meeting of ANZUS, the military alliance of Australia, New Zealand and the United States. ANZUS sources, who asked not to be named, said Secretary of State Cyrus R.

Vance, who is participating in the talks, focused the first day's discussion on the refugee problem. Algeria to free Algiers, Algeria (AP) The government has decided to free former President Ahmed Ben Bella, under arrest since he was overthrown by the late Houari Boumedienne on June 19, 1965, the official Algerian news agency reported Wednesday. No details of the "lifting of measures concerning" the first president of inder pendent Algeria were given. In Paris, Ben Bella's lawyer, Made-lame Lafue-Vayron, said he was still under surveillance at his home in M'sila, in the Algerian countryside, but was free to receive visitors and move around the nearby area. She said it was a first step toward total freedom for Ben Bella, now 61, promised by the government of President Benjedid Chadli.

Ben Bella, one of the historic leaders of the Algerian war of independence against France, was jailed by the French for more than six years before Algeria won independence in 1962. He first became prime minister and then, two months after independence, president in an election in which he was the only candidate. Boumedienne led a military coup against Ben Bella, who was taken from the presidential residence to a jail in the countryside near the capital. He never was charged, and was held in a two-room section of an old French prison building. For the past decade, his name was never mentioned officially in Algeria, and it was only in 1977 that he was allowed to receive visitors other than his wife and elderly mother.

Third World leaders including Yugoslavia's President Tito and Cuba's Fidel Castro were understood to have made repeated inquiries about the treatment of Ben Bella. Boumedienne died Dec. 27, reportedly concerned to the last about the possible consequences of freeing Ben Bella. Mrs. Lafue-Vayron has been quoted as saying the austere Boumedienne was afraid of Ben Bella's popularity with the Algerian people.

Chadli, who succeeded Boumedienne as president in January, is thought to have been willing to move toward full freedom for Ben Bella as he no longer saw him as a possible political opponent. 4 Classified Pages 38-43 Comics 37 Crossword 15 Dear Abby 21 Editorials 4 Erma Bombeck 21 Illinois scene 30, 31 Lifestyle 19-21 Movies, entertainment 15 Obituaries 44 Sports 23-28 Television 5 Tiny Herald 16, 17 Weather 44 Win at bridge 20 Your health 19 FOURTH OF JULY excitement, handshakes, sirens their 11-month-old daughter paraded through Blue Is-and the like proved too much for Samantha Jayne land Wednesday, but by the end of the march Sa-Thompson. Governor Thompson, his wife, Jayne, and mantha was fast asleep. (AP Laserphoto) ii.