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1 LrtAi ciiy, Ui-Vi Carter announces decision 'OK'd fair Utah, Newada WASHINGTON (UPI) President Carter announced today a decision to deploy the $33 billion MX missile systems on "racetrack" courses in Nevada and Utah so it could survive a Soviet surprise attack. Carter personally announced his decision at a news conference, saying "it makes it clear to the Soviet Union that they will gain no advantage out of continuing the arms race." "This system will enhance our security." Carter said. "It is not a bargaining chip. I am confident that the American people will support it. "If SALT II is ratified and if the SALT III negotiations are successful, this may be the last system of enormous destructive power we may ever have to build," he said.

Administration officials said Carter decided earlier this week after conferring with diplomatic, defense and budget advisers to go for the "racetrack" mode, which involves use of circular roadways or tracks with 23 spur roads leading to hardened shelters. There would be a total of 4,600 shelters for 200 missiles. Each missile would be assembled in an open area, in full view of the Soviet reconnaissance satellites. Then the missiles would be towed by giant transporters around the "racetracks" and hidden in hardened shelters. Since the missiles would be shielded, Soviet spy satellites could never precisely detect which shelters actually housed a missile.

The new basing mode, aimed at preventing a sneak attack on the United States, would cost billions of dollars to construe and install. Once it is in place the Soviets would know exactly how many MX missiles the United States has, but would not know their geographical location precisely enough to target them. The decision is generally expected to have a favorable impact on the SALT II treaty debate, which has now become embroiled in controversy over Soviet troops in Cuba. Since the June 8 decision to proceed with building the 200-missile force, top officials have studied alternate proposals for basing the MX system to make it as invulnerable as possible to an attack by the Soviets' big SS-18 missiles. The Russians have objected to this basing mode in conversations with U.S.

negotiators, saying they did not see how they would be able to verify compliance with the terms of the SALT II treaty. The treaty allows the United States to deploy land mobile missiles after 1981 so long as they are verifiable. U.S. officials, however, consider it significant that Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev agreed to sign the SALT pact despite this Soviet expression of concern. Some defense officials have raised questions about whether environmentalists might be able to block deployment of the MX.

But Air Force officials, charged with building the missile, say they have made, and will make, every effort to comply with environmental legislation. They say they are optimistic they can deal with environmental problems and note they have 20 years of experience in operating Minuteman missile sites which- have a number of common characteristics. The governors of Utah and Nevada, where the missiles will be based, are reported solidly behind the "racetrack" scheme, particularly if the roadways are open for public use. MJf 'mGGtirack ltf Cedar City: Fair and warm through Saturday with an increase in afternoon cloudiness. Gusty southerly winds Saturday.

Low tonight 55. High Saturday 89. Vol. 16 No. 237 Friday, September 7, 1979 Serving Iron County and the Color Country Slack says city won't buy water for valley use Kimball okay after surgery SALT LAKE CITY (UPI) Doctors said Mormon Church President Spencer W.

Kimball was "doing fine" today after undergoing emergency surgery in the middle of the night for removal of a lump on the covering of his brain. "The President is resting well," said Dr. Bruce F. Sorensen, the surgeon who performed the operation on the 84-year-old church leader. "He is doing fine.

We could not expect him to be doing any better. We are pleased with his progress," said Sorensen. Kimball, leader of the four-million-member Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, entered LDS Hospital in Salt Lake City about 7 p.m. Thursday after experiencing weakness. Doctors performed the operation between 1 and 2 a.m.

Church spokesman Jerry Cahill said surgeons removed a hematoma a swelling filled with blood from between skull and the covering of his brain. The lump had been causing pressure on his brain. "The doctors drained the area, and they expect a normal recovery. They believe the president will be able to resume his activities with no loss of function." said Cahill. "The president was aware and alert this morning.

He visited with members of his family." The church spokesman said Kimball is expected to remain in the hospital about two weeks, but he should recover in time to preside at the church's semi-annual world conference in Salt Lake City Oct. 6-7. Cahill said Kimball experienced a "general weakening" throughout the day Thursday. The church leader spent the day in a heavy schedule of meetings with the Council of Twelve Apostles and other church leaders in the Salt Lake Mormon Temple. Kimball then went to Brigham City to visit relatives late in the afternoon.

When he returned to Salt Lake, he became so ill aides notified his physician. Dr. Ernest L. Wilkinson who immediately hospitalized him. Sorensen said the lump was the type of growth which could have resulted from a bump on the head.

It appeared to be three to four weeks old. But neither Kimball or other members of his family could recall any recent injury. The church leader was hospitalized for four days in July after he became dizzy on a trip to California. But the doctors said they did not believe the latest illness was related. Kimball had been scheduled to undergo an operation for removal of a cataract on his left eye Saturday.

But that surgery was postponed. He has previously had open heart surgery and an operation for throat cancer. ffi)W shown in custody in 1954. From left are Irving Florez-Rodriguez, Rafael Cancel-Miranda and Lolita Lebron. Not shown is Oscar Collazo.

UPI President Carter, in a "humanitarian judgment," is freeing four jailed Puerto Rican nationalists who stubbornly refuse to show remorse 25 years after they terrorized the national's capital. Three of the four are By ROB MOORE Staff Writer CEDAR CITY-City water could be available to valley residents if they can pay for it, a city councilman said Thursday. "It's going to take a lot of planning and a lot of bucks from the valley and the county. But I can tell you one thing-Cedar City won't pay for it," sid Councilman Gordon Slack. Use of the Cedar City water was one of three suggestions offered Wednesday to state health officials to skirt pollution problems in the valley's water table.

A way to do that might be annexation of the valley. "I think Cedar City is always willing to cooperate." said Slack. But annexation would involve a "hodgepodge" of problems that would have to be worked out with municipal services, including public safety and sewer as well as water, he added. Slack met Thursday with water quality specialist Joe Melling of the Southwestern Utah Association of Governments. Melling is doing the U.S.

Environmental Protection Agency's 208 water quality program testing. Melling suggested circulation of valley water through the city's system to cleanse it. "Even that costs money," said Slack. "At this point we would not have the water available," he said. Work is progressing on projects authorized last summer by voter passage of a $3.2 million water bond.

Included with new storage facilities were drilling of an explopratory well in Cedar Canyon and exploratory work west of the city in the Quitchapa Lakebed areas. If excess water becomes available, it could be sold at l' times the regular rate, said Slack. He said, however, "It's been our policy that unless we annex we don't give water." Intensive testing under the 208 program since arch of 3 1 valley wells turned up five wells which consistently exceed the EPA's standard for nitrate content. Residents Wednesday night learned more about the dilemma from EPA and state health officials. The State Division of Health last week ordered a moratorium on water system connections in four valley subdivisions.

Cottonwood developer Brent Hunter said he probably expressed the feeling of the other developers when he said that water systems had been installed correctly, nonetheless. "We did everything right. It's just one of these things that popped up. It has to be taken care of." Only five of 50 lots in the subdivision haven't been sold, he said. "Just at first glance I think annexing with Cedar might be the simplest and best solution.

"I don't think finding a new well site is feasible because it's just as much spent on pipe to bring it in as it would to Cedar City and Enoch," said Hunter. Another idea is a special service district, he said. Other suggestions by health officials are new well sites and treating the water chemically. Another annexation possibility suggested was Enoch. "Even if they got it from Enoch, they'd have to use our system to back it up," said Slack.

The tiny community has just one well, he added. Sawyers discusses Puerto Ricans to be freed; still refused personal clemency plea Antoinette Slovik dies DETROIT UPI Antoinette Slovik, the widow of the only U.S. soldier shot during World War II for desertion, died today at Sinai Hospital less than a week before the Senate was to vote on a bill to grant her his GI insurance. Mrs. Slovik, 64, the widow of Pvt.

Eddie Slovik, was being treated for breast cancer and was admitted to Sinai Thursday. She died at 1:45 a.m., today, hospital officials said. She had been bedridden for several days at her west side Detroit nursing home and her doctor decided she needed mbre intensive treatment. Meanwhile, two private relief bills, granting her the $10,000 life insurance benefits she never received after Slovik was executed in 1945 and $60,000 interest, were stuck in House and Senate committees in Congress. Mrs.

Slovik married Edward Slovik a short time before he entered the army and was shipped overseas. Slovik was tried before a military court on Nov. 11, 1944, convicted of desertion and executed by firing squad on Jan. 31, 1945, the only soldier since the Civil War to be shot for desertion. He is buried in the Oise-Aisne Military Cemetery, France.

His case became famous in a book by William Bradford Huie, "The Execution of Pvt. Slovik." Clan says Ted can run WASHINGTON (UPI) The family of Sen. Edward M. Kennedy has removed any objections they might have had to his running for president next year, but this does not change his status as a candidate, his press secretary said today. "The family has said whatever decision he made they would support him," said Tom Southwick, Kennedy's press secretary.

"But this is not related to the draft movements. He has not changed his position about running." Kennedy's long stated position has been that "I expect President Carter to be renominated, I expect him to be reelected and I expect to support him." But other Kennedy backers said the withdrawal of family objections to the senator's running was a signal to encourage the draft Kennedy movements now under way in some 30 states. WASHINGTON (UPI) President Carter, in a "humanitarian is freeing four jailed Puerto Rican nationalists who stubbornly refuse to show remorse 25 years after they terrorized the nation's capital. Administration officials insisted Carter's grant of clemency Thursday, following months of study by the Justice Department and earlier approaches to Cuban President Fidel Castro, was not part of a prisoner trade with Cuba. But the action immediately raised hopes Castro will now fulfill a promise to reciprocate with a similar "humanitarian gesture" the release of four Americans imprisoned in Havana.

Congressmen who extracted such a promise from Castro earlier this year promptly pressed the Cuban government to act. Carter commuted to time served the Puerto Rican nationalists' sentences for and five congressmen were wounded, because they felt they were fighting for the island's independence. They also refused to personally apply for clemency. A Justice Department spokesman said "that choice ought not to preclude the exercise of humanitarian judgment," explaining the department's precedent-setting decision to consider a clemency petition submitted by a lawyer on their behalf. The spokesman said Attorney General Benjamin Civiletti felt the Puerto Ricans had been punished enough, having served longer than "all but a handful of other federal inmates in recent times." The oldest, Oscar Collazo, 65, has served 28 years of a life sentence at Leavenworth, for his role in the Nov.

1, 1950, attempt to assassinate Truman at Blair House. their 1950s shooting attacks on the U.S. House of Representatives and President Harry Truman's residence. The four, who must await some Justice Department paperwork, are expected to be free by Monday. Carter's decision to release the Puerto Ricans quashed criticism from Third World nations that he had failed to abide by his own human rights policy.

But it also raised new criticism, from Puerto Rican Gov. Carlos Romero, that the action will trigger a new wave of terrorism by supporters of the nationalist movement. The Justice Department argued the release "would pose no substantial risk of the defendants engaging in further criminal activity or becoming the rallying point for terrorist groups." The Puerto Ricans never expressed remorse for the two shooting attacks, in which a White House guard was killed Gunmen hijack Italian airliner The plane had originally been ordered to land at Nice on the French Riviera but French autt Sties refused it permission to land and blocked the airport runways with trucks. The hijackers then ordered the plane back to Italy. The hijacked aircraft of the Italian state line accommodates a maximum of 184 passengers in addition to a 10 member crew.

More banks raise rate Kolob water plan CEDAR CITY Mayor Jack Sawyers Thursday met with a state water resources director about progress on the Kolob Water Project. The meeting with dircetor Dan Lawrence lasted about an hour, said assistant director Paul Gillette. Sawyers was unavailable to talk about the meeting, but Gillette said Thursday that engineering work on the project was discussed. Cedar City is trying to get water rights to the Virgin ruver head water, Crystal Creek. The state is holding on to those rights with the intent of granting the city's application, Lawrence said last week.

The Kolob proposal calls for a trans-mountain diversion of Crystal Creek water to the Kolob reservoir in northern Washington County. From there the water would be moved by pipeline to Cedar City. "We're going to force the water resources board to turn that to us. We've got our engineering almost done, and we're ready to go," City Councilman Gordon Slack said Thursday. The Spectrum Thursday got a copy of a letter indicating the desire of the Washington County Conservancy District to oppose any diversion of Virgin River Water.

The letter was written by conservancy district secretary-treasurer Rudger McArthur to Salt Lake City attorney Edward Clyde, asking that he represent the district "in protesting the removal of water from the Virgin River drainage in Washington County." Cedar City had been asked to "show diligence" on the Kolob project to preserve the city's standings with the Crystal Creek water application, said Slack. Some $10,000 was spent by the city last year for engineering work on the pipeline route to Cedar City. A current statewide water bond fund includes some $100,000 for Kolob project engineering, said Lawrence. ROME (UPI) Four gunmen hijacked an Italian DC8 airliner after it took off from Beirut with 182 people aboard and forced it to land at Rome's Fiumicino airport for refuelling. They apparently wanted to go on to Cuba.

The Alitalia plane carrying 172 passengers and 10 crewmembers set down at Rome at 3:25 p.m. (9:25 a.m. EDT) after French authorities blocked airport runways at Nice, and refused to let it land at that French Riviera city. The white, green and red airliner parked at the end of runway No. 1, far away from the airport terminal.

It was immediately surrounded by a squad of Italian anti-terrorist troops in combat gear. Police sharpshooters took up positions atop the airline terminal and in strategic places within sight and firing range of the plane. The airport runways were closed to normal traffic 15 minutes before the plane landed. All normal operations at the airport, including ticket sales, were brought to an immediate halt. The plane, Alitalia flight 713, was the same plane used by the late Pope Paul VI during his trip to the Philippines and Australia in 1970.

As soon as the plane landed, officials in the Rome airport control tower begsn negotiating with the hijackers by radio. Airport officials said they were still unable to say who the hijackers were, but that the hijackers said it was their Intention to refuel the plane and fly on to Cuba. The DC-8 was on a daily run between Tehran and Rome with a refueling stop at Beirut. It was commandeered shortly after taking off from Alitalia said 40 of the passengers boarded at Beirut and that the hijackers, believed to be four in number, probably got on in the Lebanese capital. NEW YORK (UPI) Several New York banks raised their prime lending rate by half a percentage point to a historic high of 12 percent today, leapfrogging the traditional quarter-point move announced moments earl ier by other banks.

Morgan Guaranty Trust the nttion's fifth largest, ignited the steeper-than-expected increase, saying it felt the 12 percent prime was "appropriate to given conditions." Still higher interest rates are expected, according to many analysts. The prime itself affects only corporate borrowers but it reflects the rising trend in all interest rates. Some economists have been predicting that the prime will reach 13 percent before year's end. But changes in the key interest rate usually made a quarter point at a time. The move to 12 '6 percent had been anitipcated in response to continued credit tightening by the Federal Reserve Bank that has pushed other key short-term rates to new highs.

Chase Manhattan Bank, the nation's third largest, No. 8 Bankers Trust and No. 12 Marine Midland announced the 12 percent prime from 12'4 percent Just after Citibank raised its prime to 12V4 percent. Several major banks outside New York also moved 12. Jobless rate jumps to 6 percent in August WASHINGTON (UPI) The nation's unemployment rate jumped to 6 percent in August, its highest level in more than a year, the Labor Department said today, and economists predicted even worse news in coming months as the recession deepens.

The report was a sharp change from a 1979 unemployment pattern that has hovered around 5.8 percent; the jobless rate was 5.7 percent in July. The last time the figures reached the 6 percent mark was in July 1978, when unemployment stood at 6. 1 percent. Officials have warned that the recession, which most analysts believe began during the second quarter, may cost up to 1 million jobs by year's end. Much of August's increase was due to workers being laid off.

The news confirmed what economists have been saying for months: the economy is due for a gradual rise in unemployment as a result of the recession..