Danville Register, The (Newspaper) - December 20, 1976, Danville, Virginia THE DANVILLE REGISTER ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTYEIGHT PUBLIC SERVICE FOUNDED FEBRUARY 1847 NO 31230 AP LEASED WIRES DANVILLE VA MONDAY MORNING DECEMBER 201976 PRICE FIFTEEN CENTS Elections In Israel May Be Held Early Rabin Loses Majority Support In Israeli Parliament Sunday PLANE CRASHES INTO BALTIMORE STADIUM A light plane is covered with protective foam after it crashed into the upper deck at Baltimores Memorial Stadium just moments after the football game between Baltimore and Pittsburgh The pilot was in jured but no spectators Airplane Crashes Into Stadium AP A plane which had apparently been buzzing Sundays Pittsburgh Steelers Baltimore Colts National Football League game crashed into the stands at Memorial Stadium barely 10 minutes after the National Football League playoff ended The pilot was identified as Donald Kroener 42 of Maryland Dave Quilter a public relations spokesman for the Colts said The pilot was unconscious when he was taken on a stretcher on the elevator from the upper deck One policeman was slightly cut by a wing tip and two other officers were overcome by gas fumes and smoke inhalation Quilter said The crash occured in a section of empty seats vacant only because the game was a runaway and some fans had left early Eyewitnesses in the press box said the plane made a pass around the stadium entered from the open end then ap to be climbing to clear the stadium roof when it slammed into the seats halfway up the top deck Yvon Tyler of Baltimore who was sitting five section from the crash site said The plane had circled the field and had gone through where the band sits at the other end of the field and then came back into the stadium It tried to climb and it banked but it couldnt make it JERUSALEM AP Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin lost his majority in parliament Sunday by dismissing three cabinet ministers and im mediately laced a motion of no confidence that threatened to topple his government The three fired ministers were members of the National Religious party the chief coalition partner of Rabins Labor party The rightwing Likud op position presented the no confidence motion and the NRP said it would support it in parliament when it comes up for debate Tuesday Rabins coalition could well lose a vote on the issue requiring early elections Political analysts said this may have been Rabins in tention They noted that general elections were scheduled for October and said the fall of the government would merely advance the election date by a few months Politicians on the right and left praised the move as good political tactics by the prime minister calling it a pre emptive attack aimed at hit ting Rabins foes before they were ready to go to the polls Rabin made no immediate comment on elections He fired the three NRP cabinet ministers after two of them joined the NRP faction in parliament in abstaining on a vote of confidence last week The Torah front a splinter faction of ultraorthodox rabbis had presented the no confidence motion because a welcoming ceremony for three fighter planes from the United States continued past the beginning of the Jewish sabbath at sundown on Friday Dec 10 Welfare Minister Zevulun Hammer one of the dismissed ministers said it was in conceivable Rabin would continue to govern with a minority and promised the NRP would do everything to advance the election date The other two dismissed ministers were Interior Minister Yosef Burg and Religion Minister Yitzhak Raphael Diplomatic analysts thought early elections might speed up Middle East peace moves The peace efforts have developed slowly partly because of the weakness of Rabins cabinet and his disagreement with the NRP much captured Arab territory Israel should give up Rabins move took the nation by surprise As the prime minister was announcing his decision tO the ministers Israeli new papers were reporting that he had decided to overlook the affair See RABIN Page 2A TANKER BATTERED BY WAVES The Liberian oil tanker Argo Merchant aground on sandy shoals 27 miles southeast of Nantucket Island is battered by 8 to 10 foot waves Saturday Improving weather later eased the battering and the Coast Guard said less oil was spilling out partly because it was being congealed by the cold AP Wirephoto IN THE MINORITY NOW Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin forced his key coalition partner the National Religious Party out of his cabinet Sun day according to reports from the state radio The move came when Rabin demanded the re signation of several ministers of the party and it leaves his labor party with a minority in the Is parliament AP Wire photo 15 Million Gallon Spill Seen In Tanker Crackup Soviet Dissident Says USSR Its Enemy ZURICH Switzerland AP Vladimir Bukovsky the Soviet human rights activist freed in an international ex change of political prisoners said Sunday that prison life got much rougher after Helsinki accord on EastWest cooperation was signed Denouncing the Soviet system the dissident attacked the 1975 Helsinki accord as a Soviet maneuver to disarm the West and curb the fight tor human rights in Russia The pale and haggard BUkovsky told his first news conference in the West he in tends to dedicate all his energy to the cause of political prisoners in the Soviet Union and throughout the world Bukovsky said conditions at Vladimir prison 120 miles east of Moscow worsened con as soon as the Helsinki accord was signed He said this included new restrictions on reading matter RAIN WEATHER Reading From Station Atop The Building j likely to the 60s near the coast Colder VIRGINIA Rain Monday changing to wet snow later in the day in the west and later Monday night in the east before ending Mild Monday high in the 50s in the west to the 60s in the east then turning windy and much colder Monday night Low Monday night iii the teens in the west to the 20s in the cast Clearing windy and cold Tuesday high in the 20s in the west to the 30s in the east NORTH CAROLINA Considerable cloudiness Monday and Monday night with occasional rain or showers changing to snow flurries over the mountains Monday night High Monday from near 30 in the mountains Monday night low in the 20s hi the west to 30s in the east Showers ending near the coast Tuesday otherwise partly cloudy windy and colder with snow flurries likely over the mountains high in the 30s in the mountains to the 40s elsewhere DOWNTOWN WEATHER LOG Sunday Hour Temp Bar Wind 48 3010 Calm 45 3010 Calm 43 3003 Calm Monday 42 3005 Calm low to 1 am 32 high 60 precipitation none 11 pm 1 am for prisoners who were even barred from reading western Communist publications and an official United Nations review The Soviet Union still sees the West as an enemy with which it is in a state of belligerency he declared Bukovsky his mother his sister and an ailing nephew were flown to Switzerland by the Kremlin on Saturday in exchange for Chilean Com munist party leader Luis Corvalan who had been in prison since the Chilean military overthrew the late President Salvador Allende in 1973 The exchange was an ex event because it is the first time that the Soviet Union officially recognized it has political prisoners Bukovsky said It is a victory for everybody This exchange brings forward the problem of political prisoners as a universal problem Corvalan who was freed Friday by the military regime in Santiago flew on to Moscow with his wife Saturday night in the unprecedented exchange assisted by the United States Chiles president Gen Augusto Pinochet said in Santiago Sunday his govern ment had taken the initiative in asking the United States to mediate The Russians he said responded in evasive and distant terms to the early Chilean approaches but later came around A Swiss physician said Sec DISSIDENT Page 2A BOSTON AP Up lo 15 million gallons of oil which spilled from a grounded tanker was moving in globs as large as 1000 square feet toward the rich Georges Bank fishing grounds Sunday The Coast Guard moved in equipment to unload millions of gallons of heavy industrial oil which remained aboard the vessel The unloading operation could take as long as a because of predicted intervals of severe weather Officers have expressed concern that high winds and rough seas could break the ship apart before it can be completely unloaded The Coast Guard said Sun day that as much as 20 per cent of the 76 million gallons loaded aboard the Argo Merchant might have escaped the vessel grounded on shoals 27 miles southeast of Nan tucket Island That estimate was significantly higher than the 100000 gallons that officers on Saturday said had leaked out of the stricken vessel in what was declared a major spill Capt Lynn Hein Coast Guard officer in charge of operations at the unloading can not begin for several days because the ship must be stabilized and the oil will have to be heated in order to be pumped from the tanker into barges for carrying ashore The No 6 oil Is currently the consistency of chocolate pudding because of cold weather Hein said The spilled oil was in a wedgeshaped area extending 65 miles eastward from ship The wedge was about 40 miles west of Georges Bank on Sunday We dont know how much is on the surface and how much might have gone to the bot tom said Rear Adm James Stewart commander of the 1st Coast Guard District Ex perts lei us sand In the water may carry oil lo the bottom Several species of fish which inhabit the bank area are bottom feeders which biologists said would probably be poisoned by the oil No oil had hit the New England coast and Stewart said experts predicted that the oil which leaked out would approach no closer than 20 nautical miles The weather Sunday was calm with winds of 10 knots and seas about four feet A sixman Coast Guard team aboard the Argo Merchant installed fenders around the ship Sunday to make it easier for other vessels to approach A steam generator which will be used o melt the oil was being loaded in Narragansett Bay RI Our plan is to place the heater in one of he center tanks and pump unheated oil from tanks to that one We hope three or four smaller pumps can keep up with one big pump in the center tank Hein said Two barges which can hold a combined total of 47 million gallons will be used to shuttle oil ashore Hein said Two To Be Appointed Carter Sources Say dissident writer Vladimir Bukovsky who came to Switzerland Saturday after his release from a Soviet prison breaks into tears while being welcomed by Russian exile writer Krasnov right at the start of press conference at a public hall in Zurich Sunday afternoon PLAINS Ga AP Presidentelect Carter will name former federal appellate judge Griffin B Bell as his choice or US attorney general and has offered a high level post to economist and educator Juanita M Kreps sources near the Carter camp said Sunday Bell 58 born in nearby is a partner in an Atlanta law firm with Charles Kirbo one of Carters closest advisers He served 15 years on the 5th US Circuit Court of Appeals before resigning March 1 to return to the firm Bell also was the chief of staff from 1959 to 1961 for Georgia Gov S Ernest Van diver who told the opening session of the state legislature in 1960 he would resist school desegregation in Georgia by every legal means and remedy available to us Dr Kreps 55 currently vice president of Duke University reportedly has been considered by Carter for appointment as either secretary of commerce or labor or the spols in those departments s She has served on two federal commissions been in college leaching or administration for 31 years and has authored books on economics and the job status of women Aides Sunday night that Carter will name three Cabinet nominees at a nationally broadcast news conference Monday morning Carter will name three Cabinet nominees during a nationally broadcast news conference at 11 am EST Monday aides announced Sunday night See CARTER Page 2A GOOD MORNING Two Pages Amusements Classified Ads Comics Editorials Sports Womens News TV Showtime Section Page 14 1213 13 4 67 1011 SHOPPING DAYS TILL CHRISTMAS Richland Singing Billion Blues In New York OF THE W Bernard Richland a lawyer with only one client New York City Since taking the position as head of the citys Law Department in 1975 Richland has had to deal with tens of thousands of law suits but his biggest and toughest to date is Hie current billion Bis AP Wirephoto NEW YORK AP W Bernard Richland is a lawyer whose only client has a billion suit to settle In fact his client New York City seems to have no end of legal trouble New York has been involved in tens of thousands of lawsuits since the English born old attorney became the head of the citys Law Department in 1975 just as the fiscal crisis was beginning In about 80 per cent of those cases city has been the defendant But this past month has been especially rough A month ago an emergency stale law allowing the city to delay payment on SI billion in shortterm notes for three years past their due date was ruled un constitutional by a state appeals court This past week the attorney for Flushing National Bank which holds in those unpaid notes and which won the suit against the city rejected the citys proposal to pay Its debt by next November partly in cash and partly in longterm bonds Instead the represented by Flushing National are demanding full cash payment within the next year The city has 30 days to present its plan in court on how to do so It is job along with officials of the state the city and the emergency body the Municipal Assistance Corp to draft such a plan grace period is precious time since no one has figured out how lo raise that kind of cash Bui this is just one of the legal hassles the city faces as a result of the fiscal crisis according to Jim Greilsheimer Richlands chief litigating counsel He says the city is currently lighting 200 cr 300 lawsuits directly connected with the problems stemming from the current threeyear emergency financial plan to keep the city from going bankrupt The moratorium on the notes was just one of many elements in the plan A retired teacher is suing tho citys teacher pension fund for buying Municipal Assistance Corp MACi bonds height of the citys crisis a year ago Several retired policemen and firemen and three retired City University teachers are cuing their pension funds for their MAC bond purchases Blacks Puerto Ricans and women have sued the city charging that layoffs stemming from the fiscal crisis have cost them more jobs than other groups A suit by a taxpayer claims that his real tax rale is illegally high He claims that because the citys capital budget improperly contains city operating ex pense items the property tax rate which based in part on the annual volume of capital spending has been improperly inflated At least four lawsuits against city allege securities fraud In the sale of city bonds and notes and MAC bonds The Securities and Exchange Commission has also launched an investigation into whether investors in city securities received misleading or incomplete in formation There are city workers attacking ihc legality of the oneyear wage freeze thai ended last June The city is legally representing the board of education in suits challenging the elimination of sab for teachers and shorter school days Virtually all the issues relating to reductions in the budget one way or another end up in court says that the volume of this type of has gone dously since the beginning of the fiscal crisis in 1975 Legal problems slemming from reduced cily services forced by New Yorks cash crunch have also been on the rise says Irwin Herzog an administrative attorney under Richland People sue on claims of lack of police protection They sue when a neighborhood hospital is closed They sue when their car hits a pothole They sue if a sidewalk isnt cleared and they slip on the ice he says Determining exactly how much the city Is losing in legal judgements and claims is difficult because until 1975 this figure was mixed in wilh one of the operating ex penses that city budget officials im properly squirreled into the capital budget According lo the city comptrollers of fice the city paid out million in legal damages In year and million as of Dec 10 in the current fiscal year In 197475 city records show payments of million but that figure improperly included retroactive wage settlements Therefore comparative figures prior io 1975 do not exist Meanwhile as the citys legal caseload has increased the staff at the City Law Department has suffered a average reduction as a result of budget cutbacks To meet the terms of the citys financial plan Richlands department must trim million from Its million annual budget While the city has cut its overall payroll by 19 per cent the Law Department has dropped from 808 employes to 602 since the beginning of 1975 a 255 per cent cut Richland says his department has given a goahead to hire 65 new employes but he says the department Is finding it increasingly difficult lo attract and hold able young attorneys out of law school A starting lawyer for the city gets a year salary about less than he or she might get to start at a private law firm
