Ukiah Daily Journal (Newspaper) - September 22, 1980, Ukiah, California September 22, 1980 120 th Year No. 133 468-0123 Ukiah Weather By Press Northwestern Fair and Fort Bragg 66, 50 and 65, 85,48 and 87. Mendocino 1 Section 25Cents Iraq at Tehran airport bombed By United Press International Iraq said its warplanes bombed airport and eight other Iranian bases Iran said it retaliated by striking two air fields in Iraq and threatening to sink any merchant ships heading to Iraqi The Iraqi attacks came just as Baghdad announced it intended to launch against its neighboring oil The on 290 east of the was the thrust by Iraqi forces in the intensifying but as yet undeclared Iran's armed forces Were placed on full alert and President Abolhassan in an announcement broadcast by Tehran Radio said warplanes successfully attacked air bases this command announced that because of the fighting waterways near the Iranian shores are declared war will not allow any merchant ship to carry cargo to Iraqi In his speech gave detailed accounts of losses on both He said Iraqi losses included 17 MiG fighter 6 21 tanks and a number of naval Iran's lost three a 11 tanks and adding that 22 Iranian soldiers had been He said Iraqi President Saddam Hussein tried to imitate Israeli Moshe Dayan and attack our thinking that his planes could hit our airports and cripple our air result was that they lost many planes and he was not able to do the least damage to our In a communique carried by the Iraqi news the Iraqi air command said its planes in coordinated raids at noon a.m. Airport as well as air bases at and The timing of the raids coincided with an announcement in Baghdad that Iraqi President Saddam Hussein ordered his nation's forces to stage strikes against Iranian military targets to foil conspiracies of the Farsi Iraq said one of its planes was lost during the A spokesman for the Iraqi Embassy in said any reports that Iraq has formally declared war on its neighbor were Iran's military saying it feared additional air broadcast a communique ordering a total blackout at Without mentioning the air Radio monitored by UPI in Ankara said the Iran Air suspended all operations Indefinitely and to western cities were diverted Western diplomatic sources said or MiGs struck Airport but caused ' material A Turkish radio report said an nian Air Force Boeing 747 jumbo jet caught fire during the Iraqi attack on the Tehran The airport is well removed from the occupied where most of the 52 American who spent their 324th day in are still believed to be Tehran Radio broadcast martial music through the day and on listeners to to do battle with the bloody Baathists It also warned Iranians to beware of rumors spread by fifth Other battle reports from and Tehran said Iraqi artillery the area around the Iran's major oil refinery in Abadan and Iranian gunners fired on four the strategic Shatt A military communique broadcast by Tehran Radio said Iraqi artillery fire Sunday hit oil reservoir 512 in site of the world's largest setting a fire that was put Iran said two of its small launches were sunk by Iraqi shelling and an Iranian helicopter crashed after hitting a high-voltage killing both Two Iraqi posts were destroyed by Iranian Tehran Radio The Iraqi news agency gunners fired today on four foreign ships in the disputed Shatt waterway at the head of the Persian The vessels were identified as the Camilla and Silver both the of Greek and Yong flying the Liberian The agency Said a crewman from the Camilla was Several military boats The growing threat of total war with Iraq overshadowed the hostage crisis and the fate of the 52 The naval and artillery clashes were centered the 100-mile-long Shatt waterway at the head of the Persian on Iran's western frontier with ' Iraq is the world's second largest oil producer and the waterway is its 6n]^ outlet to the As it serves as vital supply route for its oil exports The volatile situation has spurred diplomatic moves the including a reported attempt by PLO Chairman Yasser who tains close ties with Tehran Arafat sent a message Sunday to q's President Saddam The were not disclosed but it was believed to be an offer mediate ween the two oil Trouble flared last week after Baghdad abrogated the treaty whereby the waterway was under the joint control of Iraq and Iran and it wis renewing its jurisdiction over the All ships using the must in future fly the Iraqi flag and obey Iraqi Reports Sunday indicated fighting had spread to the Iranian port of at the head of the waterr way and to Abadan has been Muskie proposes formula for release By United Press International Secretary of State Edmund Muskie said today Washington will agree to participate in an forum to air Iran's grievances against the United States once the release of 52 American hostages is The United States has said in the past that it was to cooperate in y such a forum but it vyas first time it had laid out any specific the state radio a group of deputies from Iran's Parliament visited the U.S. Embassy as a prelude to the assembly's debate on the fate of the now in their 324th day of Speaking the U.N. Muskie are prepared to do our part in resolving fairly the issues between the safe return of all the hostages to their families is we are prepared to deal on a basis of mutual respect and equality with all the outstanding issues knd between Iran and the United States and to reach understandings on the principles which govern our Iranian officials have demanded an apology from the United States for its past actions in Iran as well as the return of the late shah's wealth as conditions for the Radio said deputies who toured the U.S. Embassy in Tehran at the request of the occupying Islamic militants from close U.S. espionage 4 The hostages reportedly have been the compound to other places of detention to prevent another rescue has ordered by Ayatollah to fate of and most of the deputies have said they favored spy trials for the In its first action on the the Parliament last week voted to form a special commission to study the issue in preparation for the but since then Iranian concern has shifted from the hostage crisis to the intensifying border war with Chide will tour area Warhead removed from missile site Mendocino County deputy kneels beside part of loot and arms seized in Containers are filled An automatic rifle rests on top of Six charged with looting home By EVELYN SIMPSON Journal Staff Writer Six Ukiah men have been arrested and charged with looting the Robinson Creek Road home of a man taken into custody last week as the alleged leader of a nationwide drug David Joseph David Charles Graybeal and Robert all of Ukiah were booked on charges of burglary and receiving stolen The suspects include some carpenters who had been working on the house which is under construction for Bruce 29, alias Steve is wanted in Florida for allegedly smuggling millions of dollars of marijuana into this country from Columbia and for kidnapping his own He was arrested at the Ukiah airport Thursday evening by sheriff's deputies and federal The officers found in what they believe is. drug Silver the constructed house on Robinson Creek three and a half miles from Boonville Also seized was private 3,6oo rounds of live rubber skin counterfeit and forged identity papers and several pounds of marijuana and known in Ukiah as Steve has lived here for about two after dropping out of sight in Florida where he was under by a federal grand jury on drug He was also wanted in Florida for abducting his son during divorce and custody An the six Ukiah men who were arrested for looting house said they were workmen employed in building the house who were afraid they were going to their when they heard had been Some of them went to the house just to retrieve some of the unused the acquaintance By ELLEN DEBENPORT Ark. A flatbed truck today hauled away the nuclear warhead that was flung 200 yards from a Titan II missile that exploded killing one airman and injuring 21 The including the flatbed truck carrying two lead marked ed saffely about 1>/^ later at Little Rock Air Force about 60 miles One Air Force official at the scene was asked if the convoy contained the but he just smiled apd gave a Unidentified Pentagon sources said the truck was indeed removing tlie which suffered no damage except a slight The Air Force will never officially confirm or deny the presence of a Three police vehicles helped escort the convoy down U.S. 65 to Interstate 40 to North Little Rock and then 67 to Air Force Base helicopter flew it we don't said state police dispatcher Argie would think it had to be the but we don't know Maj. Ed at the Rock Air Force Base repeated the Air position that it would Confirm or deny the location of nuclear ' Kendall said the Force had for an escort about 30 minutes before the truck left tiie missile failing to give the four notice had been requested by Public Safety Director Sarn No one was he A spokesman for Gov. Clinton said he would send Tatom to inspect the site and military officials have agreed to open the site to reporters after The spokesman said Clinton also would meet with Air Force officials in a closed session at the Capitol in Little Ed an operations officer with the of Emergency Anderson clash in debate By DEAN REYNOLDS BALTIMORE - Ronald and John Anderson agree on both oppose a peacetime draft and disapprove of Jimmy RONALD REAGAN Carter's refusal to join them in the first debate of the 1980 presidential Carter sat home like of Americans night and watched the Republican and who declared as ah dent candidate after losing the GOP attack him a little and each other a designed by Women Voters as a three-way confrontation between the major party candidates and the leading became a two-man show insisted on a debate with Reagan alone before he met other ' Both men chided Carter for refusing to take part and took random at the in responding to questions from But down to Jabe at 4itlier, Reagan accusing Anderson at one point of making up statistics and Anderson declaring that Reagan had of After the show Baltimore Convention televised by NBC and public stations while ABC ran a Reagan felt good and everything seemed to go but said he couldn't say who like asking an actor on evening night to Anderson felt pretty good but also would not try declare a wOl that to the Judgment of the great viewing who returned to the White from a idling and a appearance in time to ' the issued no But his repeated go with the candidates were I they would improve the military manpower situation and both agreed that better pay and benefits were needed and a draft was Reagan took the initiative to point out a shame there are only two qf us debating because we are more in agreement than The only one who would disagree with us is the But that Was Just the area Reagan and neither directly answered part of the question that if they would call for a draft if the all-volunteer effort said he would a draft if the nation periled by They directly the tax military aid to abortion and the of churches on Anderson any tax cute until inflation is under control and for sharp cuts in federal stuck with his proposal for a 30 percent tax he said would on Page 2) was the only state official to admit that the Air Force has the existence of the Other state including said they have been kept in Klaunch said he watched inspectors with geiger counters test the for radiation after the but needles on the instruments did hot any Although from By Jim Garner President Cartor chose to sit out the Sunday night in He didn't miss Why they to shindigs In Sunday of foiling was a sanitized Sanitized because the five or six reporters Each his or her asked a- question then while others took their Viewers saw cfr heard nothing from Reagan and Anderson they hadn't heard or seen Each question seemingly had 15 thus the candidates had time to dwell on any specific both Reagan and advocate reduced federal we'll have to wait until one is ' ' both agree the U.S. must maintain ite strong military Reagan perhaps wante it than Anderson of part of that volves our military personnel a whale of a lot more are now Which has beena problem for about 25 years but has been On and on went the discussion with nothing new nor being Mayhaps the bright boys at and NBC chose tp can come i more sensible format for Why net w as the to Anything to get tlie down themm about
