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Show Thursday, May 3, 1979 Paae 4 "Nr f ff I frx ,,,,,,,1 ...IT' S STIi una INTERNATIONAL Tehran, Iran A Moslem leader described as one of the 20 most influential men in the councils coun-cils of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini was assassinated Tuesday as he left a dinner party. Ayatollah Morteza Motahari was struck in the head by a single bullet and died in a hospital early Wednesday. An anonymous caller reportedly repor-tedly told the newspaper Ayendegan that the little-known group Forghan was responsible for the murder. It is the same group that claimed to have killed General Mohammad Vali Gharani on April 23. The caller said Motahari was head of the secret Islamic Revolutionary Council which oversees the revolutionary courts. The courts have sent 164 persons to their deaths before firing squads since the revolution. Safaga, Egypt In a blistering attack Tuesday, President Anwar Sadat charged that Saudi Arabia's wealth has been used to purchase pur-chase the loyalty of an increasing number of Arab states which are isolating Egypt because of its peace treaty with Israel. Sadat also accused Syria of bungling away the Golan Heights in the 1967 war with Israel. Speaking harshly of "grudge, bitterness, impotence, im-potence, and ignorance" on the part of radical Arab states, the Egyptian president also claimed Saudi Arabia is attempting to usurp leadership of the Arab world. Cairo, Egypt The cargo ship Ashdod Monday Mon-day became the first Israeli vessel to pass through the Suez Canal since 1948. The Ashdod's passage through the 100-mile-long canal marked the first tangible benefit of the Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty which went into effect April 25. It was the first Israeli ship to make the trip since Israel became a state in 1948. In 1954, another Israeli ship attempted to pass through the Suez Canal but it was seized by the Egyptians. Belfast, Northern Ireland More than two dozen persons were arrested in a pre-dawn raid Saturday as police backed by British troops captured leading members of the provisional Irish Republican Army, according to officials. Northern Ireland police and heavily armed British soldiers raided dozens of homes and took suspects to interrogation centers for questioning. The early morning swoop followed two weeks of increased IRA violence that claimed 12 lives. Moscow The first Westerner to be launched in a Soviet spacecraft will be a Frenchman if the Russians carry through with a proposal presented by Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev on Friday. . The suggestion reportedly was made by Brezhnev during his first full round of" talks with French President Valery Giscard D'Estaing. A French spokesman told reporters the proposal was being examined in a "positive spirit." To date, a Czechoslovak, a Pole, an East German and a Bulgarian have manned Soviet spacecrafts with Russian teammates. The proposal preceded the signing of an agreement Saturday pledging a decade of Franco-Soviet cooperation in economic, cultural and scientific affairs. Lealholm, England Two American airmen sacrificed their lives Friday by steering their crippled jet fighter away from a Lealholm school. Maj. Donald L. Schuyler and Thomas D. Wheeler apparently decided not to eject from their RF-4C Phantom aircraft that they could insure the plane would not crash into the small village, 30 miles from the North Sea in northeast north-east England. The jet stalled and passed within 30 yards of the school at roof level before it crashed into some hedges, killing both men. NATIONAL Providence, Rhode Island A six-foot male high school student has been given permission by a federal judge to compete on the school's all-girl all-girl volleyball team. Donald Gomes had sought an injunction to force the interscholastic league to let him play since Newport'? Rogers High School has no boy's volleyball team. The injunction was granted gran-ted by Judge Raymond Pettine, who said keeping Gomes off the team constituted sexual discrimination. The suit is a turnabout of legal actions taken by female athlete, seeking to play on previously all-male teams. Washington Senator Edward Kennedy . Monday Mon-day charged that the Carter Administration has bowed to oil lobby pressures by decontrolling oil prices and promoting a token windfall, profits tax. Traffic Impact Still A Deer Valley Issue Carter responded to the charges by saying, "That's just a lot of baloney." In a speech before the American Society of Newspaper Editors in New York, Kennedy said, "The overbearing power of the oil lobby has intimidated in-timidated the administration into throwing in the towel without even entering the ring on the issue of oil price control." He added that the oil lobby "has also intimidated in-timidated the administration into submitting a token windfall tax that is no more than a transparent trans-parent fig leaf over the vast new profits the industry in-dustry will reap." Carter apparently was surprised by Kennedy's Ken-nedy's attack. He said the oil decontrol has been ordered through a law passed by Congress and that his tax proposal is "eminently fair." Washington The long-predicted recession may not be far off if a government index designed to foreshadow economic trends is accurate. ac-curate. The composite index fell 0.5 percent in March, marking the third consecutive monthly decline. The three-month fall is considered an indication that the economy may be about to drop into a recession. But the index has been wrong before and administration officials claimed it is probably wrong this time. New York According to a study published by the Urban Institute, New York City is wearing out. The report claims the city is not spending enough to replace streets, bridges, buildings, sewer and water lines, subway tracks and other public facilities. It said New York must spend $1.5 billion annually to keep pace with the rate of deterioration but that it is spending only $150 million and does not project to spend $1.5 billion for another 10 years. Expenditures on New York's physical plant were severely slashed in the fiscal crisis of 1975 which nearly put the city into default until the federal government stepped in and guaranteed securities sold by the city. Washington In an interview held Friday, President Carter said he has changed his mind about the length of presidential terms. Once a supporter of the existing maximum two consecutive four-year terms, Carter said, "I think that if I had a six-year term, without any prospect of re-election, it would be an improvement im-provement I think it would strengthen my hand with the Congress." He added that actions of an incumbent president facing re-election are constantly questioned by those wondering "is this a campaign cam-paign ploy or is it genuinely done.... in the best interest of our country without any sort of personal per-sonal advantages involved?" Washington In a dramatic exchange announced an-nounced by the White House Friday, the Soviet Union released five Russian dissidents aiid the United States freed two convicted Soviet spies who formerly worked at the United Nations. The five dissidents were flown into New York's Kennedy airport Friday after being put on a plane in the Soviet Union without being told their destination. Only when the plane landed land-ed did the five learn they were being exchanged ex-changed for the two convicted spies, who were loaded aboard the plane with their families for the return trip. The dissidents included Alexander Ginzburg, one of the Soviet Union's most famous human rights activists. The others were Edward Kuz-netsov, Kuz-netsov, Mark Dymshits, Valentyn Moroz and Georgi Vins. Continued From Page 1 years, though these new traffic findings fin-dings may be enough to pressure the state into accelerating their schedule. "I was afraid you would accept this as a message of doom," VanWagoner said. "I am hoping this will be an opportunity op-portunity to improve the situation, rather than something that will deteriorate it." In light of the analysis heard earlier in the evening, traffic impact was a major topic in the continuing discussion of the proposed Deer Valley resort at the April 25 Planning Commission meeting. Resort developer Warren King appeared ap-peared at the meeting seeking approval ap-proval for revisions to the original project plans. Those revisions include in-clude an increase in the number of single family lots and the replacement of an 18-hole golf course with an equestrian center and sports complex. In addition to the horse trails that will wind through the project, King said Wednesday night plans now include a bike path through the 5,000-acre project. ' With the sports complex and equestrian center, King noted he would be providing 75 acres of open space. City Planner David Preece suggested that the area be rezoned to Recreational Open Space to assure that it remained as such. King noted that more parking spaces may be needed in the beginning begin-ning stages of the project, with a general phasing out of parking construction con-struction in later phases. Commissioner Com-missioner Kurt Nelson noted that traffic consultant VanWagoner suggested restricting parking availability in the beginning to discourage the number of cars entering en-tering Deer Valley. "Well, I disagree with several things Mr. VanWagoner has said," King said. "I've heard all kinds of statements about the highway taking from three to five years," King said. "But that's inconsistent with what the transportation department says. I met with (Salt Lake City) commissioner com-missioner Sam Taylor last week and he suggested construction will begin in a year and a half with the road in operation in three years." Commission Chairman Burnis Watts Wat-ts noted, "It would be undesirable to let Park Avenue take the outflow of traffic from Deer Valley. The problem has to be solved." "In the early phases we will supplement sup-plement the city's bus system with our own," King countered. "No one suffers from traffic problems more than we do. But every development past 16th Street aggravates the problem." "Nothing like 2,200 cars a day," Commissioner Greg Lawson countered. coun-tered. "I think you and Deer Valley have some responsibility to mitigate these horrible impacts." "I don't know where those figures come from, but I hope Mr. VanWagoner Van-Wagoner is right," King said. "In my mind, Deer Valley is a catalyst to help Main Street and the old part of town. There may be some inconveniences...." incon-veniences...." King assured that the state board of health requirements of 1,600 gallons of water per day per unit would be provided for the project. Plans are for King to divert water from the Spiro Tunnel and provide a complete water system for the project in return for 2,000 water connections. con-nections. As planned, phase one , of the project will begin this summer and be completed in the fall of 1981. Included In-cluded will be the development of a parking area, basic roads for the entire en-tire development, major utiliity lines, the sports complex, 200 Deer Valley multi-family units, 93 single family lots in the American Flag development, develop-ment, seven ski lifts with related buildings, the 90-unit Lake Flat Hotel, resort commercial space in both Lake Flat and Deer Valley, and 50 cottages in Lake Flat. King concluded the Deer Valley discussion by saying, "I hope the city thinks this project is good for it and the citizens, too." WOLFE'S in the resort plaza " " ' Jf.sf' i now has equipment for the SOFTBALL SEASON gloves, bats, balls, shoes 10 a.m. -5 p.m. 6 days a week Closed Mondays jj ftimiimW $km z i in ' '.'!: ...... IU , , in ' - j - ;f; R E S T A II R A N T Best Salad Bar in Town! Serving Prime Rib Nightly Finest Steak House Cuisine Open 7 days a week for dinner Located in Prospector Square |