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Show Iranian Vows fo Settle Crisis By United Press International All but claiming victory in Iran's first presidential elec uuons Finance Minister Abol- hassan Bani-Sadr said Saturday that as president he will quickly settle the ‘minor’ siege at the US. Embassyand send military aid to the rebels fighting Soviet troops in Afghanistan In interviews with a French newspaper and reporters in Tehran Bani-Sadr called the 84 Le Matin threatened ‘hat Iran feels Soviet troops in neighboring Afghanistan and will aid Moslem rebels there all means possible military means. president by a margin of more But the milita:is holding 50 Americans hostage in the lS Embassy appeared to take issue old Sorbonne-educated economist also told the French newspaper Although Tehran Radio said that final results were not ex. pected until Monday, it appeared In a statement of their own monitored in London by the BBC the militants said the United States — not the Soviet Union Exuding confidence as his lead Culture Minister and clergy can didate Hassan Habibi the 12-week-old crisis could be quickly settled easily can be solved in the eight-way presider‘ial race mushroomed to 80 percent of the tabulated vote, the 46-year- than 5-to-] over his closest rival with Bani-Sadr’s assertion that broadcast by Tehran Radio and that Tehran Radio reported that Bani-Sadr was leading Friday's elections to become Iran's first including day-old occupation of the US Embassy a ‘minor affair. and certain death with was Islam's “enemy number one” and that the hostages would notgo free until the deposed shah was extradited to Iran from his Panamanian exile to face tnal that Bani-Sadr a relative moderate and a close confident of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini was assured of victory Khomeini himself spent another day recuperating from heart trouble in a Tehran hospital where the radio said he was examined Saturday by two heart specialists flown in from Lausanne Switzerland Le Abolhasan Bani-Sadr GheBai 107TH YEAR, NO. 152 UPITelephoto Bigfoot Crosses Freeway? Who knows whose prints these are, or when they were made? Dodging cars all the while, the four-toed bease — or at least the person or persons who did the painting — managed to leave this trail across 12 lanes of the Southwest Freeway at Houston, Tex. If someone knowsthe creature or culprits, they're not telling the authorities, Canada Tells Olympics Boycott Plan Unless... OTTAWA (UPI) — Canada will’ boycott the Olympic Games in Moscow this summer if Soviet troops are not removed from Atphasis by Feb. 20, Prime Minister Joe Clark announced Saturday. Clark told reporters after meeting withofficials of the Canadian Olympic Committee that the federal Cabinet madethedecision Fridayto fully sup- port the move by President Carter protesting the Spviet Union’s military invasion of Afghanistan. “We decided that Canada would boycott the games... if troops are not removed from Afghanistan” by Feb. 20, Clark said. ‘We decided to callin Tepresentatives of the Canadian Olympic Association to inform them of our decision.” Sunday: Workers Losing Inflation Battle Inflation, which remains on everyone's priority problemslist, isn’t expected to improve much during the next few months, according to Alfred Kahn, President Carter's chiefinflation fighter. The average blue collar worker reportedly is losing the fight wih with inflation, one report says, while another points out that gasoline, one of the nation’s mostpriceinflated products, wasonly 68 cents per gallon a year ago compared to the present average price of $1.04 per gallon. These stories, along with a breakdownon theinflation rates of the 1970s are on Page 56. Legislature Turning to Budget The Utah Legislature is moving quickly through a lengthy list of bills to clear for action on the 1980 state budget. In clearing the non-budget measures, two more laws gain approvals. The House okayed one affecting juvenile court handling of foster children, and the Senate ap- proved another providing a procedure to bypass written tests for driver’s license renewal. See story on Page 22. In addition, a legislative subcommittee has approved a $178 million budget for the State Departmentof SocialServices. See story on Page2. PROVO, UTAH, SUNDAY, JAN. 26, 1980 $4.50—MONTH, PRICE 50 CENTS Job Diseases Benefits Poor, Report Charges By DREW VON BERGEN WASHINGTON (UPI) — Nearly 2 million Americans are partially or severely disabled because of diseases contracted on the job, but they are likely to yet poor workers compensation benefits, a draft Uabor Department report said Saturday. “It is sort of a chemical version of the Bataan death march.”’ said a department official who asked not to be named. ‘Theydropin ones and twos and add upover the year.” The report. focusing on people with disabling occupational diseases, was ordered by Congressin 1977. It has not yet been approved by Labor Secretary Ray Marshall and must also go through the Budget Office before being sent to CapitolHill. Limited workers’ compensation benefits for such persons averageonly $9.700, compared to expected future earnings of $77.000, and thus haveplaced a heavy financial burden on other programs to care for them, the draft report says. Occupational diseases cost the Social Security disability and welfare systems about$2.2 billion an- nually, the report says. Only for coal miners’ pneumoconiosis, or‘‘black lung’, has the government created a special program to finance benefits to afflicted persons — providing $1.6 billion last year to 450,000 disabled miners and their widows and dependents. The report recommendsthree alternatives for action: —D a sub ‘by approach similar to a workers compensation program for a single disease — with benefits limited to workers disabled from specific industrial health hazards such as asbestos, cotton dust andsilica, and payments financed by an industry trust fund. —Modifying criteria for occupational disease eligibility in the Social Security disability program andsetting up industry trust funds to finance supplemental benefits. —Restructuring the workers compensation system by having a neutral body administer payments; using legal presumptions based on the best available scientific evidence to determine workrelatedness of specific diseases and creating an industry-financed hazardous substancetrustfund to pay benefits. In 1978, the report says, lost incomefor disabling occupationaldiseases amountedto$11.4billion. Yet it says public and private income support programsreplace only about 40 percent of the wages lost by individuals severely disabled due to occupationaldiseases — compared to 60 percent for those injured on the job. | While the major source of income for those injured on the job is workers compensation,it rates low for those contracting work-related diseases. For them the major source of incomeis Social Security at 53 percent. Workers compensation is only 5 percent for occupational disease disability. “The fact that only 5 percent... receive workers compensation benefits is due partly to the difficulties involved in establishing the workr of disabling illnesses andthe defensive litigation strategy adopted by someinsurers,” the report says. BabrakSaid Faltering Soviet Opposition Grows By United Press International Sniperskilled at least one Soviet soldier in Kabul and Western diplomats in the Afghan capital said they are hearing reports that Moscow is unhappy with the regime of Babrak Karmaland mayreplace it after only one month. In another blow to Moscow's prestige in the Moslem world. pro-MoscowLibya announcedit will attend an Islamic conference opening in Pakistan Sunday to denounce the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. And in Iran, the man likely to become that country’s first president — Finance Minister Abolhassan Bani-Sadr — said thatif elected,hewill give military assisstance to the Moslem rebels fighting to cust t.2 Soviets from Afghanistan. “Faced with the Soviet Union, we will aid the Afghan people with all the meanspossible in Iran, including military means," Bani-Sadrtold the French newspaper Le Matin. “I hope the Russians will be prudent. They have already lost their image in Iran,” he said. Diplomats in Kabul said the Soviets. faced with growing opposition to their presence and a government that is apparently incapable of stemmingit, maybe thinking of replacing Babrak, the man they installed as president after last month's coup. Osmonds Thrill Crowd Twobenefit concerts by the Osmonds Friday and Saturday nights at BYU drew anestimated 40,000 people who weretreated to the vast sing- ing talents of the brothers, including Alan Osmond, shown herebelting out a numberwith his guitar. There were special effects never seen before in a live concert at the Marriott Center, including laser displays and waterfalls highlighted by colored lights. See additional pictures and review story on Page 5. Pilots May Face Fuel Shortages Pilots of light aircraft leaving Provo Airport and others nearby are cautioned that they mayfindit difficult to find fuel in some areas of the country. Tworeasons are given — strike at some companies producing the fuel, and an explosionata fuelplant in Texas. See story on Page 4. County Board Asks to Resign The county Employee of the Month board resigned asa body this past week, but Utah County commissioners have persuaded the members to stay on atleast until it is decided what to do about problems which seem to be bothering departmentheads in the county. Story on page4. A University of California at Berkeley seismologist said ‘timeis running out and with every passing year the odds will steadily increase.” See story on Page 23 Herald as they shopped at Grand night lows in the upper teens. Light northerly winds are expected, exceptin local areas where easterly canyon winds prevail. Here’s Where To Find It Amusements Arts Classified Ads Comics Commerce Community News 22-23 32-34 45-55 a 15-19 % Editorial National-International Obituaries ucie.y Sports Utah-Regional reinstated, but one couple says they believe U.S. intervention in the Persian Gulf would be meddling in other people's business. All but one of the 12 disapprove of drafting women. The dissenter, a Pleasant Grove man, indicated women should be drafted if the Equal Rights Amendmentis adopted. The 12 were interviewed by the Partial Cloudiness Predicted Partly cloudy skies and a 20 percent chance of snow today and tonight is forecast for the Central Utsh area, with highs today and Monday in the mid 30s, and over- my husbandto haveto go. Some say the draft should be Big Earthquake Still Expected Californians are still bracing for the ‘Big One’’ after scientists warned the Livermore earthquake did not release enoughstressto prevent the great earthquake they expect to bring death and destruction to California in this decade. Residents Disagree on Military Draft By BRUCE KING Herald Staff Reporter A dozen shoppers told the Herald Saturday they agree the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan is a threat to America’s freedom, but they disagree on whetherthis threat warrants reinstating the military draft. 43 2, 20, 23 4 25-31 6-14 22,41 Central. The group included four young men and five young womenofdrafting age (18 to 26) Also interviewed were two men and women who appeared old enough to have children of drafting age Two youngladies believe the draft is a distasteful wayto raise military forces. They believe the current voluntary system is a good wayto doit The shoppers believe women Donna Shumway should be permitted to enter the miliatry services if they want to, but they should not be forced to enter. Most of the shoppers believe American women would best help the country in a wartimesituation by staying home “Of course the Soviet invastion is a threat to America,’ Marianne Shoell exclaimed. The young married woman, 25, lives with her husband in Pleasant Grove “T imagine the draft ought to be reinstated as a safeguard,” she said, ‘‘but I would hate for “As far as America drafting women, it would be a mistake. It would be better for women to stay homeand take care of the country while the mengofight.” Kelly Burke, 22, a student at Utah Technical College. also believes the Soviet invasion threatens America. “It's going te boil down to one big war,’ he said. “It is in evitable. But the government shouldn’t play around this time like it did in Vietnam.It should go in and annihilate them, if necessary. “As for women being drafted, I'ma women's libberto someextent, but I think it ought to be voluntary,’ Burke said Kameron Emery, 24, a student at Brigham Young University, also believes there is a need to restore the draft. “It's bad to wait until the last minute,” he said. “‘I believe the country will be in bad shape. before womenwill be needed in the military forces. I hope we dont reach that point,” he add Rick and Cynthia Thompson, 20 and 21, respectively, from Plea- sant Grove, indictated America may be out of place using military force in the Middle East. “If we mustfight, if our homes are threatened, then I think we should fight. Mr. Thompson (Continued on page 2) |