Show As a service of Points West here is a roundup of the significant News N Roundup R oun d up By Grover news events of the past week LOCAL Residents of the portions of the Salt Lake Valley announced once again that they plan for the incorporation vote of all unincorporated lands in the county into one city to avoid the further erosion of their tax base Announcing their plans last week in Salt Lake City backers of the move say they want to protect the services currently received in their areas without being annexed into existing cities within the county Backers of the proposed incorporation say they would be beable beable beable able to contract for services at current cost levels but if annexed their areas would face higher tax burdens and greatly reduced services An earlier attempt to form Lake Valley City was defeated by voters in 1978 Salt Lake County's two year old massage parlor ordinance which made it illegal for members of the opposite sex to massage each other in parlors has been upheld by bythe bythe bythe the Utah Supreme Court In reaching the verdict last week the court held that the ordinance did not violate any basic human rights or the right to work Nork within the county The ordinance had been challenged in the court by ten county parlors Meeting at the Utah Technical College at Salt Lake the State Board of Regents approved a measure whereby students at all institutions of higher education will help offset state budget cuts for the schools by paying tuition surcharges this spring The surcharges surcharges surcharges sur sur- charges in effect at all Utah Colleges and universities will vary in their effect on the student pocketbooks Students at SL may face a 1 75 per credit hour charge though officials of the told the board of Regents they are not yet convinced a surcharge is necessary Officials of the School say that the decision rests on whether SL can apply fuel and power savings to the one percent mandated budget cut A decision of the issue is expected shortly Page 4 INTERNATIONAL While the release of the fifty- fifty two former American hostages by bythe bythe bythe the Iranian government occupied the front page throughout the media in the United States events from around the world continued in their intensity In Belfast Northern Ireland government sources indicated that one British soldier was killed and andone andone andone one wounded seriously last Tuesday when men using high velocity weapons attacked an army patrol in Londonderry Police sources said the attack bore all the hallmarks of the ou outlawed Irish Republican Army This was the first attack reported against British troops for several months in the strife torn nation and followed by only a few days the attack and wounding of Republican campaigner campaigner campaigner camp camp- aigner Bernadette Devlin and her husband Michael Earlier in Dublin the provisional wing of the IRA announced that it had killed one of its own men for passing in information information information in- in formation to the Northern Ireland Ireland Ireland Ire Ire- land police The strife in this island nation has continued for more than thana a decade Beirut Lebanon Conflicting reports continued from the battlefields battlefields battlefields battle battle- fields as Iraq and Iran continued their war of attrition in the Arabian desert regions Iraqi military officials told the Reuters News agency that the most heavy fighting continued throughout the week in the western and Ilan provinces as well as in the southern producing oil-producing province of Iran Amnesty international last week accused the Soviet Union of earring out a sustained crackdown during which more than dissenters of all kinds had been imprisoned over the last fifteen months in that country Speaking from London officials of the agency said that the Soviet courts had been handing down heavy sentences up to fifteen years of combined imprisonment imprisonment imprisonment im im- and internal exile in recent months Peking Word from the capital of Communist China indicated that peoples courts officials in that nation had paved the way for a sentence of life forthe forthe for forthe the widow of the Mao Tse Tung for her part in the accused suppression of the nations nation's population during the so-called so cultural revolution of the late sixties Jiang Qing widow of the late communist chinese leader had been charged with eight other defendants for crimes against the society and had been faced with the possibility of death before a firing squad for her part in inthe inthe inthe the action Instead foreign observers in Peking indicated that the more possible sentence appeared appear appear- ed to be life imprisonment at hard labor for Qing NATIONAL Washington While the nation watched the United States Government change leaders amid pomp and circumstance as former president Jimmy Carter turned over the leadership of the nation to Ronald Reagan republican conservative conservative conservative con con- and the president of the United States after returning to his home in Plains Georgia Carter accepted the position of representative for Reagan in welcoming to freedom the fifty two former American Hostages Their release on the day of the inauguration of the new president shared center state in American events Meanwhile responding to campaign pledges made during the election period President-elect President Reagan announced as his first official act an immediate freeze on all non-military non hiring by the federal government Pledging to reduce the effect of the federal government on the lives of the American public Reagan announced through executive order that all non-essential non hiring by the government would be halted until further notice And the US U.S. Senate announced confirmation of Caspar as the new Secretary of Defense the first of President Reagans cabinet nominees to win such confirmation At camp Lejune North Carolina a navy psychiatrist testified that Marine Robert Garwood was not suffering not from a mental disease or defect and appreciated the criminality of his actions during fourteen years in prisons Speaking ng a at t the trial of Garwood Captain Patrick F. F OConnell O'Connell rebutting testimony by defense called witnesses said he interviewed Garwood for nine hours and he gave a good clear account of his conduct which did v not include symptoms of a disease in the psychiatric sense Defense psychiatrists had said that the Marine private was incapable of conforming to military law during his captivity Garwood is charged with desertion and collaboration with the enemy and if convicted could be sentenced to life imprison imprison- ment His defense rested last week without Garwood ever taking the stand Rita Jenrette wife of convicted congressman John W. W Jenrette has allegedly made revealing photographs to accompany accompany accompany pany an article she wrote for the March issue of Playboy magazine says the the State State Sta te newspaper of Columbia South Carolina The newspaper said it had learned from froma a source who was not identified that the Playboy Photographs included some shots of Mrs Jenrette in through see-through negligees |