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Show High Court Halts Dam to Save Fish By W. Dale Nelson Associated Press Writer The Supreme WASHINGTON Court ruled Thursday that work on a $116 million Tennessee dam must stop because the Endangered Species Act expressly protects the river home of a fish. However, the decision involving the Tellico Dam may represent only a temporary reprieve for the snail darter, a rare species of perch whose only known Associated Press Laser photo Supreme Court ruled $116 mil- lion Tellico Dam project must natural habitat is a stretch of the Little Tennessee River. Congressional supporters of the darn said they would move hastily to change the law. The snail darter has beeu the focal point of a Classic bottle between environmentalists and commercial stop to protect tiny fish, Snail Darter, from extinction. So concerned was the Carter administration that it had Attorney Gen eral Griffin B. Bell make a personal appeal to the Supreme Court. In his only appearance to date before the high court, Boll, displaying a vial containing a snail darter, said in effect it was ridiculous that such a small fish could cause so much trouble. The courts decision climaxed a three year court fight over the question of whether the law protecting endangered species justified abandonment of the nearly completed Tennessee Valley Authority dam. Environmentalists seeking to protect the fish had lost out in a federal trial court, but won when the case was taken to the 6th U S. Circuit Court of Appeals. 3 decision The Supreme Court's upheld the appellate court ruling. 6-- The plain intent of Congress. ..was to halt and reverse the trend toward species extinction, whatever the cost," Chief Justice Warren E. Burger declared for the court's majority. Justices Lewis F. Powell Jr., Harry A. Blackmail and William H Rehnquist dissented. "I have little doubt that Congress will Kelatcti Story, Pagr Senate Minority Leader Howard Raker of Tennessee said the decision will increase the" prospects" that the law will be revised in the current session of Congress. Baker and others have proposed a hill setting up a special federal board with authority to grant exemptions from the art so that a project could he built if its value clearly outweighs the value of an endangered species. The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee approved the bill on May 11, clecring it for action by the full Senate. Similar legislation has been introduced in the House However. Zygmund Platter, a Wayne State University law professor who argued the court case for Friends of the See Page 2, Column 1 A- -l amend the Endangered Species Act to prevent the grave consequences made possible hv today's decision, Powell wrote, adding; There will he little sentiment to leave this dam standing before an empty reservoir, serving no purpose other than a conversation piece for incredulous tourists. President Arrives in Panama Tribune Wire Services Two CITY, Panama students were shot to death Thursday in riots over the Panama Canal treaties, one day before President Carter arrives to complete the diplomatic formalities involved in giving up U.S. rights to the canal by the year 2000. Officials said the clashes involved rival student groups who support and oppose both the treaties and Carters visit starting Friday. Two other students were hospitalized with bullet wounds and 11 others were treated for minor injuries. The fighting broke out just two blocks from the hotel the president will use as his headquarters during his trip. Police estimated 300 students were involved in the fighting. PANAMA tion might be, he added. The White House officials said they were confident the situation would be calm during Carters visit, arranged so University officials closed the University of Panama campus and National Guard troops joined campus police in blocking all entrances. White House officials, declaring they were confident that the violence was an isolated incident and that Carter would receive a warm welcome in Panama, said no thought had been given to cancelling the two-da- y trip. State Department spokesman Tom Reston told reporters : "The president will go to Panama. There is no change in that. Reston said the State Department had been told last night of the violence at the University of Panama. We are trying to see what precipitated the violence and what its implica Queen of the Land King Hussein Weds American Woman Husseins reported loneliness since the By Christopher S. Wren New1 York Times Writer King Hussein of on Thursday wed Lisa Halaby, a American, in a brief Moslem ceremony and later had her proclaimed the new queen of his Hashemite desert kingdom. AMMAN, Jordan Jordan Her designation as queen and not princess, as was once expected, was reported Thursday evening on Jordanian television a few hours after the marriage quietly took place in a small, ornately Arabesque room of Zahara Palace in Amman. The bride w'ill be called Queen Nur which means light of Hussein in Arabic, in keeping with Jordanian tradition that she take an Arabic name. The statement by the royal palace on television referred to her as the Moslem Miss Nur Halaby," indicating that she had embraced the Islamic faith. A Jordanian official said that this had been done several days ago but offered no details. Miss Halaby had been nominally Prdestant but, according to her father, was never baptized as a Christian. Fourth for King Thursdays marriage is the fourth for Jordanian monarch and the follows an intense courtship of less than four months. carried Palace, which at Zaharan is the residence of Queen Zain, the king's mother. Miss Halaby, tanned and radiant, wore a deceptively simple white silk crepe wedding gown with high neckline and loose sleeves designed by Christian Dior of Paris. Her blonde hair was pulled back to See Page 2, Column 1 the president and Panamanian leader Gen. Omar Torrijos could complete ratification of two treaties. President Carter wants to go ahead with the symbolic handover ceremony to underline his belief that the treaties bring to an end an era of American colonialism and open the way to a new relationship with Latin America. Torrential rains Thursday reduced clashes to a minimum during the day, but Aristides Royo, Panamas education minister and one of the key Panama Canal treaty negotiators, admitted "the hostilities reached a dramatic level. Earthquake Hits Meteorologists in the Panama Canal zone reported an earthquake hit Panama at 7:41 a.m., but the shock was light and there was no damage. Carter, who believes the treaties turning over the canal to Panama at the end of this century are his finest foreign policy achievement, will proclaim a new era in U.S. Latin American relations in a major speech Saturday before a crowd of 100,000. Fighting at the university, which has an enrollment of 30,000, broke out Wednesday night when the Panama Students Federation, which supports Gen. Omar Torrijos, began a meeting in the school of architecture school, a center of opposition to the treaties and Panamas military leader. Shots Crackled Fistfights broke out, followed by volleys of rocks and bottles. Then, shots crackled across the campus, fatally wounding students Demosthenes Rodriguez and Jorge Camacho. There was no indication who fired the to the shots. The campus is national guard, which some students accused of responsibility for the deaths. As riots spread from the campus through the night, students stoned and broke windows at a savings bank and in Molotov cocktails dea cafeteria. stroyed three cars but witnesses denied reports a bomb had blown the roof off a school building and said the buildings were not looted. Heads of state from Mexico, Venezuela, Colombia, Costa Rica and Jamaica will attend the signing Friday, then join Carter later in a Central American summit. More meetings were set Saturday. The topics were not disclosed. Panamanian police officer orders student to remove Jianner from front of church. -- loss of the late Queen Alia, have contended that the kings choice of a wife is his personal business. Thursdays wedding had none of the elaborate religious ritual that highlighted the Catholic wedding of Grace Kelly to Prince Raninier of Monaco. And despite Jordans location, there was an absence of the kind of exotic flair that characterized Hope Cookes marriage to the Buddhist king of Sikkim. But while the celebration Thursday was more low-ke- y than the two previous royal marriages of American women, the former Miss Halaby. has become queen not of a fairy-tal- e realm but of a strategically pivotal, even vulnerable kingdom in the tumultuous Middle East. The Bride Was Radiant The bridal couple seemed oblivious to such concerns when they met for the marriage ceremony iI off-limi- ts His first two marriages ended in divorce and his third wife, Queen Alia, died in a helicopter crash on Feb. 10, Italy Chief Amidst Crisis, Begin Resigns Goes Home to Rest Under Fire By William Claiborne Washington Post Writer In an atmosphere of JERUSALEM pending Cabinet crisis, Israeli Prime Minister Menaehem Begin withdrew to his house Thursday for several days of and to recuperation from fatigue work on a compromise solution to the division in his government over Israels e plans for the Occupied West Bank and the Gaza Strip. The Cabinet is split several ways over three proposed plans for the occupied territories, and Begin was said Thusday to be deeply troubled by his inability so far to reach a consensus on what Israel will do with the West Bank and Gaza after a proposed five-yea- r limited self-rul- e plan for the long-rang- 1077. i 1 9 ::SCV; 1 Inside Tilt; Tribune Tribune Telephone Numbers, Page 2 A-- Page Page Amusement Bridge Business Classified Comics Editorials Foreign Foreign lifestyle National b-1- 3 0 E-l-- 8 A2.fi National Obituaries Regional Sports Star Gazer Television Valentine Washington C-- 4 C-lD-l-- 9 D-!- 3 D-1- 3 B- -l Wash. Youth f Friday's Forecast Mostly Salt Lake City and vicinity fair, mild temperatures, light winds. Weather details on Page C-- 4.5. - AssocUrtod Royal newlyweds, King Hussein of Jordan and his bride Elizabeth llalaby, renamed Nur el- - Hre Laserphoto Hussein, (Light of Hussein,) smile at each other after wedding ceremony in Amman Thursday. Mm--;- a" tlifi President Carter plans visit to Panama Friday ratification of canal treaties. to complete Split in Cabinet S& The conferral of the title of queen could prompt some controversy in felt that it JoiJdii, where rem-should be reserved for an Arab rather than bestowed on a foreigner. This may have been why it was incorporated Into a statement read over television and not formally announced at the wedding. Fut some Jordanians, aware of King I anti-Cart- er fll nJfci iffc iVnl IVi a ROME (AP) Giovanni Leone, under Palestinian Arabs ends. fire for alleged tax evasion and other One of Israels leading Hebrew news- financial improprieties, resigned papers, Haaretz, reported Thursday Thursday night as president of that Begin does not intend to bend on his insistence that the government not Italy just hours commit itself now to a discussion of the after the power- ' Nsr it 4 fui Communist final status of the territories, and that if he is not supported by a majority of Party called for the Cabinet he may resign. him to step down. Aides to the prime minister said not talked about has In a nationally resignation, Begin adbut they said he would have to televised reconsider his position if the weeks-lon- g dress, the debate goes against him. Leone described the Drafts Conflicting The stalemate is over conflicting drafts of responses to two questions put to Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan last April by the U.S. State Department. The questions are whether a final settlement on the West Bank and Gaza issue will be possible after five years of and how the limited Arab self-rulPalestinians will achieve a measure of at the end of political that time. The protracted Cabinet debate has been interrupted several times, first because Israel sought to reassess its situation following the U S. Senates approval of the sale of warplanes to Egypt and Saudia Arabia, and later begin bciuibC ill. The prime ministers health has become a recurring topic of discussion here, partly because of his near-fata- l heart atiack last spring before his election. At times, Begin appears ashen and exhausted, and close associates say that he occasionally loses his clarity of speech. Dismisses Report However, Israeli government officials Thursday dismissed as unfounded a report that the prime minister had rejected the advice of his doctors to undergo 8 coronary hypnss operation and they continued to insist that he is simply tired fom a heavy work schedule and needs rest. One Israeli official said that Begin may have been advised by a colleague to consider heart surgery, and that, characteristically, the prime minster would respond negatively, saying he feels well. Today's Chucklo Fathers Day advice: Never gift tie in the mirror. look a as groundless and told his fellow Italians: At a time when the lihclous campaign seems to have undermined the confidence of political forces, I had no other choice. . For 6 years you had as president of the icpublic an honest man who believes he has served the country with constitutional correctness and moral dignity. He had only six months to go on his seven-yea- r term in the mainly ceremonial post. He handed in his resignation to the presidents of the two houses of iiaiiteiu arid to Premier GiMio Andreotti, government television said. The shock of I ones sudden fall came just five weeks after the murder of kidnapped former Premier Aldo Morn in a reign of urban terrorism that hail seemed to draw Italys clashing political elements together Moro had been slated to succeed Leone in the presidency ll was not immediately clear whether the departure of the Christian Democrat president would open a new round of political warfare between the Christian Democrats and the Communists, Italys two strongest purtic3. Andreotti, with Moros help, forged a government several months ago that excluded Communists from cabinet posts. The Communists were given a voice in the decision-makinprocess, however, which brought about a parliamentary alliance. Christian Democratic leaders said they hoped the resignation of the president would not damage that alliance. Morns death left no dear candidate for Leone's snecesstu. Moro had been favored because he was acceptable to the Communists for his role in giving them a voice in government . V |
