{ title: 'Adirondack daily enterprise. (Saranac Lake, N.Y.) 1927-current, April 09, 1980, Page 1, Image 1', download_links: [ { link: 'http://www.loc.gov/rss/ndnp/ndnp.xml', label: 'application/rss+xml', meta: 'News about NYS Historic Newspapers - RSS Feed', }, { link: '/lccn/sn86033360/1980-04-09/ed-1/seq-1/png/', label: 'image/png', meta: '', }, { link: '/lccn/sn86033360/1980-04-09/ed-1/seq-1.pdf', label: 'application/pdf', meta: '', }, { link: '/lccn/sn86033360/1980-04-09/ed-1/seq-1/ocr.xml', label: 'application/xml', meta: '', }, { link: '/lccn/sn86033360/1980-04-09/ed-1/seq-1/ocr.txt', label: 'text/plain', meta: '', }, ] }
Image provided by: Northern NY Library Network
r- i i • \ * I-8M&9 i_i. Trf-lakes — iak& Placid. Saranac Lake, Tupper Lake ] If 7 , W^es4ay»Ap*il^l980 V ' A j i , • > * V«i • • «• , J i Weather ^\^i I' i)» i\\ 1 ' 'i ! < iiii»'iniiiiiilii|i )ni[jii|jilfniiii i|[ii|i1[iiniji 11 tya%m lU&ity <\) * Jt » ^ ^ V„ U' f <<> \S> M>,i 'v f ifii H* A t 41 W 5 J A « #f >1 I' FHdM mpffHXafr g&.igPfj' , / r fW^|P^||^^^ h * j i A &*& tmmtm to ^v ^H ^^ J|# ary announces iMtention to o ?•-. i. «::Jf ? ';>. ,/ .-' i regime By The Associated Press The Moslem militants occupying the U.S. Embassy in Tehratr today, threatened to kill their 50 American hostages — \burn them into ashes\ — if the Carter,, administration takes any military action against Iran, Foreign Minister Sade'gh Ghotb- zadeh, meanwhile, declared Iran has \decided to overthrow\ the regime in neighboring Iraq. The militants' grim threat came as U.S. officials were hinting at, a naval blockade or mining of Iran's ports if President Carter's new economic and diplomatic sanctions fail to free the hostages, who were in their 158th day in captivity today. \We warn the U.S. government, with' all frankness, that if America launched any military aggression against Iran, we will kill all the hostages imme- diately,\ said theroilitants' statement, carried by Tehran radio. \In the name of God the avenger we plainly warn the criminal government of the United States that if it undertakes even the smallest military intervention in Iran we will kill all the sples-nostages together and we emphatically warn the respected U.S, nation that the criminals of the U.S. administration will be directly responsible for such an event,\ said the militants' statement, carried by Tehran Radio. A Western reporter who called the embassy for clarification of what was meant by \spies-hostages\ was told the militants meant all the hostages would be killed, and that they were not mak- ing any distinction between alleged spies and the other captives. In the early days of the crisis the militants said they would kill the <*W X ^T 4^L, fM- * ,v^ ^ t ^ ; ^it^-A^i Mary Reinman photo OBLIVIOUS TO SPILLS this monitored by the Department of pair of ducks floated on the sur- Environmental Conservation face of the Saranac River today, recently. The rivier has been closely DEC investigating gas in Saranac River SARANAC LAKE - Department of Environmental Conservation Biologist Art Stemp said today gas may be leak- ing from a tank at the Chevron Station on Lake Flower Avenue into the Saranac River. The gas spillage augments a chronic spring problem of oil flowing into the river near the LaPan Highway, from a source which has never been con- clusively pinpointed. The Augsbury Corporation, which has owned the station since the early 1960's, tested three of their four underground tanks on March 7. The fourth is a newer tank. \Two were fine,\ said Jay Maloney, an Augsbury marketing represen- tative, \The third was questionable, so it has been drained.\ Gas or oil was visible this morning floating on the surface of the river behind the Harrietstown Hall. A gaseous odor was noticable. Stemp said he saw gas entering the river from a storm sewer on the upstream bank oh Feb.,20. TWO weeks ago, the DEC borrowed an explosion meter from the Pittsburgh Air Force Bank and-tested the concen- tration of gas in the nearby sewer. Stemp said, \The gas hf the line bare- ly made the WeMthtiiM\ ' Fire from explosion is the greatest single danger from the present situa- tion. Stemp said if the situation con- tinues, \we'll borrow the meter again.\ But the biologist admitted, \It's never good; gas contains benzine which is a carcinogenic and could damage ducks and fish.\ He noted no village water is supplied from that area of the river but said, \I'm sure we'll be hearing from canoeists soon.\ Stemp said in order to positively pro- ve the source of the gas, expensive test welds and groundwater monitoring would be necessary. In 1974, the G. Carver Rice Furniture Store installed a new oil tank and clean- ed the surface of the river behind the Broadway store when their tanks were listed as a potential cause of oil spillage. Extensive underground monitoring is not yet planned by the DEC, as the questionable Chevron tank has been emptied. \We're in a holding pattern until Augsbury fixes that up,\ he said. Thomas Shea, Augsbury manager of operations, said the tank will be dug up and re-tested sometime next week. — Mary Reinman V-VA^^\ '\^A'W* •* '^* ^ ' *-->y >•- *v».. hostages if the United States made a military \attempt to rescue them. They said they had rigged the embassy com- pound with explosives. .Later today, Iran's official news agency Pars carried another militant statement declaring, \We will burn into ashes the spy hostages and the building they are living in if we see any suspicious military move or the least military attack by the U.S. against the territory of Iran.\ Ghotbzadeh, interviewed by American television this morning, said he doubted that his government could stop the militants if they decided to carry out their threat, \but I hope we never go to that end.\ In Washington, Carter admin- istration officials declined to make im- mediate comment on the threat. In the past, Carter has warned of severe retaliation if any hostages are harmed. Ghotbzadeh's announcement on Iraq was carried by Tehran radio, which quoted him as saying: \We have decid- ed to overthrow the Baathist regime of Iraq.\ There were no further details. Hostility between Iran and the pro- Moscow government of the socialist Baathist Party in neighboring Iraq has been growing. Also today, the deposed Shah Moham- mad Reza Pahlavi left a Cairo military hospital and moved to the Kubbeh Palace in the Egyptian capital. He re- portedly will stay there for a few days. U.S. officials have hinted at a naval blockade or mining of Iran's ports if President Carter's hew economic and diplomatic sanctions fail to free the hostages, who began their 158th day in captivity today. Carter has appealed to America's European allies to join the United States in cutting off exports to Iran, Foreign ministers of nine European Common Market nations are to meet in Lisbon, Portugal, tonight to begin con- sultations on the crisis. But in Bonn, the West German government said today it was delaying any decision on economic or political sanctions against Iran upntil it had time to consult with other industrial nations. Asked how Iran would react if Japan, Britain or West European nations join- ed Carter's economic and diplomatic squeeze to try to force the release of the 53 Americans held hostage in Tehran since Nov. 4, Iranian Oil Minister Ali Akbar Monifar said Tuesday it \would be the same answer we gave the Americans.\ When President Carter announced the U.S. ban on purchases of Iranian oil Nov. 21, after the U.S. Embassy in Teh- ran was seized, the Iranian rev- olutionary regime said it had decided to ', end oil shipments to the United State?. ; Then, the United States, was finpor- : ting about 1 million barrels of Iranian' •' gil daily. Now Iran- is shipping 55O000 J :: ; barrels a day to Japan, 250,000 to Brit- :~ ain and 400,000 to~WesfernEurope. : Japan and most of the NATO coun- ; tries of Europe said Tuesday they sym- : pathize with the United States in the • hostage crisis, but that decisions on joint action, if any, would take time. • Most of the allies had not been con-' suited in advance of Carter's announce-\; ment Monday. Iranian diplomats leave U.S. WASHINGTON (AP) - With Iran's diplomats ushered out of the United States amid cries they were treated like hostages themselves, the Carter administration is warning U.S. allies that it, too, can shut off the Iranian oil tap. Secretary of State Cyrus R. Vance asked about two dozen ambassadors to come to the State Department this afternoon to hear what this nation wants their governments to do in sup- port of U.S. economic sanctions against Iran. Iranian diplomats in the United States hurriedly packed their bags and left the country Tuesday night on flights from Washington, New York and Los Angeles. FBI spokesman Roger Young said only one of the 35 diplomats af- fected by the expulsion ordef was known to have stayed behind, and he was expected to leave after being released from a suburban Washington hospital where he was admitted after complaining of chest pains. A State Department official identified the ailing diplomat as Abdol-Azim Biabani, financial affairs director for the Iranian Embassy. The official said Biabani \has no plans to seek asylum here, and if he did, none would be granted.\ FBI spokesman Young said an Ira- nian caretaker was left behind to look after the embassy until another country agrees to assume responsibility for the building and other Iranian interests in the United States. \I was like a hostage in our embassy for 156 days,\ Ali Agah, the Iranian charge d'affairs, said. \I'm glad I'm going home.\ U.S. officials showed no sympathy. They rejected last-minute appeals by at least six Iranian officials who asked to stay in the country for humanitarian reasons. One Iranian reportedly sought political assylum, but that, too, was turned down. It was the first time the United States severed diplomatic relations since cut- ting ties with Cuba after Fidel Castro installed a communist regime in 1961. ^^Ji^^^-'p.-^^; WASHINGTON (AP) — President Carter has publicly reminded Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin of his Camp David pledge to grant \full au- tonomy\ to the more than 1 million Palestinians living in Israeli-occupied territories. \It would be inconceivable that we would let this promise slip through our grasp,\ Carter said in toasting Egyp- tian President Anwar Sadat at a White House dinner Tuesday night after the first of two days of talks between Carter and Sadat. The two presidents were to resume their discussions today. Sadat also planned to meet with various ad- ministration officials and congressional leaders and have a brief evening ses- sion with former Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger. Sadat responded to Carter's toast Tuesday with a firm commitment \to pursue our mission until a comprehen- sive settlement is achieved.'' While not mentioning the official May 26 target date for conclusion of the stall- ed negotiations between Israel and Egypt over the Palestinian question, Sadat insisted: \A real transfer of authority must take place, and a new era of reconciliation should begin.\ About 1.2 million Palestinian Arabs live on the West Bank of the Jordan River and in Gaza under Israeli control. Begin, due here next week for talks with Carter, has offered to relinquish control over some day-to-day affairs but would maintain Israel's hold on the territories, won from Jordan and Egypt in the 1967 Six-Day War. Carter, however, in what he called \a toast to peace,\ recalled that the Camp David accords of September 1978 call for \the organization of a self-gov- erning authority in the West Bank and Gaza derived through free elections held by the people who live in those two troubled areas.\ Israel, Carter said, \has agreed to withdraw the military government and civilian administration associated with it and then to withdraw all her troops from the occupied territories (with) the remainder of those troops to be located in specified security locations.\ \The people of those two territories are granted autonomy,\ Carter said, \and as Prime Minister Begin said many times in the presence of Presi- dent Sadat and me, not just autonomy — full autonomy. 'Full autonomy,' he said many, many times.\ Referring again to the document the three men signed after their 13-day Camp David summit, Carter told his dinner guests: \Prime Minister Begin, President Sadat and I are pledged to carry out all these agreements on our word of honor and on the honor of the nations that we represent. It is a solemn commitment which cannot be lightly ig- nored or viola ted.\ Begin has said Israel's autonomy pro- posal fulfills the \framework\ he built with Carter and Sadat. Israel fears that establishing a legislative council like that proposed by Sadat would be a step toward a Palestinian state that could threaten Israel's existence. Prison guards fear budget cuts ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — The state prison guards' union says that if more guards aren't hired soon, union members in the prison might shut down some prison programs out of \security\ concerns. Hollis Chase, the head of the prison guards' union, told a news conference Tuesday that the state is \playing Rus- sian roulette with the prison system,\ because of budget cuts and shortages of guards. And he said that one proposed solu- tion to staffing shortages — forced transfers of guards to the most short- handed prisons — would be viewed by the union as a \violation of our con- tract.\ Chase, executive director of the Council 82 union, said the system is short more than 1,000 guards, and that that is \putting thousands of lives in jeopardy every day.\ \The prisons are in a pre-Attica con- dition — overcrowded and understaff- ed,\ Chase said. \We are faced with the prospect of going into the hot summer months with a shortage of more than 1,000 correction officers.\ There are currently some 7,300 guards for 21,000 inmates. The Legislature trimmed $8 million from Gov. Hugh Carey's $300 million budget request for the system, and officials have said that will make it difficult to hire any more guards. But*\TShase said that any forced transfers, recently suggested by Cor- rectional Services Commissioner Thomas Coughlin, could lead to a \work-to-rule\ effort by the union. In that, guards would be instructed to follow rule books strictly, which theoretically would slow the pace of work and disrupt prison operations. John Burke, president of the union, went further and said there had been talk among union members of another strike. A year ago, the system suffered a 16-day strike by the guards. The union suggested in a written statement that if staffing levels are not t i-nproved at the prisons, it might \instruct the officers to refuse to unlock or release inmates from their cells for programs that are not staffed.\ Chase said \we're losing about 40 of- ficers each month, through attrition, and the state has handed us a hiring freeze.\ The Legislature's fiscal committees contend that the budget they approved Shea predicts annexation problems BY JEFF PLATSKY LAKE PLACID — Town Of North Elba Supervisor Jack Shea predicts proponents of annexation of a portion of North Elba to Harrietstown will meet obstacles because of a double standard. Shea was critical of Saranac Lake's Area Development Corporation because, he said, it has failed to meet its commitment to annex the portion of Saranac Lake that also lies in the Essex County Tjriwn of St, Armand. Efforts by the Area Development Corporation are currently directed at annexing the portion of Saranac Lake that lies jn N6tih Elba Which would would also transfer that portion from Essex to Franklin bounty; 'U^ \They defeated their own purpose,\ Shea commented after Tuesday night's North Elba Town Board meeting. \They have not solved their problem. They have a much better chance of get- ting approval if they solved their entire problem.\ Petitions calling for annexation are ready to be served on respective local governments, Area Development Cor- poration Director Charles Nicastrp said Tuesday. Organizers plan to serve the papers on May 1. This morning Nicastro said the Development Corporation intends to pursue the St. Armand annexation in the future. \We're not forgetting about that por- tion, we're just using North Elba as a. test case,\ he said. Shea, chairman of the Essex County Board, said the move will meet opposi- tion when presented to the full board. The North Elba portion of Saranac Lake contains a major shopping center that produces thousands of dollars in sales tax revenue to Essex County each year. Supervisors will also oppose any ef- fort that would move North Country Community College from Essex Coun- ty. The college, sponsored by both Essex and Franklin counties, lies less than a quarter mile from the town and county line. would allow the hiring of several hun- dred new prison guards. But the Carey administration has denied that — although Carey said at a news conference that guards would be exempted from any threatened layoffs of state workers. Market moving up NEW YORK (AP) - Stock prices moved up in early trading today, conti- nuing a rally that began after a promi- nent banker said he thought interest rates were near their peaks. • The Dow Jones average of 30 in- dustrial stocks, up 6.66 on Tuesday, rose another 3.41 to 778.41 in the first half hour of trading. Advancing issues outnumbered losers by a margin of almost 2-1 on the New York Stock Ex- change. Walter -Wriston, the chairman of. Citicorp, told a seminar in Houston that! his \gut feeling\ was that the prime- lending rate charged by banks, now at J 20 percent, was either at the peak or; very close to it. Inside Today 12 Pages Bridge Classified 1 Crossword Dear Abby Doonesbury 'Editorial pg. Internal's — Nat'l News Lake Placid News Sports Tupper Lake News Weather 10 O.U 5 10 4 4 2 6 8,9 6 2 'i fy -rt »•>.' \jy^Aj^-^^^. •^'^<&$4)*>Q$>&!>&$i&>&tt ..AA\' *),.* ,.i • ' • ••!'•'• • ••>• .v^- :^^mmm^,. ^ilL nmmm^--^
