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5TATB The inm poms. Star WEDNESDAY, MAY 8, 1985 'Where the Spmt of the Lord is. there is Liberty" II Cor. 3:17 tr ft ft coT25 Cents ANA Reagan at odds with Spain on helping rebels in Nicaragua By TERENCE HUNT ASSOCIATED PRESS Madrid. Spain President Reagan said Tuesday he has new support in Congress for helping anti-government rebels in Nicaragua, but he remained clearly at odds with Spain's socialist leaders over Central America policy as well as their desire for a cutback in U.S.

forces here. 61 til Vietnam veterans in combat dress Assessor's ex-deputy describes bribery By RICHARD E. CADY STAR STAFF WRITER The man responsible for assessing commercial buildings in Center Township for more than two decades quietly told a federal court jury Tuesday that he accepted bribes to produce tax savings for special interests. Charles M. Rawlings.

61, chief deputy in the Center Township assessor's office until 1979. claimed: He went into a private assessment consulting business with attor-' ney Fred W. Carver and Larry R. Mohr. the former chairman of the State Board of Tax Commissioners, while he was still working as a public assessor in 1978.

Carver gave him $5,000 on the same day a hearing was held on the assessment of Merchants Plaza. Rawlings gave $2,500 of that money to James F. Cunningham, who was Center Township assessor at the time. Carver and Mohr each gave him $2,500 in exchange for lowering the 1978 assessment of the Maryland Street Parking Garage, 29 West Maryland Street Rawlings, who pleaded guilty to mail fraud last year, was the fifth government witness in the trial of Mohr. Carver, and attorney Claude R.

Magnuson, former treasurer of the Indiana Democratic Party, on charges of conspiracy, mail fraud and racketeering. The three men are accused of participating in a scheme in which Rawlings and other tax assessors were bribed to lower the assessments of clients who paid fees to Carver. Mohr, Magnuson and attorney H. Kent Howard. Howard is scheduled to be tried later.

Rawlings testified under a plea agreement He will be cross examined today. Rawlings, who has a heart problem and is partially deaf, said that for most of the 31 years he worked in the assessor's office he was the only person authorized to assess commercial buildings in the township. The assessments, onethird of the estimated actual value, are the valuation on which property taxes are based. Questioned by First Assistant U.S. Attorney Bradley L.

Williams, Rawlings said he contacted Mohr about buying an existing consulting business in May 1978 after former City-County Councilman Henry R. Bayt won the Democratic nomination for Center Township assessor over The nomination was tantamount to victory the following November and meant Rawlings would be out of a job when Bayt took office in January 1979, Rawlings said. Mohr arranged a meeting with Carver, Rawlings said, and two or three weeks after this they began discussing plans to open their own business. By September 1978 "we had primarily agreed to form, a i For the second day in a row, administration officials, while not skirting the policy disputes with Mr. Reagan's hosts, attempted to focus attention on the president's scheduled appearance today in Strasbourg, France, marking the 40th anniversary of the end of the war in Europe.

Volunteering quotations from Mr. Reagan's prepared text, national security adviser Robert McFarlane said the president would accuse the Soviet Union of "moving toward development" of mobile, multi-warhead missiles that could avoid arms control detection and are "clearly designed to strike first." "In doing this, the Soviet Union is undermining stability and the basis for mutual deterrence," Mr. Reagan will say, according to McFarlane. "This, in the president's view, is a problem, a new dimension of the strategic equation which is particularly difficult to deal with," McFarlane said. He said the weapon to which Mr.

Reagan would refer was the SSX-24, a medium-sized missile which the United States previously has said will be deployed on rail in 1987 or 1988. In one of Madrid's main arteries, riot police swinging clubs charged into a crowd of about 5,000 youths chanting "Yankee Go Home" and waving anti-NATO banners. The crowd blocked the street to protest Mr. Reagan's visit after police refused to let them march on the U.S. Embassy.

Anti-Reagan demonstrators also protested near the royal palace, and Spanish news reports said several arrests were made and some injuries to demonstrators reported. Mr. Reagan, meanwhile, delivered a speech to Spanish leaders hailing the results of his economic policies and discussing at some length his intention to unveil a plan to overhaul the income tax system when he returns to the United States. The president discussed U.S. policy toward Nicaragua and the recently imposed U.S.

trade embargo against that nation during a 40-minute meeting with Prime Minister Felipe Gonzalez. In a briefing for reporters, Secre-See REAGAN Page 11 UNITE ticker tape UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL Tardy thanks Ncto York stages a glorious parade for Vietnam vets 10 years after war By JUDIE GLAVE ASSOCIATED PRESS 1 New York New York threw a' belated welcome-home party Tuesday for 25,000 veterans of the Vietnam War with a ticker-tape parade that drew tears and cheers along the concrete men alongside 26 Medal of Honor head of the column. crowd at 1 million, spots along the route were nearly where the crowd was rnutp rparl- "Wp shnnW havp canyons of lower Manhattan. i Hudnut to take time off to mend Mayor William H. Hudnut, following his physician's advice to get more rest, will take a break from his duties and visit his ill father in Arizona.

"That's the only way to get away from the pressure," the mayor said Tuesday. His physician. Dr. Thomas G. Slama, said Tuesday that the mayor has been working more than the four to six hours, five days a week, that the doctor recommended for recovery from enlarged lymph nodes.

Hudnut will visit his father, the Rev. William H. Hudnut II, who is ill with leukemia in Phoenix. The mayor is expected to leave Indianapolis Monday and return May 21. Slama told the mayor that he has a 65 percent chance the enlarged lymph nodes in his chest would decrease in size on their own, Hudnut said Tuesday.

Slama has said that Hudnut needs to have sufficient rest for that to happen. The physician said that if the lymph nodes do not decrease in size on their own, he probably would place the mayor on medication, which the doctor would not describe. The enlarged lymph nodes caused a constriction in the mayor's chest and are believed to have been caused by an earlier infection. -On Slama's advice, the 52-year-old mayor took an out-of-town rest after he was released from a four-day hospitalization in April for treatment lof, his Although his doctor wants Hudnut to his hectic schedule, the mayor said Tuesday he was -considering-traveling to Japan in June for talks on economic develop-ment'withy)Witsubishi Motors Corp. The flamenco way ISpfllllip! jrs- iove yuu, a woman snouiea irom nern said it sooner were proud of 'you" and fifth-story office.

so much." -y- you. lady, a marching vet- yeUedrj. Welcome home," said a banner held by back. "I needed that" Janet Scarpati, 40, of Jackson Queens, Leaning from office windows, standing V- las she stood atop bleachers behind City Hall i fences, and precariously perched atopvyendifig "These arer'the appropriate words to say to trucks, throngs cheered and waved 'American. soldiers when'thev come back frdm fiehtintr march on Broadway as crowd tosses a i i' Union Bank Trust Co.

in Delphi. Of the three banks, Layfayette National and Union Bank were both profitable last year. Fidelity lost $400,000 in 1984, following losses of $6.5 million the year before. As a result, Indiana National will now have holdings in fast growing Hamilton County as well as rich agricultural areas of neighboring Tippecanoe and Carroll counties. march with his recipients at the Pplipe, estimated although some empty.

But "even enthusiastic. lininp the she said. "It's been late, but we do The air was' were webbed with 'JSee flags as group after group of veterans from across the nation passed by, many wearing jungle fatigues. And they cheered when Gen. WiIIiam West moretand, the soldiers' commander for part of the war, climbed down from, a reviewing stand to a long and it's a little1 welcome' filled with confetti and trees streamers as the parade made PARADE Page.

10 Indiana National agrees to buy Carmel bank 2 others in state fT" 1 (j'jgf. -o- Delphi is about 10 miles northeast of Lafayette. It was the first announced acquisition by one of three major Indianapolis bank companies since the Indiana General Assembly legalized multibank holding companies last month. The cross-county banking law takes effect July 1, though several transactions have been an- See BANKS Page 11 one of the diplomats, who spoke on condition he not be identified. Foreign reporters are not permitted to enter Afghanistan, where Islamic rebels are fighting an estimated 115,000 Soviet troops, who invaded in December 1979.

The diplomats quoted foreign diplomatic sources in Kabul as saying SS-20s had been deployed at Shindand. Another report of SS 20 deployments was contained in an Iranian government newspaper that quoted a Peking Radio dispatch in February, the diplomats said. The Chinese radio cited claims by a former Afghan air force major that nuclear See MISSILES Page 11 partnership. Rawlings identified government documents showing that he had earlier set assessments on Merchants Plaza at $7.6 million for 1977 and $10.7 million for 1978. Rawlings said Mohr and Carver "told me they represented Merchants Plaza and an appeal was going to be filed" with the Marion County Board of (Tax) Review.

In late August 1978, Rawlings said, "Mr. Garver mentioned that he had the appeal. He didn't want our office to make any objections." He said Garver told him "that I would receive some funds." Rawlings said See BRIBERY Page 6 Weather Another good one Mostly sunny and pleasant today in Indiana. Mostly sunny and warmer Thursday. Today's high in Indianapolis, 77; low.

48. Tuesday's high, 70; low. 46. Details on Page 67. Chuckle Of all the taxes Congress levies, the most burdensome is that on our patience.

Prayer If the demands of life should weaken our faith, teach us patience. Lord, and let us thank You for the needed strength to rebuild the faith we once had. Amen. Soviet missiles may be in Afghanistan By BILL KOENIG STAR STAFF WHITER Indiana National Corp. will buy three central Indiana banks, including the troubled Fidelity Bank of Indiana in Carmel.

officials said Tuesday. The Indianapolis bank holding company will pay about $54 million for the three banks. Besides Fidelity, Indiana National agreed to purchase Lafayette National Bank and Index Arts. Leisure 31,32 Bridge 56 Classified Ads 57-66 Comics 47 Crossword 67 Doonesbury ...16 Editorials 18 Finance 26-30 Graham 56 Heloise 22 Horoscope 16 Landers 23 LifeStyle Lighter Side ...68 Movies 31,32 Obituaries ..56,57 Pharmacy .......16 Sports 49-55 Statistics 67 TV-Radio ...32,33 Weather 67 Werner 18 Phone numbers Circulation 633-9211 Main office 633-1240 Classified Ads 633-1212 Scores after 4:30 p.m 633-1200 VOLUME 82, No. 337 CARRIER DELIVERED Jl 20 PER WK MOTOR DELIVERED V.25 PER WK Copyright 1985 The Indianapolis Star By JAMES MILES UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL New Delhi.

India Western diplomats said Tuesday they have received unconfirmed reports from diplomatic, Iranian and Afghan rebel sources that Soviet SS 20 nuclear missiles have been deployed in Afghanistan. According to the reports received by the diplomats, a number of medium-range SS 20s have been stationed at the remote, top security Soviet air base at Shindand. 450 miles west of the Afghan capital of Kabul. "But we have no firm independent evidence that rockets have been stationed in Afghanistan," said ASSOCIATED PRESS Nancy Reagan tries her hand at flamenco dancing as she takes a brief lesson from a young dancer during a visit at the Royal School of Dance and Dramatic Arts at Madrid's Royal Theater. Mrs.

Reagan spent the rest of Tuesday on a tour of the Prado Museum and having lunch at Ernest Hemingway's favorite restaurant, the Sobrino de Botin, as a guest of Spain's Queen Sofia..