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I haooe, Indianapolis Star Cloudy A 20 percent cphance of thunder-showers with light winds. High. 75. Morning low, 55. TUESDAY, MAY 13, 1986 "Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is Liberty" II Cor.

3:17 ft ft cZ'25 Cents City skyline gains 2 towers TH 1 I) 1,111 JAWK Construction set to begin on Ohio Street buildings ffTI RTi ETI jfcfffiy IjfiMffil p.f." LLU LLJ K'fi I. I fSRl fl limiiwhi-WiiiViiYiir--' will be located next to the new building, which will be called First Indiana Plaza. The new structure will be the third-tallest building in the city, behind the American United Life building and Indiana National Bank Tower. First Indiana Plaza will drop to fourth, however, when American Fletcher builds Its 48-story headquarters on the southwest corner of Ohio and Pennsylvania streets. An announcement on when that construction will begin is expected within the next 60 days.

Duke and Associates has been in business since 1972, and the company has obtained much of the financing for its projects through First Indiana. As part of the First Indiana Plaza deal, Duke and Associates will buy the present 13-story First Indiana building. Duke plans to lease or sell it. Officials would not reveal the purchase price. To make way for the First Indiana Plaza, Duke will buy and tear down a seven-story Denison Parking garage at 135 N.

Pennsylvania Street. Denison will then operate the 400 parking spaces that will be a part of the new building. "We're glad you're going to have room for 400 cars because we have a downtown parking problem." Mayor William H. Hudnut said during a news conference in the Hilton at the Circle, where the project was announced. Duke and Associates also has other tenants lined up for First Indiana Plaza, including a Hook's Drug store and a Hardee's restaurant, which will have to close their present locations In See TOWERS Page 6 By MORRIS P.

WILDEY STAR BUSINESS EDITOR Ohio Street in downtown Indianapolis gained a little more stature Monday as two 'planned office towers came closer to reality. Phillip R. Duke and Associates officially announced that it will develop a 400-foot. 28-story office building at the southeast corner of Ohio and Pennsylvania streets. It will be the new headquarters of First Indiana Federal Savings Bank.

Construction will begin June 2. In addition, construction began Monday on a 22-story office building at the southwest corner of Ohio and Illinois streets. The structure, which is being developed by Rothbard Development will be about 300 feet tall. The Ohio street location was one of the main reasons First Indiana decided to hook up with Duke and Associates. First Indiana will "outgrow" Its current offices at Pennsylvania and Washington streets within a couple of years, according to Robert H.

McKin-ney. chairman of the institution. There are several planned office-building projects for downtown, and many of the developers have been trying to lure First Indiana as their main tenant. "If another developer could have offered that location (Ohio and Pennsylvania) I might have gone with McKlnney said. This Is the location I wanted.

This is the financial center of our state." The state's two largest bank holding companies American Fletcher Corp. (soon to become Banc One Indiana) and Indiana National Corp. STAR STAFF PHOTO ROB G0EBEL Model shows what First Indiana Plaza will look like when it's completed in 1988. Sketch of Roth bard building facing south on Illinois Street. Aides went after wrong porn flick, says Goldsmith Judge rules India holds Bhopal suit jurisdiction By LARRY ELKIN ASSOCIATED PRESS New York Billions of dollars In damage claims arising from the 1984 Bhopal chemical disaster that killed an estimated 2,000 people should be decided by courts in India, not In the United States, a U.S.

judge ruled Monday. The decision by U.S. District Judge John F. Keenan was a victory for Union Carbide which fought for a year to send the case to India. U.S.

courts, which traditionally deliver more money to accident victims and deliver it than their Indian counterparts, were favored by lawyers for the victims and by the Indian government. "In the court's view, to retain the litigation in this forum, as plaintiffs request, would be yet another example of imperialism, another situation in which an established sovereign inflicted its rules, its standards and values on a developing nation," Keenan wrote in a 63-page decision. "This court declines to play such a role." he said. "The Union of India is a world power in 1986, and its courts have the proven capacity to mete out fair and equal Justice. To deprive the Indian judiciary of this opportunity to stand tall before the world and to pass judgment on behalf of its own people would be to revive a history of subservience and subjugation from which India has emerged." Keenan had delayed his ruling for several months as he tried to coax all sides into reaching a settlement.

At one point last See INDIA Page 7 By R. JOSEPH GELARDEN STAR STAFF WRITER Stephen Goldsmith said his office probably picked the wrong movie to prosecute in the obscenity trial centering on the sexually explicit movie Barbara Broadcast. The Marion County prosecutor said Monday he thought his aides were going to try another movie (one which depicted violent sex and rape) that was more offensive than Barbara Broadcast. Instead, the prosecutor's office chose Barbara Broadcast because the film degraded women In scenes in which they were forced to perform sex on men as punishment for trivial offenses. Goldsmith said.

Goldsmith admitted prosecution of a more offensive movie would have made a conviction easier to obtain. Goldsmith he believes there is no clear community consensus on obscenity. He said the Introduction of video cassette recorders and cable television has had a major effect on community standards. "I don't want to be a movie censor and set community standard, and I don't want to direct police standards (for making arrests)." Goldsmith said. "I want to prosecute." Goldsmith, seeking his third term in office, said he did not see Jury deliberating in obscenity trial involving owner of video rental store, Page 7 Video merchant guilty A municipal court jury found the owner of a videotape rental store guilty Monday night of distributing obscene material.

The verdict will help set community standards for pornography, prosecutors say. Barbara Broadcast prior to its prosecution. In fact, he said he has never seen a sexually explicit movie. Goldsmith said he thought the trial of Donald L. Walker, 27.

the owner of Discount Video, 7711 West 10th Street, began when police received a complaint of a movie being shown at a tavern that depicted the rape of women. "But that is not the movie we are prosecuting." he said. Why? "(Deputy Prosecutor) Mike Loomis decided to limit the trial to one video and he determined this was the best one to take to trial. And frankly, I didn't realize at that time that it was a different movie," Goldsmith said. "It is Interesting to try this movie because it is somewhat See PORN Page 6 STAR STAFF PHOTO JEFF ATTEBERRY His last salute The casket of former Hancock County Sheriff Malcolm E.

Grass is carried to the cemetery by fellow deputies and members of the Shirley Volunteer Fire Department, of which Grass was a member. Grass, whose funeral was Monday in his native Wilkinson, was slain Thursday while assisting federal agents in an undercover arrest. See story on Page 21. Libya boots 36 in Western embassies Colts' QB Pagel taking a hike elsewhere in NFL Page 13 1 is'f Dutchman and a Dane. Their names and positions were not given.

JANAj said the expulsions were "in response to the repressive measures taken by these states against some members of our People's Bureaus (embassies) in their countries." Foreign Minister Hans van den Broek of the Netherlands, which is current chairman of the See LIBYA Page 6 Ministry ordered 17 West European diplomats and 19 non-diplomatic Italian staff members to leave Libya, a former Italian colony, in a week to 10 days. Diplomats and staff members remaining at the seven embassies will not be permitted to travel outside Tripoli without permission, JANA said. It said those with diplomatic rank were six Italians, four West Germans, two Belgians, two Spaniards, a Frenchman, a 15 U.S. bombing raids on this North African country. Member governments of the 12-nation European Common Market agreed to back a U.S.

campaign against Khadafy's alleged support of international terrorism by sharply the number of Libyan diplomats allowed in their countries and curtailing the movements of those remaining. Libya's official JANA news agency said Monday the Foreign ASSOCIATED PRESS Tripoli, Libya Moammar Khadafy's government said Monday it is expelling 36 staff members of. seven West European embassies in retaliation for diplomatic sanctions imposed on Libya by those governments. West European nations have ordered dozens of Libyan diplomats expelled since deciding April 21 to take the sanctions. Their decision followed the April Prayer Union vote may shift gears on transmission Index Arts.

Leisure 10 Bridge 28 Classified Ads 33-40 Comics 31 Crossword 41 Doonesbury ...22 Editorials 8 Finance 23-27 Graham 28 Horoscope 41 Jumble 41 Dr. Lamb 30 Landers 30 LifeStyle ...29,30 Lighter Side Movies 10 Obituaries 32 Painting the Town 29 Sports 13-17 Statistics 41 TV-Radio ...18,19 Weather 41 Werner 8 When days are dark, thank You. Lord, for letting us come to You for help in changing our attitudes of discouragement into attitudes of faith, hope, Joy and love. Amen. Chuckle It takes two to make an argument unless, of course, you're married.

VOLUME 83, No. 342 CARRIER DELIVERED II PER WK MOTOR DELIVERED SI. 25 PER WK Copyright 1986 Th Indianapolil Stir By BILL KOENIQ STAR STAFF WRITER A union election today could set the tone for labor relations at two major General Motors Corp. plants in the Indianapolis area. Members of United Auto Workers Local 933 will vote today on a variety of offices, including local president.

Winners will serve three-year terms. The local represents employees at Detroit Diesel Allison in Speedway and Allison Gas Turbine on the Southwestside. They employ a total of about 13.000 people. Usually, such events gather little attention outside the union. But this one Is different.

In part that's because of recent developments at DDA. where the contest is the hottest. Nearly two months ago. DDA labor and management could not agree on work-rule changes sought by the company. GM then announced it would not locate a new product line at DDA.

That product line the S300 million World Transmission will replace the automatic truck transmissions now produced at Speedway. Since then, two main groups of candidates have emerged for today's contest: the UAW United Slate, which stands for "representation without concessions," and the Job Security Slate. The latter also says it opposes contract concessions but that the union must be flexible with management in order to secure new investment. The differences can be seen In each slate's candidate for shop committee chairman at DDA. "There's only one Issue," said Bob Boone, the current chairman and a member of UAW United.

"That's whether the See UNION Page 6 Phone numbers Circulation 633-9211 Main office 633-1240 Classified Ads 633-1212 Scores after 4:30 p.m..

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