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The Tennesseani
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Nashville, Tennessee
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73 No. 180 NASHVILLE, THURSDAY, OCT. 5, 1978 15 CENTS 80 Pages Shotgun Ownership Claim Brings Arrest Fails To Clear Girlfriend, Page 56 9 for Singer Out Shopping Tammy Seized At Green Hills; FBI Arrests 2 Theft of -Sub; Possible Strike At City Blockel From WIRE REPORTS ST. LOUIS A plot to steal a nuclear submarine and possibly destroy an Eastern city with a nuclear warhead was thwarted with the arrest of two men last night, the FBI reported. Roy B.

Klager special agent in charge of the FBI office in St. Louis, said a two-month investigation into the Freed in Giles Mm. Illillpliliiiiiip llllllliiiil jplliliilplllil Freeman Lauds TVA By ALAN CARMICHAEL and LAURA EIPPER Country music singer Tammy Wynette was abducted yesterday afternoon in the parking lot of the Green Hills Cain-Sloan Department Store by a man she said tried to kill her, police said. Miss Wynette, 36, who was released about 80 miles from Nashville in Giles County, received neck injuries of undetermined severity as a result of being tied up, said her mother, Mrs. Mildred Lee.

She was treated at Giles County Hospital last night. "HE TRIED TO kill me! He tried to kill me!" Miss Wynette was quote as saying. "Her neck hurt her real bad and her mouth hurt her where he had slapped her in the mouth," said Mrs. David Young, at whose home near Pulaski Miss Wynette sought help. "I gave her a cold wet rag.

Her cheek was skinned. Her neck wasn't cut but was swollen and red from whatever had been tied around her neck." State and local authorities in Gil es County were searching last night for two or three masked men believed to be fleeing in a blue, late-model station wagon. District Attorney General Bob Gay said the men wore masks and gloves. MRS. LEE SAID her daughter, who had just returned from appearances in California, was pushed out of her yellow Cadillac about 10 miles from Pulaski on Interstate 65.

Miss Wynette ran to the nearby home of Mrs. Young, who called the singer's family. Miss Tammy Wynette, Treated at Pulaski Found wandering along highway "SHE SAID she was all right, but she sounded terrible. She didn't say much because she was so upset." Mrs. Wynette's fifth husband, George Ri-chey, rushed to Giles County after the news of his wife's release.

He had earlier called Gov. Ray Blanton, asking for assistance in the abduction. A governor's spokesman said Richey told officials there was no mention of a ransom. Mrs. Lee said her daughter went to Cain-Sloan yesterday afternoon to buy a birthday present for her daughter, Georgette, 8.

She left her car unlocked, Mrs. Lee said. (Turn to Page 6. Column 4) High Won't Order Tax Repeal on Ballot Hospital printer tomorrow to meet that deadline, Howard said. The election commission voted 5-0 Tuesday night to reject McPherson ballot request, after Registrar Guyn-elle Sanders said her staff could validate only 14,959 of the 35,219 signatures on McPher-son's petitions.

MRS. SANDERS said in an affidavit presented during (Turn to Page 6. Column 7) By KIRK LOGGINS Chancellor C. Allen High refused yesterday to order the Davidson County Election Commission to place Councilman Bill McPnerson's sales tax referendum on the Nov. 7 ballot.

High said McPherson and his attorney, former Court of Criminal Appeals Judge Charles Galbreath, had not presented enough evidence to State Increases plot resulted in the arrest in St. Louis of Edward J. Menden hall, 24, of Rochester, N.Y., and Kurtis John Schmidt, 22, formerly of St. Louis and now of Kansas City, Mo. KLAGER SAID plans furnished to an undercover FBI agent showed the men planned to steal the USS Trepang from its base at New London, Conn.

and turn it over to an unidentified purchaser in the mid-Atlantic. The FBI said James W. Cos-grove, identified as a third suspect, gave the undercover agent a written plan which described an attempt to board the submarine from another vessel. Cosgrove, 26, of Ovid, N.Y., was still being sought, the FBI said. "They intended to use plastic explosives to sink the other vessel in the New London harbor to create confusion and block other vessels," Klager said.

"They then would board the Trepang, kill the crew members on board and steam out of New London harbor." HE SAID TO create a diversion and cover the flight, several alternatives were mentioned, "including firing one of the sub's missiles at New London or, alternatively, on one of several principal East Coast cities." The FBI said Mendenhall and Schmidt were hi federal custody and are to be ar- (Turi to Page S. Column 3) Ik Nominee By JACK SIRICA Tennesson Washington Bnrean WASHINGTON TVA Chairman S. David Freeman said yesterday he and Richard Freeman, nominee to the TVA board, have "no agreements on any TVA issue." He called Richard Freeman, who is not related to him, a "fiercely independent thinker." FREEMAN'S comments came during the final day of Senate hearings on the nomination, during which he also denied allegations by Sen. Howard H. Baker Jr.

that the TVA board chairman had lobbied actively against the controversial Clinch River breeder reactor project. "I know Richard Freeman well enough to say that he is intelligent and public-interest oriented," the chairman "I also know him well enough to be certain that he is a fiercely independent thinker; and, if confirmed, will vote his own mind. "Richard Freeman and have no agreements on any; TVA issue. I do not know how (Tarn to Page C.CoJnnMl) htf 4 Slower Hospital Cost Ri Tied to Volunteer Effort overturn the Election Commission's decision that McPherson had not obtained the 20,468 voters' signatures required to 1)lace the question on the bal-ot. GALBREATH called High's ruling "a temporary setback" in McPhersons drive to repeal Metro's 1-cent local option sales tax.

"I'm going to confer with my Less 10.5, said Col. W.W. Eledge, chairman of the Tennessee Hospital Association. "THE AMERICAN Hospital Association has projected that the voluntary effort will surpass its goal of reducing hospital cost increases by two percentage points this year," Eledge said in opening remarks of the organization's annual convention at Opryland Hotel. "But it looks as if Tennessee will surpass the national figure and reduce our cost increases by about 4.

The forecast for this year wouldn't be nearly so bright if we, as individuals, had undertaken the challenge alone." The voluntary effort to cut the nation's spiraling health care costs was undertaken last year by the American Medical Association, the American Hospital Association and the Federation of American Hospitals when the threat of federal intervention to force lower costs arose. SINCE THE national wage and, price freeze was lifted in April, 1974, the rate of health care costs has consistently been about 4 above the consumer price index for overall inflation. The thrust of the voluntary cost containment effort is for health care officials to lower their annual rate increases 2 for two years in order to bring the health care rate increases finished with this petition yet. I am of the opinion that it should be appealed as far as we can go with it." McPHERSON said he hopes to present his case to the state Court of Appeals today. Metro Attorney William Howard said state law requires that absentee ballots for the Nov.

7 general election be mailed Monday. Final instructions must be given to the lllfiiliiliiil BEIRUT Smoke and flames destoryed by shelling. Fighting Where Pictures and related story on Page 18. client to see whether it would be more practical to appeal, or perhaps start all over and get it on the municipal election ballot next June, which might be more germane," Galbreath told reporters after the hearing. But McPherson spoke up immediately, saying, "I'm not in line with the overall inflation rate.

"Through our association, the voluntary effort is gaining strength and momentum," Eledge explained. "Already, 90 of our members have voluntarily adopted cost containment resolutions. Our joint ef- (Turn to Page Column 2) 'Diamond Betsy' Psychiatric Test Motion Filed By KATHERINE FREED Lawyers for alleged cocaine smuggler Betty Inman claim their client is mentally unstable and are seeking to have her examined by a psychiatrist before her trial next Wednesday in San Juan. Mrs. Inman, 38, dubbed Diamond Betsy" because of her penchant for a lavish lifestyle, faces trial on one count of smuggling, one of cocaine possession with intent to distribute and three counts of illegal customs declarations.

In a motion for psychiatric examination, attorney Vincent Sherry of Biloxi, said Mrs; Inman's mental condition has deteriorated to such an extent since her arrest and imprisonment Aug. 25 that she is unable to cooperate with her (Turn to Page Column 4) By SUSAN THOMAS Although the cost of a hospital stay in Tennessee continues rising, it isn't climbing as rapidly as it used to thanks to a voluntary cost containment effort, officials said yesterday. While hospital costs increased 14.5 from 1976 to 1977, the rate of increase in 1978 is projected to be only Book-Author's Fete To Hear Mrs. Tuchman Barbara W. Tuchman, twice a Pulitzer Prize winner and author of The Guns of August, will speak at the Nashville Book and Author's Dinner Oct.

23. Mrs. Tuchman, who will appear with three other authors to be announced, will discuss her newest book, A Distant Mirror, at the 10th annual dinner. Tickets are on sale at Nashville bookstores and can be purchased in advance for $8. Tickets sold at the door will cost $9.

Advance tickets are available at the following bookstores: Baptist Book Store, 1010 Broadway. Bookworld, 711 Church St. and Harding Mall. Cokesbury, 417 Church St. (Tura to Page I.

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