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8, 1978 CwvrWhl, 1971 Dt Moifltt Wt9iT and Trtbw Cmpanv CUBANS POUR INTO ETHIOPIA REPORTS SAY lie mm it it nr cm i Troops will help battle Somali rebels New Iowa law upheld, and dancers cover up SNOW, WINDS, RAGING TIDES BATTER EAST can make a living at it. I have no idea what the future might hold." Bergeron testified during the court hearing that he employs 15 to 20 regular dancers at the two clubs, and that the women are paid from $300 to $400 a week. He said he also pays as much as $2,200 a week for a featured speciality act usually nude at the Bittersweet. He said the new law is financially damaging because business fell off drastically during the few days in early January when the dancers were not permitted to perform nude. He estimated the two clubs had an average gross income of nearly $1,500 a day when performers are nude, and he said that dropped to about $200 a day when they had to cover parts of their bodies.

During the court hearing, Judge Larson watched two video tapes and a movie film of nude performers one of them appearing at the Bittersweet and another scheduled to appear there later. Four women also testified during the hearing that they had performed nude at the clubs. Two of them were non-professional dancers who said DANCERS "But I'm getting 40 miles to the gallon. Judge orders teachers, fired on rumor, rehired MOGADISHU, SOMALIA (AP) Thousands of Cuban soldiers are steaming toward the Horn of Africa aboard Soviet ships to help Ethiopia in its war against ethnic Somali rebels, diplomatic sources claimed Tuesday. The reports said about 3,000 to 6,000 Cuban troops left their Caribbean homeland for Ethiopia sometime last week and would "triple or double" the number of Cubans said to be fighting in southeastern Ethiopia's disputed Ogaden Desert on the Somalia border.

The sources said most of the Cuban troops are believed slated for a major role in Ethiopia's long-expected coun- teroffensive to drive out Somali rebels who now control about 97 percent of the Ogaden and are trying to annex it to Somalia. In other developments Tuesday: Ethiopia claimed it has launched a major counteroffensive to recapture the disputed Ogaden Desert and its troops are routing Somali rebels "in all directions." In Rome, Ethiopia's information minister claimed he has "reliable information" that Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Iran are airlifting 7,000 troops into Somalia to help the Somali army. The U.S. State Department cautioned both Egypt and Israel against supplying arms or troops in the fighting between Somalia and Ethiopia. Neither the opening of the counteroffensive nor the transport of additional Cuban troops to Ethiopia could be confirmed independently.

Diplomatic sources say Cuban Gen. Carlos Achoa is in Addis Ababa, the Ethiopian capital, helping plan the counteroffensive aimed at ending the six-month-old war. Achoa was the reputed mastermind when Cuban forces helped bring about a Marxist victory in Angola's 1975-1976 civil war. The latest contingent of Cuban soldiers is believed heading for Assab, Ethiopians last remaining open port along the Red Sea and an apparent gathering point for Cuban forces, the sources report. Many Cubans Gone "A large number of Cubans appear to have left Cuba by ship last week," a Western diplomat, who asked that his name not be used, said in the Somali capital.

"The Cubans are already fighting in Ethiopia. But we have indications that in a few weeks the number of Cubans there will triple or double." The sources said Cuban troops primarily provide artillery support for Ethiopian soldiers at the government strongholds of Harar and Diredawa in the northern Ogaden. The Cubans are driving tanks and armored personnel carriers in ground ETHIOPIA Please turn to Page 2A By BUD APPLEBY RnisMr StiH Writar COUNCIL BLUFFS, IA. District Judge J. L.

Larson upheld the constitutionality of a new Iowa law Tuesday afternoon, ernoon, at two I 1 Bluffs DES MOINfsS VcoundlBWf and dancers Council nightspots changed their act Tuesday night. Ron Bergeron of Omaha, operator of the two clubs just east of the Council Bluffs city limits, had challenged the new law governing nudity in certain liquor establishments. The law went into effect Jan. 1, and Judge Larson issued an injunction on Jan. 5 preventing law officers from enforcing the law at the two nightclubs the Bittersweet and the Lusty Lady until he ruled on the constitutionality question.

A hearing was held in Pottawatta mie County District Court Jan. 31, and Larson handed down his ruling Tuesday. "We 11 obey the law," Bergeron said Tuesday afternoon. "Our girls will be wearing pasties and G-strings tonight." Bergeron said it hasn been decided whether Larson's ruling will be appealed. But he said he plans to continue operating the two clubs, "If I MARDI GRAS REVELER SHOT BY BYSTANDER NEW ORLEANS, LA.

(AP) -costumed reveler riding on homemade Mardi Gras float was shot and wounded Tuesday in a squabble with a spectator over a wad of Carnival beads. Other costumed men jumped from the float and chased the gunman, but he escaped in the crowd. The wounded man was identified as Carlo Romano, 30, of suburban Gretna. He was in stable condition with a wound in the chest. The shooting broke out as crowds jammed the street trying to catch beads and trinkets customarily thrown by riders on the floats.

Witnesses' accounts varied on whether the wounded man threw the beads or whether somebody on the ground threw them. A witness at police headquarters, who asked that his name not be used, said he was standing beside the gunman. "A guy on the ground threw beads at the guy on the float," he said. "The guy on the float got mad and said, Who threw Tne guy on tne eround said. 'I There was some cussing, and when the guy on the float made like he was going to get down and fight, a friend of the guy on the ground drew the gun and shot." Janice Allain, also standing near by, said she saw the gunman put the pistol under his green coat and run into the crowd.

Romano was riding in the 90th float in the Elk's Krewe of Orleanians a lone parade of decorated trucks that rolls along fashionable St. Charles Avenue after the more prestigious Rex parade. Crowds along the route were tnicx, despite 30-degree weather and a nippy north wind. Warmer celebrations, of Mardi Gras French for Fat Tuesday in past years lured more than one million people, many in scanty costume, into the narrow French Quarter streets. But this year, clown, devil and gorilla costumes bulged over sweaters, long underwear and heavy shirts.

Paper cartons of cold beer, almost a Mardi Gras trademark, gave way to hot buttered rum and Irish coffee. "Did you ever see the crowd so thin," a policeman in a patrol car shouted to shivering comrades twirling their nightsticks on a street corner. Photographers mobbed the strik ingly attired, such as four men painted like the rock music group 'Kiss. Other popular motifs included space warriors from the movie "Star Wars" and coneheads from televi sion's "Saturday Night Live." Uptown, where the parades began. early arrivals fought the cold with blankets, sleeping bags and Bloody Marys.

Cold grips Midwest; rain washes California From The Register's Wire Services Winter blew misery from New England to California Tuesday, and much of the nation was left paralyzed by snowdrifts, shivering from icy winds, or drenched by heavy rains. The Northeast was the hardest hit, as blinding snow, hurricane-force winds and raging tides brought a second day of wild weather to the blizzard-plagued area. In Boston, where two feet of snow driven by fierce winds smothered the city, a massive power blackout and some looting compounded the problems. In New York, Gov. Hugh Carey declared a state of emergency for paralyzed New York City and Long Island.

More than two dozen weather-related deaths some due to overexertion from shoveling snow or struggling through drifts were reported across the country. Emergencies Declared President Carter declared emergencies for the hardest-hit sections of Iowa weather picture: In a word, cold Cold air continued to dominate Iowa's weather Tuesday with high temperatures ranging from 8 degrees at Waterloo to 20 at Audubon. Des Moines' high was 14. Skies were mostly cloudy, and little change is expected during the next two days. Rhode Island, Massachusetts and Connecticut, clearing the way for federal assistance for relief and recovery efforts there.

The Federal Disaster Assistance Administration said 1,200 U.S. Army troops were being flown to New England to help in snow removal. Almost no part of the nation was spared bad weather in one form of another. Even Anchorage, Alaska, had to close its schools, for the first time since 1964, because of snow that started Saturday and was still falling heavily Tuesday evening. Chicago, still recovering from a blizzard 12 days ago, was hit by an unexpected storm that began Monday afternoon and left nine inches of snow on the ground.

Near-zero temperatures were recorded in northern Georgia, and the National Weather Service forecast snow by today. Oklahoma got its sixth snowfall in 22 days, with accumulations of up to six inches. South Bend, shivered in morning temperatures of 14 below zero a record. Parts of Kansas got up to three inches of snow overnight and two more inches Tuesday. Sections of Wisconsin bordering Lake Michigan were hit by 1 feet of snow overnight; another two to four inches were expected before the end of Tuesday.

A freight train was stuck for four hours in a 12-foot showdrift in North Dakota. Winds up to 40 mph made it feel like 45 below in Montana. Northern California, already STORMS Please turn to Page 6 A more or less "As I said, we've been trying to explain it all day," he said. "But, we have another way of measuring, and we will be doing that at about 1 p.m.," he said during the morning. "We'll take the snow that has gathered in our rain gauges, melt it, and that will give us a definite amount of water that has fallen.

We can then convert that to a fairly accurate snow accumulation by multiplying by 10. "That should give us a slight increase," he added. At 1:15 p.m. the weather service issued a new statement of accumulation: 17.7 inches. But But "We have taken our readings, and that is the figure we're now staying with," the forecaster said.

"As I said before, we've be trying to explain it all day, but it's not easy." Please turn to PageGA House votes to add 145 U.S. judges WASHINGTON, DC. (AP) The House agreed Tuesday to create 145 new federal judgeships, shunting aside the objections of some members who complained that taxpayers can't afford it. "We simDlv cannot continue to add judges as our response to all the problems of the courts," said repre sentative Jack Broous iexas, who voted with the losing side as the measure passed 319 to 80. 'In too manv instances, judges just need to be a little more efficient," said Brooks.

ThP us House total creates 110 fpHpral district and 35 aDDellate judgeships. One judgeship for the southern district of Iowa is inciuoeo. Thp Spnatp has orooosed creation of 148 additional judgeships, which would represent the biggest group oi judgeships ever created at one time. The bill, as approved by the House, will now be returned to the Senate, whirh ran arrent the House version or send the bill to a House-Senate con ference committee to work out the differences. In an unreleased study prepared for the Federal Judicial Center, Ravmnnd Tavlor.

a Raleieh. N.C.. lawyer, concluded that, aside from salary and staff expenses, woum ct hPtwppn $75,000 to S80.000 just to set up a simple library system for each new judge. Tavlor. a onetime librarian at the North Carolina Supreme Court, contended that reforms in tne judicial system would be more efficient and JUDGES Please turn to Page 9A By CHARLES HARPSTER Rtglittr Stiff Wrltar Two veteran elementarv school teachers in the South Page Community School District, fired last April alter tne airing of unsubstantiated des moines i rumors including Iraddyvillef that they were homosexuals should be reinstated, according to a Page County District Court ruling.

But the two teachers have been told they will not be rehired next year, this time for a different reason: Reduction of staff because of declining enrollment. The action prompted the state's largest teacher group to vow Tuesday to rallv to the teachers' defense. Calling them "the South Page Two," Robert Gilchrist, president ot tne Tnwa State Education Association (ISEA), said the district's action is an effort to abort the ruling of the court." Iowa's svstem of justice and fair play is also on trial," Gilchrist said. "Here we have a terrifying example of unsubstantiated facts and no evaluation of teaching performance used in i termination proceeding. Dennis Wood, the district's new mnerintendent this school year, denied that the district is trying to circumvent the court, saying me notice not to rehire the two was sent in Januarv.

Drior to the ruling. The' district cannot afford to rehire the teachers because it lost 30 students this year, dropping enrollment to 460, he said. "We also feel we have a lot better staff than the teachers who were fired," he added. Wood said the two former teachers were the only ones notified they would not be rehired next year. The reason, he said, is "they were not here during the current year.

We do not have a position for them." But in lieht of the court ruling, it is possible the district will have to mi rehire the two teacners, ne saw. me board might consider the Issue at a meeting next Monday, he said. Wnnd said his oredecessor had rec ommended that two teachers be hired to take the place of the two who were and apparently are about to cause a few more. Legal Action Asked about the Mitchell stamp, Christopher Kraft, director of the Johnson Space Center, said the National Aeronautics and Space Administration was seriously contemplating legal action against the former astronaut to recover it. Mitchell, in a telephone interview from his business office in Palm Beach, said: "This is what all of us have been fussing and fretting about for six or seven years.

What do we do about the stamps? "We don't want to offend NASA. We don't want to do anything improper. But on the other hand we end up with a million or two million dollars worth of stamps. But we can't even get insurance on them. "We can't get them appraised.

We know that if it goes into an estate, the stamps will be taxable. "It could cost our families their homes and everything else to pay terminated. But Wood said that after he was hired, he decided the district could not afford to fill the two vacated positions. "We have a full faculty now and we might have to cut there also," he said. The two teachers, Delores Bragg, 42, a fourth-grade teacher, and Patricia Hanson, 53, a second-grade teacher, had taught in the Braddyville Elementary School.

The junior-senior high school is in College Springs. Bragg has taught for 21 years, including 12 at Braddyville; Hanson has taught for 15, including' 10 at tiraddyviiie. The former superintendent, Robert Lage, had recommended they be ter minated last year on five grounds: Inattention to duty, insubordination, inabilty to work with others, incompetency and "conduct considered by the community to be improper andor immoral." The board did not issue a finding on the allegations of incompetence and improper or immoral conduct, but those two charges were considered to be the most important in the recommendation to fire them, according to RULING Please turn to Page3A INSIDE THE REGISTER Sadat on Capitol Hill Egyptian President Sadat tells members of Congress he won't be shy in asking for U.S. weapons Page 2A Bahamian question State DeDartment official says Representative Flood's aide pushed foreign-aid officials to give rnntrnl of a S10 million project to a group headed by friend of Flood rage izn Where to find it: Classified ads 7B Movies 7A Comics 6B Obituaries 28 Editorials 8A People in news IB Markets 4B TV schedules 3B Edgar D. Mitchell Spaceman-philatelist taxes on them if something happened to us." Mitchell said he was determined to get one of his stamps appraised and that is how it turned up in San Frandsco last November to be sold for $4,200.

During the Apollo flights about STAMPS Please turn to Page 2A OIIBUTlMMlM ETHIOPIA V-Z- KENYA jiXjgfi Stamps from the moon kick up fuss on Earth When it comes to snow, more is less, NEW YORK. N.Y. (AP) Things just didn't add up for the National Weather Service nere 1 uesoay. At 7 a.m.. 17.7 inches of snow was measured in New York City.

For the next six hours, New Yorkers watched snow swirl all around them, but the weather service said no more snow had accumulated. How's that? "We've been trying to explain it all day long, but it's not easy," said one forecaster, who asked not to be identified. "The snow is so light and damp, the wind is compacting it. If we actually measured it regularly, we probably would find the amount decreasing But how, if it has been snowing all morning, can the actual measurement of snow on the ground be going down? By NICHOLAS C. CHRISS 171 Lm AiotM Tinwt HOUSTON, TEXAS One day last November Ed Mitchell sold a stamp for $4,200 to a collector in San Francisco.

The sale did not attract much attention until it was learned that Ed Mitchell was Edgar D. Mitchell, the former astronaut, that the stamp was one of 54 that had been to the moon and that the U. S. space agency was angry over the sale. "It stirred up a hornet's nest," Mitchell said.

The stamps the astronauts took to the moon have turned out to be both a blessing and a curse. They have caused considerable problems for the former spacemen. "We don't know exactly how many stamps are out there floating around," a spokesman said at the Johnson Space Center here. But one thing is certain: they have caused a lot of problems for the space agency 5.