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-t Des Moines Register and Tribune Company 1984 1 I Price 25 Copyright 1984 NEWSPAPER IOWA DEPENDS UPON I .1.. mmmmmmmmmmmmma Prostitutes challenge state rule to keep them out of bars siffifflocra: Waterloo station will pay Drake for hacking losses THE WEATHER Partly cloady through Friday, a chance of thunderstorms extreme west through tonight and spreading southwest Friday. Highs in the 80s, lows in the middle to upper 60s. Sunrise: 5:40 a.m.; sunset: 8:50 p.m. Details: 10T.

ondale wins endorsement by LIcGovern M6ndale-Hart ticket the strongest, he says WASHINGTON, D.C. (AP) -George McGovern endorsed Walter Mondale for president Wednesday and said placing Gary Hart in the No. 2 spot on the Democratic ticket "would send a strong message to the country that they're standing together on the same platform." "I think a Mondale-Hart ticket is the strongest and that it does gather on one ticket the best vote-getters we've got," McGovern said at a news conference. McGovern said that he is not pushing the former vice president to choose Hart as his running mate but that to do so would be "a logical way to heal the wounds quickly." Mondale aides were meeting Wednesday to make arrangements for possible vice presidential nominees to travel to Minnesota for meetings with Mondale. One person often mentioned as a potential candidate Senator Lloyd Bentsen of Texas told reporters at a separate news conference Wednesday that he expects Mondale to ask Hart to be his running mate.

Bensten said he would not go to Minnesota to discuss the job with Mondale if asked. However, Bentsen said he could not make a flat statement disavowing interest in the vice presidential nomination without knowing what the job would be like under Mondale. "I'm certainly not interested, unless it was a responsible role where you feel you have some input," he said. Bentsen's press secretary, Jack De-Vore, said later that Bentsen had misunderstood the question and probably would meet with Mondale if he were invited. With the focus of Democratic politics shifting away from the head-to-head battle between Hart and Mondale and to the final shape of the ticket, Senator John Glenn of Ohio said Tuesday that he, too, was not particularly interested in being the vice presidential nominee, but would not rule out the possibility of accepting the nomination if offered.

McGovern, who dropped out of the Democratic presidential race after poor showings in the early primaries, asked his 23 delegates to give their support to Mondale, "the probable nominee of our party" and called on Democrats to close ranks behind him. AU but two of the McGovern delegates are from Massachusetts and there was no immediate word on whether they would follow the former senator's request. The former vice president already has a 28-delegate margin over the 1,967 needed for nomination. "It is imperative that the Democratic nominee be elected next November, because Mr. Reagan does not have the philosophy, realism, or sense of history that can save us from war CAMPAIGN Please turn to Page 6A Discovery moves CHICAGO, ILL.

(AP) Hundreds of years before Pompeii vanished in the shadow of Mount Vesuvius, a series of similar volcanic disasters in the northwestern Andes snuffed out the New World's most promising civilization, recent findings indicate. Archaeologists have long known of the existence of a highly sophisticated art style originating from the Cauca Valley region, stretching 550 miles from northern Ecuador into Colombia. But it took a graduate student's discovery of pottery shards beneath volcanic ash in the region, combined with some museum detective work, to establish what scientists at Chicago's Field Museum now believe is the correct date for the civilization B.C, instead of 400-800 A.D. The detective story suggests the empires of the Incas, Aztecs and Mayans may be traced to people who fled the Cauca Valley to escape the continuing eruptions. "We know this wasn't a group of 50 chasing mastodons" said Donald Lathrap, professor of archaeology at the University of Illinois.

"We're looking, at first glance anyway, at THE urn police officer Gerald Heibel in Andre's Bar. Heibel charged the women with trespassing after be told them to leave and they refused, according to their attorney, LeRoy J. Sturgeon of Sioux City. White and Campbell are scheduled to stand trial on the simple misdemeanor charge at 2 p.m. Friday.

On Feb. 1, after the arrest, Police Chief Donovan wrote a letter to Pat Pirog, Andre's manager, informing her that 14 women convicted of prostitution had been observed in the tavern. White and Campbell were included on the list. The letter warned Pirog that she could be charged with a simple misdemeanor and Andre's could lose its state liquor license if she permitted any of the 14 "to frequent Andre's during which they solicit for immoral purposes." "Take notice and govern yourselves accordingly," the letter concluded. Sturgeon said his clients decided to challenge the state rule because Sioux City police officers cited it as their authority for telling the women to leave when they were spotted in Andre's.

The rule says: "No licensee, permittee, their agent or employee, shall knowingly permit the licensed premises to be frequented by, or become the known meeting place, hangout or rendezvous for known pimps, panhandlers or prostitutes or those who are known to engage in the use, sale or distribution of narcotics, or in any other illegal occupation or business." Said Sturgeon: "Individual peace officers, from time to time, when it suits their purposes and motives, interpret and apply this rule by determining in their own mind, without any guidelines or definitions, who is a known and use this rule to demand that the bar owner cooperate with the peace officer in ejecting the persons that the peace officer has selected." The lawsuit however, did not question the methods of the Sioux City police department. It asked Judge Gaul to declare the rule invalid, contending that it exceeds the scope of the statute upon which it is based, is vague, is too broad and denies equal protection of the law. Assistant Attorney General Lynn Walding, who represented the Beer and Liquor Control Department, argued that the agency had the authority to write the rule, denied that it is vague and overly broad and said it applied equally to men and women. Judge Gaul sided with the department and affirmed the rule. That is the decision White and Campbell are appealing to the Iowa Supreme Court Sheriff White said he adopted Monica White and her older sister when they were about 8 and 10 years old.

He said he tried to get Monica "on the right track" but failed and she left the family as a teen-ager and moved to Chicago. Monica White and Campbell could not be reached for comment Wednesday. 1.1 ttV-l Des Moines, Iowa, Thursday, June 14, At the time the hacking incident was first publicized, the station's news vice president, Grant Price, said, "Certainly we'd do it again. We were doing our job and we gave our viewers a particular insight into this problem." As far as Drake officials could det-termine no damage was done to the computer system or information it contained other than "for a while we couldn't gain access," Miller said Miller said no action was taken against the student, who officials have declined to identify. "The student didn't quite really understand what was going on," Miller said.

The system contained faculty records and information and student term papers and other class assignments. The hacking at Drake spurred the Iowa Legislature to pass a bill prohibiting unauthorized access to a computer and damage or destruction of information. Penalties range from a $100 fine to five years in prison. New drug may ease herpes rash, pain BOSTON, MASS. (AP) Researchers say a new drug provides the first effective treatment for repeated fla-reups of genital herpes, largely eliminating the rash and pain that are the chief misery of this common disease.

The drug does not cure herpes, and its long-term safety must still be tested. But for those who have taken it, the medicine "has made an enormous impact on the quality of their lives," said Dr. Stephen Straus, a government scientist The medicine, a capsule form of the drug acyclovir, is considered experimental and is not available for routine use. dated 400-800 A.D. Because of the depth at which Isaacson made his discovery in the volcanic ash at the Neuva Era site near Quito, the date of the pottery was pushed back by hundreds of years, predating the cultures of the Mayans, Incas and Aztecs.

However, it had been forgotten that the skillfully crafted gold had been linked to the pottery and the significance of Isaacson's find was missed. But Lathrap and researcher Colin McEwan, with time on their hands one day, decided to open the catalogue for the original Columbian exposition prepared by Restrepo. From that manuscript they established the pottery found by Isaacson and the gold pieces came from the same culture. And that told Lathrap the civilization that once thrived at the Nueva Era site and that had produced the pottery was so advanced, "that in terms of metallurgy which is one good indicator of a society's level of achievement they were on the moon at a time when everybody else was riding bicycles. and even la Mapletoa, of Bit SA.

lev; 01 Bill is defeated in Senate 'Star Wars' plan survives effort to trim it WASHINGTON, D.C. (AP) The Senate, after some fast parliamentary footwork by Republican leaders and Vice President George Bush, reversed itself Wednesday night and defeated, 47-45, a peacetime revival of GI Bill education benefits for military men and women. Voting to kill the move were Iowa's Republican Senators Roger Jepsen and Charles Grassley. In what loomed as a post-midnight session, the chamber also turned aside, by the same 47-45 margin, an attempt to trim President Reagan's futuristic Strategic Defense Initiative. Reagan asked $1.8 billion next fiscal year for research on the SDI, derided as a "Star Wars" scheme by critics, but that figure was cut by $150 million last month by the Senate Armed Services Committee.

Senator Charles Percy 111.) sought to cut an additional $100 million from the program, which envisions high-technology weapons such as laser and par tide beams to knock out nuclear missiles. "Exploratory Study" "We're being asked to spend $26 billion over five years on an exploratory study," said Percy. "Many in the scientific community think the costs could run eventually into hundreds of billions of dollars." Percy said his amendment to an overall military spending bill was "a deficit-reduction amendment. It is not a referendum on 'Star We will have many opportunities in the years ahead to have up or down votes on the SDI." But Senator John Tower Texas) noted that the House slashed the request to $1.4 billion and pleaded that the Senate leave some bargaining room for a House-Senate conference later in the year. "These are systems that kill weapons, not people," he declared.

But Georgia Democrat Sam Nunn sided with Percy, saying, "This program is overf unded. Even if we cut another $100 billion, that still would be a 50 percent increase over 1984. What the administration needs on this program is more time and less money." Even the most optimistic adminis-'tration officials have conceded it could be well into the next century before an effective defense against strategic missiles could be deployed. GI Bill Earlier, the GOP-dominated Senate first approved the attempt to revive the GI Bill, 51-46, in a test vote that followed hours of bitter debate, including one Republican's suggestion that Budget Director David Stockman had deliberately avoided service during the Vietnam years. A Stockman aide declined to reply to the suggestion.

The measure would have entitled ARMS Please turn to Page. 7 A only a small part of what was recommended in a 1980 U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) special study on eliminating or sharply reducing farmers' heavy reliance on synthetic chemicals. Shunned at USDA But the organic farming study, praised at the time of its issuance by those worried over the long-term financial and environmental health of the U.S. farming system, is shunned by current USDA leaders.

"What do you mean by organic ORGANIC Please turn to Page 7 A 0 I By MARK HORSTMEYER RetHtor Stall WrtHr A Waterloo television station has agreed to reimburse Drake University for expenses the school incurred when hackers broke into one of the school's computer systems last January. Neither Drake President Wilbur Miller nor General Manager Jim Wa-terbury of KWWL-TV would reveal the amount of the settlement nor say why they would not disclose the amount. One source said the amount was "sizable." Waterbury also apologized for the unauthorized entry into the system, which forced officials to shut down the system for portions of two days. The incident occurred while reporter Van Carter was preparing a story about violations of computer security by so-called hackers. With the help of a Drake student who provided the hackers with computer access, Drake's security system was broken.

Carter told Drake officials about the backing after he became fearful the hackers would continue roaming through the computer system after the story was broadcast "Our intention was to focus on computer hacking," Waterbury said in a prepared statement. "We wanted to show that unauthorized computer hacking is a serious public problem. We believe it was an important story. But in the process of preparing the story, we got too involved in the problem we were trying to demonstrate. This involvement tended to shift the story from hacking to Drake University, which caused Drake needless embarrassment and expense.

On behalf of KWWL, I want the Drake University community to know that we regret the inconvenience we have caused." Miller said he was pleased with the reimbursement, and, "I'm especially pleased with their attitude. They apologized. Obviously their attitude has changed." By CHARLES BULLARD Rtgiiftr Staff WrtHr Two convicted prostitutes from Sioux City, one of them the daughter of the Woodbury County sheriff, are challenging a state rule prohibiting bar owners from allowing prostitutes to be frequent customers. The rule, which was written by the Iowa Beer and Liquor Control Department, is being questioned by Monica White, the daughter of Woodbury County Sheriff Russell White and Tammie J. Campbell.

According to Sioux City Police Chief Gerald P. Donovan, both women have been convicted of prostitution. The rule was upheld by Woodbury County District Judge Dewie J. Gaul and the two women are appealing his decision to the Iowa Supreme Court. The lawsuit against the Beer and Liquor Control Department was prompted by the Jan.

26 arrest of White and Campbell by Sioux City White louse backs increase in drinking age WASHINGTON, D.C. (AP) The Reagan administration Wednesday announced its support of legislation designed to prod states into adopting a minimum drinking age of 21. Transportation Secretary Elizabeth H. Dole said at a news conference that the administration now believes the federal government should play a role in encouraging states to adopt a uniform drinking age, in an effort to reduce highway fatalities. "We must raise the drinking age to 21 in all of our states to protect all of our people," Dole said.

"I have no higher priority than safety." Senator Frank Lautenberg N.J.), sponsor of the legislation in the Senate, said Dole assured him the administration is now behind his proposal. Supporters of the measure said they welcomed the president's support but questioned why the administration had waited months to actively back it An identical bill, sponsored by Representative James Howard N.J.), was approved by the House last Thursday. Dole said the administration is moving now because momentum in the states to increase drinking ages is slowing. She said 19 states had rejected attempts this year to increase their legal drinking ages to 21. In December 1982, the Presidential Commission on Drunk Driving recommended that state laws be changed to raise the legal drinking age to 21 to reduce highway deaths.

Until Wednesday, the administration has said the decision to raise the drinking age should be left to the states. Twenty-three states have minimum drinking ages of 21. The Howard and Lautenberg legislation would give states two years to raise their drinking ages to 21. If they did not, their federal highway aid would be reduced by 5 percent in the third year, and by another 10 percent in the fourth year. (Among the states affected is Iowa, where the minimum drinking age is 19.

Iowa transportation officials estimated last week that such legislation could jeopardize more than $25 million in federal highway funding over two years if the state did not conform to the legislation. (Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad has opposed raising the age, but would go along with it "if the Congress passes a law and we'd lose our federal highway money otherwise," according to Susan Neely, the governor's press secretary.) Lautenberg, Howard and their supporters argue that forcing states to have the same drinking age would reduce the number of accidents caused when teen-agers drive to neighboring states with lower age limitations. THE IIIDEX: Advice 3T Business 5S Classified ads 5T Comics 9T Crossword. 2T Editorials 10A Obituaries 10T TV schedules 2T USDA, chemical firms move to trip organics bill back date of American civilization something approaching what we'd call a state.

"And if these findings are correct they indicate the existence of a culture that was essentially 1,000 years ahead of what was going on at the same time in Peru and Mexico," he said. "And the people responsible were wiped out or driven away by the immense outburst of volcanic activity Here we have not one, but a series of Pompeii-like disasters," over a period of 600 years. The fleeing people carried their technological developments with them as they migrated among other groups, Lathrap said. John Isaacson, a graduate student at the University of Illinois who was digging beneath the volcanic ash near Quito, Ecuador, last year, found a series of villages that contained shards of pottery of a style first exhibited in 1896 by Vincente Restrepo, a Colombian aristocrat who hired professional tomb looters to make the find. In the same tombs, they found a host of spectacular gold pieces showing the level of skill achieved by artisans of the civilization, but the collection was Last in a series.

By JAMES RISSER The RefjtstWt WnNnvtoi Burwv Chief WASHINGTON, D.C. The Reagan administration and the agricultural chemicals industries are mobilizing to block legislation that would order federal on-farm research into the benefits of organic farming. The bill, already passed by the House, calls for a five-year, $10 million study of 12 farms that would be converted from chemical-aided, crop-intensive agriculture to farming that uses few or no chemicals and relies on crop rotation and natural fertilizers and pest controls. Costs and crop effects would be closely scrutinized. Another dozen farms already practicing organic farming also would be examined, to see why their techniques work and what the drawbacks are.

The 24 farmers chosen to take part in the case studies would get USDA payments to make up any financial loss they suffered during the experiments. The legislative proposal amounts to.