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Ear cuffs Round, silver and mysterious Romantic fun With Fonda and Redford today in Friday Grand Canypn What the future will bring today in Sports Extra today in Lifestyle Jktbsttm Bmbr Shot FINAL 103rd YEAR 70 PAGES 20 CENTS TUCSON, ARIZONA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1979 VOL. 138 NO. 362 mm 7 rnr Afghanistan coup puts Soviet'puppet'athelm puppet" in Karmal, a leader of one faction of the Afghanistan Communist party, to help in the war against the rebels. Soviet troops and equipment have been pouring into this nation of 21.4 million people to put down the revolt. Diplomats in New Delhi, India, said Karmal is in his 50s, the son of an army general, and a confirmed Marxist.

He was vice president, deputy prime minister and ambassador to Czechoslovakia under President Nur Mohammad Taraki, who ousted Afghanistan's non-aligned regime in April 1978 and turned the country toward the Soviet Union. Karmal was ordered home from Czechoslovakia after Taraki's overthrow and death in September, apparently to face arrest and trial, but he refused to return and was given asylum in Czechoslovakia. Before the coup, there was an unprecedented show of Soviet military strength (See COUP, Page 3A) The price of gold soars past $518 a troy ounce in a "buying fever" ignited by concern over strife in Afghanistan and Iran. Page 3A. The Carter administration should seize the opportunity to make an issue in the United Nations of the massing of Soviet troops in Afghanistan.

Editorial on Page 12A. the new regime "to restore normalcy and repel an external threat." Washington officials, who declined to be identified, said there were fragmentary reports of "some involvement of Soviet military personnel" in street fighting in the capital, and 35 Americans at the U.S. Embassy were told to "stay put." The official said the Soviets could be using their military might to install "a Panel advocates $3 gas for the 'darkened' '80s "AS f. pi, VwTO v- -v i hI r- if' The Associated Press Radio Kabul reported a coup in Afghanistan yesterday by former Deputy Prime Minister Babrak Karmal, who is described as even more friendly to the Soviet Union than the man he overthrew. A U.S.

official called Karmal a "puppet" of Moscow. The British Broadcasting Corp. quoted Radio Kabul as saying ousted President Hafizullah Amin had been executed. The coup came after a massive buildup in Afghanistan of Soviet troops, who have been helping fight anti-Marxists who want to restore a Moslem government and rid the country of Soviet influence. U.S.

officials estimate there are 10,000 Soviet troops in Afghanistan. A few hours after the coup was announced, the Soviet Union praised the takeover. It called Amin's regime a dictatorship and an agent of American imperialism, and said it sent troops into Afghanistan in response to an appeal from Iran hints 3 hostages may go free TEHRAN, Iran (AP) A government spokesman said yesterday some members of the ruling Revolutionary Council are pressing for release of three American hostages, possibly including an Arizona Marine, despite opposition by militants holding the U.S. Embassy compound. The Associated Press got word from a Foreign Ministry spokesman of an official "suggestion" that hostages of Mexican, Indian and Portuguese descent be released.

A spokesman for the militants holding the hostages reacted angrily when told cf the report, insisting such information would have to come from them. They refused to confirm the report. Foreign Minister Sadegh Ghotbzadeh repeated the hard line he took Wednesday, declaring the hostages will be tried as spies if the U.N. Security Council imposes an economic embargo on Iran. Emerging from a Revolutionary Council meeting, Ghotbzadeh accused the United States of interpreting Iran's every "good gesture" as a sign of weakness.

He told reporters that if the United States continued pressure on Iran, especially seeking a U.N.-enforced economic blockade, he would scrap a proposed international grand jury to investigate Iranian grievances and go ahead with a spy trial. "If the United States continues to put pressure on us I don't see any usefulness in having this grand jury," Ghotbzadeh said. "It is better to have the normal trial of the hostages." In Washington, a White House official expressed optimism the United States will be able to get U.N. authorization for economic sanctions against Iran, and that the that the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries would maintain production at present levels. The present political climate would probably not permit prices to rise to $2 to $3 a gallon in a free market, he said, so they should be phased in by government taxes.

Another panelist, Sevinc Carlson, director of the center's Legal and International Energy Studies, said developing countries will suffer most in the coming decade. She criticized the construction of office buildings with windows that cannot be opened forcing the wasteful use of air conditioning the year around the lack of car-pooling and the location of food stores in shopping centers which have to reached by automobile. There ought to be more old-fashioned "mom and pop" neighborhood stores, she said. WASHINGTON (AP) A gasoline price of $2 to $3 a gallon was among steps urged yesterday by a panel of energy experts who warned that the United States must promptly reduce petroleum consumption as it faces a darkened decade of the 1980s. Charles Ebinger, director of the Energy and National Security Program at the Georgetown University Center for Strategic and International Studies, said the U.S.

energy situation is now at a crisis level. "It is a major national security threat," he said, "and it is time to stop playing politics with it." U.S. cities face "sizable blackouts and brownouts before 1985," he said, adding that the oil shortage could bring significant cutbacks in living standards. He also warned against basing consumption estimates on expectations shioned from a discarded cigarette carton during recent rainstorm. (AP) Helter-Shelter A Mexican boy in Yucatan peers out from under a makeshift umbrella fa- Good Morning Top of the News 10 inmates killed in blaze at historic S.

Carolina jail Weather Summary spells trouble for staff The Arizona Daily Star PHOENIX Achievement testing for schoolchildren should perhaps be extended to legislative staffers. During Senate Education Committee hearings Wednesday into the education bill passed by the House last week, a Senate staff member was running through a section of a summary of the bill explaining that all students would be given yearly achievement tests. "How about spelling?" questioned Sen. Jones Osbom, D-Yuma, a newspaper editor with a sharp proofreader's eye. "Well, some House members wanted to include penmanship said the staffer, hesitantly.

"That's not what I meant," said Os-born, pointing to the staff-prepared summary. There, in black and white, the summary said students would be tested yearly in "reading, grammer and mathematics." K.C. 'sickout' widens. National Guardsmen are ordered in to help provide fire protection in Kansas City, where a "sickout" by firefighters has widened to include 232 of the city's 900 fire personnel. Gov.

Joseph Teasdale has ordered a state of emergency to help deal with the problem. Page 10A. OSHA targeted. The author of the bill that created the Occupational Safety and Health Administration teams with leading Senate critics to restrict the agency's enforcement powers. Page 10A.

building with the exception of smoke damage," Parks said. The jail is a landmark in this central South Carolina community about 50 miles north of Columbia, although its exact age was not immediately known. The building was designed by architect Robert Mills, a Charleston, S.C, native who also designed the Washington Monument. Mills died in 1855. Mills, an American architect of the classic revival period who was born in 1781, was state engineeer and architect in South Carolina before being named architect of public buildings in Washington, D.C., by President Andrew Jackson in 1836.

He also designed the Washington Monument in Baltimore, the Bunker Hill Monument in Charlestown, and the Monumental Church in Richmond, Va. LANCASTER, S.C. (AP) A fire broke out last night on the top floor of the historic Lancaster County Jail, killing 10 inmates and injuring two other persons, authorities said. Dace W. Jones, administrator of Elliott White Springs Memorial Hospital, said the 10 prisoners were dead on arrival at the hospital.

Only three inmates locked in the jail escaped death. The blaze began at about 6 p.m. on the top floor of the brick building. By 7:30 p.m., the fire was under control and everyone had been evacuated, a Lancaster County sheriff's deputy said. Lancaster County Sheriff Nae Parks said a State Law Enforcement Division arson unit was called from Columbia to investigate the fire, which he said was of "undetermined origin." "There was minor fire damage to the Back into the 60s.

Today will be sunny with a warming trend through the weekend. Yesterday's high and low were 55 and 39. The high today is expected to be in the lower 60s, with the low in the lower 30s. A winter storm dumped a foot of snow over parts of Colorado, southeastern Utah and Northern Arizona. Freezing drizzle was reported in Iowa and a dense fog extended from western North Dakota across much of Minnesota.

Yesterday's national temperature extremes were 17 below zero at Jackson, and 77 at Alice, Texas. Details on Page4A. Soviet Union will not veto the resolution. "I think there is some optimism that the Soviet Union will simply abstain," said the official. Sources at the United Nations said a preliminary draft of the resolution calls for an embargo on all Iranian exports carried in Iranian ships and an embargo on all (See SOME IRANIANS, Page 3A) News Rhodesia truce threatened.

The death of a guerrilla commander threatens to disrupt Britain's peace efforts on the eve of a Rhodesian truce to be monitored by Commonwealth forces. The general reportedly died in an auto accident. Page 9A. Cuba jails 2 U.S. ministers.

Two American ministers have been imprisoned in Cuba for airdropping thousands of religious pamphlets on the island nation. Page 8A. Freeways' frustrations unleash motoring militancy Index Year's biggest news. Overshadowing home prices, criticism of police actions, and South Tucson's housecleaning after a brutal murder, the biggest news story of 1979 in Tucson is the case of the American Atomics Corp. and its tritium.

The tritium saga is also the state's No. 1 story. Pages IB and 3B. Another firm moving herel a Chicago-based manufacturer of precision tools plans to expand to Tucson, developing a business that could produce about 1,500 local jobs. Page IB.

'Strangled tapes. Kenneth Bian-chi, who has confessed to five of the Hillside Strangler killings in Los Angeles, tells psychiatrists on newly released videotapes that the series of rape-murders originated in a casual conversation with his cousin, Angelo Buono, about finding out what it would be like to kill someone. Page 5A. them. Both cars pulled over, and the lone motorist pulled out a gun.

That was the end of that argument the couple fled, and called the patrol. When patrolmen stopped the motorist later, he shot four of them. It turned out he was wanted for murder. "One of the big problems is that people just don't know who they are dealing with out there," Brady says. Another patrol officer takes a somewhat larger view.

"Violence has probably gone up a little bit each year. But I don't think it's a phenomenon isolated to the freeways. It seems that the whole society is reacting more violently. You see it in the workplace, in schools, everywhere." jury or even death. "When people are stuck in traffic, their nerves become shot.

Sometimes they're on the verge of hysteria," said Chuck Brady, a California Highway Patrol spokesman. "It doesn't take much to set them off maybe someone cutting them off or tail-gating." "Add the gas crisis on top of that," said a patrolman fresh from duty, "and you really have a lively situation out there." Brady estimated that serious incidents such as fitfights, someone being run off the road and shootings occur half a dozen times a month in the metropolitan Los Angeles area alone. Short tempers erupt into obscenities so often it's almost commonplace, he said. "We don't keep statistics on such exchanges, but I'd guess there are more confrontations in Southern California than anywhere else simply because it has so many cars, and its roads are so congested," Brady said. Despite the lack of statistics, some incidents stick in officers' minds.

Like the time a couple of guys in a pickup truck became so enraged when someone pulled in front of them that they shot the (Sliver to death. And the trucker so angered by a car following him at night with its high beams on that he pulled over, motioned the car to stop, then smashed its headlights with a tire iron. Then there was the time a man and woman began shouting at a motorist who made an unsafe lane change in front of By ROGER GILLOTT The Associated Press LOS ANGELES It's a wet winter morning. Traffic is at a standstill on the slippery freeway as you sit cramped behind the wheel of your car in bulky, soggy rain gear trying to wipe fog off the windshield. You were due at work 10 minutes ago.

Then some smart aleck cuts in front of you or worse yet, offers an obscene gesture because you were less than eager to let him crowd in. Frustrating? You bet. And more and more motorists are making it clear they're just not going to take it anymore, unleashing vehicular vehemence that sometimes ends in serious in- Movies 1-2C Names, faces 6A Nation 7A Obituaries 4E Public records 2E Solomon, M.D. 7C Sports 1-4F Tucson, Arizona 2B TV-radio 8C World 9A Actualidades IE Bridge 7C Classified. 4-14E Comics 6C Comment 12-13A Crossword 6C DearAbby 7C Financial 6-7F Horoscope 7C Lifestyle 1-6D.