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Minneapolis TP Wednesday January 3, 1979 Volume CXII Number 192 Copynght 1ft 79 Mnnnposa Sta and Trsbune ConyMVf 1 A Final 3 Sections Single Copy Ktowse may have BR speaker State's fuel oil supply is down By David Phelps and Tom Davies Staff Writers Prospects for an Independent-Republican speaker in the Minnesota House, the first since 1972, increased measurably Tuesday on the eve of the 71st session of the Minnesota Legislature. IR fortunes in the previously deadlocked House were buoyed on two fronts; one judicial, the other medical. Yesterday morning, members of an IR-DFL negotiating committee established to discuss the balance of power in the House, were informed that DFL Rep. Richard Kostohryz, a member of the negotiating team, suffered a heart attack on Monday and would be hospitalized for an undetermined period. The hospitalization of Kostohryz gives the IR caucus a temporary 67-66 membership edge.

But the significance of that edge wasn't known until yesterday afternoon, when Dakota County District Judge Robert J. Breunig ruled that he found no reason to unseat Robert Pavlak, IR-St. Paul. Pavlak's election opponent. Rep.

Arnold Kempe, DFL-West St. Paul, had sought a new election because of alleged unfair campaign practices by Pavlak and DFLers in the House were banking on a successful challenge by Kempe and his vote to tilt the speakership in their favor. After the week-long trial, however, Breunig said he had determined that no campaign laws were violated. Kempe claimed that Pavlak circulated false information about Kempe's House atten dance record. "In any event," Breunig said in his findings, "it appears from the evidence that the claimed offense did not arise from want of good faith and under the circumstances it would be unjust that Robert Pavlak should forfeit his office." The trial, held in Ramsey County District Court, ended yesterday with an appearance by Minneapolis Tribune reporter Steve Brandt, who wrote an article in which Pavlak acknowledged the error in Kempe's attendence record.

Brandt's notes also were subpoenaed but unpublished portions were blotted out. Attorneys for Kempe are not expected to appeal Breunig's findings to the Minnesota Supreme House continued on page 10A Robert Pavlak mrfA shah of Iran Tuesday. sister 7 I 1 United Press International By Jack B. Coffman Staff Writer Minnesota started the new year with fuel oil inventories 27 percent behind the same time last year, according to Minnesota Energy Agency estimates. The situation has state energy officials watching the falling thermometer with great interest.

Temperatures dropped far below zero throughout Minnesota Tuesday and were not expected to moderate before the weekend. Temperatures yesterday dropped to 34 below at International Falls, 32 below at Hib-bing, 30 below at St. Cloud, 27 below at Rochester and Bemidji and 22 below in the Twin Cities. The lows at Rochester and the Twin Cities were records for a Jan. 2 at those places.

The National Weather Service predicts lows of 20 to 30 below for today and Thursday in Minnesota and highs from 10 below to 0 north and from 0 to 8 above south. Lows of 17 below to 24 below are predicted for the Twin Cities area today and Thursday, with highs of 0 to 5 above. If temperatures for the rest of the winter remain near normal, Minnesota "will squeak through again," said Ronald Visness, assistant director of the Minnesota Energy Agency. Visness, a chief oil spokesman for the agency, said the state expects steadily sagging fuel oil inventories to bottom out by the end of February at about 1 million barrels if there are normal winter temperatures. "That kind of situation is manageable," he said.

There is no shortage at this point, he added. Fuel oil inventories (the amount on hand to distribute to customers in the state) dipped to about 600,000 barrels in the winter of 1976-77 touching off the state's first energy emergency and fuel allocations. Agency figures showed 2.1 million Fuel continued on page 10A Teng invites Goldwater to Peking for talks Tribune News Services Peking, China China's senior deputy premier, Teng Hsiao-ping, Tuesday invited Sen. Barry Goldwater, an outspoken opponent of America's normalization of relations with China, to visit Peking and discuss the situation. In an apparent effort to allay fears about the future of Taiwan, Teng also told a delegation of U.S.

congressmen that China is interested in a peaceful resolution of the issue. He told the group, all members of the House Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs Committee, that all members of Congress, including Goldwater, were welcome here. "My views have changed in the past, as did those of Mao Tse-tung and Chou En-lai, and perhaps Senator Goldwater's will, too," Teng was quoted by the Americans as having said. "Our views change because the world changes." Tony Smith, Goldwater's press secretary, said in Washington yesterday that all he knew about a Chinese China continued on page 3A Iranian demonstrators in Beverly Hills, broke through a gate at the home of the mother and sister of the 200 attack home of shah's Foreign exodus in Iran grows New York Time Service Teheran, Iran The exodus of foreigners from Iran gathered momentum Tuesday as the country's crippling oil strike continued at full force, despite efforts to get the strikers to relent from their action that protests the rule of Shah Muhammad Riza Pahlavl. About 2.000 foreigners managed to catch planes from Teheran's airport, which has also been disrupted by strikers.

All told. 5.000 of the 30.000 Americans remaining in Iran yesterday morning are expected to be gone by week's end. (American, Russian sparring spotlights Importance of Iran; Tough Bakhtiar takes determined stand In opposing the shah. Page 7C.) The foreigners" hectic departure underscored the widespread fears about the future of the country despite an apparent decline in the continuing violence in the capital and in other parts of the kingdom except in the city of Qazvin, west of Teheran, where rioting and severe bloodshed were reported yesterday, although details were sketchy, and in Meshed earlier In the week. (The political situation remained shaky but Premier-designate Shah-pour Bakhtiar said he had formed his Cabinet, which will be presented to Parliament Thursday.

United Press International reported. It then must be approved by the shah, who said Monday he would like to take a "vacation" once the civilian government was Installed. The shah is expected to remain on his throne but Bakhtiar's government would take over much of the 59-year-old monarch's power. (Bakhtiar, interviewed last night by French television, repeated previous statements that the shah has agreed to go abroad to rest and to name a regency council to remain in charge once his civilian government Is formed. (Wall posters condemning Bakhtiar appeared on walls all over Teheran yesterday as the National Front, the largest political party, stepped up its campaign to oppose Bakhtiar's civilian Cabinet Earlier it expelled him from the party.

shall not let this country be destroyed even if I have to die," Bakhtiar vowed in an emotional broadcast speech yesterday. He pledged in the broadcast to free all political prisoners, permit political opposition Iran continued on page 10A Almanac Wednesday, January 3, 1979 3rd day; 362 to go this year Sunrise: 7:52. Sunset: 4:44 Today's weather Cold More cold weather is forecast through Thursday for the Twin Cities area. Lows of 17 to 24 below and highs of 0 to 5 above are predicted. Details on Page SB Arts SB Business 6 9 Comics 4B Corrections 2A Editorial 4A Sports 1 6C Theaters 6C TV, Radio 7B 5 Associated Press Tribune News Services Beverly Hills, Calif.

About 200 demonstrators stormed (he palatial home of the shah of Iran's sister on Tuesday, overturning a police car, setting brush fires and smashing windows in the mansion. At least 35 people were injured, none seriously, during a 45-minute melee that police ended with tear gas and fire hoses. Some demonstrators reportedly were injured when they were hit by patrol cars during the battle. A sheriff's spokesman said five or six demonstrators were arrested for investigation of assault on law enforcement officers. As the protesters retreated, hundreds of policemen, sheriffs deputies and highway patrolmen corralled them In a barricaded area near the Beverly Hills business district.

Authorities then began releasing them in small groups. "It was planned as a peaceful demonstration," said Mina Azad, a spokeswoman for the protesters, many of them Iranian students. Asked why the fires were set, she said: "You have to understand. A lot of these people have relatives and friends who have been killed by the shah's regime. There's a lot of anger Protest continued on page 10A 'V increases A S3 A demonstrator bounced off the hood of a sheriff's car Tuesday during demonstrations at the home of the Sister of the shah of Iran.

The photo was taken by Michael Haering of the Los Angeles Herald Examiner. Cigarette smoking heart-attack risk exhaled breath was 28 parts per million. This, in turn, meant that 5 percent of the red blood cells in Clark's body were tied up carrying carbon monoxide rather than oxygen. knew that carbon monoxide is a poisonous gas," Clark said, "but I don't think smokers normally think about It." But two weeks later, still thinking about It. he quit smoking.

While the balloon test was just one of the reasons he quit it provides dramatic evidence of how smoking affects the heart. Tar and nicotine content of cigarettes have received the greatest public attention. But carbon monoxide Is one of the major reasons that cigarette smokers have an Increased risk of suffering heart attacks, typically twice the risk of a nonsmoker. The inhaled nicotine tends to make the heart beat harder and somewhat faster (but less efficiently), which Increases the demand of the heart for oxygen. At the same time, the carbon monoxide in inhaled smoke gets into the bloodstream and binds extremely tightly with red blood cells that should be carrying oxygen.

This drives oxygen out of the bloodstream. "The smoker's heart needs more but gets less oxygen than usual, so a large strain is put on the heart," explained Eileen Rotman. an expert on helping smokers quit. A heart put under this stress apparently is more susceptible to the other processes that lead to Heart continued on page 3A Editor's note: In this series of eight articles, Staff Writer Lewis Cope writes about the factors that can lead to heart attacks and what you can do to beat the odds. Fourth in a series By Lewis Cope Staff Writer When Nick Clark blew up a plastic balloon in the fall of 1977 it as the beginning of the end for his 2'4-pack-a-day smoking hnbiL The balloon was hooked up to a small machine that measures concentrations of carbon monoxide, an odorless, colorless gas.

The dial shot up to 28. showing that the concentration of carbon monoxide In his Saving your heart Tribune telephones 32 4141 HtmGmrmu 37? 424J CUM.