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I 10A Tuesday, Nov. 20, 1979 The Minneapolis Star Hostages taken, released in 3 states 4 Cif 4: 'Vvs Posey, who said he dreamed of being a motorcycle daredevil, was on a 10-day pass from Lakeshore Mental Health Institute, where he was committed after a similar standoff at Knoxville Business College. Partially paralyzed and suffering from a speech impediment as the result of a motorcycle accident 12 years ago, Posey, 27, was described by police and psychologists as a desperate loner seeking friends. On Sept. 27, he threatened to kill himself in front of 30 students while pointing a pistol at his face before two officers coaxed his surrender.

In Jackson, a black woman turned away from a possible job walked into a state employment office and held three white employees as hostages for four hours before relatives talked her into From The Star's News Services An unemployed woman seeking a job, a young man trying to make up with his girlfriend and a handicapped man who authorities say was looking for attention took hostages at gunpoint and then freed them unharmed in separate incidents Monday in Tennessee, Alabama and Kentucky. In Knoxville, Louis Posey was charged with armed and aggravated assault shortly before midnight. Earlier in the day, he had taken over a business college classroom for the second time in two months. Posey, who briefly held a school official hostage, surrendered to police and was Jailed in lieu of $100,000 bond. "He's having problems; he feels the world is closing in on him," said Doug Norman, one of two police officers who spent 11 hours attempting to coax Posey out of committing suicide.

,9 Police said Emily Curtis, a 38-year-old mother of seven, released the hostages unharmed after accusing them of racial discrimination. "I can't support my children on $207 a month unemployment," she was quoted as saying. Curtis was taken to a nearby town for psychiatric' examination and was not immediately charged, police said. One of the hostages, Mike Rotch, a job interviewer, said the woman threatened to smear black shoe polish on their faces while they were tied up to show them how it felt to be black. Three tins of black shoe polish were left unopened on the office counter along with a Bible that the woman also carried.

And in Florence, bond was set at $25,000 for Joseph Blair, who police said held four employees of a Levi Strauss distribution center as hostages while demanding to see his former girlfriend with whom he had just broken up. Police said Blair, 23, of Clarks-ville, Ohio, drove his pickup truck to the center, where his 19-yearT old woman worked. When he discovered that she was not there, he used a 2-gauge shotgun to take four employees hostage. But after an hour, Blair sent two of the hostages out for coffee. They never returned.

Five hours later, Blair surrendered to police and was charged with two counts of kidnapping. tW OPEC gets blame for a costlier Christmas PITTSBURGH (IPD-Christmas will cost more this year. Blame it on OPEC Oil, much of which the United States buys from the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, is a basic ingredient in the manufacture of the plastics used to make many of the toys that will be under Christmas trees this year. "Plastic was selling at 27 cents per pound last year," Donald Wagner, president of Sweco said Monday. "Because crude oil is up in price, plastic now sells for 41 cents a pound.

This makes a dramatic difference for the toy and recreational industries." Wagner said manufacturers of plastic toys have seen prices of raw products soar during the summer and further increases are expected by Christmas. These increases, he said, might hurt the industry. "The public has accepted the $1-a-gallon gasoline," Wagner said. "They don't have to buy, however, a $25 toy. It's hard to predict what the consumers' reaction will be." Sweco, a Pittsburgh-based toy manufacturer with annual sales of about $1 million, produces a heavy-duty plastic toy, Big Ski.

Sweco's product will jump from a retail range of $19-95 to $25.95 to a base of $25.95 and high of $29.95 a 14 percent increase. Wagner said research of toy industry pricing across the United States shows that an ordinary pin-wheel has jumped from 25 cents to 36 cents apiece in recent months. "Differences in the amount of plastic used in each product dictate the percentage increase in the toy price," he said. Wagner said consumers won't feel the new bite in prices immediately. "When stores sell through their early supplies of toysordered before the petroleum crunch the new prices will be posted," he said.

"My best advice to parents trying to hold down on costs is: buy the toys early before the next round of price jumps." Roll Call Report a 1 Associated Press Louis Posey was arrested after 11 -hour siege Handicapped man fatally stabbed programs, would be released if unemployment nationally stays above 6.5 percent for three months. Frenzel and Stangeland voted against the program; Erdahl, Hagedorn, Vento, Sabo and Oberstar voted for it. Nolan did not vote. SENATE AIR-CONDITIONING SUBSIDY By 68 to 27, the Senate rejected an amendment to prevent the poor from receiving federal subsidies for air-conditioning bills. It was offered to a bill (S 1724) providing aid to the poor for heating and cooling their homes.

The measure was headed for final passage and the House. Minnesota's two Republican senators, David Durenberger and Rudy Boschwitz, voted against the air-conditioning aid. OIL RESERVES By 53 to 36, the Senate refused to kill an amendment dealing with government's storage of petroleum in Louisiana and Texas salt caverns. The caverns have capacity to hold 248 million barrels, but President Carter has stopped storage, at least temporarily, at 92 million barrels. The provision was in 932, the synthetic fuel bill later passed and sent to the House.

Durenberger voted to resume filling the reserve; Boschwitz voted against it. MX MISSILE The Senate rejected. 77 to 11, an amendment to delete $670 million for development of the MX missile system. The money is contained in a defense appropriations bill (HR 5359) later passed and sent to conference with the House. Both Boschwitz and Durenberger voted to keep the development money.

WASHINGTON Here's how Minnesotans in Congress were recorded on major roll call votes Nov. 8 through Nov. 14. HOUSE MARTIN LUTHER KING The House rejected a bill to make Jan. 15, the birthday of Martin Luther King a national holiday.

The vote was 252 for and 133 against, but a two-thirds majority was required by a procedure under which the bill was brought to the floor. The bill (HR 5461) may return to the floor under procedures which require only a simple majority for passage. The Senate has not acted on the bill. Voting for making the day a holiday were Reps. Bruce Vento, D-4; Martin Sabo, D-5; Richard Nolan, D-6, and James Oberstar, D-8.

Against were Reps. Arlen Erdahl, R-1; Tom Hagedorn, R-2; Bill Frenzel, R-3, and Arlan Stangeland, R-7. REGULATING MORTICIANS The House voted, 223 to 147, to block proposed Federal Trade Commission regulation of the funeral industry. The vote came during debate on an FTC bill (HR 2313) headed for final passage and the Senate. Erdahl, Hagedorn, Frenzel and Stangeland voted against the FTC proposal; Vento, Sabo and Oberstar voted for it.

Nolan did not vote. PUBLIC WORKS The House rejected, 250 to 148, an attempt to kill a proposed $2 billion public works fund to be channeled to local governments in times of high unemployment. The standby fund, an addition to existing thorities said it is uncertain whether robbery was a motiv.e. don't know if that's the motive," said Anderson, "or just a means of getting away from the scene. Nothing else was taken that I know of." No one has been arrested in the case.

The Hennepin County sheriff's office also is investigating and an autopsy was to be performed today. James Klinkner, owner and manager of the trailer court, said today that Jensen lived there for about four years. "He was kind of a quiet guy and a nice guy," Klinkner said. "He never did anything to bother anybody and got along with everybody all right." Ellen Henry, a resident of the trailer court, said Jensen was dis By (CATHERINE SKIBA Minneapolis Star Staff Writer A 61-year-old, handicapped Bloomington man was found stabbed to death Monday in his trailer at the Lyndale Lodge mobile home court, Bloomington police said. The victim, identified as George Jensen, had been stabbed several times, according to police.

They said Jensen was unable to use an arm and a leg. Jensen was found by neighbors shortly before 6:30 p.m. in the 50-lot trailer court, at 7821 S. Lyndale Ave. Neighbors became concerned when they had not seen Jensen, who livfd alone, for some time, Bloomington police Capt.

Charles Anderson said. Jensen's car was gone, but au abled after suffering a stroke. Nevertheless, Jensen drove a car frequently and was often gone from the trailer court, she said. "We'd say 'Hi' when we'd run into each other," Henry said. "He always seemed cheerful and pleasant." Terri Jensen, 32, of Bloomington, one of Jensen's five children, said he was a "very religious man, a very good person." Jensen was divorced.

His former wife, Betty Steuven, lives in Bloomington. Jensen was born in Crookston, and was formerly employed by the Great Northern Railroad and Bartusch Packing Co. in St. Paul and was a butcher for West-lund's in St. Paul.

Funeral services were pending at O'Halloran Murphy funeral home, St. Paul. Ecuador aide dies QUITO, Ecuador OP) Rafael Rodriguez Palacios, the Ecuadorian defense minister, was killed Monday in an army aircraft crash, the ministry said. Courses by Newspaper cien By HERBERT F. YORK and G.

ALLEN GREB For more than three decades now, we have lived under the threat of a nuclear holocaust. But the relationship between national security and technology did not emerge with the nuclear age. From the time that one group of prehistoric men first used clubs and spears to force their will on another group, war and technology have been closely interrelated. And throughout history, political and military leaders on the one hand have useo science and technology to further their ends, and scientists and engineers on the other have exploited the special interests of the state to advance their own goals. In recent years such interaction between scientists and policymakers has greatly increased throughout the world.

Traditionally, this partnership has employed technology to produce ever deadlier weapons. But today, advanced technology can also provide the means for arms control. The continuing partnership between government and science seems assured; how that partnership will be used is less certain. From earliest times until the present, new offensive One prominent example is Robert Oppenheimer, who led in the development of the A-bomb but who opposed the development of the H-bomb. Others are James Killian and George Kistiakowsky, who served as science advisers to President Eisenhower during the missile gap crisis but who since have become leading advocates of nuclear arms control.

Arms growth and control Today, the interactions between scientists and government are continuing along two main lines: first, the development of more sophisticated weaponry and, second, the pursuit of political agreements to stop or at least moderate such developments. Vietnam, the first war in which technological superiority did not work to the advantage of a state, demonstrated the need to control weapons so deadly that nations are literally afraid to use them. The development of nuclear weapons and long range delivery systems continues: The recent advances in microprocessors and other computers are making these and other weapons much "smarter" (and more devilish) and we are hearing talk that laser beams and other so-called death rays are somewhere around the corner. In the case of arms control and disarmament, some treaties have been worked out placing modest limits on the development of some weapons and limiting the deployment and use of certain others. The Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT) are now attempting to extend these treaties, but the outlook for significant new agreements is mixed.

Advanced technology plays a key role in arms control as well as in arms development. The principal means for determining whether the various parties are complying withexisting arms control treaties involves the use of very sophisticated devices. Satellites for example, monitor both missile deployment and missile development and very modern seismic detectors, coupled with the latest data processing techniques, make it possible to observe nuclear explosions from distances. The ever-increasing complexity of both weapons development and efforts to control these devices thus guarantees the continued partnership of government and science in the technological process How thU partnership will ultimately influence society as a whole remains perhaps the most perplexing problem facing 6 NEXT WEEK: Historian A. Hunter Dupree of Brown University examines the Increasing role of the government in technological development! 8 Essay XI technologies have always been countered by defensive developments or more powerful offensive systems.

Thus, technology has produced a steady progression of more efficient instruments of death and de-struction: swords, longbows, firearms, aircraft, atomic bombs, missiles. Some of these participants have placed special emphasis on our exploiting the possibilities inherent in the latest scientific discoveries before some potential enemy does. Edward Teller, commonly known as the "father of the H-bomb," and the lte Wernher von Braun, a leading developer of large rockets both in Germany during World War II and in America afterwards, are two well known examples from a large group of such people. Each of these scientists testified many times before congressional committees; each served as advisers to presidents, secretaries of defense, and other leaders; each served on many special committees, and each made countless public appearances in support of his views. Working in a similar fashion, others have promoted the use of modern science for some military applications but have opposed other applications that they considered to be especially dangerous.

In short, they became not only developers of but advocates of arms control. COWBCTIONS TECHiOUXIYAroQlANGE Current versions include so-called "think tanks," such as Rand Corp.and other private research institutes; university-operated institutions, such as the University of California's two nuclear weapons laboratories and MIT's Lincoln Laboratory. Permanent government committees composed of both academic and industrial scientists and engineers provide input on all matters from weapons development and deployment to arms control and disarmament. Weapons development The Cold War and the wars in Korea and Vietnam caused these new relationships to continue long after World War II ended. Whenever there seemed to be a lull in the process, an event like the Russian launching of Sputnik came along to reinforce this political and scientific collaboration.

One major result of this further interaction of science and technology with national security needs was the invention of the hydrogen bomb in its first version, 1,000 times as powerful as its predecessor, the A-bomb and the spread of both types of nuclear weapons to Russia, Britain, France, and China. Another very significant result was the further development of rockets, which had been invented a thousand years earlier in a simple form, into huge and powerful devices capable of delivering nuclear weapons to within a few hundred feet of any specified point on the globe in a half hour. The possession of thousands of such weapons, in several different forms, by both the U.S.A. and the U.S.S.R. has defined the relationship of the two superpowers for the last two decades.

It largely explains, moreover, why these nations occupy the positions of world power and influence that they do. Policy options Throughout the post-World War II period, scientists and engineers have continued to be full partners with state authorities, participating at all levels of government, from the president's office down, in determining what should be done as well as how to do it. About the authors: In World War II, for example, the Germans launched a successful blitzkrieg against most of the nations of central and western Europe. They came close to overrunning Britain and Russia as well by exploiting the latest technological developments in aircraft, tanks, and related equipment. In the West, the British stopped the Nazi advance by making full use of another new technology, radar.

German technology, in the form of modern submarines and torpedoes, almost cut off American supplies from Europe. American technology, in the form of antisubmarine weapons and intelligence techniques, reversed that process. And, perhaps most dramatic and politically portentous of all, World War II ended with the nuclear attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. New role for scientists Moreover, scientists and engineers did not simply respond to requests from military authorities. Rather, they became full participants in the planning process.

They not only invented and built weapons, but they shared in making the decisions about which ones were needed and even how they should be used. Special new institutions, both inside and outside the government, had to be created to make this interac-, tionion work effectively. Such institutions have continued to evolve and proliferate since then. gotiations In Geneva. He is author of "Race to Oblivion" and "The Advisors: Oppenheimer, Teller and the Superbomb." G.

ALLEN GREB is research historian in the program In science, technology and public affairs at the University of California-San Diego, where he earned his Ph.D. He is the author of an article on the Panama Canal and co-author, with Herbert F. York, of articles on strategic reconnaissance and on postwar military research and development. HERBERT F. YORK Is professor of physics and director of the program In science, technology, and public affairs at the University of California-San Diego, where he also served as chancellor.

Director of the Lawrence Llvermore Laboratory of the University of California from 1952 to 1958, he was appointed the first director of defense i cheat ch and engineering by President Elsenhower and reappointed by President Kennedy. In 1978 he became chief of the U.S. delegation to the comprehensive test ban ne U.xv k'i York Greb i.