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ONE GOLOR The Minneapolis Single copy 25 Thursday, September 4, 1980 A Section, Part 1 Master of a thousand worlds lives here b. 1 l' Copyright 1980 Mtnnrapolit SUr and Tribuna Company einiiaaaniaaBnaBieaBHaawaaaanaaaaaanaaanBea 4 is By CHRISTOPHER M. EVANS Minneapolis Star Staff Writer Richfield is hardly the place for dreamers. It's pancake central, asplration-wlse, everybody busy making ends meet and getting the kids to school on time between TV shows and mortgage payments. So who would have thought? Gordon R.

Dickson, the master of a thousand worlds, creator of Dorsal mercenaries, Exotic philosophers, Friendlie splinter cultures, space bats, time storms and sandmirks to name but a few, living here in the land of9to5? Then there's the house. The sidewalk Is chipped and broken, and grass grows up between the cracks. Paint is blistering and peeling off in little weather-worn strips, and the bottom step is held together by a wooden brace. to the the mind behind living cities, elevator tubes, hundred story apartment buildings, transparent Sea Homes, and fortresses like Gebel Nahar and Malvern Castle? Forty novels in all, more than 170 short stories, 4 million copies sold worldwide in languages from Portuguese to Bulgarian, right here in Richfield, Gordon R. Dickson, is from Minneapolis.

I put my roots down here. You know, you find a good physician, a dentist, a lawyer, an accountant, and you get to know the local libraries. Moving be- comes the unplugging of a lot of wires which have to be plugged in somewhere else. Older writers tend to stay put." He is 57 years old now, a tall, thin man, all that typewriter time turning his skin a drowned, writer's white. Energy just Dickson Turn to Page 18A creator of the Childe Cycle, one foot set in the 14th century and the other in the 24th, searching for the Ethical-Responsible Man, God help him, and not a ray gun, or nine-eyed Martian in sight.

"The fact that no one really expects me to live here means I can write with a great deal of personal freedom," Dickson explains. "I like being a healthy distance from the marketplace (New York City), and it's good for a writer to be surrounded by non-writers. "I'm eight minutes from the airport, so It's convenient. And, remember, my mother "wear" mm Girl killed as tornadoes rip St. area j-rvT Ijttv tS4 wA.

k- iAJir i rr By DAVID E. EARLY Mlnneapolla Star Staff Writer A "band of tornadoes and thunderstorms unleashed its wrath on St. Cloud and other parts of Stearns County last night destroying dozens of houses and mobile homes, downing power lines and killing a small girl. The storms, which hit about 7:30 p.m. In the upper Mississippi Valley, did extensive damage in Waite Park; Bel Clare Acres, a mobile home park; and Angushire Acres, a moderate-to-expensive housing development near St.

Cloud. The victim, 15-month-old Amy Hennen, daughter of Ron and Tina Hennen of Bel Clare, was taken to St. Cloud Hospital. "She was alive on arrival," said Jim McConnell, a spokesman for the hospital. "A number of doctors started working on her in the emergency room and then in other areas of the hospital, but they couldn't save her.

The exact cause of death is not known, but it is directly related to the storm." Besides the child, 15 others were treated at the hospital. Seven persons, including Amy's mother, were admitted with bruises and lacerations and a variety of other injuries. Nine homes in Waite Park, west of St. Cloud, reportedly were destroyed, as were several mobile homes In Bel Clare, three miles southwest of St. Cloud, according to the Steam's County Sheriff's of fice.

area Waite Sauk Park Claro St. loud Acres i i Trailer Park l'wm Ciliis Star Map by Kurt Carlson Co. M7SX- Gordon R. Dickson Yippies' fugitive Hoffman gives up By JOYCE WADLER Washington Port NEW YORK-And so, after many a back-road interview and mysterious late-night phone call, just after the sale of one book to the movies and the publication of his memoirs, the country's most flamboyant fugitive has given himself up to the law. Abbie Hoffman, 43, on the lam for xi years, surrendered this morning at the Manhattan district attorney's office.

He faces charges of jumping bail and selling cocaine, charges that could bring him a life sentence. And not at all by coincidence, the country will have a chance to see Hoffman on ABC-TV's "2020" program tonight. Three weeks ago, Hoffman called ABC and said he was planning to give himself up sometime this week and wanted to be interviewed by Barbara Walters. Without being told her destination, Walters flew off Tuesday from a New Jersey airport to upstate New York, where friends of Hoffman took her to the tiny town of Fineview, N.Y., on one of the Thousand Islands in the St. Lawrence River between the United States and Canada.

(Part of the interview was shown Wednesday on ABC News; the "2020" program will be aired in the Twin Cities at 9 p.m. today on Channel 5.) Hoffman has been called the most accessible fugitive in U.S. criminal history. He's polite as well. He had been scheduled to have lunch with a Washington Post reporter on Wednesday, but when the story of his imminent surrender leaked out, he telephoned to cancel the appointment.

"I can't have lunch with you. My lawyer says no more interviews. I'm giving myself up. I can talk with you on the phone, though," he said. That's Hoffman, ever courteous to the press and conscious of deadlines.

While underground, he would call The Associated Press and the local gossip columnists if he did not like a news article. He had in- Hoffman Turn to Page 5A Fifth ot six excerpts from the shah of Iran's "Answer To History," his account of his final years. The memoirs were completed shortly before the shah's death. old man. I could hear the thunder in the Western media should I attempt any action so harsh and autocratic.

Under these most difficult and trying conditions, I continued to push reforms and liberalization to prepare the country for free elections. I moved against corruption on a broad basis. Businessmen and officials who had enriched themselves illegally were arrested and I fully intended to bring them to trial. In a little-noticed action that summer, I had issued a code of conduct for my own family as insurance against slander and calumny. Censorship was lifted: Newspapers were free once again to print what they liked; Iranian television broadcast parliamentary debates during which opposition deputies made fiery anti-government speeches.

Parliament, I thought, was a much more appropriate forum in which to voice dissent than the streets of our cities. But the war in the streets contin- Shah Turn to Page 8A aft Related photos and article: Pages ISA and 26A A very strong cold front caused one of the strongest lines of thunder storms seen in a long time, according to the National Weather Service. A tornado was reported In Melrose, 36 miles northwest of St. Cloud, where downtown buildings reportedly were damaged extensively. The storm cut off phone communication into the city.

Tornadoes and storms also were reported in other parts of Minnesota. Duluth got 2'2 inches of rain, and there was an inch at Hibbing and 1 ft at Drayton. Large hail driven by 60 mph winds hit western Iowa near the South Dakota and Nebraska borders. Strong winds and hail also were reported in Wisconsin. Nearly 700 patients in the St.

Cloud Veterans Administration Hospital were taken into tunnels under" the building shortly after 7 p.m. They went back to their rooms about an hour later but returned to the tunnels when another tornado reportedly was sighted. The force of the winds was so strong that in St. Cloud the roof of the 2-year-old 2700 Building was peeled off. A former Zayre Shopper's City store and an Arby's Roast Beef Sandwich restaurant also were damaged extensively.

Many trees and wires were downed around town. But St. Cloud was lucky compared to the Bel Clare mobile home park, where authorities say whole units were lifted from their foundations, spun in the air and dropped. In Angus Acres, the new housing subdivision, "It looked just terrible, with rubbish all over the place and several houses in splinters like toothpicks," said Fred Chaika, a bartender at the American Legion Post, where hundreds of refugees from the storm camped all night. "There were a few sad ones and a few happy ones.

The sad ones lost their homes, and they knew it by the time they got here. We fed them sandwiches and coffee, but as soon as it got daylight, they all took off out of here to see what had happened to their lives." causes. Dziedzic admitted that reducing the City Council would tend to penalize minorities, but he said his plan would force minorities to form" coalitions and become more active in local politics. The reactions of black, Indian and Hispanic groups were the harshest yet to the Dziedzic plan, which some estimate could save taxpayers $250,000 a year. Whether it Is adopted or not, the city must redistrict its wards on the basis of the 1980 federal census figures.

Dziedzic said private polls showed more than 80 percent of the voters In the city favored cutting the size of government and he said he already had eight votes for the plan on the 15-member Charter Commission. He said his critics at the meeting were mainly spokesmen for special-Interest groups. But it was apparent Wednesday at the sometimes emotional public hearing held by the Charter Commission that Dziedzic and his plan did not even have the backing of his fellow aldermen. Dziedzic tried to make light of the lack of support for his plan at the meeting. Council Turn to Page 14A i t.

SUr Photo by Stormi Greener buildings damaged in storm Shah got confusing messages from U.S. Minorities threaten suit over plan to cut council By MIKE KASZUBA Mlnneapolla Star Staff Writer A plan to cut the size of the Min- past lack of support for black 'TWfr. -A HESS was among the Waite Park Variety Auctions sell Prices go up, up, up as the auction sale items are going, going gone, especially for highly valuable art objects. Page IB Marketplace Their business is being nice An Eden Prairie company is selling a program geared toward lessening the friction between irate consumers and the customer-service employees of the businesses they patronize. Page 1C Local Pulse Craftsman is a fair example Leather worker Jim McLane is the youngest shopkeeper at the Minnesota Renaissance Festival, but as a three-year fair veteran, he seems to embody the Shakopee festival's medieval spirit.

Paee 13A A townhouse, foreground, News Inside Caffeine might endanger fetus Page 17A Poland getting price controls Page 28A Egypt demands talk conditions Page 3A "Sports New pages Gordon Gullion, an expert on the ruffed grouse, explains the expected "baby boom" for this Minnesota upland bird in the new Outdoors pages in today's Sports section. Page 10B Index Paiei Abby 4B Obltuariet 27A Comlci SB Opinion S-7A Flanagan IB Peraonab SB KloBuchar IB TV IB M-vi-i 7j wir 4 By MOHAMMAD REZA PAHLAVI On Oct. 5, 1978, Iraq expelled Khomeini and he flew to France, where he took up refuge in the village of Neauphle-le-Chateau near Paris. Should I have stopped the move and persuaded the Iraqi government to keep him? It is true the French government asked me at the time whether I had any objections to Khomeini's change of venue. I did not, believing that he could do as much damage from Hamburg or Zurich as he could from Paris, and that I lacked the power to line up the world in a solid phalanx against a frail and crazy Answer to History neapolis city council rrom i i to 8 members was blasted Wednesday by blacks and other minority groups who said the move would eliminate their political muscle.

Their attack was aimed at a month-old plan by Alderman Walter Dziedzic to put the proposed reorganization of the council before city voters Nov. 4. Hobart Mitchell, spokesman for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, told a meeting of the city Charter Commission that the local chapter of that group would go to court to block the plan should It be put on the ballot. The commission has until Sept. 12 to decide whether the issue should go on the November ballot.

Dziedzic said that he would start a citizen petition drive, if necessary, to put the plan to a vote. Changing the size of the City Council would involve a drastic redrawing of city wards, and Mitchell said blacks are concerned about any attempt to alter the 5th, 8th, and 11th wards, where black political influence is considered strongest. "If they fool with and weaken those wards, we will go Into court," he said. Mitchell alo Dzlcdzlc's p.sn reflected the DFL majority leader's.