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Olds' layoff of 800 won affect a uto output here Ths COLD Low tonight 10 to 15. Details page A-2. line engines, axles, bumpers and sheet metal," Stephens said. STEPHENS SAID the layoffs would not affect the assembling of cars at Olds plants in Lansing, but are the result of cutbacks at plants in other parts of the country. The automaker currently employs 18,000 workers locally.

This layoff follows others that are have idled 101,000 "auto workers throughout the industry. Oldsmobile announced last week it would By CLARENCE A. CHIEN Staff Writer About 800 local Oldsmobile workers will go on indefinite layoff beginning Jan. 2 because of production cutbacks in out-of-state plants, the GM division confirmed today. "GM recently announced it was adjusting production schedules for seven passenger and truck assembly lines," said Olds spokesman George Stephens.

"As a result, Oldsmobile will adjust fabrication rates on such major components as gaso temporarily lay off 3,700 employees during the week of Dec. 17. The big car, the Cutlass and the paint shop operations will close that week. FISHER BODY in Lansing, which supplies car bodies to Olds, announced it would lay off 4,400 to 4,800 workers during the weeks of Dec. 17 and Jan.

14. A Lansing Fisher Body official said layoffs planned far in advance, like the one scheduled for Jan. 14, sometimes do not happen. Some layoffs in local stamping plants have occurred as a result of cutbacks in auto production, said aa official of UAW Amalgamated Local 724. Workers at the huge GM Parts Divsion warehouse in Delta Township have not received layoff notices, reports UAW Local 1618.

Chrysler currently has 31,500 hourly workers on indefinite layoff across the country, 20,000 in Detroit. No. 3 automaker will also close its Dodge main factory Jan. 4, idling another 3,000 workers. F3 eit'- i FW Students counter Ghotbzadeh No visits to hostages TEHRAN, Iran (AP) The students holding the American hostages say they know nothing about foreign observers interviewing their captives, as promised by Foreign Minister Sadegh Ghotbzadeh, and that Ghotbzadeh doesn't speak for them.

"We are not here to confirm or deny anybody's statement. We have not been informed about any meeting arranged with the hostages. If anything comes up, we'll announce it ourselves and nobody can be our spokesman," a student leader said of Ghotbzadeh's pledge. THE FOREIGN MINISTER made the promise at a news conference Tuesday, declaring: "We are going to have international observers to go and visit the prisoners in, I hope, a very short time, and afterwards I hope that visits will be (made) regularly." However, he said he has not met with U.N. Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim's special Zuhair Yamin of Lebanon, who arrived in Tehran Monday hoping to visit the 50 hostages seized at the U.S.

Embassy Nov. 4 by students demanding that President Carter send the shah back to Iran for trial. Meanwhile, Khomeini's domestic difficulties appeared to be increasing. He announced that he was sending an investigative commission to clamp down on what he called "anarchic" elements among his revolutionary guards who he were seizing government land and buildings. THE AYATOLLAH did not say where the land grabs were taking place.

There was no indication that a peace mission Khomeini sent to northwest Iran was making any progress toward quieting the rebellion of the Azaris, the ethnic Turks who seized control of Tabriz, Iran's third largest city, in a revolt against Khomeini's one-man rule. Meanwhile, Secretary of State Cyrus R. Vance wound up a two-day swing through London, Paris, Rome and Bonn, and an aide reported "very strong support" for U.S. efforts to free the hostages. But the American official said there was no agreement yet on what joint action the allies should take.

iJ JjJ XM NBC hostage show ripped Front page of Tehran newspaper claiming Khomeini received letter from Kennedy Iranian official insists i Ted Kennedy letter real NEW. YORK (AP) NBC's decision to broadcast an interview with one of 50 American hostages at the U.S. Embassy in Tehran has drawn sharp criticism from congressmen, and one suggested the network be given "The Benedict Arnold Award for Broadcasting." Rep. Robert Bauman joined the growing controversy in a speech Tuesday from the House floor. Earlier, House Speaker Thomas P.

O'Neill said both he and President Carter felt the interview had helped the Iranians' propaganda effort. THE CONFLICT over the interview, taped and broadcast Monday, not only stirred official reaction, but left the networks divided. The interview with Marine Cpl. William Galle-gos was aired only hours after U.S. Attorney General Benjamin Civiletti told the International Court of Justice that the American hostages were "in peril of their lives." Gallegos, in contrast, declared, "Everybody's OK." Spokesmen for CBS and ABC said they were offered hostage interviews in recent days, but rejected conditions set by the Iranian captors.

JOHN CHANCELLOR, NBC's New York anchor for the satellite feed from Tehran, noted conditions set by the militants, and the broadcast began with statements by Gallegos and an Iranian. National Roundup Convention center plans unveiled NEW YORK (AP) The design for New York City's new convention center has been unveiled, and Gov. Hugh Carey called the proposed 16-acre glass-and-metal building an "enchanted lantern." The $375 million center, to be built on the west side of midtown Manhattan, will contain convention facilities, 35,000 square feet of offices, and an "enclosed indoor boulevard" of shops open to the public. Architect I.M. Pei's design for the building was unveiled Tuesday.

Ship officer arrested on bomb charge LONG BEACH, Calif. (AP) An officer on a supertanker ship has been arrested by Coast Guard officers and postal inspectors on charges he mailed a bomb to a former Naval Academy superior who had him expelled. C.E. Michaelson, chief postal inspector, said Merchant Marine officer Thomas E. Haas was arrested aboard the Alaska-bound USS Styvesant at about dawn Tuesday when the ship docked.

The bomb exploded Nov. 14 in Rancho Cu-camonga, injuring a woman who worked with the man who was the intended target. World Roundup New Irish chief fires senior aides DUBLIN, Ireland (AP) Charles Haughey fired four senior ministers and abolished the Ministry of Economic Planning and Development in his first official actions as Ireland's new prime minister. But opposition fears that he would name pro-IRA cabinet members were unfounded. None of the new cabinet members is a hard-line champion of the Irish Republican Army cause.

Haughey was swom in Tuesday. The opposition Labor Party opposed him, claiming he was too sympathetic to the IRA. Haughey was acquitted of charges in 1970 that he ran guns for the IRA. Explosions wreck petrochemical plant SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) Explosions rocked a Japanese-owned oil refining complex early today, destroying one petrochemical plant and badly damaging two others. Police said 10 persons were injured in the blasts and ensuing fire that caused an estimated $40 million in damage.

The cause of the explosion was not immediately known, but there were no indications sabotage was involved. A police spokesman said a blast shook the Caribe Isoprine, a Commonwealth Oil Refining Co. satellite plant that manufactures synthetic rubber, and rapidly spread to the nearby Hector and CPI-2 facilities, which produce synthetic fibers. The oil refining plant itself was not damaged. Israeli Embassy hit by bomb SAN SALVADOR, EI Salvador (AP) Leftist guerrillas set off a bomb in the Israeli Embassy in San Salvador, causing damage but no injuries, police said.

The People's Revolutionary Army claimed responsibility for the attack Tuesday night. It said the bombing was in "solidarity with the Palestinian people." The guerrillas also expressed support for another leftist gang that kidnapped South African Ambassador Archibald Gardner Dunn two weeks ago. The kidnappers are demanding El Salvador's two-month-old military junta establish diplomatic relations with the Palestine Liberation Organization. Linear car breaks speed mark in Japan TOKYO (AP) A linear motor car weighing 10 tons and floating several inches above the track broke the 500-kilometer barrier in a test run today, Japan National Railways said. The car went 504 kph, or 313 miles an hour, on the railway's testing track 525 miles southwest of Tokyo, an official said.

The car is 44 feet long and uses the repulsive force of a super-conductive magnet. "Our test was a total success," the official said. "Our next target is to put a man in this super-highspeed car" sometime next year. 10 at school shot in kneecaps TURIN, Italy (AP) Five male teachers and five male students at a business school partly supported by Fiat money were shot in the knees by leftist terrorists who lectured them on "the righteousness of our fight against the power elite." The gang, made up of 10 men and two women armed with pistols and automatic rifles, stormed the school Tuesday. They rounded up more than 200 students and teachers, lectured them, then chose their victims and herded them into toilets and large closets and shot them.

Business Roundup Gulf, Chevron violators WASHINGTON (AP) The Department of Energy says it has found additional oil pricing violations totaling $486 million for Gulf Oil Corp. and $64 million for Standard Oil Co. of California (Chevron). It also said Tuesday that Gulf formally agreed to $11 million in refunds and a $100,000 civil penalty in settlement of other alleged violations and that Standard Oil of California has agreed to two settlements totaling more than $122 million. New record for gold NEW YORK The price of gold hit a record high of $451 an ounce Tuesday.

Gold dealers said buying was from different sectors, including Arab oil sheiks worried about the declining value of their petrodollars and American buyers looking for safe investments. Rail purchase planned ST. PAUL, Minn, Burlington Northern said Tuesday it will buy large segments of the Milwaukee Road's railroad lines in Montana, Idaho and Washington. A final agreement will be studied by the BN board, the courts and the ICC for approval early next year. Deportation appeal likely TEHRAN, Iran (AP) Foreign Minister Sadegh Ghotbzadeh brushed aside denials by his own ministry and Sen.

Edward Kennedy today and insisted Kennedy cabled the Foreign Ministry seeking a meeting with Aya-tollah Ruhollah Khomeini. Ghotbzadeh's announcement, in a radio interview, came a few hours after an official at the Foreign Ministry said a letter purportedly written by Kennedy and pledging support for Khomeini's revolution was a fake. ALTHOUGH Ghotbzadeh spoke of a telegram, it was clear he was referring to the letter broadcast and published here this morning that allegedly was sent by Kennedy, addressing Khomeini in laudatory terms and seeking to visit Iran. Ghotbzadeh said: "We received such a telegram and sent it to (Khomeini) Apparently because of Senator Kennedy's opposition to the shah and the atmosphere in the United States, Senator Kennedy has refuted this telegram." a However, a Foreign Ministry spokeswoman who was told that Kennedy's spokesman in Washington denied Kennedy ever communicated with Khomeini, said: "What the senator says is correct." Asked if the purported Kennedy letter was a fake, she added: "We confirm that. "THERE HAS been a misunderstanding somewhere, no such letter has ever been received," she said.

Tehran Radio broadcast a report on the letter and an announcement that Khomeini refused to see Kennedy for five hours and then dropped the story without explanation. The official Pars news agency also reported the letter, but said it was sent by Dr. John Moravi of "International World News." Moravi was identified in the letter as one of three people seeking to accompany Kennedy to Tehran. said department spokesman Robert Stevenson, keeps the administration's options open while it considers the next move. Stevenson said attorneys working on the case had indicated would recommend an appeal." On Nov.

10, President Carter ordered the Immigration and Naturalization Service to begin checking the student visas of more than 50,500 Iranians allegedly studying in the United States. SO FAR, 50,437 have appeared for interviews with federal officials, who Concluded on A-2 WASHINGTON (AP) The Carter administration probably will appeal a federal judge's ruling that it cannot deport Iranian students illegally living in this country, a Justice Department official says. U.S. District Judge Joyce Green ruled Tuesday that the administration's program, launched after the seizure of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, violates the equal protection clause of the Constitution by singling out Iranians for deportation.

WITHIN TWO hours, the Justice Department filed a notice of appeal with the U.S. Court of Appeals. That filing, Judge Joyce Green Tainted water sites told 6 injured as bomb rocks Soviet's U.N. Mission By FRANK MAINVILLE StaffWriter The state knows about groundwater contamination from Motor Wheel lagoons and Consumers Power's chloride pit. And the Department of Natural Resources suspects contamination from Michigan State versify and Board of Water and Light landfills.

DNR Director Howard Tanner unveiled his list today 700 known and suspected groundwater contaminant sites. Reporting to the Legislature and presenting a thick document, Tanner said the DNR, the Department of Public Health and local health departments have investigated 50,000 potential sites of contamination. The investigators searched literature, files and sites, narrowing the list of 50,000 to 268 known and 432 suspected sites. All this made up Part I of "Assessment on Groundwater Contamination in Michigan." IN INGHAM COUNTY, known contamination includes a chemical plant (not identified), which permitted infiltration of picric acid in a pit prior to 1960; the Conrail car yard on Cavanaugh Road, where there was a diesel oil spill which requires hydrological studies, and the Aurelius Road landfill leachates. Others include the Motor Wheel oil, acid and waste discharge lagoons; the Meisner residence on Lake Lansing Road, where paint solvent was dumped into a well; and a private residence at Holt, where fuel oil was dumped into a well prior to 1960.

IN EATON COUNTY, the Coca Cola Bottling Co. had a spill from a gasoline tank while a Consumers Power Co. oil well on VFW Road is contaminating groundwater with brine from a chloride pit. The Ovid Auto Parts in Clinton County had a gasoline spill which got into groundwater; while at 322 Pearl St. in Ovid, fuel oil was pumped into a bomb shelter and got into the groundwater.

These are typical of the spills. Crystal Refining at Carson City, where the bank of Fish Creek has been oily for years, is cited. It has had known spills in addition to suspected underground losses. OF THE KNOWN sites of groundwater contamination, 49 percent is by hazardous pollutants, 34 percent oil or gas and 17 percent salt or sanitary waste, said Tanner. The study lists sites, information available on the sites and strategy for and priority of cleanup.

Tanner estimated the cleanup cost of the 268 known sites at $13 million to $46 million. There are a number of other suspected contaminant sites in the area, including Ingham County and Department of Transportation salt storage sites, Michigan State University landfills and Board of Water and Light landfill and sludge pits. Tanner appointed the special task force two months ago to identify existing pollution problems. NEW YORK (AP) Demolition experts said they hoped to get inside the Soviet Union's U.N. Mission today to examine fragments of a powerful bomb that rocked the building and injured two occupants and four city policemen.

"It was a very, very big bomb," Lt. Charles Luisi, a police bomb expert, said Tuesday after the 9:51 p.m. blast shattered windows all along East 67th Street between Third and Lexington Avenues. MEANWHILE IN Moscow, the Soviet Union registered a "strong protest" with the U.S. today, accusing local authorities of being unable to protect United Nations diplomats from the acts of "reac-' tionary terrorist organizations." Responsibility for the bombing was claimed by Omega Seven, an anti-Castro terror group that also claimed responsibility for last Friday's bombing of Cuba's Mission to the United Nations.

An unidentified man claiming to be an Omega Seven member called The Associated Press and said the group set the bomb to protest "Soviet colonialism which threatens our Hispanic-America and the free world." He also denounced the "Communist tyranny" of Cuban. President Fidel Castro. ANOTHER MAN also called the AP and said "Ukranian Nationals" set the bomb at the East 67th Street mission. He hung up quickly. One neighborhood woman said she was having tea in her sixth-floor apartment diagonally opposite the mission when the blast occurred.

"It sounded like a bomb," she said, asking not to be identified. "We saw a bright white flash." MAYOR EDWARD Koch entered the mission at 136 E. 67th St. with Donald McKenry, U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, and apologized to Soviet Ambassador Oleg Trbyanovsky for the blast.

Ohio judge lambastes 'dear hunting' in Idlewild In The JOURNAL CINCINNATI (AP) A federal appeals court took a swipe at the "licentious" behavior of deer hunters who flock to northwestern Michigan for 15 days every November, with more than hunting on their minds. "Deer apparently are not the only quarry," the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeal said in a recent decision. "AN INFLUX of prostitutes normally accompanies the yearly onslaught of huntsmen. To the consternation of Idlewild (Mich.) resi- 15-30 deer hunting season.

"I don't think we'll have too much trouble anymore," said Lake County Sheriff's Capt. Delbert Dotson, contacted Tuesday night at Idlewild, a resort town. He said prostitutes and their agents have been coming to the area in increasing numbers since 1965. A crackdown by local and state authorities began in 1977, and onone night this hunting season, police arrested 15 men and 11 women. "I don't believe you're ever going to stop prostitution or gambling, but what we want is respect for the area," said Dotson, a former Toledo police officer and Idlewild police chief for 18 years.

HE SAID prostitutes are brought in mainly from Ohio, but also from Chicago and as far away as California. "They don't bring in very many, but they are very Dotson said. He said the cases of Michael Banks and Reggie Hands were the first prostitution cases involving the Michigan hunting season to go to federal court. dents, many licentious deer hunters exercise considerably less stealth in their venery of women than venison," the opinion said. The court rejected the appeals of two men who were convicted of crossing state lines to transport a van load of women to the area.

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