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4-A Sentinel Stir, Monday, July 24, 1978 Patty From l-A r'ttf? Jr'S and showed no signs of bitterness. Rather, she seemed almost curious about the phenomenon, as if if it had happened to someone else. "I just try not to be bitter." she said. "I try to look at the good side of this." She laughed. "There's always a good side.

It sounds stupid but its true, there's always something good. I have a lot of good, strong, and loyal friends now. The ones who weren't strong and loyal have kind of drifted off, and I don't see them. I've learned a lot. "A lot of things have happened to me that I don't suppose will ever happen to anyone else.

And because of that, I've grown. I'm in prison now, but I'm still learning and I'm still growing and I just try not to let it get me down. I'm a lot more tolerant of other people She laughed again. "Gee," she said. "It sounds like I can't say enough nice things about myself, doesn't it? Oh, well.

In prison you see a lot of different kinds of people. I'm Just one of the people in prison." TUESDAY: Miss Hearst talks about her life in prison Court blocks suit in mistaken Hearst raid WASHINGTON A woman's bid to collect $12,308 in damages from the federal government because FBI agents mistakenly raided her Alexandria, apartment during the 1975 nationwide hunt for Patty Hearst has been overturned by a federal appeals court. Elizabeth Ann Norton, who said she has suffered a nervous breakdown as a result of the raid, said she would take her case to the Supreme Court. "I'm pretty disgusted about the whole thing," the 24-year-old woman said in a telephone interview from her borne in Wheeling, W.Va. "I dont want to see this country turn into a police state.

Sometimes I think I should have kept my mouth shut, but now I'm prepared to fight it as far as I can." "Sure, they're really Interested la helping me put it all behind me. Why didnt they just say what they really want? What they want is to print all the juicy detail of what happened to me. Why didn't they just say 'Well make lots of money'? That's why they wrote to me. "I never want to publish a book. I don't ever want to write down what happened to me.

I don't even talk to anybody about it anymore. I suppose what "putting it all behind me' really means is that maybe someday 111 be able not even to think about It anymore. Thai would be nice." Throughout the conversation. Miss Hearst expressed puzzlement that so many Americans apparently turned against her during the time of her kidnapping, capture, and ensuing trial that resulted in a seven-year prison term for bank robbery. Forbidden by her attorney to discuss the details of what happened to her during the period of her time with the Symbionese Liberation Army, Miss Hearst nontheless made it clear that she considers everything that happened to her during that period to have been the result of the stress she was placed under and that she still is surprised at, although resigned to, the idea that others will never accept that point of view.

"I guess that some of the bad feelings about me started right after the kidnapping itself," she said. "My cousin told me that she was in a restaurant on the day after the kidnapping, and a woman was looking at the headline and said. "Ill bet she was naked when she was kidnapped." And it got worse after that "Part of It had to do with my grandfather (William Randolph Hearst). A lot of people just bated the man, and because of that the hatred carried on to me. Part of it came from people thinking that Fd get off too easily.

First it was, 'Oh, she'll get away with this, she'll never go to Then it was "Oh. she'll never go to Then it was 'Oh, she'll beat it on Then it was 'Oh. she's out on bond, she'll never go And now Now the same people are saying, 'I never thought this would happen to Although Miss Hearst willingly talked of her feelings about public reaction to her during her ordeal, she did so in a relaxed, almost detached manner, ftaiJC us Helicopters and tugs wrap iceberg In protective cover in this engineer's sketch From l-A Iceberg WFTV From l-A lized by the sea ice that surrounds the continent. As the sea ice advances and retreat with the seasons, a few icebergs escape to the open ocean, where they may drift about for years, like blinded leviathans, before fracturing and melting away. The conferees concluded that the month of March, whpn the sea ice encircling Antarctica retracts to its furthest point, would be the best time to move in.

Icebreaker vessels would free the berg from the sea ice, opening the way for tugboats to nudge it to the open ocean, where it would be harnessed. At this point, serious doubts were expressed by sea captains, who stressed how dangerous this maneuver would be. They warned that the high winds and rough seas common at those latitudes could dash the tugboats against the crushing rim of the sea ice. They pointed out that the icberg would be a thousand times larger than the Arctic bergs being towed off the coast of Newfoundland. There was question about whether the heavy cropping of k-ebergs would exhaust the overall supply.

The answer here is no, because icebergs are forever renewable. So much for the easy questions. Looming ahead is one more crucial operation, upon which the success of the whole project depends; and here the conference participants either threw up their hands or threw caution to the winds. For the iceberg must be insulated against melting. The floating iceberg must be shielded from the heat of the warmer water, especially near the equator.

Protecting an Antarctic iceberg from falling apart will almost certainly require a leap into new technology. One of Faisal's I.T.I, scientists proposed a kind of canvas covering, but this was dismissed as being not nearly strong enough. In general, the I.T.I, presentations were found technically deficient by the other specialists at the conference. Partly for this reason, John Hult's plan to bring icebergs to California drew greater attention. Hult claimed to have the answer to the insulation problem.

Sixty-one years old. with a Ph.D. in physics, Hult worked for the RAND Corporation for 25 years. He became a specialist in electronic engineering and has designed top-secret, remote-control systems for NASA and the Defense Department. In 1972.

Hult and RAND colleague Neil Ostrander got a grant from the National Science Foundation to explore the feasibility of bringing icebergs to Southern California. During the course of his study, Hult formed his own company. Application Concepts and Technology Association, to develop the idea further. For the past several years Hult has been trying to raise the $30 million he says it will cost to bring the first iceberg to Los Angeles. Faisal would seem to be a likely sponsor for this pilot project, but to Hult's continuing disappointment, the prince has declined to back Hult's private project.

Hult's proposal in response to the critical insulation problem was a self-regulating system of tough plastic wrappings that he claimed would limit calving and melting losses to 5 percent per year. Hult estimate that it will cost $4 million to design and produce his plastic swaddling. And he concedes that his insulation would not eliminate the calving problem, just reduce it. Compared with the harnessing and insulating, the actual transporting of the iceberg was thought to be rather simple. Still, as glaciologist Wilford Weeks put it, "There are some nasties here, too." Ten or 12 ocean-going tugs could do the job, or, in Hult's plan, one supertanker.

He has in mind the Manhattan, the largest tanker in the U.S. Merchant fleet. The chief concern here is the cost of energy. Hult has calculated that towing his iceberg to California would bum up 80,000 tons of fuel oil, at a cost of $6 million. Crew and other operating costs for the yearlong journey would add another $14 million.

Whatever the means of transport, it was generally believed that the iceberg's speed should not exceed one or two knots. The proceedings of the conference proved what most of the participants had known in advance that iceberg utilization promised to be a technological nightmare. riously contemplate using icebergs as a sourc of fresh water. Only a nation that has no rivers or lakes and only four inches of rain per year, whose people drink imported water that costs them as much as oil, could afford to. But for just that reason the Saudi Arabians can.

Currently, the oil-rich country spends nearly $3.5 billion a year just to desalinate sea water. The man most responsible for water projects is Prince Mohamed al-Faisal, nephew of the present king of Saudi Arabia and son of the late king. Faisal ran his country's desalination program for 15 years, but last year he resigned and switched to icebergs. He had become convinced, even as he pushed ahead with desalination, that fresh water from icebergs couH be delivered to Saudi Arabia at half the cost of fresh water from the sea. Tfapre are a number of other characters, and other countries, with an interest in icebergs, but it is safe to say that without Faisal there would be no iceberg story.

His enormous financial resources enable him to dictate the course of events. Faisal's personal wealth can only be guessed at, but it certainly runs to the tens of millions. In addition, he directs the King Faisal Foundation (named for his father), whose estimated assets of some $2 billion make it the world's richest. He controls three Mideast banks, each capitalized at $40 million. He can call on a network of wealthy relatives and associates in powerful posts throughout his country.

In short, the anticipated $100 million expense of bringing an iceberg to Saudi Arabia does not seem out of reach. Westerners find the 41-year-old prince less aloof than most members of the Saudi ruling family. He is sometimes called the Prince of Water, a term he does not discourage because it sets him apart from all the other Princes of Oil. Faisal wears a neat goatee and dark suits and seeks to project no other impression of himself than that of a circumspect businessman and so he is regarded. Thus, when Faisal formed his own development company.

Iceberg Transport International and then organized the First International Conference of Iceberg Utilization in Ames, Iowa, last fall, an idea that had previously belonged to science fiction immediately became very serious business. On Sept. 30, 1977, a pair of frogmen plunged into an Alaskan lake and swam to the side of a tiny blue iceberg. The berg was the right size about six feet long, four feet wide and four feet thick. The divers looped a heavy sea net around it and signaled to a helicopter, which lifted the berg from the water and flew it to the airport in Anchorage.

There it wa. packed in dry ice, fitted into a custom-made Styrofoam box and flown by jet to Minneapolis. It was then loaded onto a freezer truck and driven to Iowa State University in Ames, just in time for the opening of the First International Conference on Iceberg Utilization. Since the subject of iceberg utilization is so broad and speculative, invitations had been sent to representatives of a number of different disciplines. There were glaciologists.

meteorologists, ocea-nographers. futurists, sea captains, sociologist and International lawyers. Among the most prominent participants were Dr. John Hult, co-author of the 1973 RAND study and now an entrepreneur seeking to bring an iceberg to California. The participants found they could agree on a number of points.

The first was that fresh water from icebergs makes economic sense only for low-lying, and regions near a coastline: the Mideast, Australia, parts of Africa, and the west coasts of North and South America. Secondly, although icebergs are common at both poles, Antarctic icebergs are preferable. The glaciers in Antarctica tend to form flat-topped which are more stable in the ocean than the Irregularly shaped North Pole bergs. Antarctica produces far more of them than the Arctic. In fact, 72 percent of the freh water in the world counting surface water, underground water and icecaps is bound up on the Antarctic continent.

The water falls in the form of show, compresses over the years into ice, and over the centuries flows toward the ice shelves at the edges of the continent. One of these, the Ross Ice Shelf, is the size of Texas. It regularly unlooses, or "calves" tabular icebergs the size of Rhode Island. The larger bergs soon break up into smaller bergs, and for most of the year they are immobi Mid-Florida's right to apply wider the circumstances. In 1962, in the midst of the legal wrangling, Orlando attorney Martin Segal became Mid-Florida's general counsel, director and 1.5 percent stockholder.

By 1965, Mid-Florida had again been temporarily awarded the license. Two years later, the FCC invited new applications for the Channel 9 license, allowing the corporation to keep running the station until a final decision was made. Applicants were told to analyze community needs and develop programming as part of the licensing process. In 1968, a federal appeals court ordered all five competitors to form a board to run the station together, and submit individual programming plans for FCC consideration. On Oct.

27. 1971, the judicial and administrative soap opera suddenly took on aspects of a detective thriller when Segal was gravely wounded in a domestic shooting. He lingered near death for several days in the hospital, unaware that on Nov. 1971, a federal grand jury in Tampa had indicted him and 58 others on gambling charges. It was alleged that Segal bankrolled the illegal activities of Florida gambling kingpin Harlan Blackburn, loaning him $100,000.

Those charges were dropped, but not before the attorney resigned from Mid-Florida, and not before the other four license applicants complained to the FCC that Segal's ties to Blackburn should render both the attorney and Mid-Florida "unfit" to hold the Channel 9 license. Segal's resignation for health reasons, the four applicants argued, should not be allowed to negate any possible adverse impact the indictment might have on Mid-Florida. But in January 1972, an FCC review board gave Mid-Florida the license in spite of those arguments. The commission's chief concern at that time was for "integration" of ownership with management, which the Brechners best fulfilled since the Orlando integration, racial makeup, need for Brevard County and Spanish language news and Martin Segal. Last week, the board reversed Kraushaar, criticizing his pro-Segal, pro-attorney bias and awarded the license to TV 9 a group headed by former Rollins College president.

Dr. Hugh McKean, on the basis of its 47.5 percent full-time owner-operation integration. Mid-Florida would have gotten the license except for Segal's past association, which constituted a "substantial character blemish" on the corporation, although the board found Segal had not acted improperly where Mid-Florida was concerned. Comint with its 10 percent ownership integration and 14 per-c racial integration, was stunned, thinking it had the case won until the last page of the 59-page decision. Its lawyers now say the review board ignored the 1973 court decision giving separate black ownership and instead erred by following a fuH commission decision made last month.

At that time, the commission split 4-3 in favor of renewing the license of a New York television station on the basis of ownership integration. The three Carter administration appointees took the position that racial integration was separate, but they were outvoted. The five applicants now have a month to file their objections to last week's review board opinion, and they say it will be at least a year before the 1 1 commission gets the case. In the meantime, at least one new commission seat will open, and presumably the balance will tilt favor of racial, rather than ownership integration, Comint attorneys say. Even after a full commission hearing, there are appeals through federal court up to the U.S.

Supreme Court. The case is becoming a legend in the FCC. It may require too much time and too much film to also become a "Channel 9, a made-for-tele-vision docu-drama." couple controlled more than 32 percent of the stock and would actively run the station. The review board gave much less weight to racial integration, best exemplified by Comint with its two black stockholders, Paul Perkins and Dr. James R.

Smith, each holding 7 percent interest. The case went back to court in 1973, where on appeal it was found that Comint should receive extra, independent credit for the black owners beyond that given for its 10 percent owner-operator integration. That court further ruled that the FCC bad to examine Mid-Florida's qualification to run the station in light of its former Segal connection. By 1977, a full-blown hearing be-fore administrative law Judge David Kraushaar was held. Segal, in a wheelchair, and Blackburn, out of prison for the session, Blackburn's former associates, Mid-Florida officials and lawyers for the applicants went over and over the tales of dummy corporations, transfers of cash and an extensive gambling empire.

On Dec 30, 1977, Kraushaar issued an opinion affirming Mid-Florida's right to the license, finding Segal's connection to the corporation had no bearing on its fitness to run the station since he owned so little stock. Segal denied ties that Blackburn and other witnesses said he had to their activities. The judge further held that Segal himself was a much more be-lieveable witness than Blackburn because he was a lawyer who had never been prosecuted or disbarred after the indictment. The losing applicants complained privately and in their subsequent filings that the judge was biased and had made a serious legal error in not thoroughly examining the Segal connection as ordered by the court. They appealed to a review board, the last administrative level of redress before a full seven-member full commission hearing.

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"To that extent it was positive," Vance said. "We have at least begun to open up the dialogue on that." Vance also said the Middle East peace negotiations will bog down unless Israel accepts, at least in principle, the withdrawal of its forces from the West Bank of the Jordan River. I Copenhagen. Syrian Foreign Minister Abdel Halim Khaddam was quoted as saying Sadat was a "criminal" because of his efforts to make peace with Israel. Khaddam told Danish editors he agrees with other Arab leaders who think Sadat has betrayed the Arab cause, a Copenhagen newspaper reported..