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And ALABAMA JOURNAL 152nd Year-No. 34 A Multimedia Newspaper Montgomery, Ala. 36102 Sunday Morning, August 26, 1979 116 Pages Cmca Bishop9 Soviet jet still held by U.S. execution delayed four American passengers were allowed off after 10 hours, but witnesses said the remaining 68 all Soviet citizens were asked to stay on board. Food was taken to those who remained on the plane.

The U.S. government was insisting that ballerina Ludmilla Vlasova leave the plane and assure them personally that the decision to return to Moscow after her husband's defection was her own. The chief U.S. negotiator at the airport, Donald McHenry, told reporters early Saturday evening, "We don't intend to change our position. We will continue to pursue our objective," which was to talk to the woman in a "non-coercive environment" off the plane.

His Soviet counterpart, Evgeny Makeyev, said, however: "She's not getting off the plane because she doesn't like the way she's being treated by Immigration" officials. See SOVIET, page 2A off his execution in the gas chamber on Monday. The board on a 5-2 vote later refused to commute Bishop's sentence to life in prison without parole, with state Supreme Court justices Al Gun-derson and Gordon Thompson casting the dissenting votes. No one has been executed in the state's two-seat gas chamber since 1961. Earlier, the 46-year-old prisoner had asked the board, "Why should I have to wait forever for the gas chamber?" Bishop received the death sentence for the gunshot slaying of newlywed David Ballard of Baltimore in a Las Vegas casino in December 1977.

He pleaded guilty to the crime. In Baltimore, relatives of Ballard See BISHOP'S, page 2A YS MMi Man throws box from jetliner plane delayed by U.S. officials CARSON CITY, Nevada (AP) -Convicted killer Jesse Bishop received an unwanted delay in his execution from a U.S. Supreme Court justice Saturday, but in a separate ruling the Nevada Pardons Board refused to commute his sentence. The condemned man called the Supreme Court order a "farce" that was only "prolonging the suffering" for him and his family.

Justice William H. Rehnquist issued an indefinite stay in Washington and ordered the state to submit answers to a series of questions by midnight Tuesday, said Nevada Attorney General Richard Bryan. The death warrant expires at midnight Monday. The announcement came as Bishop, with his hands and feet manacled, was meeting with the Pardons Board on another request to put the goal of providing nationwide television service, but there simply weren't enough VHF channels, 2 to 12 on the TV set's dial, to blanket the country. At that time, television sets were manufactured without UHF tuners and viewers who wished to pick up UHF stations found it necessary to buy "strip converters" for their sets.

FCC found that it was impossible for UHF stations to compete realistically for a market because of viewers' difficulties in tuning in. Congress in 1962 approved legislation requiring all sets to be manufactured with both VHF and UHF dials, rm i hear area TV stations' dispute before the administrative law judge hands down a ruling. Appeals are sure to be made by one side or the other. If FCC agrees with the Selma station's petition, that station could lay down a "city grade" signal over Montgomery. WCOV feels especially threatened because both stations are affiliates of the Columbia Broadcasting System and WCOV could lose that valuable affiliation.

WCOV and WKAB, operating on the theory that the best defense is a strong offense, has made counter-proposals to FCC. It wants Channel 8, on which Selma operates, moved to Tuscaloosa. FCC to By PEGGY ROBERSON Advertiser Staff Writer WASHINGTON A little-noticed fight between two Montgomery UHF television stations, WCOV and WKAB, and Selma's WSLA-TV will be a step nearer to resolution after a week of hearings which begins Monday at the Federal Communications Commission in Washington. The wrangling over the Selma VHF station's petition to build a tower between Montgomery and Selma has continued for two years. And even after the formal hearings end, it may be six months more Iranian but it still was more difficult to tune in UHF stations.

Congress attempted to get a commitment from FCC an independent regularatory agency not to push "selective deintermixture" in an effort to make UHF stations competitive, but was not totally successful. If it is done in this case, it would be one of the first since that time. WCOV's attorney, Vince Pepper, said in a Saturday interview the station only wishes the FCC to "give consideration to the economic inequities between the UHF stations and See FCC, page 2A weather troops relieve 1 And, in a separate "rule-making procedure," the two Montgomery stations have asked that the Montgomery market be "deintermixed," an action that would put an end to the present mix of one VHF and two UHF stations. To accomplish the deintermixture, Channel 12, now assigned to WSFA-TV, would be relocated to Columbus, and WSFA-TV would be given a new UHF channel, 45. Montgomery then would be all UHF and Columbus would be all VHF.

Back in 1952, the FCC permitted "intermixed" markets to accomplish graveyard of the reactionary regime," he vov ed. "We know the central governmc tit is not as strong as it pretends to bi Wait till we start an all-out war ar then the Tehran government will) realize what revolutionary poten ial the Kurdish people have." HetoldThi Associated Press there will be ne battles throughout Kurdistan, a id he said the Kurds have already aegun executing revolutionary guar smen in retaliation for executions Kurds. The 4 millpn Kurds in Iran, with 8 See IRANIAN, page 2A Mondalc visits MONTGOMERY: Partly cloudy with scattered thundershowers through Monday. High, low 90s; low, mid-70s. besieeed saaaez post NEW YORK (AP) A Soviet jet remained grounded early Sunday, more than 30 hours after it was to have flown to Moscow, as U.S.

officials refused to let it go because they were uncertain the wife of Bolshoi Ballet defector Alexander Godunov was leaving of her own free will. The Soviet Union protested the action. The official Soviet news agency Tass said the United States was making the woman, ballerina Ludmilla Vlasova, "an object of new provocative actions." The State Department filed a counter-protest, but spokesmen refused to disclose details of either protest. Sixty-eight passengers remained aboard the Aeroflot airliner, which early Sunday was still parked at a Pan American World Airways gate at John F. Kennedy International Airport.

The jet was to have left at 5 p.m. Friday, with 112 passengers. Forty- If. PRESIDENT CARTER was awarded a gold medal for his efforts on behalf of human rights by the International Institute for Human Rights. Country-western singer JOHNNY CASH is trying to trace his ancestors back to British sea captain William Cash, the first Cash known to have settled in North America.

Textile executive WILLIAM BOORS-TEIN, who escaped from captivity in an El Salvador factory after being held for more than a week, returned to the United States and was reunited with family and frisnds in Philadelphia. Romanian President NICOLAE CEASESCU joined Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat in calling for "Israel's total, unconditional and undelayed withdrawal" from occupied Arab territories and for recognition of the Palestinians' right to self-determination. COL. PHILIP G. COCHRAN, a decorated World War II Air Force hero and model for comic strip characters Col.

Flip Corkin in "Terry and the Pirates" and Gen. Philerie in "Steve Canyon," died of a heart attack while hunting. Pause to pray Forgive us. Lord, when, through fatigue, the unrelenting demands of our day cause as to become angry. Thank You for helping to instill feelings of gratitude for opportunities to do our daily tasks.

Amen. gloats weighed after China page 8A Hamilton Jordan denies cocaine charges page 6A Mrs. Gandy faces Winter in Mississippi page 11A Grand jury to hear Macon hospital personnel page HA ties, but they were believed high on both sides. Most of the civilians who could get out had fled. State radio issued an urgent appeal for doctors and nurses to volunteer to be flown to the area, which is in a valley in western Iran.

It said the garrison and the town were in dire need of medical help. Abdol Rahman Qassemlu, secretary general of the banned leftist-oriented Kurdish Democratic Party Central Committee, said in an interview in Mahabad that "there are 100,000 armed Kurdish men who are willing to die for their ideals." will make Kurdistan the Hydroplane championships Racers brave rains at Eufaula contest SAQQEZ, Iran (AP) A column of 200 government troops smashed through Kurdish rebel lines to relieve a besieged garrison here Saturday, but the fight for the town raged on. A Kurdish leader promised "all-out war" to make the Kurds' autonomy-minded province "the graveyard" of Iran's Islamic regime. Helicopter gunships, supersonic jets, tanks, rockets and heavy artillery have figured in the fight, which has continued since Thursday. On Saturday, parts of Saqqez were in rubble, and its one hospital was packed with the wounded and dying.

There was no estimate of casual race, Page Amusements 1-2D Ann Landers 4C Bridge 15A Business Page 20B Classifieds 2-21D Crossword 18B Editorial 4-5A Jumble ID Legals 18B, 19B Society 1-16C Sports 1-12B nell as he rounded the last marker and headed for a victory in the fastest race of the day the mod 120 class. McConnell of Wonder Lake, 111., is no stranger to the free-lance five-mile course. He holds the current Lake Eufaula speed record of 92.5 mph in the Mod 120 class and won this year's championship in the same Evinrude-powered tunnel boat, number 191. Boat racing was undoubtedly the main attraction but it certainly wasn't the only one. Anheuser-Busch of St.

Louis, is sponsoring this year's race and in Sunday Report The Sunday Report does not appear la Sunday's Advertiser-Journal due to space limitations caused by an unexpected surge of classified Page TV Log ID Weather Map 2A Emergency Hospital JACKSON From 7 a.m. Sunday To 7 a.m. Monday HELP-A-CRISIS 265-9576 addition to contributing the $17,000 winner's purse, the beer manufacturer brought for display the Budweiser Hot Air Balloon and the sleek Miss Budweiser boat. Miss Bud, a hydroplane racer with a Rolls Royce engine, holds the 1977 National Hydroplane Championship. Also an attention-getter was the beer concessions stand, a first at Lake Eufaula, although most people came with well-stocked ice chests.

The beer stand wasn't doing much business. "Let's put it like this," said Ruth Goode of the Georgia-Alabama CB club, sponsor of the beer sale. "We're not competitive; it's just a convenience for people who are too drunk to get back to their cars for more." Sunday's schedule includes final races in six classes. Gates will open at 6 a.m. By MART A TAMBLYN Advertisei Staff Writer EUFAl A Several thousand die-hard i ns outlasted two hours of persistentlshowers Saturday to see what haj drawn them to Lake Eufaula -j boat racing.

For a tiile it was a tossup not who woul win the races, but whether the rain uld get the best of the lake and cane 1 racing altogether. Even le gentlest whitecaps can mean ister for the light, highspeed ing boats. And Saturday's rain toe a near-successful shot at whippin up the lake. The ldweiser Heritage Classic Nations Championship races, however, out. For spectators the mud and rain a small price to pay to watch national championship.

By Ms tend of the day, they were on thejVift cheering for Jimbo McCon-.