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M. Ml i W-i Ml Lewis beats Curren, faces McEnroe next 0 'I Sports, Page ID nr's L8 rejoices after five-set victo- ry. hvt Four Sections. REGIONAL EDITION G' 25 cents Binghamton. N.Y.

1' Safari July 2, 1983i World Texas Counties Plagued By Drought Court rules intent needed in bias case IN AN APPARENT CONCESSION to his critics, Guatemalan President Rios Montt fires 50 army officers from high-level government jobs and replaces them with civilians. Page 3B. WEST GERMAN CHANCELLOR Helmut Kohl, about to visit Soviet leaders, says his nation cannot be intimidated into abandoning NATO plans for placement of U.S. missiles. Page 6B.

EL SALVADOR'S PRESIDENT refuses to consider negotiating with leftist rebels to share power, but invites them to join in elections in December. Page 8C. Nolan v.ard I Paa Crockett By RICHARD CARELLI The Associated Press WASHINGTON The Supreme Court yesterday limited the legal protection for people who claim they were made the targets of racial discrimination by recipients of federal money. The justices, by a 7-2 vote, ruled that people who use key federal law to sue over alleged racial bias must prove discriminatory intent, not just discriminatory effect, to win. Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 bans discrimination based on race and national origin by anyone receiving federal money, such as schools, government contractors and local governments.

By a separate 54 vote in the same case, the court said that in lawsuits based on government regulations stemming from Title VI alleged victims of illegal discrimination may be able to force a halt to such practices without showing the bias was intentional. In a third vote, also 5-4, the court said monetary awards or other "compensatory damages" are never available even in lawsuits based on Title Vl-inspired regulations without proof of discriminatory intent. It was that final vote that spelled defeat for blacks and Hispanics who went to court in 1976 to challenge the New York Police Department's decision to lay off about 2,800 off icers the previous year. The court decision was the product of six separate opinions and shifting alignments among the justices. "Title VI is not necessarily made less available, but the court refused to make it more available," said Thomas Atkins, head lawyer for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.

The court's decision on Title VI, although technical, is important because the standard of proof required in lawsuits over alleged bias often dictates whether the suits will succeed or fail. Discriminatory intent is much more difficult to prove than anrd-verse effect on certain minorities. The decision presumably carries impact as well for lawsuits alleging sexual discrimination under a separate federal law, called Title IX, because its. standard of proof generally has been regarded to" be -the same as that for Title VI. The lawsuit filed on behalf of the New York City minority police officers claimed that entry-level examinations used by the department from 1968 to 1970 were discriminatory, and that if the tests had not been used minority applicants would have been hired earlier.

With more seniority, they said, they would have escaped being laid off. -rs. I Sutton Ttrrel Nation HAWAII'S KILAUEA VOLCANO is erupting again, and some nearby residents are evacuated. Page2A. A WHITE HOUSE SPOKESMAN says he will say no more about allegations of wrong-doing surrounding the 1980 election campaign use of a briefing book beloning to President Carter.

Page 3A. DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL Chairman Charles T. Manatt lambastes President Reagan for suggesting federal efforts to end school discrimination have harmed education. Page 3A. THE NATIONAL EDUCATION Association will designate a task force to determine how much the federal government should spend to improve educational quality.

Page 3B. Map shows counties in southwest Texas hit by drought. State Parched West Texa's fears new Dust Bowl Repair protein blamed for cancer cell growth BURNED-OUT CHARLOTTE Street in the South Bronx will receive 90 new ranch houses and 500 permanent jobs thanks to a federal urban development grant. Page 2B. ABOUT 30 BRIDGES similar to one in Connecticut that collapsed Tuesday pass inspection.

Two of them are in Delaware County. Page 2B. A FLORIDA WOMAN DIES in Rhode Island nearly 14 hours after falling into the Atlantic from her sailboat about 40 miles southeast of Montauk. Page 2B. Local By RANDALL HACKLEY The Associated Press RANKIN, Texas A part of West Texas as big as Pennsylvania has been denuded by the worst drought since the Dust Bowl of the 1930s.

The area is so dry that "if a grasshopper had to cross the county, he'd better pack a sack lunch," said one discouraged county agricultural agent. The 18-month dry spell in 27 Texas counties has left Rankin nearly devoid of rain: 2 inches have fallen since last summer. The normal is 12 inches. Referring to the current flooding on the Colorado River, Upton County agricultural agent Kent Powell said: "It's a shame some of that water can't come here." "Our land is looking like an extension of the Chihuahua desert out of Mexico right now," he said. The parched land extends from southeastern New Mexico to the Big Bend area and 250 miles east to Big Spring.

"We've got the makings of a new Dust Bowl out there," Texas Agriculture Commissioner Jim High-tower said. "These 27 counties cover an area larger than Pennsylvania, and the drought is wrecking an agricultural economy that produces sales of a half-billion dollars in a normal year." Last month, Hightower asked U.S. Agriculture Secretary John Block to declare Upton County a disaster area and start an emergency feed program to help ranchers, who have had to import costly feed for their range animals. Block has not acted on the request. See DRY, Back Page LONDON (AP) Cancer researchers in London yesterday claimed a "significant advance" in understanding what makes some cancer cells grow.

The paradoxical cause, they said, is a blood protein that normally repairs injuries. "We're not saying we've found anything about the cause of cancer," said Dr. Mike Waterfield, 42, of the Imperial Cancer Research Fund Laboratory, "but I think we can say for the layman that we have made a significant advance in cancer research." Waterfield said the research involves a blood protein called PDGF that normally helps stop bleeding and repairs damage in cuts or other injuries by speeding the growth of tissue. However, in some forms of cancer the researchers found that excessive amounts of PDGF are produced, leading to the uncontrolled growth that characterizes cancer. THE CITY OF BINGHAMTON is awarded a $350,000 federal grant to aid a First Ward trucking company with its expansion plans.

Page IB. IT WAS HECTIC but productive. Local assemblymen assess the latest legislative session in Albany. Page IB. DISRUPTIVE STUDENTS are casting a shadow over the Binghamton school system, says the new president of the city school board.

Page IB. Business A REVIVAL IN home building and increased construction continues to fuel the economic recovery, administration officials say. Page 5B. GENERAL MOTORS' WORKERS must forfeit some of their benefits because of excessive absenteeism. Page 5B.

WALL STREET SEES its slowest trading in three months, but several stocks perform well on the basis of a recommendation from a major brokerage house. Page 5B. U.S., Soviet journalists Speaking for a 10-member research team in Britain, the United States and Sweden, Waterfield told The Associated Press, "There really are going to be big strides in our knowledge in this field in the next months and years." He said the team's findings relate to cancers" in the body's connective tissues and could involve leukemia. "We're talking about the bones, tendons, ligaments, components of the blood, and perhaps some of the supportive tissues of the brain," he said. The discovery could lead to the development -of new anti-cancer drugs and improved tools for diag-' nosing the disease, Waterfield said.

Recent advances have identified genes, called oncogenes, that are associated with cancer, but no one knew exactly how they made tumors grow. The research team examined the levels of PDGF in blood-clotting platelets and compared it with the amount of PDGF found in tumor cells. The latter had excessive amounts. Holiday Roadblocks fight DWI BOSTON (AP) State police expect to stop thou- sands of motorists with a series of holiday roadblocks designed to deter drunken driving, which is blamed for half the fatal accidents on Massachusetts roads, officials said yesterday. The roadblocks were to begin at 11 p.m., when troopers planned to stop every car heading out of Boston on the Massachusetts Turnpike westbound.

State police said 10 roadblocks would be set up at different locations throughout the state to improve highway safety during the long July Fourth weekend. The 30-second stops will include a brief conversation between a trooper and the motorist and a visual search of the car's contents, said Charles V. Barry, state secretary of public safety. Thousands of motorists were expected to be stopped, Barry said. The effort will help answer the public's demand for additional action to gets drunks off the road, he said.

The roadblock plan, similar to recent efforts in New York and Maryland, was designed under guidelines issued in May by the Massachusetts Supreme Court. The justices, in striking down methods that Revere police used to arrest motorists in 1982, said a roadblock might be permissible if the selection of motor vehicles to be stopped was not arbitrary, if safety was assured and if motorists' inconvenience was held to a minimum. State police said they plan to stop every car or every fifth car, use well-lit areas like parking lots and rest areas alongside a highway and limit initial searches to 30 seconds per vehicle. Sports I VM AM rv -'y UNKNOWN CHRIS LEWIS advances to tomorrow's men's finals at Wimbledon, where he'll meet John McEnroe. Today belongs to the women as Martina Navratilova faces Andrea Jaeger.

Page ID. THE TC JETS open their season tonight at Syracuse, whose third-string quarterback is the man who founded the Jets. Page ID. IT'S A BIG weekend for auto racing. Columnist Dave Henderson previews the action.

Page 3D. Weather PARTI SIIMMV TfinAV with a chance of after. nnnn thnnriprstnrms. hieh 84 to 88. Clearing tnniuht i low 59 to 63.

Details, Page 2A. i Tomorrow vni) vnnif prsmF.MS are settine an examole OK exchange LENINGRAD, U.S.S.R. (AP) Despite severe language barriers and substantial social differences, a group of American and Soviet editors yesterday agreed to an exchange of reporters that would have them work directly for publications in the host country. The conferees, meeting for four days in Leningrad, also agreed to establish a journalism student exchange and a swap of columns about life in each country that would contribute to better international understanding. Daniil Kraminov, head of the Soviet delegation, said there were many practical problems to be solved in the exchange of journalists but he was confident the goal would be achieved.

Kraminov is editor of a weekly Soviet newspaper on foreign policy, Ted Holmberg, president of the New England Society of Newspaper Editors, said the agreement between his organization and the Union of Soviet Journalists was a small but important step toward easing U.S.-Soviet tension. The agreements were achieved, he said, because of good will and a willingness on both sides to work hard. He anticipates the program will involve each country exchanging three reporters for three months in mid-1984. Holmberg is the editor and publisher of the Pawtaret Valley Daily Times of West Warwick, R.I. Kraminov said he considered the language barrier the most serious drawback to the program's eventual success.

It is likely that the first exchange may involve fewer than six reporters and not last the full three months, he said. Both sides displayed little concern about the different roles the press plays in their societies. The Soviets view newspapers as an education tool and expect reporters to instruct readers and draw conclusions as well as to inform. The American newspapers see themselves as presenting facts straightforwardly so that readers draw their own conclusions. Diane Benison, managing editor of The Evening Gazette of Worcester, said reporters from both countries would be expected to live by the rules and standards of the host country.

"We will need people who are broad-minded and intelligent," she said. "I wouldn't want an American reporter to come here and try to reorganize your paper anymore than I want a Russian to reorganize mine. "I'm sure there will be surprises and shock, but it will stretch their imagination and mind." The student exchange program, which will involve one or two students from each country, will be between Boston University and Leningrad State by using waste from zoo animals to make their city greener and more namiaDie, wnies coiummsi neai Peirce, in the Viewpoint section. A Gannett Newspaper Vol.80 Wo. 71 Free Dennis Robert Burn, 33, left, of Queens, shakes hands with Gerald R.

Amster at Kennedy International Airport yesterday after being freed from a Soviet labor camp after seven years. The two and a third man were sent to the camp for allegedly smuggling 63 pounds of heroin into the country. Burn was the last to be freed. What's up Plenty to do indoors and out Inside Business 4B, SB Church 8C Classified 4D-8D Comics 7C 'i. 3B Rv RARRARA Editorial 4A Fireworks urting more WASHINGTON (AP) The American love affair with fireworks has been getting stronger since the Bicentennial, but all those bursting bombs: have taken a toll in injuries and deaths.

The number of people injured by fireworks annually has risen over the past decade, according to the Consumer Product Safety Commission, and recent explosions at illegal fireworks factories have caused 15 deaths. There are more injuries because, more fireworks are being bought, said Paul Galvydis, a compliance officer with the commission. "After the Bicentennial, fireworks usage went up," Galvydis said yesterday. "People just got used to liking fireworks." While fireworks caused an estimated 4,700 injuries serious enough to require some medical attention in 1975, they caused an estimated 11,100 injuries in the Bicentennial year, according to the commission. The numbers dropped in 1977 but then rose gradually to a new peak in 1981 of 11,400.

The estimate for 1982 was 8,544, but Galvydis said he was unsure of the reason for the one-year drop. See FIREWORKS, Back Page I Horoscope Landers 3C Society. 6C Sports 1D-4D Television 2C The Hangar Theatre in Cass Park, Ithaca, is presenting Tennessee Williams' The Eccentricities of a Nightingale. Curtain time is 5 p.m. and 8:30 p.m.

today and 8 p.m. tomorrow. The Gin Game is being performed at 8:15 p.m. today at the Cortland Summer Dinner Theater in Brockway Hall on Graham Avenue at the State University College at Cortland. For those seeking adventures beyond this world, the Jedi Adventure Center has landed in Oakdale Mall.

Visitors will get a behind-the-scenes glimpse of the making of the Star Wars legend in See WHAT'S UP, Back Page If you're not attending picnics, barbecues or fireworks this weekend, there are plenty of alternatives. On stage are a variety of productions ranging from musical comedy to a Tennessee Williams drama. Grease is at the Cider Mill Playhouse at 2 S. Nanticoke Endicott. This rock 'n' roll musical celebrating the 1950s holds the record for the longest running Broadway musical.

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