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12 WORLD NATIONAL THE HOME NEWS SATURDAY, JUNE 19, 1982 Reagan nixes sales for Soviet pipeline NOW HE'S PEOPLE HE SANG AGAINST McCartney turns 40 Ringo Starr recently returned to Britain from tax exile in Monaco and makes occasional forays into movies. These days, McCartney eschews the opulent life style of the millionaire rock star. He spends most of his time on his 10-acre hideaway estate near the sleepy Sussex village of Peasmarsh, south of London, commuting several times a week to London to run his music publishing business or work on recording and movie projects. McCartney and Linda, 40, live in a circular three bedroom cottage with their three children Mary, 11, Stella, 10, and James, 4 and 19-year-old Heather, Mrs. McCartney's daughter from her first marriage.

The family moved there 18 months ago from McCartney's London mansion near the famous Abbey Road recording studios after he ran into a problem other middle-aged dads have to tangle with rebellious kids. Friends, who asked not to be identified, said the problem was Heather, who defiantly slashed off her blonde hair and dyed the stubble a punk pink, then brought home her punk boyfriend, who sported an armband with a big letter for anarchy. McCartney and Heather had a fierce argument and the teen-ager stormed out, the friends say. The two later patched things up, but McCartney decided to move out to the country. The rock star and gentleman-farmer usually plods around the estate in muddy boots and scruffy sweater with his three sheepdogs among pheasants, geese, peacocks, turtles, chickens and horses.

There are no wild parties and few visitors behind the six-foot-high fence that rings the estate. Locals said it was put up 18 months ago to keep out foxes that were after the McCartney peacocks. Peasmarsh villagers say McCartney frequently goes shopping barefoot in the village and takes his youngsters to the village children's birthday parties. Harold Jempson, manager of the village By ED BLANCHE Associated Press writer LONDON Paul McCartney, the baby-faced Beatle, turned 40 yesterday, entering middle age as a family man who works hard for a living, has rebellious kids and is "just one of the locals" in the sleepy village of Peasmarsh. A spokeswoman for McCartney said the rock superstar had not planned any show business-style extravaganza to mark the day.

"Paul isn't that kind of person," she said. "He'll probably just go home after a day's work for dinner with his wife, Linda, and their children." McCartney and his photographer wife, the former Linda Eastman of New York, are working on location "somewhere in England" filming a three-minute promotion videotape for his latest single "Take it Away," the spokeswoman said. The ex-Beatle is the only one of the three surviving members of the "Fab Four" who regularly works for living, even though he's one of the world's richest stars, with a personal fortune conservatively estimated at around $346 million. The rock star who in the Beatles' freewheeling heyday was an ant-establishment cult hero, is now a pillar of the establishment, the only rock star listed in "Who's Who," and a regular family man. This year also marks the 20th anniversary of the release of the Beatles' first big hit in Britain, "Love Me Do." Soon after that the band from Liverpool took off.

Their next record, "Please, Please Me," zoomed straight to the top of best-selling singles chart and there they remained until their breakup in 1969. John Lennon, who with McCartney wrote most of the Beatles' famous tunes, was shot to death in December 1980 outside the New York apartment building where he lived. George Harrison, still something of a spiritual recluse, lives near London in a palatial 19th century house, bankrolling movie ventures now and then and tending his 33-acre estate. ury Secretary Donald T. Regan denied the United States had eased its position on the pipeline in exchange for a statement by reluctant European allies agreeing to the principle of limiting the sale of goods to the Soviet Union on credit.

Haig and Regan did indicate, however, that a presidential decision on the pipeline question would be made shortly after Reagan's return from Europe. He arrived home a week ago. In the meantime, American firms that stood to gain substantially from participation in the pipeline project increased their lobbying efforts for a U.S. policy reversal. The corporations sought to convince Reagan administration officials that continuing the sales ban would not prevent construction of the pipeline but would simply mean that suppliers from other industrialized nations would get the lucrative equipment contracts and the jobs that go with them.

Caterpillar, for instance, said a Japanese competitor already had sold 500 pipelaying machines to the Soviet Union that Caterpillar had been targeted to supply to free other Soviet equipment for use on the Siberia-Europe line. Caterpillar said its concern now was future sales. But in the announcement yesterday afternoon, Reagan said he had reviewed the export sanctions and "decided to extend these sanctions through adoption of new regulations to include equipment produced by subsidiaries of U.S. companies abroad as well as equipment produced abroad under licenses issued by U.S. companies." That means, for instance, that a G.E.-licensed company in France will not be permitted to sell turbine rotors for pipeline compressors that G.E.

itself would have liked to have sold to the Soviets. "The objective of the United States in imposing the sanctions has been and continues to be to advance reconciliation in Poland," Reagan said. "Since Dec. 30, 1981 (when the sanctions were imposed), little has changed concerning the situation in Poland; there has been no movement that would enable us to undertake positive reciprocal measures. "The decision taken today will, we believe, advance our objective of reconciliation in Poland." By MICHAEL PUTZEL Associated Press writer WASHINGTON President Reagan refused yesterday to ease his ban on U.S.

sales of oil and gas equipment to the Soviet Union and instead extended sanctions to foreign subsidiaries and licensees of American companies. The surprise decision continues to bar General Electric Co, Caterpillar Tractor Corp. and other major U.S. firms from selling equipment for construction of a natural gas pipeline between Siberia and Western Europe. And for the first time, it specifies that U.S.

firms may not get around the ban by channeling the supplies through foreign subsidiaries or licensees. In a terse statement issued following a meeting of the National Security Council, Reagan said he saw "no movement" by the Soviets that would lead him to ease the sanctions he imposed following the Soviet-backed crackdown on the Polish labor movement last December. The administration had been under pressure from its European allies and from American companies to lift the ban and permit free competition for potentially lucrative contracts for the equiprent needed to construct the natural gas pipeline. The United States has opposed the pipeline project, warning its European allies not to become dependent on a fuel source that could prove dangerously fragile in a time of East-West crisis. When the Polish government, with Soviet backing, declared martial law in Poland and moved to break the growing independent labor movement there, Reagan announced a series of sanctions against the Soviet Union.

They included a requirement that sale of oil and gas equipment to the Soviets be licensed and that all such licenses were immediately suspended. The U.S. position, however, had appeared to be moderating in recent weeks, and there had been increasing signals that Reagan would consider easing the pipeline sanctions that bar U.S. firms from competing with other foreign companies to supply equipment for the multibillion-dollar project. During the recent economic summit at Versailles, France, Secretary of State Alexander M.

Haig Jr. and Treas PAUL MCCARTNEY still working hard supermarket, said: "They don't have a freezer in their place, so we let them use our deep freeze to stock their food. Lots of people come looking for him, but we never tell them anything. He's just one of the locals as far as we're concerned." Paul and Linda McCartney sometimes drop into the Flackley Ash Hotel for a pint of beer. Owner Clive Bennett commented: "He's very popular.

He gives the old people big bags of potatoes at Christmas." Ex-madam holds brothel clearance sale LEGAL MOTICES By KATHY BAKER Associated Press writer SAN ANTONIO, Texas A former madam whose brothel was closed down by police has gathered up her knickknacks and the pants her customers left behind for the best little garage sale in Texas. Theresa Brown, who says she owes the Internal Revenue Service 10,000, is selling old books, furniture and a circular bed, but not her copy of a "trick list" of prominent customers. The FBI and vice squad raided "Theresa's" on June 2, 1980, and seized a carefully maintained catalog of more than 3,000 men many of them well-known local politicians, athletes or lawyers who had visited the brothel. The names were not officially released, but a local monthly newspaper published 19 names reportedly on the list. Ms.

Brown, a slight woman of 47 years, pleaded no contest in January 1981 to felony prostitution and now is unemployed. She is on probation for five years but is appealing. Her $10,000 debt stems from an IRS audit for the tax year 1978-79, she said. She said the garage sale, which began last weekend and was scheduled to continue this weekend, is one more jab at San Antonio society, which she says is full of "hypocrites." So far she said she has made nearly $700 from the sale. A trickle of noon-time browsers picked up books and other knickknacks, but no one bought the round bed with the price tag that said, "the original $300." Sitting atop it was a sign that said, "Please remove your clothes." Ms.

Brown named well-known athletes who she said have "been in that bed." For 15 years, customers removed their clothes, and those they left behind hang on a rack, testimony that a few departed without putting their pants back on. Ms. Brown unsuccessfully staged a write-in campaign for a City Council seat. She got less than 2 percent of the vote. "There never is a victim," she said of her profession.

"That's why I'm appealing. I don't care if I do get some time. I just want to make the point that the First and 14th amendments are being violated. I am working to see prostitution decriminalized." The police have a copy of the "trick list," but the original, on index cards, is safely stored in her garage, Ms. Brown said.

She said a few women have dropped by, appar- SUPREME COURT RULING NOTICE OF SALE Danswick Clearance Bureau wilt cause to be sold at Public Auction, one 1981 KAW Cycle, bearing the serial number JKAKZLA1 1BA0057 55, at 1939 Highway 27. Edison, N.J. The seller reserves the right to bid. 2850 je. 18,19 6.40 AP Photo IF THE BOX SPRINGS COULD TALK Theresa Brown of San Antonio displays some of the memorabilia she collected during 15 years of running the city's best-known brothel.

The round bed In the foreground is as yet unsold, as Ms. Brown tries to raise money to pay the IRS. ently trying to see if the men in their lives can be linked to her house. Stacked around the yard are miscellaneous furniture items, plastic flowers in vases, framed prints of famous paintings and a badminton set. A stack of books is labeled "Den the girls' reading." Ms.

Brown said she is saddened that the publicity over the raid spilled the secret she'd kept from her parents for 15 years. "My father was very upset," she said, sitting in Soviets said to use slaves on pipeline WASHINGTON (AP) A former inmate at a Soviet prison camp and a former Viet Cong official said yesterday that the Soviet Union is planning to use millions of slave laborers to build its natural gas pipeline between Siberia and Western Europe. Mikhail Makarenko, who was exiled from the Soviet Union in 1977 after his release from prison camp, said the forced labor camps are as brutal today as in the harshest period of Stalinist repression. "Eleven-year-old children are deprived of their freedom in the Soviet Union these days," Makarenko, with the help of a translator, told a Senate Banking subcommittee on international finance. The camps exist to provide "free labor by slaves" and to "completely do away with those who think differently," he said.

Doan Van Toai, a former official of the National Liberation Front in South Vietnam who emigrated to the Wjst in 1978, said that as many as 500,000 Vietnamese workers are being sent to the Soviet Union to work on the pipeline and other projects. Though denied by the Soviets and Vietnamese, it is a "shameful, brutal reality," said Van Toia. Sen. William L. Armstrong, the subcommittee chairman, said the human rights consequences of the Soviet pipeline have been overlooked.

The population of the Gulag Archipelago, the Soviet network of prison camps, is from 4 million to 17 million, said Armstrong. "An examination of the moral, as well as the economic and strategic consequences of East-West trade is, in my opinion, long overdue," said Armstrong. President Reagan yesterday denied permission for U.S. companies to sell oil and gas equipment to the Soviets to build the pipeline. The administration has opposed the pipeline project on grounds it could make Western Europe dependent on a politically unreliable fuel source.

But during the recent economic summit at Versailles, France, there were signs, denied by administration officials, that the United States would ease its opposition in exchange for an allied statement supporting credit limits on goods sold to the Soviet Union. There also has been stepped up lobbying in favor of the pipeline by American firms that stand to gain from participation in the project. The corporations say a U.S. ban on equipment sales would only give other industrialized nations the lucrative contracts. Zdzislaw Rurarz, former Polish ambassador to Japan, said that Western economic support of the Soviet Union is "immoral." Soviet bloc countries like Poland "want also to be free and we demand of you that you support us," said Rurarz.

Western trade helps the Soviets "oppress their own people. Communism and the Soviet empire are in agony and it is immoral to help" maintain them, he said. NOTICE OF HEARING ON APPEAL OR APPLICATION PLEASE TAKE NOTICE: That the undersigned has filed an appeal or application for development with the Board of Adjustment of the Borough of Highland Park tor a variance from the requirements of the Zoning Ordinance so as to permit a towing service on the premises at 1 River Road. Highland Park, New Jersey and designated as Lot 1 Block 183 on the Borough Tax Map, and this notice is sent to you as an owner of property in the Immediate vicinity. A public hearing has been set down for June 28, 1982 at 8:00 P.M., in the Borough Hall, 221 South Fifth Avenue, Highland Park, New Jersey, and when the case is called you may appear either in person, or by agent or attorney, and present any objections which you may have to the granting of the relief sought in the petition.

Maps and papers in connection with said application are on file in the Office of the Borough Clerk and are available for Inspection. This notice is sent to you by the applicant, by order of the Board Adjustment. NEIL HERSHKOWITZ Applicant 2894 je. 19 84 Retarded patients' rights detailed NOTICE PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that Princeton Preview, Applicant, has applied to the Board of Adjustment of the Township of South Brunswick for the following: A. Preliminary and Final Site Plan approval to construct an office building (containing model housing units), together with parking tactttttes; 6.

A bulk variance for relief so as to allow for a parking space size of 9 feet by 18 feet and a bulk variance for the allowance of parking spaces within the required setback prescribed in Section 16-62. 2 of the South Brunswick Township Land Use Ordinance: C. Any other bulk variances deemed necessary by the said Board: and O. Minor subdivision approval. The land affected by the ap- Efication is known formerly as lock 96.

Lots 100. 117, 124-127. Inclusive. 145; 98-99; 53E 53F and is now known as Block 96. Lots 145 2.

145 1 and 1261 (located on the northwesterly side of U.S. Highway Route No. 1). South Brunswick Township Tax Map. This development received use variance approval from the said Board on June 20.

1979. and various bulk variances. Preliminary and Final Site Plan her home next door to the house where she ran her former business. "Communications have really broken down now." "The girls" never numbered more than three and they would work at Theresa's for only a week at a time, she said. She said she would never go back to her former career and is not sure how she will support herself now.

She says her only source of income is the rent from two other homes she owns nearby. Federal aid to poor may have backfired Field News Service CHICAGO Federal assistance during the past 15 years may have done more harm than good for the cities it was expected to revitalize, an urban affairs scholar has charged. John D. Kasarda of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill said at a University of Chicago conference yesterday that federal welfare and low-income housing programs have encouraged low-income people to concentrate in the inner cities, while the blue-collar jobs for which many of them are best suited continue to flee away. "Welfare anchors inner-city residents in the city, where job opportunities are disappearing," he said.

"It is becoming increasingly apparent that some well-intentioned federal programs may have unin-tentially damaged prospects for urban recovery," Kasarda said, "while actually reducing housing and employment opportunities for those they were meant to help." Kasarda was the first speaker at a two-day "The Future of the Cities" conference of urban affairs scholars gathered at the University of Chicago. While Kasarda emphasized that federal policies must not discourage the migration of minorities to the suburbs, a second speaker called for bringing training and jobs to the inner-city residents. "The city as we know it has become obsolete," said Bernard Weissbourd of Metropolitan Structures Inc. He said the rapidly expanding number of downtown Chicago office buildings badly need skilled clerical workers. Federal and state training programs, he said, should be educating people to work in these modern offices, rather than continuing the traditional emphasis on blue-collar job training.

Office space in the Chicago central business district has grown 34.9 percent between 1970 and 1978, another speaker said. At the same time, blue-collar jobs in the city have been declining for more than a facade. Powell said such patients' constitutionally guranteed "liberty interests," contained in the 14th Amendment, require safety and a freedom from unnecessary bodily restraint. The justice said that where a patient can benefit from training, bis "liberty interests require the state to provide minimally adequate or reasonable training to ensure safety and freedom from undue restraint." "In determining what is 'reasonable' in this and in any case presenting a claim for training by a state we emphasize that courts must show deference to the judgment exercised by a qualified professional," Powell said. The court thus made it clear that while it was approving new rights for mentally retarded patients, it wanted to limit the intrusion by federal courts into the operations of state-run institutions.

The case stemmed from a challenge filed on behalf of Nicholas Romeo, a severely retarded man involuntarily committed to the Pennhurst Center, a state hospital situated outside Philadelphia in Spring City, Pa. He was sent to the institution in 1974 at age 26. After Romeo had been injured several times at the center, his mother filed a civil rights suit against three officials. The Supreme Court sent the case back to a federal trial court for further consideration of Romeo's claims for monetary damages. Last year, the high court ruled that Congress did not intend a disputed section of federal law to require states "to assume the high cost of providing appropriate treatment in the least restrictive environment to their mentally retarded citizens." Powell's decision specifically is limited to the rights guaranteed the mentally retarded.

It was not clear whether the constitutional principles also would apply to psychoids and other mentally ill patients in state institute A WASHINGTON (AP) The Supreme Court, in a major victory for the mentally handicapped, ruled unanimously yesterday that mentally retarded persons committed to state institutions have a constitutional right to be protected from harm and free from bodily restraints. The court also decided that mentally retarded patients have a right to "minimally adequate training" in many circumstances, particularly if the training will help assure their safety and freedom from physical restraints. The decision marked the first time in the court's history that it has extended the reach of the Constitution into the nation's often-troubled state mental institutions. Justice Lewis F. Powell's opinion, while creating broad new rights for the involuntarily committed mentally retarded, stopped short of ordering state officials to care for patients in the "least intrusive" ways.

In other action yesterday, the high court: Ruled 4-3 that doctors cannot join together to set maximum fees for their services. The justices said such fee-setting arrangements violate federal antitrust laws and are a form of illegal price-fixing. Sharply limited the power of federal judges to strike down state tax laws as unconstitutional. By a 7-2 vote, the court set aside a federal judge's ruling that requiring unemployment tax payments from independent religious schools in California is unconstitutional. In the case of mental patients' rights, Powell did not say there is a constitutional right to training in all circumstances for the institutionalized mentally retarded.

The court said that, like all other constitutional rights, the newly created rights may be curbed in some circumstances. For example, officials can still apply shackles or other restraints when necessary to guarantee safety or provide training. There were an estimated 133,000 mentally men-ally in state institutions in 1971 approval and minor subdivision Want Ads Will HoiieNews Vjr Classified approval on February 17, 1982. from the said Board. This application Is now on the Board of Adjustment Agenda and a public hearing has been ordered for July 7, 1982.

at 800 the Meeting Room, Municipal Building, Monmouth Junction Road. Monmouth Junction. New Jersey, at which time you may appear either in person or by agent, or by attorney, and present any comments you may have regarding this application. All plans and related papers will be f'ted ten (10) days Before the meeting date in offices of the above Board and may be inspected by interested persons during regular office hours (8 30 a 30 Monday through Friday, his notice is sent to you by the applicant by order of the Board of Adiustment. Dated: June 16, 1982 MCCARTHY and HICKS.

A. Attorneys for Applicant By: RICHARD SCHATMAN 2878 je 19 21.44 IMst fa At Willi ViUIIh IVlili to place nic onnn CALL 1HUWM AN AD 77.

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