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A1 2 The Sioux City Journal, Wednesday, August 5 1 987 tra affair broke 7 laws Con peaker says Iran on the affair a day earlier, the congressional Iran-Contra investigating panels spent Tuesday behind closed doors taking testimony from Duane Clarridge, the Central Intelligence Agency's chief of counterterrorism, and Alan Fiers, chief of the agency's Central American Task Force. Clarridge was in frequent contact with Lt. Col. Oliver L. North during the time North was running the Contra resupply network from his National Security Council office.

He was being asked about the CIA's involvement in the aid network particularly during the period when most aid was banned by Congress and about contradictions between his congressional oversight committees "fully and currently informed" of intelligence activities; that in extreme circumstances, such notice be limited to eight designated senior congressional leaders; and that if prior notice of a covert action is not given, that notice be made "in a timely fashion." Wright said the administration failed on all three counts. The Arms Export Control Act, which requires a presidential report to Congress if major defense equipment is transferred. "That law was ignored," Wright said. Another section of the same law that prohibits export of arms to coun- WASHINGTON (AP) House Speaker Jim Wright contended Tuesday that the Reagan administration broke the law in seven instances in the Iran-Contra affair, and said it is absolutely beyond belief" that President Reagan could be unaware of that. Congress, when it passes laws, assumes "that the president will carry out his constitutional obligation to 'take care that the laws be faithfully executed'" Wright said in a statement.

"Unless that assumption can be made with confidence, the constitutional system begins to break down." Reagan said last Friday that "I haven't heard a single word that indicated in any of the (congressional hearing) testimony that laws were broken." His spokesman, Marlin Fitzwater, amended that comment Monday to say it applied only to the limited snips of hearings the president had watched on television. Wright, D-Texas, said Reagan's original statement was "very disturbing," because "several laws clearly were flouted by persons in the Reagan administration. It is absolutely beyond belief that the president would be unaware of this fact at this late date." After completing public hearings States to file appeal of Guard suit ruling Mrs. Iowa says contestants were backing Mrs. California fif.

tries deemed to be supporting international terrorism, unless the president specifically submits a waiver to Congress. "That law was said Wright. The law appropriating money for the Pentagon prohibits the shifting of intelligence money for other uses without notification to Congress, which Wright said also was not followed. And the Boland Amendment, which cut off military aid to the Con-tras by any government agency involved in intelligence activities during much of the time clandestine aid was flowing tothe rebels. "That law was flouted," Wright said.

Pentagon unruffled by Iran WASHINGTON (AP) The Pentagon officially professed a lack of concern Tuesday about Iranian naval maneuvers in the Persian Gulf, but several ranking officials said it was unlikely another convoy operation would be mounted before next week. "I don't know that it means 'anything," Robert Sims, the Defense Department's chief spokesman, said when asked about the Iranian naval maneuvers. "We have our plans and our mission and we intend to carry It out. "We will continue to operate in a normal way in the gulf. We're making no change as a result of threats or pronouncements from any particular country, Sims told a news briefing Similarly, State Department1; spokesman Charles E.

Redman said ships in international waters passing through the Strait of Hormuz need not change their routes because the Iranians have said their maneuvers are within their territorial limits, no more than 12 miles from land. "But don't expect another convoy this week," added another official, who requested anonymity. "I don't think we're quite ready yet." Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger, meanwhile, appeared to hint that the United States is prepared to destroy Iran's ing capability. At a breakfast session with reporters, Weinberger indicated Iran would be held accountable for any mines laid in the path of the U.S. ships and the reflagged.

vessels if there was "satisfactory evidence or proof" that Iran was responsible, the Minneapolis Star and Tribune reported in Wednesday's editions. "The main thing isMo keep the shipping moving through and brush aside any obstacles to it. When the -1 1 1 I wx.lnl.. ST. PAUL, Minn.

(AP) A federal judge, ruling in a suit filed by Minnesota and backed by 10 other states, said Tuesday'that governors have no constitutional authority to withhold consent National Guard training "missions in Central America or elsewhere. Congress may exercise authority over the training of the National -Guard while the Guard is on active federal duty, and must share that authority with the states only when the Guard is not "employed in the service of the United States," U.S. District Judge Donald Alsop said a strongly worded 14-page opinion. Gov. Rudy Perpich immediately asked Attorney General Hubert H.

Humphrey III to appeal, and Humphrey said an expedited hearing before the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals will be requested. "We feel very strongly about the states' rights issue, and that is why we will be appealing said Perpich in a statement. "This is a clear example of the federal government's encroaching on state powers that have worked effectively in the past." Iowa Attorney General Tom Miller said he was disappointed with the result. "We continue to believe that the Constitution expressly reserves to the states the authority to train the National Guard," he said.

Bill Roach, spokesman for the Iowa attorney general's office, said that state would join an appeal. Minnesota attorneys unsuccessfully argued that an amendment sponsored by U.S. Rep. G.V. Montgomery, to a bill signed into law by President Reagan on Nov.

14 unconstitutionally- infringed on the right of states to control their militias. The amendment provides that governors may withhold consent for foreign National Guard assignments only when the units are needed for local emergencies. Some governors had withheld eon- By Lynn Zerschling Journal staff writer Many of the contestants in the Mrs. America Pageant were pulling for Mrs. California to win the crown, not the professional model who did, Lynn Johnson of Sioux City said the day after the event.

Johnson, who represented Iowa in the national pageant, said from Las Vegas Tuesday, "We were kind of surprised by who the judges picked." Pamela Nail, Mrs. Mississippi, won the crown. The candidates' choice, Mrs. California, Suzy Katz, was named first-runner up. "Pamela is a very sweet gal.

She seems interested in other people. But, many of us thought she doesn't have the depth and maturity, the experience of a long marriage and having a family and the poise that Suzy did something we would want for a Mrs. America going into the Mrs. of the World Pageant that will be held in Australia in February." Nail, 24, is a professional model and modeling instructor who has been married about two years. Katz has been married for 15 years.

"You really didn't know what the judges were looking for. I honestly was very surprised and disappointed I didn't make the top ten," Johnson said. Although praising the organizers for running a professional pageant, Johnson said she and many other state winners felt the judges should have spent more time interviewing the contestants. "They're not around at all during the week. It's not like River-Cade where the judges spend almost a week with the girls.

There's much closer judging and scrutiny of contestants with River-Cade. "They came in Friday. We had poll our members and act accordingly. We're confident the people in Sioux City are fair-minded and probably will help us achieve this." Paul Jackson, chairman of the Woodbury County Republican Party, is acting as consultant to the Farm Bureau in the petition drive. Jackson said Tuesday that, while he has a partisan interest in the outcome of the election because four of the five current supervisors are Democrats, his main concern is the' rural residents themselves.

"I believe there is invidious discrimination the way the board is set up right now against people in the rural area," Jackson said. "The only feasible, honest and fair solution" would be to create districts earlier statements and those of other witnesses. Fiers' testimony was to be completed today and he was to be followed the witness table by Clair George, the agency official in charge of covert operations. Transcripts of the sessions, with classified matter expunged, were to be released to the public next week. In his statement, Wright listed the statutes he said had been violated in the affair that sent weapons toIran and aid to Nicaragua's Contra rebels: The National Security Act, which requires that the administration keep 1 1 Mrs.

Iowa Lynn Johnson one, four-minute interview with all of them. We had only a minute to say something about ourselves and they asked questions. "I felt good about my interview. The interview is important because that counts 50 percent Half of that is supposed to be beauty and half poise and personality." A number of people told her they thought her state costume that of a giant kernel of popcorn should have won the Whimsical Costume Award. Mrs.

Ohio, who dressed as a carousel pony, did. The contestants will get to keep clothes they modeled. Additionally, Baron Hilton, the hotel magnate, gave each contestant "a bottle of very expensive French perfume." Each of the contestants presented Hilton with a gift. "I gave him a handmade pop-, corn bowl I had made, filled with Palmer candy and nuts, Jolly Time in the county based on population. An estimated 18,000 of the county's approximately 101,000 residents live in the rural sector.

The Iowa Code provides that the supervisor plan may be changed through a special election. The process is initiated by a petition to the board of supervisors carrying signatures of at least 10 percent of the number of persons voting in the last general election. That means the Farm Bureau will need 2,958 valid signatures in order to call for a special election. They must file the petition with the board of supervisors by Jan. 1, 1988, in order to have the election next year.

The supervisors must then call a special election at least 100 days same figure is true for people who are in wheelchairs, for people who are deaf, for people who have lost limbs." The Eye-Opener has a $12,000 computer system that will tell Dickson, his position, speed and wind direction. It also has a ham radio that can tell him the frequency to which it is tuned and a radar unit that will whistle if it detects an object ahead. In case of power failure, Dickson has a Braille compass. He will be tracked by the satellite navigation system "ARGOS," used by solo yacht racers. "All I have to do is pull a little Velcro tab, and two people in a control room will know exactly where I am and that I'm in need of assistance," he said.

Tony Lush, a Newport sailing consultant who has crossed the Atlantic alone eight times, said he thought Dickson had a good chance of making it if nothing goes wrong. "The question is, when things don't go right, how adaptable is he to meet the situation?" Lush said Tuesday. Dickson faced his first test as soon as he passed Brenton Reef, a nautical landmark where America's Cup yacht races were held until 1983, and entered the main shipping lanes to Boston, New York, Providence and other East Coast ports. "All the ships that congregate in this part of the world pass through this area, and that's what makes it so dangerous for him," said Norman Kaplan, who operates tour and charter boats in the bay. The design of Dickson's boat makes it easy to operate, Lush said.

The boat has only two sails. uuaidics gci ij uc ut-ujcii iy unpleasant, you have to deal with them in other ways," Weinberger said. He refused to elaborate but sources told the newspaper that Weinberger was talking about the possibility of going after Iran's mine-laving facilities. The sources sent for Guard missions to Central America before Congress acted. Perpich, instead of withholding consent for exercises last January, asked the state attorney general's office to file the lawsuit.

Humphrey said Minnesota will argue on appeal that the Constitution grants to the states authority to train the National Guard in times of peace. Alsop in his ruling dismissed the state's argument that Congress had training authority over the Guard only in war. "There is no basis for this distinction in the language of the Constitution," he said. In addition to Iowa, other states joining Minnesota in the lawsuit were Arkansas, Colorado, Hawaii, Kansas, Maine, -Massachusetts, Ohio, Rhode Island and Vermont. Louisiana and Delaware initially joined the suit but then withdrew.

Humphrey said he expects many of the same states and others to join. in Minnesota's appeal. Ohio Gov. Richard Celeste, who disapproved of his staters National Guard units' participation in preparations for a 1989 training exercise in Honduras, said he was disappointed by the decision but would respect the law. "The law may' be right," he said.

"I think the policy is a bad policy to send National Guard troops to train in countries bordering on Nicaragua. I think it's unnecessary. I think it's dangerous." Alsop said Congress created gubernatorial powet over Guard assignments as an accommodation to the states and could withdraw the authority without violating the Constitution. "All authority to provide for the national defense resides in Congress, and state governors have never had, and never could have jurisdiction in this area," Alsop said. The wisdom of deploying Guard troops to Central America for training was not an issne in the case.

of the rural residents have been dissatisfied with the supervisor election procedure since the process was changed some 25 years ago. In the former system, four rural representatives and one Sioux City representative were selected. The current system allows for an at-large election without district res-idence requirements for its members. The current board is made up of Chairman George Boykin and Supervisors Don Lawrenson, Earle Grueskin, Larry Clausen and Jim O'Kane, all of Sioux City "For years, there has been some feeling that we weren't fairly represented," Gard said, speaking for the county's rural sector. "I don't know if that's true or not.

We just felt we'd pilgrims. It said the rest were Revolutionary Guards, "suicidal volunteers" or "revolutionary generation" fanatics. An Iranian plane landed in the port city of Jidda to retrieve bodies of some of at least 275 Iranians killed last Friday in battles with Saudi riot police around Mecca's Grand Mosque. Iran claimed a Saudi armed guard surrounded the aircraft. Arab diplomats said it might be held in Jidda until Iran allows four Saudi diplomats to leave Tehran.

The diplomats were captured by a mob that sacked the Saudi Embassy last Saturday, and the Saudi government says one still is being held captive. A Tehran radio broadcast said: "The Saudi killers and their instigator America, the great Satan, will not escape Islamic punishment. Today, the hajjis stone the devil. the real devil to be stoned and burned is America and its lackeys." Farm Bureau to petition for election change added that before attacking targets ashore the administration would first consult Congress and invoke the War Powers Act. That act requires the president to notify Congress wiithin 48 hours when U.S.

forces are sent into hostile or potentially hostile situations. If Congress does not approve the deployment within two to three months, the-forces must be withdrawn. According to congressional leaders, the Pentagon's original plan for escort operations in the gulf called for a new convoy to begin the passage to Kuwait this Thursday Iran launched what it said would be three days of military exercises on Tuesday, reportedly testing coastal defenses and sending various types of ships out to sea in and around the Strait of Hormuz. By Kathy Hoeschen Massey Journal staff writer Woodbury County Farm Bureau officials are expected to announce today a petition drive to have voters choose a new method in electing county supervisors. Farm Bureau President Ken Gard has sat a 1:30 p.m.

news conference at the bureau's offices, 5414 Gordon Drive. Gard said Tuesday he plans to discuss the response by the bureau's membership to a recent questionnaire asking if they would like the supervisor election plan put to the voters. Such a proposal has overwhelming support among the county's rural areas, Gard said. He noted that many Mrs. America Pamela Nail popcorn and Sue Bee Honey," said Johnson, who is a potter.

Johnson's roommate, Mrs. Michigan, was named Mrs. Congeniality. The women were not' allowed to stay with their husbands during the week of preparations for Monday night's pageant, held at the Las Vegas Hilton. It was only after the pageant the couples were reunited.

Johnson said she and her husband, Jim, will return to Sioux City this afternoon. One of her first official duties will be to judge the talent contest at the Woodbury County Fair Thursday. She also expects to participate in fashion shows, travel the state and hopes to do some singing. "I feel wonderful today. We went out to the pool and I actually got to go swimming instead of just posing by it," she said.

"I had a really fun week. I met a lot of wonderful friends that I hope to keep for a lifetime." prior to the primary election set for June 7, 1988. Voters would cast ballots for one of three supervisor representation plans specified by Iowa statutes. The plan garnering the plurality of votes will be the one put into effect, and once adopted, must remain in effect for at least six years. The three options are The current plan, in which supervisors are elected at-large and without district residence requirements; Election at-large but with one supervisor selected from each equal-population district; Creation of single-member, equal-population districts in which only the residents of the districts may vote for their representative.

ci-; 1. v- I I Blind sailor to cross Atlantic solo Moslems 'stone devil' at climax of pilgrimage JJt MECCA, Saudi Arabia (AP) -More than 2 million Moslems "stoned the devil" Tuesday in the climax of their pilgrimage to this holy city, and Iran said the Satan they struck was United States. Saudi officials claimed Iran had plotted to take over the Grand Mosque, lock hundreds of thousands of pilgrims inside and force them to swear fealty to Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, Iran's revolutionary patriarch, as leader of the world's 850 million Moslems. 'Soldiers and army helicopters shadowed 157,000 Iranians who joined pilgrims, called hajjis, from 122 other countries in stoning the three Devil's Pillars on the Plain of Arafat 16 miles from Mecca. Each pilgrim threw seven stones at each pillar.

Saudi newspaper, Okaz, quoted official sources it did not identify as saying only one-fourth of the Iranians who came for the hajj wp-- real If bones are 1 A PORTSMOUTH, R.I. (AP) -Light winds and calm seas welcomed Jim Dickson as he set off Tuesday on a quest to become the first blind person to sail alpne across the Atlantic Ocean. Dickson left port aboard his 36-foot, high-technology sloop Eye-Opener with a wave of his hand and a thumbs-up gesture to about 70 relatives, friends and onlookers. "You've got everything shipshape?" asked his mother, Vera Dickson of West Yarmouth, Mass. "Is there going to be any wind?" Mrs.

Dickson admitted that she was a bit nervous, but Dickson assured his well-wishers, "I'm going to have fun!" Two experienced yachtsmen accompanied Dickson through Nar-ragansett Bay, to guide him under the Newport Bridge and help him avoid lobster pots and vessels. Two hours later, as the boat passed Brenton Reef tower at the mouth of the bay, Jamie Bennet and Francis Stokes shook hands with Dickson, patted him on the back and boarded a small motor-boat for the trip back to Portsmouth. Dickson, 41, attached himself to a life belt, acknowledged the cheers from other boats and settled down to his task. Dickson suffers from retinitis pigmentosa and has been legally blind since age 7. He said he was undertaking the trip to show what blind people can do with the help of modern technology.

"The equipment that I have the talking computers could be used so that people could go to work," he said before departing. "Seventy percent of the country's blind adults don't have work. The human, law says they must be reburied Prehistory Book published by the Iowa State Archaeology Center at Ames. The book notes the Indian mounds found in the Little Sioux River Valley and east of Anthon. Also, approximately 30 years ago, Anthon workmen digging a sewer line uncovered a skeleton that was later identified as that of an Oneota female approximately 35-39 years of age.

The ancient Indian skeleton had an arrowhead lodged in its vertebrae. In the early 1960s, Determann said, a group of archaeologists from Wisconsin dug up two Oneota lodges just south of Anthon and uncovered hundreds of artifacts, but no bones. from page one According to the law, the remains may be brought to Iowa City for study, but, if determined to be human, they must be reburied. If the bones are found to be from an American Indian, Lensink said, they will most likely be reburied in one of the state's three dedicated Indian cemeteries. The precise locations of the cemeteries remain confidential.

Determann said a number of archaeological finds in Anthon have earned it a spot in the Western Iowa Jim Dickson waves to the crowd as he "leaves Portsmouth, R.I., Tuesday aboard his sloop Eye-Opener to cross the Atlantic solo. Dickson is blind. (AP Laserphoto.).