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Austin Am eriton-Statesinon Vol. 110 No. 152 1979, Austin AroenearhStatesman. all rights reserved 20 cnt "friday morning December 21, 1979 mild i 4fK Partly ctoucfy with slight cinc lor drizzle. Low.

upper 5Cs High, low 70s. Data. A2. HI Leadership vacuum grips divisive, jealous Iranian captors Hostages get 10-foot card, B2 Officials' patience wears, Ai By JONATHAN C. RANDAL Washington Post Servicf TEHRAN, Iran Despite efforts to portray themselves to the outside world as united behind Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the men and women holding 50 Americans hostage appear characterized by indecision, tension and intense rivalry.

Journalists, diplomats and other outsiders who have approached the hostages' captors since the Nov. 4 Qom students were brought in after the initial assault of the embassy to provide a loyalist core for Khomeini. Outsiders' suggestions that leftists or communists are involved in the embassy occupation have not been confirmed. Often cited as evidence of leftist involvement is the captors' diligence in publishing purported official See Captors, A 10 middle-class students of Tehran bazaar merchant families. Aside from students drawn from Tehran universities, the captors' ranks also include theological students from the holy city of Qom.

That troupe is considered the only one literally fitting the description they all claim: "students following Khomeini's line." Some sources suggest that the long as one hour to move from one end to the other. Some visitors have detected as many as five different groups, including some members of the Revolutionary Guards, Khomeini's elite troops. But the captors have succeeded in keeping secret their identities. One school of thought argues that most belong to a fundamentalist group called the Phalange, which originated among as 50 members under the guise of democracy. But the haggling, rigid, unsmiling captors are so jealous of each other that colored string is used in various corridors and rooms of embassy buildings to delineate the territory apportioned to different groups.

One student reported there are now so many checkpoints inside the 27-acre compound that it takes as occupation of the U.S. Embassy are convinced that various rival groups are nearly paralyzed by a lack of strong leadership. Decisions large and small routinely are referred to a central committee which may have as many Completes work for year Congress okays aid for Chrysler program including its "windfall profits" tax centerpiece and a plan for $20 billion in synthetic fuel subsidies. The Chrysler bill that Congress sent to Carter for his signature closely resembles the bill that the administration had first proposed. The president is expected to sign the measure.

Chrysler board chairman Lee lacocca called the measure "a tough bill but a strong bill" and said it "will provide the financing needed to restore Chrysler to profitability." The Senate measure approved Wednesday would have required $125 million more in wage concessions from Chrysler's unionized employees and $50 million more from the firm's 25,000 nonunion employees than did a House bill passed Tuesday. The conferees split the difference between the two. Non-union employees would have to make $125 million in wage concessions under the compromise. Altogether employees would be giving up $587.5 million, compared with $500 million in the House bill and $675 million in the Senate bill. It remains uncertain whether the UAW members employed by Chrysler will accept more stringent concessions, and whether the company can raise $1.43 billion from private lenders and other non-federal sources the two main strings attached to the loan guarantees.

UAW lobbyist Howard Paster said the proposed wage concessions were "higher than they should have been" and could present difficulties in gaining ratification from union members. WASHINGTON (AP) Congress passed and sent to President Carter early today a $1.5 billion loan guarantee program to rescue the foundering Chrysler Corp. It is the largest federal bailout of a private company in U.S. history. A compromise measure providing $3.5 billion in public and private aid but demanding more in wage concessions than United Auto Workers leaders wanted to make was hammered out by House-Senate negotiators and approved by both houses.

The vote was 241-124 in the House and 43-34 in the Senate. Senate passage did not come until 12:30 a.m. today because Sen. William Armstrong, staged a mini-filibuster. Armstrong, an opponent of the aid bill, took the Senate floor to protest the speed with hich the measure was rushed through Congress.

The compromise, put together in six hours of meetings Thursday, calls for Chrysler's 105,000 unionized workers to give up $462.5 million In pay raises during the next three years as a condition for Chrysler receiving the guarantees. Without the aid, the giant automaker said it would be forced into bankruptcy by mid-January. The most notable previous federal loan guarantee to a specific U.S. company was a $250 million guarantee to Lockheed in 1971. Those loans were repaid.

With approval of the Chrysler bill, Congress completed its work for the year and prepared to recess until Jan. 22. Left for expected completion early next year was the bulk of President Carter's 1979 energy 4 Barge biter Coast Guardsmen inspect a gaping hole in the bow of the Lib- mile stretch of the river after the 700-foot Pina struck two bar- erian tanker Pina as what's left of Its cargo of ges and a tugboat Wednesday. No one was hurt in the ensuing crude oil leaks into the Mississippi River in New Orleans. fires aboard the Pina and the barges, which were carrying grain Slicks, ranging in depth from a scum to a sheen, covered a 40- and coal.

County seeks own Stokes purchase inquiry 3. m-l AUSTIN Life in the '80s Commissioner Richard Moya said he was taking accusations against Samuelson to the district attorney. An organized crime investigator said Samuelson had been working with federal officials when he met with a real estate broker and pretended to solicit a bribe. Commissioners asked County Attorney Jim Mc-Murtry to find whether the Commissioners Court See Commissioners, All The commissioners also voted unanimously to ask U.S. Attorney Jamie Boyd to speed up a federal investigation of alleged irregularities and offered their assistance in the investigation.

In the emergency meeting: Each commissioner and County Judge Mike Renfro denied any knowledge of wrongdoing except what they had heard on a tape recording of a meeting between Commissioner David Samuelson and the broker for the Stokes Building sale. By JOHN SUTTON American-Statesman Staff Travis County commissioners, In an emergency free-for-all session, Thursday called for their own court of inquiry to investigate possible wrongdoing in the $5 million purchase of the Stokes Building. All five Commissioners Court members have been summoned to appear Jan. 15 before a federal grand jury that is investigating the purchase. Hidden wire found inside Non-action costly Failure of OPEC to agree on a uniform oil price means continually escalating prices and energy uncertainty for Americans, analysts say.

Page A9 On the lam Star UT football and track star Johnny (Lam) Jones has told a UT athletic official he will drop out of school after this semester, passing up track. PageFI Amusements 1-10 Ann Landers C7 Armchair Aviator B1 9 Classified Ads DM 4 Comics E8 Crossword E8 Dear Abby C4 Deaths B9 Editorials A14 Ellie Rucker C1 Financial E9-10 Horoscope C7 LifeStyle Sports F1-10 TV Log G9 Same belt fits state, capital city Perpetual motion ends with inventor's arrest Austin's pulpit By RICK SMITH American-Statesman Staff BELTON A so-called perpetual motion machine named Jeremiah 33:3 and the plans of its Temple inventor both ground to a halt Wednesday night. Inventor Arnold Burke, according to court documents, had collected $800,000 by selling licenses to market the machine that he said could generate electricity off its own energy. The invention is named after the Bible verse that states, "Call to Me and I will answer you, and I will tell you great and mighty things, which you do not know Investigators said they located and clipped a hidden electrical wire supplying illicit energy to the machine Wednesday. Burke, charged with felony fraud, was led handcuffed from his Temple lab that night by Bell County deputies.

He was released later after posting a $50,000 bond. At the request of the state attorney general's office, a temporary injunction was issued Thursday against Burke and his companies, Redel Inc. and New Resources Inc. by 169th District Judge J.F. Clawson.

Clawson also ordered that Burke's private assets, the assets of his company and the assets of a company owned by Steve Prentice of Rogers, an associate of Burke, be placed into receivership. The attorney general's Consumer Protection and Antitrust Division had tried to block promotion of the machine by filing a civil lawsuit against Burke in early November. In the suit, the attorney general's office argued that the machine could not perform the feats promised by Burke. By DAVE AAcNEELY American-Statesman Staff Texans thought big, even a century ago, when they built a state cap-itol that was higher than the one in Washington. It had virtually every state department within the building, and was, of course, as big as anyone would ever need.

That was in 1888. Like a lot of other things, the size of state government and its effect on Austin has changed. Today, the state owns thousands of acres in a much-expanded Austin there is no central record of exactly how much. It owns 1.2 million square feet of office space here, and leases an additional 1,689,305 square feet at an annual cost of $8,791,324. Aside from the 85.98-acre, several-block Capitol complex that rests between the Capitol and the much-expanded University of Texas campus, the state also owns and leases property all over town.

Such agencies as the state highway department, Department of Mental Health and Mental Retardation, and School for the Blind take up so much real estate that Austin complains periodically about missing out on revenue because of the properties' tax-free status. In so doing, the city tries not to See Growth, A12 power fefy 1 ft L.I HI i aw i i i i I 1 I i I -a--" Arnold Burke and his Jeremiah 33.3 perpetual motion machine at his Temple lab. American-Statesman reporter Lee Kelly looked at the leadership in the city's changing congregations and found 10 ministers who lead the pack in influence and prestige. Her report begins Sunday. Hearings on the lawsuit during the past several weeks in- See Inventor, All a- 1mm.