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SVC 7V iXXV Wednesday 25 cents 60 pages 5 sections February 27, 1980, Waterloo, Iowa Primary i New Hampshire winners look to future contests Howard a "-1 I id zj I 1 I DworU I Jimmy I I Cort.r I 141 I Jrry 1 I I 10 I Mm I AiioVi I I ftkrt Dot. I I Philip I I jokn Nr Connolly 2 I Jimmy Carter Three-time winner says victory shows voter approval Ronald Reagan First-time winner back on top with new management take "several primaries yet" before the race for the Republican presidential nomination settles down to even two contenders. "When you get into the South, you may get a better indication of that," Reagan said in an interview Tuesday night. THE SIZE of Reagan's victory in New Hampshire became clear a few hours after the candidate abruptly replaced the top ranks of his campaign staff. Forced to resign was John Sears, Reagan's campaign manager and a longtime target of many conservative backers.

Sears was replaced by William Casey, a former Securities and Exchange Commission chairman who has been active in GOP presidential campaigns for 30 years. The results here gave Reagan a victory far larger than he had dared predict over Bush, who emerged in Iowa as the former film star's chief contender for the nomination. "This was a surprise, the size of this," said Reagan. Carter, in a victory statement of his own, said his triumph shows voters "support the policies that we've espoused" on foreign crises, inflation and energy. However, New Hampshire Democrats MANCHESTER, N.H.

(AP) On the basis of his surprisingly strong victory in New Hampshire, Ronald Reagan said Wednesday he expects to do better than he once thought in two other New England Republican primaries next week. President Carter, winner of the Democratic side of New Hampshire's primary contest Tuesday, said he sees his victory as evidence that the voters are behind him on his foreign and domestic policies. But he said he doesn't expect his strong showing to knock Massachusetts Sen. Edward M. Kennedy out of the race.

Reagan, the former California governor who regained the role of the man to beat for the 1980 Republican presidential nomination with his big win Tuesday over George Bush, said he would campaign this weekend in Massachusetts and "I think I'll get some delegates there." Massachusetts and Vermont have primaries next Tuesday. As for Vermont, Reagan told a news conference, "There's a possibility of winning." 1 Reagan, once criticized as an aloof and reluctant candidate, swamped Bush and the rest of the Republican pack Tuesday with SO percent of the vote in the Granite State's primary. But he told The Associated Press it will Bush, 33,471 for 23 percent and 5 delegate votes. Sen. Howard Baker 18,832 for 13 percent and 2 delegates.

Rep. John B. Anderson of Illinois, 14,706 for 10 percent and 2 delegates. Rep Philip Crane of Illinois, 2.628 or 2 percent Former Gov. John B.

Connally of Texas. 2,241 or 2 percent. Sen. Robert Dole of Kansas, 608. Former President Gerald R.

Ford polled 380 write-in votes. Dole, barely noticed in the New Hampshire contest and running out of money, said his campaign for the Republican nomination is all but over. said their ballots shouldn't be read as strong support for Carter the candidate, an Associated Press-NBC News poll shows. Many Democrats said their votes for Carter were as much a show of support for the presidency in a time of crisis and a rejection of Kennedy and California Gov. Edmund G.

Brown Jr. as they were backing for Carter. In contrast. New Hampshire Republicans said they voted for Reagan and for his conservative approach to government in giving him his surprisingly large victory. Meanwhile, at party caucuses in Minnesota Tuesday night, Carter was the easy winner in a Democratic straw vote, while Reagan held a 33-30 percent edge over Bush with about half the Republican balloting counted.

Kennedy didn't attempt a challenge to Carter in Minnesota, but the New England defeat pushed him closer to elimination as an effective opponent for the Democratic nomination. Yet Kennedy conceded nothing. He said his campaign would take off later, in industrial states like Illinois, New York and Pennsylvania. Asked whether the results of Tuesday's election indicate Kennedy is through as Carter's main rival for the Democratic nomination, the president said. "1 think that's a judgment for him to make.

I would guess not." THE VOTE in New Hampshire's record turnout read this way: Carter, 53,586 or 49 percent, which won him 10 nominating delegates. Kennedy, 41,540 or 38 percent, for 9 delegates. Brown, 10,727 or 10 percent. Two minor candidates got the balance. The delegate apportionment was based on showings statewide and in each of New Hampshire's two congressional districts.

The Republican results: Reagan. 72,940 for 5 percent and 13 delegate votes for the nomination. Assessment by top Iran official hostsio uirrtii JVflsay' By The Associated Press A top Iranian official said Wednesday the fate of the American hostages in Tehran will not be decided by Iran's new Parliament until May at the earliest. Mohammed Behesti, first secretary of the ruling Revolutionary Council, said it would be that long 10 weeks before the Majlis, or parliament, would be sufficiently organized to deal with the issue. The two rounds of elections for the Parliament will be completed April 3.

IRANIAN revolutionary leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini said last weekend it would be up to the Parliament to decide whether to release the approximately 50 hostages at the occupied U.S. Embassy. Behesti, speaking with reporters, conceded that a new ruling by Khomeini could quickly change the situation. Even if the hostage crisis became the Parliament's first item of business, it was not likely a decision could be made before the end of April, the council secretary said. "How much time.

would be needed (for a decision) I don't know," he said. Any delay in the elections for the 270-seat legislature, a possibility because of a dispute now raging over the rules, would mad Reza Pahlavi resided, a tour the Iranians say will demonstrate the ousted monarch's exploitation of his people. The government said Tuesday it was trying to arrange a meeting between the panel members and the embassy hostages. Spokesmen for the militants have opposed such a meeting, saying the work of the panel is not linked to release of the hostages. THE IRANIAN government said Tuesday it is easing its six-week-old ban on American journalists, and those who can convince the Iranian Embassy in Washington that they are impartial can Washington acknowledged privately Tuesday that the release of the hostages "could take a lot longer than any of us would like." Wednesday was the 116th day of captivity for the hostages.

The Carter administration had believed that its agreement to a U.N. investigation of the ex-shah's regime would result in their speedy release. The U.N. investigative panel met with Foreign Ministry officials Wednesday. A ministry spokesman refused to disclose details of the meeting.

The five-man commission later was scheduled to tour palaces where the deposed Shah Moham- return to Iran. The ruling Revolutionary Council's spokesman, Hassan Habibi, announced Tuesday night that Iran welcomes all foreign journalists who satisfy the.lranian Embassies in their countries of their competence to report impartially. Abolghassem Sadegh, the director of foreign press at the Guidance Ministry in Tehran, confirmed that this applied to American correspondents. "We want to take a look at particular experiences and see whether certain groups can be readmitted to Iran," he said "It will be a few days before we start making decisions." push back consideration of the issue even further. Behesti, who has taken a hard line on the hostage issue and come out in support of the militants occupying the embassy, was appointed by Khomeini last week as head of the Supreme Court.

Behesti told reporters the hostage crisis will be solved only when the U.S. government changes its policy toward Iran and acknowledges the legitimacy of Iranian grievances against the deposed shah and the role of the United States in the shah's regime. A STATE Department official in Two who defected from Jones cult shot to death New button sticks it to Gov. Ray's travel -xO rt l) BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) Two defectors from the Peoples Temple who established a center to help other cult defectors were found shot to death in their Berkeley home, By BOB CASE Courier Staff Writer DES MOINES You can see most any kind of button or pin at the Iowa Statehouse.

There are political buttons and buttons proclaiming a variety of events around the state. There are buttons worn by visitors to the Statehouse like the "Elected Official" button on the lapels of some 250 local school board members who invaded the Statehouse Tuesday. There's the governor's Iowa flag pin (which he hands out sparingly) and a relatively new lieutenant governor's pin (a fund raising gimmick which sells for $100). NOW, CRITICS of Gov. Robert Ray's out-of-state travel habits have their very own button to rally around.

For a dollar a throw, you can buy the big round button with a red background and yellow lettering (which just happen to be Ray's campaign colors) bearing this question: "Where is Your Governor Today?" Well, on the day (Tuesday) the buttons first surfaced at the Statehouse, Ray was in Washington, D.C. for the winter meeting of the National Governors' Association. And in recent weeks, his critics don't hesitate to point out, the governor has been in New Hampshire twice (to campaign for his favorite presidential candidate, Sen. Howard Baker), West Virginia (to deliver a speech at a Republican dinner) and Colorado (for a few trips down the ski slopes). The man who got the idea for the "Where is Your Governor?" button is State Sen.

Joe Brown, a Montezuma Democrat. The month after the mass deaths at Jonestown. Mrs. Mills said, "Our entire family still lives under the conscious awareness that every member of the church would feel justified in killing any of as because we are considered to be traitors." Almost from the moment the horror of Jonestown became known, Temple defectors at the Human Freedom Center claimed there were death squads set up by Jones to get them. No documents were ever found to prove Jones had drawn up a hit list, but the idea of such a list often spread from one ex-member to another by word of mouth.

ABOUT A month after the mass deaths in Jonestown. Terri Buford once a top Temple administrator claimed that the list did exist and that Sens. Barry Goldwater and John Stennis were among those on it. police said Wednesday. The bodies of Al and Jeanme Mills, who followed the SOME MEMBERS of the Human Freedom Center, which the Mills formed in 1978 to help defectors from the Peoples Temple and other cults, said they feared "hit squads" had been organized to kill them following the mass murder-suicide of more than 900 followers of Jones in Jonestown, Guyana, on Nov, 18, 1978.

Police would not say if they believed the shootings were related to the Mills' former connection with the Peoples Temple. Police Capt. Thomas Johnson said the two dead persons were lying face down in separate rooms in the couple's southeast Berkeley home. MRS. MILLS was one of the first former Temple members to speak out against Jones and later published a book called "Six Years with God.

One Family's Story of Life Inside a Cult Group." Jim Jones He just happens to have a father who is in the button business in Clinton, where they are produced. BROWN RECOGNIZES there is a risk in not identifying the governor he has in mind. After all, he's a supporter of California Gov. Jerry Brown (no relation) for the Democratic presidential nomination. And most everyone knows Brown (the governor, that is) hasn't spent much time on the job in California during the past several weeks.

Rev. Jim Jones for six years before leaving the cult in 1975, were found Tuesday night in separate rooms of their small cottage, located at the rear of a rest home, police said. Another woman identified as the couple's daughter, Daphene Mills, 15, was found critically wounded in the cottage, police said. The Iron Duke Inside A problem with heat controls at its newest building faces Hawkeye Institute of Technology directors. Page 11.

Bill Severin Product liability Weather Cloudy Thursday with a high in the upper 20s and chance of light snow. Complete weather page 2. The bill was further weakened in the Senate when a provision to impose an eight-year statute of limitations for "strict liability" was eliminated. Instead, the Senate voted to allow lawsuits after eight years based on strict liability, but would put a greater burden of proof on the person suing for damages. THE PRESENT law.

under which plaintiffs are free to seek exorbitant damages even though the injury may have resulted from gross negligence on the part of the user, is not a product of the Iowa Legislature. It is case law formulated by the courts. Several previous attempts have been made in the past to pass a reasonable products liability law and all have been defeated as a result of heavy pressure from trial lawyers. This year it appears that a bill in some form has a chance to become a law. In considering the measure, the House and Senate should keep in mind that consumers the people who ultimately pay have an interest in this legislation that is paramount to that of the legal profession.

A bill is working its way through the Iowa General Assembly that will hopefully, if it is finally approved, restore a degree of sense to the state's product liability laws. At first glance, it would appear that this bill is of no concern to people outside the legal profession. This is not the case. Consumers have a real stake is reasonable laws dealing with product liability, for in the final analysis, it is the people who have to pay in higher prices for litigation that boosts the premiums' for product liability insurance out of sight. THE BILL, weakened by amendments, passed the Senate last week and is now in the House.

It is backed by an organization known as the Coalition for Product Liability Reform made up of manufacturers, defense lawyers and others. The prime opponents are plaintiffs' lawyers organized as the Association of Trial Lawyers of Iowa and by the Iowa Academy of Trial Lawyers. The bill originally provided manufacturers certain protection from lawsuits as a result of accidents that might occur after the purchaser had modified the product. However, the Senate amended the measure so that an injured party could sue if the manufacturer could have foreseen the possibility of modifications by the consumer. Capitol quips The unkindest cut of all for Jerry Brown was that Jimmy Carter held a press conference and didn't even mention him..