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one ss ong l'ift'M(o that no Iranian assets had been transferred by U.S. banks. Forty officials of 12 banks were meeting at the State Department. President Carter who leaves office next Tuesday had no com-" ment on the negotiations and was -meeting in the White House with his foreign policy Nabavi, outlining the Iranian position, said "only the real will pick up bankers prepared to deal with Iran's demand that $4 billion blocked in U.S. branches overseas be transferred to the Central Bank of Algeria.

The financial experts were not identified, but Christopher U.S. Embassy deputy chief of mission in Algiers, confirmed that "British and American bankers'! were on the plane. 12 people in the group. They were" met by U.S. Embassy officials who said there would be no statements.

The financial specialists were to meet immediately with Warren M. Christopher, head of the U.S. negotiating team. In Washington, Vice President" Walter Mondale told CBS news said, "we're trying to do things in hours that would take months otherwise." But Mondale cautioned i. By The Associated Press The United States and Iran rushed today to complete an agree-.

I ment to free the 52 American hos- tages and both sides signaled that a breakthrough in the 14-month' hostage crisis could be near. Iran's chief hostage negotiator, Behzad Nabavi, said there is "no obstacle in resolving the issue" and informed Washington sources said the United States and Iran were nearing agreement to exchange the hostages for frozen Ira-' nian assets. Nabavi later told the. official Pars news agency the Iranian pro-' posal seeks return of frozen Ira-v nian assets, minus money Iran owes on loans to U.S. banks.

Although he did not mention any figures, it was believed he referred to more than $1 billion in what U.S. banks have said are defaulted Ira-nian loans. It appeared to be a major Iranian concession from the original Iranian insistence that all the Iranian funds held by U.S. banks be returned. Pars quoted Nabavi as saying that Iran "has demanded that -the United States transfer to the central bank of a third country the agreed assets of Iran, minus past and future loan installments." State Department spokesman John Trattner, in a television Inter-;" view, said he personally did not expect a settlement today.

"If an was reached but that's a big if it is conceivable the hostages could be out of Iran before the inauguration," he said. Louisa Kennedq, wife of hostage Moorhead Kennedy and woman for the organization acting as hostage family liaison with the State Department said she is tell- ing hostage families the news looks "very optimistic." A U.S. Air Force jet with British and American bankers on board arrived in Algeria in- an- attempt -to-work out the complicated financial arrangements with a U.S. negotiat- ing team that has been consulting with Algerian go-betweens in Algiers. There appeared to be about 10 to ingness of Washington can Dnng decisive results today ana the that there was no agreement yet -and saidui-'We'-ve-liad Friday prayers in Tehran also indicated a breakthrough wasonmieM.ui-Al&ers.

The Algerian at handT Central Bank was closed. But since The Air Force jet carrying Seghir -Mostefai, is a broken Detore ana i inuiK we a Det- ter keep our expectations under A State Department official in Washington said, "I think we're getting down to specifics," but said A vvendeince light PW .....71 'trm By WENDELL WILSON Staff Writer "Tell me.what do you have to 1 do to get a crowd? asked Walton Griffin, executive director of the Clarksville Area Chamber.of Com-, A suggestion was made, perhaps give away a ham. VHave a barbecue, yes, have a barbecue," jokingly added County Executive William 0. Beach. Both men, shaking their heads in apparent bewilderment, were com-menting on the few number of persons who attended a public meeting Thursday at which provisions of consolidated.

government's qharter were explained, Between 10, and 12 citizens at- the session, which was promoted as a general membership meeting of the chamber, Those dozen or so members of the "general public" were outnumbered by'chamber representatives, officials of city and county govern- ments arid Charter -f members. 1 Earlier this week, Griffin ex-r thameeting had been, set at 4 p.m. in an effort to attract more 'f to public hearings on the charter, s. 1 i Charter Commission members conducted three similar hearings toward the end of 1980, starting at 7 o'clock at but were gen-' erally, disappointed with the turn Aids Wounded Oliver 'Eebbot, Newsweek Magazine photographer'Harry Mattison pulls Rebbot's photographer, lies in the streets of San Fran clothing away to help him breathe. Rebbot Cisco Gotera, El Salvador, Thursday, after was shot in the lung and listed in serious being shot by a guerrilla sniper, Time condition.

outs. Similar, disappointment was expressed Thursday by Ross Hicks, Charter Commission chairman and Chamber of Commerce president. meeting followed a format set at prior hearings. Hicks led off the session with a history of the commission and general thoughts on what consolidated government would do. He then turned the meeting over to Charter Commission members who discussed specific sections of the char-; ter.

Hicks said Charter, Commission members attempted to compose the document on which they worked by looking at local government with an "unjaundicedeye." "We set out not to preserve any particular way of doing things or any particular he said. it In other words, he said, "we did not try to featherbed and preserve anyone's job." Hicks also said Charter Commis- sion members acknowledge their final document maynot be perfect, but that they think "on the whole, it's a good product." -w Other Charier Commission fnemr bers then took their turns in ex- plaining sections of the charter. They then sought questions from the floor after they had -Few queries came forth. Montgomery County residents will go to the polls Feb. 26 to say Please turn to page 2A Outside Look for more cold weather through the eekend with a possible warming trend by Moft day.

Map, details on page 2A. Eiepgoir Promises To Slash Carver's Spending Proposal Friday is the Moslem Sabbath and no official could be reached for member of the Algerian intermedi ary teams, that did not appear to be an obstacle. 1 Soldier Receives Sentence By JOHN STAED Staff Writer. FORT CAMPBELL, Ky. A second soldier charged in connection with the Sept.

26 beating death of a private during a fight herejias been sentenced after he, pleaded guilty to a lesser charge Wednes-. day. Pfc. James R. Seaborn, who pleaded guilty to assault and battery, was dropped in rank to E-l, the lowest grade in the Army, and sentenced to 30 days of confinement with hard labor and 30 days of hard labor without confinement, said Capt.

Fred Olds, a public informa-, tion officer on post. charged Seaborn with unpremeditated murder, but Military Judge Jonathan P. Tomes agreed to accept Seaborn's guilty plea to the -lesser charge. i 4 On Tuesday, Military Fred 1 Bright sentenced Pvt. Charles I.

J. Purvear to six months confine-1- ment for assault and battery in connection with the fight that in-, voiveu some suiiuers noin iwo units. Pvt. Kevin Estelle, a 19-year-old Litchfield, 111. native, died from head injuries he received during the fight.

He was transported by helicopter following the incident to a Nashville hosptial, but was pronounced dead 6n arrival, Army prosecutor Kirk Shaffer said testimony showed Es- telle received "two or three' head fractures and died from blunt force trama. Puryear had also been charged "with the unpremeditated murder of Estelle, but following a general court-martial before Col. Bright, he was found not guilty. Puryear had waived his rights to a couf t-martial with a jury and requested the court-martial before a judge. The assault and battery charge against Puryear indicated that Puryear struck, and kicked Estelle, while the assault and battery-charge against Seaborn did not name the individual he struck, Olds said.

Seaborn and Puryear are from the 1st Battalion, 506th Infantry. Another-soldier, Pvt. Ronald Yandell, of the 2nd Battalion, 327th Infantry, will be arraigned Jan. 23 on charges of inciting a riot and 1 according to Olds. Yandell's general court-martial could begin on Jan.

24. AP Laserphoto 1 Entertainment Guide Chcngirtr Tliis vseek, TGIF, the entertainment and television guide Inserted in Friday's editions of The Leal-Chronicle, will be split into two separate'secuons. -TGIF entertainment copy today becomes part of the regular Friday press run while the TV listings schedule and television programming new will move to Sunday. The new Sunday section is TV WEEK. It will include all listings of programming on UHF, VHF and cable channels in the Clarksville and Fort Campbell, areas.

Look for TV WEEK in this Sunday's Leaf-Chronicle, while keeping up with area and local entertainment news each Friday in the TGIF page. Insido liam T. Lake, deputy legal adviser for the State Department, stopped in London on the way to Algiers to -VI AP Laserphoto billion, or 12 percent, spending increase from 1981, mainly, due to a hefty boost for the military and inflation-triggered jumps in other areas. Defense spending would go up $21 billion to $184 billion. When adjusted projected overall budget rise is 1 percent.The defense budget, which would get 25 cents out of every federal dollar; rises 4.4 percent while non-defense spending declines slightly after taking inflation into account.

Carter also proposed modest per-" sonal tax credits to offset higher Social Security taxes. In addition, he revived his call for a 10-cent-a-gallon increase in gasoline taxes to conserve energy. The gasoline tax, which Congress rejected last year and is likely to do again, would cut the budget deficit $13 bil-. lion. In a revised estimate of the budget, which Carter had promised would be balanced, the president said the effects of high inflation and a recession in 1980 caused spending to balloon to $663 creating a $55 billion Please turn to page zA He Wants water from his product.

Willie And used it for wmmm Comrade said. Carter's budget director, James T. Mclntyre denied the spending plan for the fiscal year that, begins Octrtiiad been shaped with politics in mind. "I have taken no action with the purpose of embarrassing the incoming administra-; tion," he said. Carter, as he signed the thick document, defended the budget as van example of restraint.

The departing president predicted any changes made by his Republican successor or Congress will "relatively, minor in nature because this is a sound proposal that will withstand the scrutiny of congressional deliberations." Reactions in Congress, predictably, were positive from Carter's fellow. Democrats and negative from the GOP. Rep. James Jones, chairman ofthe House Budget, 'Committee, called the budget. 7 "very honest" and "very, very tight as far as reducing Jones' Republican counterpart in the Senate, Peter Domenici of New Mexico, attacked the proposal as "an old, tired, timid budget." Carter's budget calls for a $76.6 Any Which Way Greenbrier School WASHINGTON (AP) The in- coming Reagan administration, accusing President Carter of playing politics with the 1982 federal budget, vows to slash the $739.3 billion lame-duck spending plan from top to bottom.

President-elect Ronald Reagan, whq reviewed the-just-released" budget with hif economic advisers Thursday and scheduled another session for today, said he expected find "some fat' Vto reduce the projected $27.5 billion deficit. But Reagan's nominee for budget director, David A. said more radical surgery will have to be performed or else an already sluggish economy will worsen; accused Carter of -proposing. a "very, political that, Underestimates the deficit and is overly optimistic in its economic forecast: Stockman estimated the deficit under Carter's budgetwould be at least $50 bil- y. -7 "We think that we're going to have to revise it the budget) from top to bottom because clearly it's not an acceptable fiscal policy and It would only cause further deterio- ration in the economy," Stockman field to Greenbrier through a fire engine in an attempt to pump needed water.

to theblazethrougjL fire hoses. "Robertson County School Supers intendent Jerome Ellis said the junior high school would not be in session today. He said the School Board would have to determine the next step for the junior high. ''The school board will have to make a decision.7 Ellis said. Please tarn to page 2A Wilder, D-Somerville, that a bill will-be introduced to allow Darnell to be reappointed to Fiscal Review from the Senate.

At present, the Fiscal Review Committee consists of eight members from the House and five from the Senate. The Senate's seats on the review committee are all full, with no vacancies expected this session. Wilder proposes to add a sixth member from the Senate to make room for Darnell. Darnell has won statewide recognition as chairman of the powerfull fiscal watchdog committee. The possibility he might have to give up that chairmanship led many people Please turn to page 2A: roofs allowed dead air to feed the' fire.

Firemen could not get to the -fire because- it-was- burning be- tween the two roof s. Because of that, the Ore burned through the roof of the building anfl fell through the ceilings at about the same time, the chief said. He said the fire could have been handled better if more water pressure had been available. The Springfield Fire Department estab-: lished a relay system from Spring Classified 9B Comics Cumberland Life 4A Deaths Editorials UA Sports Stocks 11A TGIF 4B Fire Guts I By BILLY FIELDS I Staff Correspondent 1 GREENBRIER An' early ing fire destroyed most of the ftreenbrier Junior Hieh School today as more than 50 firemen from Robertson County and surrounding areas battled to save it. "It's a terrible loss to the community," Greenbrier Mayor-Phillip Bollinger, said of the fire.

"There -are so many memories lost in this fire, 'everything was done that could be done to save the school." This was the first year the junior, high had occupied the building on U.S. 41 In Greenbrier, It had been Greenbrier High School for many years. i 1 The high school is now in a new building less than ,500 yards from the junior high. The reported around 3:30 a.m., apparently 'Started in the northwest rear area of the building. Robertson County Chief Homer Haley offered no explana-; tion for the blaze, are not sure" exactly what 'caused the fire at this time," Haley said.

"But we definately had some problems fighting the Haley said two major problems hampered firefighters' attempts to. extinguish the blaze. One problem vas a double roof In the building's front hall area and another was a lack of water pressure, According to Haley, a dead air space between the first and second Riley Darnell Will Head Senate Ethics Committee By WARREN CAUSEY -Editorial Page Editor "State Sen." Riley Darnell, D-Clarksville, has been named chairman of the Senate Ethics Committee, vice-chairman of the Transportation Committee and a -member of the Finance Ways and Means Committee. But he must await a vote of (he entire Cenate to determine if he will be returned to the chairman1 ship of the powerful Joint Fiscal Review Committee, which he headed for six years as a member of -the state House of Representatives. Darnell received his committee appointments Thursday, along with a promise from Lt.

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