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P- If" Tips for student In search of the male10' Manvvatching in Chicago Lifestyle Gene Siskel's guide to 40 summer films travelers Indy preview Sports- Europe en a budget Travel Opening dates, previews Arts Fun Final Edition I ft 1 1 Sunday, May 25, 1980 75i 133d Yeer-No. 146 1M0 CMcags Tribune It Sections The explosion of cable TV Japanese join U.S. boycott of Olympics Story on page 3 Islanders win Stanley Cup In Sports Technological progress has advanced the concept of the "electronic city," with television playing a growing role. In this article, the first in a four-part series, Tribune writer Rogers Worthington examines the growth and potential of cable TV and Its effects on the public. calls up her bank account, and pays a few bills.

Upstairs, 6-year-old Linda is tuned into Nickleodeon, the 13-hour-a-day all children's channel. She is learning how balloons work. There are no junk food commercials to interrupt the program. In fact there are no commercials at all. MICHAEL, 16, IS watching the end of a Blondie concert on his direct-to- home stereo satellite receiver.

When the concert ends, Michael changes the channel to call up the card catalog of the suburb's public library so he can begin work on a term paper due next week. Downstairs, Ed and Carolyn are trying to choose among a just-closed Continued on page 12, col. 1 By Rogers Worthington THE BRODSKY FAMILY is settling down to spend the evening in its suburban Chicago home. It is 7:30 and Ed tunes the television set to a special channel Local and network newscasts are over, but he knows he can get national and international news any hour on the Cable News Network. section of the Yellow Pages appears on the screen.

Electronically she "flips through" them until she finds the store she wants. Then she turns the dial, His wife, Carolyn, is using another TV set to plan the next day's shopping activities. She pushes a few buttons on a small console, and the housewares M1J(! featari potent than Where the earth exploded a view of Mt. St. Helens Mn anisi lopograpmc mogei w1 what we've seen' Mt.

Rainierf HMtAdamsy-. 'J Outlet of Spirit Lake blocked by mud, rocks may cause additional flooding 3 "a it I f' ,5 I Morton l- 1 Mt. St. Helens; elevation (before eruption), 9,677 Mt. St.

Helens; elevation fhatnra Dn nnnn TT twf.s., -W 11 1::: T. By Lynn Emmerman POTENT WHITE heroin from Iran is appearing in increasing amounts in the Chicago area and police predict a major increase in heroin-related deaths, The Tribune has learned. In the last two months, police at O'Hare International Airport have seized millions of dollars worth of 85-per-cent pure white heroin smuggled here by Iranian nationals, according to the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration. "For years we've been warning that white heroin is coming to Chicago.

Well, it's here. And it's more potent and readily available than anything we've seen in the past four years," said Charles Hill, deputy regional director for the DEA. Hill said the arrival of the Iranian product will bring a higher rate of heroin addiction, overdoses, and heroin-related deaths. "SOUTHWEST ASIAN heroin is tremendously more potent than the brown Mexican product that dominated the market in the '70s," he said. Iran, Afghanistan, and Pakistan grew 1,600 metric tons of opium in 1979, enough to produce about 160 metric tons of pure heroin.

Last year, white herein flooded Europe and began showing up in New York City. Although Iran has made no attempts to control the problem, Pakistan introduced martial law to stymie opium growers and smugglers. Federal authorities believe that the Russian invasion of Afghanistan will curtail that country's production. BUT DEA AGENTS admit that "nothing can stop" the flood of United States-bound white heroin. The market and the distribution network are established too firmly.

The quality of brown heroin has been deteriorating steadily since 1978 when the DEA and local authorities stepped up their spraying efforts in the Mexican opium fields. Sloppy heroin refining Continued on page 10, col. 1 I U.S. Hwy. Y-ft I Cowlitz rV.

MudflowsJ bottom raised PTTTWS pSi" C0St -Enouap trees to I I oe il NsJ.f -Vs 1 build 200,000 homes 1 00. Temperature two feet knocked down i I kWV' 'Z below surface 147 )S. jfaJifcL -r areas 1 1 4r NSJ 4 1 World Court orders release of hostages Tribune graphic by Ray Sn.emon Sources: U.S. Geological Survey, Tribune wire services Day 203 ry it Volcano's fury reshapes the land Eruptions from Mt. St.

Helens, one reaching 20,000 feet, spread ash over towns south of the mountain. Page 2. From Tribune Wire Services THE HAGUE, Netherlands-The International Court of Justice Saturday, unanimously Iran to release the American hostages and declared in a split decision that Iran must pay damages to the United States. Iran, which claipis the World Court has no jurisdiction in the case, ignored an earlier ruling demanding the release of the 53 hostages and is expected to do the same now. In Tehran, Ayatollah Moussavi Arde-bili, a prominent Revolutionary Council member and Iran's prosecutor-general, said the judgment of the court was "meaningless," because only one party In the dispute participated.

In Washington, the Slate Department called on Iran to comply with the order and said, "The decision, which is binding on Iran, constitutes the most authoritative determination that the takeover of the embassy and the holding of the debris, and chunks of glacier, and they probably will never be found, the mountain sent a cloud of fine quartz ash into the Earth's atmosphere. That cloud, say scientists at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Ames Research Center near San Francisco, will remain high in the stratosphere for two years. The implications of that phenomenon already have scientists worried. "NOT ONXY could that cloud cause a one-degree drop in the Earth's mean temperature," observed one govern- Continued on page 6, col. 3 By Ronald Yates Chicago Trlbunt Press Strvlci TOUTLE, Wash.

The old man with the two-day growth of white stubble on bis face followed the flight of a hawk as it soared above the upper end of the Toutle River Valley in a vain search for prey. "Ain't much left out there for man or beast," said Chet Huls. "The old lady took care of that." The "old lady," as the 68-year-old retired lumberjack called her, is Mt. St. Helens, about 60 miles north of Vancouver, and Portland, hostages were and are flagrantly unlawful." The court, the judicial arm of the United Nations, said the seizure of the hostages by Iranian militants and the endorsement of their action by the Iranian government demonstrate "successive and continuing breaches" by Iran of its obligations under international conventions and the treaty between Iran and the United States.

IN A 12 to 3 vote, the 15-justice court said Iran is obligated to pay damages to the United States. But the justices left Continued on page 5, col. mountain's name to just plain Helen-she jre ain't no saint," said Walter Glinss, 55, who moved to the Toutle Biver Valley from Oshkosh, three yoars ago. Indeed, there was nothing saintly about Mt. St.

Helens' behavior a week Awesome might be a better description. In addition to the human casualties most of the missing are believed to be buried under tons of mud, volcanic whose eruption last week left many people dead or missing. The force of the eruption ripped more than 1,300 feet from the top of the mountain, almost instantly reducing it from 9,677 feet fifth tallest in the state to about 8,400 30th tallest. Once-green meadows and lush undulating forests were turned into bubbling seas of black volcanic rock and mud. "I TIIINK we should change that 'People riot when they feel totally alienated' A special report on Miami Information for this article was collected by Tribune reporters Douglas Frantz, John O'Brien, Carol Oppenheim, Barbara Reynolds, John White, Ronald Yates, and James Yuenger.

It was written by Yuenger. Dade County State Atty. Janet Reno has found herself in the center of the racial controversy that has swept Miami. Page 14. Index Arts i'jfun SecV 6 AutoGulde Sec.15 Business Sec.

Classified Index Sec. 4, p. 16 Job Guide See. 15 Lifestyle Sec. 12 Real Estate Sec.

14 Travel Sec. Detailed Index on page 2 Weather CHICAGO AND VICINITY: Sunday! Fog lifting, becoming partly sunny; liiiih around 73 24 C. Sunday night: Partly cloudy; low around 58 114 C. Map and other reports on page 16, Sec. 3.

Houston's only black congressman, was in Miami last Monday and Tuesday to assess the situation for the Congressional Black Caucus. "The similarity of problems in Miami and Houston is shocking," he said. "Without question, all the elements that led to violence In Miami are present in Houston." While Leland's comment was echoed in many cities, few people are willing to say violence is certain. Some feared making self-fulfilling predictions. Others pointed out that a unique set of circumstances lay behind Miami's rioting.

THE SPECIFIC EVENT that triggered the rioting was the case of Arthur McDuffle, 33, a black insurance agent who died last December. Though police claimed he died is a. motorcycle crash while they chased him for a traffic violation, his body showed signs of a severe beating. v. Several policemen were implicated, and five were brought to trial.

Charges against one officer were droppedand the other four, all white, were acquitted on Saturday, May 17, by an all-white Jury. When word of the verdict filtered into the black ghettos of Miami, the rioting began. It left 16 people dead, hundreds injured, and property damage estimated Continued on page 14, col. 1 "Last year, when you asked people what was happening, they would say things were cool. Now they say it's rough." David Strong THINGS ARE rough indeed for David Strong, a 24-year-old black man who 'was just a kid when the 1968 riots -swirled around his home in the Lawn-dale neighborhood on Chicago's West Side.

He doesn't remember much about the riots, but he knows plenty about unemployment. Ho has been looking for a job since he was laid off as a men's clothing salesman in January. He has more than a dozen friends and relatives who have been out of work since last year. There are tens of thousands, perhaps hundreds of thousands, of people like David Strong all across the nation. Like many of the people who rioted in Miami last week, they are black and out of work.

IN THE WAKE of the unrest In Miami, the nation is beginning to ask itself if it contains a human tinderbox that could spark another round of strife like that in the 1960s that sent flames and gunfire through communities from Washington to Watts. U.S. Rep. Mickey Leland 4 v1 1.

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