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Did Braves Err I Stress Is Roundfield Leads On Horner On Fitness Hawks' Victory Story, Page LD Story, Page LB Story, Poge 1-D ANTA CONSTITUTION THE ATI FIFTEEN CENTS Price May Be Higher Outside Retail Trading Zone For 1 10 Years the South's Standard Newspaper ATLANTA, CA. 30302, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1978 76 PACES, 6 SECTIONS irirkirir VOL 1 1 1, NO. 136 P.O. BOX 4689 Vfj jTh trj jts 1 Ov lOOOO Taiwanese MoB ti ii if za j- 0 The Carter action, which Sen. Barry Goldwater, R-Arit, and 14 congressional colleagues challenged last Friday in a U.S.

District Court suit, is a precondition for normalizing U.S. relations with the People's Republic of China on New Year's Day. Carter and Secretary of State Cyrus Vance are the lone defendants named in the suit The administration is preparing to respond to the suit, both along the historical lines set forth in the Hansell memo-See TAIWAN, Page ISA moved to another location. Officials would not say where. The U.S.

delegation is scheduled to hold a series of meeting before leaving Friday. The State Department filed a strong protest with the Taiwanese. Assistant secretary of state for the Far East, Richard Holbrooke, said the Taiwanese expressed regret over the incident and that President Chiang Ching-kuo pledged that the safety of the delegation will be assured. Holbrooke said the United States holds the Taiwan government "completely re- sponsible" for the safety of the American mission. Meanwhile, the State Department's legal division, reaching back to the Founding Fathers and then tracing American history to the present, says President Carter has the right, "acting alone," to terminate the U.S.

defense treaty with Taiwan. "The Senate's role in giving advice and consent to the making of the treaty is fulfilled when the treaty is made," said an internal memorandum prepared by Herbert J. Hansell, the department's legal adviser. but no windows were broken. They waved posters mirroring their hostility to President Carter's Dec.

15 announcement that Washington will cut its ties with Taiwan and establish diplomatic relations with the People's Republic of China on Jan. 1. They "Carter Go Home to Sell Your Peanuts," "Carter Is a Fool" and "Carter Is a Liar." Thursday morning the- Americans were to meet Premier Sun Yun-sua at the Foreign Ministry, but seveal thousand youths gathered there, singing patriotic songs, and the conference was diplomat were "very slightly" cut by flying glass when their car was attacked. "Clearly this frightening incident marred our visit," Cannon said. "Clearly it rased a serious question whether we can proceed with these negotiations." The youthful demonstrators shouted anti-American slogans and threw rocks, eggs, oranges and tomatoes at the vehicles carrying the six-member official party led by Deputy Secretary of State Warren Christopher.

Some demonstrators, waving Nationalist Chinese flags, kicked and beat on the cars, bending fenders and door panels, From Prm DHotlctw TAIPEI, Taiwan An almost hysterical crowd of 10,000 angry Taiwanese Wednesday mobbed the motorcade of a VS. delegation when it arrived in the Nationalist Chinese capital to arrange for continued contacts after Washington normalizes relations with Peking Jan. 1. The delegation here to try and ease Washington's severance of diplomatic relations with Taiwan may cancel negotiations because of the violent demonstrations, a spokesman said. The spokesman, Jack Cannon, said the VS.

ambassador and a State Department a i The prime suspect is John Wayne Gacy, a construction company owner whose sex-crime record has been hidden behind the masks of a clown, public servant and father of two children Keaclh Fever Pitehs'S-Die ex-layin I 4 A 1 3 Body Count Rises To 15 ill M. OPPONENTS IN WIFE-RAPE TRIAL John And Greta Rideout From Prtw Oltpttdwt CHICAGO Investigators using trowels and garden tools Wednesday unearthed the skeletal remains of six more bodies beneath the borne of John Wayne Gacy, who faces one murder charge and is suspected in the sex-slayihgs of 32 young men and boys. The bodies-lying face up, some with underwear stuffed in their mouths-were found in the muddy crawl space beneath the Gacy home in northwest suburban Norwood Park Township. The discovery brought to IS the number of bodies found there. Gary told police that he buried 27 bodies beneath the house and threw five other bodies in a river.

The Chicago Tribune reported in Thursday's editions police are using a map drawn by Gacy to locate the bodies under his house. "So far, the map has been completely accurate," said one investigator. "We have no doubt that we will find 27 bodies in the places he has shown us." Cook County Sheriffs Sgt Howard Anderson compared the crime to the 1966 sex slayings of eight student nurses in Chicago for which Richard Speck was convicted. "Speck's was a slaughter, though," Anderson said. "This is more grisly because we're just pulling op bones and pieces of flesh." Behind the masks of a clown, of public service and of fatherhood was evidence of something terribly wrong with John Wayne Gacy.

But it was ignored until skeletons were found beneath his home. He was convicted, of sodomy with a 16-year-old boy In 1968. He was accused of attempting to rape a teen-age boy in 1971 and of raping a 27-year-old Chicago man last March. At least three times, parents gave Gacy's name in filing missing persons reports on their teen-age sons. His former mother-in-law said she had complained to Gacy that his house smelted "like dead rats." See BODIES, Page 17-A il ni fi mm mff (J From Prtu DitMtehtt TEHRAN, Iran Anti-government protesters, some of them armed, fought bloody street battles with the shah's weary troops Wednesday in what the opposition called a "decisive" stage in Iran's non-stop violence.

An oil workers' strike cut production to near zero and the government imposed fuel rationing on this oil-rich Witnesses said at least eight persons were killed when troops opened fire on a funeral procession for a slain university teacher and on a downtown demonstration by protesters shouting "execute the American shah!" and "Carter gives the arms, the shah kills the people!" The funeral procession for the university teacher was officially sanctioned, and troops attacked it by mistake, panicking after an initial blunder left an army officer dead. Other demonstrators-estimates of their numbers ranged from thousands to tens of thousands-ran riot through the city, taunting troops, overturning cars and buses and setting bonfires. Iranian airline pilots joined the crippling walkout by oil workers seeking to topple Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi and declared a "total and indefinite" strike. Pan American Airways canceled all of its flights in and out of Iran "because it is just too dangerous for people to get to the airport," a spokesman said. Cameo Oil Company of Houston, Texas, sent a chartered plane to Kharg Island to pick up 32 expatriate workers, most of them Americans, and evacuate them to Tehran.

"There is no one left on the island, not even the Iranians," said an American evacuee. Abdullah Entezam, president of the Iranian National Oil Company, the petroleum monopoly of the world's second-largest producer, announced that oil rationing would go into effect on Friday. With production virtually shut down a palace spokesman said it would be zero on Friday industry sources reported Iran had about a week's fuel reserves for heating and transportation. Western analysts said the domestic fuel crisis would have greater effect on the life-expectancy of the shah's regime than would the street demonstrations. Two diplomats said the situation had come to a point that seemed to be foresee IRAN, Page A Jury Acquits Husband Of Raping Wife From Prtu Dtoalchet SALEM, Ore.

John Rideout, the first man in the United States to be tried on a charge of raping his wife while they were married and living together, was found innocent Wednesday. A jury of eight women and four men returned a unanimous verdict acquitting' Rideout, whose wife had accused him of rape under a new state law that did away with marriage as a defense. "I'm so nervous I can't say anything but that I'm happy," said. Rideout, 21, a restaurant "I'm just going home -and going back to work." "Both of us have been hurt pretty deeply," he said about himself and his wife. "It will be a long, long while before either of us gets over it" Attociated Prtu Pholoi John Wayne Gacy: In His Gown Costume And (Inset) On Day Of Arrest GDG: Workers' Lead Intake Too High wife, Greta, 23, following an argument in Oct 10 in the couple's apartment She has since filed for divorce.

Mrs. Rideout who was asleep at a friend's house when the verdict was announced, said later, "I think men who are probably a lot worse than John will be sitting back and snickering." "It was right what I did, but whether it was worth it or not I'm not sure," she said. "The verdict of not guilty means the law does not exist The facts pointed to him being guilty. They (the jurors) went on emotions." See TRIAL, Page lt-A sponded Wednesday by saying that the levels of lead in the blood of their employees are within federal requirements. The required levels, however, seem to be a matter of confusion.

Southwire spokesman Bill Fordham had said earlier in the day that 28 of the total of 290 employees tested by CDC had blood-lead levels exceeding 60 micrograms, which he believed to be the federal ceiling. Southwire Executive Vice President James Griffin said later, however, that he thought the maximum allowable was 80 micrograms. Griffin added that he and the head of the copper division realized that there was some confusion, since their company had an in-house requirement of 60. New federal requirements of 40 micrograms of lead in the blood will take effect Feb. 1, 1979.

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) lowered the recommended allowable lead content in the blood from 60 micrograms to 40 micrograms, according to CDC researcher Dr. Phillip Landrigan. Dr. Landrigan said that 40 micrograms is a level dangerous to the nerv- -ous system. The most seriously affected area of, the copper division is the blast-furnace operation, in which 95 percent of the See LEAD, Page 17-A By Leslie Hawkins Henderson ConttUulkxi Stiff Writ Preliminary results of a Center for Disease Control investigation show that nearly half of the employees working in the copper division of the Southwire Corp.

in CarroHton have excessive lead levels in their blood, a CDC spokesman reported Wednesday. Officials of Southwire, one of the largest employers in West Georgia, re Inside .4 vv'Vl I Thieves Grab $3 Million In Cezanne Oils GOOD MORNING. Thursday in Georgia will be partly cloudy and cool. Highs will range in the 40s and low 50s; lows from the upper 20s to the mid-40s. Details on 2-A i V- M.

jt- VSi Talmadge Probe May Revamp Rules By Seth Kantor Coratitutlon WiiNnglon Burtmi WASHINGTON At least three new rules or rules changes in the U.S. Senate could be expected to emerge next year when the Senate Ethics Committee wraps up its probe into the knotty financial affairs of Sen. Herman E. Talmadge, D-Ga. Meanwhile, one of the ethics committee members doesn't want to stick around that long.

He's Sen. Charles Mathias, who says he sees "no necessity" for the present ethics panel to continue its investigation of Talmadge. Mathias is among the most liberal of the six senators on the committee, according to his established voting record, and he maintains that serving as an ethics member is "an extremely difficult extremely distasteful job, but it has to be done," That has been his feeling at least since last April when Sen. Lowell Weicker, abruptly left the committee, charging it was not vigorously following through in its probe of alleged bribes to senators from Korean agents. v.

See TALMADGE, Page 17-A Algerian Chief Boumedicnne Reported Dead Page 10-A i. CHICAGO (UPI) Three oil paintings by the renowned 19th century French artist Paul Cezanne, valued at about $3 million, were discovered stolen Wednesday from the Art Institute of Chicago, museum officials reported. It was the second art theft from the museum in 10 days, and follows the Christmas Eve theft of a $1 million Rembrandt painting from the De Young museum in San Francisco. "We are deeply distressed by this terrible event" said E. Laurence Chalmers museum president "Cezanne Is one of the most important painters in the See THEFT, Page 11-A LEAVES POWER VACUUM Honari Boumedierme j1 KJJt.i Auoclatid Prtu Photo, 6-B 3-B 1-B Sports 1-D TV 10-B Want Ads 7-C 2-B 4-A Bridge 2-B 9-D Grizzard.

1-C Comics. 4-C Gulliver 4-A 4-C. 2-B Deaths 4-C Cezanne's 'Apples On A Table Part Of Art Institute Loot (.7.

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