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uson, Flanagan It z1 it rl Pyburn Moves To Tailback Story, Page 1-D The Wooing Of Mayor Jackson Frederick Allen, Page 1-C Series Starters Story, Page l-D ON ANTA CONSTITUTE THE ATL For 111 Years the South' Standard Newspaper ATLANTA, CA. 30302, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1979 TWENTY CENTS Price May Be Higher Outside Retail Trading Zone VOL 1 12, NO. 80 P.O. BOX 4689 56 PACES, 4 SECTIONS 3 erotis5 Iiicaa'xes Escape FuboE Jail Smith jumped from her car and into another car, a Maverick, which was occupied by Denise Bellagamba and her 5-year-old son. After forcing the second woman to drive him downtown, the fugi-' tive fled her car in the area of the down-' town Municipal Market At one point in the ride, Bolton said, Smith ordered his to slop and get a soft drink for her son, who was complaining of thirst Bolton said that there were no verbal threats, but the man did hold a gun on her.

Smith, who was serving a life sentence, almost got the death penalty for the Oct 2 slaying of Galanti, according; to Assistant Fulton District Attorney; Russell Parker. He said the jury that convicted Smith last March 28 of murder and armed robbery decided not to impose the death penalty on Smith. See ESCAPEES, Page A gun to the woman driver's head and ordering her to drive around Atlanta, according to Atlanta homicide Sgt H.L. Bolton. The pair drove west on Bankhead Highway.

v-' Before they drove away, one deputy fired, at the tires, possibly causing the flat tire which caused Smith to jump from his hostage's car at Chappel Road and Simpson Street a short time later. The hostage was identified as Evelyn Wicker, 43, of a Cato Street address. at King's Grocery Store at 559 Boulevard Nil; and Geveland Reed, 26, of Decatur, who was being held on drug charges. Police identified Smith' as the escapee who abducted the women and the child. Reed and Gwin, meanwhile, fled on foot and also remained at large Monday night Smith commandeered a car waiting in traffic at Bankhead Highway and jumped inside the back seat, putting he was caught before he could get out of the jail parking lot The three escapees were identified as Robert Gwin, 26, of Atlanta, who had been convicted of murder in Tennessee but was pardoned there by former Gov.

Ray Blanton and was subsequently convicted of armed robbery in Atlanta; James Arvel Smith, 30, of Gadsden, who was an Alabama prison escapee when he and two other men robbed and killed Atlanta grocer Morris S. Galanti By George Rodrigue and GaU Epstein ConjtiMloa Staff Wrltarr A nationwide alert was in effect Monday night for three men described as "dangerous as the devil" who staged a daylight escape from the Fulton County Jail's library. One of the escapees abducted two women and a child as he fled, hut all were released unharmed. A fourth man attempted to escape, but PASSAGE FORECAST Mossia Warns KfAlO Off New Afbus Mace Warsaw Pact ff Infantry 71 OWteiona Combat Plan 2,800 'Resurrect i J6bs. Tax By Tl.

Wells ComlitutiM Staff Wrlltr A proposal to levy an occupational tax on everyone work- tng within Atlanta's city limits will be revived this week by several Atlanta City Council members, who predict the council will pass the tax next Monday. Based on earnings, the proposal would put a tax of between $24 and $198 annually on Atlanta workers regardless of where they live. The measure, which would bring an estimated $30 million to the city annually, has languished in the City Council's Finance Committee for the past few months while city officials awaited the outcome of a Fulton County referen-' dum on a 1 percent local-option sales tax. 1 Fulton voters overwhelmingly rejected the sales tax Oct. 2, prompting the author of the occupational tax, Councilman James Howard, to renew the push for the job tax.

"I don't anticipate any problems" with getting support for the measure, Howard said. "It will be passed (by the council) on Monday." Ha first proposed the tax last May. Several other council members said Monday that they would not be surprised if Howard can muster the votes for passage at Monday's meeting. Guv. Geuige Buauee and several leaders of (lie General Assembly have predicted the legislature will act immediately.

upon convening in January to eliminate the city's power to im- pose the occupational tax. See TAX, Page 7-A Amtrak Allowed To Halt Trains From Prm Dispatches Art!" try 5,000 4 u.s.s.r. I i 'jJ pound 3 lf i IAST 1 "7. xt "I i- AUSTRIA 1 LsySJT'J HUNCMY v. SPAIN a'-' -jxjr NATO Countrltt r.

Greece, a NATO member, has withdrawn its troops from NATO command. Albania and -Yugoslavia, although Communist, are not Warsaw Pact members. From Prest Dispatch MOSCOW Western failure to respond to Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev's newly announced military cutback proposals could "plunge Europe into a new dangerous round of the arms race," a joint Soviet-East German communique said Monday. The statement went on to say that NATO plans to station new American- made nuclear missiles in Western Europe would "enhance the risk of nuclear war." The warning was contained in a communique issued by Brezhnev and East German head of state Erich Honecker after the Soviet leader's five-day stay in East Germany. The statement followed and repeated Brezhnev's surprise announcement in East Berlin Saturday of a unilateral Soviet forces cut in East Germany and his offer to negotiate the number of nuclear i Europe with the West.

The official Soviet news agency Tass distributed the communique upon Brezhnev's return to Moscow after his trip to East Germany to help commemorate the 30th anniversary of the founding of the Communist state. "In the present situation, grave importance attaches to the question of plans being worked out by the countries of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization to station new American medium-range nuclear missiles in Western Europe, to be targeted on the territories of the socialist countries," the communique said. "The United States and the Federal Republic of West Germany, who are particularly persistent in pushing forward those plans, are playing a dangerous game," the statement said. "A new turn in the spiraling of the arms race would Tender a severe blow to detente and would enhance the risk of a nuclear war," it continued. "A historic responsibility rests on the leaders of the NATO countries," the communique continued.

"The nations are awaiting an answer on whether the leaders of the NATO countries will follow -the good example of the Soviet Union with their own constructive steps, or whether they will rather push Europe into a new dangerous phase of the arms race." In a speech Saturday in East Berlin, Brezhnev had disclosed that the Soviet Union would withdraw 20,000 Red Army troops and 1,000 Soviet tanks from East German territory within a year. While See SOVIETS, Page 8-A Brezhnev Mouths Same Song Used To Halt Neutron Bomb Analysis paign to rival the successful one directed against deployment of the enhanced-radia- -tion weapon, or neutron bomb, two years ago. But the main points of Moscow's arguments are unlikely to be changed. Brezhnev's starting point was" that there is a "balance of forces" in Europe. In terms of military divisions, however, the Warsaw Pact nations are well ahead of NATO in the key areas of central and north- era Europe.

The Eastern bloc deploys 71 division there, 45 of which are from the Soviet Union, against 27 divisions by. West according to The. Military Balance" published by the International Institute for -Strategic Studies in London, Four airfleets with a total of about 2,800 planes support the Soviet forces in central Europe. Two other airfleets, one based near Murmansk and the other near Leningrad, would be used in any operations against Norway and Denmark, NATO's most northerly members. i-: See ANALYSIS, Page 8-A WASHINGTON Amtrak won U.S.

Supreme Court per-' mission Monday to halt operations, at least temporarily, of the Floridian and two other money-losing passenger trains out of Chicago. Justice Byron White issued a brief order Monday overturning a 0th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals' decision that had kept the three trains running in the face of Amtrak plans to shut them down. That decision, made last Friday, had permitted the Chicago-to-Miami Floridian, the Chicago-to-Houston Lone Star, and the Chicago-to-Seattle North Coast Hiawatha to continue their routes until an Oct 26 hearing for a preliminary injunc- 'tion. The Floridian stops at Waycross, Valdosta and Thomas-i ville in Georgia.

9-- Presumably, that hearing on the lawsuit's merits will he conducted and its result can be appealed to the full Supreme Court "We feel it would have been better if we had had a chance to be neard, and we expected to be heard," said Kansas Attorney General Robert Stephan, who along with representatives of See AMTRAK, Page 7-A By Drew Middleton Th New York Tlmn Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev has fired the first salvo of a diplomatic and propaganda campaign to discourage the deployment of medium-range ballistic missiles in Western Europe by the North Atlantic alliance. The missiles would be supplied by the United States. In the view of United States and NATO analysts, Brezhnev's weekend speech in East Berlin provides some insight into how the Soviet leadership wishes the West and third-world nations to view Soviet defense policy. These sources emphasized that this view is a good deal different from what they say are the realities of the situation. In a speech marking the 30th anniversary of the founding of East Germany, Brezhnev said the Soviet Union would with-: draw up to 20,000 troops and 1,000 tanks from East Germany during the next 12 months, but he warned that the deployment of new American-made nuclear missiles in Western Europe "would radically alter the strategic situation on the continent" A great deal more is bound to be heard from Pravda, Izvestia and other powerful organs of Soviet propaganda.

NATO officials in Europe last week expected the cam- Chomeini Veils Women Joan The vis Denies Testimony She Delivered Funds For 'EiV Rights In AhcieM Lmvs .1 In this last portion of her interview with the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, Italian Journalist Oriana Fallaci beards the Iranian religious leader about women's rights. By Sam Hopkins ComNtutton Staff WriMr ROME Joan Thevis, the attractive ex-wife of Mike Thevis, testified during Thevis's racketeering trial here Monday that she never took $8,000 in cash to Thevis while he was in a hospital recovering from motorcycle Injuries to 1973. Her testimony on behalf of the defense was in direct contradiction to that of prosecu tion witness Leon Walters last month. Walters told the jury here on Sept 20 that Mrs. Thevis did bring that amount to Thevis, and that some of the money was legedly used to pay for the bombing murder of Atlanta peep-show operator Jimmy Mayes on Sept 13, 1973, while Thevis was in the hospital.

Walters had testified that he was told to give $3,500 of the $8,000 to Roger Dean See THEVIS, Page 8-A By Oriana Fallaci Special to tht Constitution 1 CopyrWit 1W, br Oriana FaKad Fallaci: There are many things I 'still want to ask yon. For this chador that they made me put on to come to you, and which yon insist all women must wear. Tell me, why do you force them to hide themselves, all bundled op under these uncomfortable and absurd garments, making it bard to work and move about? And yet even here women have demonstrated that they are equal te men. They fought just like the men, were imprisoned and tortured. They too helped to make the revolution.

Khomeini: The women who contributed to the revolution were and are, women with the Islamic dress, not elegant women all made up 1 rr distract men and upset them. Then they distract and upset even other women. That's not true, Imam. In any case, I -am not only talking about a piece of clothing, but what it represents. That is, the condition of segregation Into which women have been cast once again, after the revolution.

The fact that they can't study at university with men, work with men, for example, or go to the beach or to swimming pool with men. They have to take a dip apart in their chadors. By the way, how do you swim in a chador? This is none of your business. Our customs are none of your business. If you do not like blamia dress you not to wsr it because Islamic dreca is for g.od and proper young worien.

list's very kind cf yon, laiam. GOOD MORNING. Tuesday in Georgia will be partly cloudy with a chance of widely-scattered showers bv evening. Details on Page 2-A. like you, Who go around all uncovered, dragging behind them a tail of men.

The coquettes who put on makeup and go into the street s'oing off their, necks, their hair, they shapes, did not figfit asainnt the shah. They Guerrillas Reject New Zimbabwe Constitution Page 6(1 Abhy 2-B Dooowbury. 5-A 13-A Editorials Movies 4'B Newsmakers. 2-B Sibley. 1-S Sports 1-D TV $6-B 4-A never did anything good, not They do not know how to be, useful, neither socially, nor politically, nor professionally.

And this is 'so because, by they 3-C 7-Ii Deaths 7-D horoscope sUnd Militant Iranian women wearing ctadars guard at a rights rally in Tehran earlier yf ar. SseKUN, Page 7-A-.

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