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Is Time Running Out NBC: Looking Sk For A Drawing Card mWk People, Page UB For Ex-Jacket Drummer? Sports, Page 1-D MORNING STREET EDITION THE ATLANTA CONSTITUTIOK For 113 Years the South' Standard Newspaper ATLANTA, CA. 30302, TUESDAY, JUNE 23, 1 98 1 TWENTY-FIVE CENTS 48 PACES, 4 SECTIONS VOL. 1 1 4, NO. 6 P.O. BOX 4689 MAETA Board Kaie Fare To 60 Cents Four of MARTA's board members, however, opposed the fare increases.

Three Dr. Joseph E. Lowery, Lyndon A. Wade and John Evans offered one resolution Monday opposing the hikes. And Malcomb S.

Murray Sr. introduced a second opposing resolution. Lowery, speaking for Wade and Evans as well, said, "This authority faces a crisis that might well have been averted with bold and aggressive pursuit of certain objectives vital to maintenance of a low fare, continuance of services at a reasonable level, and continued construction to complete the system. Unfortunately, this has not been the case." The problem, according to Lowery, is that the board did not press hard enough with the General Assembly to get the proper flexibility to use the sales tax monies collected in Fulton and DeKalb counties for MARTA use. That money about $111 million annually can only be used for construction costs and not for salaries, Lowery explained.

"This board has chosen to pursue a course of political expediency rather than fiscal realism and moral responsibility," said Lowery. Lowery also said that MARTA has refused to study the feasibility of graduated fares; reduced rates on certain trips, and ways to counter illegal use of transfers that are substituted by some riders for full fare. "Let us take immediate steps to challenge this community, our employees (union and non-union) and respective govern-, ments to understand the crisis and make temporary saTifiees See MARTA, Page ii-A went from 25 cents to 30 cents; out of county routes from 75 cents to 90 cents, and the Six Flags Shuttle from $1 to $1.25. Alan Kiepper, MARTA's general manager, warned that further fare hikes will be necessary if contract negotiations with MARTA's bus drivers' union give the workers any increase in salaries. The current contract with the union Expires on June 27.

"I must emphasize again that this fare schedule is based upon a continuation of union labor and benefit costs. If the final contract increases costs in any way, then additional fare increases will be necessary," said Kiepper. Kiepper said wages make up 73 percent of MARTA's operating costs and that average bus driver salaries of "between $24,000 and $25,000" make fare hikes July 1 inescapable. By Joe Brown Constitution Staff Writer MARTA's board of directors, by a 10-4 vote, gave final approval Monday to a 60-cent cash fare to go into effect on July 1 for toe Atlanta transit system's bus and rapid rail riders. The 10-cent-per-ride increase over the current 50-cent fare is part of MARTA's $109.5 million operating budget for fiscal 1982, which was also adopted by the directors Monday.

MARTA last raised its basic fare, from 25 cents to 50 cents, last year. The 1982 budget document also raises weekly TransCard rates from $4 to $5, and monthly TransCards from $17 to $21. In addition, the stadium shuttle service fare was raised from 75 cents to 90 cents; senior citizen and handicapped fares pecial Prosecutor Wai mMered Busbee, Mayor Wanted Action On Slayings WS L.j:: MM Ci 1: I If I i By George Rodrigue and Frederick Allen Constitution Staff Writers Gov. George Busbee and Atlanta Mayor May-nard Jackson agreed late last week that if Fulton County District Attorney Lewis R. Slaton did not act against Wayne B.

Williams, appointing a special prosecutor to handle the case would be "a very viable alternative," one official close to the probe said Monday. Officials said the threat did not lead directly to Slaton's decision Sunday afternoon to authorize the arrest of Williams on a murder charge, but they A prelimary hearing tor Wayne Williams is scheduled for Tuesday. Page 10-A. Fear hasnt left Atlanta's young blacks. Page Task Force Team Combs Williams' Home For Clues By Gail Epstein and Emily Ellison Constitution Staff Writers More than a half-dozen police conducted a detailed search of Wayne Williams' home for lOVfc hours Monday and early Tuesday, looking for "anything that might connect Williams" to the slayings of young blacks in Atlanta, officials said.

Williams was arrested and charged Sunday afternoon with murder in connection with the death of 27-year-old Nathaniel Cater, the most recent of 28 young black slaying victims in 23 months in Atlanta. While Williams was lodged in an isolation cell in the Fulton County jail, representatives of the evidence team of the Atlanta police special task force investigating the slayings t- including the State Crime Lab, Fulton County District Attorney's office, Fulton County police, Georgia Bureau of Investigation and FBI executed the search warrant from 2 p.m. Monday until 12:30 a.m. "Tuesday, 10ft hours. Authorities carried bags of material from Williams' home at 1817 Penelope Road N.W.

As investigators left the home, they used two vans, one from the Fulton County Police Department and the other from the Atlanta Bureau of Police Services, to carry off the items that they had collected. State crime lab technicians clad in white coats and gloves emerged occasionally during the night from the house to talk with task force officers. One technician had a mask over his face used to prevent fingerprint dust from entering his nasal passages. See FIBERS, Page 10-A Staff Photo Cheryl Bray Attorney Mary Welcome Watches From Driveway As Investigators Search Client Wayne Williams' Home Court Rules Nixon Liable For Wiretapping Ban On Mixing Booze And Nudes Upheld added that the understanding between Jackson and Busbee was only part of a wave of federal state and local police and political pressure for an arrest "The argument that it was time to put up or shut up was very strong," one official said, adding that the politicians felt that "if the Fulton County district attorney won't seek an indictment, we'll find someone who will" Slaton himself said Monday that political pressure was not involved in his decision to authorize an arrest of Williams. "Pressure or politics did not figure into the timing (of the arrest) at all" he said.

Asked whether he had been told a special prosecutor would be assigned to the case if he failed to arrest Williams, Slaton said there had never been a discussion of such an appointment "I don't know anything about a special prosecutor," he said. Mayor Jackson, in Savannah for the Georgia Municipal Association meeting, declined to say why he called Busbee on Saturday and again on Sunday immediately after the arrest Asked about reports that Slaton was pressured, Jackson said, "My understanding was that the pA made up his own mind about which we were very pleased." Williams was arrested around 5 p.m. Sunday and charged with murder in connection with the slaying of Nathaniel Cater, the latest victim in a string of killings claiming the lives of 28 young blacks. Officials said the arrest came after police received lab reports firming up fiber evidence linking Williams to Cater and after Williams led police on a chase around town Saturday night See ARREST. Pace 10-A gia Co.

in Marietta, Ga. The court's 4-4 vote Monday in the domestic spying case kept alive lawsuits against Nixon, former Attorney General John Mitchell ex-White House aide H.R. Haldeman and Henry Kissinger, former secretary of state and national security adviser. Now, the case returns to a federal trial court where former national security aide Morton Halperin will try to prove that he and his family are entitled to a money award amounting to at least $63,000 perhaps as much as $315,000 under the 1968 federal wiretap law which provides for $100 a day in damages, plus attorneys fees, if a wiretap does not meet the law's requirements. Halperin's home telephone was tapped for 21 months, from May 1969 to February 1971, because he was suspected of leaking See NIXON, Page 8-A From Press Dispatches WASHINGTON Former President Richard M.

Nixon and two of his closest aides are liable for damages for illegally wiretapping the telephone of a national security aide and his family, the Supreme Court said Monday. But the ruling, based on a 4-4 vote that affirms a lower court's decision, left unresolved whether Nixon and his aides could be held personally liable in cases involving the constitutional rights of other Americans. The justices said Monday they will decide that in the next term of court The case they will hear next year involves a lawsuit against Nixon and two other aides filed by A. Ernest Fitzgerald, who lost his Pentagon job after alerting the public to cost overruns on the C-5A aircraft, which was produced at Lockheed-Geor liquor licenses mentions entertainment in a general way, they added. However, neither Fulton, County Solicitor General Hinson McAuliffe nor Atlanta City Solicitor Andrew Hairston said Monday night whether the local Atlanta area ordinances specifically mention topless or nude dancing.

"Withholding liquor licenses has been the primary way in which the city has been trying to control adult entertainment in the area," Hairston said. McAuliffe said also said that he would favor the adoption of ordinances similar to New York's in Atlanta and Fulton. See COURT, Page 8-A From Press and Staff Dispatches WASHINGTON The United States Supreme Court ruled Monday that states have the constitutional right to impose a total ban on topless or all-nude dancing in bars and nightclubs that serve liquor. 7, The decision, unsigned and joined by seven justices, upheld a 1977 New York, law which the legislature passed after concluding that "any form of nudity coupled with alcohol in public places begets undesirable behavior." The City of Atlanta and Fulton County both have ordinances which restrict the issuance of liquor licenses when "certain" kinds of entertainment are proposed for some establishments, prosecutors said Monday night Georgia's law on the issuance of Percy Threat Prompts Nominated SALT Chief To Alter Timetable Chapman Pleads Guilty In Killing Of Ex-Beatle Lennon From Press Olspatches "As of the moment, I don't know of anyone in the government who knows what it is that we want to negotiate about" Rostow said. Percy said he told the Soviets in Moscow last November, based on Reagan's campaign statements, that the administration was willing to conduct at least See ARMS, Page 11-A world.

"The state of anarchy into which we are sliding is the greater danger," Rostow testified. Rostow, a professor of law at Yale University, drew Percy's concern early in the hearing when he said he would need at least nine months to reassess the U.S. position on a new Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty. 4 -A i "'II J) 0 '1 1 i Inside WASHINGTON President Reagan's prospective arms-control chief said Monday he will not be ready to negotiate a new U.S.-Soviet SALT agreement until March 1982, but threatened with delay in confirmation for the post he promised to try to speed that up. Eugene V.

Rostow promised the speed-up after Sen. Charles H. Percy, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, threatened to hold up his confirmation as director of the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency. "Nine months is too long," Percy said, and 'threatened later "The answer to this question determines where we go from here on this nomination.

You may have to come back." With that, Rostow said, "I hope to be able to come forward In a few months and say we are ready. I will do everything I can to shorten that nine months." But Rostow suggested that a more important task for the United States and its allies is to resurrect the post-World War II policy of containment of the Soviet Union to try to counter its support of terrorism and subversion around the From Press Oispalches NEW YORK Mark David Chapman, claiming that a prison cell visit by God persuaded him to drop his defense, pleaded guilty to second-degree murder Monday in the ambush-slaying of his onetime idol, former Beatle John Lennon. Lawyers said Acting State Supreme Court Justice Dennis Edwards promised Chapman would receive at least 20 years in prison, but the attorneys did not rule out the minimum 15-year sentence. The 26-year-old former mental patient, who was earlier found competent to stand trial, must first undergo a pre-sentencing psychiatric exam. If now found insane, the plea could be thrown out and Chapman's competency to stand trial would be re-evaluated.

New York State has no death penalty but mandates a maximum sentence of 25 years to life for second-degree murder. Sentencing was set for Aug. 24. Chapman, a graduate of Columbia High School in DeKalb County, pleaded guilty to second-degree murder the highest charge for offenses not involving slayings of law officers. Beatle fans who showed up at court "to see justice done" expressed outrage at the outcome of the murder case.

"They should send him into outer space without oxygen," said David Wcissner, a clerk from Queens. Chapman, who so revered Lennon that he mimicked his music in his own band, originally pleaded innocent by reason of i See CHAPMAN, Page 11-A GOOD MORNING. Tuesday in' Georgia will be mostly sunny and hot, with highs ranging from near 90 in the mountains to around 100 in Uie central sections. Overnight lows will be mostly in the 70s. Details on Page 2-A.

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