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ft 0 (CdDimsflim Thursday November 11,1982 Madison, Wisconsin 70 pages 30 cents QMs Jfowinnniail. si i rs 1 fl l)(O)70(lftg MOSCOW AP) Leonid Brezhnev, head of the Communist Party and president of the Soviet Union, has died, the Tass news agency reported today. The official agency said the 75-year-old leader died a "sudden death" at 8:30 a.m. (11:30 p.m. cST) Wednesday.

It said the announcement was made by the Central Committee of the party. Brezhnev had led the Soviet Union for 18 years, taking over from the ousted Nikita Khrushchev in October, 1954. There was no immediate announcement of a successor. Politburo Soviet Union as a major world power and bring it to nuclear parity with the United States. He chose modest, controlled economic growth for the country instead of Nikita Khrushchev's wildly ambitious schemes; preferred coexistence and detente to J.

Lenin's revolutionary fervor; and replaced Josef Stalin's aggressive expansionism with a careful probing for international gains. Brezhnev was said to have considered his major accomplishments the signing with President Jimmy Carter in June, 1979, of the SALT II strategic arms agreement; the adoption of a new "Brezhnev" constitution for the blame for ideas that went wrong. He was the most conservative of the Kremlin leaders who preceded him, author of the so-called "Brezhnev doctrine" a tough policy of brooking no opposition from dissidents as evidenced in the invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968 and the Soviet support of the Polish martial law regime. After the fiery Lenin, ruthless Stalin and visionary Khrushchev, he often looked to be a faceless bureaucrat, stiffly reading his speeches and laboriously consulting colleagues on major decisions. But he also did more than any of his predecessors to consolidate the officials Yuri Andropov and Konstan-tin Chernenko are widely regarded as the chief contenders for the post Brezhnev was last seen in public Sunday presiding over the massive Red Square parade marking the 65th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution.

"The name of Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev, a true continuer of Lenin's great cause and an ardent champion of peace and Communism, will live forever in the hearts of the Soviet people and the entire progressive mankind," Tass said. Brezhnev kept a firm grip on power by insisting that colleagues join in decision-making and share the Soviet Union in 1977, and his moves toward international detente. However, detente suffered a sharp setback in late 1979 when the Kremlin dispatchein an efrst of some 85,000 troops to neighboring Afghanistan in an effort to quell Moslem resistance to that country's Marxist regime. Following the intervention, the U.S. Senate refused even to consider the SALT II treaty, and Ronald Reagan, who defeated Carter in the 1980 presidential election, said it had to be renogiatated Clearly ill at ease in formal speeches and ceremonies, the 200-pound Brezhnev could be warm and confident with small grqups.

Leonid Brezhnev uppovti grows tor jobs beDD "I "A v. i my A- N.Y. Times News Service WASHINGTON A growing bipartisan consensus developed in Congress Wednesday to pass during the post-election session a public works bill that would provide jobs for the unemployed, amid indications President Reagan may support a version of such a program limited to repair of highways. Responding to what they considered a mandate of last week's congressional elections, both Democrats and Republicans vied to claim authorship of jobs legislation, and began a bidding war to determine who could come up with a program that would put most people to work at the least expense. Both House Democrats and Senate Republicans were drafting public works legislation that would provide more federal funds for construction and repair of highways and bridges, sewers, dams and public buildings.

Both sides expressed hope of bipartisan agreement on the legislation. The president studied a more limited proposal submitted by Drew Lewis, secretary of transportation, which included only the repair of highways, bridges and mass transit, to be financed by an increase in the gasoline tax. "There was no decision made," Lewis told newsmen after his meeting with the president Lewis said his proposal for a repair program would create 320,000 jobs, directly or indirectly. The program would be financed by an additional gasoline tax of 5 cents a gallon, bringing the total up to 9 cents a gallon. The secretary said the creation of jobs was "not really the purpose of this program." have highways and bridges that are literally falling down around our ears," he said.

"That's really the thrust of this program." Larry Speakes, the White House deputy press secretary, told reporters the proposed increase in the gasoline tax would not violate the president's statement that it would take "a palace coup" to cause him to support a tax increase. Speakes and Lewis both referred to the tax increase as a "user fee." A far more ambitious proposal was offered Wednesday Rep. Henry Reuss, chairman of the Joint Economic Committee. The congressman proposed a 13.6-billion public works program which he said would create 600,000 public service jobs, as well as companion legislation to stimulate the housing industry through $3.2 billion in federal subsidies for mortgages and rents. Reuss's proposal includes: $3.6 billion to enable localities to hire 600,000 persons to engage in projects including "bridge painting and repair, maintenance of roads and mass transit and traffic control systems; water systems, fire hydrants and sewer system maintenance, rehabilitation of public buildings and public housing, and support for public health and safety." $250 million for youth jobs, including 20,000 year round jobs and 50,000 summer jobs.

$2 billion to stimulate the production of single-family homes by providing low interest mortgages to an estimated 140,000 home buyers. The proposal is similar to the $3 billion program vetoed by the president last June. $600 million administered by state and local governments to help renters "without reasonable housing alternatives" obtain housing. $600 million in tax credits for those who convert 30 and 40 year old buildings to rental and cooperative units for low and moderate income families. Anguish and anger inmates who died in the fire.

Robert Pates, 31, was ordered held without bond In the proceedings. AP Laserphoto Laura Pyles, 19, screams as the man accused of setting the fire in a Biloxl Miss, jail is taken into the courthouse for arraignment Wednesday. Miss Pyles' brother was one of the 27 Americans get first real look at capital Viet vets memorial EcarO's road chietf Ikes sliding fax Lowell Jackson By Thomas W. Still State government reporter Republican Lowell Jackson back in the driver's seat at the state Department of Transportation, Governor-elect Anthony Earl can expect a smooth road should he propose an indexed motor fuels tax. Jackson, whose appointment for a second stint as Department of Transportation secretary was announced Insids Bucks beat Celtics Sports WASHINGTON (AP) The fence came down Wednesday and hundreds of Americans went to the black walls of the new Vietnam Veterans Memorial to search for a name, to reflect on that war, to shed a private tear.

It is a grassy place, near the Lincoln Memorial aside the reflecting pool, and the first visitors arrived as hushed as the clouds which scudded across the Potomac. Retired plumber Wilbur Smith and his wife, Blanche, were astonished to find the name of their son, Robert, beside that of Lowell Rexroad "They died together," whispered Mrs. Smith Robert was Rexroad's copiloL They were shot down on April 17, 1970. The Smiths, of Oxon HilL McL, visited Robert's grave at Arlington National Cemetery before looking for their son's name on the walls of the stark monument. It names 57,939 Americans who did not return from Vietnam.

As night fell over Washington, President Reagan and his wife, Nancy, slipped from the White House and went to Washington Cathedral. In a small chapeL they took a pew seat and listened while a bearded volunteer read slowly from the list of Americans who did not return from Vietnam. The name-reading vigil had started at 10:11 a.m. and is to continue for 56 hours. The president appeared touched.

He and Mrs. Reagan walked to another chapel and lit a votive candle. Later, speaking to reporters, Reagan said Vietnam veterans "are men who died for freedom just as surely as any men who ever fought for this country, and the tragedy was they were asked to fight and die for a cause that our country was unwilling to win." On Saturday, culminating a four-day national salute to the 2.7' million who served in Vietnam, the new monument will be dedicated That ceremony will occur after a veterans' parade down Constitution Avenue a welcome home from a war whose unpopularity rubbed off and embittered those who fought it. But on this chill Wednesday, no one waited for a ceremony. Once the red snow fence around the walls were re moved, people began putting the monument to their private reflections.

And Vietnam veterans arrived by the scores, wearing almost as a badge miscellaneous parts of uniforms, one in a camouflage shirt, another in a olive drab field jacket, another with a military cap and a chestful of decorations. Volunteers wearing yellow ski caps held 763-page directories the size of telephone books to help locate names on the walls. The directories are needed because the war's dead and missing are listed in the order in which they became casualties. The directories tell on which of 140 black granite panels each name can be found. The panels form walls 250 feet long which, at the center, descend 10 feet into the sloping ground The names are engraved in letters half an inch high The other memorial the vigil the Reagans visited started in a small chapel in the huge Washington Cathedral, volunteers began reading the names of the missing and dead, one every two seconds, in alphabetical order.

The first name spoken was that of Gerald Aadland of Sisreton, S.D., who died at age 23 on May 30, 1968. Then James Doning Aalund of Houston and Daniel Lawrence Aamold of Moorhead, Minn. At the monument, the design remained controversiaL Some veterans had protested against it, seeking something more heroic. They wanted a statue and a flag. They called the design too funereal It is the work of Maya Ying Lin, who was a Yale architecture student at the time her design won a competition, selected most appropriate over 1,420 others.

"There were 686 men from Oregon killed in the war, and we wanted to bring that many down here, but we couldn't raise the money," said Jerome Jackson, 36. He said he hitch-hiked to Washington. "I had a sign that said 'Nam Vet to D.C and we put it in the back window of the second car to give me a lift and people waved and honked," said Jackson. Wednesday, advocated an inflation-based gasoline and diesel fuel tax this summer when he was seeking the GOP gubernatorial nomination. Although Jackson lost the Sept 14 primary election, his proposal for ending the steady erosion of Wisconsin's highway maintenance fund won over Democrat EarL who adopted the idea of using an indexed fuel tax for raising road-repair revenues.

"I know of no one who did a better job at DOT," Earl said in announcing his selection of Jackson, 51, who held the transportation secretary's post for 2 years under Republican Gov. Lee Dreyfus. "I hoped," Jackson quipped in response to the former Natural Resources secretary, "that I'd be giving that speech appointing Tony Earl back to the DNR." Earl and Jackson agreed the new administration may be forced to look for extra revenue to fund road maintenance, bridge repairs and mass transportation projects. However, it seems unlikely Earl would seek a flat cents-per-gallon boost in Wisconsin's current 13-cent gasoline tax. "The current system of financing the transportation system does not work," Earl said.

The indexing formula championed by Earl and Jackson is similar to one adopted recently in Ohio. In that state, the gasoline tax is recalculated annually starting with a "base year" tax that was considered adequate to meet Ohio's road maintenance needs. Plugged into the formula is the percentage decline or increase in gasoline consumption and the percentage rise or fall in the National Highway Maintenance Index, which measures the cost-per-mUe of road repairs. Here is how the formula might work in Wisconsin, according to department budget director Roger Schrantz: A likely base year would be 1981, when the Legislature voted to raise Wisconsin's gasoline tax to 13 cents per gallon. Fuel consumption fell 3.6 percent in 1981, a reflection of the trend toward smaller cars and other conservation efforts.

The highway maintenance index rose 8.7 percent in 1981, an indication of inflation's effect on repair costs. Those figures, had they been plugged into the Ohio formula for the 1982-83 budget year, would have churned out a Wisconsin gasoline tax of 14.5 cents per gallon. "The real buying power of motor fuel taxes in 1982 would be exactly the same as it was in 1981 (the base year)," Schrantz said "The ultimate Turn to Page 2, Col. 1 State Street beat Look Teacher arbitration Metro Weather Page 18 Today cloudy with rain developing; high around 58. South winds 5 to 15 mph.

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