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Malfunction Shuts Down Vermont Yankee Plant Page 6 TEX WXATEXt We-aaosday: Saaiy, Waratr Tfctrs-iay: ipmni. rimm LOCAL TEMPERATURES VmtAC High TT Ui S3 40 Weather Yesterday: Gear (TwMn.Jtmimi) RAID RUTLAND ESTABLISHED IN 1794 VOL 128 -NO. 137 2 00 Per Week Motor Delivered COPYRIGHT 2 SECTIONS 20 PAGES PRICE 25c RUTLAND, VERMONT, WEDNESDAY MORNING. JUNE 9, 1982 1.75Per Week Carrier Delivered (PkoukrVrtoSuriaAu) Mom Parker aid Robert Far-aim welcomed the return of a wanner day and sunshine as they canoed on Chittenden Reservoir Tuesday afternoon. Police, Utility Score Court Victories Right to Refuse Arrest Is Curbed Central Vermont Gets Rate Boost By United Press International Israel's invasion forces, advancing to within 12 miles of Beirut, fought tank battles with Syrian troops Tuesday and shot down six Syrian MiG fighters two over Israel in escalating fighting for control of central and south Lebanon.

An estimated 25,000 Israeli troops, backed by tanks and warplanes, pushed north to Damour along the Mediterranean and mopped up Palestinian strongholds between the coastline and Jezzine. 24 miles to the east. Palestine Liberation Organization chief Yasser Arafat, his forces routed by the forceful three-day Israeli thrust, called on the Soviet Union and other Arab nations to come to the aid of his guerrilla force. Iran said it was prepared to mobilize its "political, military and economic resources" against Israel and Syria offered the Islamic regime use of its territory as a military staging area. The United States cast a veto at a late night session of the U.N.

Security Council Tuesday on a resolution that condemned non-compliance by Israel with its calls for a cease-fire in Lebanon, Introduced by Spain, the resolution also demanded that "within six hours all hostilitiesrault be stopped" in Lebanon. The vote was l. Hinting at possible sanctions, the resolution stated the. Council would reconvene if the order is ignored "to consider practical ways and means in accordance with the Charterof the United Nations." U.S. Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick voted against the resolution and thus automatically killed it.

By JACK HOFFMAN MONTPELIER The Vermont Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that the Public Service Board erred in a 1980 rate case and did not allow Central Vermont Public Service Corp. a sufficient rate increase. The court reversed the board's decision and ordered that the board reconsider the Central Vermont's request for a rate increase using actual power costs the company incurred during the period covered by the case. Company attorney Donald Rushford of Rutland, who was delighted with the decision, said it was the first time in 37 years that the state's largest utility had appealed a decision of the Public Service Board. The case involved a rate hike the company requested covering the period of AprilS.

1980 to Oct. 5, 1980, At the time of his thai on the assault charge, he also urged that the jury be told that citizens have the right to resist an illegal arrest. In its Tuesday decision, the high court notes: "There is in Vermont no statutory right to resist an unlawful arrest. Nonetheless, many jurisdictions have established such a right at common law." The state had urged the high court, in the Peters case, to "reassess the wisdom of these decisions and join those courts which have held that a citizen may not use force to resist arrest by one he knows, or has good reason to believe is a law enforcement officer engaged in the -per-formance of his duties, regardless of whether the arrest is illegal under the circumstances." The Tuesday ruling upholds this view. (Sec Page 10: Court) 4 According to Rushford, the court's decision could mean a difference of about $800,000 for Central Vermont, which is the state's largest utility.

The company had filed a request in March of 1980 for an additional $4.3 million to cover increases in power costs. As is the procedure in such rate cases, the company had based its request on projected power cost. It had submitted prefiled testimony, using those estimates, as did the Public Service Department, which was representing the public in the case. When the case came before the Public Service Board in August, the company sought to update the testimony by using actual power costs it had incurred. According to the Supreme Court decision, the updated information "pur-(See Page 10: CVPS) By ELIZABETH SLATER Vermont Preu Bureau MONTPELIER The Vermont Supreme Court, in a precedent-setting decision, ruled Tuesday that citizens have no right to forceably resist arrests by police with arrest warrants, even if the warrants later prove invalid, The ruling, one of more than a doten handed down on the opening day ot the court's June term, upholds a district court jury trial conviction of Bennington County farmer Donald D.

Peters. Peters was charged for assaulting a state trooper in 1980 after resisting an arrest in Bennington. At the time of the arrest, a warrant for Peters' arrest was outstanding in connection with his failure to appear in court on another matter. Peters claimed the arrest warrant was invalid. After the vote.

Mrs. Kirkpatrick said "unfortunately (See Page 10: Mideast) Doe Permits Face Cutback British Cheer Reagan Pledge By JIM ANDERSON LONDON (UPI) President Reagan pledged Tuesday to lead a campaign of global democracy and consign communism to "the ash heapof history." In the first speech by a U.S. president to members of Parliament, Reagan gave but bare outlines of a proposal In November By ROD CLARKE dunru ai pruinuiinx tree elections, iree press, iraue unionism and free universities. "What I am describing now is a plan and a hope for the long the march of freedom which will leave Marxism-Lenism on the ash heap of history," Reagan said, the famed Beefeaters guards in traditional bearskin hats forming a colorful backdrop. "Let us be shy no longer," Reagan declared in his 40- tvrK 4h minute address in the Royal Gallery in Westminster Hall.

"Let us go to our strength. Let us offer hope. Let us tell the world that a new age is not only possible, but probable." On the seventh day of his European tour, Reagan mixed business with pleasure the Parliament speech and talks about the Falklands with Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, and horseback riding and a state dinner with Queen Elizabeth II. To cap a long and busy day, Reagan and his wife Nancy dined by candlelight in medieval splendor at Windsor Castle, guests of the queen. In their toasts, the queen publicly thanked Reagan for U.S.

support of Britain in the Falklands War, while Reagan first president to wine, dine and sleep in the huge castle on the Thames urged both nations to respond to the free world "abiding faith in its people and (See Page 10: Reagan) Presides Reagan and Qveei Eliza betk II toast after a formal state dinner al Windsor Palace on Twesday. Sanders' Gross Receipts Tax MONTPELIER (UPI) The harsh winter of 1981-82 took grim toll on Vermont'! deer herd, prompting fish and game experts to propose a sharp reduction In the number of doe permits issued during next fall's hunting season, officials said Tuesday. Fish and Came biologist Lawrence Garland has recommended antlerless deer permits be cut back by 60 percent this season from the 46,000 Issued in 1981. A survey of deer wintering areas, reported In the June Issue of the Fish and Game Department newsletter, show ed northeastern Vermont, north of U.S. 2 and east of Vt.

114, was hardest hit. Losses were lightest In deer yards along the Champlain Valley. Garland described as "serious" deer losses due to malnutrition and dogs, and said it may result in a decrease of male deer taken by hunters In the fall. "We had several winters that were relatively easy on the deer herd, then suddenly we had a more normal Vermont winter," department spokesman John Hall said. In addition to the blustery weather, dogs killed a substantial number of deer, which are less able to flee through heavy snow and therefor more vulnerable.

Fish and Game Department wardens handled about 800 deer killed by dogs, Hall aald: they estimated that accounted for only about 10 percent of the actual total. The decision whether to cut back the number of antlerless deer permits Is up to the seven-member Fish and Game Board. For years, the Legislature jealously guarded Us control of the deer herd and resisted pleas from the Fish and Game Department, which said a doe season was necessary to thin out the herd. But the lawmakers relented several years ago and relinquished that authority to the board. la establishing priorities (or issuing permits to hunt female deer and young bucks, the lawmakers favored landowners with 23 or more acres of land, people over 63 who bold permanent hunting licenses and finally, Vermont frsldents.

The first two categories receive free permits; residents pay 110 and out-of-state hunters are charged SIS. Permits are awarded according to a lottery. But Hall warned that the proposed cutback probably will mean no doe permits will be given this year to out-of-staters. "It's very unlikely there will be any non-resident permits available because ot the priority system established by law." he said. Most of the money generated by the permit fee system ts used to finance a new program to help landoowners improve deer habitats.

Based on the fee schedule, the suggested cutback in permits would apparently cost that program at least $250,000. Despite the bad winter, the institution of antlerless deer lunling seasons is beginning to have positive results. Hall said; the average size of the deer and the nimber of fawns carried by adult does has increased slightly. "We're hoping this trend is going to continue," be said. Inside Story Turned Down in Burlington 1 "No on III" group for "falsely insinuating" the tax would be on store-bought groceries and beverages as well as restaurants.

Yet, despite massive and dishonest campaign, half the people in Burlington said they would be willing to entertain a gross receipts tax," he said. But it was clearly not the mandate the mayor had hoped to get. And restaurant and hotel owners joined by former Mayor Gordon Pa-quetle, who also opposed the tax were jubilant. "I'm dazzled, really happy." said Pat Barns, manager of four downtown restaurants and president of the Burlington Restaurant and Hotel Association. "When we started out there wasn't a single person that said we had a chance," he said.

"We provided a lot of information about questions we feel haven't been answered. We think that was the deciding factor," he added, as about SO local restaurant and hotel owners cheered and toasted one another with champagne. Bums said his association and the Lake Champlain Regional Chamber of Commerce plan to continue to lobby aldermen against the ordinance. which is currently being discussed in committee. "Mayor Sanders said he expected to et a majority vote and it was going to be a mandate to the state.

He didn get thai." Burns said (See Page 19: Burlington) ho actively campaigned against the tax, whooped it up in a victory party in a local bar. Sanders told reporters in City Hall that voters showed they are far more willing to entertain a gross receipts tax than continued property tax increases. And be criticized the restaurant association for mounting a "massive and dishonest" campaign. "Obviously if we bad won this 3-1, we'd be in better shape," Sanders conceded. But he pointed out that the gross receipts lax fared tar "better than any other vote." hile the street department lost by a Vt-i margin, the gross receipts tax lost by less than SO votes.

The special election indicates that "people are hurting. They're not excited about any new lax but of all the options presented to them today, they seem more receptive to the gross receipts tax," Sanders said. He promised to continue to push for aldermanie approval of the con-. trovcrsialtax. Sanders also criticized the group calling itself "No on III" for hiring a California consultant and mounting an expensive campaign against the lax.

"I very much resent the kind of campaign they raised," Sanders said. We were up against a well-financed group who spent tens of thousands of dollars." outspending those supporting the tax by a 20-1 margin, he said. An irate Sanders also criticized Ihe By DEBBIE BOOKCHIN BURLINGTON Burlington voters Tuesday defeated by less than 30 votes Mayor Bernard Sanders' controversial gross receipttiax. Voters also turned thumbs down on two other money items In an apparent message to state and local officials that they are fed up with taxes. In a moderate special election turnout, taxpayers crushed a 32-cent, property tax increase for the street department by more than 3.000 votes.

4.853-1,761. They also rejected a 7-cent tax hike for police salaries by a bout 150 votes, 3. But the biggest disappointment of the evening was borne by Sanders, mho watched his gross receipts tax receive a lukewarm reception by voters. The non-binding question on whether to tax restaurant and hotel receipts went down It was a margin so close that those on both sides of the issue claimed victory, but Sanders was clearly disappointed. Sanders had hoped an overwhelming snow of support for the would pressure aldermen to pass an ordinance forcing restaurant and hotel owners to contribute 3 percent of their total business receipts to city coffers.

The measure would raise about 300. 000 for Burlington and was to further Sanders goal to wean the city from the property la x. While restaurant and hotel owners. ml; t- --'I CUssifie 17-11 Conies Paget Cieas wmi. Dear Ahoy 13 Page 12 Dm trial Baroscope.

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