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HOT AND i HUMID FINAL EDITION (Sm Index lolow) Iliilm lie (Woxrther Detail, Page 2) 75th Year, No. 89 LAFAYETTE, THURSDAY, JUtY 24, 1)10 Single Copy 25 IN IRAN lira I Plotters Executed r- I ifi Mil WASHINGTON (AP) -Former Federal Reserve Chairman Arthur Burns, opposing fellow Republicans, said today that Congress should delay action on a tax cut until after the Nov. 4 election. "An election year is generally a poor time for tax legislation," Burns told the House Ways and Means Committee. "Not only that, but this session of Congress is well along and will soon come to an end.

There is hardly enough time for the careful deliberation that construction tax legislation requires," he added. Sides With Carter Burns thus sided with the Carter administration and against Republicans and some key Senate Democrats, who want an Immediate vote on a tax cut that would go into effect next Jan. 1. Also supporting President Carter's call for delaying a tax-cut vote was Henry H. Fowler, who was treasury secretary during the Johnson administration.

Sunday included a retired brigadier general and five air force officers, and the announcement of their execution said they were preparing a fleet of 35 to 50 air force jets to bomb Khomeini's residence and other key points. The others executed this week were convicted of other counter-revolutionary activities and drug offenses. On the political front, Iran's official Pars news agency reported that President Abolhassan Bani-Sadr appeared to have chosen Mostafa Mir-Salim, the chief of the state police and deputy interior minister for political affairs, to be the Iranian republic's first prime minister. The news agency said Bani-Sadr held an unusually long meeting with Mir-Salim on Wednesday, and when reporters asked the police chief whether he would be the president's choice, he replied, "Anything could happen. Pars reported Mir-Salim has the support of the Islamic Republican Party, the clergy-led, hard-line faction that dominates the new Parliament, or Majlis.

Bani-Sadr was expected to nominate his prime minister by Friday. The nominee will put together a cabinet, then with it face a vote of confidence In the Majlis. By The Associated Press Twenty more officers and men of the Iranian army and air force were executed in Tehran at dawn today for taking part in the military plot to bomb Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini's home and overthrow his revolutionary regime, Tehran Radio reported. Another man was put to death for killing four persons because they "were not prepared to renounce their islamic beliefs and embrace Marxism," the Iranian government radio said. The executions brought the total in Iran this week to 51, including 25 convicted of involvement in the conspiracy.

At least 500 persons were reported arrested for being part of the plot, and death sentences are expected for most of them. Tehran Radio said the plotters executed today included four captains and a first lieutenant, all of them air force pilots; an air force technician and army noncommissioned officers. An Islamic revolutionary court found them guilty of plotting a coup against the Islamic republic, planning to bomb Khomeini's home in northern Tehran and "mutinying against the islamic regime," the broadcast said. Tn plotter nut to death on plan calling for Congress to vote immediately on a tax cut to take effect Jan. 1, Miller testified to the Senate Finance Committee.

He pleaded for the committee to delay action on any tax cut until early next year, saying a premature vote might undo all the government's recent efforts to slow inflation by restricting credit and federal spending. The committee, which seems inclined to reject Miller's recommendation, sought advice today from several private economists. Burns' successor as Federal Reserve chairman, Paul A. Volcker, also was called to testify today before the House Ways and Means Committee. The Democratic-controlled committees scheduled the hearings after congressional Republicans and their presidential candidate, Ronald Reagan, began pressing for an immediate vote on a $36-billion tax cut that would take effect next year.

Republicans say the reduction 90 percent of which would go to individuals is necessary to offset part of the tax increase caused by inflation and to revitalize American business. "By following a timetable that calls for tax-reduction decisions after the election or early in 1981, to be effective for the calendar year 1981, Congress can provide the steadiness and consistency in fiscal policy that breeds confidence," Fowler said. "It can repel either pessimism about the longer-term future or expectations of a renewed inflationary surge." Burns is chairman and Fowler vice chairman of a new bipartisan "Committee to Fight Inflation" that advocates, among other steps, steady business tax reductions to revitalize the economy and control the price spiral. Unwise This Year Burns told the House panel that while it would be unwise to pass a tax bill this year, "it is nevertheless essential that tax planning get under way promptly so that constructive legislation can be acted on after the election." On Wednesday, Treasury Secretary G. William Miller told a Senate panel that the administration is not about to reverse itself and pretend that today's persistent inflation has become acceptable.

That is what would be required for the administration to endorse the Republican 1 1 iW i i I .1 -je Bails -Abutrfitr Motro Pg 3 Editorial Pg 4 Pg 1-10 Woman's Ntwi Pg 13-16 Oil Pg 18-24 Sports Pg 25-30 Stoto Pg 31 Acodiano Pg 37 Classifiod Pg 38-47 i Mortgage Loan Hearing Tonight School Building Plans Readied TEARFUL FAREWELL Diane Gore of their home country. The Ulster Project, Lafayette bade farewell this morning to Lin- designed to further harmony among the Irish da Lyons of Belfast, Northern Ireland, one of youths, brought the group half Protestant the 28 teenagers from that country who ended half Catholic group to Lafayette under the their four-week visit in Lafayette today. A bus sponsorship of local churches. (Staff Photo by carried the visitors from St. Edmonds Church P.

C. Piazza) to Now Orlpsns whpr they hoarded a flight to is Good doy. This Thursday, July 24. OF BILLY CARTER Agreement Clears Way For Probe The weather will be hot and humid. Stories featured inside include: Pols, press keep each other honest, City Editor Miles Hawthorne says in Observations.

Page 3 ByKA THLEEN THAMES Advertiser SUff Writer Is there a need for a second low-interest home mortgage program in Lafayette? Citizens who have an nion about that issue will have a chance to voice them today at 5:30 p.m. at a public hear-' ing in the City Courtroom. The hearing will be conducted by the Lafayette Public Trust Financing Authority, which is considering cranking up another program in which money for housing is generated by selling non-taxable revenue bonds. Last year, about $65 million worth of mortgages was made available to Lafayette Parish residents at a 7.99 percent interest rate through the LFPTFA. I At a meeting last night, i LPTFA member Bob Austin summarized a report by Smoke Consulting Services, i Inc.

which indicated there is a projected need for $239 million I for housing mortgages, but Town nobody can find listed In outlay bill. Page 31 there is only $155 million available. According to that report, he said, there was a "shortfall of $79 million" for houses costing $75,000 or less. In addition to the slated public hearing, the LPTFA Is expected to put the finishing touches on guidelines for a possible second bond issue when it meets today.Yester-day, members discussed those guidelines for about four hours. It decided that in order to participate in the program, residents would need a maximum annual income of $35,000.

The maximum mortgage amount would be $75,000. Those figures determine that the maximum cost of a house to be built or purchased with LPTFA money would be $95,000. LPTFA member Kenneth Brown told the group he was concerned that people with average or low incomes didn't get a chance to participate in last year's program. AH the money was quickly allocated to those with higher than average incomes, he said. The authority agreed to take his suggestion to earmark money for middle to low-income residents.

Twenty percent of the total bond issue will be set aside for 90 days for persons with that income level The remaining 80 percent of (Continued on P(t Col. 1) If a federal judge approves construction plans for new schools, the Lafayette Parish School Board wants to be ready to build. The Board hopes to build new schools in the Boucher area and in Broussard but a court order on desegregation has blocked new construction unless federal judge Eugene Davis approves. Until that approval is granted, the Board can take no formal action. So, the Board is taking informal action and setting up conditional sales agreements for land.

The Board's Building, Site and School Lands Committee yesterday agreed to draw up a purchase agreement for a section of land owned by Mrs. Virgil LeBleu in the Boucher area. Twelve acres was offered for $336,000 (or $28,000 per acre.) But that action was postponed when Boardmember Alton "Tony" Chassion later said he knows of other property that the committee should examine. The panel will meet again July 30 to look at that property. In the Broussard area, the committee is considering three parcels offered by real estate developer Joe Anzalone and sites offered by the Billeaud family.

Committee members balked at the figure quoted by Anzalone $50,000 per acre. The panel approved final plans for construction at Broadmoor, LeRosen and Drexel schools. At Broadmoor, 12 classrooms are to be added and some renovations done. LeRosen is scheduled for airconditioning work and renovations to four classrooms, reading labs and (Contlnuod on Pan Col. 4) Asbestos Dangers Removed Any possible dangers of asbestos-coated ceilings in Lafayette Parish schools are being eliminated, says Superintendent of Schools Harold Gauthe.

Schools were inspected for asbestos last year and eight reading rooms and one cafeteria were found to have the substance sprayed on the ceilings. The Environmental Protection Agency has labeled asbestos hazardous because it has been found to cause cancer. Spraying it on open ceilings was discontinued in 1967, so schools built before that date were inspected. The ceiling in Comeaux High School's cafeteria was scraped clean, Gauthe told a meeting of the board's (Contlnuod on 5, Col. Ron Guidry bounces back; "Bo" Lamar will be inducted Into Hall of Fame.

Page 25 President Carter's aides would be available to testify before Congress concerning the activities of the president's younger brother. Billy Carter registered under protest last week as a foreign agent for Libya and said he had received $220,000 in payments from the Libyan government which he said were the first installments of a $500,000 loan. On Tuesday, the White House announced that the president's national security adviser, Zbigniew Brzezinski, used Billy Carter as an intermediary last fall in seeking Libyan assistance to free the American hostages in Iran. The Washington Post reported in today's editions that President Carter met with the same Libyan diplomat as Brzezinski about three weeks later, on Dec. 6, to (Continued on Poato, Col.

I) on the Judiciary panel. The Baker spokesman, Tom Griscom, said Baker planned to meet later today with Majority Leader Robert C. Byrd, to put the finishing touches on the agreement. Griscom said Republicans would be prepared to ask the Senate to approve a larger Watergate-style committee "if during the course of the Judiciary hearings there is a feeling that the committee is not really going after the facts." White House spokesman Jody Powell objected Wednesday to any comparison of the matter with Watergate, but said, "In general, we are dedicated to the proposition that we ought to be as forthcoming and straightforward in this matter as we possibly can be," Powell added, however, that he could not say whether WASHINGTON (AP) An agreement among Senate Republican leaders today apparently cleared the way for a congressional investigation of Billy Carter's ties with Libya and the way his case has been handled by the Carter administration. A spokesman for Senate Minority Leader Howard Baker, said Baker and senior GOP members of key Senate committees in the case decided to accept a Democratic proposal for a seven-member panel drawn from the Judiciary Committee.

In lengthy sessions on Wednesday, Republicans had pressed for a larger special committee similar to that which investigated the Watergate scandals during the administration of Republican President Richard M. Nixon. Democrats insisted FROM KLAN News Briefs Vermilion fares well in session, says Rep. Sam Theriot. Page 37 For convenient home delivery of The Advertiser, call 235-8511.

President Told Of Bleak Future Rival Says Duke's Resignation Forced mmmMmm mmm i i Prime Rate Reduced NEW YORK (AP) -Chase Manhattan Bank today reduced its prime rate by one-half percentage point to 10.75 percent, undercutting the 11 percent rate adopted industrywide on Wednesday. Draft Plan Defended WASHINGTON (AP) -President Carter strongly defended his draft registration program before an audience of youths today, calling it "a very minor" demonstration of unity and patriotism and vowing to carry it through "regardless of any obstacle which might arise in this country." Afghan Army Stronger ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) The Soviet-installed Afghan government announced plans today to strengthen its army "to face the increasing danger" to the country. Anti-communist Moslem rebels, meanwhile, claimed to kill nearly 1,000 Soviet and Afghan troops in recent fighting. Protesters Attacked MANILA, Philippines (AP) Truncheon-twinging police charged into hundreds of students demonstrating against increased tuition fees outside the Education Ministry to-jhy, T7 WASHINGTON (AP) -Mass poverty, malnutrition, overcrowding, food shortages and deterioration of the planet's water and atmosphere resources that's a bleak government prediction that says civilization has perhaps 20 years to act to head off such a worldwide disaster. The three-year U.S.

government study released today warns that the world faces those grim problems unless nations cooperate as never before to head them off. In response to the "Global 2000 Report to the President," President Carter has written top government officials that "unless nations of the world take prompt, decisive action to halt the current trends, the next 20 years may see a continuation of serious food and population problems, steady loss of croplands, forests, filant and animal species, isheries, and degradation of the earth's water and atmosphere." The presidential report estimated real food prices would double and energy prices more than double by the turn of the century. The report said its findings "point to increasing potential for International conflict and increasing stress on interna-tional financial a r- rangements." Despite some economic growth, it said, the gap between rich and poor will grow wider. And the study, headed by the President's Council on Environmental Quality and the State Department, said that, if anything, it is probably too optimistic. President Carter, who ordered the study in 1977, immediately announced appointment of a Presidential Task Force on Global Resources and Environment to recommend new, top-priority studies "as soon as possible" and to provide a progress report within six months.

The report did not suggest specific policies, but concluded that "sustainable economic development, coupled with en-vironmental protection, resource management and family planning, is essential." The report included these findings: -World food production may increase 90 percent from 1970 to the year 2000, but population will swell more than 59 percent from some 4 billion in 1975 to about 6.35 billion in 2000. -Per capita food production, therefore, will increase only about 15 percent and those already eating well will get most of the increase, leav- ing the poor of South Asia, the Middle East and Africa with little more food, and maybe less, than they get now. Farmland will increase only about 4r percent; increased food production must rely on techniques using oil and natural gas, causing food prices to spiral upward along with energy prices. "There will be fewer resources to go around," the report says, adding, "Resource-based inflationary pressures will continue and intensify." water shortages will become more severe" because of forest destruction and increased demand. "Extinctions of plant and animal species will increase dramatically.

Hundreds of thousands of species perhaps as many as 20 percent of all species on earth will be irretrievably lost as their habitats vanish, especially in tropical forests." "Barring any revolutionary advances in technology," the report said, "life for most people on earth will be more precarious in 2000 than it is now unless the nations of the world act decisively to alter curent trends." The report said one of its (ConttnwoeonPHoS.Col.S) Ku Klux Klan, said Duke originally wanted $60,000. That was whittled down to $35,000 during several months of talks, he said. "I felt that while I never intended to give him the money I had to negotiate that part or he would not feel I was sincere, y'know," Wilkinson said. "In my mind I had to convince him I was totally sincere so I could get it into a compromising enough position to document it which if I do say, I did quite well." That came at a midnight meeting Sunday in Cullman, while secret videotape cameras rolled, Wilkinson said. "The contracts were read aloud; he agreed to them; he brought his membership list, put it on the table, took the cards out; he was explaining to me the codes he used so he could distinguish members from supporters and subscribers.

"At that point I told him there was no money, there was never any intention of having any money, that the intention of the entire thing was simply to expose him for what he was." Wilkinson said. basically the white counterpart to the NAACP," he said. Duke and Wilkinson, whose Klan organizations are among 30 such groups nationwide, have been fighting about tactics and for membership since 1975. 1 Both recently made forays into areas of racial unrest in other parts of the country, such as Boston. On one occasion, both even went to England to recruit members, disputing long afterwards whose idea it really was.

Wilkinson said Duke, leader of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, first brought up the idea of selling the membership lists in a telephone call last January. "He approached me saying he had a deal he'd like to discuss with me that would be mutually profitable," said Wilkinson "When he first brought the proposition up I was really disgusted and shocked, and I decided I wouldn't talk to him," Wilkinson said. "Altera week or two I decided it was my duty to expose him." Wilkinson, who split with Duke's group in 1975 to start the more militant Invisible fcmpire of the Knights of the NEW ORLEANS (AP) -David Duke, the smooth-talking, 29-year-old head of a Ku Klux Klan faction here, said today he's leaving the Klan to head a new organization the National Association for the Advancement of White People. His biggest rival, Bill Wilkinson, said in a telephone Interview from Denham Springs that he forced the resignation by secretly videotaping an attempt by Duke to sell his mailing list for $35,000. "He threw out the proposition of selling his membership and his endorsement and his agreement to resign from the Klan and not to participate in the Klan for at least 10 years," Wilkinson said.

"That's just totally untrue. That's ridiculous," Duke said. "That's the kind of tactics which really disenchant me concerning the Klan. All that meeting was about was white unity, trying to achieve that." Duke said he was asked in December to lead the NAAWP. "The name itself basically explains what it is.

It's BYRON HEBERT Hebert Announces Candidacy An Abbeville attorney has filed for the 15th Judicial District, Division seat, recently vacated by the retirement of Judge Carrol L. Spell. In announcing his candidacy, Byron Hebert cites his legal experience as qualifications for the post. "After being admitted to practice before the Louisiana Supreme Court in May 1970, 1 was briefly associated with the law firm of Broussard, (Continued on Pitt Col. 3) I.