The Pantagraph from Bloomington, Illinois • Page 45

Bloomington-Normal, III. Aug Tj 1K Pantagraph C-9 fUNW BUS'VfSS By Roger Bollen MAV'I HELP QQQS SiR rijh TLT LZ3LT UT3L7TJ" inn HnHHnHHnHHQSr'aS HO Arabs develop island off Carolina coast BP DO WOO CAKW i i vrz. Ho vinr a 7 CT AIT' Genuine American TURQUOIOG Ha a The environmentalists mm awaiting a decision by the Co.ist (iuard as to whether the develoKrs must tile an environmental impact statement bHoiv widening a bridge from the mainland to the island. Frank Epstein, an attorney tor the Kiawah Defense Fund, said ias group may go to court to demand such a statement if the Coast Guard decide-, one is not required. Meanwhile, environmentalists hope that a sluggish economy may prove the' development's most xerful enemy.

"Resort development is not where it's at with the economy the. way it is." Epstein says. Even the ileelnper. who jokingly call their project "The Last Resort," agree that the hit ore ol large scale resorts might lc in jeopardy. But they believe their resort has two assets: Experienced managers who want to hold down costs and a seemingly endless supply ol Arab money "The Kuwaitis realize that the real estate business in the Tinted Stales is cyclic," said Frank Hrumley.

president of Kiawah Island Co "We have. a solid source of capital. There is no immediate demand for a return on their investment." So far the Kuwaitis have spent S2tl million and expect to invest up to million over a 20-ycar development period. Of the Jewish opposition. Brumley says.

"This was an opportunity lor some national publicity and to make a national splash against the Arab boycott and for the cause of Zionism." sure their lives would not be disrupted by rising taxes. A Jewish group, led by Rabbi Charles Sherman, collected signatures on a petition demanding tha.t the Charleston County Council withhold the zoning change until the Kuwait Development Corp. promised not to practice discrimination. But the council was more impressed by the Kiawah Island estimates of the economic benefits for the county, including $108 million in taxes over a number of years aiid $1.1 billion in tourist spending. An assistant secretary of the U.S.

Treasury, Gerald I'arsky, said that at the suggestion of Sea Pines Co. officials, he telephoned the county council during the debate to state the administration's interest in luring Arab investment. Last April 10, the counc.il approved the zoning change, but required that the American-staffed Kiawah Island Co. but not the parent Kuwait Investment Corp. adhere to a strict policy of nondiscrimination.

Promises Local black groups dropped their opposition when the developers promised to establish a program to train blacks for resort jobs and to deposit $200,000 in a credit union to finance minority business ventures. Bob Brown, who coordinates minority relations for the Kiawah Island said the training program will begin in a few weeks. But those who enroll will not be guaranteed jobs on Kiawah Island. Afiv fir Lasuasaii Reception to honor Bloomington visitors Mrs. Margaret Killian of 101 E.

MacArthur will host a reception Friday lor her daughter. Mrs. Patricia Killian Tully. and lamily of Santa Ana. Calif.

The event will be from 1:30 to 5 p.m. in the community room of Wood Hill Towers. Mrs. Tully and six of her eight children ill arrive early this week from California. This is her first trip home with family tncmlx-rs.

The reception is open to lamily. friends and former classmates of Mrs. Tully at Trinity High School. Coffee for Jayshees Bloomington-Normal Jayshees will have a "last chance of the summer" coffee from to 11 a.m. Monday at Ash Park pavilion.

Normal. Members, prospective rnemtx-rs. guests and their children may attend-Coffee, doughnuts and beverage will be provided. Mrs. Una Wombachcr.

213 Magnolia Drive, is accepting calls regarding the coffee. CHARLESTON. C. (APl-Soon well-'. heeled guests at an Arab-owned resort I'on nearby Kiawah Island will be swat-I ting golf balls where alligators once sunned.

Meanwhile, local environmentalists and the Jewish community, who cap-; tured national attention last year by trying to block the island's development, are no longer working to stop it. T. The resistance of Charleston's Jewish I community ended when the developers agreed not to discriminate against Jews in business dealings. The environmentalists, who wanted the island designated a national seashore, accepted defeat when the property was rezoned for commercial development. "We don't have much hope of stopping development," said Richard I'orcher, a biology professor and leader of the environmentally oriented Kiawah Defense Fund.

"We just hope that we can keep them from doing any more to the island." The island, one of the last undeveloped areas off the East coast, was purchased in 1973 by the Kuwait Investment Corp. for $17.4 million. The Kuwaitis contracted with Sea Pines developers of Hilton Head and other vacation properties, to build a posh resort on 800 acres and later develop ,2,400 acres more. The rest of the island. 20 miles from Charleston and connected by bridge to the mainland, would remain in its natural state.

Ventures The project, using American expertise and Kuwaiti capital, is one of the principal Arab business ventures in this country, according to the U.S. Department of Commerce. When the Kiawah purchase was announced, members of Charleston's 3,500 member Jewish community feared the developers might pressure local businesses into discriminating against Jews as the price for lucrative contracts with the resort. Inferiors in Colonial Plazti 1500 E. Empir Bloomington 663-51 11 3 a rh Hh r-i HanJ nr nr nr -y- trJT7ii i IS imp mm KKsra ecu .53 VHJlia Li 'H 'I" 1 I i riinA tV Hie L'llVll Ulllllclllaliais, uu piiicu uic island's rich foliage and wildlife, wanted to keep Kiawah undeveloped.

And a "group of blacks on neighboring barrier islands just off the coast wanted to make Abby DEAR ABBY: My ex-wife and I often discuss remarrying, but we always get hung up on the question of money. Her net worth has grown substantially since our-divorce, and mine has gone way 'down. She feels that in a remarriage, (her assets should remain hers as a sort 1 security, and that I should contribute same as before. I feel that if a couple marries, there should be a complete merger. In other words, since I was the sole source of support in our first marriage because I was "up," so to speak, financially, she should be the mainstay now that our situations are reversed.

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