The Knoxville News-Sentinel from Knoxville, Tennessee • 2

A2 The Knoxville News-Sentinel Monday March 3 1986 from page one national briefs Parkway Notintd from page sue Parkway extension Martin GahrtngNnw SantinM stall Funds raised in case against AIDS victim 1 KOKOMO Ind A group that wants to keep AIDS victim Ryan White out of school raised enough money at an auction Sunday to continue its legal battle officials said Howard Circuit Judge Alan Brubaker last week ordered the parents who requested a temporary restraining order to bar Ryan from school to post a S12JXX) bond by 4 pm today to cover damages and legal expenses incurred by the teenager and his family should the case be dismissed Boy 3 pushed off balcony killed MIAMI BEACH Fla A 5-year-old boy told police he pushed a 3-y ear-old playmate to his death from a fifth-flow apartment balcony "He doesnT think he did anything said Detective Robert Davis "He claims the 3-year-old was complaining that his parents beat him and said he wanted to die so he Davis said the 5-year-old may be charged with the murder of Eduardo Lafavria Report alleges misuse of funds by NATO WASHINGTON Army units at NATO headquarters in Belgium and the 7th Corps in Germany used thousands of dollars in community relations money to hold private parties for US generals according to a newly released report by the Army Audit Agency Community relations fluids are supposed to be used to "foster mutual acceptance respect and between American soldiers and European host nations an Army spokesman said Most in US approve lie detector tests NEW YORK A majority of Americans don't think lie detectors should be used by businesses in most circumstances but most people wtiuldnT object to taking the tests if asked according to a Media General-Associated Press poll Two-thirds of the 1512 respondents in the nationwide telephone poll said they would not object to taking a lie detectw test as part of a job interview and two-thirds also said they wouldnT mind taking the tests if required for a Job they already held Border Patrol rules out sailor switch NEW ORLEANS A high-ranking Border Patrol officer says he is positive USL officials interviewed the real Miroslav Medvid not an after the Soviet sailor Jumped ship into the Mississippi River last October Jesse Tabor the chief Border Patrol agent in New Orleans denounced a New York Times report Sunday suggesting the Soviets may have had a Russian seaman stand in fw the would-be Ukrainian defector in a second round of interviews luxury goods auctioned off LAGUNA BEACH Calif Hundreds of belongings by Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh Were auctioned off by followers to pay his legal bills Rajneesh who pleaded guilty last year to two of 35 counts of arranging shun marriages to dodge USL immigration laws left his Oregon commune last November in his private jet He left behind 85 Rolls Royces expensive jewelry and other costly items been supported by Alexander But he said he would stop any support near land he owns there was a question yesterday about the proposal to build this road there cannot be one today be- cause there is now no proposal" Alexander said in a statement released by his press secretary Of the Tennessean article he said: good writer arranges facts so that readers can imagine the point the writer really wants to make I will not permit for one day the suspicion to remain that the planned road is not for the benefit So I have stopped the road dead in the water state will not spend a penny even studying it while I am governor The next governor will decide it and I am confident he or she will find it is urgently needed Putting off the decision for a year will not de- lay completing the road since construction was not scheduled to begin until Alexander said The governor said he has filed annual disclosure statements with the secretary of office showing he owns the land located about 15 miles from his home- town of Maryville Alexander said it was to suggest that the proposed plan to extend the Pellissippi Parkway to the base of the Smokies might be connected with his property ownership Just do business that way" said Alexander who has a 50 percent interest in the land with five other people His partners are James Haslam Knoxville busi- nessman Samuell "Sandy" Beall III a co-founder with Alexander of the Ruby Tuesday restaurant chain Baxter Lee a Knoxville attorney Tom Harper a Knoxvil-Kan who owns Porsche-Audi Co and Gary Sisco a Nashville real estate executive bought it to keep it protected" Alexander said of the scenic mountain land "If I wanted a crowd 1 could go somewhere else "I have something to say about the Sunday story" Alexander said in his statement "The point is this: When the Pellissippi Parkway is completed in 1993 it will connect Oak Ridge with the Smoky Mountain Highway (Route 321) which if traveled for four miles will take you to a two-lane county road which if traveled for three more miles will take you to a dead end and a farm on the edge of the Great Smoky Mountains he said "I own half of the farm Our family has had a cabin in that part of the Smokies since he said Alexander said "in arranging the facts somehow The Tennessean that the Pellissippi Parkway has been part of the State Department of Transportation published highway plan since 1975 more than three years before he became governor and construction of the last leg of the parkway is not scheduled to begin until 1991 four years after he leaves office 1 The governor said the parkway is "the most urgently needed new road in East It would be hard for me to have a home in Blount County where my family has lived for six generations and not be within seven miles of the Pellissippi Alexander said Ray Terrell assistant transportation commissioner said the decision to include the seven miles from the Knoxville airport to US 321 in the Bicentennial roads program was made by his office before the proposal was sent to the governor Alexander told The Tennessean he had road officials doublecheck to be certain the woposed extension was Justified "My ownership of the property and a road program meeting the needs for the next 28 years are two totally unrelated facts and any impression that they are in any way related is Alexander said War continued from page one Accounts these days talk of combat missions and pitched battles In Geneva during the summit meeting a Soviet official acknowledged that Soviet casualties are on the increase although numbers have never been disclosed And the press has slowly come to publicize a domestic side to the war One recent report in Komso-molskaya Pravda the paper of the Young Communist Youth League was strikingly different from anything written before It told the story of Anatoly a veteran who had returned to Togliatti an industrial city on the Volga profoundly affected by his service in Afghanistan nuked with guilt for having survived and furious at the complacency greed and shallowness he found back home It was a profile with distinct echoes of "Ike Deer Hunter" even The story presented Anatoly not as a victim of the war but rather as a young man whose vision had been purified by the experience In Afghanistan Anatoly was overwhelmed by the poverty the brutality the resignation of the peasants the violence He watched a girl die of hunger and was horrified at his helplessness He was wounded and several times came dose to death "He says that now one of the most frightening things for him is the approach of wrote Aleksandr Drobotov a criminal investigator who wrote the account of a meeting with Anatoly "The distractions and concerns of the day fly off and he is left alone with his thoughts and his "He thinks that he was not always brave enough that often he should have been killed but always someone bolder than he was at his the account continued "To this day Anatoly believes he did not have time to AiHy pay the bandits back Already then he formed in his soul the distinction between Tis and Them' or rather and The contras' And as a rule the contras had to be destroyed or there would be another string of deaths new Returning home Anatoly was appalled at the clanwring after blue Jeans and music cassettes the black marketeers and drunkards that now seemed almost a desecration of the suffering he had seen In his mind the corrupt became the new contras He had come to Drobotov to demand punishment for a black marketeer whose case the investigator had Just dropped for lack of evidence and he threatened to dispense Justice himself if the authori- ties would not The investigator learned that there were others with Anatoly "It was easier for them Drobotov wrote "They found several others who had served over there' They meet at agreed places they talk about the past train keep up their skills They decided that too many contras thieves parasites had sprouted and that the government would only gain if they dealt with the contras The meeting Drobotov wrote profoundly affected him Though he 'tried to explain to Anatoly the dangers of vigilantism he found himself in awe of the veteran "He (nought that purity from the ringing revolutionary spring of Afghanistan of which most of us have only the most distant the investigator wrote Arena continued from page one world briefs fans who will pack the University of Kentucky's Rupp Arena Wednesday for the first day of a four-day tour- originally scheduled at UT Though local officials say they are incapable of assessing the value of an an SEC tournament Jim Smither excutive director of the Greater Lexington Convention and Visitors Bureau says he can "I would say $20 he said "The games are sold out We have of 5000 rooms sold and the phones are hot We think we will sell the other rooms very $20 million figure takes in lodgings for several nights increased revenues from food and fuel sales and more shoppers He estimates money brought into Lexington will turn over five times before leaving the Lexington area know if that is said A1 Treadaway director of the Knoxville Area Council for Conventions and Visitors "We are conservative in our estimates We calculate the money would turn over three But Steve Pierson of the Birmingham Convention and Visitors Bureau said estimate may not be far off the mark Birmingham hosted the 1885 SEC tour-nament are talking big Pierson said "Those fans pay top He said an SEC tourney is worth a minimum of $10 million and possibly as much as $20 million In addition to the toss of this tourney Smither warns of other repercussions from the unifinshed arena damaging in many said Smither "Rumors get started and people think They cant get something done' People then move their conventions and groups elsewhere and think in terms of other sites like Memphis or Nashville or UTT first concern is to find a contractor to take on the arena BB Andersen Construction Co which started work on the site in late 1983 asked Rentenbach -Engineering of Knoxville last October to step in and finish the project Andersen based in Topeka Kao will not discuss the project The firm has filed a $17 million lawsuit against UT blaming the university for delays in the project After studying the arena for more than three months Rentenbach pulled out of talks with bonding company US Fidelity and Guaranty Col when negotiators failed to agree who would be liable for construction Although Rentenbach officials said problems with the arena are correctable they said they are worried about what they see attempt to pass the project to Rentenbach capped a long series of conflicts betweeen the firm and the university Shortly after bidding on the project in the fall of 1983 Andersen attempted to increase its bid by more than $500000 UT refused A structural engineering firm hired by Andersen said in a preliminary repot that underground caves beneath the arena Jeopardize the structure Engineers also said additional weight on the rock could affect the arena'll roof But UT officials say their consultants have found the structure to be safe The search for a new contractor rests with Jack Draper a Knoxville attorney representing US Fidelity and Guaranty Draper said he is discussing the project with four construction firms each of which has been asked to submit preliminary repots by Wednesday on the costs and time involved in finishing the arena The university expects US Fidelity and Guaranty to pay for any increased costs for budding the arena Johnson said no doubt this is going to cost somebody We doiT know how much but that is what bonding companies are The university has paid Andersen aU but $8 million of the $217 contracted for the project "It win get built There's no doubt about said Beauchamp Brogan UT general counseL Just a matter of who is going to build it and Trade reprisals alleged over ship bombing WELLINGTON New Zealand Prime Minister David Lange today accused France of trade reprisals to retaliate fw the imprisonment of two French agents convicted in the sinking of the Greenpeace ship Rainbow Warrior Lange released the text of a letter to French Foreign Minister Roland Dumas protesting the withdrawal of import licenses from companies imputing New Zealand brains hearts and other entrails Iraq calls for surrender of city defense minister today claimed victory after a night of bloody battles in the embattled port city of Faw and urged the Iranian invaders to "raise the white of surrender Iran at war for more than five years with the Baghdad government countered with a claim that its forces were holding out in the southern border city Protesters turn violent as strike begins BELFAST Northern Ireland Protesters slashed bus tires stoned police picketed factories and felled trees across roads in a 24-hour strike called by Protestants today to oppose the Irish new voice in this British province Throughout Belfast motorists said they were flagged down by men and handed leaflets reading "No Dublin The British government had said it would defy the strike and the Belfast Chamber of Commerce said it planned "business as Soviets accused of poison gas production HAMBURG West Germany The Soviet Union has at least eight factories producing poisoif gas and is helping East Germany and Czechoslovakia make chemical weapons the Hamburg-published newspaper Welt am Sonntag said Sunday In a reput quoting unidentified NATO officials the newspaper said West can prove the existence of eight large factories producing chemical warfare agents in the The report did not specify any locations weather The News-Sentinel 521-6300 Temperature forecast Recorded by EZX7-FM knoxvilfe five-day forecast Cincinnati 2545 ay yjwwyi UEMZ Cloudy and cooler Low: 32 Partly sunny and mild High: 53 Pajsunny andcontinued Partly sunny Low: 33 High: 47 Partly sunny Low: 27 High: 50 around the nation region Low temperatures forecast 50 for 7 un Tuesday FRONTS: Warni'w Cold Tmmnk Oeanrg bom mn to Md tori pmr sunny Tuesday- Lons ton to uppar 30a Highs aw ton to aud-SOa araa5M Slulka nemvsep oeowiry Mar Loan bom toa auddW 20s to Via uuddle 30a ctaudnasa Tuaaday Mgha moany 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