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Patriots fall to Dallas, face Steelers next Page 23 Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Final Edition 55- -NO. 45 Copyright 1981 by PG Publishing Co. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1981 20 CENTS Haig: Rich nations can't aid poor Today It's a day of autumnal melancholia in view of the mostly, moistly cloudy skies with showers expected in the morning. The high will hover around low around 50, according to the National Weather Service, which promises a partial clearing of the heavens by nighttime. The 60 percent chance of rain in the morning decreases to 20 percent by night.

Details, Page 22. Prime, loan curb down Several leading banks reduce their prime lending rates another notch, to percent from 20 percent, and some bankers predict that interest rates might finally be headed downward. Then the Federal Reserve Board lowers the interest penalty it charges banks that are its biggest and most frequent borrowers. The loan penalty, which is a surcharge to the 14 percent "discount" rate the Fed charges all member banks to borrow funds, is cut from 4 percentage points to 3. Page 8.

RR's SS plan President Reagan's plan to limit future increases in Social Security benefits runs into trouble with his own party. House GOP Leader Bob Michel says Social Security revision should be comprehensive rather than piecemeal, citing a "broad range of other entitlement" programs that Reagan's budget-cutters would do better to target. Page 2. Fox to guard coop? The nomination of Clifford Jones to the Public Utility Commission heads for approval, despite the efforts of state Sen. Leonard Bodack, who says: "I don't believe his past ties to pro-utility and big business qualify him to represent the interests of Pennsylvania's average consumers.

This is not the time to have a fox guarding the chicken coop." Page 13. Coming home Actor Fritz Weaver, a local boy, never imagined he'd return here to shoot a movie George Romero's new thriller, "Creepshow." The Tony Award-winning, Peabody High grad tells George Anderson, "I walk down Centre Avenue and I want to see an old movie theater there, and it should playing a Joan Crawford movie, and it should be 1938 Page 15. Ready to be scandalized? A new biography of Bette Davis says the actress and billionaire Howard Hughes paid $80,000 in 1938 to her first husband, Harmon Nelson, after Nelson caught them in bed together and recorded what went on. And that's not all, as you'll find out People, Page 17. Tempus fugit A federal spokesman confirms that 3,800 calendars were sent to the Miami office of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, which has 100 employees.

The calendars were for 1981, which ends in months. At $3 per calendar, the shipment was worth $11,400. MiEE0C director says he didn't order any calendars. But the incident has, at least, produced a startlingly candid admission from a Miami official of the General Services Administration, which is responsible for such supplies. The government's system, he allows, "is not infallible." By Barry Paris Ann Landers.

16 8-12 Comics .........21 Deaths ..........22 Editorials ........4 Magazine 15-21 23-27 Television .....20 18,19 Want ads 28-30 ........22 Tomorrow A 16-page special Post-Gazette supplement on careers will be highlighted by two stories reporting the extent to which women have made inroads in jobs traditionally associated with men and vice versa. There are, after all, more male flight attendants, secretaries and stripteasers these days than you might think. By Bernard D. Nossiter New York Times News Service UNITED NATIONS Secretary of State Alexander M. Haig Jr.

yesterday said a Third World plan for "a massive increase" in resources flowing from rich nations to poor "is simply unrealistic." Instead, he urged Asian, African and Latin American countries to rely for development on free markets, private initiative and foreign capital. Haig's address at the General Assembly surprised most diplomats. His speech was devoted almost exclusively to so-called North-South problems, how to promote faster economic growth in the Third World, and barely mentioned international politics. Third World delegates, who declined to be named, said they were pleased that the secretary had dealt at such length with a theme they regard as critical. But most made clear they were distressed by what they saw as a rejection of their proposal for a new international economic order.

One key Arab diplomat said, "Laissez faire and classical liberalism are favorable for the United States. But we need a minimum of was opening day of the "general debate" at the Assembly. It is in fact a platform for speeches by ministers who usually outline their major foreign policy concerns. The 121 foreign ministers due here over the next three weeks are typically more concerned with the private, other than conversations with they hold speech-mak- with ing. All of them will watch closely the talks Haig has scheduled with Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei A.

Gromyko, tomorrow and Monday. In his brief discussion of international politics, the secretary, deplored "the willful the national integrity of Afghanistan and Cambodia by the Soviet Union and Vietnam." He implicitly defended the U.S. refusal to ratify the second agreement curbing strategic nuclear weapons. "The international community has tended over the years to overestimate the beneficial effects of the strategic arms limitation talks in dampening regional conflict," he said. He suggested that arms negoti- James Post-Gazette A charred bus frame remains after a truck-bus crash on the Neville Island side of the Fleming Park Bridge.

Fiery crash By Ken Fisher Post-Gazette Staff Writer A bus-gasoline tanker truck accident on the Fleming Park Bridge yesterday erupted into a spectacular fire, injuring seven and critically weakening the structure. The county immediately closed the 26-year-old bridge that connects Neville Island and Stowe Township over the back channel of the Ohio River. That means that 14,000 motorists must detour five miles along Route 51 to the Coraopolis-Neville Island bridge, which has been limited to one lane of traffic in each direction because of construction. The accident occurred when a Gulf Oil Corp. tanker apparently failed to negotiate the sharp ap- closes Neville transferred to Presbyteriansity Hospital and was listed in fair condition.

Frank Cerrone, 56, of 142 Davis McKees Rocks, a passenger in the bus, was admitted for observation after he complained about back injuries. William Schwartz, 50, 714 Cen. tennial Sewickley, driver of the truck, was treated for chest pains. He is a 16-year employee of Gulf. Michael Jones, 35, West North Avenue, Northside, was treated for minor injuries.

Willard Alexander, 47, of Eighth Street, McKeesport, was treated for minor injuries. James Mancuso, 44, of 107 Lehr Shaler Township, was proach to the bridge, flipped over and skidded into path of Port Authority bus 21A Coraopolis shortly before 7 a.m. Sparks ignited the spilled gasoline on the road and within minutes produced a giant fire curtain, blocking the north approach to the fourlane bridge. Everyone had escaped from the bus in the nick of time. The injured were taken to Ohio Valley General Hospital: John Grillo, 55, of Petunia Ross Township, the driver of the bus, sustained a fractured a leg and several ribs.

He was transferred to Allegheny General Hospital and was listed in fair condition. Salvo Silla, 50, 410 Pearl Bloomfield, a passenger in the bus, suffered head injuries. He was treated for head injuries. Thousands of telephones in Stowe, McKees Rocks and Neville Island were knocked out of service as phone lines on the bridge were burned. Within a few hours, service was back to normal except for businesses on the east end of the island.

Phone service there was expected to be restored by late today. A sewage line also was ruptured and untreated waste poured into the Ohio River for a brief time. U.S. Coast Guard officials were on hand to monitor the flow, which they said posed no health hazards. Trucker Don Wilson was waiting for the red light along Grand Avenue on Neville Island when the tanker pulled out of Gulf's terminal (Continued on Page 14, Column 1) $12.50 a day for hostages' captivity urged By Marjorie Hunter New York Times News Service WASHINGTON A presidential commission yesterday recommended that the federal government pay to 51 of the 52 Americans who were held hostage in Iran, $12.50 for each of the 444 days spent in captivity.

In addition to the proposed taxexempt payment of $5,550 to each hostage, the nine-member commission also recommended unlimited medical and health benefits for those former hostages suffering disabilities stemming from their detention. hurts 7, The Americans were taken captive by Islamic militants Nov. 4, 1979, in the American Embassy in Tehran. They were released last Jan. 20.

The benefits would not apply to Jerry Plotkin, a California businessman who was among the 52 hostages released in January. The commission decided that the U.S. government has no legal responsibility to provide benefits for private citizens, noting that warnings against travel to Iran had been issued before the hostage taking. The recommended compensation falls far short of the payment suggested by Brice Clagett, an attorney for Flag a family liaison action group formed by families of the former hostages. so some Clagett of the said former he expected hostages that and their families would file suit in the U.S.

Court of Claims, seeking "just compensation. This whole situation is most unfortunate." In proposing the $12.50 daily compensation for each day of captivity, the commission noted the figure was comparable to that paid to Vietnam prisoners of war, 4 police officers or he say other refused whether police to they identify officers. were them civilians or "This was an internal police cleared in beating he proper said. investigation for me and to it identify would not them," be Cowell apparently was preBy Thomas J. Porter Jr.

sustained a fractured jaw in the sent at the lineup. A prepared Post-Gazette Staff Writer incident. statement released by the WilBased on the results of a line- Wilkinsburg who lier yesterday said: Police Chief Phil- kinsburg Police Department earup, four wilkinsburg, police offi- ip Schnabel, actively sought "A lineup identificacers have exonerated of the lineup, said: standup, involvement in a May 24 brutal- "I am certainly gratified tion held by Wilkinsburg very that Police Department, the results ity incident in Penn Hills. that this lineup proved no of which exonerated our officers The lineup, ordered by Com- officer in our department was in the inciR. Smith engaged in police brutality.

from involvement mon Pleas Judge Ralph dent. Mr. Cowell's cleared Sgt. Leo McQuillan "I pressed for this lineup be- unfounded." complaint administra- is classified and officers Dominick Mangano, cause it is a proper and Donald Price tive tool. It was not only done Schnabel said in an Aug.

14 Joseph Terry but interview that two civilian witfrom "involvement in the inci- for officers' protection, dent." Smith said charges also afforded witnesses the op- nesses, including Cowell, might against the four were unfounded. portunity to select guilty par- participate in a lineup. Mark Cowell, 22, of East Mc- ties." The beating in Ritzland ShopKeesport, a manager at a Mc- Schnabel said there were Donald's Downtown restaurant, three witnesses at the lineup, but (Continued on Page 7, Column 1) ations are hampered by events like the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and Vietnam's occupation of Cambodia. In his speech, Haig did make what appeared to be one important gesture towards the Third World. The very poorest nations like Mali and Bangladesh do "require longterm and generous concessional aid," he said.

But he added that help should come from developing as a well as industrialized nations. (Continued on Page 3, Column 3) Emission controls foes upset ban veto span adjusted to reflect inflation that has taken place since those earlier payments were made. The reaction of some former hostages and family members to the commission's recommended payment ranged from amusement to resignation to sadness. Some refused comment. Wallaps Tomseth, whose husband, Victor, was a hostage, laughed loudly when told of the commission's proposal.

"It's so funny," she said. "How can you put a price on something (Continued on Page 3, Column By Edward Jensen Post-Gazette Harrisburg Correspondent HARRISBURG The House yesterday overwhelmingly overrode Gov. Thornburgh's veto of legislation that would prevent the state from implementing federal auto emission controls. The Senate, however, must follow suit if the ban is to prevail. Senate Majority Leader Robert Jubelirer, R-Blair, predicts an override, but said he isn't sure when the vote will be taken.

The tally in the House was 194-to1, the no vote being cast by Rep. Rudolph Dininni, R-Dauphin, chairman of the Transportation Committee. Dininni said he feared the legislation would jeopardize about $400 million in federal highway funds by placing the state in contempt of a federal court order. A spokesman for Thornburgh expressed similar apprehensions. James Wiggan, press secretary, said the veto was not unanticipated.

But, he added, "We continue to oppose the legislation because we do not want to appear to be ignoring a federal court order." The bill, passed by wide margins in both houses, would prohibit PennDOT from spending state funds to implment federal clean air regulations in 12 counties, encompassing the Pittsburgh, Philadelphia and Allentown metropolitan areas. The oft-delayed order, issued in 1978, is scheduled to become effective May 1. In anticipation, PennDOT has spent about $190,000 to train personnel for the inspections, which would be conducted much as the current semiannual safety auto inspections. Thornburgh and most other state political leaders have urged Congress to initiate a delay of the program nationwide. Such opposition enjoys bipartisan support.

Yesterday Rep. Richard Cessar, R-Etna, the Republican majority whip, introduced the override motion and the only speaker was his Democratic counterpart, Rep. James J. Manderino, of Monessen. Noting that the 12-county emissions program affects only passenger cars, Manderino called it unfair and said it could not be justified on a cost-benefit basis.

Cessar told reporters later he does not share the governor's fears about loss of federal subsidies. He suggested the program will be killed by Congress. Even so, Wiggans said the governor said he hopes the veto will be sustained in the Senate. (Continued on Page 13, Column 1) O'Connor confirmed in Senate by 99-0 By Linda Greenhouse New York Times News Service WASHINGTON The Senate yesterday confirmed Sandra Day O'Connor as an associate justice of the United States Supreme Court. The vote was 99 to 0.

Sen. Max Baucus, D- was out of town and did not vote. O'Connor, who will take the oath of office Friday, will be the first woman to serve on the Supreme Court. President Reagan is expected to attend the ceremony in the courtroom. Minutes after the vote, O'Connor appeared on the Capitol steps flanked by Vice President George Bush, Attorney General William French Smith, and several senators.

To the cheers of perhaps 200 onlookers who had waited for her, she said she was "absolutely overjoyed with the expression of support from the "My hope," she continued, "is that 10 years from now, after I've been across the street at work for a while, they'll all be glad they gave me that wonderful vote." Hailing a "happy and historic day," Reagan said in a statement that her confirmation "symbolizes the richness of opportunity that still abides in America opportunity that permits persons of any sex, age or race, from every section and walk of life, to aspire and achieve in a manner never before even dreamed about in human history." Yesterday's vote was such a foregone conclusion that the Senate (Continued on Page 3, Column 1) A.

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