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IOWAC ITY PRESS CI Monday, January 29, 1979 A Gannett Newspaper Iowa City, Iowa 20 begin Todays highlights Teng, Carter Newsprint shortage continues from the Chicago area is expected this week before the Press-Citizen's inventory is depleted. To help alleviate the problem, some features and articles have been deleted or reduced. A number of advertisers have been asked to delay publication until the crisis is over. Because of a newsprint shortage caused by a delay in rail shipments and severe weather, the Press-Citizen is in an "abbreviated" number of pages again today. Publisher J.C.

Hickman said that a rail car has been in transit for more than 20 days from a Canadian mill. An emergency shipment of newsprint VN. Bomb blast If a Jiff fl- If JERUSALEM (GNS) Two persons were killed and 34 wounded Sunday when a time bomb planted by Palestinian guerrillas exploded in a crowded business section of the coastal town of Natanya. The blast could touch off another Israel retaliatory strike against Palestinian strongholds in southern Lebanon. An informal truce arranged by United Nations' peacekeeping forces between Palestinians and Israelis has been in effect in the Israeli-Lebanon border area for about a week following a series of Israeli-Palestinian clashes.

However, Palestinians engaged in a two-hour artillery duel Sunday with Israeli-backed Christian forces that control a strip of the Lebanese side of the border. Teen-agers killed By The Associated Press Two teen-agers who died of injuries received when they were struck by a car on a Davenport street Saturday night were among Iowa's four weekend traffic fatalities. Davenport police said Vincent Lynn Cook, 35, Davenport, was being held in the Scott County Jail Sunday night on a charge of drunken driving in connection with the accident which took the lives of Brenda Christensen and Helen J. Armstrong, both 17. In another weekend traffic accident, a Camanche man and his son died of injuries they received Saturday when the pickup truck they were in slammed into the rear of an end-loader on U.S.

30 about four miles west of Clinton. Dead are Harry Meyer, 31, and his son Michael, 4. Girl sniper Chinese Vice Premier Teng Hsiao-ping ges- tures as he and President Carter review troops today on the South Lawn of the White House. Linda Eaton hearing goes on Rhodesian war SALISBURY, Rhodesia (GNS) -The intensifying guerrilla war is breaking down medical services and food supplies, threatening the country with widespread epidemics and malnutrition. According to the Rhodesian Medical Association, rural blacks are receiving no medical attention, children are not getting vital vaccinations, and the government's attempt to starve out guerrillas by cutting off food supplies is starving the Rhodesian blacks instead.

WASHINGTON (AP) -President Carter welcomed Vice Premier Teng Hsiao-ping to the White House today with the promise of "a common journey" as they began talks on bolstering the new relationship between the United States and China. "On behalf of the people of my country, I welcome you, Mr. Vice Premier," Carter said under windy, overcast skies during the ceremony on the White House South Lawn, which was twice disrupted by anti-Teng demonstrators. "Today we take another step in the historic normalization of relations. We share in the hope which springs from reconciliation and the anticipation of a common journey," the president said.

Teng, reading his speech in Chi- nese, responded that "We share the sense of being on an historic mission. relations are at a new beginning and the world is at a new turning point." Teng warned that "the factors making for war are visibly growing" in the world. He and Carter both expressed hope that normal relations between their two countries would help preserve world peace. The ceremonies were disrupted twice, first by a woman protester who began screaming at Teng, "Teng Hsiao-ping, you are a murderer or a traitor!" She was dragged away by police. Moments later, a man standing among the reporters, 15 feet in front of the president and Teng, shouted "Traitor! with Teng Hsiao-ping!" and "You cannot make this a garden party!" Three security agents arrested him and pulled him away from the press stand.

The two were identified as Keith Kozimoto, 28, and Sonia J. Ransom, 26. There was no immediate indication of their political affiliation. Carter and his wife, Rosalynn, met Teng and his wife, Cho Lin, at the White House South Portico at 10 a.m. to a fanfare of Army trumpets.

Teng responded to the crowd's applause by applauding back. Then he followed Carter down a short receiving line that included Secretary of State Cyrus Vance, Vice President Walter Mondale and national security adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski. The president and the vice premier and their wives mounted a platform and stood at attention as the U.S. Army band played the two countries' national anthems and cannons in the distance fired a 19-gun salute, the tribute accorded to a head of government. The ceremony was witnessed by about 1,000 reporters and guests inside the White House grounds and untold millions on television around the world.

In front of Teng were arrayed honor guards representing the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marine Corps. To the sides were the invited spectators, waving small Chinese and American flags. Several hundred yards to the south, outside the wrought iron fence, some demonstrators were standing, their banners barely readable to anyone without field glasses. Most were in Chinese. One, in English, said "Taiwan for the Taiwanese." The two leaders had two private meetings on their schedule today, their first personal encounter.

Carter, his aides said, planned to be slow and methodical in six hours of talks scheduled with the 74-year-old Teng, recognizing differences that inevitably will exist between a capitalist society and a Marxist nation, between a technologically advanced society and one lagging behind in such areas. The president will concentrate on Issues likely to produce agreements furthering American security and economic interests while helping China achieve Teng's goal of becom- SAN DIEGO (AP) A sniper who police said was believed to be a 16-year-old girl opened fire with a rifle on an elementary school this morning, killing one person and injuring at least six other persons. The sniper was barricaded inside a house across the street from the Cleveland Elementary School in the city's northeast section with an estimated 500 to 600 rounds of ammunition, police said. A man identified as the girl's father was reported to be on the scene attempting to talk her out of the house as a police SWAT team prepared to rush the modest yellow frame house. Assistant Chief of Police Robert Burdgreen said, "We believe a 16-year-old girl student" was responsible for the shooting.

He said she was armed with automatic rifle. By CURT SEIFERT Proni Cltlum Reporter Linda Eaton is the only Iowa City firefighter ever to be reprimanded for receiving visits from family members while on the job, another Iowa City firefighter testified at a Johnson County District Court hearing this morning. That statement came from firefighter Jesse King, who has served 15 months with the department, at the hearing which is to determine if an injunction Eaton has requested will be issued to prevent the city from taking any further disciplinary action against her. Eaton, 26, was sent home twice last week without pay after she breast-fed her infant son at the fire station in defiance of a "no nursing on duty" rule set by Fire Chief Robert Keating. She was told she would be discharged Friday if she again nursed her 3V4-month-old son, Ian, but the action was postponed after Judge Ansel J.

Chapman issued a temporary restraining order Friday morning. Eaton left the fire department "volutarily" Friday afternoon after a meeting with Keating. The chief reportedly asked her to leave in an attempt to dissipate the "carnival-likeatomosphere" at the Civic Center because of the controversy. King, who is the only firefighter to publicly support Eaton, was the third witness to testify at the hearing this morning. When questioned by Eaton's attorney, Jane Eikleberry, King said that there were feelings of animosity towards Eaton from the other firefighters in the department.

Some felt she wasn't qualified, King said, and others felt they suffered loss of vacation or holiday time because Cambodian war BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) The Vietnamese army still has the upper hand in Cambodia, six weeks after it invaded the country to install a pro-Hanoi government, but it is in trouble, say Western and Thai military analysts in Bangkok. Although the analysts consider claims of military success by the forces of ousted Premier Pol Pot to be exaggerated, they say fighting continues at a number of points, and the invasion force seems to have lost the momentum that took it 300 miles across the country to the Thai border in a few weeks. Cambodian troops who remained loyal to Pol Pot and his Khmer Rouge government blew up the bridges on the major highways out of Phnom Penh as they retreated, the sources explain, and the Vietnamese are having trouble moving their artillery and other heavy equipment. Ambushes also are a problem. Sabin hearing tonight Eaton was away from the job during her pregnancy.

King termed the reprimand given Eaton by Keating "very serious," and said her subsequent suspension was "even more serious." He said he'd never heard of either happening to a firefighter before. Eaton appeared in court today wearing her firefighter's uniform, flanked by Eikleberry, the attorney's partner in a local law practice, Clara Oleson, and an Iowa assistant attorney general, Ray Perry. Perry said he entered the case after a complaint was filed Friday with the Iowa Civil Rights Commission by Attorney General Tom Miller. Perry said the complaint alleged that the "no-nursing" rule constituted "disparate treatment" for Eaton a rule that would affect one sex and not another. The case is appropriate for a temporary injunction, he claimed, which would give the Civil Rights Commission the time necessary to investigate the issue.

The city last week asked for a special appearance in the case, claiming Eaton's case would have more appropriately have been handled as a sex discrimination complaint and pursued through administrative channels. Judge Chapman overruled that special appearance this morning, however. Other witnesses called this morning included William Nusser, chairman of the Iowa City Civil Service Commission, and former city Human Relations Director Candy Morgan. Nusser testified that Eaton ranked third on a list of 10 applicants the Civil Service Commission certified as qualified for the firefighter's job, and said there was "no way" Eaton was judged any differently than other applicants for the position. Morgan testified that she was "certain" there was no provision in the firefighters' contract that guaranteed "personal time" for family visits.

Strike threat OMAHA, Neb. (AP) Unless agreement is reached on a new contract, all ground service and flight kitchen employees of United Airlines, including 94 in Omaha, will strike Saturday, the president of Local 1826 of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers Union said Saturday. James H. Neumann said non-stop negotiations are under way between the union and the airline in Washington, D.C. The old contract expired Oct.

31. Parents of children at Sabin Elementary School will present three alternatives to the two school closing proposals under consideration by the Iowa City School Board. The three new plans will be presented 7 o'clock tonight during a public meeting on school closings at the Sabin gymnasium. The School Board is presently considering closing Mann, Lincoln and Sabin schools during the next four years. Public meetings on the closing issue have been held earlier this month at Mann and Lincoln.

Sabin is the district's only elementary school offering an "alternative" education with an "emphasis upon individualized instruction," school literature says. Most of the students attending Sabin live closer to one of the district's 15 other elementary schools, but choose to attend Sabin under the "open enrollment" policy. The three new alternatives to be outlined tonight by Sabin parents for the School Board's consideration are: Closing one of three schools within the Iowa City central city (Sabin, Mann or Longfellow). One of the two schools kept open would offer an "alternative program," the sec-, ond would offer a "traditional program." Parents living within the area could opt to send their children to either school. Shuffle students so that elementary schools house children in kindergarten through fifth grade; junior highs would house grades six through eight; and high schools, grades nine through 12.

Delay a decision on school closings for 18 months when better census data is obtained. The School Board will meet Feb. 10 in an informal session to discuss school closings, which the administration maintains are necessary due to declining enrollments and foreseeable economic problems. Supt. David Cronin, author of the two initial school closing proposals, has expressed the hope the Board will reach a decision Feb.

13. Kennedy favored SACRAMENTO (GNS) California Democrats prefer Sen. Edward Kennedy over President Carter and Gov. Edmund G. Brown Jr.

for the 1980 Democratic presidential nomination, according to the Gannett News Service California Survey. The poll of 579 registered Democrats, conducted Jan. 16-17 by the National Center for Telephone Research of New York, also discloses that a slim majority favors Carter over Brown. Asked whether they would vote for Carter, Brown or Kennedy if the Democratic presidential primary were held tomorrow, those surveyed replied: Kennedy, 38.5 percent. Carter, 28.8 percent.

Brown, 21.1 percent. Not sure, 11.6 percent. TENG Turn to page 2A. United Way at 97 of goal United Way's fund-raising campaign is going down to the wire. Latest statistics show the campaign is at 97 percent of its $240,000 goal with just a couple of weeks remaining.

Donations now total $233,800. "It's (reaching goal) going to be very, very close," said Marian Karr of United Way. "We're optimistic we're going to make it." The last time United Way reached 100 percent of goal was 1975. Divisional donations are as follows: Industrial, $78,845 (highest amount in history) professional, commercial, public service, county, residential, $13,269, and university, $59,587. Contributions may be mailed to United Way, 26 E.

Market Iowa City. on the inside Classified 4B.5B Emphasis 4A.5A Markets 3B People 3 A Sports 1B.2B 12 pages 2 Sections Local Weather Chance of snow Forecast on page 3B. Violence again hits Tehran Tractorcade INDIANAPOLIS (AP) A 600-unit tractorcade of Midwest farmers planned to head east across Indiana today en route to the nation's capital to protest low farm prices. State, local and county police were to accompany the convoy out of Indianapolis via U.S. 40 to the Indiana-Ohio state line.

A state police spokesman cautioned motorists to avoid breaking into the 20-mile long caravan, which was expected to take nearly two hours to pass any one point. Farmers in the group moving across Indiana are from Wyoming, the Dakotas, Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa, Illinois and Indiana. Iran's airports indefinitely to block the return from exile of the spiritual leader of the nation's 32 million Shiite Moslems. Thousands of protesters, angered by Bakhtiar's refusal to let Khomeini come home to convert the nation into an Islamic republic run by himself, flooded the streets of Tehran Sunday chanting "Death to Bakhtiar!" One large group, hurling gasoline-filled firebombs, tried to storm a police headquarters. Troops rushed to the scene and opened fire with machine guns mounted on the backs of trucks.

Military officials claimed the rioters were armed with machine guns and grenades, but reporters who witnessed the three-hour battle said they saw none. Rioters dived for cover as bullets slammed into walls over their heads. Some were hit by ricochets. Ambulances raced back and forth from the riot scene at Esfand Square ferrying the dead and wounded to hospitals. Press reports today said at least 30 persons were killed in Tehran and more than 300 wounded.

Military authorities said one soldier was killed and five other security men wounded. Doctors told reporters that one soldier killed himself after slaying his commanding officer, a colonel. The report could not be confirmed. It was the worst bloodbath in Tehran since Sept. 8 when 121 persons died in the streets.

that forced Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi to leave the country two weeks ago. In Paris, one Khomeini aide said the ayatullah would receive Bakhtiar, while another said he would have to resign first. Later, Khomeini told reporters: "If Bakhtiar is on the side of the angels, let him resign and come and see me as a free man, like everybody else." The 78-year-old priest, whose title of ayatulLah is equivalent to that of bishop or archbishop, again attacked Bakhtiar as a "puppet and agent of the shah," and repeated his claim that Bakhtiar's government is "illegal" because it was appointed by the "illegal" shah. The government has closed all TEHRAN, Iran (AP) Prime Minister Shahpour Bakhtiar rejected Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini's latest demand that he resign and called off a peacemaking trip to Paris after 30 persons were reported killed and more than 300 were wounded in Tehran's worst violence in months. Bakhtiar told a news conference Khomeini's assertion that he must resign before the 78-year-old religious leader would receive him was unacceptable.

But "doors will stay open," he said, indicating that contacts would continue between his representatives and the ayatullah's. The prime minister said Saturday he would fly to Paris to try to make peace with the holy man who from exile led the year-long civil rebellion.