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135th Year. 85th Day Bloomington-Normal, Tuesday, March 25, 1980 24 Pages 2 Sections Final Edition 25 Junta vows to find archbishop's killers ami (he rightists because they want to restore control of the country to the tiny landed oligarchy and its military allies As soon as radio announcements of the assassination were broadcast, thousands ran through the streets of the capital to their homes, tearing new violence. Hut about (MM) persons went to the hospital where (he archbishop was taken after he was shot A nun who said she was among about 125 people in the chapel told The Associated Press she went with the archbishop to the hospital. "On the way to the hospital he said, 'May God have mercy on the she reported. capital between 5 20 and 6 a m.

EST. The spokesman said he had no details and could not say immediately if there were any victims. Most of the explosions were heard in the downtown part of the city. Armed police patrols were deployed in force around the area and in residential districts, bracing for possible further violence. Authorities said the bomb explosions appeared to be in reaction to the archbishop's death.

Church-owned schools announced they will "close until further notice" and government sources said state-run schools will also be closed in protest over Romero's death as well as fear of widespread violence. The police spokesman said one bomb "gravely damaged" a four-story build-ing housing the offices of the local branch of ITT. Other bombs damaged a Salvadoran private bank, a savings and loan association and a number of downtown stores and factories. The 62-year-old Roman Catholic archbishop of San Salvador, a leading critic of military repression and of all political violence, was shot in the chest as he was raising the chalice at the altar in the chapel of the Hospital of Divine Providence, an institution he established for terminal cancer patients. A radio station said four gunmen invaded the chapel.

No group claimed responsibility for Hie shooting, but right wing terrorists were suspected Knnmio Morales Krlich. a civilian member of the ruling junta that em barked on an economic reform program early this month, said the killers would be "sought by authorities until they are found and punished He told a Panamanian television station in a telephone interview the government had also "taken measures to maintain order in the face of disturbances provoked by groups (hat will now take advantage of this to attack the regime. Terrorists of both the right and left have been fighting the junta's reform program, the leftists because they want to establish a socialist government SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador AP) -A dozen bomb explosions wrecked a number of buildings and storefronts and damaged factories early Tuesday while Salvador's civilian-military junta vowed to track down the killers of Archbishop Oscar Arnulfo Romero, assassinated Monday night as he celebrated Mass. A junta spokesman said the government ordered three days of national mourning for the Roman Catholic archbishop, an outspoken advocate of social reform in this Central American nation plagued by violence. A police spokesman said a dozen or more bombs went off, damaging an undetermined number of buildings, business offices, banks and factories in this Protesters gather outside embassy relations with Iran once the hostage crisis ends.

Carter administration officials, trying to play down its effect on the hostage situation, said Monday that Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi's decision to go to Egypt for medical treatment was his alone. A White House official, who did not wish to be identified, said the "best judgment is that the ultimate outcome of the situation in Tehran is not likely to be adversely affected" by the development. Nevertheless, State Department spokesman Hodding Carter warned that "the Iranian government is aware of the consequences and condemnation that would take place" if the hostages were tried. ji 143rd day By The Associated Press The shah's escape to Egypt will make resolution of the American hostage issue "extremely difficult," Foreign Minister Sadegh Ghotbzadeh said Tuesday as thousands of fist-waving Iranians demonstrated outside the U.S. Embassy.

Ghotbzadeh told a news conference in Tehran that the ousted monarch's transfer from Panama has undermined trust in the hostage negotiations and may make the new Parliament less favorable to a settlement. But he said the shah's flight to Egypt was a "moral victory" for Iran because it showed Iran's extradition case against the former monarch was strong. Ghotbzadeh also said Iran will not try to extradite the shah from Egypt because Egyptian President Anwar Sadat is a "puppet of Israel and the United States." He predicted a "tremendous amount of unrest" in Egypt because of the shah's presence. The foreign minister said the reason the ruling Revolutionary Council has not issued an official statement on the shah's transfer to Egypt is because the new circumstances are being debated among council members. Chanting Meanwhile, legions of Iranians filled the streets around the U.S.

Embassy in Tehran, shaking clenched fists and chanting slogans condemning the United States and Sadat because of the shah's escape to Egypt. Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin also was vilified. Women in traditional long black veils and men marched in separate groups into Ayatullah Taleghani Avenue in front of the embassy, chanting in chorus "The shah must come back. Down with the shah, Carter, Begin and Sadat!" Many were in a holiday mood because it is the middle of Iran's new year celebration. They laughed as a man wearing a Carter mask and a tall red hat wandered through the crowd.

Some took off his hat and patted him on the head or pretended to beat him with crutches. The demonstration was called by the revolutionary guards, the militant Moslem clergy and other revolutionary groups to denounce the "treacherous plot" by Sadat and President Carter to help deposed Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Tehran Radio said. The ailing ex-monarch fled from extradition proceedings in Panama and was hospitalized in Cairo alongside the Nile Monday as the Iranian and U.S. governments swapped new threats and warnings. Trials threatened Ayatollah Sadegh Khalkhali, a leading Iranian revolutionary and former chief judge, said those among the American hostages accused of spying would be put on trial and jailed if found guilty.

He said the trials would take place after Iran's new Parliament convenes, which is at least a month off because of slow vote-counting and allegations of fraud, and the other hostages would be freed at that time. While warning Iranian leaders against punishing the American hostages in retaliation for the deposed shah's departure from Panama, the United States also is renewing its offer to improve Price spiral continues in February WASHINGTON (AP) In a virtual replay of January's torrid inflation, consumer prices soared another 1.4 percent in February, the government reported Tuesday. List month's Increase in the I.abor Department's Consumer Price Index matched the 1 4 percent rise in January for a compounded annual rate of some It) percent. The culprits again were sharply higher gasoline and home heating oil prices and mortgage interest rates, the report showed An 18 percent rate for the entire year would be the worst inflation since World War II price controls were lifted in 194(i and a considerable jump from last year's III 3 percent inflation. "It's virtually identical, with the ex ceplion of apparel being a little more moderate," Labor Department economist Patrick Jackman said of the February report.

"1 would look for mortgage interest and energy to continue rising. I don't really foresee any improvement until June or July, not even a blip to below I percent." Price increases averaged Just over 1 percent each month last year. It. Hubert Hussell, director of the administration's inflation-monitoring Council on Wage and Price Stability, called the latest consumer price rise "a very ominous trend." Hut Hussell said he believes the inflation rate peaked in February and will not worsen later this year. "I think we won't see in the future any further acceleration in the overall inflation rate," he t.ild the Joint Economic Committee of Congress Tuesday.

He said energy prices appear to have peaked, and that should help bring the overall rale down. The Labor Department also reported that inflation continued to take its toll on earnings. Average weekly earnings fell 1.4 percent from January to February as inflation and a drop in the number of hours worked overpowered a modest 0.5 percent rise in hourly earnings. This left inflation-adjusted earnings 6 5 percent below the level of February 1979. Spendable earnings, which is the money a married worker with three dependents has left alter Social Security and federal income taxes, also fell 1.4 percent.

Ex-headmistress indicted in killing of diet doctor WHITE PLAINS, Y. (AP) A grand jury Tuesday indicted Jean Harris, the former headmistress of a posh girls' school, on a charge of second-degree murder in the shooting death of Dr. Herman Tarnower, developer of the Scarsdale diet. The grand jury charged the 57-year-old Mrs. Harris, Tarnower's long-time companion, intended to kill hirn at his Purchase, home by firing four shots from her .32 caliber gun.

Tuesday was the 143rd day in captivity for the 50 Americans held by young militants in the embassy in Tehran and three embassy officials held at the Iranian Foreign Ministry. Sadat welcomed the shah and his wife to Egypt Monday, told reporters they would remain permanently and escorted them to the Maadi military hospital five miles south of Cairo, where the second floor of one wing was set aside for the deposed monarch and his entourage. The New York Daily News reported that the shah's four children, all of whom are students in the United States, flew to Egypt to spend their spring recess with their father. The children are Crown Prince Reza, 18; Princess Farahnaz, 17; Prince Ali, 13, and Princess Laila, 9. The shah's American doctors say he requires surgery to remove an enlarged and possibly cancerous spleen.

Demonstration Tehran, Iran An Iranian wore a musk depicting President Carter and rattled the chains locking the embassy gates in Tehran during a demonstration Tuesday. (AP Laserphoto) Arabs call general strike Lawsuit PARSIPPTNY, N.J. (AP) General Public Utilities owner of the crippled Three Mile Island nuclear power complex in Pennsylvania, said Tuesday it sued the designer and manufacturer of the damaged plant's reactor for more than $500 million. The utility said it charged Babcock Wilcox Co. with "gross negligence, strict liability for equipment failure, intentional breach of contract and breach of express and implied warranties" in connection with the accident at the complex last year.

The suit, which also named J. Ray McDermott the owner of Babcock Wilcox, was filed in federal court in New York, the utility said. Total shutdowns of businesses and schools were reported Tuesday by the Israel state radio in Hebron, Nablus, Ramallah, Bethlehem, Jericho and Halhoul, while partial strikes were reported in Jenin and smaller West Bank towns. A spokesman for Israel's military government in the region said troops were not interfering with the strike but were prepared for possible riots or other meetings that President Carter is to have next month with Begin and Egyptian President Anwar Sadat. The prime minister held the last of three negotiating sessions with Sol Linowitz, the American envoy to the Palestinian autonomy talks.

Linowitz described the session as "very frank and very fruitful." Before the meeting, he had called the Israeli decision to settle Hebron "disturbing." TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) Palestinians began a general strike Tuesday throughout the occupied West Bank of the Jordan River to protest Israel's plan to house Jewish students in the Arab city of Hebron. A spokesman for Prime Minister Menachem Begin, Dan Pattir, said Israel had turned down an American request to freeze settlement activity in occupied Arab territories leading up to separate violence. West Hank leaders planned a meeting at Hir Zeit University near Kamallah to discuss further action to protest the government's decision Sunday to build two live-in schools in the center of Hebron. Fahad Qa wasmeh, mayor of the city of 50, (MM), said Monday he would resist the decision "by all means at our disposal. We have to act against it even if it leads to our arrest.

There is no jail big enough for all of us." He said Hebron's Arabs would refuse to have any dealings with the Jewish settlers in the suburb of Kiryat Arba because of the Cabinet's decision to settle Jews in the city for the first time in 50 years. The Cabinet voted 8 6 Sunday to establish two live-in schools for Jewish students in Hebron. Government retirees TODAY Windfall benefits cited Weather Partly cloudy, cold tonight, low in the low or mid 20s. Increasing cloudiness and warmer Wednesday, high in the low or mid 40s. More weather on page B-4.

Money market A-3 New savings and loan Bees not so bad A-10 Crop yields boosted Louisville wins NCAA B-l Weather slows voting in N.Y., Connecticut their stint in government. The windfall aspect arises because Social Security credits them with no earnings for their years in government and thus winds up giving them extra-large benefits intended for the poor. Social Security is tilted to provide a bigger return to the poor. "Unfortunately, the Social Security system cannot distinguish between the low-wage earners and those whose average covered earnings are low because they worked primarily in non-covered employment," the study said. The 276-page study concluded it is feasible to expand Social Security to all workers, with transitions to safeguard current pensions for government workers who already are retired or eligible to retire.

It said Congress will have to decide whether universal coverage is desirable. But it said flatly that something must be done to eliminate the windfall benefits, and also to improve disability protection for workers who move in and out of the private sector and government work. The House ordered the study in 1977 after the House Ways and Means Com WASHINGTON (AP) The Social Security system is shelling out $840 million a year in windfall benefits to government retirees at the expense of 100 million non-government workers, a federal panel said Tuesday. The findings by the Universal Social Security Coverage Study Group could lend impetus to moves to make all civil servants pay Social Security taxes. The group estimated the average windfall for retired federal workers who also get Social Security is $1,050 a year each in benefits and Medicare.

And it said that if the 6 million to 7 million workers now outside Social Security were brought into the system, the 6.13 percent tax now paid by 100 million private American woikers and their employers could be lowered by 0.25 percent. For a worker making $25,000 a year, that would mean a savings of $62 a year in Social Security taxes. The study group said a large majority of public employees winds up with Social Security benefits as well as government pensions, either because they have worked part time on the side while working for the government or because of private employment before and after mittee voted in favor of universal coverage. Some federal workers' unions have raised warchests to fight any move in Congress to bring them into Social Security. Some teachers' groups and poliee and firefighters now outside the system also oppose the move.

Ninety percent of the federal government's 2.7 million civilian workforce does not pay Social Security. Those who do include Tennessee Valley Authority workers and some short-time employees. Sex charge added in kidnap MERCED, Calif. (AP) Kenneth Parnell, accused in the seven-year abduction of Steven Stayner, faces an additional charge of sexually molesting the teen-ager who lived with him as his son, officials say. Chief Deputy District Attorney Larry Howard said the complaint against Parnell was amended Friday to allege "certain overt acts, including the sexual molestation" of Stayner, now 14.

Paxton girls triumph ring to rain and wind sweeping the city. New Yorker and residents of neighboring Nassau County began voting at 6 a rn six hours before the rest of the state. In Connecticut, the early turnout was described as very light because of a spring storm that dumped a sloppy mixture of snow and rain on the state. Residents of Enfield, voted by flashlight because of a power failure. Meanwhile, Republican John Anderson, also running in Connecticut, threw a new light on November's general election by saying he felt he must "very carefully" consider running for president as an independent if he fails to win the GOP nomination.

NEW YORK (AP; New Yorkers voted Tuesday in one of the nation's richest presidential primaries, with Sen. Edward M. Kennedy claiming he might finally gain an upset over President Carter but vowing that defeat would not end his challenge for the Democratic nomination. Ronald Reagan held the Republican lead in New York even before the votes were counted as he competed there and in the Connecticut primary with former U.N. Ambassador George Bush.

Bad weather slowed voting in both states early Tuesday. "It's nasty weather and the turnout so far is light," said Bea Dolen, executive director of the New York City Board of Election, refer Markets A-10 Opinion A- 4 Porter A-12 B- 5 Sports B- 1 A- 6 Today A- 9 Weather B- 4 Also: Abby A- 9 6 Births A- 5 Classified B- 4 Comics A- 8 Deaths B- 4 Doyle A-12 Farm A-10 Glallup A- 6.