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Erp a POST 0 SPATE FINAL 2:50 P.M. New York Stocks Pages 13A and 14A On Today's Editorial Page Soviet Political Editorial Mr. Brezhnev's Gospel Editorial And Cartoon mi 20 Copyright lM, St. Loull PoM-DiqMtck TUESDAY, JANUARY 15, 1980 Vol. 102, No.

14 DODuDls) Hoi details of the coverage but said the policy had been taken out within the last six to eight months. He said the employee who wrote the policy no longer is with the company. The police emergency phone number found on the desk in Mrs. Barrera's office indicated that she may have tried See BOMBING, Page 7 By Becky McReynoJds Of the Post-Dispatch Staff St. Louis detectives were trying today to fit together the puzzle of why Sophie Marie Barrera, a quiet, middle-age south St.

Louis divorcee, was killed by a bomb placed in her automobile. Why was the police emergency number found scrawled on a slip of paper beside the telephone in Mrs. Barrera's office? Why did she indicate to her son that she always felt she might die the way she did? Did someone feel so determined to kill Mrs. Barrera that they tried once before to plant a bomb? Mrs. Barrera, 59, of 4241A Hartford Street, was killed at 4:45 p.m.

Monday when she turned on the ignition of her small car on a parking lot on Miami Street east of South Grand Boulevard. She had just left the dental laboratory she owned on the second floor of the Grand View Arcade Building, 3608 South Grand. On Monday night, police questioned one of her business acquaintances for three hours about the bombing. He later was released. Mrs.

Barrera's former husband, Fred S. Barrera, said that the man interviewed, a dentist, owed Mrs. Barrera $15,000 for laboratory work and that Mrs. Barrera had filed suit against him. After questioning Monday, the dentist told a reporter, "I have nothing to say to the Post or anyone else." Police said they would not seek warrants against him at this time.

Mrs. Barrera within the last year had taken out life and automobile insurance in excess of $100,000, a spokesman for her insurance company said. The spokesman refused to give 0 7 -ClilL II 1 III riiiiiMirnrmitrrfiiniimriiwiriiiiinrmriariiiirio "WTlwiTWlliiiiwwtMlt if Crowd Strained To See; Some Took Pictures By Charlene Prost and Geof Dubson Of the Post-Dispatch Staff Before removing the body of Sophie Marie Barrera from her destroyed automobile Monday night, authorities first ordered several police and fire vehicles to park along the 3500 block of Miami Street, apparently to block the view of spectators. But many persons in the crowd that gathered strained their necks, trying to catch a glimpse. Some were taking snapshots and one man had a small home movie camera.

Even after an ambulance had taken -the the woman away, more than 100 persons remained for hours at the edge of an area roped off by police. They watched with interest as investigators from the St. Louis police bomb and arson squad and the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms combed the scene. A bank of floodlights mounted on a fire truck lit up the apartment building narkins lot and Mrs.

Barrera's auto, a See SCENE, Page 7 Wayne CrosslinPost-Dispatch car in which she was killed Tl1itfrl Rv Tinmti Members of the police bomb and arson squad Barrera's small examining the wreckage of Sophie Marie Monday by a boi Monday by a bomb. Court Won't Hear Slavin Appea. All American Reporters Ordered Out Of Iran Compiled From News Services TEHRAN, Iran Iran today gave American reporters until Friday to leave the country. Abolghassem Sadegh, Iran's foreign press chief, said he would allow news bureau chiefs and staff members slightly longer to wind up their operations. Sadegh told the newspaper Kayhan that all American radio and television networks, as well as the United Press International and Associated Press news agencies, Consumers Council of Missouri made her prejudiced.

Although disappointed at the outcome, Mrs. Slavin noted that the Appeals Court decision was limited to the specific rate design case involving UE. "The decision was not as earth-shaking as it could have been," she said. She said she did not expect court challenges from other utilities since the decision was so "narrowly construed" by the Appeals Court. The Supreme Court also ordered the retirement of William R.

Clark, a See SLAVIN, Page 7 By Terry Ganey Post-Dispatch Jefferson City Bureau Chief JEFFERSON CITY The Missouri Supreme Court today refused to hear an appeal by Public Service Commission Chairwoman Alberta Slavin rf a lower court decision prohibiting her from participating in a Union Electric Co. rate case. The Supreme Court's refusal to hear the the appeal, announced without comment, means that the Oct. 29 decision by the Missouri Court of Appeals at Kansas City removing Mrs. Slavin from the important UE rate design case will stand.

The Appeals Court based its decision, agreed to by a unanimous vote of the court, on the fact that Mrs. Slavin had been involved indirectly with the case before becoming a member of the PSC. "I'm disappointed the court didn't take it because I think there were some issues that needed consideration," Mrs. Slavin said. She said many court cases showed that if a company believed a commissioner was biased towards it, it had the authority to challenge the commissioner after the rate decision was made.

The Kansas City Appeals Court decision had reversed a ruling by Cole County Circuit Judge Byron Kinder, who had said that there was no legal way for Mrs. Slavin to be removed from the PSC before a decision in the rate design case. The case is an important one, because it could change the utility's entire system of how it charges customers for the electricity they use. Since the Appeals Court decision, Mrs. Slavin has refrained from participating in the rate design case.

Union Electric and 15 of its business and industrial customers sought Mrs. Slavin's removal from the case, contending that her earlier involvement in the case as a member of the Utility THE MEANING of sanctions against Iran. Page 3C would have to close. Also named were The New York Times, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, the Chicago Tribune, the Los Angeles Times, U.S. News and World Report and Newsweek magazine.

Time magazine correspondents were expelled earlier. The expulsion will apply to all See IRAN, Page 5 U.N. Demands Soviet Afghan Pullout It's Official: McNary Seeks Eagleton's Seat ft) 1 1 Kim irtfflhi 1 Afghanistan; but the thrust was clear, since the debate was shifted to the assembly because a Soviet veto killed a similar resolution in the Security Council. Despite its size, the vote carried no force; resolutions passed by the 152-member assembly are only recommendations. Soviet Ambassador Oleg Troyanovsky said Russian armed forces will be withdrawn only when "foreign threats" to Afghanistan have ended.

He said Moscow sent troops to the Moslem country late last month because it "feared an imperialist bridgehead on the southern edge of the diplomats and several of their allies succeeded in getting the assembly to adopt a resolution which is aimed, as the Afghan Foreign Minister Shah Mohammed Dost put it, at interference in his country's affairs," Radio Moscow said. But the size of the vote and its breakdown by blocs, particularly by the non-aligned nations, was seen as dealing a sharp diplomatic slap to Moscow. First, the resolution was sponsored by 24 Third World nations, whose tuuse the Soviet Union professes to champion. And in the balloting, the non-aligned group voted 56-9 for the resolution, with 26 abstaining or absent. The resolution did not mention the Soviet Union by name as the aggressor, referring to "foreign troops" in UNITED NATIONS (UPI) The U.N.

General Assembly, in a stinging rebuff to the Soviet Union, has called overwhelmingly for the total and unconditional withdrawal of Soviet troops from Afghanistan. The resolution, adopted Monday by a vote of 104-18 with 18 abstentions, "strongly deplored," the military push into the southwest Asian nation. Radio Moscow today, in the first Soviet reaction to the resolution, acknowledged it with a brief report charging that the General Assembly vote was a stage-managed attempt by the United States at meddling in Afghan affairs. The Soviet broadcast did not report the specific outcome of the vote, nor did it quote from the text of the resolution. "Backstage activity by American By Dana L.

Spitzer Post-Dispatch Political Correspondent St. Louis County Executive Gene McNary, sharply criticizing federal policies that he says are responsible for inflation, high taxes and "mindless bureaucracy," declared his candidacy today for the Republican nomination for the U.S. Senate. Saying that the federal government had lost touch with voters, he promised his campaign would be "a crusade to restore the will of the people to government." McNary left his home area to announce his candidacy in a media blitz of western Missouri, where he is largely unknown. His official announcement came first at a news conference at 8 a.m.

in St. Joseph. It was followed by similar news conferences in Kansas City, Springfield, Joplin and Jefferson City, and ended in a news conference here. In Kansas City, McNary said, "I think the mood of the country is consistent with a change. I think the incumbent senator and those who've been a part of the problem will be voted out." Today's announcement came after weeks of preparation in which McNary Doctorian has said he would like to debate McNary and Eagleton.

In See McNARY, Page 7 Gene Hat McNary in ring SeeU.N., Page 6 tuiesday Teasdale Seeks 14 Spending Hike features MILK AND MONEY: Cost-conscious consumers have been turning away from home deliveries, but don't count the neighborhood milkman (right) out yet. DollarsSense, Page 3B URGE TO KILL: When mechanical monsters fail, they sometimes cause man to react violently. Mike Royko. Page 2D recession, the 11 percent growth factor is the most optimistic to be used by the Teasdale administration. Last year, the administration budgeted on a conservative 9 percent boost in state revenues that are now expanding at about a 16 percent clip.

"We consider these pretty conservative revenue estimates," said William Dye, Teasdale's budget director. "We don't anticipate as strong a growth as in the past." In addition to financing expansion of services on state growth and inflation, Teasdale is proposing giving back almost half of the state's $279 million surplus through tax cuts. What would be left after that would serve as a reserve or to finance emergency or supplemental programs next year. If the governor gets what he wants in See BUDGET, Page 4 By Terry Ganey Post-Dispatch Jefferson City Bureau Chief JEFFERSON CITY Inflation-fed growth of revenue would allow Missouri to substantially increase its support for mental health and welfare services, utility regulation and education under the $4.2 billion budget Gov. Joseph P.

Teasdale handed the General Assembly on Monday. The spending and tax-cut package, the fourth and most optimistic Teasdale has proposed, would increase state expenditures by 14 percent over last year. And, if coupled with his tax reduction plan, it would leave a minimum reserve in the state treasury. In his budget message to lawmakers, Teasdale said that an expected 1980 inflation rate of 9 percent would result in higher operating costs, higher tax revenues and an expected surplus of around $280 million in the state treasury. "The fundamental question facing my administration and this Legislature is how to deal with those costs and surpluses," Teasdale said.

"Should we spend all our surplus on government or should we return it to the people the people who paid for it and who need it back to help them cope with the rising costs in their own Teasdale said his answer to that question strikes a "delicate balance between adequately funding essential programs and giving tax relief to the people." Under the budget Teasdale put forth, an expected growth in state revenue of slightly more than 11 percent will finance the additions and expansions he would make to the state's present services. Despite fears of an impending Rainy And Mild Nader Gives Test Service Failing Grade By Martha Shirk Post-Dispatch Washington Bureau WASHINGTON Standardized tests administered to millions of American youths each year constitute "a specialized PLAN TO hold back eighth-graders assailed. Page 1C kind of fraud" that has kept countless worthy students out of learning institutions, consumer advocate Ralph Nader charged Monday. Tests from the Educational Testing Service "were conceived by the upper class for the upper class and have served as a formidable barrier to millions of students, unjustly diminishing their higher education and career opportunities," Nader said at a news conference. "The ETS-imposed definition of aptitude is undermining important standards standards demanding good writing, active accomplishment and, above all, actual performance and the ability to excel in more See TESTS, Page 5 inside Carry oh, nurse 42 Pages Tougher Rape-Penalty Bills Advance Official fore' cast for St.

Louis and vicinity; Periods of rain likely through' Wednesday. Low Tuesday night will be In the mid-40s; highs Wednesday, around 50. Chance of rain Thursday through Satur- day. Highs will be near 50 and lows In the low 30s. Business 13-16A Children's Corner 5D Classified Advertising 4-1 1C DollarsSense 1-12B Editorials 2C Everyday 1-8D News Analysis 3C Obituaries 4C Reviews 4D St.

Louis 1C Sports H2A TV-Radio 6D HI i JEFFERSON CITY (AP) A Senate committee today approved two bills to increase, the penalties for rape and create a sexual offenders program in the Missouri Division of Corrections. The bills now go to the full Senate for consideration. The bills are sponsored by Senate Majority Leader John D. Schneider, D-St. Louis County.

One calls for raising the maximum penalty for rape to life imprisonment from 15 yeare and lowering the minimum to two years from five. The other bills would eliminate probation and parole for convicted rapists and provide a 30-year minimum sentence for a second conviction. Before gaining approval from the Senate Committee on Jurisprudence and Corrections, both provisions came under criticism. Sen. George Murray, R-Creve Coeur, objected to the decrease in the minimum penalty.

"I don't like to see these things happen in the first week for political reasons," Murray said. "Frankly, I think we're rushing this bill because Gov. Joseph Teasdale is behind it." The bill creating a sexual offenders program also drew criticism from Sen. Emory Melton, R-Cassville. He said the value of such programs had not been proven.

At a hearing Monday night, Teasdale endorsed the proposals, saying rape had reached epidemic proportions in Missouri. The governor said the increase in reported rapes throughout the state, See RAPIST, Page 6 OtMr WMttMT IntormattMi Frn 1A.

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