' Backgammon Is In-Thing Battle^ over Typewriter Moriarty in Showdown Workers End Strike But Monopoly Still Tops Town Auction highlight For Twi Baseball Title At Torrington Firm Page 2 Page 1 0 Page 11 Page 16 iiaitrl)patpr Cloudy Tonight, Sunny Tuesday ^ Sm details on Page 2 Attack Due ntng I • A Famlly-NEWSpaper Since 1881 • 20it Single Copy • 154 Home Delivered MAHABAD, Iran (UPI) - Young men and teen-age girl volunteers were hurriedly trained for combat today as this Kurdish rebel stronghold prepared for an expected attack by tank-led Ira­ Plan Set to Break Deadlock nian government forces. klph Meeker, Albert Two armored columns of the Iranian military today took positions on key roads leading into Wife of Defector wHdntght Special Mahabad. travelers coming into the town said. The streets of Mahabad were To Be Interviewed calm, but scores of young Kurdish nkNn men and women crowded the former army garrison on a NEW YORK (UPI) - U S. and night on another Aeroflot flight. hillside overlooking the town. A Soviet officials have reached ten­ Meanwhile, the other members of "The Unfaithful" tative agreement on a plan to break I Sheridan, Lew Ayres. guerrilla explained they had come the Bolshoi Ballet left for Chicago at to "register themselves for the the deadlock over the wife of 1:53 a.m. EDT today aboard a United defected Bolshoi ballet star Aleksan­ "Retreat. Helll" battle.” Airlines charter flight, according to ink Love)oy. Richard The guerrillas trained teen-age dr Godunov, State Department the airline. girls and young men on howitzers ■ • j.. 'u tV. sources in Washington said today. ’The ballet had concluded a four- and four captured tanks and said The sources said that under the week engagement at the New York "The Story Of Louis more tanks and heavy guns were tentative plan, Ludmila Vlasova, who State Theater Sunday afternoon. It 1936) Paul Muni, Akim './/S', ■ “available" across the town. has been held aboard the Soviet was to perform at Chicago’s m Aeroflot airliner at New York’s AireCrown Theater Tuesday through Water Tests Kennedy Airport since Friday, will Sept. 2 and end its 45-day American mny be permitted by Soviet officials to be tour with an engagement at the MIDDLETOWN. Pa. (UPI) - taken to a mobile lounge parked adja­ Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles Testing begins this week on the cent to the plane. from Sept. 4 through Sept. 16. first sample of once-radioactive She would be interviewed there by The U.S. action prompted angry water drawn from the damaged American officials, away from any protests from the Soviets. nuclear reactor at Three Mile possibile intimidation from Soviet of­ Negotiations were held throughout Island. ficials who have previously refused the weekend, with President Carter Scientists at the nuclear plant to permit her to leave the aircraft. monitoring the talks from took the first step over the ■The Americans have refused to Washington. weekend toward decontaminating allow the plane to leave with the 36- In the latest move between the two 550,000 gallons of water that has year-old Miss Vlasova until they have sides, officials Sunday night were accumulated inside the unit No. 2 been assured by her that she is trying to arrange a meeting between reactor since the March 28 acci­ leaving voluntarily. tbe Godunovs. dent. The sources said that the The United States originally asked Working from a custom-built mechanical details of the tentative for a private meeting — with Miss ' i protective booth, researchers agreement are being worked out in a Vlasova off the plane and out of the Saturday removed the first sam­ complex series of arrangements in­ presence of Soviet authorities. ple of what they hope is decon­ volving the two sides in New York, The Soviets rejected that request taminated water from the base­ Depdrture Blocked the State Department, the White and chief U.S. negotiator Donald ment of the unit's containment Cars block the departure of a Soviet ficials have grounded the plane, insisting that House and the Soviet Embassy in McHenry, a deputy ambassador to building. jetliner in New Ifork City, Sunday. Aboard they be allowed to determine if the woman Washington. the United Nations, offered a com­ Sandy Polon, communications the jet is the wife of Bolsh<ii baltet star was leaving the country of her own free will. A State Department spokesman, promise Sunday. manager for the plant, said the Mary Ann Bader DeBeuscher, said McHenry said “It is not absolutely sample will be delivered this Aleksandr Godunov. State'Departnirai of- -(UPI ptratoj^- she could not comment on the'reports necessary” that Miss Vlasova leave week — in a small lead-shielded of the tentative agreement. the plane. But, he added, “It is most cask set inside another shielded Last Wednesday, Gudonov, 30, desirable." 55-gallon cask — to the Oak Ridge received political asylum from the U.S. officials rejected a Soviet National Laboratory in Oak IRA Bomb in Yacht U.S. Immigration and Naturalization offer of a letter from Miss Vlasova Ridge, Tenn., and to the Service. rather than the interview the State Lynchburg. Va., research center Friday, Miss Vlasova was escorted Department had demanded. of Babcock and Wilcox. aboard a white and blue Aeroflot State Department spokeswoman Test results should be ready Ilyushin-62 bound for Moscow by Mary Ann Bader Debeusscher said within two weeks, he said. Kills Military Hero eight burly men believed to be Soviet the other passengers on the plane security agents. “are free to leave. We have urged the Soviet government repeatedly to let W ERA March SLIGO, Ireland (UPI) - Earl up after making his brief statement. father was sent to Malta in 1929. At that point. State Department of­ these people leave the plane.” Mountbatten of Burma, Queen Police said they were still in­ He was on vacation in Ireland when ficials grounded the plane, insisting Miss Vlasova, she said, “would be Members of one of the nation's Elizabeth's cousin, was killed today vestigating the cause of the explosion the blast occurred on board his boat they be allowed to determine if Miss free to leave as soon as we have in­ largest silent majorities — in an explosion that ripped apart his aboard the 29-foot cruiser Shadow as it sailed for Mullahgmore, a tiny Vlasova was leaving the country of terviewed her in a non-coercive en­ women — donned jogging suits, cabin cruiser off the Irish coast. A Five, owned by Mountbatten and fishing port on the northwest Irish her own free will. 02. paraded with banners and raised The jetliner has since been parked vironment. If she wants to, she can left-wing branch of the Irish used by him at his summer home in coast 12 miles from the Northern CES their voices by the thousands Republican Army claimed respon­ Sligo. Ireland border. at Gate 10 of the Pan American go back to the Soviet Union then.” across the country to press for Orville Schell, a lawyer for sibility for the blast. Mountbatten was the fourth child A tall, well built, remarkably hand­ Airways terminal, with police cars passage of the Equal Rights Godunov, said his client was anxious Mountbatten, 79, a military some man, Mountbatten was once blocking its access to the runway. Amendment. of Queen Victoria’s grandaughter. to speak with his wife and was statesman and hero whose versatile Princess Victoria, and an uncle of described as having ''all the Miss Vlasova and 52 other Soviet 139. The National Organization for citizens are on board. prepared to meet with Soviet' of- life spanned the rule of four Prince Philip and cousin of Queen superlatives.” Women held walkathons in 80 flcials, “provided he sees his wife at monarchs, apparently was killed in­ Elizabeth II. , He was the youngest captain in the Officials said 15 other passengers cities and sponsored rallies from stantly. Aboard the boat with Mountbatten royal navy at 37 and had the most who were on the plane left Sunday the meeting.” New York to California Sunday in 129. His grandson, Nicolas, 25, also was were his daughter and son-in-law. spectacular promotion of World War Women’s Equality Day killed along with the pilot of the boat, Lord and Lady Brabourne, their two II, finishing as supreme commander :hoice. celebrations to commemorate.the identified as Paul Maxwell. sons, and the dowager Lady of the Southeast Asia command, approval of voting rights for The left-wing Irish National Brabourne. which had the longest front of the U.S. Productivity women and to raise money for Liberation Army telephoned a Dublin passage of the ERA. Mountbatten, the Earl of Burma, war — 2,000 miles. newspaper, the Irish Independent, became the youngest admiral in the His heroism was proverbial and he Women's rights advocates, and said it had planted a bomb some wearing green and white — history of the Royal Navy when he wore 10 rows of ribbons and held 26 aboard the Earl’s yacht, which was appointed Supreme Allied Com­ citations for valor. Down 3.3 Percent the ERA colors — conducted a 12- exploded five minutes after it left the mander of the newly formed South It was during the campaign for mile walkathon from Los Angeles harbor in Sligo. through outlying communities in Elast Asia Command in 1943 at the Burma that Mountbatten met the If the bomb claim is true, Mount­ age of 43. He never quite outlived his tough American commander, Gen. WASHINGTON (UPI) - The and commodity brokers, and finance celebration of the passage of the productivity of the nation's non- batten would be the highest-ranking own legend.