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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 28, 1981)
inter/national news Stones concert draws 75,000 fans ORCHARD PARK, New York Leaping, prancing and pos turing, Mick Jagger led the Rolling Stones in a hard-driving rock’n'roll show Sunday as 75,000 tans danced in the rain The performance, at Rich Stadium in this Buffalo suburb, included songs from the group's latest album, "Tattoo You," as well as songs that were hits in the 1960s — about the time many in the audience were born After one encore, a fireworks display signaled the end of what promoters said was the fastest-selling show in the en tertainment history of upstate New York When tickets went on sale last month, all 75.000 sold in less than 12 hours Despite intermit tent rain Sunday, scalpers were selling the $15 concert tickets for as much as $140 The Stones came to the Buf falo area on the second stop of a 21-city tour The group drew more than 180,000 fans during its two-day run in Philadelphia, the Stones' first live American show since 1978 Emissions lawsuit continues today BOISE, Idaho A $20 million lawsuit against the nation's largest refiner of lead, zinc and silver continues in U S District Court here today Nine children, all former re sidents of Kellogg, contend the Bunker Hill Co released harm ful lead emissions which caused them to suffer mental and phy sical disabilities More than two dozen wit nesses have been called to the stand to hear descriptions of the Silver Valley area of northern Idaho during the 1970s and learn of the interworkings of the Bunker Hill mining and smelting operation Plaintiff attorney Paul Whelan of Seattle contends the com pany knew it was releasing harmful emissions, but did nothing to correct the problem The children in the lawsuit all lived within one mile of the Bunker Hill smelter They were part of a 1974 study by the Center for Disease Control in Atlanta in which some 1,000 children were tested for blood lead levels That study indicated that some 98 percent of the children tested had high blood-lead 'evels Union declares three winners PORTLAND Three employees in the state Department of Transportation were elected on Saturday to lead the Oregon Public Em ployees Union for the next two years Steve Green, a Salem right of-way agent, defeated outgo ing Vice President D H Petry of Baker in the presidential race Green succeeds Delbert Bolton of Salem, who did not run for re-election John Clapp, a bridgetender from Portland, was elected vice president Carol Laisure-Jelli son, a sign printer in Salem, was elected secretary-treasurer to succeed June Blakley The union has 12,000 members and represents about 20,000 public employees Green ran on a platform of aligning the union with the Oregon AFL-CIO and making it more politically active Guerillas battle police in Tehran BEIRUT, Lebanon Guerillas firing machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades battled official forces in Iran's capital Sunday in street clashes that left several people dead and dozens wounded, accord ing to reports from Tehran Tehran Radio said "several persons, including policemen, revolutionary guards and in nocent people" were killed in the clashes, but did not say how many died The official radio also report ed Sunday that 24 leftists were shot by firing squads overnight and that a clergyman in Khor amabad, 180 miles southwest of Tehran, was killed by an assas sin firing from a motorcycle A later broadcast reported that 35 more opponents to the clergy led regime were executed in four Iranian cities Tehran Radio claimed Sun day that Iran won its "biggest victory" in its year-long war with Iraq, recapturing the oil refining city of Abadan and inflicting 600 enemy casualties There was no immediate comment from Iraq Alaskan volcanoes continue erupting COLD BAY, Alaska Two Alaska Peninsula volcan oes spewed more ash and steam thousands of feet skyward Sunday as they erupt ed for a second day, but airline pilots said heavy clouds obs cured the peaks No injuries or damage were reported in either eruption Pilots reported steam and ash rising to 14,000 feet Sunday from the 8,905-foot Pavlof Vol cano, said Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Jerry Dunn The column rose 20,000 feet into the air when Pavlof, 600 miles southwest of Anchorage, erupted Saturday for the second time in less than a year About 100 miles away, the 9,372-foot Shishaldin Volcano on Unimak Island also erupted Saturday, blackening its south ern flank with ash above the 4,000-foot level, Reeve Aleutian Airways pilots reported Oregon counties receive $2.7 million PORTLAND The Interior Department says the federal government is giving 34 Oregon counties $2 7 million as payment in lieu of taxes The money is provided an nually to compensate for the tax-exempt status of federal lands within the counties Oregon has nearly 29 million acres of federal land This year's total, which the government began paying last week, was announced by the Bureau of Land Management regional office BOARDS & BRICKS 1 M 13th & Kincaid Mon-Fri 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