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CITRUS, VEGETABLE CROPS THREATENED
Record cold wave hits
Florida
From the Associated Press
The "strange" Siberian cold wave punishing the
ast stunned Florida yesterday with a record killer
eeze from Tallahassee to Miami that hung icicles on
range trees and glazed vegetables in their fields.
Florida Power & Light Co. was forced to impose
)tating 20-minute blackouts on cities along the entire
eninsula as the coldest weather since the turn of the
entury put a strain on generating plants in many
reas.
RECORDS FOR THE coldest day ever in January
1ll across the Southeast-seven degrees in
'ilmington, N.C., eight degrees in Tallahassee, Fla.,
4 in Savannah, Ga.-while many cities of the Nor-
ieast logged new lows below zero.
The cold wave that has fishing boats frozen to their
ocks in New England and fuel barges ice-bound in
hesapeake Bay may have wiped out 20 percent of
lorida's bountiful orange crop, the equivalent of 49
iillion gallons of concentrated orange juice, citrus
ficials said. Temperatures ranged from 20 to 26
egrees in most of the citrus belt of Central Florida.
"It was a grim night for growers," said Earl Wells,
a spokesman for Florida Citrus Mutual. "We know
there has been crop damage but to what extent and
what exactly the loss is we don't know at this time."
IN THE NATION'S winter vegetable garden near
Homestead, south of Miami, heavy losses also were
reported.
"It's a disaster," said Betty Tilson, wife of bean
farmer Ed Tilson. "Our fields aren't frosted, they're
iced over. My husband said every bean field we've
got is just black, and thetomato fields next to us are
too."
Tilson said they used four helicopters to keep the
frigid air circulating and 13 giant sprinklers to keep a
blanket of warm ground-water on the fields, trying to
save their 160 acres of beans, valued at $240,000.
ALVIN SAMET OF the National Weather Service
said some other Florida freezes over the years have
been more damaging because they lasted for several
days.
"But this isn't over," he said. "We're going to have
a brief break, but then it'll be back cold again. It'll
probably warm up a bit tomorrow, but who knows
what will happen later. It looks like temperatures are
going to remain below normal, looking ahead to Jan.
21."
Since Christmas, the arctic air has set daily recor-
ds in cities throughout the eastern United States.
Some cities posting subzero records yesterday in-
cluded Atlantic City, N.J., minus six; Concord, N.H.,
minus 21; Hartford, Conn., minus nine; Scranton,
Pa., minus 13; Wilmington, Del., minus two.
And almost daily there are new reports of elderly
people dying in the cold. On the eastern shore of
Chesapeake Bay yesterday, authorities said Franklin
Green, 59, was found dead in a room in his apartment
where a small stove had gone out and the tem-
perature was 30 degrees. The cause of death was
listed as hypothermia.
In Jacksonville, a 43-year-old man was found dead
in a vacant lot Monday. Authorities said he also died
of hypothermia-reduced body temperature.
Harbors in New England were clogged with ice.
The Cape Cod Canal was closed to commercial
fishermen, small vessels and most barges, including
those with heating oil and gasoline for Boston and
northern New England.
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More than 500 dead in
fighting in El Salvador
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SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP)
- Sporadic fighting between leftist
guerrillas and army troops was repor-
ted in El Salvador yesterday, but
government sources claimed the inten-
sity of the guerrilla attacks diminished
by half. A South African photographer
died of land-mine wounds.
More than 500 persons were reported
killed in four days of fighting since lef-
tist forces launched a so-called "all-out
offensive" to overthrow the ruling
civilian-military junta.
"THE FINAL offensive of the ex-
tremists was a failure. They failed in
every place they tried," junta
President Jose Napoleon Duarte said in
a television interview.
A government source said the leftist
"attacks have been reduced in intensity
by about half. They have nothing more
left to do."
Ian Mates, 25, a South African
cameraman wounded by a land-mine
explosion the day before, died in a
hospital yesterday morning. Doctors
had performed a two-hour brain
operation to remove mine-fragments.
MATES AND TWO American
photographers were in an automobile
about nine miles from the capital when
the mine blew up their car. It took six
hours before he was brought to an
operating table. Doctors said his life
might have been saved if he had gone
into surgery earlier.
The other two, John Hoagland, 29, of
San Diego, Calif., on assignment for
Newsweek magazine, and Susan
Meiselas, 33, of New York, on assign-
ment for Time magazine, suffered
lesser injuries and were to be flown to
the United States yesterday.
Scattered skirmishes between
military patrols and guerrillas were
reported in the Santa Ana area, to the
northwest, and in Morazan province, in
the eastern part of the country.
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AT LEAST three army officers deser-
ted to the, guerrilla cause in recent
days, all followers of Col. Adolfo Ar-
noldo Majano, who was forced out as a
junta member during an internal power
struggle in December.
Majano was a leader of the Oct. 15,
1979, coup that overthrew the conser-
vative regime of Gen. Carlos Humberto
Romero, and one of the two army
colonels on the five-man junta. His
ouster reduced the junta to four.
Majano's whereabouts are unknown,
but it is widely rumored here that he
may have joined the leftists as well.
The Democratic Revolutionary
Front, a federation of most of the coun-
try's non-guerrilla leftist groups, said it
would establish a "revolutionary
government" soon and issue the names
of persons selected to seek inter-
national recognition and support for it.
Millersays Chrysler
proposal inadequate
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WASHINGTON (UPI) - Treasury
Secretary G. William Miller told the
Chrysler Corp. yesterday its cost-
cutting plan needed to win government.
approval of $400 million in federal loan
guarantees "is not adequate."
Miller said he urged officials of
Chrysler and the United Auto Workers
union during an impromptu meeting at
the Treasury Department to "sit down
right now" and work out an acceptable
plan by today.
THE CHRYSLER Loan Guarantee
Board, which oversees Chrysler's $1.5
billion in loan guarantees authorized by
Congress, is scheduled to meet at 4 p.m.
EST today to issue a preliminary ruling
on Chrysler's request for $400 million in
loan guarantees. Chrysler has already
received $800 million of the $1.5 billion
fund.
"We have no more time," Miller told
reporters after the impromptu
meeting, called by Miller and UAW
President Douglas Fraser because
negotiations between the UAW and
Chrysler were stalled.
"In essence, the general reaction of
the loan guarantee board is that the
Chrysler plan does have many elemen-
ts to solve Chrysler's problems," Miller
said. "The board does not feel that the
plan presented by Chrysler is adequate.
It needs to be tuned up, refined .
"THE OVERALL plan is not
adequate and is going to have to have
additional financial cushions. What we're
concerned about is the cost structure.
"If we don't have a plan the board
can buy, it (the loan guarantee request)
will not be approved and it will hang in
limbo, over into the next ad-
ministration," Miller said.
It is believed Chrysler might not be
able to remain solvent through such a
long delay.
Chrysler must cut costs by $1 billion
this year to qualify for the $400 million
in loan guarantees. The automaker has
asked the UAW to make $673 million in
contract concessions, including a 21-
month wage freeze for Chrysler em-
ployees, and requested its creditors to
accept $573 million worth of preferred
Chrysler stock for its outstanding notes.
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Communications Commission, at the
urging of its outgoing chairman, will
consider a controversial proposal today
to deregulate the nation's radio
stations.
Charles Ferris, the Democratic
chairman who is sure to be replaced by
Ronald Reagan, is trying to fashion a
favorable vote in the face of strong op-
position by religious and public interest
groups. He has also ignored a
suggestion by Republican congressmen
that the FCC postpone any major votes
until Reagan assumes office.
BY ANY MEASURE, the radio
deregulation proposal fits the bill as a
major decision. The commission is con-
sidering the repeal of internal licensing
standards that limit the number of
commercials a station can air each hour,
and which specify minimum amounts
of news and public affairs program-
ming.
Also under consideration are the
repeal of rules that set out a formal*
survey procedure for radio stations to
follow in ascertaining the needs and
concerns of their communities, and that
impose strict program logging
requirements.
The proposal is considered one of the
most sweeping ever issued by the FCC
because it would substitute some of the
agency's strict regulation of individual
stations with more reliance on
"marketplace forces" - meaning
competition between stations.
The proposal is premised on the fact
that the radio industry has now become
quite large and diverse, with more than
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