The Michigan Doily-Wednesday July 23, 1980-,-Page 5 Showers cool areas plagued by relentless killer heat wave PRESIDENT CARTER HOLDS a head of grain sorghum and discusses the - drought-related problems of Justin, Texas farmers-on the farm of Olen Range. A roving band of storms yesterday broke the back of the heat wave blamed for more than 1200 deaths in 24 states. Gov 't reveals Billy Carter involved in hostage release try WASHINGTON (AP) - Billy Carter three weeks after the hostages were arranged a meeting between President seized in the takeover of the U.S. Em- Carter's national security adviser and a bassy in Iran and less than a week Libyan official last November in an at- before the U.S. Embassy in Tripoli was tempt to gain Libya's support for sacked. release of the American hostages in Powell said Brzezinski was informed Iran, White House officials said yester- a few weeks later that Col. Moammar day. Khadafy, leader of Libya's leftist Arab White House press secretary Jody government, had sent a message to Powell said the president's brother, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini in Iran who registered as a foreign agent for "urging the release of the American Libya under protest last week and hostages. Obviously that message had acknowledged accepting $220,000 from little effect." the Libyan government, was asked to THE MEETING came to light when set up the meeting on short notice by the younger Carter recently asked Br- national security adviser Zbigniew Br- zezinski if he could disclose it to Justice zezinski. Department investigators and was told "AT THE TIME, we were engaged in it would not violate national security, exploring every possible avenue to ob- Powell said. tain assistance in getting our people S released," Powell said, adding, "Some President Carter, in a two-paragraph of them were unlikely at the time and statement on the controversy surroun- are even more unlikely in retrospect." ding his brother's ties with Libya, said "Brzezinski, given the rather cool he did not believe it "appropriate for a nature of the relationship between this close relative of the president to under- government and the Libyan gover- take any assignment on behalf of a nment ... asked Billy if he could foreign government." arrange a contact that might prove productive. He did," Powell said. In his first formal statement on the He said he did not know whether the matter, Carter said he wanted a full president was consulted beforehand or public disclosure of the "facts relating had approved the.contact. to the existence of any such relation- THE MEETING with Ali el Houderi, ship" and had urged Billy "to register chief Libyan representative in as a foreign agent and make a full Washington, took place Nov. 27, 1979, disclosure." A roving band of storms yesterday broke the back of a heat wave blamed for more than 1,200 deaths in 24 states. A record run of 100-degree heat ended in Dallas and rain answered the prayers of drought-plagued Arkansas farmers. But crops and rangelands in much of the nation's midsection lay in ruins - some still in desperate need of rain, others beyond help. Billions of dollars in crops, cattle and poultry have been wiped out by the blistering heat. Food industry officials said prices would rise substantially. AND FORECASTERS disagreed on whether the nation had seen the last of the killing heat. A judge in Texas on Monday interrup- ted a murder trial to announce that it was raining outside. That brought ap- plause from the courtroom. A group that staged a rain dance in Dallas claimed the credit. So did 200 Baptists who gathered for prayer at a Fort Worth school. REGARDLESS OF the rain that cooled the hottest July on record in many areas, the heat continued to take its toll in lives. The heat wave so far has contributed to at least 1,213 deaths in 24 states, according to an unofficial count by The Associated Press. But an indication that the heat wave may be waning was reflected in forecasts for today from the National Weather Service. Except for the desert regions of the Southwest, no area was expected to top 100 degrees. Scattered showers fell yesterday in all parts of Texas, but they were light. "TO HAVE any kind of relief from the drought, we'll need a rainfall of an' inch and a half to two inches," said Virgil Helm of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Soil Conservation Service in Dallas. "Some of the areas are so dried out that you have such huge cracks that it might take three to four inches." Helm said much of Monday's rainfall - the first since June 22 - evaporated quickly, with the rest soaking into the parched earth. Consequently, he said, there was little runoff to replenish the area's abnormally low lakes. Dr. Woody Miley, a soil specialist for the Arkansas Cooperative Extension Service, called the rain "just a shot in the arm." But he said that about 80 per cent of the cotton crop could bounce back if more rain falls in the next few weeks. PRESIDENT CARTER says he will hasten federal aid to farmers in the Southwest and urge federal agencies to "do everything possible to alleviate the drought and intense heat wave." When the rain began to fall Monday in downtown Dallas, State District Judge Richard Mays halted questioning of prospective jurors ina murder trial and said, "I have an important announ- cement. "It's raining." THE 40 prospective.jurors burst into applause. A Dallas group of about 100 people held a rain dance Sunday night at a park and Debra Denton, one of the organizers, claimed it got results. "It rained, didn't it?" she said. "It was incredible," she added. "There was so much energy there. Ab- solutely, the people of Dallas created that rain." About 200 people gathered at the Azle High School stadium Saturday night to pray for rain, according to Bill Trapp, pastor of the West Parkway Baptist Church in Azle, a Fort Worth suburb. 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