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'Kill Pro Wrestling: Duel Of Might Vs. Right By DAN CARPENTER Dr. Jerry Graham Jr. may be The Toast Of The East Coast like the ring announcer says, but wrestling fans in these parts know a sissy when they see one. You don't cofne swishing into Indianapolis with a bleached blond Prince Valiant hairdo and flowered leotards and pick a fight with men You'll be toast, all right.

Melba toast. Flat and crumbly. Unless you cheat. I. I m) I jfff JStM Jerry Graham Jr.

(We won't call him a doctor any more without papers to prove it) is about to get the tar whaled out of him by Tommy Lynch, a husky youngster from South Bend with tattoos on his arms and an American flag on the back of his blue warmup jacket. Tommy's a former Mr. Indiana, and you can tell he just can't wait to go to work on Jerry Graham's pale, soft gut. GRAHAM TAKES plenty of time getting out of his tigerskin bathrobe and keeps the referee between him and his dark, handsome opponent. The creep's in no hurry to mix it up with Tommy Lynch, but he throws him a few smart remarks anyway, then skitters away like a nasty lap dog when Tommy advances, slightly bow-legged, a bronze fighting machine with fists pumping like pom-pom guns.

Oh, man, this is gonna be great! When The Toast Of The East Coast finally decides to quit stalling, Tommy Lynch wastes no time wiping the sneer off his adorable face with a volley of head-snapping open-hand blows. Hundreds of paying customers rise into the tobacco haze to bellow their approval, spewing ashes and popcorn and crushed ice behind them like gravel from a wheel-standing Harley chopper. "Hey, Tommy! Stop beatin' on my girlfriend!" crows the guy in the seventh row. "Hey, sweetheart! What time you get off tonight?" Even speechlessness is no obstacle to the faithful. A mute, toothless man sends Graham a message in sign language, poking the air with the digits of his right hand in a mysterious recital of silent scorn that ends oops! with the finger sign everybody knows.

THE $6 TICKET that gets you into the Indiana Convention-Exposition Center for Championship Wrestling guarantees the right to flip the bird to pansy wrestlers. What it does not guarantee is justice. The fans barely have sat down from egging on their virile champion when the tide turns, as they knew it might. Graham, violating the rules for everybody to see, has used the ring ropes as a lever and booted the shocked Tommy Lynch clean out of the ring, sending him clattering against the orange plastic chairs and rolling onto the cold concrete floor like a mackerel flopping into a boat. Lynch isn't finished.

He struggles to his feet and tries once, twice, three times to crawl back into the ring. Each time, Graham kicks him brutally back into the crowd from his illicit perch on the rope. Why can't these referees be counted on to spot these flagrant infractions? Why don't they listen when people who know the rules try to help them? FORGET IT. By the time brave Tommy Lynch drags his pummeled body back into the ring, he's as good as dead. All Jerry Graham has to do is lie across his prostrate carcass and listen to the sweet sound of victory.

One! Slap. Two! Slap. Three! Slap. Dingdingdingdingdingdingding-dingding! The winner for the second time tonight The Toast Of The East Coast, Doctor Jerry Graham Joooonyer! BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO-OOOOOOOOOOOO! It's almost more than the guy in the See WRESTLING, Page 4 And Their Fans Anyplace else, she's a sweet, mild-mannered lady. Probably bakes cookies for all the neighborhood kids and feeds milk to stray kittens.

But that big oaf up there in the ring is picking on one of the Good Guys and it's almost more than a body can stand! Naturally she's irate! And naturally she's joining with a lot of other angry wrestling fans in expressing herself in terms even a ref can understand! Doesn't he know that the Good Guys are supposed to win, at least once in awhile? The Gladiators Writhing on the mot in agony, his shaven head on the canvas a burly wrestler is reduced to near-tears by his beefy opponent's "brutal" tactics while the referee who obviously needs glasses lets him go about his dirty business. It's pro wrestling night at the Indiana Convention-Exposition Center and it's all part of the fun. (Star Photos By Jeff Atteberry) Section 5 Hush! For Hearing's Sake, Hush! Experts Warning Americans Tin: Indian ious Star SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1979 Editorials Other Opinions Features Analysis LED 900 TO DEATHS i i- ir il Own Taped Diaries Show Jones Communist Atheist 1 I Oljj J- k' 1 1 Nov. 19 is the first anniversary of the murders and suicides of 911 men, women and children, followers of the Rev. Jim Jones, in their jungle settlement in Guyana.

Jones consistently has been described as a religious madman or cultist, with only passing reference made to his ultraleftist orientation. The following excerpts from Jones' personal tape-recorded diary show that the emphasis should be reversed. Far from believing in the altered form of Christianity he preached, Jones was an atheist and a communist a Stalinist, in fact. The former Indianapolis preacher's diary shows how he used religion to further his communist goals. United Feature Syndicate, which made the diary available for publication, discussed its' authenticity with the U.S.

ambassador to Guyana, the State Department officer in charge of the Guyana desk and the FBI agent closest to the massacre investigation. All said there is no reason to doubt its authenticity. Tom Coll, FBI assistant director for public affairs, said, "I talked to our people here who transcribed all of those tapes and they say there is no doubt in their minds it is authentic I think you're on safe ground with the thing." (UPI Photo) DR. MARC KRAMER CHECKS NYC 'SUPERPUMPER' TRUCK Firefighters Assigned To It Must Wear Ear Protectors (Only a portion of the Rev Jim Jones' diary was found. It begins with the cult leader expressing his devotion to Stalin and the Communist cause.

But when Mao turned against the Soviets, I had troubles with that. Even though I idolized him for what he did in the Long March 1 had real trouble. Because Mao at first was a lover of the Soviets, he loved Stalin and I loved Stalin. I never would accept that Stalin was all that bad as he was portrayed. Well, actually that's when I leaned more beavily and followed the Maoist line for some time.

Because when they did this to Stalin, that's when I broke with the CP (Communist Party) the American CP. I broke all my connections and went with the Maoists, because of loyalties, again deep-seated loyalty. I don't switch in the middle of the stream. Stalin, who I'd read of and heard reports of, that (he) stood on the outskirts of Moscow (during the Nazi attack), who lived in humble surroundings. Purged, yeah, sure he purged.

The Allies had infiltrated his high command. Enough to drive anybody insane. And all of a sudden along comes Khrushchev, you know, and Stalin is a son of a I didn't dislike Khrushchev. 1 was always enchanted with some of his style. 1 remember enjoying it so much when he just took his shoes off and beat them on the table at the U.N.

I just loved this little man of the people, but I couldn't accept what the four-year study which is examining the non-auditory effect of noise on primates monkeys. "Results to date give us something to worry about. "When exposed to noise levels similar to those experienced by millions of Americans in urban areas, the laboratory animals experience a 30 percent elevation in blood pressure. "Further, when the primates are withdrawn from the noisy environment, their high blood pressure persists." The findings at the University of Miami in Florida correlate with 40 epidemiological studies in 11 countries all linking excessive noise exposure to cardiovascular disease. At the National Institute of Environ- See HEARING'S SAKE Page 4 By PATRICIA McCORMACK UPI Health Editor Muffle those garbage cans at dawn's early light.

Dial down those disco decibels. Haven't you heard? Uncle Sam wants America, the noisy, to hush up. For our ears' sake. Studies show that excessive noise causes first subtle, then bold damage to one's hearing. The loss of hearing is gradual.

At first, you don't hear the little things: the chirping of birds, the rustle of leaves, a lover's whisper. Later comes more severe damage, making it tough to hear even loud sounds. And what you don't hear could kill you a train whistle as your car approaches tracks or a fire alarm. OR WHAT YOU DONT hear might hell they would want to discredit Marshal Stalin for I just could not reconcile that break. That loyalty is still deep down in me today.

Stalin did great things for the Soviet Union. If it hadn't been for Stalin, Russia never would have won that war Immigration barriers were horrible. But Nazis kept coming in by the umpteen thousand. That is why 1 became very pro-Jewish. The strongest on the communist side were Jews.

Then when the Jews turned against the Soviets, I. didn't know what the was going on. Rosenbergs I was in a coma when the Rosenbergs were being executed. 1 was ready to die infectious hepatitis. My mind was so dim I kept thinking, they can't kill these people, they can't kill these people.

I'd marched till there was holes in my shoes trying to get petitions. The pope, we even got the pope. And their children came up and kissed them (the Rosenbergs) through the screen. Oh God. I just died a thousand deaths.

I wish I could have died REV. JIM JONES then. Hell, you can only have so many revolutionary deaths I was in this miserable coma; I'd drift in and out and look up at the clock as it ticked away. Say, Marcie (Jones' wife are the Rosenbergs dead yet, are they dead yet? And she'd say, "No, dear, not yet." and I'd drift back. I got so weak, and then I came out of the last coma, and they'd been executed.

See JONES Page 3 DEMO LAWMAKERS STYMIE CARTER Errors Of 'Imperial' Presidents Bolster Congress endanger a life not your own screams of an infant in distress, for example. Research shows inner ear hair cells, vital to hearing, eventually are destroyed by long-term exposure to excessive noise. You've got so many at birth and like brain cells they don't grow back once wiped out. From a health standpoint, there is more than that to noise pollution. Sudden noise, for one example, pumps more adrenalin into your system and is nature's way of getting you ready for fight or flight.

Noise can't kill a person or at least hasn't yet, but it has killed laboratory animals. Acoustic energy, trapped under, the animal's burned them up. Douglas M. Costle, administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, said EPA investigation of the health and physiological effects of noise has extended beyond the solely auditory effects. "We are currently in the second of a (The Second in a Series) By CARL B.

LEUBSDORF The Baltimore Sun Washington As he sat in his home in Plains, in late 1976, planning his administration, the Presidency must have appeared to Jimmy Carter to be a relatively simple, even manageable, office. Three years later, he has discovered what in retrospect looks almost inevitable: The Presidency 1979 is far weaker than it was 20 or 10, or even three years ago, thanks to Lyndon B. Johnson and Vietnam, Richard M. Nixon and Watergate and even to Mr. Carter himself.

This erosion in presidential authority has frustrated the first President in eight years who has had a Congress controlled by his own party. More than anything else, that decline was set off by the two acts that exemplified the most extreme tendencies of what historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr. labeled just six years ago the "Imperial Johnson's ill-fated escalation of U.S. ipvolvement in Vietnam and Nixon's misuse of authority climaxed by the Watergate scandals. IN BOTH CASES, presidential misuse The five most recent presidents have bad great difficulties.

One was killed, the next was repudiated, the third resigned in disgrace and the fourth was defeated. Now, the fifth struggles to save a sinking Presidency. Their increasing difficulties reflect more than the failures of individuals. Although the American presidency retains the authority to act in a nation-threatening emergency, the erosion in its power is one of the central aspects of the current crisis in the American governmental system. This article examines the problems of the weakened presidency of Jimmy Carter.

of power led to a resurgence of asser-tiveness in Congress, which had been hungering for a larger share of governmental decision-making. Key senators countered Johnson's escalation in Vietnam by aligning themselves with other opponents of the war. Then, they sought to tie the hands of first, President Johnson and, later, President Nixon in pursuing it, culminating in the 1973 War Powers Act that placed institutional limits on presidential power See IMPERIAL Page 7 Index To Aiding The Retarded Page 2 The Island Part IV Page 3 Indiana Politics Page 4 Behind Closed Doors Page 5 Editorials Page 6 Columns And Letters Page 7 (Star lllintrarton By John Sittlow) PRESIDENT CARTER FINDS IT'S HARD TO DRAIN SWAMP WHILE SURROUNDED BY ALLIGATORS.