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VYUHLU Soviet missile used JOHANNESBURG, South Africa ? Intelligence sources in South Africa say the use of a heat-seeking missile last week to bring down a Rhodesian airliner is evidence of something they've been watching for in recent months. They say their information is that the Soviet Union and other eastern bloc countries are channeling sophisticated military hardware to Rhodesian insurgents fighting under Joshua Nkomo. The device used on the plane was a shoulder-fired Soviet S-A-Seven missile, the kind widely used by North Vietnamese forces after 1972. ri> u ^ I 111 VJ I I U I vJ I j | I SALISBURY, Rhodesia - Prime Minister Ian Smith announced yesterday he plans to introduce some aspects of martial law in Rhodesia, and he said he will "liquidate" parties within Rhodesia representing the externally-based black nationalist guerrilla organizations. Smith warned the nations north and east of his country that "they must bear the consequences if terrorists operate from within their borders. Rhodesia already has wide-ranging emergency regulations vested in civilian authorities and security laws. These permit, for example, detention without trial and death penalties for guerrillas and their helpers. rk/^irrlrvnr AAA I V HU I WO pvji MANILA, Philippines ? Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos has pardoned six men who pleaded guilty last year to charges of plotting to kill him. The six, including an American, August Lehman of Nashville, Tenn.. are among 444 prisoners who were pardoned or had their sentences commuted. K ^ \/i /m K"\ I /M r\ L\ IV ICAIVwU I I JJIUIIt? L.IU5II MEXICO CITY, Mexico ? A twin-engine airliner on a domestic flight crashed shortly after takeoff from Mexico City's International Airport Sunday afternoon. The Red Cross said 19 persons were killed and the other three aboard were injured. Police said the propeller-driven plane hit the ground near a highway in the mountain about 60 miles west of the airoort. The caii?> nf th*? orach >uac im ? MV7II WW UO llVi fill" mediately known. ( Summer's sunset I I With few balmy summer nights remaining, it appears as if Boston's Charles River is the last chance for boating enthusiasts to catch those sultry breezes ? breezes which wili onlv memories all too soon. I ^.V/iVAV/.VAV.V.V.VAV.VAVAW.V/AVAVAVA*^ I I NATION Hoffa death theory NEW YORK ? The FBI has reason to believe that Jimmy Hoffa's body was destroyed in a huge paper shredder after he was killed shortly after disappearing last year, the author of a book on the union leader claimed Saturday. Steven Brill, a columnist and contributing editor for Esquire magazine, said on NBC's Nightly News that he has an FBI document saying the agency believes Hoffa's body was destroyed in a shredder at an incinerating company, the Central Sanitation Services Co., in Ham track, Mich. -limmv Hnffa was last SM>n on .lulv 30. 1975. Simon & Schuster is scheduled to publish a book by Brill on Hoffa next week. Prison siege ended SAVANNAH, Ga. ? A seven -hour siege by about 30 inmates at the Chatham County Jail was ended early Sunday when police freed a hostage and wounded six inmates, none seriously, with shotgun blasts. Mike Daniels, 23, a guard, was rescued when authorities persuaded the inmates to allow him to talk A. _ L!_ At. * 1-1 * - io nis mouier oy leiepnone in uie jan receiving area. The chief jailer, Luke Sims, said Daniels was taken by inmates to the area where he was to make the call. Only one inmate was known to be armed and when he came into view, a deputy pulled Daniels through the door and another officer fired several shotgun blasts at the inmates nearest the door. One inmate was hospitalized with leg wounds, and the others were treated and returned to jail. Kill fhr/^r-ifcknor-l kj I 11 mi t/Uioi IUU WASHINGTON ? Sen. Henry Jackson, D-Wash., Saturday charged Senate approval of a natural gas pricing compromise is being threatened by an "unholy alliance" of senators backing consumer and producer interests. XI UIC WU1UC1C1KC tUIIl{piUIU13C IS IIUl A^IUVCU, there will be no further action on natural gas in this Congress or, in my judgment, in this administration," Jackson said. The chairman of the Senate Energy Committee also said a victory for the coalition would not work to the advantage of either side. The Senate is scheduled to " - IB * ?i?i ' Hi H --' m ,WWt ^.?---. ; -H&' Kg /:.,yrfenkM^ra^' :--::>,:"^-^Mr^y. . *7.. ? _ .. ,\Vi.w/v////w^//#)My//A/#rr<v*'#'*'*'?w?*? , ^Vvvt^?A?.? ^^M?|^l 11 ')^^Mwl^||8fcK^HH|^B i'l "llVi J'ilMl3iSftSffi4jffi?ggeSAt.)Wi^j^iiB|^^^^j^^^^^^aBS^^^g^^^aj^^y SaTHTB Shortage of doctors CHARLESTON ? The Medical University of South Carolina is going public with its campaign to fund a professional chair aimed at, increasing the number of obstetricians and gynecologists in the state. Thomas Hiles, campaign spokesman, said two of South Carolina's principle problems are shortage of primary care physicians and an infant mortality rate above the national average. He added that this is a deterrent to industrial development in the state. With establishment of the chair, Hiles said the university hopes to attract top quality young doctors for their residency training. The chair will be named for South Carolinian and medical university graduate J. Marion Sims, who is considered the father of modern gynecology. Pot shipment seized EDISTO ISLAND ? Authorities seized an estimated 30 tons of marijuana and arrested seven Miami men .and two Puerto Ricans Saturday when a suspicious office questioned the contents of two trucks stuck in a three-foot ditch. mi * i ? - - - i me arrests culminated a six-nour manhunt that began when the marijuana-laden vehicles were discovered near Steamboat Landing at Edisto Beach off South Carolina 174. A tractor trailer truck, a rental truck and rental car also were seized by officers. The haul, which federal Drug Enforcement Administration agents estimated to be worth about $30 million, is the largest amount of marijuana ever seized in Charleston County. Weekend fatalities six persons lost their lives in traffic mishaps during the past weekend in South Carolina, the Highway Patrol said Sunday. The Associated Press counts weekend traffic fatalities from 6 p.m. Friday until midnight Sunday.