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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.