Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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WUHLU UN schedule hectic UNITED NATIONS ? The UN General Assembly begins its busiest session in 3S years tomorrow, and the most-heated debates are certain to focus on the Arab Israeli conflict and the friction between rich and poor nations. The Mideast question ? one of 1SS subjects on the agenda ? is already slotted for debate in the full assembly. But the SS "nooaligned" nations also promise to seek a special session on the Palestinian problem. Both Western and nonatigned diplomats say the drive for a special session on Palestine might have been postponed indefinitely, if President Carter's summit talks with Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin at Camo David showed progress toward a Mideast peace and a Palestinian homeland. But the talks, scheduled to end yesterday, apparently have not produced any important breakthroughs toward a full peace settlement. 2nd bombing incident JERUSALEM ? Two bombs set by Palestinian guerillas in an effort to disrupt the Camp David peace summit exploded Saturday outside the Jaffa Gate in East Jerusalem, injuring seven people. The Palestine Liberation Organization, in a com m unique from Beirut, claimed responsibility for the blasts, which police said were coordinated to explode within minutes of each other. It was the second guerrilla bombing incident in Jerusalem since Sept. S ? the eve of the Camp David summit ? when an American-born bomb expert was killed as a bomb Mew up in his face. Secret Vifitnnm -w -v V ? v - T W * III w BANGKOK. Thailand ? The secret files that have former U-S. Ambassador to Vietnam, Graham Martin, in hot water are a veritable diplomatic history of American involvement in Vietnam. They contain the important White House cables to Saigon cowering the span of Presidents Johnson, Nixon and Ford. A few cables were sent daring the last days of President John F. Kennedy. News reports from Washington state the Justice Department is now investigating Martin's poaaeasion of the files. American State Department employees who were m Saigon on the day of the final evacuation say there was never any doubt the files were official documents of the greatest imonrtanre nrf not Hw> mhdmI n?mn rf Martin. watchers 9R These three people recently ram bled down the walkway leading from ||te the Russell House University Union's second floor to Green Street. The WSSm surroundings obviously hdd more interest for the strollers than the NATION '78 smoking decline WASHINGTON ? Smoking is expected to fall this yew to its lowest American level since 1970 in at least one ares?the number of cigarettes sold per person 18 years or older ? the Agriculture Department says. A recent USD A report said tentative estimates show per capita adolt smoking at 4,909 cigarettes this year, down from 4,061 in 1977. The per capita rate was 3,985 cigarettes in 1970, and since then has been more than 4,000. The peak year was 1963, just before the ILS. surgeon general's report linking smoking with lung disease and other ailments. The figure that year was 4,345 cigarettes. Tax cut proposed WASHINGTON ? A "negative withholding" proposition that would add money Co, rather than take taxes from the paychecks of qualifying workers, is part of a Senate Finance Committee lax-cut plan for lowand middle-income Americans. Negative withholding would apply only to workers from families earning less than $2,000 a year. But the committee indicates it will vote a tax cut large enough I to insure that, even with mfljtim mm) hisW Wi?l Security taxes, most people will pay no more federal tax next year than they do in 1978. - The committee approved the first part of its tax-cut package last week, bat delayed until early next week a vote on how to tailor cuts in tax rates to focus relief on those with yearly incomes below 912*000. I I irfri/^il Ai ifrrvi it rirrir II I VJ UOM I VJ I UU'pUl I IDCO * WASHINGTON ? The nation's industries increased production by 0.5 percent in August, a sign the economy is continuing to grow steadily, the government recently announced. The report, issued by the Federal Reserve Board, inxKcated that factories and Btfljtiaa are continuing to turn out enough products to keep most workers employed. The moderate Increaae at 0l5 percent followed sains of 0.7 percent m both June Mid July. Industrial production is one of the best indicators of economic health, because it measures total output of a broad range of industrial spokesmen say. Ttie biggest increases were m production of business equipment rattier than consumer goods. That could be eacouragng to economists who want to see businesses spend more of their earnings on fatve investments. SBSSHBHHB eTBTE f m mm Plane crash kills two SHAW AIR FORCE BASE ? The two-man crew of an Air Force Phantom jet based in Birmingham, Ala., was reported killed when the plane crashed yesterday rooming near Newberry, according to a Shaw Air Force Base Bootes woman. The Jet from the 117th International Guard training unit had taken off from Shaw about 10:15 a.m. Sunday, and was on a low-level training mission when it crashed about 11:15 a.m. Names of the victims were not released. Col. James K. Rogers, base commander, was in charge of a team of investigators that were sent to the scene of the accident. Autopsy ordered WILLIAMSTON ? Anderson County authorities have ordered an autopsy performed on the body of a G9-yearold woman recovered from a creek near her Williamston home. me Doay ot JUine iLong was retrieved from Big creek Saturday morning after a passerby alerted the county rescue squad. Anderson County Coroner Wilton Mackey said there was no sign of foul play. The woman was still wearing her eye glasses, and her pocketbook was found downstream, but the billfold was missing, authorities said. Investigators said they found lights on and breakfast ready at the woman's home Saturday. Third murder suspect ] GREENVILLE ? A third person has been charged with murder in connection with the slaying of a Travelers Rest man July 2, authorities said. | Greenville County Sheriff's denuties arrmtad Stmev Hooey cult, 29, of Greenville, late Friday night, ending a two-day search for the third suspect in the beating death of 27-year-old David Lindsey, whose body was found behind the Victory Baptist Church on Poinsett Highway near Greenville. Charged Thursday with murder were Jerry Carroll Skipper, 33, and Wanda Gail Sims, 19, both of Greenville. Investigators with the sheriff's department said Lindsey had been lured to the rear of the church from a nearby tavern with the nromise of smnuJ favor# ;aHHHHH^BHn|^^HMR^|n^B^^^BHBn| .:/;/" 3jSE . -''^f BB^PW' :'^vv'