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WORLD I I Q riirir\rirf KJ.kJ. OU|J|JUI I V^IVJSI I ICU MANAGUA, Nicaragua - President Anastasio Somoza, battling an uprising by guerrilla-led rebels, released a letter Saturday he said was signed by 78 U.S. Congressmen and claimed the strife was caused by revolutionaries trained in Havana and Moscow. The national guard, Somoza's 7,500-man army and police force, said it had ended rebel resistance in Esteli. 90 miles north of Manacua It was thp lnat of four cities that Sandinista National Liberation Front guerrillas and rebel followers had held since Sept. 9. Red Cross officials have estimated some 1,500 persons were killed in the battles for the cities of Masaya, Chinadega, Leon and Esteli. There were reports that many of the guerrillas fled into the t-uuuirymue uuure uie guarasnien maae uieir tineu assaults. y Shroud evidence TURIN, Italy * Italian electronic experts, using a method developed by American space scientists, have produced computer-enhanced photos of the Holy Shroud, which they said provide more evidence it bears the impression of a man's body. me stunoud is believed by some to be the linen in which Jesus Christ was wrapped for burial after the crucifixion. Photographs obtained by Giovanni Tamburelli and Giovanni Garbotto were based on the work of Eric Jumper and John Jackson at the Jet Propulsion Center in Pasaden a, Calif., for the Mars Viking program. The Holy Shroud has been on public display in the Turin cathedral since Aug. 26 and will remain until Oct. 8 to mark the 400th anniversary of its transfer here from the French city of Chambery. KA r\i nnnn nrl ri irrnrrAr /V 1^1 IIUIIIGU NAIROBI, Kenya - Daniel arap Moi, a popular but colorless politician who served as Kenya's vice president for 12 years, Saturday became the successor to the late President Jomo Kenyatta without a murmur j:??* ui uiasciu. Although a number of formalities remained to be completed to seal his selection, the process became moot Saturday morning when Moi was the only candidate to submit his name for the presidency of the nation's^ only political party. me Executive Committee of the party, the Kenya African National Union, will meet Oct. 6 to formally name Moi by acclamation as its presidential candidate. numan rtospicaazy ^ Birds of a feather foed in^thor ^ ? mem?U8C students B. J. Snyder and Eddie Creech look time out recently to show a little appreciation for the beauty |||M|H provided by our cooing friends, the I nn i iuh Huge GSA scandal WASHINGTON - About 500 government employees and their associates in at least 20 cities are believed to be involved in the snowballing corruption scandal at the General Services Administration, sources close to the investigation said Saturday. The sources predicted the list of cities would lengthen in the weeks ahead, and the number of per sons involved in the investigation would more than double. GSA Special Counsel Vincent Alto has estimated the agency is losing more than $66 million-a-year because of fraud. Based solely on the amount of money involved, the widespread GSA corruption is believed to be the single biggest scandal in the government's history. PLO rights upheld ALIQUIPPA, Pa. - President Carter said Saturday that the Palestine Liberation Organization, like the Ku Klux Klan and the Nazis., is "obnoxious to some of us" but deserves freedom of speech in the United States. Carter's remark at a town meeting in this Pittsburgh suburb came in response to a questioner who asked why the PLO was allowed to retain a small informational office in Washington. T>v.~ ?~:J?i?iJ ? " - - - - me picsiueiii ??iiu many organizations distasteful to many Americans still have the right to free speech in America so long as they don't pose a threat to national security. Farber plans appeal HACKENSACK, N.J. - New York Times reporter Myron A. Farber could face additional contempt of court charges when the Dr. Mario Jascalevich murder trial resumes tomorrow. Attorneys for the journalist and his newspaper plan to file an appeal with the U.S. Supreme Court early this week to overturn the New Jersey Supreme Court's decision that upheld Farber's contempt of conviction. He was cited after refusing to surrender notes he gathered during his investigation of the deaths Jascalevich is accused of. The court ruled Farber must return to jail tomorrow, and the fines against the Times of $ 100,000 plus $ 5,000 A rtav for pvprv Hav ParKor rnfimAo ? ?? L! J J - utuvi IV1UJVO IV tuill UVCI Ills notes remain in effect. Judge William J. Arnold held in abeyance whether to again cite the reporter for contempt of court until the state Supreme Court rendered its decision on a shield law question. I ^ 1*!' *** ^ Jf Lj& ^^0*?? v -1 * STATE Woman raped An elderly Columbia woman was reportedly beaten and raped Saturday by a man who broke into her home. Lucius Williams, 29, of 2601 Palmland Drive, is being kept in City Jail until a bond hearing scheduled for yesterday, an investigator said. Williams is charged with burglary, assault and battery with intent to kill i t t ? v a a ?? a ??. * * ana criminal sexuai conauci in uie ursi aegree. About 6:30 a.m., a man forced the woman's front door open and attacked her. He hit her on the forehead, beat her, choked her, stuffed cloth into her mouth and threatened to kill her. The man then raped the 69-yearold woman, police said. The unidentified woman was taken to Richland Memorial Hospital for emergency treatment. Arson suspect freed A 19-year-old security guard, charged with setting a fire at the Jamil Shrine Temnta waa rolpjuwh saiiw. day from the Lexington County Detention Center. A jail officer said Charles W. Pound of Cherry Hall Apartments in Lexington was released on $10,000 surety bond. Pound was arrested Friday and charged with setting a fire that caused minor damage to the Shriner's building on Wednesday. That fire was the third in a week at the building. The Lexington County Sheriff's Department still is looking for a suspect in the first two fires, which caused over $160,000 damage, according to Sheriff James R. I Metts. General fund increase The state has collected a total of $224.8 million in general fund revenues for the first two months of the fiscal year, according to the division of research and | statistical services of the S.C. Budget and Control Board. That's a $27 million, or 13.7 percent, increase over revenues collected during July and August of last year. The division reported that all areas of what is known as "regular source" revenues recorded gains, with the largest being a 14.4 percent rise in sales tax collections over this past year's. This helped offset a $1.2 million decline in "miscellaneous source" revenues, which include such things as circuit and family court fines. ''''' JBL