Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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WORLD Dollar makes gains LONDON ? The U.S. dollar made small gains on most European money markets and in Tokyo yesterday after President Carter's new pledge to defend the dollar. The price of gold, which hit a record high of $220.25 an ounce in London Monday, dropped back to $217.40 in T of mi/l-mAtmivirf T n 7nt*{nK Afliar JLiUIIUUil at IIUU UIUI Uillg. Ill ASVULtVftJ, UU1VJA/ B VMIW major bullion market, the morning price was $210,375, Monday's closing rate. Carter told the meeting of the International Monetary Fund in Washington that he would soon unveil "specific and tough" measures to control inflation in the United States and boost exports. The dollar was also helped by reports that the Federal Reserve is carrying out a further tightening of credit. A /> /-J I / /-? ^ I I i/N ^"V *" 4" AA55UU 5UppUI I AMMAN, Jordan ? Syrian President Hafez Assad flew into Amman yesterday to try and enlist King Hussein's support for the anti-Camp David movement. Hussein already has expressed major reservations to Secretary of State Cyrus Vance about the failure of 'the Camp David accords to guarantee total Israeli withdrawal from the West Bank of the Jordan River, but lie has rebuffed the hardliners as well. The hardliners: Syria, Libya, Algeria, South Yemen and the Palestine Liberation Organization, met in Damascus this past week and endorsed establishment of a $1 billion Libyan-Algerian fund for the overthrow of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat because of his peace drive with Israel. Jordanian government sources said Hussein would visit other Arab leaders this week to explain his stand on Camp David. U.S. offer accepted MANAGUA, Nicaragua ? President Anastasio Somoza has accepted a U.S. offer to help bring him and his opponents to the negotiating table to work out a peaceful solution to Nicaragua's bloody political crisis. president carter's offer of assistance was relayed to Somoza by William Jorden, the U.S. ambassador to Panama, at a 90-minute meeting Monday. A government statement said it accepted the oner "io neip in nnaing peaceful solutions to the current situation in Nicaragua with the participation of interested political opposition groups. There was no immediate response from the Broad Opposition Front, the coalition of political opponents of Somoza which called earlier for mediation by Mexico, Colombia and the Dominican Republic to end the Somoza dynasty's 41-year rule. Milking the meter |B Ever wonder where your parking-meter HbSSH change went? There it glitteringly goes, straight into a special container manned B||||j|j| by campus security officer Weaver Grayson. L Stephen McCormatk ? GAMECOCK Ammhi II mm v.., i NATION Worst air crash ever SAN DIEGO ? A Boeing 727 passenger trijet and a tiny Cessna collided in clear skies over San Diego Monday after both pilots had radioed they could see the other plane. Authorities said at least 150 persons died in what is the worst disaster in U.S. aviation history. a racmc soutnwest Airlines jet witn 135 persons | aboard and a rented Cessna 172 carrying an instructor I and a pilot taking advanced training collided at 9:03 I a.m. Monday, killing everyone on both planes. | At least 13 more persons died on the ground when bits 1 of bodies and burning wreckage tore into homes in the North Park neighborhood about three miles northeast of Lindbergh Airport. Tragedy avoidable WASHINGTON The chairman of a House panel studying airline safety said yesterday that Monday's air disaster which killed at least 150 persons in San I Diego "perhaps could have been avoided" had the government required a proposed collision-avoidance system. Rep. John L. Burton, D-Califmade the statement in opening a series of hearings by a Government Operations subcommittee into airline safety. He said testimony submitted by the Air Line Pilots Association before the accident was "sadly prophetic." ALP A President John J. O'Donnell called for a number of safety moves by the Federal Aviation Administration, including requiring the collisionavoidance system. O'Donnell said the FAA "has been unconscionably slow in applying current technology to aircraft certificati6n." He blamed this in part on the protective relationship Knftl/Aiin fVin IP A A AM/1 UA i^vfrvvii uiv a, iifi oaftvt uic iiiauuiauiuic:o it rcKUlalcN. Gromyko taken ill UNITED NATIONS ? Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei A. Gromyko was taken ill while speaking to the UN General Assembly yesterday and was helped from i the podium. But it was announced shortly afterward that Via us a a foolina Kotfar arirl ivmiM rAanma Vila a/1- fl LMIUV B1V VTM? AWUlt^ WVM/& WUU fT VUlVk A VOVUIIV KUO UU dress. The 69-year-old Gromyko was standing at the lectern in the front of the assembly hall, reading his speech in the Assembly's general policy debate, when he suddenly slumped forward. Gromyko has been foreign minister for 20 years despite various changes in the top Soviet leadership. -% * # STOTE ?1 FH hi iHriftt h^nrinn W b ka IW W ^ X' ? V ? The State Law Enforcement Division will be "up the creek" if it does not receive a large budget increase next year, according to a division officer. Capt. J. Leon Gasque told the state Budget and Control Board Monday that additional requirements have been given to SLED under law without a corresponding budget increase. Gasque said the agency could use another $4 million, but would be satisfied with about $1 million more next year to cover three items: vehicle replacement, additional agents and upgrading of a computer system. Drua case scheduled CHARLESTON ? Sentencing is scheduled tomorrow for a McClellanville physician who pleaded guilty to one count of prescribing drugs for individuals that were not "bona-fide-" patients. James F. Dora pleaded guilty Monday in Charleston County Court to one charge in a 102-court indictment that alleged a conspiracy in drug distribution between November 1076 and December 1978. The state Attorney General's office, which is prosecuting the case, agreed to dismiss the other 101 counts when Dorn is sentenced in exchange for the . guilty plea. Dust standard delay A delay In federal implementation of new cotton dust standards would also mean a statewide delay, a spokesman for the S.C. Labor Department said yesterday. The U.S. Senate adopted on Monday an amendment to postpone until May 1 enforcement of tough new cotton dust regulations proposed by the federal Occupational and Safety Health Administration. Opponents said the rules would add nearly a point to the inflation index and cost industry as much as $2.6 L!112 1 1 A umiun to implement. Waste removal ruled LEXINGTON ? A chemical disposal firm, South Carolina Recycling and Disposal Co., has been given a circuit court order to remove certain hazardous chemicals now stored at its Dixiana site to a new The company has been permanently restrained from keeping certain hazardous materials at the site and is required to secure its premises insuring that all containers are adequately sealed. The company has 60 days to develop a plan for removing all chemical- "waste materials and an additional 60 days to remove the wastes. '^i;c.; :^v:r^v ' yj^g- ^H|^U[^HH|nK^ V" < f& 3g|^ ,^-, v_, v m^At -