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WORLD r-l i ia r I Mood relief sought BANGKOK, Thailand ? The Vietnamese government is seeking food and medicine for 3 million persons it says have been flooded out in the Mekong Delta, the Thai Foreign Ministry reports. A spokesman said the Vietnamese appealed to foreign embassies in Hanoi for "immediate relief aid." Radio Hanoi said the floods in the South have killed 74 people, damaged up to 1.5 million tons of rice and destroyed more than 200,00 houses. NewS African PM CAPE TOWN, South Africa ? Pieter Willem Botha. the hawkish minister of defense, became South Africa's eighth prime minister Thursday, promising to maintain "law and order" but also announcing a quest to improve relations with the country's black malority. Botha, 62, nicknamed "Pete the Weapon" for his tough military views, emerged the winner succeeding outgoing Prime Minister John Vorster, 63 and reportedly ailing, after a three-hour caucus of the ruling National Party's 172 deputies and senators. African food aid DAR ES SALLAM Tanzania - The World Food Program will give $40 million in food aid to refugees and nationalist guerrillas from Rhodesia and South?West Africa in 1979 and 1980. A representative of the program told a meeting of the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization meeting in the northern town of Arusha: "The program's commitmpnts fn frppHnm ficrhtare in ennthpm Afrinn have already readied $10 million, and the number of beneficiaries is close to 150,000." Whale 'scarecrow' TOKYO ? Japanese fishermen, smarting from fnrpitJn pritir?ism nf tViAir lrillino Hnlnhino hnna a Ufa. w WJfc Mavu V?\/A|#tUIAM) (ivpv U 1I&V size plastic model of a killer whale will scare away dolphins. Tests begin next month. The $16,000 model is about 13 feet long and weighs about 380 pounds. It is towed by a boat and emits recorded cries of a killer whale. The government allocated $193,000 to find a way to scare off dolphins after foreign condemnation of the killing by fishermen of 1,000 dolphins off southern Japan. Human chain |fil It was strictly a case of one-for-all and all-for-one Tuesday on USC's Horseshoe . The students in a Univer sity 101 class were testing ways to cope | with stress. ? ^!|PH r v_ ^l&|5rr .-j?jjjm?i ; K?^ AbkL '4 i'^ !^MMm^: Right-to-die appeal WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. ? The office of the Attorney General says it will appeal a ruling by an appeals court allowing a dying man to disconnect the respirator that sustains his life. The appeals court, which denied the state a rehearing on Wednesday, ruled earlier this month that Abe Perlmutter, 73, can demand that hospital officials unplug the respirator or at least not reconnect it if he turns it off. Perlmutter suffers from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, commonly known as Lou Gehrig's disease. rate hike in August, a short time after an earlier bid to up telephone rates was rejected by the PSC. The five consumer representatives will appear as interveners with authority to call and question witnesses appearing before the agency. nears consumers Five Consumer representatives have filed requests with the Public Service Commission, PSC, to testify against Southern Bell Co.'s proposed rate hike in hearings scheduled next month. In addition, 112 individuals have notified the PSC of their intent to appear or submit letters detailing their opposition to the requested rate increase. Southern Bell submitted a reauest for a 32 nercent anymore. Julia Parker Price, a former nursing student, told an all-woman jury she shot her husband, Jerry David Price, 25, with a pistol she bought earlier that day. The case was scheduled to go to the jury yesterday after the defense and prosecution presented final arguments. The defense has tried to paint a picture of a battered wife striking back, and has alleged that Price was frequently beaten by her husband. r*n L _ uieir careers. Medlock said when the coaches resigned from the football jobs they were "trying to perhaps save the lives of students and cry out against a problem of mammoth proportions." Abuse led to murder GREENVILLE ? a 25-year-old Greenville woman testified Wednesday that she killed her husband this past May because she couldn't take his abuse Teacher-coaches fired FLORENCE ? A Florence County school board has denied a request to reinstate three West Florence High School teachers who were fired as teachers after they resigned as football coaches. Bobby Bridgeman, the head coach, testified during a board hearing Wednesday night that he believed many of the school's athletes were abusing alcohol and drugs. The other teachers are Frank Norwood and Tommy Russo. Their attorney, Travis Medlock of Columbia, told the board that the coaches had been shocked to find when they quit as coaches that they were also resigning from STATE to protest the alleged torture and beating of political prisoners in Northern Ireland. Gleason said Wednesday he would ask for support of a boycott at a meeting of the International Transport Federation in Vienna, Austria, on Oct. 17-18. tSEwB&iaal jJ. v. AAA uiv wuioi oiiapc, 11UI uuu U1 uic tuuuirira to without a debt-servicing problem," including the Soviet Union. Boycott scheduled NEW YORK ? Thomas Gleason, president of the International Longshoremen's Association, says he will poll fnr nn intf?rr?ntinrml hnvrott of RriHflh nmrinrta Iwe&L uuue i? lmciy 10 stow oecause ine soviet union and other Communist nations are approaching their limit in borrowing from the West, and some may be unable to pay on time the nearly $50 billion they I already owe, according to the Brookings Institution. A new study released Wednesday by the Washingtonbased economic research institution said the Communist nations need to borrow from the West to finance imports. It added that while Poland and Bulgaria are tka li.onnt oknnn ><MA? It i 1 1 Corona trial set FAIRFIELD, Calif. ? A judge tentatively set March 19 for the retrial of Juan Corona on charges of slaying 25 farm workers. Corona's former attorney also was ordered jailed on contempt of court charges. Judge Richard Patton set the tentative date during a discovery proceeding Wednesday in Solano County Superior Court. Defense and prosecution attorneys agreed to exchange information and evidence in the case. Corona's new trial was ordered when the state Court of Appeal overturned Corona's 1973 conviction because his original attorney made a "farce and a mockery" of Corona's defense. Trade'slowing WASHINGTON ? The recent rapid growth of East117 L J. HI I 1. _l I a 1 n . . w* .