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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
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already readied $10 million, and the number of
beneficiaries is close to 150,000."
Whale 'scarecrow'
TOKYO ? Japanese fishermen, smarting from
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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Boycott scheduled
NEW YORK ? Thomas Gleason, president of the
International Longshoremen's Association, says he
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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
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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
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