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Magazine warns
MOSCOW ? A Soviet magazine warned Chin
Thursday to pull in its claws and keep the troops it'
massed on Vietnam's border from "overstepping th
forbidden line."
The weeklv maeazine New rm it o
Prime Minister Pol Pot's government in Cambodia b;
Bietnamese-backed rebels was a blow to Peking an<
"now the snubbed dragon wants to show its claws."
New Times referred to Western reports that China
which backed Pol Pot, had sent 100,000 troops an<
armor to the Vietnamese border in recent weeks.
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CAIRO, Egypt ? Egypt Thursday accepted ai
American invitation to three-way ministerial-leve
talks aimed at breaking the impasse in Mideast peac
talks with Israel.
The invitation was given to President Anwar Sada
by American Ambassador Hermann Eilts during a 4C
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A similar invitation was given to Israeli Prim
Minister Menachem Begin Wednesday. The Israel
Cabinet met Thursday to consider the invitation bu
postponed a decision until its regular meeting Sunday.
Supporters march
TEJRAM, Iran ? An estimated one million peopli
including hundreds of uniformpH sniHior?
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through Tehran Thursday in support of holy ma
Ruhollah Khomeini's revolution.
The trunout of military men was the biggest yet sec
in an anti-government demonstration here, givin
Prime Minister Shahpour Bakhtiar further cause I
question whether lower-ranking soldiers would bac
his government in a showdown with Khomeini.
Bakhtiar remained defiant, however, vowing not I
surrendertothe Moslem religious leader and accusin
him of depending on the "mob" rather tha
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Deng returns
TOKYO ? Chinese Vice Premier Deng Xiaopir
returned to Peking Thursday after an eight-day visit I
the United States which achieved "important results,
the official Hsinhua news agency said.
It said he got an "impressive welcome" froi
Chairman Hua Kuo-Feng and other senior leader
indicating "the importance China attaches to th
development of Sino-U.S. relations and of China
appreciation of the important results of Teng's visit I
the United States.
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Tuesday afternoon as snow fell (finally) fm
on the Midlands. Hanninnss waft nhnrt.
lived, however, as the white stuff turned
to sleet and then freezing rain, resulting lgjl|
In Columbia's severest ice storm In gg
years.
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WASHINGTON ? The continuing political strife in
Iran raises the possibility that the United States could
be hit with an oil crisis "more serious" than the 1973-74
Arab embargo, a top official said.
f Energy Secretary James R. Schlesinger said
' Wednesday the cutoff of Iranian oil is forcing the Unite
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"Unless we are able to restock for next winter, our
j inventories could be dangerously low," he testified
before the senate Energy Committee. He said he had
seen no indication "that the slide of Iran toward chaos
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< Farmers win a few
n WASHINGTON ? Protestine farmers are claiming a
1 few small victories - fresh water and propane for their
e campers, a promise of new House and Senate hearings
and an apology from the secretary of agriculture for
1 suggesting some of them were motivated by simple
greed.
L "I think thigs are beginning to work out," said
? Gerald McCathern of Hereford, Texas, "national
1 wagonmaster" of the American Agriculture
t mrtupmpnt "Thpu'rp hoainninor tn nnriorctanri that
we're not a bunch of hoodlums."
Venus no paradise
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. ? New data from Pioneer
e, spacecraft show Venus is a helish planet of hot clouds,
sd sulphuric sleet, crashing lightning, swirling winds and
in strange, glowing fires, scientists say.
The nature of Rarth's forhiddine neighbor never
in closer than 26 million miles away, becamc a little less
ig mysterious Wednesday as scientists discussed the
to findings of Pioneer Venus I and II, which reached the
:k bright planet last December.
"It's all pretty complicated," said Dr. Lawrence
:o Colin of the National Aeronautics and Space Adg
ministration. "There is no one spectacular result. But
n it all helps us understand more about Venus and its 3
atmosphere. From that we learn about what causes
the Earth's weather." j
Parents sought
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t6 PLYMOUTH, Mass. ? The parents of Chad Green
,, remained in Mexico today after an order was issued for
their arrest, prompted by concern for the condition of
their leukemia-stricken three-year-old boy.
11 "Hopefully, they will realize the seriousness of
s' Chad's condition and come back," said assistant state
!e attorney general Jonathan Brant after Judge Guy j
8 Volterra ordered arrest warrants Wednesday for
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Storm strikes S.C.
A severe winter storm passed through South
Carolina Wednesday, leaving residents to cope with the
inconveniences and damage it had wrought.
Thousands of South Carolinians remained without
electrical power late Wednesday. Interruptions in
telephone service were also reported and some communities
faced water shortages.
In Columbia, a South Carolina Electric and Gas Co.
official said 10,000 to 12,000 customers remained
without service Thursday. C.E. Steele, manager of
electric generation, said five or six main circuits were
?till rvnt nr%mnaroH with T\ nirr?nitc nut at thp npalr
outage.
At one point Wednesday, nearly 70,000 SCE&G
customers were without service.
Four men held
MARION ? Four men charged with kidnapping and
assault in connection with an attempt to take over a
Marion hospital last month have been bound over to
Marion County General Sessions Court.
Magistrate Allen M. Flowers Tuesday ordered
Michael Dean Stephenson, 22, Freddie Keistler, 20,
Jerry Sumner, 24, and Carl Dover, 32, held for action
during the June term of court.
They face eight criminal charges of kidnapping,
assault and battery with intent to kill, armed robbery
and related accessory counts in the Jan. 4 incident at
Palmetto General Hospital.
Chair barred
BEAUFORT ? South Carolina's electric chair, for 67
years Dotted to me rioor in a araD room at the Central
Correctional Institution in Columbia, was barred
from a Beaufort courtroom Wednesday.
The chair had been subpoeaned by a lawyer
defending two men who could be sentenced to die in it.
Circuit Judge Clyde A. Eltzroth ruled the chair could
not be brought into the courtroom. State Department
of Corrections officials said it is the first time the chair
had been sought for a trial.
Public defender Ralph Baldwin had the chair hauled
125 miles from Columbia for today's scheduled sentencing
of convicted murderers John Arnold and John
Plath.
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Bob Jones University has returned to court in an
effort to force the Internal Revenue Service to refund
$21 the agency owes the school.
rne taxes were paid to test an IRS ruling that the
university was not entitled to a tax exemption as a
religious institution. U.S. District Court Judge Robert
F. Chapman ruled in favor of Bob Jones.
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