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WORLD
UN debate bitter
UNITED NATIONS ? Vietnamese and Cambodian
delegates to the United Nations exchanged bitter
charges Saturday at the Security Council debate on
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intervention in Cambodia.
Vietnamese ambassador Ha Van Lau condemned
China's "open and deliberate aggression" and rejected
any link between fighting in Cambodia and Chinese
invasion of his country.
He criticized the United States for naming both
conflicts in its call for the Security Council meeting and
said the main problem in Indochina is "the war of |
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Lau said the United States "proved its complicity
with the Chinese aggressors" by linking both disputes.
Fighting reported
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NAIROBI, Kenya ? Radio Uganda reported fierce
fighting Saturday near the garrison town of Masaka
with thousands of Ugandan and Tanzanian soldiers
engaged.
The state-run radio said Ugandan soldiers and a
force of 20,000 Tanzanian soldiers and mercenaries.
with "a few Ugandan exiles," were fighting for
Masaka, 45 miles north of the border with Tanzania
and 80 miles southwest of the Uganda capital of
Kampala.
In a broadcast monitored here, a military
spokesman quoted Ugandan president Idi Amin as
appealing to all friendly countries for troops and
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Explosion kills 10
CiLACK BAY, Nova Scotia ? An explosion five miles
deep in one of Nova Scotia s biggest coal mines killed 1
10 miners Saturday and injured six others, mine oflicials
reported. They said nobody was trapped in the
shaft. [
The injured were rushed by ambulance to a hospital
in Halifax, 270 miles south of here. A surgeon at the
special burns unit there said the men had burns
covering 40 to 90 percent of their bodies. Three were ;
Loniaiose ana in cruicai conaiton and the other three !j
were conscious but in serious condition. jj
About 150 other men working the overnight shift in 3
the mine escaped uninjured. |
l ne injured were brought to the surface within 90 minutes
of the accident, and the dead within six hours. <
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schizophrenia |
It's that time of year again, when our
hearts and minds turn to spring, but the 1
weather fails to cooperate. Typical of the
mood is this scene of surfboards in the *
snow outside a bar in Long Beach, N.J.
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Treaty 'complicated'
WASHINGTON ? President Carter's reported plan
to observe a U.S.-Soviet arms control agreement
regardless of Senate action "complicates" prospects j
for the treaty's approval, Senate Majority leader
Robert C. Byrd said Saturday.
The West Virginia Democrat told reporters he voiced
his concern to Carter after hearing of the report
Friday. He said the president promised to issue a
statement of clarification.
An article in the current issue of The Atlantic had
Carter declaring that if the Senate blocked or severely
weakened a strategic arms limitation treaty, ne would
comply with its initial terms under his authority as
chief executive. j
Troop use not seen
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says the Carter administration has closed the door on
the use of American troops in another country "except
under the most extreme, compelling circumstances." |
Asked whether use of U.S. troops in the ChineseVietnam
fighting was considered a possibility, Mondalc
said:
"Of course, we do not want to send American troops j
anywhere, except under the most extreme, compelling ]
circumstances. When you talk about deploying
American troops and risking American lives, vou need i
the highest, the very highest set of national priorities to
justify such a use of American manpower.''
Sled race begins
ANCHORAGE, Alaska ? Two women, 53 men and
800 dogs hit the trail Saturday on the 1,049-mile
Iditarod dog sled race from Anchorage lo Nome, !
setting out on an historic trail blazed by 19th century
adventurers.
The seventh annual race began under sunny skies in
Anchorage. Mushers left Anchorage at iwo-minute
intervals.
The best among them are expected to reach the
Bering Sea gold camp in Nome within two weeks.
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that can send the chill factor plummeting to 130
degrees below zero.
Body plan needed
SAN FRANCISCO ? A judge will consider today a \
plan to use a convoy of moving vans to ship the 567
poisoned bodies of the Peoples Temple mass murder- j
suicide from their temporary storage in a Delaware
hangar back to California.
The State Department has been negotiating with a
half dozen East Coast states to find out where the j
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Shop operator held
CONWAY ? A coin shop operator was being held
Saturday in connection with a wave of violence that
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ended with five persons dead.
Horry County Police Chief Herman Enzor said Fred
Thomas Whitehead, 30, operator of the Myrtle Beach
Coin Shop, was arrested Friday night on charges of
conspiracy to commit murder, armed robbery and '
accessory to receiving stolen goods.
He was being held at the Horry County jail along with
Ronald R. Woomer. 24. of Huntington, W. Va.
Etheridge indicted i
FLORENCE ? Attorney John R. Etheridge, Jr.,
former chairman of the Darlington County Democratic
Party, has been indicted by a Florence County grand
jury on charges of bribery and drug dealing.
Etheridge, who quit the party chairmanship after his
arrest in connection with a Jan. 24 drug raid, is accused
in the indictment returned Friday with conspiracy
to distribute marijuana, conspiracy to bribe,
distribution of marijuana, bribery and attempted
bribery.
The indictment is in addition to charges previously
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maae oeiore magistrates in Darlington County and the
U.S. Magistrate in Columbia, according to Solicitor
Dudley Saleeby Jr.
Jobless hold march
KINGSTREE ? Several thousand jobless persons
held a "want to work" march Saturday morning,
claiming state authorities have prevented Williamsburg
County from getting federal aid by underestimating
the county's unemployment problem.
Rep. B.J. Gordon, D-Williamsburg, who organized
the march, told an estimated 2,500 pei&ons at a rally
afterward, 'Every American has a right to a job. \
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mansion, the county and state development boards and
our congressional delegation that something must be
done right now, not next year." the Baptist minister
said.
'First step' planned
Legislation reducing the mandatory school attendance
age in South Carolina from 7 years to 6 will be
introduced next week as part of Gov. Richard W.
Riley's plan for a compulsory kindergarten program.
Riley told Senate members of the Legislative Liaison
Committee Thursday he is not abandoning hopes for
dropping the mandatory attendance age to 5, but thinks
a one-year reduction this year would be a good first
step.
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