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WORLD Saudis:no increase irimiv ? saudi Arabia announced Tuesday it will not raise oil prices during the first quarter of this year, breaking with a series of oil exporters who have raised prices to take advantage of the cutoff of Iranian exports. The Saudi announcement came one day after Kuwait told customers it was tacking 9 percent onto its current price of $13.35 a barrel, raising it to about $14.55 a barrel. The Saudi royal court decree, broadcast by Riyadh Radio and monitored in Nicosia, Cyprus, also called for an urgent meeting of oil exporters and consumers "to reguiaie consumption and stabilize oil prices, to save thw world from possible economic relapse." Execution reported TEHRAN, Iran ? The execution of another official of Shah Mohamad Reza Pahlavi's secret police and public floggings for violators of Islamic law have been A CpUl ICU. The newspaper Andegan reported Mohammad Hossein Naderi, the secret police's torture expert in the central city of Isfahan, was brought to Tehran and executed by a firing squad Sunday night. Meanwhile, aides to the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini said the Moslem holy man will leave his temporary headquarters in Tehran Thursday to return to the holy city of Qum, 75 miles southwest of the capital. Hundreds of thousands of Iranians are ex- j pected to converge on the city to bid him welcome. I I ' ' \ ibiutMib buy no JERUSALEM ? The Israeli Cabinet Tuesday rejected an American invitation for Prime Minister Menachem Begin to attend a Camp David summit meeting without President Anwar Sadat of Egypt. Begin said last week's Camp David talks produced no progress and accused the Egyptians of hardening their position. "The Cabinet decided that the prime minister is not in a position to accept the proposed meeting with Prime Minister (Mustafa) Khalil," Begin said after the Cabinet meeting. The vote against Begin going was ; 14-2. Begin said Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan had in U I A T-? ? ' " " " icpm icvi tu me v^aumei un rresiaeni uarier's proposal that Begin and Khalil meet at Camp David with Secretary of State Cyrus R. Vance. Dayan had returned from five days of talks at Camp David with Khalil. | "It is now evident to the Cabinet that in those talks no progress was made toward an Israeli-Egyptian agreement," Begin said. <"" ? -tTTi White-collar B| crime Which president of a major ftnilthorn iiniuarcUu 4 2 ?i ?-l ?-> ii , - ~~s " WWM umiiui aujf I IIIU9 II necessary to use sidewalk space HmES&I! for parking? Perhaps students can |hhmRS now expect a little sympathy from BMBjpH certain high-level parkers. ^ Dave Roback ? QAMECOCK iWilfflMMMM NOTION Rationing on standby WASHINGTON ? The White House prepared to send Congress standby plans for gasoline rationing Tuesday, but Energy Secretary James R. Schlesinger assured the nation's governors that rationing would be used only as a last resort. Schlesinger said rationing would not be used as a result of the loss of Iranian oil, but that other mandatory, energy-saving measures proposed by the administration might be imposed if the Iranian cutoff continues for a year or longer. \ a / i i r. i Woodcock contirmed WASHINGTON ? Leonard Woodcock has survived Senate opposition to President Carter's China policies and will be installed soon as U.S. ambassador to Peking. Tho Qanofo oo O ? ,1T 1 1 <.?v uvuuiv ?uiv,u u<i-j muiiuojr ivj LUlllU 111 WOOUCOCK as the first U.S. ambassador to the mainland since chiang Kai-Shek fled with his armies to Taiwan and organized a government there in 1949. Eclipse amazes SEATTLE ? A wide swath of the Pacific Northweat was plunged briefly into darkness Monday, as the last total eclipse of the sun in North America this century moved inland. in Portland, Ure., residents whooped and gasped in amazement as tyher sky began to darken and tempetures dropped about 7:45 a.m. Complete darkness covered the largest city in the eclipse's path by 8:123 a.m. It began to get light again at 8:16 a.m. Klan show closes WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. ? An exhibit of Ku Klux Klan materials closed 45 minutes after it opened Monday night ? an hour and 45 minutes earlier than Sf'hpHlllfH whpn a chnufina w>a^M?aa^va it ?avsa m uiiVUVilig IllUVVIl ViV/ V V/1V/|A^V4 ween blacks and whites who were wearing Nazi armbands. About 200 people had packed the tiny auditorium of the Forsyth County Library to see the display. As the room heated up from the crowd, emotions reached a peak and a shouting match developed. A white man identifying himself as David Burtt of Greensboro, who said He was with "The National Workers Organization," shouted,"What we ought to do is rip this stuff off the wall ? The Ku Klux Klan is a damned trick to set blacks againest whites." STRTE More charges faced GEORGETOWN ? Ronald R. Woomer, already I ^ - * t ?? ^ * cnargea in norry t^ouniy in connection witn last weeks violent rampage through coastal South Carolina that left five dead, faces additional charges in adjacent Georgetown county. The 24-year-old Huntington, W. Va., man was charged with two counts of murder, one count of assault and battery, two counts of kidnapping and four counts of armed robbery by Georgetown County authorities. Earlier, Horry County authorities charged him with murder, kidnapping, assault and battery with intent to kill and criminal sexual assault. Fthorirl no In I 1^1 y Vw' II I V^4 I I ^7 DARLINGTON ? Former Darlington County Democratic Party Chairman John R. Etheridge has been indicted by a Darlington grand jury on charges stemming from an alleged drug smuggling operation. Etheridge was arrested Jan. 24, along with 12 other men, when state and federal law enforcement authorities raided the Gedra Air Service field near Dovesville. Thev confiscated more than 1.300 nounris nf marijuana, a twin-engine airplane and several vans and trucks. Tests ordered GREENVILLE ? A Greenville man has been ordered to undergo psychiatric tests after he held officers at bay for two hours. Robert Brooks, 61, surrendered to police Monday afternoon after a seige that began when two mainlonanno mnn ^ 1-.- * 41 A - 1 1 * ' >viiuiiw iiiv.ii ncic auui (ii cis niey aie mncn in a irucK across the street from Brooks' house. The two maintenance men, Thomas M. Loftis and Thomas A. Bobchak, were slightly injured by flying glass when a shotgun blast shattered the driver's window. Deputy suspended MARION ? A Marion County deputy has been suspended, pending an investigation into the Sunday cIlAnf iwrf rl/\n *U rvf 1 -L 1 T-* rwv ? " jHVAiung ucaui ui miruaru o. lurner, oi Marion. Sheriff L.C. Richardson identified the deputy as H. N. Turbeville Jr., who was off duty at the time of the shooting. The incident is being investigated by the State Law Enforcement Division (SLED). Richardson said apparently Turbeville was riding with Turner in Turner's car, along with four women and another man. He said Turner was shot once in the head with Turbeville's automatic pistol. :~Vi"" - " y:, --r 9i . - . - ?: ' : * .. "- - . :- .. r;r^_._r;: i _ ;: ' , * '. ' '.'- . ,. , , . - -BfcJUyy ?(k> M - - -v^M-.,- | Mifl f I