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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.
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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
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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
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"It is now evident to the Cabinet that in those talks no
progress was made toward an Israeli-Egyptian
agreement," Begin said.
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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.
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WASHINGTON ? Leonard Woodcock has survived
Senate opposition to President Carter's China policies
and will be installed soon as U.S. ambassador to
Peking.
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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