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Sadat defended CAIRO, Egypt ? President Carter told Egypt's parliament Saturday that Amwar Sadat's Arab critics are advocating renewed war and further suffering for their people by attacking the Egyptian president's negotiations with Israel. Speaking hours before flying to Israel for further peace talks, Carter declared an Egyptian-Israeli peace treatv is '4within our grasD.'' "Let us seize this opportunity while we have it...My friends, my brothers, let us complete the work before us. Let us find peace together," Carter said. Women protest TEHRAN, Iran ? Tens of thousands of women walked off their jobs Saturday to protest attempts to curtail their freedoms under a proposed Islamic republic and ran into a group of religious zealots who beat and stabbed at least one of the demonstrators and injured several others. The attack by an Islamic orthodox group came as the fist-waving women marched by the British Embassy near Tehran's main Ferdowski Street. Armed guerillas sped to the scene and fired their weapons into the air to ward off the men attacking the women. An ambulance took several injured women to hospitals for emergency treatment. Amin claim doubted NAIROBI, Kenya ? Diplomats say Ugandan President Idi Amin's claims of turning back Tanzanian and Ugandan exile invaders may have been concocted to bolster morale at home. "I don't believe a word of it," said one skeptical diplomat, commenting on Amin's claim that his army had the invaders on the run. The Ugandan strongman told Radio Uganda Friday that "reports from the battle since last night were encouraging ? the enemy is retreating." Unconfirmed reports from the battlefield Thursday said the invaders were shelling Mpigi, only 25 miles from Amin's capital city of Kampala. ^>1 . i i - - i ' Chinese said divided BANGKOK, Thailand ? Vietnam claimed Saturday that there are "serious rifts" in the Peking leadership over the war and that a secret radio station in China broadcast anti-Peking information and supported Hanoi in the frontier fighting. There was no independent confirmation of the claims. An editorial in Hanoi's Communist Party newspaper Nhan Dan, likening the three-week -old Chinese invasion to American involvement in Vietnam, said a "serious rift within the ruling (Peking) circles had broken out openly since the launching of the aggressive That's why BH they're pros HH USC's Chris Mayotte and B|RK Art Anastopoulo glumly shake hands with John Newcombe and Vitas h Gerulaitas at the conclusion of their Thursday night 'IJ: match. The pros won, 10-3. RMSSbI ^^^JD???JRob#cl^J3AMECOCK^^ ~ _ __ _ I NOTION Delivery rushed WASHINGTON ? Even as he seeks to get Egypt and Israel to agree on a peace treaty, President Carter has escalated U.S. military involvement in the Middle East by ordering accelerated delivery of nearly $400 million in weaponry to North Yemen. The orders were issued by the president shortly ] before he embarked for Cairo earlier this week. It is the second arms package authorized for early delivery to North Yemen since late February when that country became engaged in a border war with Mnmrlot m.ln/1 iuai Aion uicu ouuui i C111C1I. Editor to fight MILWAUKEE ? A magazine editor, temporarily blocked from publishing a story allegedly detailing how a hydrogen bomb works, says the government's assertion that publication would endanger national security is "absurd." Edwin Knoll of The Progressive, a 40,000-circulation, Madison-based magazine of political commentary, said a temporary restraining order issued Friday by U.S. District Judge Robert Warren was a "serious infringement on First Amendment rights," and vowed to continue the legal fight against a permanent inj junction. KIcm plans activity CHARLOTTE, N.C. ? Describing his organization as "the new Klan," the state organizer for the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan said Saturday his group is planning to become more active in Charlotte. Vernon Logan of Winston-Salem, top N.C. member of the Louisiana-based Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, said his group will try to recruit new members locally and may bring a controversial exhibit of Klan items to ] Charlotte in the next few weeks. The organization's highest official, Grand Wizard David Duke of Matairie, La., will be in Charlotte next Friday to meet with local Klansmen, Logan said. I D 1. nubecuiion rests OAKLAND, Calif ? The government presented an | unexpectedly brief case in the murder trial of Huey I Newton, and the Black Panther leader is expected to open his defense today. Deputy District Attorney Tom Orloff surprised the courtroom Friday by resting his case without calling two witnesses who allegedly saw Newton shoot a 17year-old prostitute on an Oakland street corner years ago. The woman, Kathleen Smith, died two months later and Newton, by then in exile in Cuba, was charged with murder. - : > ^Th:yir rS u v:;> ,;: v\v - v:ftv:^ - ?:'^i ..v ';v:: jLV_f'/'jT^vi,~/'"^_i . '^/ ^Iw.^tfnBPP^ ::^:<^'^Sfl0SSS8Bl^H^I '--'A^ . .: T_- - vJB|||. v^ *T- ".""^:'r' % j"'-^-:^"- ,- " ppl _ 1" STHTE mm HI HB Hollings forces issue Sen. Ernest F. Hollings, D-S.C., said Saturday his disclosure of a Pentagon recommendation that Fort j Jackson be expanded was intended to force a "merit decision" on the issue. | "I'm not looking for a story or a headline," Hollings said in news conference in the South Carolina Senate chamber. Hollings has announced a Pentagon study of efficiency of military bases across the country recommends that basic training operations at Fort Dix in New Jersey be transferred to Fort Jackson. The final I decision is up to the White House and Defense Department, Hollings said. Board sanctioned MYRTLE BEACH ? The South Carolina Education Association,SCEA, has invoked a sanction against the school board in Oconee County, where teachers are threatening to strike over a salary dispute. A resolution offered by SCEA President Martha Kanapaux of Charleston during the association's meeting at the Myrtle Beach Convention Center asked that teacher training institutions in South Carolina and neighboring states be alerted of the educational conditions in Oconee County. Teachers there are asking for six percent pay raise retroactive to Jan. 12 and a 12 percent salary increase for next year. The average pay in Oconee County is ?iz,izu, according 10 Mate Department of Education figures. Retrial planned CONWAY ? Solicitor James Dunn says he will retry two Grand Strand Water and Sewer Authority executives on three counts of obstruction of justice. Special Circuit Judge James W. Sparks declared a mistrial Friday in three counts of an indictment against the authority's executive director, Harry W. Lockwood, and its utilities director, Johnny Brigman. Witness slain CHARLESTON ? The slaying of a key prosecution witness led a judge to declare a mistrial in the murder iriai 01Z3 year oia Bernard M. White of Charleston. Johnny Taylor, 33, of Charleston, was shot to death late Thursday outside his house, police said. Taylor had completed his testimony in the trial. But Circut Judge Walter T. Cox took each of the nine women and three men on the jury into his chambers Friday to ask them if their verdict would be affected by Taylor's death. j Shortly afterward, Cox declared the mistrial. Sr al, _ s -V. ;;r Bl?:;;;^|H|g^ - v-:^' {-"< ~'*7:< ' - I *,\"v^v- '" * _X y^r-V ' j ':|MBPi^WBBBMiH^y^^- jBISp ^^^y>:^:yy.:>\ : : : '&HH|QQ^^:^::;::^|Kr ~ ; " ]