Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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WORLD Official executed TEHRAN, Iran ? An Islamic court sent another royalist official to the firing squad early Tuesday, but the revolutionary tribunals showed their first leniency by giving a police torturer a prison sentence instead of death and freeing 16 others on probation. Col. Houshang Tavana, a former martial law ad- j miniotratnv in ? ' """ * .......ouawi iii iciuau, was uie zuin oinciai ot Sftah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi's regime to die since executions resumed this past Thursday after a threeweek suspension. This brought the total of confirmed executions to 83 since Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini's forces overthrew the royal government two months ago. . Kampala shelled NAIROBI. Kenva ?Tamnninn rn^lrotc ar?H artilloi'tf j * vvnvui UIIV4 UI blll^l J blasted Kampala Tuesday with the heaviest shelling of the invasion to oust President Idi Amin, residents of the Ugandan capital said. Advancing on Kampala after defeating some of Amin's last remaining troops in a weekend battle to the south, the invasion force of Tanzanian troops and Ugandan exiles shelled the city from 8 p.m. Monday until a heavy rainstorm began at 6 a.m. Tuesday. One resident reported "shells in the air with flames j coming out of them," apparently rockets, and "noise of artillery, small-arms fire, machine-gun fire, every ining. Guerrillas barricade MANAGUA, Nicaragua ? Guerrillas manned barricades in northern Nicaragua after two days of fighting in which 41 were reported killed, but vacationing President Anastasio Somoza said "the country is under control." The guerrillas erected barricades six feet hioh in tho streets of Esteli, 90 miles north of Managua, to block military vehicles, and pinned down troops in the barracks on one side of the main plaza, refugees fleeing the city of 30,000 said. Fire kills 200 BUCHAREST, Romania ? Fire swept through one of Bucharest's biggest department stores early Tuesday, and unconfirmed reports said as many as 200 persons were feared dead or injured. Some jumped from thirdstory windows, witnesses said. Two helicopters hovered overhead, apparently poised to rescue some of the people trapped in the building. i mwm Hurry up! m Pit workers rush to refuel and change tires during the Rebel 500, Sunday at Darlington. Brltt Andrew ? QAMECOCK NRTION I F\/n a IQQC rv^fi I rn II *? vo I O I LJ I I I HARRISBURG, Pa. ? Joyful women and their young children, told that the nation's worst nuclear "crisis is over," returned Tuesday to their homes in the shadow of the disabled Three Mile Island power plant. Relieved and tearful mothers cheered Monday's announcement by Gov. Dick Thornburgh and Nuclear Regulatory Commission officials, who 11 days earlier had urged pregnant women and pre-school children living within a five-mile radius of the plant to leave because of the exposure risks to radiation emanating from it. Wreck 'intolerable' CRESTVIEW, Fla. ? Gov. Bob Graham inspected the jumbled, smoking wreckage of a chemical-laden train Monday and termed it "intolerable" for a railroad to operate without insuring the public's safety. As Graham flew over the derailed Louisville & Nashville train, then huddled with local and federal officials, toxic smoke from the wreck threatened to disrupt traffic on nearby Interstate 10. An estimated 1,500 residents in areas nearest the derailment remained out of their homes, officials said, j and there was no immediate word when they could return. Problem hazardous WASHINGTON ? An instrument reading problem that may have contributed heavily to the accident at Three Mile Island could pose a similar hazard at all 43 reactors of the same general type, said a federal advisory committee on reactor safeguards. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Chairman Joseph Hendrie was warned of the problem in a letter April 7 ! by the Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards, it was learned Monday. I / Raymond Fraley, executive director of the com- V mittee, said in an interview that the committee j recommended consideration of requiring additional j instruments on the reactors to correct the problem. I Talks make progress WASHINGTON ? Federal mediators say the Teamsters union and trucking industry made progress in contract talks that recessed early Tuesday, but have 1 r\?ft \im\r a ha" ' - ..uj W 5<j wciuic agreeing on terms to end a 10-day trucking shutdown that has hit hard the auto industry. jppppr- - - K JSSSSSm STHTE System efforts ok CLEMSON ? The U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare's, HEW's, preliminary investigation of comDliance with federal disrrimi rintirtn and desegregation guidelines reflects positively on South Carolina's state-supported institutions of higher education, an HEW official said Tuesday. William H. Thomas, director of HEW's Office of Civil Rights in Atlanta, said, "From what I've seen, an effort has been made to comply." Thomas made his remarks at a news conference at Clemson University, where the final part of the factfinding investigation is now being conducted. Agency investigators have already visited Francis Marion College in Florence, South Carolina State College in Orangeburg, the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston and USC in Columbia. Technical schools are not included in the investigation. Teen pleads guilty GEORGETOWN ? Prosecutors heeded defense requests and allowed an Horry County teenager to plead guilty to the murders of a Socastee couple in exchange for a life sentence. Carlton Davis, who will be 19 Thursday, entered the plea Monday in connection with the shooting deaths of Willie and Myrtle Moon during a holdup at their rural convenience store in March 1970. Davis and a friend, Rudolph Tyner, 19, were arrested snoruy alter the robbery. Tyner is currently appealing his conviction on murder charges this past August. He was sentenced to be executed. Tyner said in tape-recorded testimony during his trial that Davis waited outside the Moons' store while he entered the store and shot the couple with a shotgun. I /^i i ilf i \ji |jou vuooiyii iljum GREENVILLE ? A cofferdam collapse at Lake Keowee this past October in which seven workers were killed was the result of faulty design of the structure, state Labor Commissioner Edgar McGowan said Monday. McGowan told a news conference that a departmental investigation found that Southern Construction and Engineering Co. of Birmingham, Ala., should have realized the steel structure was unsafe. The department did not find the company guilty of "willful intent" to expose the workers to hazardous conditions because the man who designed the structure was among those killed in the accident, McGowan said.