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Terrorists strike
BRUSSELS, Belgium ? Palestinian terrorists
hurled a gasoline bomb into the main lobby of Brussels
international airport Monday, injuring at least 12
persons shortly after the arrival of an Israeli airliner
from Tel Aviv, police said.
Officials said the terrorists fought a gun battle with
police and two were captured and one or two escaDed. 11
Police said the captured terrorists claimed to be
working for the Palestine Liberation Organization and
quoted them as saying the Israeli El A1 airliner had
been their original target.
The terrorists were unable to attack the plane, police
said, because it was parked too far from the termftial
? a usual safety precaution by El Al, whose planes
Palestinian terrorists consider prime targets.
Israel Radio said terrorists opened fire on
passengers in the main lobby of the terminal, and that
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Rhodesians vote
SALISBURY, Rhodesia ? Blacks and whites in
Rhodesia Tuesday voted together for the first time to
elect a black-majority government as 90,000 soldiers
guarded against guerrilla activity.
In Bulawayo, Rhodesia's second-largest city, blacks i
chanted and danced outside the voting booths. Voting j
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elections there than in rural areas where mierrillas I
have been active.
Delegations at fair
HONG KONG ? Despite the Nationalist Chinese
government's ban on dealings with the Chinese
Communists, several trade delegations from Taiwan
are in Canton for the Communists' major export
showcase, the 45th Canton Trade Fair, a Hong Kong
Communist newspaper reported today.
The paper, Ta Kung Pao, said the delegations were
discussing buying medicinal herbs and textile products
and selling machinery and electronic products to
China.
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the fair invited more than 30 manufacturers in Taiwan
to attend. The month-long fair opened Sunday.
Disease 'mysterious'
LONDON ? Passengers have been arriving from
West Africa with a mysterious disease that causes
headaches not relieved by normal painkillers,
Heathrow Airport officials say.
The World Health Organization said reports to it
indicate the disease originated in Togo.
"We are issuing warning cards to any passengers
who have stayed in Togo recently, and we advise
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PORTLAND, Ore. ? While magazine presses rolled
in defiance of a CIA demand to delete 16 words from a
humorous story about the spy business in Uganda, the
story's author waited to see what the intelligence
agency and the Justice Department might do.
Jay Mullen is the author of an article called "I was
Idi Amin's Basketball Czar," to be published in the
May edition of Oregon Magazine, a glossy publication
with a circulation of about 45,000.
Associate Counsel John Greaney, representing the
CIA, and the magazine's editor, Tom Bates, reached
agreement Friday over the inking-out of 28 items
which the CIA said might endanger people still in the
revolution-torn African nation.
But Bates refused to give in on two clauses totaling 16
words and ordered the printing of the magazine that is
to be distributed later this week.
CIA and Justice Department officials have not said
whether they will ask a court to stop distribution.
Pulitzers announced
NEW YORK ? A tiny California weekly newspaper
with one full-time reporter and a little-known offBroadway
play are among the winners of Pulitzer
Prizes, with the top fiction award going to "The Stories
of JohnCheever."
The Point Reyes (Calif.) Light, with a circulation of
2,700 in a town with a population of 426, won the
Pulitzer Prize for meritorious public service for its
investigation of Synanon, the drug and alcohol
rehabilitation group.
Tapped for the drama prize this year was "Buried
Child," a story of disintegrating rural family life in
Ulinoiss, written by 35-year-old Sam Shepard. The
prize came the day after the play closed following
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The 66-year-old Cheever, who won the fiction award
for his best-selling collection of 61 stories, spanning
three decades, said he was "tremendously excited."
Air samples taken
HARRISBURG, Fa. ? Air samples taken Tuesday
around the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant
showed no traces of radioactive iodine, federal officials
said.
Earlier samples had shown increasing leakages of
iodine 131, though none of the six samples was hieh
enough to be harmful to the public, said Nuclear
Regulatory Commission spokesman Jan Strasma.
The NRC stepped up tests for iodine after air samples
taken from a venting stack showed releases had
tripled between Wednesday and Sunday.
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Crime unit for state
COLUMBIA ? One of seven white collar crime units
being created by the U.S. Justice Department will be
located in South Carolina, U.S. Attorney Thomas E.
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"I pushed very hard to get South Carolina selected,"
Lydon said. "We have a good track record down here
on this type of investigation. The work done here will
help to establish procedures and guidelines for white
collar crime investigations throughout the country."
Units are to be established during the next two years
in all states and will employ about 150 assistant U.S.
attorneys. The fraud and corruption investigative
teams come from a decision by Attorney General
Griffin Bell to assist the efforts of local federal
prosecutors, Lydon said.
Charges dropped
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ANDERSON ? Charges against a former Anderson
County Sheriff's Deputy and another man were
dropped Monday because of irregularities in the grand
jury proceedings leading to their indictments.
Circuit Judge Walter T. Cox dismissed the charges
against the former law officer, Martin Elrod, and
Piedmont businessman E.C. Cooper because lawyers
! from the state attorney general's office were present
when the county grand jury considered the case.
Elrod and Cooper had been scheduled to stand trial
today on charges of blackmail and obstruction of
justice. Elrod had also been indicted for accepting a
bribe.
The charges stemmed from an incident in which
Cooper and Elrod allegedly received a $1,000 payment
from Jack Walton to drop housebreaking and grand
larceny charges pending against Walton in 1975.
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COLUMBIA ? Retired Army Lt. Gen. James H.
Doolittle, 82, dedicated a marker Monday near the
Columbia Metropolitan Airport commemorating the
training site of his famous squadron of bomber pilots,
"Doolittle's Haiders."
The raid he led on Tokyo on April 18,1942, in which 80
"Doolittle's Raiders" flew ground-based B-25 bombers
off an aircraft carrier to catch Japanese defenses by
surprise, is credited by many with shifting the
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'Governors' dinner
COLUMBIA ? South Carolina Democrats, $180,00 in
the red but with one of their own again in the governor's
mansion, hope to make progress on that debt with
a fund-raising "governors' dinner" next month.
Donald L. Fowler, state party chairman, told a news
conference Monday Dick Riley will give the keynote
speech at the affair, scheduled May 8 in Columbia.