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. I ^^p| g||?Im ' " r:T " >|I?|llg^~^'X?!|||1?||vrtVr|? ?|''':llSpi WORLD 8 UN soldiers hurt rcidiit * ?*. * -i uumv *, licuhiiuii ? jueuanese L/nnsuan militiamen, fighting to drive "foreign troops" out of the vest-pocket republic they proclaimed in southern Lebanon, wounded eight U.N. soldiers Thursday in a 35-minute machine-gun and mortar attack on the international peace force's administrative headquarters. Lebanese President Elias Sarkis convened his Cabinet in emergency session today to consider "coercive action" against the Israeli-backed Christian rebels in the south. U.N. spokesman Hugo Rocha said six Irish soldiers ana iwo uuicn omcers were hurt when the Israeliarmed militiamen poured 4,000 machine-gun rounds and 150 rockets and mortar shells into the U.N. compound at Naqoura, three miles north of the IsraeliLebanese border. Although their mandate permits them to defend themselves, the peacekeepers did not return fire, said Rocha. Police seize hashish AMSTERDAM, Netherlands ? Police say they seized nearly 4 tons of hashish worth $6 million Tuesday night as three Dutch fishermen were transferring it from their trawler to three Amsterdam men on the dock at Den Oever, 45 miles north of Amsterdam. The six men were arrested. The police said they got a tip that the shipment was coming in. They said they believed it came from the Middle East and was trpnsfprrAH frnm a chirk ?ho V. vv, V..V trawler in the North Sea. Islamic leaders talk TEHRAN, Iran ? The rival religious leaders of Iran's Islamic revolution held peace talks in the holy city of Qum Thursday as a revolutionary firing squad executed a Moslem cleric for collaborating with the ousted shah's secret police. Radio Tehran said the cleric, Ahmad Alemizadeh, betrayed many young people to SAVAK, the secret Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the conservative Shiite Moslem patriarch who led the revolution against the shah from exile, met with the more liberal religious leader of Tehran, Ayatollah MahmoudTaleghani, in an attempt to end a week of growing public dissension between their supporters in the capital. The growing split among the diverse factions of the anti-shah forces resulted from the activities of Khomeini's revolutionary committees, including the secret drumhead trials of the shah's officials, police and soldiers by their special courts. I m Nice shot pal With a little help from a friend, this |HI shaggy sheepdog cools off in the {HP* reflection pool. IK :j& Russell Pace ? GAMECOCK NRTION Accident simulation WASHINGTON ? In the days after the Three Mile Island accident, federal officials were poised to shut down a working reactor in South Carolina to simulate conditions in the crippled plant. But they worried that that state's governor might consider the plan too risky. The idea was to get data from the healthy reactor to be used in safely shutting down the nuclear plant in Pennsylvania. Eventually the plan was abandoned because conditions of the facilities would not match closely enough to get useful information. Chairman Joseph M. Hendrie brought up the proposal on April 5 near the end of a day-long meeting of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, cautioning fellow members to hold it "in absolute confidence." A transcript of the meeting was made public Wednesday. Hendrie said the scheme depended on "being able to bring the governor of South Carolina along," and expressed concern that Gov. Richard W. Riley might consider it hazardous. i.l i i - Libel disagreement WASHINGTON ? Byron R. White, author of the Supreme Court's latest word on libel law, disagrees with many members of the nation's news media over the impact of his work. A 6-3 court majority led by Justice White ruled Wednesday that the Constitution's free press safeguards do not protect reporters and editors from hpino f nrfpH tn ovnl a i ri hnui tVioif nrnrvn fAfl ?w? VX^VJ* vv Vii^/mill IIVTT U1V/J I^JL Vpai \^V1 OU11U1I1CIIU) subsequently alleged to be libelous. Reporters and editors may be asked about their "state of mind" while they worked on the report, the court said. The justices thus overturned an unprecedented appeals court ruling that such questions are unconstitutional. Newspaper and broadcast executives said editors and reporters might be inhibited from discussing reporting projects candidly when at some future date they could be hauled into court to tell about those | conversations. /-v i i ?.. i wvemaui requesrea WASHINGTON ? The Carter administration has asked Congress to speed marketing approval for drugs that represent major breakthroughs and to encourage the sale of relatively inexpensive generic drugs, j The requests are included in a bill proposing a major overhaul of the nation's nrps^rintinn Hriirt lo... w; ^ V 11 tually identical administration legislation failed to reach the floor in the last Congress, largely due to major drug manufacturers' opposition. 1 1 sm -1v.'_ ^ A ' :l ,V.<; f|| i ? i V j^N STATE Teacher certification COLUMBIA ? How South Carolina's public school teachers are certified as to competency should remain the responsibility of the state Board of Education, according to the board and two statewide education groups. Representatives of the board, the South Carolina School Boards Association and the state Association of School Administrators spoke out Wednesday against a u:ii * icgisicmvc uui iu ticau; an n.uucaior improvement Commission." The bill proposes establishing an 18-member commission which would be the "final decision maker" in implementing a new certification system. At present the state Board of Education is charged with certifying teachers. Board Chairman Joseph D. Parker of Denmark said the board "feels very strongly that it has the commitment and ability to implement such a system and does not support the concept of a separate commission." Approval refused I I COLUMBIA ? The South Carolina House has refused to approve new rules written for magistrates' courts by the state Supreme Court. The House Judiciary Committee recommended disapproval of the rules Wednesday for two main reasons, Rep. Robert Sheheen, D-Kershaw, a member of Judiciary, said. Most of the proposed amendments, according to Sheheen, were procedural, not substantive. That is, they would not change criminal law, but would revise the procedures for filing certain civil actions. The second obiection the .IiiHiriarv hari was the regulations would make magistrates' courts a system of small claims courts involving civil actions up to $500. Judge reduces bond GKEENWOOI) ? State Circuit Judge James Moore has reduced bond to $150,000 for the Rev. LeRoy Jenkins, an evangelist and faith healer jailed on conspiracy charges. Jenkins had not been able to post the bond Wednesday niehf anrl Koi?rt 41? 1 0 - ?? ?mu ui,iii5 uciu in uie urccnwooo County Detention Center. But he was expected to post bond and be released today. Bond for the controversial evangelist was originally set at $500,000 by Magistrate Charles Henderson. Jenkins, 44, was arrested Tuesday on charges on conspiring to set fires at the homes of a Greenwood highway patrolman and a Belton man, and of scheming to assault a newspaper reporter. ... j? -.-~v 'J'"/ r~^c^-"_;-"'tj-x)-5*Mrafigg?||- ' ? >>':<