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wnm n Muzorewa leads SALISBURY, Rhodesia ? Bishop Abel Muzorewa took a commanding lead as first results were announced Tuesday in Rhodesia's parliamentary elections But the uneasy alliance of Muzorewa and two other moderate black leaders collapsed under the pressure of election reverses. The Rev. Ndabaningi Sithole, nailing uauij, liuu gcu gi uss u I cguianucd ttnu demanded an investigation. Results in the races for half the 72 black seats in the Parliament gave Muzorewa's United African National Council 23 seats, the United National Federal Party of Chief Kayisa Ndiweni of the minority Ndebele tribe eight and Sithole's Dartv. the domestic branch of the Zimbabwe African National Union, five. Atfpmnt fnik * w 1 1 v/l I TEHRAN, Iran ? Prime Minister Mehdi Bazargan OnrJ tV%a*VlkA?^ rvf Utn PoktM/V* z\n il u11u ifiv.niuvI o ui mo vouillCl catdpcu dll ddSildbllldUUIl attempt Tuesday as they walked in the funeral procession of a general assassinated 24 hours earlier. A man in an air force uniform tried to throw a hand grenade at the 72-year-old premier and his colleagues, a witness said, but guards walking alongside the procession knocked it from his hand. Airlift begins HOME ? The biggest airlift ever of Soviet Jews to the United States got under way here Tuesday following a relaxation of U.S. immigration policies. A total of 623 Soviet Jews were flown to New York on a special charter and on two regularly scheduled flights. They were the first of thousands of Soviet Jews headed for the United States. Under the same procedure used to bring in Vietnamese refugees, the Carter administration has in effect waived the immigration quotas for the Soviet Union and the rest of Eastern Europe to allow up to 25,000 Jews to enter the country, according to U.S. and relief agency officials. Lebanese flee BEIRUT, Lebanon ? Hundreds of families fled north irom souinern Lebanon Tuesday as Israeli gunboats and border gunners shelled Pal estinian strongholds and coastal villages in retaliation for the death of four Israelis in a guerrilla raid, local Lebanese officials r e p o rt e d. Provincial officials said six people were killed by the Israeli shelling during the night. Tail and farewell B Gamecock editors trumpet good-bye with l?|t true pachydermal precision. Left to right are ||g|| Mark J. Lundgren, editor-in-chief; Don Fobes, copy desk chief; Jim Phillips, || editorial page editor; Tom Travis, news I editor; Brett Friedlander, sports editor; ; M David Baker, entertainment editor; Barb WBM Mathews, wire editor; Leigh Grogan, assistant news editor, and Dave Roback, * j graphics editor. We worked fot peanuts, but j|j It was tun! I I Ru?a?ll Pace ? GAMECOCK ran i lura Policy discussed WASHINGTON ? Two of President Carter's most senior Africa policy advisers are recommending that the administration resist growing domestic pressures to lift U.S. economic and political sanctions against Rhodesia, informed sources say. Officially the administration is reserving judgment on the recent five-day election in Rhodesia that will | IdoH f a fKn ir*of r*n i-1 ~ ~ 1 *A vuu iu niv. uiouiiicuiuii 1 iiit* ihm uiacK-iiiajoruy government in that country's history. But the sources say Richard M. Moose, assistant secretary of state for African affairs, and Ambassador Donald McHenry, a top adviser to United Nations ambassador Andrew Young, believe the election was a fraud and that the sanctions should remain. r* . i * suspect named LOS ANGELES ? Authorities seeking the elusive Hillside Strangler say they think they have their man: a 27-year-old former police studies student who earlier Hosi Knnn nr. ~ 4 iuu uvvu ui uppcu as n auapcui. Police Chief Daryl Gates said Monday that his department, the Los Angeles County sheriff and Glendale police are seeking charges in 10 of the 13 stranglings against Kenneth Bianchi. Bianchi has pleaded innocent by reason of insanity to two similar murders in Bellingham, Wash., where he is in custody. Gacy indicted CHICAGO ? John W. Gacy Jr., already accused in j the killings of seven young men and boys, now faces a total of S3 founts of mnrHpr in a npw cpripc nf PAnlr County grand jury indictments. Twenty-six indictments were returned Monday. Seven indictments for murder had been returned previously against the 37-year-old building contractor, who reportedly told police he killed 32 young men and boys after having homosexual relations with them. Cost may rise CHARLOTTE, N.C. ? If Duke Power Company is | forced to shut down its Oconee nuclear plant, the cost of electricity to its customers could jump 15 to 20 percent immediately, a state official said. ; Company representatives met with Nuclear Regulatory Commission, NRC, officials Tuesday to review the nuclear plant. Thp NRC rwnmmnnHpH MnnHmi that nlonto Ki.ilt u.. | Babcock & Wilcox, including the Oconee plant, be shut ji down until their safety can be assured. Babcock & | Wilcox built the stricken plant at Three Mile Island. ^S. &?'',' to I STRTE r~? l i rinaings approved FORT JACKSON ? Maj. Gen. John B. Blount, commander of Fort Jackson, has approved the findings of a court martial panel in the trial of Staff Sgt. Lawrence Chapman Jr., accused in the death of a recruit. i unapman, 34, of Easley, was found guilty of dereliction of duty, maltreatment and negligent homicide in the death of Pvt. Wayne Krassow, 18, of Cygnet, Ohio, who died of heatstroke this past June 30. Chapman was reduced a grade in rank, from Sergeant 1st class to staff sergeant, and ordered to forfeit $500 a month in pay during a court martial that ended Dec. 4,1978. Two plead guilty Pfil ITMUU A O 41- n ? vwuviuuin ? rv p?aii ui ouuui Carolina men nas pleaded guilty to charges of illegally shipping 24 alligators and 57 eastern Indigo snakes that are considered endangered species. Johnny Lybrand, 23, of Batesburg and Heyward Clamp, 35, of Salley pleaded guiltv Mondav to charts of conspiring to ship and sell the reptiles. U.S. District Judge Charles E. Simons Jr. sentenced the men to one-year prison terms, which he said would be suspended upon payment of fines and three-year Deriods of Drobation Man, 82, charged GRAY COURT ? An 82-year-old man has been charged with murder in the fatal shooting of the town ?1 l_ n /i x A it a % A - tier* ui oiay ^ouri. Auuioriues said 11 was a iragic case of mistaken identity. Horace Owings, 66, was shot once in the chest Monday afternoon by a man who came to his insurance office and asked if his name was Owings. Owings' wife and his 92-year-old father were in the office at the time. Witnesses said the shooting was done by an elderly man who walked with a cane. Life sentence aiven w LAURENS ? Sammie Lee Simpson, 26, was sentenced to life in prison Monday in connection with the death of an 82-year-old woman after a jury was unable to reach a unanimous verdict on whether he should be given the death penalty. Simpson was convicted Fridav of raoe. murder and ^ . 4 robbery in the death of Mrs. Lillie Thompson last September. Circuit Judge James Moore also gave Simpson a 30year sentence on the rape conviction and an additional 10 years for robbery. * : ' :: * .?' VW"; ' , ' V y.vN .> ... ... 5.J'