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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,
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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.
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TEHRAN, Iran ? Prime Minister Mehdi Bazargan
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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| 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.
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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
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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
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Man, 82, charged
GRAY COURT ? An 82-year-old man has been
charged with murder in the fatal shooting of the town
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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
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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
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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.
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