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^ 1 I i^.- Bp^Bw gBSySHi^jH 3$ 9^2ta ~Z*m fc^M^rttf^^MaiTMMMI^^Bg^T?lltfffS^rMWMwUH rfljmi *?$& wnDi n I IHIIIbM Gangster found dead TORREMOLINOS, Spain ? Gangster Alvin Karpis of the 1930s Ma Barker gang has been found dead in his Torremolinos apartment. Official sources indicated an overdose of sleeping pills was suspected. The judge-instructor's office said the body of 71-yearold Karpis was found by a neighbor on Sunday. A police source said sleeping pills were nearby. An official said j death did not appear to be due to natural causes, and j an autopsy was being performed. The consulate said Karpis registered as a resident of Spain in 1973, four years after his release from a U.S. penitentiary where he served a sentence for bank robbery. The Rarlfpr onno of Mn Rarlrpr h#?r four sons, her lover, Arthur Dunlop, and Karpis. It became notorious in the 1930s with a series of holdings and kidnappings that put it on the FBI's most-wanted list. ~r i I I i error in ireiana BELFAST, Northern Ireland ? The British and Irish governments hunted the IRA killers of Earl Mountbatten, 18 British soldiers and three others yesterday as the Irish guerrillas promised more escalation of uieir m-year-oia war 10 anve tne untisn from Northern Ireland and unite it with the Irish Republic. The toll from the bombings Monday rose to 22 as the Dowager Baroness Brabourne, the mother-in-law of Montbatten's elder daughter, died in a Sligo hospital. n i_ i _ _i _ _ DuniD expioaes BRUSSELS, Belgium ? A bomb has exploded beneath a temporary stage in Brussels' medieval Grand Place square injuring four people, two of them seriously, police reported. The blast came as a British military band prepared for a concert on the podium, leading to speculation it was an IRA attack. .[ Tfte centuries-old plaza was crowded with tourists at the time of the blast. The victims were not immediately identified. The Brussels attack came just a day after Irish Republican Army terrorists killed Britain's Earl Mountbatten, 18 British soldiers and three other people in bomb attacks in the Irish Republic and Northern Ireland. D f n y\V A //> A I rapt? oi iuweu uui MOUNT MARMOLDA, Italy ? The captain of the Italian ski team was disappointed when he had to withdraw an invitation for a famous skier to join the squad in the Dolomites. "I'm not suggesting the Holy Father may be out of shaDe." Eberhard Schmaltzl said Sundav after a howling snowstorm dumped more than a foot of snow atop the 10,726-foot Marmolada peak. Pope John Paul II, an avid skier before his election to the papacy, traveled Sunday to Canale D'Agordo, home town of Pope John Paul I, to mark the anniversary of his predecessor's election as the "smiling pope." John Paul I reigned 34 days before his death. Br Btounauv |gg| Sr * M Hey, are you sure you can't jump over? gSr -Mm-, gSgP jt&B -i. *1'' v-(.. . . k*j ' a. i /y _ ^ ,, . NHTIDN r^i 11/ /> * /^i 11 \ / i i u-i iu IN." iuiiv GOLDEN, Colo. ? The sights and sounds in the sunbrowned fields near the Rocky Flats nuclear weapons plant were familiar ? bands played, people held signs And four neonle were arrpstpH But unlike others that have gathered at the field, this was a crowd of nuclear supporters who had come to hear speakers ridicule the "kooks" and "no-growth muggers" who oppose nuclear energy. Located 16 miles northwest of Denver, Rocky Flats is owned by the federal government and operated by Rockwell International. The plant is the nation's only facility for producing plutonium components for nuclear weapons. The rally, organized by a group called Citizens for Energy and Freedom, attracted a crowd estimated at 8,000 by state police and at more than 15,000 by rally organizers. C:l 1 I mm Luiiuemriea NEW YORK ? A new Monty Python film has been labeled "blasphemous and sacreligious" by three organizations of Orthodox Jewish rabbis, who said the movie could cause violence "The Life of Brian," a satiric view of the New Testament, was termed a "vicious attack upon Judaism," in a statement from Rabbi Abraham Hecht, president of the Rabbinical Alliance of America. The statement was endorsed by the Union of Or thodox Rabbis of the United States and Canada and the Rabbinical Council of the Syrian and Near Eastern J! - ri iA * * oepiutruic ^uinmunny oi America. No members of the Monty Python group or officials of Warner Bros., U.S. distributor of the film, were available for comment Sunday. Gang uncovered PITTSBURGH ? When police answered a call about an assault, they found posters, a pinball machine and a cache of handguns, t>ayonets and knives in a house they said was the hangout for a Nazi-like motorcycle gang known as The Players. Sgt. John Buch said the doors of the house were fortified with 2-by-3-inch boards and the windows were covered with quarter-inch steel plate. Officers found a man kicking a woman, who would not file charges. The man and the woman were arrested Saturday on disorderly conduct charges. Ten others were arrested on lesser offenses, police said. i n* l i ronciesconrinue WASHINGTON ? Patricia Roberts Harris, the secretary of health, education and welfare, says the department will continue the abortion and smoking policies laid down by her predecessor, Joseph A. Califano, Jr. Mrs. Harris declined in a television interview Sunday to give her own feelings on abortion, but said she would back congressional decisions outlawing federally funded abortions and would support Supreme Court decisions on abortion. .. _<r* * ' J-?-i 'Cr - V^-fV-vj" Jjj- .. b Sesjajsj **? f."-. flBHBBHiH plIM m Si |^h^h|0|[^B JWHBSSIgmMmmmmMi iJmm fcffg ,. jflBBp I TtkM9SiXriSOBSam^i^^to\i^. ^A<?wKZ?^:gfffe^^WBMBBiaM^BHWWBWWIWW'j!-W.J.sj!y?Wgi ^ ; S.* '. ^-iV.''- ' : jpiZtf-, ;'f | | || | M < % J[ ^ B 1 I ran P^ P^ MH^Hi 'trA*ss&v>.*\'.K^aWWCTMMM^:-. : ^<^aPB^nij?i|i-> ra.->a?yS^ggyc' I "' ? gpl /: 7 |f :-:^;^:-v; igj| ' *' 'Y.' ;| --i '| '^-'Y ^fiH .V-.. SiSi % flill??Oil? Yv Y' 'V- YYVfesS* - Work sites unsafe COLUMBIA ? Of the work sites investigated by the state Labor Department last year, 88 percent did not meet state health and safety standards, according to a year-end report by the agency. Occupational Safety and Health Administration inspectors cited 8,559 violations during fiscal 1978-79, of which about 14 percent, or 1,215, were classified as "serious," the report said. k A _ I L I /viansnoorsaogs LANCASTER ? Donald Stevens said hie shoots at stray dogs that wander on his property, and he will fight a suit filed by a neighbor whose dog was shot to death. Danny Ledbetter, 30, says his year-old Labrador retriever was his "best friend," and Stevens deprived him of "love and companionship" when he shot her July 3. Ledbetter is suing Stevens for $10,000. Ledbetter claims his dog Sheba was "a source of pleasure" to him and "enjoyed a good relationship with everyone, both animals and humans, with whom she came in contact." Stevens said the neighborhood is plagued by stray animals, and although he shot at several dogs July 3, he did not know he had killed Ledbetter's dog. Swansea men charged BATESBURG ? Four young Swansea residents have been bound over for grand jury action in the June 7^ shooting death of Swansea Assistant Police Chief'' jjavia L. Mclver. Lexington County Magistrate James Ward issuecjtbe order Monday, denying defense arguments that the., solicitor's office had not provided sufficient evidence to ' warrant the order. Charged with murder and robbery are Lizzie Field, 31, George A. Furtick, 21, Raymond Smith, 25, and Eddie L. Wannamaker, 22. Mclver, 49, was slain after he stopped a car for speeding just outside Swansea. The four defendants were arrested the next day. Ward refused to set bond for the four. Blue laws violated ANDERSON ? A state circuit judge Monday ruled against four motions by an attorney for a flea market charged with violating South Carolina's Sunday blue laws. Judge Walter Cox took under advisement a fifth motion made by G. Ross Anderson Jr., attorney for the Anderson Jockey Lot, that Cox said could be reason to Hicmieo a natiilnn nr<nin?t ^ The motion calls for a number of grocery stores, pharmacies and other businesses that operate on Sundays to be named as codefendants in the petition. ' ^ j2&B&mB?ss*x's'-. _ T- .... ^^BBfeij3B^^^^i^aaHHKjK ? zQ^Wb^i . SB' 4^-^^^m^/ jUBUr- J.; jBM?r . IV'-jJHBHB&ftMjMB 9H*iii ?J||I //