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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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pharmacies and other businesses that operate on
Sundays to be named as codefendants in the petition.
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