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WORLD
Coe quits meet
LONDON ? The next time Sebastian Coe runs
competitively will be next year when he begins his
buildup for the Moscow Olympics, he said.
Coe withdrew from a track meet at London's Crystal
Palace following an argument with a policeman which
interrupted his training session for Friday night's
meet.
The policeman had informed the 22-year-old
economics graduate that he was causing an obstruction
on a narrow road in Richmond Park, a vast
open space southwest of London.
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relay at the Crystal Palace last weekend, had
set the world record for the mile and 800 meters on July
5 in Oslo, Norway before breaking the mark for the
1,500 meters two weeks ago in Zurich, Switzerland.
No right turns
QUEBEC ? The City of Montreal does not have
much faith in its own drivers.
City officials said Tuesday they would not approve
immediate application for right turns on red lights
because Quebec drivers and pedestrians "do not have
the same discipline and sense of responsibility that can
be found in other Canadian provinces or different U.S.
states."
David strikes islands
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico ? Hurricane David
regained its strength and lashed the Virgin Islands and
the south coast of Puerto Rico with gale winds and
torrential rains early yesterday after battering two of
the Windward Islands.
Radio operators reported heavy property damage on
the islands of Dominica and Martinique, but there were
no reports of casualties.
Actor Gould robbed
MONTREAL ? Actor Elliott Gould had some
uninvited guests at his 41st birthday party. While
Gould was partying on a movie set here, some thieves
were busy ransacking his van dressing room.
A publicist for the film said nothing of value was
stolen. Wednesday's partv was attended bv the crew
and cast members, Kate Jackson and Arthur Hill.
The movie? "Dirty Tricks."
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MacDonald jailed
RALEIGH, N.C. ? A federal judge sentenced former
Green Beret doctor Jeffrey MacDonald to three consecutive
life terms Wednesday after 12 tearful jurors
pronounced mm guilty of murdering nis wite ana two
young daughters.
Asked by U.S. District Court Judge Franklin T.
Dupree if he had anything to say, the 35-year-old
Huntington Beach, California emergency physician
stood and said in a steady voice, "Sir, I'm not guilty. I
don't think the court has heard all the evidence. That's
all I have to say."
His former father-in-law, Alfred Kassab, said his
pleasure was bittersweet. He waged a lengthy campaign
to have MacDonald brought to trial for the 1970
slayings at Fort Bragg.
Feminists protest
NEW YORK ? Former congresswoman Bella Abzug
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Central Park and waved a sign: "Fed up with inflation?
Send your bills to Congress."
The women said Wednesday's nautical demonstration
launched a nationwide grassroots protest
against inflation.
Abzug said the $3 boat ride was to demonstrate that
"while President Carter was on a showboat on the
Mississippi, Americans were left up the creek in the
fight against rising prices."
Redford guarded
OSAGE BEACH, Mo. ? Actor Robert Redford
required such heavy security at the Midwestern
Governors Conference that Gov. Joseph Teasdale of
Missouri joKingiy questioned wnetner ne (Teasdale)
was being given adequate security.
Redford, here to talk to the governors about environmental
issues, was ushered in to a news conference
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The governor entered seconds later with no police
escort.
Teasdale turned to newsmen at the rear of the
chamber and quipped: "I've been attacked by five
people while they were guarding him."
Teachers armored
CLEVELAND ? Some members of the Board of
Education may wear bullet-proof vests as a result of
the controversy over Cleveland's school desegregation
program, the board vice president said.
Board business manager George J. Mazzaro confirmed
Tuesday the vests are being made available to
board members
A limited desegregation plan affecting 23,000 pupils
in 26 elementary schools, five junior highs and three
high schools is planned for this year in the 92,941-pupil
system, which has two-thirds non-white enrollment.
The plan requires the busing of 9,500 pupils.
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Pot Smuggling
CHARLESTON ? South Carolina ranks third behind
Florida and Georgia in the volume of illegal pot and
cocaine smuggling, according to a U.S. Customs
Service official.
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use than to continue fighting drug smuggling in the
present manner, said Frank G. Kinney Jr., patrol
director for the service's Charleston district.
Customs agents are seizing about 7 percent of the
estimated 750 tons of marijuana that is brought into
South Carolina each year. Huge sums of money are
exchanging hands, untaxed, he said.
He estimated 80 tons of marijuana are brought into
the state each month, much of it in small airplanes and
most of it from Colombia, South America, which exports
about 9,000 tons annually.
Evangelist charged
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COLUMBIA ? Evangelist Leroy Jenkins, who is
trying to get out of prison while he appeals his conspiracy
conviction, has been charged in a civil lawsuit
with copyright infringement and unfair competition.
An Ohio-based religious organization, The Way
International, charged in a complaint filed in U.S.
District Court were that Jenkins is unlawfully using a
phrase it coined.
The Way claims it created the slogan "Power for
Abundant Living" more than 10 years before the Leroy
Jenkins Evangelistic Association, also named in the
complaint, began using it.
Jenkins is serving a 12-year term for conspiring to
assault a highway patrolman and an Anderson IndeDendent
reDorter. and to burn the homes of the
patrolman and a Belton man.
Solar energy possible
CLEMSON ? Solar energy could supply as much as
75 percent of home heating needs in western South
Carolina, one of the nation's leading solar experts told
a seminar at Clemson University.
Edward Mazria, an Albuquerque, N.M., architect
and author of "The Passive Solar Energy Book,"
addressed the first session of a two-day seminar
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and students attending the seminar.
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ItuLtivim/i i/yjtj ? aoum uaronna is now a leader
in the Southeast ,if not in the nation in gasohol
production, a conference on the substitute fuel was told
Tuesday.
More than 200 perdons attending the meeting at the
state house were told that gasohol is a new and
burgeoning industry -r and that South Carolina is
shaping up to be a leader in the field.
Lamar Prister, director of the Governor's Office of
(Energy Resources, said the state produces about 30,000
gallons of alcohol a month for use as a fuels supplement.
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