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WORLD Pnccnnn^rr rr\\-7r~\ r^l^r^i^ I UOOUI IV^ O! O O^IZ-^7 piVJI 1^ PARIS ? Passengers aboard a French jetliner, enraged at their pilot's decision to go on strike a few minutes before takeoff, seized the aircraft and forced the company to find them an alternative flight, airline officials said. The plane was on the tarmac ready for takeoff, its 280 passengers in buckled seatbelts, when the pilot told the travelers he had just decided to join a strike by his company's ground crew, the officials said. The Airbus plane of Air Inter, the French domestic oirliiiA uiQc fA KoitA raMMA A?I.. muMtiv, nno w iinrc iiunil r A lUdJf IU(?I1L 11 Ulll Wl'iy Airport outside Paris to Marseille on the Mediterranean. Officials said a group of passengers crowded around the cockpit door and told the pilot they would hold him there until he agreed to take off. The passengers then appointed an impromptu "consumer rights com Ji - 1 A 1 ?? A ? ' * miiiet; auu a neaieu snouting maicn DroKe out Detween the crew and the customers. Meanwhile, an alternative plane was found to take the passengers to Lyon, where buses would be waiting to shuttle them across the remaining 200 miles to Marseille. The majority accepted the compromise, but 100 passengers refused to leave the plane until they were given a flight to Marseille. So Air Inter chartered an aircraft that flew them to the Mediterranean city, five hours after the incident began. PLO sets bomb TEL AVIV, ISRAEL ? A bomb exploded in the Tel Aviv suburb of Bat Yam, injuring a policeman who was trying to move it, police said Saturday. In Beirut, Lebanon, the Palestine Liberation Organization claimed responsibility. The "underground squad" that planted the bomb "returned" safely to its base," the PLO news agency WAFA said. An Israeli police spokeswoman said the bomb was found Friday night near an apartment building by one of the building's residents, who alerted police. An officer was trying to move the bomb when it went off, wounding him in the legs. About an hour later, a second explosion rocked the basement of a nearby building, police said. The blast occurred in a room where bottled cooking gas is stored. It was not immediately known whether the two explosions were connected. Chrysler plots recovery WASHINGTON ? Executives and hoard mAmhors of the financially ailing Chrysler Corp. outlined for Treasury Department officials their blueprint for recovery and requests for government assistance. More than a dozen Chrysler officials, including company President Lee A. Iacocca and Board Chairman John Riccardo, met privately with Treasury Secretary G. William Miller and other Treasury officials, refusing to comment in advance on their plan. Moments before entering the crowded conference room, Miller told reporters, "I have no expectations; I am just here to listen." A major part of Chrysler's recovery proposal was expected to be a renewal of pleas for government loan guarantees. Walking stfaight SlB Ricky Lawson and Scott Newman managa to keep their g|| | balance while walking on the brick hKKSpH walls D9SIO& nUSSOII NOUS9. i I ^ NATION Bomb shelters revived? WASHINGTON ? A billion-dollar civil defense program approved by the House would bring back the nuclear bomb shelters of the 1950s plus plans for evacuating whole cities. The House locked the five-year, $990 million civil defense program into a $42.2 billion weapons bill Friday by a 189-149 record vote after approving it earlier by voice vote. The overall authorization bill then was passed, 282-46. Senate-House conferees must now work out a compromise version between the House version and ? AAA - 1- "? - ~ * uie yw.i Diuion ?enaie version, wnicft does not contain funding for a drastically expanded civil defense program. The House kept $2.1 billion in the bill for a nuclear aircraft carrier, defying a threat from President Carter to veto it. The civil defense provision would require Carter to have plans prepared for evacuating the country's largest cities in case of nuclear war, nuclear power accidents or other disasters. Officer suspended : AUGUSTA, GA. ? An Augusta police officer has been suspended while authorities investigate an incident in which he shot and killed a 17-year-old youth while off-duty. Police Chief A.L. Scott said Officer Luis Parilla, 29, shot Sherman Dukes after the teenager threatened him with a shotgun. Dukes first got into an argument with 18-year-old Julian Brown, struck Brown in the face and fired a .410guage shotgun into the air, the chief said. Scott said Dukes then went up to Parilla's car, pointed the shotgun at the officer ? who was sitting in uniform in his private car ? and demanded, "What are you going to do about it? " Parilla pulled his service revolver and fired five shots at Dukes, hitting him four times,Scott said.The wounded man ran about 150 feet and collapsed. He was J -1 1 _ A. _ 1 1 1 *_! (jiviHHiuueu ueauaia iocai nospiiai. Authorities said Dukes was awaiting trial on charges of heroin possession. Energy plan tested HONOLULU ? A six-month test program has been launched to determine the feasibility of producing energy using the difference between water temperatures in the ocean, according to an energyindustry publication. Energy User News reports the 50-kilowatt power plant is mounted on a barge and uses thermal conversion principles. I Warm surface water in the ocean is used to vaporize ammonia to power a turbine generator, it said. Then cold water from the depths of the ocean condenses the vannr Knrlr tn n linniH atnto anH ^ ^?juiiv,?uuu UIL prm-coo ra repeated, the trade journal said. Approximately 35 of the 50 kilowatts the system is expected to generate will be used to power pumps, lights, instruments and machinery that is involved in the program. The other 15 kilowatts will be fed into test load systems aboard the barge. ;: 1J?jjg? aTnTE Couple shot, killed COLUMBIA ? A shotgun-wielding man who forced a car off a road, walked over to the wrecked vehicle, along Interstate 26 and shot a young man and woman to death is being sought, Richland County authorities said. Henaerson Ladon (iantt, 27, of Kannapolis, N.C., and Linda Renee Campbell, 22, of South Congaree, were killed instantly when they were shot with a 12-gauge shotgun at close range 11 p.m. Friday, according to Capt. William Brasington of the sheriff's department. The shootings "could have been a domestic thing," investigators said. Gantt and Campbell were driving toward Columbia in a t'uiu a iiuiiuci uii u auu uucc uuici (Mtsscii^civ> when a white CadiLlac forced the first car off the road, Brasington said. The Thunderbird crashed through a fence and came ..U.m T no f i?M:- mt JI *. w i cat aiuiig i-io iai;iii($ untwining umm:, i nt; ussuutuu apparently walked through brush to the car and fired at least twice and as many as four times from "reasonably close" range, Brasington said. Pipeline Co. fined COLUMBIA ? The Colonial Pipeline Co. has been assessed $56,000 by state health officials for two oil spills last spring in southern Greenville County. The fine was levied by the Department of Health and Environmental Control as a result of pipeline breaks that sent about a million gallons of No. 2 heating oil into the Big Durbin Creek and Enoree River May 13 and June 17. The company was assessed a civil penalty of $18,000. It was ordered to pay another $18,000 to the state Department of Wildlife and Marine Resources because of the massive fish kill that resulted from the spills. In addition, the company was ordered to pay $20,000 to the state for cleanup expenses. The federal Environmental Protection Agency has said it probably will fine the company the maximum $5,000 for each spill. I . l I.I i roiiticai primary likely COLUMBIA ? There will be a Republican presidential primary in South Carolina next spring, judging from statements by the state party's two bestknown figures. "I think we're going to have a primary," says former Gov. James B. Edwards. "I think the people in the Republican Party want it. A lot of people think it will build the Republican Party." Sen. Strom Thurmond, the nartv'a most von?rnhi? ? and revered ? member, says he has decided he favors the idea, although earlier he did not want it because "I didn't think it was necessary.'' Edwards, currently practicing oral surgery in Charleston, opposes a state GOP primary. "I think with things up in the air the way they are, with so many candidates ? no one candidates out in front ? it would pay us to go to the convention uncommitted," Edwards says. Edwards said he is not committed to anv of the ^Republicans running for the nomination, although he I has supported former California Gov. Ronald Reagan I in previous races.