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WORLD
Germans defect
NAILA, WEST GERMANY ? Four children and four
adults bet their lives on a hot air balloon made of nylon
and bedsheets and drifted through the darkness of East
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Peter Strelzek, an airplane mechanic who designed
the escape craft, told reporters Sunday the 12-mile, 2030
minute flight was his second attempt to escape by
balloon from his communist-ruled homeland.
Strelzek, his wife and two children, along with
stonemason Andreas Wetzel, his wife and their two
children, cot onto a gondola made of an iron plate. Gas
burners were fired, filling the handsewn envelope with
hot air at a field near Lobenstein and the balloon rose
aloft.
Borne toward the south by a good breeze, the
refugees flew over the "death strip" border and put
down in this Bavarian town, far from the border's
electrified fences and minefields. It was believed to be
the first time refugees had used a balloon to cross the
border.
Violence reported
NEW DELHI, INDIA ? Hafizullah Amin,
Afghanistan's hard-line communist prime minister
and secret police boss, took over as president and chief
of the ruling party from Nur Mohammed Taraki.
Reports indicate he might have staged a brief but
bloody coup in the former palace.
Radio Afghanistan reported the ultra-leftward power
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health grounds. But Taraki looked fit in Moscow last
week en route home from the Havana non-aligned
meeting, and although he was fond of TV appearances
did not broadcast his resignation.
Diplomatic sources said this immediately triggered
reports in Kabul, the Afghan capital, that Taraki was
forced out by Amin and possibly even killed or
wounded since his whereabouts were unknown.
Japan savors whiskey 1
TOKYO ? The Japanese have been drinking sake for
2,000 years?since the "Time of the Gods." But
nowadays, a businessman returning home from work
is likely to pass up the rice wine for a bottle of
Japanese-made whiskey or a glass of beer.
Stil the traditional beverage at weddings, election
victories and other ceremonial occasions, sake has
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among the young.
But many in today's faster-paced Japan appear to
believe that whiskey complements most any meal,
helping to make Japan the world's second-largest
whiskey-consurning nation after the United States.
Nuclear bill proposec
Washington ? Legislation tnat wouia provide
$10.5 million over the next two years to help control
transportation of nuclear wastes and other hazardous
materials is being sent to President Carter.
The House approved the bill, which already has
passed the Senate, on Monday. The legislation requires
reevaluation of transportation of hazardous materials.
Last year, 46 persons died and 1,132 were injured
because of accidents involving such materials carried
by water, air, trains, trucks or pipelines.
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CAMP DAVID, MD. ? Jimmy Carter's personal
physician says a "comprehensive examination" shows
the president to be in excellent health despite his nearcollapse
in a weekend foot race.
"The president's health is excellent and his strength
is fully returned," White House deputy press secretary
Rex Granum said after the Sunday examination by
Navy Rear Adm. William Lukas.
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Saturday in the Catoctin Mountain National Park
caused Carter to become overheated, Granum said.
Carter became wobbly and nearly collapsed about 4
miles into his first competitive effort. He droped out of
the race and returned immediately to Camp David,
just 100 yards away.
Protest at CBS
LOST ANGELES ? Several hundred persons
representing a coalition of Jewish groups marched to
the CBS Television City, the network's main production
center, to protest the casting of Vanessa Redgrave
as a Jewish survivor of the Holocaust in a network
movie.
Irv Rubin, the Jewish Defense League's national
director, was arrested for investigation of vandalism
during Sunday's rally. Authorities said his bail was set
at $500.
The coalition has threatened to boycott products
advertised in commercials on CBS and to stage a sit-in
at network facilities across the country if Redgrave
was chosen to portray Fania Fenelon, a member of an
orchestra forced to play for other prisoners as they
were marched to their deaths at the Auschwitz concentration
camp.
Redgrave, who won an Oscar for her role in "Julia",
is an outspoken supporter of Palestinian rights.
Ali meets Graham
MONTKEAT, N.C. ? Muhammad went to tne
mountain and apparently liked what he saw.
Muhammad Ali, three-time world heavyweight
boxing champion, spent several hours Sunday with
Billy Graham in the evangelist's home atop a mountain
in Montreat.
Ali said his visit was one of "looking and searching"
in an effort to "learn more about other people."
Sitting on the porch of Graham's home, Ali looked at
the evangelist and said, "He comes before me. I'm just
a boxer?famous and all that?but he leads people to
God. Hookup to him."
Episcopals ban gays
DENVER ? Is there a place in the Episcopal Church
I for ordained ministers who are avowed homosexuals]
The 3-million member church's House of Bishops
said "no" Monday in passing a controversial resolution
saying it is "not appropriate" for the church to ordain
a practicing homosexual.
It also called inappropriate the ordination of "any
person who is engaged in heterosexual relations out
side of marriage."
By a vote of 99-34, following 2% hours of debate, the
bishops approved a revamped resolution on the ordination
issue and sent it on to the 904-member House
of Deputies, the other legislative chamber in the
bicameral 66th General Convention.
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Manhunt continues
COLUMBIA ? Law enforcement officers said
Monday they are seeking Danny O. Lail, 32, of
Columbia, on a murder charge in the killings of two
persons Friday night.
They described Lail as an "extremely dangerous"
man who mav be prmed with a .44-caliber submachine
gun and a 12-gauge shotgun.
Lail was charged with murder two days earlier, said
Capt. James McCaulley, but officers who were
working on the case had refused to release the name in
the belief that he might still be in Columbia.
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greeted a four-hour rally of the Ku Klux Klan at Anderson,
perhaps the first of several meetings across
the state to boost membership.
South Carolina KKK Grand Dragon John Howard
presided over Saturday night's meeting, which included
the playing of recorded hymns and other songs,
the showing of the 1915 film "Birth of a Nation,"
speeches and distribution of leaflets.
"We're an organized group and we expect to be back
later," he said as some 400 bystanders watched 15
Klansmen conduct the meeting and then burn several
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Sheriff indicted
DARLINGTON ? Darlington County Sheriff A.J.
"Jack" O'Tuel has been indicted on five counts of
bribery, it was announced Monday.
News of the indictment came at the trial of former
Darlington County Attorney John R. Etheridge and 12
codefendants in a drug smuggling case began before
Circuit Judge Paul Moore.
The 13 were indicted on conspiracy charges in
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marijuana into the tiny Dovesville airfield Jan. 17. Law
enforcement officers seized 1,380 pounds of marijuana.
Boy to visit Egypt
EASLEY, S.C. ? Twelve-year-old Sam Brown
decided he wanted to visit Egypt and meet Anwar
Sadat after watching a television documentary that
showed how the Egyptian head of state was imprisoned
during World War II.
So last winter Sam wrote a letter to the president,
telling him he was sorry to hear of the ordeal and
mentioning his desire to visit Egypt. No answer came
for several months, and in the meantime, Sam and his
mother, father and sister moved from their home in
Elberton, Ga., to Easley.
A few weeks ago, a letter arrived from one of Sadat's
aides, saying the president had approved the request.
The family could not pay for the journey, but Sam
kept his fingers crossed. Last Friday another letter
arrived, this one from the Egyptian Government
Tourist Office in New York. It requested that Sam let
tne tourist oitice Know six to eight weeks before he
planned to leave for Egypt, and advised the family he
would need a passport, passport photographs, a
smallpox shot and some malaria pills.
"We're paying for it all," says Janet McKenzie,
information director of the Egyptian Tourist Office in
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