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WORLD ? PN I 1 H-bomb controversy | WASHINGTON ? The letter causing such a stir about H-bombs and national security contains no information terrorists could use and is of questionable te\ nntinnc luickind irtiri tho nnplpar plllh HP VQIU^ w 1U1 t-IV/l IO TT VV JVH Miv cording to a number of nuclear scientists. Physicists acquainted with the letter by Charles Hansen, which the Justice Department said contains hydrogen bomb secrets, said Wednesday that there is no chance the information could be used by terrorists to build a nuclear blackmail device. "There would be absolutely no use terrorists could make of this information," said Dr. RobertG. Sachs, professor of physics at the University of Chicago. "The device described would be far too complex for anyone to build, except for a nation." Liz returns to Egypt ALEXANDRIA. EGYPT ? Some 17 years ago, Elizabeth Taylor was barred from filming the movie "Cleopatra" here. But this time she came back as a diplomat. The shouts that echoed through this ancient city 2,000 years ago for the beloved queen were heard again. Taylor, wife of Sen. John Warner, R-Va., was the center of attention during a VIP tour Tuesday. She arrived on President Anwar Sadat's private jet for a four-day visit. The actress was blacklisted by Egypt for her strong support of Israel, but the ban was dropped with the signing of the peace treaty earlier this year. During her tour, tourists gawked, clicked cameras, and a school boy ran up and kissed her on the cheek as she sat gazing out at the harbor. Later, Miss Taylor was the honored guest at Cairo's fourth annual film festival before flying on to Tel Aviv, Israel, to meet Prime Minister Menachem Begin. Soviet industrial goals MOSCOW ? The Soviet Union announced that its industrial output grew by 3.6 percent in the first eight months of this year, but the figure indicated that the country will faiJ to meet its overall industrial growth target for 1979. Soviet planners had called for 1979 production to exceed last year's levels by 5.7 percent. Western specialists believe that even if performance in the last four months of the year is excellent, the 5.7 percent target will not be met. The official Soviet news agency Tass said economic performance was discussed at a meeting addressed by Premier Alexei N. Kosygin Wednesday. Nixon visits China PEKING ? Richard Nixon visited Chinese Premier Hua Guofeng Wednesday, who called the former president "an old friend" and said he was looking better than when they first met in 1976. Nixon, on his third trip to China at government invitation, saw Hua after a morning of sightseeing and a meeting with Gov. Dixie Lee Ray of Washington. Smiling broadly as lie entered the red-carpeted Great Hall of the People, Nixon shook Hua's hand and said the Communist Party chairman must be very busy preparing for an upcoming trip to Europe. Nixon arrived Monday for what he called private talks on Sino-American relations and international Nuke man J^jj| Allan Glick portrays the Nuclear Spectre in part of the "No Nukes is Good Nukes" road show, presented on campus through the USC Chapter of the S.C. Public Interest Group. , I *L J_ fawKldu- GAMECOCK j iuii Ike s diary found HOUSTON ? A secret war-time diary that the late Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower ordered destroyed in 1945 has turned up in a Kansas library, the Houston Chronicle has reported in two copyright articles. The 22-page typescript, in which Eisenhower was often critical of the late (Jen. Douglas MacArthur and Adm. Ernest King, was discovered by Francis Loewenheim, historian at Rice University. He found it in a Columbia University manila envelope in the Eisenhower Library at Abilene, Kan., the newspaper said. Loewenheim said the envelope was among the personal papers the library received after the 1969 death of the former president and former head of Columbia University. "What we have here, in effect, is the real Ike," Loewenheim wrote. DC-9 inspection WASHINGTON ? Tne Federal Aviation Administration has ordered all U.S. airlines operating the DC-9 aircraft to inspect for cracks in the planes' metal skin. The order, contained in a telegraphed airworthiness directive, was prompted by an incident Monday in which the tail cone of an Air Canada DC-9 was ripped away while the plane was en route from Boston to Nova Scotia. The plane lost cabin pressure and had control difficulties but returned to Boston and landed safely. Subsequent inspections disclosed cracks on two other Air Canada DC-9s similar to that implicated in the accident. K 1 . .L ^ ?r\l AMrkf /-* I r INUI^t? jJIUIH ERWIN, TENN. ? The government has closed down a plant which makes nuclear fuel for the Navy's submarines after officials reported at least 19.8 pounds of weapons-grade uranium missing. Officials for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and workers at the Nuclear Fuel Services Inc. plant in this remote mountain town said Tuesday there may have been only a paper or computer accounting error. Frank Ingram, an NRC spokesman, said officials however have not ruled out the possibility that the uranium was stolen, somehow trapped in the plant's equipment or released accidentally without anyone's knowledge. Oriental vine edible ATLANTA ? No one would compare it to asparagus with hollandaise sauce, but there's enough of the crawling kudzu vine in the Southeast to feed an army, and experts say it's edible. The vine, brought over from Japan and now the bane of many farmers and homeowners who hate its onefoot-a-day growth rate, long has suffered a bad reputation. Unrtiniilturirtc oorioiillnpicfc anH hnmo o/?nrinmictc ; iiui ULUtiUi 051 itutuwwK) a?u vvvuviuww said the vine is used frequently in Oriental cuisine and is high in fiber and low in calories, cholesterol and sodium. \ Jake Tinga, a horticulture professor at the University of Georgia, explains that the vine is a "staple of Oriental cuisine." There its tips are cooked much like asparagus is cooked in the United States and its roots are cooked as Americans would boil potatoes. hhhhh! u - j11 mm lEfSlSilRfilBSs^^^iillp' 0 I I I CPA standards tough ! COLUMBIA ? The head of the state Board of Accountancy has defended the agency's tough standards for licensing accountants in South Carolina. George H. McGregor, chairman of the agency's board, said the standards prevent the state from becoming a Dlace where would-be accountants who I cannot pass the standards in other states come to be licensed. He made the comments in an appearance before the state Reorganization Commission, which is reviewing state agencies to determine if they should be eliminated, merged with others or left alone. The board was criticized earlier this summer in a report by the Legislative Audit Council, which said the board serves a useful purpose but has some of the most restrictive standards in the nation for a person to become a certified public accountant. ? a a I Scheming alleged CAMDEN ? A prosecutor in California said he has no doubt that John T. Ingle, who recently announced plans for a huge trucking center in Lugoff, is the same man who was charged with illegally offering to buy and sell securities in California. The attorney, Bob Damron, said the methods behind schemes to build a bowling alley in Salinas, Calif., and the trucking complex in the Kershaw County town were the same. Damron, of the district attorney's office in Monterey County, also said he knew Ingle went to South Carolina after the criminal charges against him in California were dropped because of a technicality. Ingle was arrested in Greenville, S.C., on Oct. 21, 1978, on a fugitive warrant from California, Greenville I Police Capt. Earl Watson said. Friendship in debt ROCK HILL ? Although Friendship College is still as deeply in debt as it was when he took over as president two years ago, Charles Petress is determined to build financial respectability for the school. [J Petress, a Baptist minister and former principal in New York City schools, said he had two choices when he became president ? pay the bills or renovate the school's 9-acre campus. He chose the latter. Petress, 35, says the school is about $90,000 in debt, about the same amount owed when he took over in September 1977. Fathers discriminated GREENVILLE ? Mothers are often given unfair consideration in child custody cases, a Greenville accountant has charged in a federal suit. Glenn R. Price said the state's family court system systematically discriminates against men in such cases. | In an attempt to remedy the situation, Price has filed a suit in U.S. District Court in Greenville. Listed as defendants are 13th Circuit Family Court Judges james a.k. noper ana Samuel B. Mendennau, as wen as other family court judges in the state. Price charges that the courts routinely violate the 14th amendment's due process clause. In a Sept. 12 suit, Price charged the courts' procedures, such as i closed courtrooms and lack of jury trials,violate the federal Constitution. '^SJkBSCi^^BSbIB^ ^ ^ \\ J J yp """M$M*i 7 i yg; ^biipi IBS^ Bl> BKL^hI IPt ft v^RA %m& bus w JuffBt H Bt W Hmb VB