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WORLD Drug dealer captured | KUALA LAMPUR, MALAYSIA ? Malaysian police have arrested a man believed to be one of Thailand's most wanted criminals, a drug dealer who escaped iruin a maximum security unu last year. Abdul Rahman Ismail, Malaysia's criminal in- j vestigations director, told reporters Wednesday that the suspect, identified as Siri Sirikul, was picked up Tuesday night at a house in the Butterworth district of northwestern Malaysia. Siri was serving a life sentence for drug trafficking when he escaped from the Thai prison. He also is wanted by West German police who claim he eluded a 1976 police ambush in Bremen in which thev seized nearly 150 pounds of heroin. Troops on islands TOKYO ? A U.S. intelligence report said the Soviet union now nas a aivision-size force oi 10,000 to 12,000 troops on four islands claimed by Japan 40 miles off the northern Japanese coast, Defense Agency officials reported. Foreign Ministry sources said Japan would file a formal protest with the Soviets if the report is con iirmea. According to the U.S. information, up to 2,000 additional Soviet troops have arrived on the island of Shikotan, bringing to 10,00 to 12,000 the total force on the four islands, which have been held by the Soviets since the closing days of World War II, the Japanese defense officials said. i.? I I ^apnves reieasea CAGL1ARI, SARDINIA ? After 82 days in captivity, kidnappers have freed the 15-year-old daughter of a Milan industrialist who paid a $600,000 ransom to ob~ r 4i? 1? idin me i cicasc ox me gin ana ner momer, police said. Police said Christina Cinque was released near the town of Nuoro in central Sardinia two days after the kidnappers freed her mother, Maria Luisa. The two women were abducted in July as they drove to a dental appointment in San Pantaleo, a village on this Italian island. j Cure for common ro Id? I MOSCOW ? Medical scientists are culling an an cient Tibetan medical journal for long-lost medicines, possibly including a cure for the common cold, the Soviet news agency Tass said. In its report Wednesday, Tass said scientists, oriental language experts, and chemists were working together to decipher and recreate the ancient medicinal rpmprfipc fminH in thoTihofan imlnmn It is already clear, Tass said, that ancient Tibetan medicine was several centuries ahead of European medicine. Energy plan proposed SEOUL. SOUTH KOREA ? South Korea will rely heavily on nuclear and coal-fired generators under a plan to boost the nation's electricity capacity from 7.23 million kilowatts to 30 million kilowatts by 1991, the Minictrv of PnorflK onrl Hocaiipoac ciirl J A^aavt uuu IVVOVUI WO OOIU, Under the plan, South Korea will spend an average of | $2 billion a year to build a total of 14 nuclear and 10 coal-burning power plants by 1991. None of the projected new power plants will use oil, the ministry said. | Solitude 5 1 Robert Hunnicutt finds peace, quiet, nBE Jm and a unique piece to study. I 'ih"p"l-fliMFfBB i -??1 NOTION Jordan's cocaine case WASHINGTON ? The lawyer who claimed his client witnessed Hamilton Jordan's use of cocaine at a 1977 party in California now said she did not actually see the White House chief of staff use the drug, the Washington Star reports. The report in yesterday's editions of the Star is based on statements from lawyer A. Irving Osser of Los Angeles, who represents the purported witness, Lana Jean Raw Is, 36, of Houston. Jordan repeatedly has denied allegations that he has used the drug. In addition to the alleged incident in California, the two owners of a New York discotheque, both under indictment on federal tax fraud charees have said Jordan used cocaine at their establishment in 1977. Anti-nuke procession PORTSMOUTH, VA. ? A group of anti-nuclear protesters left here Wednesday in a small motorcade to trace the route nuclear waste shipments take to Aiken, S.C., and to try to drum up popular support for banning me snipmenis entirely. "Our immediate goal is to get the shipments banned from Portsmouth, and if we can enlist the support and I help of the residents all along the route, then we will have a much better chance," said Jim West of Hampton. Portsmouth is the major East Coast port for receiving shipments of highly radioactive waste fuel shipments from foreign reactors. All of the shipments are trucked from Portsmouth to the Savannah River Nuclear Waste Processing Plant. Nuclear disaster likely NEW YORK ? A leading proponent of nuclear energy admitted yesterday he believes "that someday, somewhere" a nuclear disaster will occur. Bill Lee, president of Duke Power Co. said, "If it fiops hanripn T u/nulH ovruvi! Hio nnni>??..nr,nnn ...:n u? rr-?" . .. vutu vn|n.vv UiV VUllOCVJUCIItCS Will UC j lower than we feel they would be." Lee, a member of the nuclear industry's national Oversight Committee, defended nuclear energy by maintaining that since the Three Mile Island mishap last April, utilities have taken several voluntary measures to decrease the risk involved in power plants. PTI rl knntp rnntiniipc tl ? vy i vy ' i i i i i w o CHARLOTTE, N.C. ? The PTL Television Network released Monday a controversial financial audit that network President Jim Bakker refused to release publicly last year. The audit said the organization had a serious cash flow problem. It had immediate debts ? such as payroll and TV airtime ? of $9.5 million, and longrange debts ? including several long-term loans and lease obligations ? of about $5.5 million. Total debt was PstimntpH nt a limit <t1 ^ million PTL's assets that could be converted easily to cash, k] totaled $2.1 million, the audit revealed. Counting all of h its buildings and property, however, PTL had total p assets of about $19 million. L1 TU/v ?..JU U.. 41? t a? ' * " me ciuuit, uy uie uaiiuiiai accounting urm 01 Lj DeLoitte, Haskins and Sells was conducted during the I early stages of a worsening financial crisis at PTL. ! SM mim , . iJ } jRSllvSslS^BKtf ,-tk J , mnnMHHHnnnBnSHHBnfei STRTE _?. i i Christians plan march CHESTER ? A parade permit was granted WednP?HflV tn (hp ^nilthorn Phriction T norlatwkin ?v %?av UVUVIIV&II via lOVldll JLTVaUV/I OU&?J V/UII" ference, which is planning a march Saturday in an effort to get a full investigation into the death of a 19year-old black man. City Council voted unanimously to grant the permit to the SCLC, which estimates 1,000 persons will par ncipaie. The parade permit was requested by Golden Frinks, field secretary of the SCLC, and Richard Cunningham, a Chester SCLC leader. The march will begin at 9 a.m. at the site where Mickey McClinton's body was found May 11 in Chester County. It will conclude at 1 p.m. at a Confederate War monument in downtown Chester. Law enforcement officials have listed McClinton as the victim of a hit-and-run driver. However, rumors have circulated that the young man was beaten to death. No arrests have been made. Families to receive aid COLUMBIA ? South Carolina's low-income families will receive help from the federal government in paying skyrocketing home heating costs, but the aid probably will still fall short of what will be needed. Lee Spratt, director of the governor's Office of Economic Opportunity, began a two-day trip to Washington Wednesday to find out how much of the federal money will be available for the state's thousands of poverty-level families. According to initial program guidelines, individual families would be able to receive no more than $400 this winter to help defray heating cost increases and other inflationary trends. Figures released this week by a consumers' organization indicate home heating costs will increase an estimated $540 for the average family this winter. Speedy trial boosted / COLUMBIA ? An accused person's right to a "speedy trial" was given a boost by the state Supreme Court Wednesday when it ruled that prosecutors must act within 90 days of receiving an indictment. If no action is taken within that time, the prosecutors must dismiss the warrants, the court said. The order, to take effect Jan. 1, 1980, requires the circuit solicitor's offices to keep a written record of criminal cases handled, a procedure not always followed in the past. Many counties have a backlog of arrest warrants WhiPh hnvp npvor Kaon npacan(<u1 f? ? ? ? .. ??? . ? ..-w , wvii |/> voviutu iu a diiu jury . Ross accuses politicians COLUMBIA ? South Carolina Republican Chairman Dan I. Ross accused the state's four Democratic congressmen Wednesday of disappointing the people bv votinc thf?ms*?lvos a nnv raioo -rf ct f"J * "'uv' The GOP members of the delegation ? Carroll A. Campbell Jr. and Floyd D. Spence ? voted no Tuesday. The Senate Appropriations Committee voted against the pay raise Wednesday. The 5.5 percent boost would raise senators' and representatives' pay to $60,700 a year from $57,500. The House approved the increase on a 208-203 roll call. HI T~ *- ' WM?