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f*r. , . . . ? ?Trrr^r*. it ' , ? vvuni-u Russian blames vodka TOKYO ? Police have arrested a 29-year-old Russian coal miner who said he drank too much vodka, [ fell asleep in his boat and drifted across 100 miles of ocean from Siberia to Hokkaido, Japan's northernmost main island. A police spokesman in Wakkanai, a community facing the Sea of Okhotsk, said Aleksandr Markeev told them he went hunting on a lake on the Soviet island of Sakhalin, drifted down a river, then across the strait tn HnkkniHo The spokesman quoted Markeev as saying he had fallen asleep from two bottles of vodka he drank to keep warm. Markeev was taken into custody for allegedly firing a volley into the air from a double-barreled shotgun when he was approached by Japanese fishermen at a nearby harbor. Drug houses thriving PEKING ? The state-run pharmaceutical houses in the People's Republic of China are fast catching up to our pill-popping western society in packaging the ancient neroai remeaies as paieni medicines available in capsule and liquid form. A modern and always crowded drug counter in the lobby of the spacious Peking Hotel does a bustling business dispensing ginseng antler pills, swallow pear nest syrup, dog skin plaster, tiger bone liquor and similar tonics and emulsions that have brought relief to billions since the Ming dynasty. In the downtown business district a much larger and far more lavish People's Drug Store, unrelated to the Washington, D.C. chain of the same name, carries a full line of aphrodisiacs, emetics, expectorants, "mind refreshers" and something called "Purple Gold fllhp? " U/hi^h anfftrHina tr? tVio loKol ie cmnri fnf uvvviuiii^, iv HIV, AUK/VI 10 gV/VU 1U1 OUl C throat, toothache, abdominal flatulence, food and drink poisoning and diarrhea." Air fares to increase CANNES, France ? Increased passenger fares and . freight rates on many European and North Atlantic air routes have been recommended by 55 airlines at a meeting here of the International Air Transport Association, a spokesman said yesterday. He said the increases were to meet rising fuel costs. On passenger fares between the United States and Europe, a range of increases between 3 and 7 percent was recommended, with airlines having a 2 percent margin either side of a 5 percent baseline. On Canada-Europe fares, the increase would generally be 3 percent, the spokesman said. Cambodian aid likely WASHINGTON ? President Carter is expected to announce U.S. assistance to starving Cambodians and to urge other countries to join in the effort, despite resistance from authorities in the Southeast Asian nation, administration sources said yesterday. Carter's move, at his news conference yesterday afternoon, represents the administration's conviction that a massive aid effort must be launched in spite of the Cambodian roadblock. The situation in Cambodia is being described as desperate by State Department officials. The number of Cambodians facing starvation has been estimated at up to 3 million. Here it is... gin Ron Art displays another masterpiece at his one-man art show in front of Russeit ?|P? f|ggj House Tuesday. 15 98 ;' 'iv ... t -wTS ' > . * .vV '' v 'V v. ' ' ^W^W|BBH| NHTION Concert ends violently ELIZABETH, N.J. ? The crowd at a benefit rock concert threw bottles at police in a wild fight that left \ one teen-ager seriously wounded and 37 people under arrest, authorities said. Artilio Meneses, 16, was stabbed in the chest Sunday at the concert on Williams Field, police said. He was listed in guarded condition with a punctured lung at Ain?:nn micaiciu di uuici a iiuapiuti. a Police Director Joseph Brennan said the violence at ? the concert to benefit the Cerebral Palsy Treatment t\ Center of Union County, began soon after the music P started and peaked when 30 police officers attempted to clear the field. Mayor Thomas Dunn said he saw "almost everybody" in the crowd of more than 1,500 drinking beer and other alcoholic beverages or using drugs. "I'd swear in court everybody there was drinking or high on drugs," Dunn said. "It was absolute bedlam." NOW adopts resolutions I OC IPC nalorfritoc (n frVio lOfVi artminl r?r\n_ nilVXAJli&JU LyV/lVgU tv,o tv tliv l^tll UIUIUUI VV/ll vention of the National Organization for Women closed a three day meeting after adopting resolutions supporting homosexual rights and the rights of women to IIUVC dUUI UU113. The resolution on gay rights was passed unanimously and created a National Lesbian Rights Campaign and called for "vigorous support of our allies in the lesbian and gay community." The other resolution declared that "reproductive rights including abortion rights are issues of life and death for women, not mere matters of choice." f r* v~\ y^\ r r i kU I I ICUU IIUMO|JIUMlO I ATLANTA ? Researchers have been successful in p transplanting the heads of animals, but they haven't | found a way to prevent the paralysis that always p follows, according to an Ohio neurosurgeon. j Dr. Robert J. White, a neurosurgeon at Metropolitan General Hospital in Cleveland, said he and other scientists have successfully transplanted the heads of monkeys and mice. The transplanted heads "can see, hear, feel pain and perform other functions" normally, he said. But the bodies to which they are attached become paralyzed because "you have to cut all of the nerves." "Basically they (the animals) are quadriplegics. We can hook up the blood vessels to the transplanted head \ so that the brain and head gets a blood supply, but there is no way to make the nerves work again," he said. Transplants of human brains are "a long, long way off," he said. Woman frees prisoner SPENCER, IND. ? A woman carrying a sawed-off shotgun walked into the Owen County jail yesterday, disarmed two officers and forced the release of a man being held on armed robbery charges, state police said. The prisoner was identified as Richard B. Joseph, 25. Owen County authorites said he was wanted in Vigo, Clay, Sullivan and Putnam counties when arrested here on the armed robbery charge. State police said Joseph, the woman and a 10-yearold boy believed to be her son fled in a car. -'''y3KMR9nUNfen&HnnBKBig& ?>::: BMe^.v/aaSSal^ HWfc tfyMii?MIIW?f vjm. ' v "l< V-<?l '_ a 4WWwR ..... . / # | ^bBMI wmtM ?gfiiMfcftjM* 1 flil^ -.- _ *' WMIB^ ^i -ii tiffi WH fflXfoirnWm iiiiMiii i M?i?M ,,wri8gflB31. - Ipffeyg! j'."rr ' ?Q|iH ' ; | ; iSBSS 3 : y: ?1 &?? STHTE False benefits paid COLUMBIA ? During the past fiscal year, the state _l 11 1 A. At A Mi: ' snenea oui more man miuiun in overpayments ui falsely claimed unemployment benefits, according to a state Employment Security Commission official. John McKeown, chief of field service for the commission's Unemployment Compensation Division, said so far $736,451 of the $1.5 million in overpayments has been recovered by the agency. Fraudulently claimed unemployment benefits account for the remaining $817,217. He said fraudulent overpayments are discovered by vigilant local unemployment officials, anonymous informants and a computer that keeps track of apu i puuaiiu) ueiienus anu earnings. Charities disagree COLUMBIA ? The Carolina Brown Lung Association has stressed that it has nothing acainst - ? ~~? ? -- o ? organizations funded by the United Way, only the fund itself. Last month, the CBLA asked textile workers to contribute to the brown lung movement instead of the United Way. The effort was begun in South Carolina and North Carolina after United Way refused to include the brown lung group among those it funds. Association members are victims of byssinosis, or brown lung disease, which is believed to be caused by cotton dust. "We want to make it clear we're not against any of tho nrfloni'/ofinnc tho ITnitor) \A7n\i ic furiHinrt " Hoicif V??V YJA ^UIU^UUUWJ HIV. wuuuu If ?J to UUIOJ Pittman, treasurer of the Columbia chapter of the association, said Monday. Pittman said the United Way rejected the brown lung group, "claiming first that there simply wasn't much nf a nrnhlpm th*?n latpr that anuornmont chnulH handle the issue." Language 'dying' CHARLESTON ? Gullah, the unique patois spoken by blacks living in remote areas of the sea islands, is hparlpH fnr "lnntfiinO** Honth " caiH n I-Irm/orH University professor. Patricia Jones Jackson, who wrote a thesis on gullah, presented the paper recently to the congregation of New Jerusalem African Methodist Episcopal Church on nearby Wadmalaw Island, where she did much of her research. There has been a debate for years in the Lowcountry on whether gullah is a dialect or a language. Jackson says it is a language, derived from a mixture of English and African words but having its own set of grammatical and structural rules and its own phonological system. Fire deliberately set MARION ? A fire at the Heritage Sportswear plant here was deliberately set, according to local fire and police officials. The fire was confined to one end of a large yarn warehouse, although smoke and water damage is expected to be extensive, according to Fire Chief Joe Boatwright. 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