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WORLD Oil spill in sea ISTANBUL, TURKEY ? A Romanian oil tanker and a Greek coastal freighter collided in the Bosporus early yesterday, setting off thunderous explosions and fire, leaving 50 Romanian crew members missing and dumping nearly 30 million gallons of oil into the sea, officials said. The tanker, loaded with crude oil destined for Romania, collided with the Euria at the mouth of the Bosporus, triggering powerful explosions that shattered windows in a wide area in Istanbul. Witnesses told police the tanker was rocked by three blasts which sent thick smoke into the air. Governor Orhan Erbug said an estimated 95,000 tons of oil, of 28.4 million gallons, poured into the Marmara Sea. Mount Sinai returned TEL AVIV ? Israel returned Mount Sinai to Egypt yesterday, clearing the way for President Anwar Sadat to celebrate the second anniversary of his peace initiative at the venerated desert mountain. At a military ceremony at an Israeli-built airfield 12 miles from the mountain, the Israeli flag was lowered and an Egyptian flag raised in a ceremony that has now been repeated four times as Israel carries out its phased withdrawal from the desert peninsula. The pullback covers a 600-square-mile area including 1,400-year-old St. Catherine's monastery at the foot of Mount Sinai. Under an agreement reached between Cairo and Jerusalem, tourists from Israel will be allowed to visit the area under Egyptian supervision. ^ , _! _ . ?r / L^iuniie uies ar /o NORTH BAY, ONTARIO ? Oliva Dionne, 76, father of the Dionne quintuplets, died early yesterday at his home in Corbeil near North Bay. Family members said Dionne was not feeling well but he had not been in bad health. He had been living wun nis wire, Hiizire, vu, in tneir modest oungaiow near the farmhouse where the girls were born by the light of kerosene lamps. Forty-five years ago, in the middle of the Depression, the birth of five identical sisters in the farmhouse made news around the world. The race is on...against MS 10,00i and 2 mile run December 8, 1979 at Hand Middle School. Register a local sporting goods store Elegant Dining at the Top Enjoy a champagne biuneh before the game | 07'join us for a meal after the game Saturday, November 17 10:SO am to 1:00 pm 5:00 pm to 7:30pm Call 777 8198for reservation Ii rie i up of Carolina WM?M -s . . ? r> Shah's operation plannec WASHINGTON ? The former Shah of Iran is suffering from a baseball-sized tumor on his neck and his doctors plan to operate as soon as the ousted monarch feels well enough, administration officials have HisplneoH "His condition is getting worse and worse," said one official, who asked not to be identified. He added that there is a consensus among the shah's doctors that he should remain at New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center, where he has been confined since Oct. 22. "The tumor is being treated with radiation therapy and in the latest doctor's report there's not any indication of further surgery," a spokeswoman for the Shah, said. A source at the hospital, who asked not to be identified, also said there is no present indication more surgery is needed. Nazi surrenders GREENSBORO, N.C. ? A 15th man sought in connection with the shooting deaths of five Communist Workers Party members at an anti-Klan rally here was surrendered near unicago, the FBI disclosed yesterday. Jack Wilson Fowler Jr., 28, of Winston-Salem, a selfavowed Nazi, was taken into custody by FBI agents late Wednesday night in Hinsdale, 111., a suburb of Chicago, Andrew Palczar, FBI supervisor in Greensboro, said. Greensboro police have signed warrants charging Fowler with five counts of murder and one count of conspiracy to commit murder, the same charges facing 12 others already in custody. Palczar said. Reagan's views on Iran WASHINGTON ? Republican presidential contender Ronald Reagan said Wednesday he supported President Carter's actions in the Iranian crisis, but believes the administration should have done more last year to keep the Shah of Iran in power. "Thprp wac a timp u;hon tHic roiml111irvr? /?/M 11 r\ hauo been halted," Reagan said. It was his first meeting with reporters since he declared his intention to seek the 1980 Republican presidential nomination. Without mentioning the name of any Iranian leader, the former California governor said, 'There were certain leaders that could have been separated from their followers." He did not elaborate. ? 7 Bn i r- a i ? i t 9 meter 9 am ? *? ih it 1 pf I T sJL /;< if Hi w^pB i'j1 i i1 'I'I* .% ^ ^iWAV, ' ' * S-S.A-* .*,?J?-J?.? " ?.?.???4 * ?>?'? ?C ; >. STRTE I Investigation renewed | COLUMBIA ? Authorities have renewed their investigation into the Dec. 20. 1970 slavine of a 17-vpar old Lexington County girl. | Both the State Law Enforcement Division and the Lexington County Sheriff's Department are going over new information concerning the abduction and death of Kathy Jo Anderson. SLED assigned an agent to the case last month after a Columbia auto dealer told officers the names of three persons who had been mentioned as participants in the slayings by three different women. Anderson's body was found in a partially-filled grave in the Redbank area of Lexington County nearly two months alter she disappeared. William Junior Pierce, a Georgia multiple murderer, confessed to the slaying after the late Sheriff Carroll Day told him he would not be prosecuted. Authorities said Day evidently felt that because Pierce was already serving several life sentences, another murder trial would be unnecessary. Miss Anderson's sister, Carolyn, 25, said she is "happy" the case is being restudied. "I have never been satisfied with it. I hope there is some way to keep [ investigating until they find the real killers," she said. Connolly optimistic NORTH PHAHIFSTOM ? Tnhn oil., . . UUIIII vuiuiaujf , V.CII11paigning hard in a onetime Ronald Reagan stronghold, said Wednesday he is the best qualified presidential candidate, "Republican or Democrat." It was Connally's second visit to the Charleston area since announcing for the Republican nomination and his third to South Carolina in the past six months. He said he views the state as ernrifll fn hie hnnoc fr??* tha _ a??/|^VU A V* V* *V 1 White House because of the Republican presidential primary to be held March 8, the first in the South. Charleston Republicans, including former Gov. James B. Edwards, went all out for Reagan's nomination at the national GOP convention in 1976. 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