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Shah gets added security
NEW YORK ? Police armed with automatic
weapons have been added to the Drivate seeuritv forre
guarding the deposed Shah of Iran on the 17th floor of
New York Hospital.
A police spokesman said Monday the assignment of
members of the Emergency Service Unit by Commissioner
Robert J. McGuire "was not prompted by
any specific incident."
Although officials would not elaborate on the
uecision, sources in me department said the hostage
crisis in Iran, and the continuing escalation of threats
against theShah's life, led to the move.
"If something w^re to happen to the shah, it could be
just as serious an international incident as our not
returning him," one police source said.
Although city police have kept close watch on the
hospital grounds and have handled the various nearby
anti-shah demonstrations, the last level of security has
been handled by the shah's own well-armed security
staff.
The police intelligence division, which had been
continually monitoring security conditions at the
hospital, recommended "the placement of emergency
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the possibility of an attack on the shah," a department
statement said.
Oil found in Black Sea
BUCHAREST. ROMANIA ? President Nicolae
Ceausescu announced Monday that Romania has
sirucK on in me macK aea.
"We hope that the oil deposit will be big enough and
exploitable enough to further our goal of being totally
self-reliant," Ceausescu said.
In a 54-hour speech opening Romania's first
Communist congress in five years, the 61-year-old
party and government head gave no details of the
discovery.
The find, believed to be the first reported by any
Black Sea country including the Soviet Union, was
made by the first exploratory drilling platform
Romania erected in its offshore waters.
Romania has been exploring for Black Sea oil for
three years, but has no offshore production facilities.
Ceausescu outlined plans for exploration, conservation
and research programs aimed at making the
Balkan country of 22 million people self-sufficient in
energy by 1990.
Executive joins Kennedy
NEW YORK ? One of the oil industry's most outspoken
defenders is taking a leave of absence from
Mobil Corp. to join the presidential campaign of Sen.
Edward M. Kennedy, one of the industry's most outspoken
critics.
Herbert Schmertz, vice president for public affairs
at Mobil, will spend six weeks setting up the
Massachusetts Democrat's advertising program,
according to a Mobil spokesman. Schmertz will not be
paid by Mobil or Kennedy during that period. He expects
to return to Mobil by Jan. 1. jj
Schmertz, who is also a member of the Mobil board I
of directors, worked in the presidential campaigns of
Kennedy's brothers, John and Robert. His role in the
Kennedy campaign will not include advice on energy
issues.
Kennedy has long advocated stricter controls on tne
oil industry, criticizing President Carter for his policy 1
of decontrolling prices of domestic crude oil?a policy
which Mobil, alone among major oil companies, opposes.
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WASHINGTON ? An investigation of the Army's
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years, officials have confirmed.
Opening the books on a six-month investigation, the
Army told Congress that 427 recruiters have been
relieved of their duties in the last year because of
malpractice.
Officials said there was more malpractice among
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Seventy-five percent of the cases of fraudulent or
irregular enlistments involved discrepancies in the
educational records of potential recruits who had not
graduated from high school, officials said.
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tests and concealment of police records, medical
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While readily acknowledging that recruiters are
under pressure to meet recruiting goals, Army officials
said the pressure is not overbearing.
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Army," said Brig. Gen. Donald W. Connelly, head of a
55-member investigation task force set up last May.
Connelly, joined oy Army secretary ciittora
Alexander and Lt. Gen. Robert G. Yerks, the Army's
top personnel official, testified on the recruiting
scandal before the Senate Armed Services manpower
subcommittee.
Man returns with rifle
KNOXVILLE. TENN. ? A man who took over a
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threatened to kill himself returned to the same school
Monday armed with a deer rifle, police said.
Police rushed to the Knoxville Business College after
getting reports that the same man had for the second
time this fall taken over a classroom.
Authorities said members of the class were allowed
to leave; a teacher, a school official and one or two
students remained behind. There were no reports of
injuries.
On Sept. 27 Louis Posey walked into a college
classroom, pointed a pistol at his head and threatened
to kill himself. Police talked him out of the building and
no one was hurt.
Posey became a mental facility patient but
authorities said he was now on a 10-day furlough and
confirmed that he was the one inside the building
Monday.
Paychecks delayed
CHICAGO ? Despite a last-minute $37 million advance
in state funds, this week's paychecks for
teachers in the cash-strapped Chicago public school
system will be five days late.
A Chicago Board of Education spokesman said
payday must be delayed until next Tuesday so enough
funds will'be available to pay off $89 million in shortterm
notes due Monday.
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teachers on the 27th," he added.
The school board's decision to delay the checks
angered teachers, who planned to meet Wednesday to
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Plane carrying pot crashes
COLUMBIA ? An airplane laden with marijuanna
crashed in a remote site between McCormick and Abbeyville
Monday and burst into flames. Authorities who
rushed to the scene found the bodies of two persons in the
charred wreckage.
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John Cureton, said the plane was a DC-4, a propellardriven,
four-engine, cargo plane first manufactured in
the 1940s.
A dispatcher for the McCormick Couty Sheriff's
Department said some bales of marijuanna was found at
the site. She said the plane caught fire on impact.
The dispatcher said deputies were called to the site
about eight miles north of McCormick near South
Carolina 28 at about 6:10 a.m. by a woman who said she
heard the engine of a small plane sputtering and then a
crash.
Jack Barker, a spokesman for the regional office of
the Federal Aviation Administration in Atlanta, said an
Aerocoup piloted by W.C. Carnes of Bishopville struck
some trees just after takeoff, crashed and caught fire.
The passenger was identified as his grandson, 13-yearold
Sammy Baker Jr., also of Bishopville.
Woman rescued from gully
LANCASTER ? An 82-year-old Lancaster County
woman, who apparently slipped into a gully while
walking in woods near her home, survived two nights
with temperatures in the 30s.
Effie Staffman was in the Elliot White Spring
Memorial Hospital yesterday recovering from her ordeal.
A spokeswoman said Mrs. Staffman suffered no
injuries and was in satisfactory condition.
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alone, after she failed to return from a walk Saturday.
About 50 rescue workers and Lancaster County sheriff's
deputies searched the woods about 5 miles northwest of
Lancaster Sunday and Monday.
Heyward Neely, 68, a retired carpenter, found Mrs.
Staffman Monday afternoon lying on her back in a steep,
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Parks said if Mrs. Staffman had not been found when
she was "she would have been in real trouble." He said
she was wearing a sweater and long dress.
School closes early
NORTH ? The only school in North has been ordered
to close early for the Thanksgiving holiday due to the
death of a second grader of spinal meningitis, official
said Monday.
David M. Brown, superintendent of North School
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for the week at 1 p.m. Tuesday after pupils were innoculated
to immunize them from the disease. The
school, the OIllv one in thp district will rnnr*?n r?n
Monday.
The dead child, a girl, has not been identified on
request of the parents. The parents carried the child to
Orangeburg Regional Hospital on Friday afternoon.
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later that night.
An Orangeburg County health officer, Dr. C.L.
Murray, said it was the sixth case of the disease in the
county this year, all occuring at North. Three of the six
died, he said.
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