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WORLD Refugees advancing PESHAWAR, Pakistan ? As many as 500,000 refugees from the fighting in Afghanistan are expected to have crossed the border into Pakistan by spring, a Pakistani official reports. He said 1,000 a day have been streaming across the frontier since the Marxist Afghan regime launched a massive offensive against anti-government Moslem tr i besmen in October. The official refugee count stands at 262,000 since the civil war in Afghanistan began 19 months ago. but a reliable estimate put the figure closer to 300,000. U.S. sailors killed TOA RAJA, Puerto Rico ? Unidentified gunmen ambushed a busload of U.S. Navy personnel Monday morning in a barrage of pistol and shotgun fire, killing two servicemen and wounding 10 other persons, authorities reported. No one claimed immediate responsibility for the attack, the first fatal assault against the U.S. military in Puerto Rico in almost a decade. Violence by underground pro-independence groups generally has been limited to attacks on property, officiers said. j Man demonstrates suicide EAST LONDON, South Africa ? A 64-year-old recluse watched a man contemplating suicide on a cliff's edge, walked up to him and said: "I'll show yu how it's done." Then he leaped to his death, the Durban Sunday Tribune reported. The Tribune said the recluse, John Parrin, and acvciai uiuci pcrsuiis nau waicneG ine potential suic ide for some time. Parrin then told the undecided man that since he didn't know how to kill himself, he would show him. The man fainted after Parrin jumped. Camel in law suit PARIS ? A smiling, smoking camel apparently has got the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. and its advertising firm in trouble with the French government. The Winston-Salem, N.C., Tobacco company was hauled into court Monday to answer charges that it violated a 1976 law by using improper advertising that may make people want to smoke. The tobacco company's advertisements feature a smiling dromedary with a smoking cigarette hanging from its mouth. rfHft Ett^WNH0wBKw?R^vJ^MMNn v .' ^-- .^gv^SQpTjLJ OAN AYKROYD NED BEA1 TIM MATHESON in An A learn Pro \ UXCK ALlfH - EDDIE KEZEN MY DjCICCO DIUK Kl Stay by TO! ZEMFCKIS&B08GALE and JOHN MILWS COIN I in i rwii Cocaine party revealed MIAMI ? Robert J. Meinster, accused of helping run thp cnnhi?tipat(?H "Hlnpt Tuna" Hrnu cmiicrcjlinc/ rino ! uv/f/...^vivv4ww Mb UIltV4bb411Ib 4 Mlb? once threw a New Year's Eve bash where guests were treated to cocaine by the dishful, a court heard Monday. "There was all kinds of liquor ? and cocaine," government witness George Purvis Jr., said . "There was a half-pound in the living room. There was cocaine in dishes in some of the other rooms." ?>l iimmc o 91 f rv?' ?>>/*?< C* 1/1 (1 i ui no, ci u i j v. CI i viu iui nici i' ajtiicvuic, m.Vy, businessman, is a key witness in the trial of eight men who investigators said operated under the code name "Black Tuna." The government sai d the smuggling ring netted $300 million in 1976 and 1977. Fourteen men were originally charged. Six have since bargained for immunity or reduced charges. Purvis was not charged in the Black Tuna case. Students leave country ATI AVTA Turn Iranian chtrlnntc ais 1 ?? V/ ilUIUUU OIUU^IILO lC4l.lllg deportation have been permitted by a federal immigration judge to leave the United States voluntarily, while another two may seek political asylum to avoid returning to their homeland. Judge Neale Foster held a second day of hearings Tuesday for the first of more than 100 Iranian students from Georgia, Alabama and the Carolinas whose right to remain in the United States under student visas is being questioned by the Immigration and Naturalization Service. Shah in Texas SAN ANTONIO ? The deposed Shah of Iran, out of a hospital for the first time in five weeks, is resting under the protection of the U.S. Air Force as officials in ! Washington are searching for a permanent home for the exiled ruler. U.S. Rep. Henry Gonzalez, D-Texas, met with the ~ fi L: ! 1 n 1 -a w _ - I l 1 * onan auei ins arrival ounuay ai L,acKiana Air r orce Base and said the former Iranian ruler "looked fine" but obviously needed continued medical care. When hi Southern I nlifornin vis.il STUDIOS TOUB n?^ByS^TO- nf JBB2rsH5 *$jk SiuBftHfl^B^ K ~ iTzMHBk ?Sf UNIVERSAL PKMSand COLUMBIA PICTURES Piesenl fTY JOHN BELUSHI LORRAINE 6ARY MURRAY HAI 10SHIR0 MIFIWE WARREN OATES ROBERT STACK rfiiHmn ni A QTfUfW QPtCl RfPT, CI M f i " I VAA/IIUII U1 n UILILI1 m IULm.HU I ILII1 I | y J L s-fy { ? \/l (Y SLM PICKENS WENDIE JO SPER8ER INSKl STAKKi Oiecln of I'tptograptiy WI1IAM AFf Music by JOHN WILLIAMS Pioduced ty fitill FEITSHANS Execuhvc Piodura JOHN Mllfi Di Copf-V f r??? S*uO<OS >NC COilAMI.A *C on AAi*fA * ? ?ll AiO^'S !VC**tO I? fllNQ FOR CHRIST Woman fights for hogs WALI1ALLA ? Geneva Kiggins says she's just going to wait and see what town officials plan to do about the 38 hogs in her care. "Whatever they do I'm ready for it," she said, after Mayor Henry Wigington and two town council memj bers tried unsuccessfully to evict the hogs she keeps at her Salem. S.C.. home "I've got a six-ounce (piglet) and an eight-ounce in my family room right now I'm going to raise on the bottle," Riggins added. A complaint by town officials to have the hogs removed from her home in a residential area was dismissed Monday on a technicality by Circuit Judge Sidney Floyd. Black magic' death BEAUFORT ? The body of a man killed in a hit-andi\? v. r > ~41 1 i mi lutiucill in mctiv:il WdS 1WUIIU UtXttpiiait'U iillU voodoo-type objects were near the grave, according to the Beaufort Gazette. The newspaper said yesterday it had pieced together the story from reliable sources who asked not to be named. Law Enforcement and other authorities refused to comment on the incident. But Ed McTeer, a self-proclaimed "white witch doctor," said he had no doubts about the intent of the decapitation. uThic it o ftMin nocn nf Kln/il/ marfi/t " A !f - ^ a inu io u uv vuov. ui uiatn inu^ic, hh. i uci aaiu. "Someone is trying to put evil on the people connected with him." The man's name was not been confirmed and was not published. Oil <;nill 'humnn prror' SPARTANBURG ? According to a federal report, a million gallons of fuel oil spilled into the Enoree River May 13 and June 16 because of excessive pressure and strain on a pipeline. The report, released Monday by an agency of the Department of Transportation, said there was excessive pressure in the pipeline because of an inadvertent miscalculation by engineers for Colonial Pipeline Co. 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