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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.
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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
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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."
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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