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WORLD
Warning to NATO
BERLIN ? Foreign ministers of the seven Warsaw
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yesterday with a new warning to the NATO alliance to
forsake plans for stationing new U.S.-built missiles in
Western Europe.
In a communique, the Soviet Bloc foreign ministers
condemned NATO's "dangerous plans" to station 572
Pershing II and Cruise missiles in Western Europe and
urged the West to "consider once again" the weapons'
effect on the military balance.
They also repeated their call, issued last spring in
Budapest, Hungary, for convening of another disarmament
conference bringing together nations of
Europe, Canada and the United States.
Shift in tactics
SAN JUAN ? The ambush ot a u.b. Navy dus in
which two sailors were killed and 10 men and women
wounded signalled a dangerous shift in tactics by the
Puerto Rico independence movement.
"The extreme-left groups are feeling suffocated and
time is running against them," one source in the
federal government reported. "If Puerto Rico becomes
a state, then it will be too late for them to do anything,"
he said.
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been mostly a matter of haphazard bombing of U.S.
government buildings or property of mainland companies,
usually at night when the buildings were empty.
Of some 50 bombs planted in the past year, nearly
half were dismantled unexploded, and those that went
off did minimal damage. But after the ambush Monday,
the three underground independence groups that
claimed responsiDiiuy warned inai uiey were nui
playing at war" and were prepared to carry their
struggle to its' 'ultimate consequences.''
Trains collide
BARCELONA ? Two passenger trains, one of them
carrying schoolchildren to a country outing, collided
head-on yesterday about 20 miles northeast of Barcelona,
killing at least seven persons and injuring more
than 75, railway officials said.
They said many of the injured were in critical condition
and they feared the toll might go higher as
rescue workers struggled to cut through the twisted
wreckage in search of passengers still trapped inside
the battered coaches.
Some cars from the commuter tram had shot off the
tracks and slammed into the walls of a nearby plant,
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word on the cause of the crash.
Democracy Wall to go
PEKING ? The Peking city government has announced
that it is abolishing Democracy Wall, effectively
ending 12 months of nearly uninhibited free
speech in the capital and presumably elsewhere in
China.
In place of Democracy Wall, the government will
allow carefully screened posters to be hung in Moon
Altar Park, a mile to the west. There, a registration
center will be set up for those wishing to put up posters.
Their names, pseudonyms, addresses and units to
which they belong will be recorded.
The Peking Municipal Revolutionary Committee
said the content of the posters will not be examined at
me parn, dui * writers 01 pig-cnaracter posters will be
held responsible for the political and legal implications
of the content."
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concert stampede suffocated under the crush of other
bodies, an autopsy report concludes.
The report came Wednesday as President Carter's
son, Chip, passed along his father's sympathies in the
tragedy and as city officials began to assess what had
happened and try to take steps to prevent future accidents.
Meanwhile, officials in Portland, Maine, turned
down an offer by the rock group The Who to play there
following the cancellation of the group's planned
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In Chicago, promoters of the British group's concert
there Saturday said tight security and reserved seating
should prevent a recurrence of the accident here
Monday.
Minority death rates higher
Washington ? tsiacKs ana otner minorities are
more likely to die young, less likely to have a regular
source of medical care and less likely to get dental care
than whites, an assessment of Americans' health said
yesterday.
The report from the federal Public Health Service
shows progress was made in the 1970s in the state of
Amprirans' hpalth as wpII as in apppss to hpalth rarp
However, problems remain, including spiraling costs
and persistent differences in health status among
racial, ethnic and economic groups.
The report said death rates are much higher for
blacks and Indians than for whites. Between ages 25
and 44 the death rate of blacks is nearly 2xk times that
for whites.
Among the positive achievements cited by the study
nr'jc a 19 narnont rcuHimfinn in tho hirth rata nf toon.
agers, aged 15 to 17, during the 1970s.
Men taken, questioned
HARTSELLE, Ala. ? Secret Service agents escorted.
two men from the audience after they shouted
questions at Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., during a
speech yesterday.y
Neither man was identified immediately. The crowd
of several hundred at a civic center auditorium an
plauded as they were taken out.
One, a black man, asked Kennedy why there was no
Senate investigation of possible FBI involvement in the
shooting of the head of the Communist Workers Party
in North Carolina.
The other shouted, "What's your position on Iran?
Send the Shah back to Iran?" The men were taken to a
room for questions.
Kennedy was in Hartselle to speak during
ceremonies honoring retired Sen. John Sparkman, DAla.,
a native of the north-central Alabama town.
Sparkman retired last year after 40 years in Congress.
Cat returned to fnmilv
MELBOURNE, Fla. ? A wide-eyed Siamese cat that
spent 32 days and 225,000 miles in the hold of a Pan
American World Airways jetliner has been reunited
with hpr nwnprs
"We'd given up all hope on her," Air Force Sgt. Guy
Jones said as his wife Ginger hugged the thin 2Mryearold
cat, Sherry, at an emotional reunion Monday night
at Orlando International Airport.
The cat, which had been shipped from Guam, could
not be found when the Boeine 747 arrived in San
FYancisco. But 32 days later, flight personnel at [j
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Murder trial near closing
GEORGETOWN ? The prosecution neared the end
of its presentation yesterday in the trial of two men
charged with consnirine to kill MvrMp Rparh
businessman Roy Lowry.
John Hoffman, 45, is charged with hiring Johnny
Eugene Hamilton, 31, to kill Lowry in an ambush May
11. The trial was moved to Georgetown from Conway
after an earlier trial ended in a mistrial.
During testimony Wednesday a man who has confessed
to being a middle man in the murder-for-hire
scheme said Hoffman thanked him for getting someone
to kill Lowry. George Moose said the statement was
made shortly after Lowry was gunned down.
Moose, 42, of Mount Holly, N.C., told the court his
brother-in-law, Hoffman, gave him $5,000 as payment
for the murder of Lowry late the afternoon of May 11.
Moose said he received the money shortly before
Hoffman and his wife went to Lowry's home to express
their sympathy to Lowry's widow and two children.
Moose told the court Hoffman told him in November
of 1978 that Lowry had "taken advantage of his wife"
and asked if there were "anv wav to get rid of him."
Hoffman then told Moose, "This son of a bitch has
already messed up my family, and I don't want him to
be able to do it to anyone else," Moose added.
Moose said he contacted a friend, Bill Bryant of
Casar, N.C., to try to arrange the murder after Hoffman
showed him where Lowry lived and worked.
Moose said Hoffman also gave him a picture of Lowry.
Moose said he then met with Bryant in Myrtle Beach.
But he said Bryant later said he could not find anyone
to "do the job" of killing Lowry, and returned the
$b,UUU.
Moose also testified Bryant called him a few months
later, saying he had found "someone to do the job."
Two die in fire
^ COLUMBIA ? A man saved a family from death in
an apartment fire before he was killed, apparently
trying to rescue an elderly woman who also died, ac
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Assistant Richland County Cornoer Richard Stone
said the bodies of Fred Batson, 53, and Effie Freeman,
92, were found side by side in the woman's bedroom in
a one-story frame house.
Batson, who lived in one of the house's three apartments,
apparently was awakened by the fire around
midnight, Stone said. Batson knocked on the wall
dividing his apartment from the Miles Fleming family,
aierung tnem.
Stone said the slightly built Batson went to
Freeman's room and apparently tried to carry her
from the house but was overcome by smoke.
The assistant coroner said Batson was pronounced
dead at the scene and Freeman was dead on arrival at
Richland Memorial Hospital. The preliminary cause of
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Throat cultures taken
NORTH ? Throat cultures have shown that some
members of the staff and faculty of North Elementary
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meningitis, state health officials have confirmed, but
they added there is no cause for alarm.
Dr. Jeffrey Sacks, an epimiologist with the Department
of Health and Environmental Control, said
Wednesday meningococcus has been tentatively
identified in six of 45 cultures taken at the school last
weeK. Me aaaea tnere is no evidence of an epidemic in
the Orangeburg County Community.
The cultures were taken following the Nov. 17 death
of a 7-year-old student from spinal meningitis. There
have been four cases of spinal meningitis in the North
area this year. Two resulted in deaths.
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