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WORLD Cx A / A-x s~\ I <- io Un -. ^1 ^ ^ ^^11 ^ owcui^i i Uiiuye L.uiiupbt?b STOCKHOLM. Sweden ? Six cars and a truck plunged more than 10<) feet into the water early Saturday after a Norwegian-owned freighter traveling in fog slammed into a bridge off the west coast of Sweden and the mid-section of the bridge collapsed, authorities said. Frogmen were searching for survivors. Trucker Jan Rosenberg, who drove onto the Almo bridge, told reporters he suddenly realized it ended in u;~ iu: " U UIg IIUllllll^. "I hit the brake and stopped 10 meters (33 feet) from the edge," he said. "I just sat there for a minute, staring. I went outside and saw two headlights coming up on the opposite side. Suddenly, they dove and disappeared." Police said they did not know how many people were traveling in the.cars and truck believed missing in the strait connecting Tjorn Island with the mainland, 30 miles north of Goteborg. Afghanis oust newsmen KABUL, Afghanistan ? The Soviet-backed Afghan government has ordered all American journalists out of the country, accusing them of biased reporting and "interference in the country's internal affairs," a U.S. Embassy official told the journalists Friday. Authorities detained the Americans at Kabul's Intercontinental Hotel, where most were staying, and \ told them they would be expelled Friday. About 50 or GO of the approximately 200 Western correspondents, photographers and broadcast crew members now in Afghanistan are American. Most arrived early this month after the Soviet Union poured tens of thousands of its troops into this central Asian country, where they helped overthrow one Marxist government and replace it with another and have been helping the Afghan army put down an anticommunist rebellion in the countryside The Afghan order came three days after Ayatollah Huhollah Khomeini's regime in neighboring Iran ordered all American journalists out of that countrv. Japan to support U.S. TOKYO ? The Japanese government has pledged to "do its utmost" to support U.S. opposition to Soviet intervention in Afghanistan and the holding of j American hostages in Iran, U.S. envoy Philip Habib reported Friday. But both Japanese and American officials refused to spell out just what the Japanese would do. Japan, fearful of losing critical supplies of Iranian oil 11 A* - * ' ' anu lucrauve traae deals with the Soviet Union, has been reluctant to join the United States in sanctions against Iran and the Soviet Union. President Carter sent Habib, a former undersecretary of state, to Tokyo to press for support, and some U.S. informants said the Japanese response was encouraging. "It was more positive than we really expected," one well-placed U.S. official said. Neither side would say what, if any, actual agreements had been reached, and Habib said he made no Hnmanrlc fi/^i If *-"? ' "I?uvuiuuud. uumaia oaiu llic IWU ^UVt'I'Ilments agrees to "continue consultations." I The Crisis Continues - ? ) . "i;' These December demonstrators at the State House are no longer a familiar site although the hostage situation remains unchanged. 7 - ' NATION Former justice dies WASHINGTON ? William 0. Douglas, the former Supreme Court justice who championed the right to dissent and exercised it often himself during 36 years on the bench, died Saturday. He was 81. Douglas retired from the court on Nov. 12, 1975, after serving longer than any other justice in history. A lifelong outdoorsman and hiker, he had been confined to a wheelchair by a stroke which he suffered the preceding Dec. 31. He said "incessant and demanding pain" made it impossible for him to continue on the bench. He was hospitalized for more than a month after falling at his home in 1976 and re-entered the hospital | on Christmas Eve with pneumonia which led to what doctors called "progressive lung, renal and kidney failure." Douglas was appointed to the court by President Franklin D. Roosevelt and was sworn in on April 17, 1939, at the age of 40. /\ff ii- -i?t - uii me Dencn, ne was a controversial figure. His admirers pushed him for the presidency. His detractors tried to impeach him. He was married four times. On the bench, he was the court's all-time champion dissenter and a stout foe of any kind of censorship, whether of opinions or of alleged obscenity. Consumers still spend WASHINGTON ? By spending a greater share of their income than at any time in 30 years, U.S. shopDCI*S turned thf1 nn f?nr?rw\rr?iufc f ? 4U-? , u.i WUIIUIIIIOIO VVIIU lUlt'Ldai lllcll 1979 would be marked by a recession and declining living standards. "It's a nice, simple story," says economist Arthur Okun. "All you have to do is explain the consumer and you explain everything else." Okun agrees with other government and private | economists who have said that strong consumer spending kept the economy out of a recession last year, in defiance of most government and private forecasts, including his own. Paul A. Volcker, chairman of the independent Federal Reserve Board, said in October that people faced a reduction in their standard of living as the price for controlling inflation. But that hasn't happened yet, either. The failure of the economy to slow as expected has ' led some economists tn ink*? thnf "tho J ..>u> ill V- UVIII IllllOll U I 1WI I i can t even start a recession when it wants one." Roller coaster record HAINES CITY, Fla. ? Richie Rodriguez has ffnished his ride aboard Circus World's Hurricane roller coaster. It took him more than a week, but he hopes it will carry him to a world record. Rodriguez, twice listed in the Guinness Book of World Records for his roller coaster marathons, stayed on the ride for 173 hours, breaking his own year-old iwuiu uy iwu nuuis. iiic ^z-year-oia tsroOKiyn, IVY., resident Friday completed 3,958 circuits around the three-quarter-mile track. "I had to ride through days and days of rain. I put a tarp over my head and wore goggles," Rodriguez said. ; "I was able to sleep on the coaster. I had to use ' pillows and blankets to keep my ribs from smashing into the divider," he said. He got a series of headaches "caused by the vibrations" and sipped warm soup and tea. .... T _ . y J - g? rail zZ "-.z * '?*_ ~* * gaSglg I i | ffiSS | @g "7-C^ USUI 6|?1 BBfc-t STRTE English family for rent CHARLESTON ? It seems you can rent just about anything through the classified ads these days, including an entire family. The W.T. Gear Family of Southend-On-Sea, Essex, England has sent an ad to the Charleston Post-Courier i???1 f * vsiiei ui? iiicnidcivts iui rem. The family's ad reads something like this: "English family, young, 42 and 40 years, boy 18 years, girl 16 years. Offer in exchange for new opportunity in your country, loyalty and hard work. Anything considered. Full details and photos if required. Mr. and Mrs. W.T. Gear, 82 Lonsdale Road, Southend-On-Sea, Essex, England." The family also sent a letter admitting the ad is "rather unusual" and requesting the cost of running the ad. Van Wilkerson, manager of the newspapers' Classified Advertising Department, said the information the family requested has been forwarded. The ad "probably will be run" if the family is wi'ling A C 14 I * J iu pity iui u, ne saiu. Auto mall first in nation CHARLESTON ? A Hilton Head developer who hopes to do "for the auto business what McDonald's did for hamburgers" has announced plans to build a $2 million automotive shopping mall in Charleston's inner city. .John Langhorne Jr., president of Trouble-Shooters Inc., said the shopping center will be the first of its kind in the nation. Twenty-two individually owned businesses will provide goods and services ranging from tires to air conditioner repairs, diagnostic testing and car cleaning, he said Friday. Construction of the project ? the biggest undertaking since the inner city revitalization plan was drawn up in 1977 ? will begin around September and will take from six to nine months, Langhorne said. It will be located at the intersection of Interstate 26 and U.S. 17 on a 1.6-acre tract that "nobody else could figure out what to do with," Langhorne said. An association of merchants will be formed that will have the authority to oust any business that proves to be disreputable, he said. - Card thieves beware COLUMBIA ? The credit card ? a simple, convenient way to spend money ? has also become a simple, convenient way to steal money. The schemes are many and some are not so simple. But bankers, the principal victims, say a thief who knows what he's doing can make thousands of dollars off someone else's credit card long before the bank or cardholder knows what's happened. Catrhina tho thiof ic ? "? -- ' " ....0 v.av tmvi to uui ci11 easy niaiiur, since me key to a successful credit card scheme is to stay on the move. But if the crook is caught and convicted, under South Carolina law, he is guilty of only a misdemeanor and faces a maximum penalty of one year in prison and a $500 fine The banking community and some legislators don't think that's enough. 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