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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
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"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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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. Last week, a bill was introduced in
the South Carolina House making credit card fraud a
, felony and setting a maximum penalty of three years
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