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WORLD Canada deports Soviets OTTAWA ? The Canadian Government has ordered the Soviet Embassy's military attache, his deputy and a chauffeur out of the country for spying on the United States. Foreign Secretary Flora McDonald said Monday the Soviets met secretly with an American in the Ottawa area for 16 months and paid him more than $100,000 for information. She said the American was not in the U.S. government or military service but was "in the kind of establishment that would have been used by government." She said the Royal Canadian Mounted Police completed its investigation last week in cooperation with the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation, and that the FBI had been helped by the Russians' American informant. The American was not identified, nor was it clear whether he had acted as a double agent from the beginning of his contacts with the Russians or changed sides when the espionage was discovered. Soviet Embassy spokesman Victor Mikheev denied the three Russians were spies and charged that their expulsion was in retaliation for the Soviet intervention in Afghanistan. Miss McDonald said there was no connection. Soviet dissident arrested MOSCOW ? The Soviet government today stripped dissident leader and Novel Peace Prize winner Andrei Sakharov of a series of state awards. Dissidents said Sakharov had been arrested. The Tass news agency said Sakharov had been deprived of the awards and titles because of years of "subversive work against the Soviet state." Shortly before the Tass announcement, an anonymous caller telephoned the Associated Press to say Sakharov had been arrested. The caller said Sakharov's wife, activist Yelena Bonner, soon would be taken into custody as well. The reported arrest of Sakharov, a physicist once known as the father of the Soviet H-bomb, could not be independently confirmed, but shortly after the first call a second caller identifying herself as Irina Kaplun said Sakharov was arrested on a Moscow street. Reporters said many plainclothes policemen were milling about in the street near the Sakharov building on the southeast edge of downtown Moscow. Death toll at 222 SINCELEJO, Colombia ? The death toll rose to 222 in the collapse of wooden bleachers at the Sincelejo bull-running festival. Nearly 200 other persons remained in serious condition, state police reported. Thp miir?ir?ir?s?l iJn\;prnm<int anrtnintoH an in- s a iiv ttiuuiviD u^pv/iiitv'u uii in vestigating team of engineers and architects to determine the cause of Sunday's tragedy, but a festival official blamed the collapse of five sections of the bleachers on overcrowding and rain. Hector Tamara, president of the annual festival, said more than 400 persons were in each of the sections that were supposed to accommodate no more than 333. He said rains softened the ground and the "wooden supports slipped." r~ ?j I Hey guys, who pulled the plug? Seals at Columbia's Ri I banks Zoo wait for the poc refill after cleaning. Dfr" NATION Carter beats Kennedy / DES MOINES, Iowa ? President Carter took command in Iowa Monday night, surging past Sen. Edward M. Kennedy in the first contest of their battle for the Democratic presidential nomination. In Republican competition, former United Nations Ambassador George Bush and Ronald Reagan, the pollsters' favorite, were virtually tied and leading the GOP field. That made it a two-man race, which was just what Bush wanted. He was bidding for an upset, but said that a near miss against Reagan would be enough to mark him the nrime challeneer to the former California governor in contests to come. The first presidential votes of 1980 were recorded at neighborhood political meetings in 2,531 Iowa precincts, in schoolhouses and city halls, churches and living rooms. The caucus turnout dwarfed those of the last campaign. Parade permit refused GREENSBORO, N.C. ? The Feb. 2 Mobilization uommmee nas Deen reiused again in its attempt to obtain a parade permit for a civil rights march in Greensboro. Meanwhile, on the heels of City Manager Tom Osborne's denial of a parade permit to the group, the Rev. Ben Chavis endorsed the demonstration in a Washington news conference. Osborne rejected the group's second application for a parade permit because the Greensboro Coliseum has been rented for a rhythm and blues concert on the same night. The permit application requested that the group be given permission for a march from the Memorial Stadium on Yanceyville Street to the Greensboro Coliseum on Lee Street between 11a.m. and 3:30 p.m. Bizarre bomb threat DENVER ? It was skyhigh drama. An extortionist warned a bomb aboard a DC-8 heading for Hawaii would go off if the plane dipped below 5,000 feet. The jet landed at one of the nation's highest airports with 1,172 feet to spare ? and no bomb. After the bizarre episode ended, passengers who expected to spend Monday night in Honolulu found themselves running across a showy runway at Colorado Springs Municipal Airport. The FBI said there were no suspects in custody, but special agent Jack Egnor said that there were "promising possibilities." Freshmen want money WASHINGTON ? A national survey of more than a quarter-million students indicates this year's college freshmen are more materialistic than any other recent entering class. The 14th annual poll conducted by UCLA and the American Council on Education also found a record number of students headed for business careers. The survey showed 63 percent rated "being very well off finanniallu" ac a nrimomi irnol T act naat< CA ruMtnnnl 1?^ felt that way and in 1967, only 44 percent cited financial j well-being as a main objective. V9r" >lto ~iMBf !fllis?i3^flflfiBSSsdl'^=^^ss6SSS^^^S^Si^^^K^ - - - svt;:-_/-: ;';/>r^:;/-,;:.'^. |f|gj *': .. '< -* - ''> ^''Vf V''v ^: ;':^y HMp|Mi|5|SB^E?35i5lisni?pB3ii|Tl?lSM - - ~ STHTE Student fatally stabbed CHARLESTON ? An 18-year-old basketball player at C.A. Brown High School in Charleston died of a stab wound to the chest on Monday, authorities said. The victim was identified as Tracy Warren Gordon. r? a r i * ? ... ururuuu was iouna lying lace down in the school yard about 11:15 a.m. He died at 12:44 p.m. at Charleston County Hospital, according to Charleston County Coroner Hay Shokes. Charleston City Police Detective Louie Richardson said a 15-year-old student at the school has been chareed with murri#?r The youth was arrested about 1:15 p.m. after his grandmother told police that he had returned home. Richardson said the incident occurred as the result of a scuffle between the two. He added the suspect will be placed in the Juvenile Detention Home for further action by juvenile court. Spill causes evacuation MARION ?Residents of a five-block area were evacuated Monday afternoon when a 16,000-gallon tank ruptured, spilling high octane gasoline into a street. Firemen laid down a thick carpet of foam to prevent an explosion. Most of the gasoline was pumped out of the Gulf Oil Co. tank before it leaked into streets and sewers. The tank is located about 20 feet from the street at a distributing site. Units from five fire departments in the area responded to the alarm about 4 p.m. A spokeswoman for thp Mariftn Polirp Hpnartmpnt saiH cifnoUnn was considered under control early in the evening. Electric power in the area was cut off. Those evacuated were allowed to return to their homes about midnight. Children shot to death SANTEE ? Two children were shotgunned to death and two others wounded Monday while playing in a wooded area. Officials said a fifth juvenile was taken in custody and will be charged with the shootings. The four children were shot late Monday afternoon in a lightly wooded area behind a truck stop near the intersection of U.S. 301 and U.S. 15. Orangeburg County Sheriff Vance L. Boone said Vernetta Summers, 8, was fatally wounded by a shotgun blast in the side and Kevin Gadsen, 10, died from a wound in the head. The sheriff said Ronald Shingler, 4, was admitted to the Orangeburg Regional Hospital with gunshot wounds of the chest and arms. He was reported in stable condition Monday night. Another child, Tanya Carver, 6, was released after treatment for a gunshot u/nunri in fhp fhioh All fmii*#??? *> Boone said a juvenile was taken in custody after the shooting and will be charged with the two slayings and the wounding of the other two. > iT ^ It was not immediately determined what prompted the shootings, the sheriff said, and an investigation is continuing. The bodies will be sent to the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston for an autopsy. \- _ - , ,,,?;,; i ^ ~_ * :M^fe5?f&g:-l v*_-: -.3-^ "7**u~ <?~ _ rflpy||^H! , ?-S* 1