Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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WORLD McCartney in seclusion LONbON ? The former Beatle Paul McCartney flew into seclusion with his family Saturday after spending todays in a Japanese jail for possession of marijuana. "They/re going either to Paul's home in Scotland or his h&me'ti?Sussex ? I don't know myself yet which," said the British musician's London spokesman, Phil Symes, as a chartered jet carried the McCartneys from Amsterdam on the last leg of a flight from Tokyo. Reds will loose leaders PRAGUE, Czechoslovakia ? Communist Eastern Europe faces prospects that all of its leaders will be replaced in the new decade by politics, old age or death. There ate few signs of who the new leaders will be or what br&nd of communism they will practice. No leader in the Soviet bloc is younger than 61-yearold Nicolae Ceausescu of Romania, his country's Communist Party chief since 1965. The most elderly leader of all is Yugoslavia's Josif Broz Titb. who will be 88 this coming May. He has been trying to prepare his country for his demise ? without allowing any one figure to emerge as a likely successor. There seems little chance that Eastern Europe's next leaders, excent for nnv t/? Tifr? Hoxha, would be much younger than the men now in power. Arabs waste money HAS EL KI1AIMAII, United Arab Emirates ? The road winds 17 miles inland from the sea through a desolate landscape of reddish sand and stunted scrub. An occassional car goes by. Camels nibble at the odd bush.. '-.V Suddenly throughout the haze looms a white elephant ? the $18 million Has El Khaimah international airport, visited by 11 planes a week. It is perhaps the most absurd but not the only example of money spent to bolster the individual prestige of the rulers of the United Arab Emirates. The sheikhly follies throughout this oil country are not just airports, of which it has six for a population of about 890,000 people, but also extend to the unnecessary proliferation of hotels, radio stations, electric power plants, satellite-communications facilities, even oxygen-manufacturing plants. After the price of oil zoomed in 1973, the rulers let their imaginations run wild, and fund that western architects, planners and bankers to make their dreams come true. a 1 Anyone can be a genius CARACAS, Venezuela ? Luis Alberto Machado believes that every normal child is born with the pote|)|iMior becoming a genius and that any person ? no matter how old ? can expand his intelligence. "T don't believe in super-gifted children. Every human being, from the day he is born, is potentially a genius," he said. "We all have the same capacity for developing our intelligence." Machado should know. He's the world's nnlv minister for the development of intelligence. i 1 ~ fjANUAKYCWARANC 20% -o 40% OFF ( Suits, Sports Coats, Pants, ( Sport Shirts & Sweaters ! ucrtnrA^ ^s A A A iwf INRTION / k. a / /-\ . ^ No war' says State Dept. NORFOLK, Va. ? The United State and the Soviet Union are not on the brink of war despite the chilling of relations between the two nations and the hardening of American policy, State Department spokesman Tom Reston said Saturday. Reston, deputy assistant secretary of state for public j affairs, held a news conference here before a 100th birthday memorial dinner honoring Gen. Douglas MacArthur. : "I want to steer everyone away from talk of war. We are not going to war with the Soviets," Reston said. He said it is unfounded speculation that the U.S. might be gearing for a military confrontation with the Soviets in the wake of President Carter's call for draft registration in his State of the Union message Wednesday. The President's objective, Reston said, is to signal the Soviets that the United States is prepared to defend its interests in the Persian Gulf. Presley took 1 7 pills a day MEMPHIS, Tenn. ? During the final 20 months of Elvis Presley's life, his doctor wrote prescriptions authorizing an average of 17 pills a day for his most famous and most-difficult patient. It takes seven legal size pages to list the 196 medication orders that Dr. George G. Nichopoulos wrote for the late King of Rock 'n' Roll. There were more than 10,000 pills and hundreds of injections for such painkillers as Demerol, Leritine, Percodan and t l"*; I -J : ^1 ? K .v l. .. I .. ? : 1 ?: 1 uiKiuuiu, me liiiijjneictiniiius LKrxeumie anu Biphetamine and such barbituates as Amytal, Tuinal, ; Quaalude and Placidyl. There were tranquilizers such as Valium, and cocaine to swab his throuat and Lomotil for a chronic | bowel problem. Those are among the bare facts that led the Tennessee Board of Medical Examiners to suspend Nichopoulos' medical license Jan. 19. The suspension followed five days of testimony by the doctor's patients, medical colleagues, drug experts and Presley associates. They told a tale of drug abuse that shocked the board and saddened the singer's fans. Practices upset surgeon ; LINCOLN, Neb. ? A courtroom showdown between Nebraska surgeon Dr. Robert Koefoot and the American College of Surgeons over itinerant surgery promises to send shock waves through the practice of rural medicine in Nebraska as well as the rest of rural | America. Koefoot, also a member of the Nebraska Board of Regents, charges that the ACS, by limiting postoperative care to trained surgeons, is attempting to force all surgical patients into big-city hospitals with its ultimate goal the closing of rural community hospitals. The College says Koefoot and itinerant surgeons throughout the country are providing less-than-thebest care for their patients. Koefoot sayd the ACS is "engaged in a combination Iana conspiracy to tirst isolate and then eliminate the practice of rural medicine." It's an issue of economics, according to Koefoot, three rural community hospitals and four general practitioners who filed a U.S. District Court suit against the ACS last Sept. 28. ~| subscribe~~ n! ~~n~ C ca I ^ LJ Summei c a |to thejtj) name? x game-^trffl ! city 3 ! cock! y ig^jus6: y I CASH PAID f mjmm J Ring Days J jPK| j Trade You ' H H\ DQiTOurrcing (_| |\j0 | Company | 6 Cluster Court RE< 798 5134 (from $5C ~ ;. r_ ^ I -= -- -C', "?:* 1 1 : - ?~lr . STATE Head coach to be named COLUMBIA ? The University of South Carolina will name a successor to head basketball coach Frank McGuire either late next month or in early March, according to the university's athletic director Jim Carlen. Carlen says the school's three-member search committee is looking at "established, successful coaches." Carlen would not discuss the names being considered. "We're in a very peculiar situation in that the season is going on right now and we're not looking for an assistant coach. If you've got a head coach in mind... and if you publicly go after him and his season's going on, it's very difficult for his players and on him to finish the season," he said. Carlen said he would trim his list to three or four ! coaches and they would be interviewed by the committee. Members of the committee include South Carolina president James Holderman, vice president for athletic affairs Bill Putnam, and Carlen. McGuire will conclude his 16th and final year at South Carolina at the end of the current season. Media receives orders ORANGEBURG ? A family court judge in Orangeburg County Friday ordered four newspapers j and three broadcast stations to show why they should not be cited for contempt for identifying a juvenile | charged with two counts of murder. Family Court .Judge Alvin C. Biggs ordered the \ media outlets to appear before him Wednesday in Orangeburg to show cause why they should not be cited for identifying a juvenile who is under jurisdiction of the familv court. Meanwhile, a judge in Charleston Friday lifted his order restraining 11 radio and television stations from airing the name of a juvenile arrested in another slaying incident at a high school there. Charleston County Family Court Judge Richard E. Fields scheduled a hearing for Wednesday on the constitutionality of the state law which forbids publication of the names of minors under certain circumstances. j The state law is the same one cited in the Orangeburg County case. ! Lifelonq desire blocked V-/ HOCK HILL ? Jesse Odom, 22, whose lifelong desire to be a Rock Hill policeman was blocked last year by leukemia, has been rejected in a second bid to join the ' force ? this time because he's color blind. Treatment last summer with experimental medication sent Odom's leukemia into remission. With that hurdle overcome, Odom's color blindness became a factor in his fitness for duty. "He failed the color blindness test," Police Chief Clyde Long said. "Of course, the doctor mentioned the leukemia even though it's in remission. I "I'm extremely sorry since he had such a desire to be an officer," the chief said, "but I have no control over that." "It's hard to tell a man who's lived through death he can't be a policeman because he can't see right," Odom said. BAR - $13.00 lJ Fall Semester - 5.50 s Session - $2.00 Spring Semester - $5.50 j STREET ! 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