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'Sensitive mission' for Ali
NEW DELHI, India ? Muhammad AH, lormer world
heavyweight boxing champion, canceled his tour of
India yesterday and said President Carter had asked
him to undertake a "sensitive mission" to the Middle
East and Africa.
A U.S. Embassy source here said Ali's trip was
aimed at persuading five countries in the area to pull
out of the Moscow Olympics. The source, who asked
not to be identified, said Ali will be "provided transport"
by the U.S. government to go to Africa from
India, but did not elaborate. 1
"Ali has supported Carter's call to boycott the
Olympics unless Soviet military forces leave ;
Afghanistan by Feb. 20.
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the Olympics to let the Russians know the world is not
happy with what they did. ... When do we draw the
line?" Ali asked at the New Delhi airport last week at
the beginning of a scheduled 12-day tour of India.
"I cannot talk about it until I see the president. It
would not be fair or proper," the 38-year-old Ali said
then. "But I am going to five Middle East countries."
Thatcher supports Carter
LONDON ? Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher has
become Europe's strongest supporter of President
Carter's policy on Iran and Afghanistan.
Mrs. Thatcher's Conservative government has been
the first in Europe to show support for almost every
measure adopted by the Carter administration in its
confrontation with the Kremlin over Afghanistan.
Some veteran Western diplomats see it as the closest
U.S.-British alliance since World War II.
"The United States is the final guarantor of ij
European security," she told the House of Commons
the other day. "They are giving clear leadership, and
we should back them.
Sphinx restoration halted
CAIRO, Egypt ? Officials ordered a halt to
restoration work on the 4,000-year-old Great Sphinx i
after, repair crews mistakenly started replacing ancient
stones in the left paw with new ones.
Last month, workmen began constructing a new
stone corset to halt erosion of the giant figure made of
natural rock. Experts feared erosion by wind, sandstorms
and salt might weaken the Sphinx's neck and
cause the head to fall off.
Some archeologists questioned the value of the
$40,000 project, saying it would do nothing about the
real problem, erosion from within. The director of the
antiquities department, Shehatta Adam, said work
would be held up while a more extensive restoration
project is studied.
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Aaron snubs ceremony
CINCINNATI ? Henry Aaron won't dispute that he
fully intended to snub baseball commissioner Bowie
Kuhn by refusing to attend an award ceremony
Monday.
But he insists he didn't intend to demean Pete Hose
or Rose's selection as Baseball Magazine's Player of
the Decade.
Aaron said he was still miffed that Kuhn did not
attend the baseball game in Atlanta in 1974 wheVi Aaron
broke Babe Ruth's home run record, and that was why
he snubbed the award ceremony in New York where
his record-breaking 715th homer was to be cited as the
greatest moment of the decade in baseball.
"I want Kuhn to admit he made a mistake when he
was not in Atlanta Stadium the night of the historic No.
715."
Stickers exagerate mileage
WASHINGTON ? An Energy Department adviser
says the mileage stickers on new car windows overstate
gas mileage by as much as 30 percent ? and the
situation is getting worse.
Because of the carefully controlled circumstances
under which new cars are tested, a car rated at 27.5miles-per-gallon
might actually only get 19.5 mpg on
the road, a House subcommittee was told Tuesday.
The committee, which is looking into consumer
complaints about advertised mileage, was told the
figures are determined by tests conducted byprofessional
drivers under carefully controlled climate
conditions and using special equipment.
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protected if they remember the estimated mileage
figures are for comparison between different cars and
are not a prediction of what mileage actually will be
obtained.
Obscenity in catalog
CHICAGO.? Montgomery Ward officials are embarrased
and apologetic over the four-letter obscenity
that showed up on a bedroom wall pictured on page 122
of the nearly eight million copies of its latest sales
catalog.
They believe the offending word ? the most common
Anglo-Saxon term for sexual intercourse ? was
! sneaked into the catalog just before printing.
"There is a word in the background, but it's very,
very hard to see," spokesman Ken Darre said Wednesday.
"It slipped by the proofreaders and everyone
else because unless you're specifically looking for it,
it's too vague to make out."
The full-color, full-page advertisement for bedspreads
says, "Create a dramatic bedroom setting."
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Protestors act in defense
BARNWELL ? Attorneys for 30 anti-nuclear
protestors say the defendants thought they were acting
in self-defense when they demonstrated at the federal
Savannah River Plant last October.
The defendants were protesting for moral reasons,
not because they just wanted to cause trouble, an attorney
told the court.
"There are two very basic things involved," said
Lewis Pitts of Allendale, representing the SUP
defendants.
"First, is the fundamental right of free speech,
which is far older than the trespassing law," Pitts
declared.
"Second, there is the defense of necessity," Pitts
said. "We are talking about a grievance against
government and that's what these people were doing."
Confederate flag fight
COLUMBIA ? Black members of the South Carolina
House say they have not given up their fight to include
in the state budget bill a provision calling for the
removal of the Confederate flag from the House
chambers.
Their efforts were thwarted Wednesday by a ruling
by House Speaker Pro Tem Ramon Schwartz. But Rep.
Robert Woods, D-Charleston, said another attempt
would be made.
Schwartz ruled that two amendments offered by
Rep. Kay Patterson, D-Charleston, and other members
of the Legislative Black Caucus, could not be properly
included in the budget bill.
He said the "main thrust" of the amendments did not
deal with appropriations, as required under House
rules, but with "a principle that should be dealt with in
separate legislation.
The amendments called for funds to be appropriated
for the removal of the flag from the House chamber
and its placement in the Confederate Relic Room.
Jury acquits students
. . LANCASTER ? A jury has acquitted three youths t
who disobeyed a highway patrolman's order for
assistance when an unruly driver resisted the officer.
Theodore Dutton Jr., 19; Barry Catoe, 19, and
William Fortune III, 24, were ordered by Patrolman
Larry Harrison on Dec. 7 to help him with the burly
man.
The young men left after the driver threatened to kill
one of them. Harrison took out warrants charging them
with violation of a litte-used law requiring citizens to
help law enforcement officials if called on.
Catoe and Dlltton aro stllrionts at th?> I !r?ivnrcit\/ r?f
South Carolina-Lancaster, and Fortune is a former
student. The incident occurred on a street next to the
campus.
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