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Guerillas in embassy
BOGOTA, Colombia ? Leftist guerrillas holding the
U.S. ambassador to Colombia and some 60 other
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today they would release all women and two wounded
hostages.
Earlier, a Colombian Cabinet minister said the
guerrilla band lifted Thursday's 10 p.m. EST deadline
it had set for the government to meet its demands ?
$50 million, the release of more than 300 political
prisoners and publication of an anti-government
manifesto in major foreign newspapers.
i ne guerrillas nave mreatenea to Kin tneir nostages,
who include U.S. Ambassador Diego Asencio, the papal
nuncio to Colombia and at least 15 other ambassadors
or acting ambassadors, and several Colombian
diplomats.
Iranian hostages will stay
TKHKAN, Iran ? The American hostages in Tehran,
now in their 118th day of captivity, are threatened with
at least 10 more weeks of confinement in the hands of
Iranian militants.
Ayatollah Mohammed Behesti, first secretary of the
ruling Revolutionary Council, told reporters Wednesday
it would take at least that long for the new
Iranian Parliament, which Ayatollah Ruhollah
Khomeini said would decide the fate of the hostages, to
get organized and come to a decision.
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The 270-member Majlis, or Parliament, is to be
elected in balloting March 14 and April 3. Behesti indicated
that the approximately 50 Americans would be
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Americans in plane crash
MANILA, Philippines ? A Taiwanese 707 jetliner
carrying 135 persons, including five Americans, exploded
in flames Wednesday after an engine fell off on
landing at Manila's international airport, and the
airline said about 25 persons were feared dead.
A message from China Air Line's main Philippine
office, in downtown Manila, to the airline's
headquarters in Taipei said 80 passengers escaped
unhurt, 30 were hospitalized with injuries, and the rest
were presumed dead.
Witnesses said the four-engine 707 landed nose down,
bounced at least twice, then skidded hundreds of yards
before it stopped in front of the airport terminal and
caueht fire The exnlosion follnwori I
Five Americans and 16 Japanese were among the 124
passengers, China Air Lines said. It was not known if
any of the Americans were among the casualties, and a
passenger list was not yet available. Most of those
aboard were Taiwanese.
Iran eases media ban
TEHRAN, Iran ? The Iranian government says it is
easing its six-week-old ban on American journalists,
and those who can convince the Iranian E^mbassy in
Washington that they are impartial can return to Iran.
The ruling Revolutionary Council's spokesman,
Hassan Habibi, announced Tuesday night that Iran
welcomes all foreign journalists who satisfy the
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Meanwhile, the U.N. investigating commission in
Tehran heard testimony for nearly six hours Tuesday
from about 140 mutilated Iranians who accused Shah
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi's secret police of torturing
them.
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WASHINGTON ? President Carter's draft
registration plan is off to a rocky start in Congress and
could be in serious trouble after a House committee
refused to approve money needed for the program.
In the first congressional vote on the issue, a House
Appropriations subcommittee deadlocked 6-6 Wednesday
on whether to approve money for registration
of young men, beginning this summer. The tie vote
blocks the funds, at least temporarily.
Instead, the panel approved only enough money to
set up a standby system in which registration would
not start until the president ordered military
mobilization in an emergency.
Such a plan was proposed by Selective Service officials
last month but was rejected by Carter in favor of
actual registration of men and women ages 19 and 20.
Gas plentiful in summer
WASHINGTON ?The Energy Department predicts
there will be plenty of gasoline this summer. But it
says American motorists, driving more fuel-efficient
cars and faced with prices over $1.50 a gallon by year's
end, will cut their consumption tor the tirst time in
seven years.
The quarterly report due out next week also reported
home heating oil usage is down, partly because of
rising prices and partly because of a relatively mild
winter.
And the report predicts overall petroleum consumption
in 1980 will be 17.6 million barrels a day,
aown trom ia.j million oarrels last year. That would
represent the first annual drop in U.S. oil consumption
since the Arab oil embargo of 1973-74.
Boxerfiles damage suit
DALLAS ? An attorney for boxer Ed "Too Tall"
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against a Dallas nurse who last month accused Jones
of raping her.
Jones, a former football player with the Dallas
Cowboys, was jailed Jan. 31 after the woman told
police he sexually assaulted her while she slept. She
said she and her roommate met the 6-foot-9 defensive
erid-turned-boxer at a nightclub the previous night.
He was released four hours later.
Former charges never were filed against Jones and
the woman signed a letter of non-prosecution ? in
effect, dropping the complaing ? on Feb. 1.
Dallas attorney Fred Time said Wednesday the suit
"will hp nn Hpfamatinn nf r-hararfpr rrmlipinns:
prosecution and false imprisonment."
Time described it as a "multimillion dollar
lawsuit," but gave no specific amount.
Expert wants tornado drill
WASHINGTON ? Hundreds of Americans will die in
tornadoes in the next decade,many of them needlessly,
predicts a government weather expert who is working
to reduce that toll.
"The challenge in the '80s will be to improve tornado
preparedness as well as detection and warning
I systems to minimize the loss of life," said Fred Ostby
of the National Severe Storms Forecast Center in
Kansas, City.
Ostby is organizing a multistate tornado drill for
March 6 to evaluate how well-prepared people are for
these sudden, violent storms.
The exact time of the drill isn't being announced,
according to officials at the National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration. It will affect Arkansas,
Tennessee, Mississippi, Louisiana, Alabama, Georgia,
North Carolina and South Carolina.
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COLUMBIA ? Sen. Thomas E. Smith Jr. says his bill
to allow adopted adults to find their biological parents
is "a modest change" from the present situation.
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allow adopted persons 18 and over to find out thfc names
of their natural parents, and vice-versa, from state
adoption agencies. The only catch was that both
parties had to consent.
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demanded by opponents of the original measure.
But Smith said he was not "disappointed" at the
compromise. He said the bill, if passed by the House,
would solve many problems that adoptees run into
when they try to delve into their pasts.
An amendment was aDDroved bv voice vote Wed
nesday setting the minimum age for adoptees affected
by the bill at 21. The compromise also required the
approval of adoptive parents, and it gave adoption
agencies 30 days in which to ask a court to block the
release 01 any lniormauon.
Indictment too vague
ST. GEORGE ? A circuit judge tossed out Tuesday
an indictment of three men accused of criminal conspiracy
in the misuse of Dorchester County equipment
and personnel.
The indictment by the county grand jury last October
was quashed by Circuit Judge William T. Howell, who
said it was too vague to cover the six-year period
during which the alleged conspiracy took place.
Named as defendants were former Dorchester
County Council Chairman Wilbur Sweat, his brother,
lormer county roaa foreman mcnara sweat, and Dr.
Granville S. Way, a Summerville physician and
developer.
Bank gets fraud case
j COLUMBIA ? A Beaufort woman may represent
investors in a case against American Bank & Trust if
she meets stipulations set by Circuit Judge Walter
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When the bank was declared insolvent Sept. 20, 1974,
I bank depositers were paid by the Federal Deposit
Insurance Corporation. But Sadie G. Schein and other
persons holding bank notes lost their investments.
Ms. Schein had invested $10,000 in a capital note.
She is suing the board of directors for fraud and is
askine that she be allowed to reDresent other caDital
note holders.
Bristow said Ms. Schein may represent the other
j note holders if she can show that the same representation
was made to each class member and that the
representation and reasonableness of the reliance
were false.
Forest fires rampant
COLUMBIA ? There were more forest fires and
more woodland acreage was burned Monday and
Tuesday of this week than during the entire month of
January, state forestry officials said.
Forester Leonard A. Kilian, Jr.,of the state Forestry
Commission reported Wednesday that during the two
days 393 wildfires were reported. The fires burned
1,284 acres of woodland around South Carolina.
j During January there were only 97 wildfires which
burned 215 acres, Kilian said.
Kilian added that, with dry conditions expected to
continue for the next several days, residents should use
every precaution to keep their outdoor fires secure.
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