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Media gets hostage film
TEHRAN, Iran ? The Iranian government has
allowed the United States another peek at a few of the
50 Americans held hostage at the U.S. Embassy in
Tehran, making a government-produced film
available to U.S. media.
The film, which was broadcast late Wednesday in
Iran, showed several hostages, whose identities could
not be immediately determined, talking about their
lives in captivity ? now 160 days ? their wishes for
? their families and friends and an insight into one
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Also yesterday, the Los Angeles Times and The
Washington Post published stories saying the film's
narrator called two of the hostages "spies" and said
"they are going to reveal some shocking things."
Pope announces travels
VATICAN CITY ? Pope John Paul II is on his way to
becoming the most traveled pontiff in history, bringing
to milions his blend of personal magnetism and forthright
affirmation of traditional Roman Catholic
values.
Ahead of him in the next three months are visits to !
six African nations, France and Brazil, the countrv i
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with the largest number of Roman Catholics in the
world. In November, the pope will make his first Asian [
swing with a visit to the Philippines and possibly stops
elsewhere.
The Italian press recently published several articles
claiming the pope may be seriously ill with a blood
disease. The Vatican brushed aside the reports, saying
the hectic schedule of the pope ? who will be 60 on May
18 ? is evidence of his sound condition.
Guerrillas cut demands
BOGOTA, Colombia ? The guerrillas holding 20
hostages in the embassy of the Dominican Republic cut
their demand for the release of political prisoners from
28 to seven, but said they will want safe passage out of j
the country and a ransom from 15 governments.
They also said they might free more captives April
19, the anniversary of their Movement 19, named for
the April 19,1970, elections they claim were fraudulent. j
Thirty-five of the original hostages have been freed.
Another hostage, the Uruguyan ambassador, escaped
two weeks ago.
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are the release of seven top guerrilla leaders from jail, j
an undisclosed ransom from the governments of 15' j
countries whose envoys are captive, and safe passage
to the Middle East, official sources said. i
Countries to accept exiles
LIMA, Peru ? Peru's foreign minister said five
South American countries agreed yesterday to give
refuge to the thousands of Cubans at the Peruvian
Embassy in Havana and that his country would accept
1,000 exiles. He said the exodus would begin "as soon as
possible."
Peruvian Foreign Minister Arturo Garcia y Garcia
said the other four members of the Andean Group
common market ? Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador and
Venezuela ? would announce their own quotas. He said
countries outside the region also would be invited to
participate in the massive exodus of the 10,000 Cubans
if the Havana government allows them to leave the
Caribbean island.
The decision was taken during an all-night meeting ;
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(right) members of
Locomotion Vaudvillo from
Key West, Fla. rehearse their
routine in front of Thomas
Cooper Library Thursday.
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Troopers maintain peace
WRIGHTSVILLE, Ga. ? Johnson County schools,
closed Wednesday in the wake of racial violence,
reopened yesterday without incident as state troopers
helped maintain an uneasy peace in this rural Georgia
town.
Gov. George Busbee, who ordered 30 troopers into
Wrightsville Wednesday, said he directed the officers I
to patrol near the schools at the request of parents
concerned about their children. I
"We're not going to have violence. This needs to be
defused rapidly," Busbee said at a news conference in
Atlanta.
The governor said the Wrightsville situation has his
"full attention," and he said the two squads of 15
troopers will stay there as long as it takes to guarantee
the peace.
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VANCOUVER, Wash. ? Scientists say they are
waiting to see whether Mount St. Helens, hit by a
stream of large and small quakes, moves into a phase
of near-continuous eruptions of steam and ash.
The 9,677-foot volcano in southwestern Washington
was shaken by a series of tremors Wednesday.
Authorities said the quakes occurred so close together
at one point that they formed a blur on seismographs.
Dr. Richard Waitt, a U.S. Geological Survey j
geologist, said the mountain has progressed from
"casual venting" of steam to eruptions lasting an hour
or more, to the lengthy eruption recorded Tuesday.
If the mountain changes signals again, it would be
logical to assume it might switch to continual, roundthe-clock
eruptions, he said Wednesdav
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stationscan be stereo
WASHINGTON ? Stereophonic radio broadcasts, j
limited in the past to the FM band, will soon become a
reality on AM as well, because of action by the Federal
Communications Commission.
For many of the nation's AM broadcasters, whose .
audiences in recent years have switched increasingly
to FM because of its stereo signal, the move could
spark a resurgence of listener interest.
John B. Summers of the National Association of
Broadcasters hailed the FCC's decision Wednesday as |
a "milestone.
And the company whose method of stereo AM
broadcasting was given a monopoly by the FCC,
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magnavox consumer Electronics Corp., was
"delighted."
Census replys amusing
TUCSON, Ariz. ? Dogs and kids are enlivening |
things for U.S. Census tabulators here. i
So far, 67 families have called the local headquarters
to ask for duplicate forms, saying their dogs chewed
the originals. j
Another dog owner asked that his pet's name be j
removed from the list of household members on an
already-mailed form. However, he said he still considered
the dog a true member of the family. |
One 7-year-old sent back the family form, filled out in
childish scrawl. He listed himself as head of the
household. Other forms filled out by children failed to
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Then there was the panic-stricken lady who wondered
if the census form was poisonous. Seems her twoyear-old
had eaten it.
She was assured it was not poisonous. And, yes,
they'd supply a duplicate.
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COLUMBIA ? In what was called a major step in
managing nuclear waste, the South Carolina House
Wednesday tentatively approved a bill governing the
transportation of radioactive waste in the state.
The bill orders the Department of Health and Environmental
Control to devise and enforce regulations
on the shipment of such waste in South Carolina.
It also allows the agency to levy civil penalties for
any violation of the regulations. Gov. Dick Riley had
specifically asked the legislature to act in this area.
Currently, the state can only suspend shipments of
nuclear waste when a utility is found to have violated
federal regulations. Once the company shows that it
has taken steps to prevent future violations, the state
allows shipments to resume.
Youth convicted in slaying
ANDERSON ? Timothy Wayne Brown, one of the
youngest persons to be tried for murder in South
Carolina, has been convicted of voluntary manslaughter
in the slaying of his elderly neighbor last
year.
Brown, 14, was charged with the murder of 63-yearold
Ruby Lewis at her Anderson home last June.
The eight-woman, four-man jury deliberated about
2l/2 hours before returning a verdict on the lesser
charge about 8:20 p.m. Wednesday.
Public Defender Charles Whiten Jr. said the verdict
"reaffirms my faith in the people of Anderson
County."
He objected to Brown's trial as an adult and had
sought a verdict on the less serious crime of voluntary
manslaughter. Brown, who was 13 when Mrs. Lewis
was killed, was "emotionally handicapped," he said.
Iranians ousted at Citadel
CHARLESTON ? The Iranian naval midshipmen at
the Citadel have been told they must leave by midnight
Friday, and some say they are glad to be going home.
"It's hard to live in the United States anymore," said
sophomore Ardeshir Farid. "There's too much
Dressure."
He said he had been well treated on campus but has
been refused service at a gas station and at a nightspot
in Charleston.
He said the problem is all politics. "I think we're
suffering for someone else," he added.
The 27 cadets who hold diplomatic visas have been
ordered to leave the country under President Carter's
order expelling Iranian diplomats.
Eight other Iranians at the school will be permitted
to remain. They hold student visas.
Austin tops tennis ranking
HILTON HEAD ISLAND ? Tracy Austin says her
new title as the world's number one women's tennis
player is a "miracle" ? and she intends to hold on to it.
The 17-year-old Austin walked off center court
Tuesday, after defeating Renee Richards in the second
round of the $150,000 women's tournament, and was
told by her mother she had moved ahead of Martina
Navratilova in the computerized rankings of the
Women's Tennis Association.
"I can't believe it," Austin exclaimed. "It's a
miracle.
"I'm not going to let this ranking change my game,"
she added. But now that I have the title, I want to hold
on to it for a while."
Austin's two recent defeats of former front-ranked
Navratilova put her on top in WTA's computerized
rankings.
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