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WORLD Hostages promised visits TEHRAN, Iran ? Iranian President Abolhassan Bani-Sadr Saturday countered demands from Western Europe and Japan that the American hostages be freed with a promise of visits and health care for the captives, but set no firm date for their release. Presidential spokesman Moussavi Garmaroudi said Bani-Sadr met with ambassadors from Japan and the nine European Common Market countries and reiterated that Iran would retaliate ? possibly with an oil embargo ? against any nation that joins the United C f nf in ? r\n n vtr) i ?v\ r*/\n ? rt o idled in tutuug uipiuiuaut uco anu 1111^01115 economic sanctions against Iran. Bani-Sadr will ask an unspecified international body to monitor the hostages' condition and assure the world they are being treated well because this should be done according to Islamic ethics, Garmaroudi told a Western reporter in Tehran. Liberian leader killed LIBERIA ? Liberian President William Tolbert was killed today during a gunbattle in the presidential mansion and his government toppled in a coup led by a national guard staff sergeant, Liberia's government radio reported. It was the first coup in Liberia since this West African nation was founded by former American slaves 133 years ago. Tolbert and his government were one of the West's closest allies in Africa. The report of the president's death came in a broadcast monitored by a West German radio network. Other reports said gunfire could be heard in the streets hours after the coup. Icrmolic |pri\/p I phnnnn I Jl UUIIJ l-V_y i 1 i 1 TEL AVIV, Israel ? Israeli troops and armor have begun pulling out of the rocky hills of southern Lebanon and heading for home after a three-day cross-border thrust spurred by a Palestinian terror raid on an Israeli border farm. The Israeli military command in Tel Aviv announced the withdrawal Friday as the government faced reported mounting opposition to the incursion from the United States, the United Nations and Lebanon. In Washington, the State Department said it had been informed by Israel that the pullout would take several days. A U.N. spokesman in southern Lebanon confirmed that about 100 Israeli soldiers appeared to have withdrawn from Dositions near the Arab villacps of Markabe and Shakra, a sector controlled by U.N. peacekeeping troops. , ' 1 "T " "" 1 1ah tow ?-?T^rr$? mm 1 .,7 V .. || (l*riCe Kat Buffet -rit"' ,rl "Timi " ' 11 Lunch Buffet Served Daily 11am-2:30pm Supper Buffet Served Wed-Thu 11am-8pm caterln Phone 799-2895 Ava Located in Rosewood Shopping Center, Rosewood Drive Need Birth Control f Information? 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Black demonstrators left the area first, returning to a church on the outskirts of town where they began \ I thpir fnnr.milp.lrkno marrh shnHlv affpr 1 n m With up to 150 riot-equipped state troopers on hand or on call ? about one-fourth of the entire force ? the marchers paraded through three black communities and then into downtown Wrightsville over a two-hour period. Testimony shocks judge GASTONIA, N.C. ? Saying he was shocked by testimony he heard from an admitted sex-offender, Superior Court Judge Frank Snepp said Friday he would delay sentencing the former YMCA basketball coach who pleaded guilty Thursday to 13 charges of taking indecent liberties with a minor. "If I were to sentence him today, I'd give him 130 years to keep him out of circulation," said a visibly shaken Snepp after hearing testimony from Charles Burgess Jr., 30, and reading contents of a movie script the former Gastonia coach had written. Snepp said he probably world sentence Burgess next week. Burgess faces a po^ible 130-year sentence, 10 years for each felony charge. "I've been on the bench 13 years and I'm not easily ji shocked," Snepp said, "but the script and letter ii shocked me." Moves unify militants KANSAS CITY, Mo. ? The Carter administration's recent moves in response to Iranian delays in freeing American hostages are serving only to unify the j militant captors, says a clergyman who returned from Tehran early Friday. The Rev. Jack Bremer of Lawrence, Kan., one of three Midwest ministers who offered Easter services in Iran for the hostages, warned that tension between the two countries would increase if President Carter continued to step up pressure on the Iranian government. ! j Any military action by the United States could put ? the hostages in a dangerous situation, Bremer said. 81|hot new m] e 8 PfHE SETTING fTi lable.,Ce ^ m m JrccoiiMv*0TtAC* Mo*o* ^^Jp\>*' C(? lNtoh| yj Vtfgp MM ? I Schoo 4 7553 I 814 77* T / CTISTE Si 1 mm i fin Ravenel seeks U.S. seat CHARLESTON ? Charles "Pug" Ravenel has joined three other Democrats in seeking the party nomination for the 1st Congressional District seat. Ravenel, who announced his candidacy at a news conference Friday, said he decided to enter the race after it became certain that U.S. Rep. Mendel Davis would not seek re-election. Davis announced his decision to bow out of politics last month. A Charleston investment banker, Ravenel was recently appointed associate deputy secretary of t!;e U.S. Commerce Department. He resigned the post to make the Congressional bid. Protest bombs defused BELVEDERE ? Three homemade bombs, which authorities say were equivalent to 21 sticks of dynamite, were defused Saturday in a bingo parlor that is scheduled to open this week despite the protests of area residents. A defective timing device prevented the bombs from going off as scheduled, authorities said. They were defused at 8:20 a.m., 20 minutes after they were set to detonate. If they had gone off, the explosion "would have demolished everything here," said Aiken County Sheriff Paul Grant. He said homes across the street from the building probably would have sustained heavy damage. Jenrette talks on problem COLUMBIA ? Hep. John W. Jenrette, D-S.C., under treatment for alcoholism, blames his problem with the I Dottle on a "total quest for power and prestige." In an interview with the Washington bureau of Columbia's State newspaper, Jenrette said that, during his four weeks at the Bethesda Naval Hospital's alcoholic rehabilitation center in Washington, he has taken a hard look at himself. Although he has two more weeks of treatment before he will be dismissed, Jenrette was granted a pass this weekend to attend the South Carolina Democratic Convention in Columbia. 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