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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
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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.
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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withdrawn from Dositions near the Arab villacps of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.
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Racial protests continue
WKIGHTSVILLE, Ga. ? Civil rights activists and
white supremacists demonstrated within 50 feet of
each other at the courthouse in this racially-tense
community Saturday following a protest march by
blacks. State troopers kept the groups apart.
There was no violence, although some troopers held
riot sticks in their hands in readiness should a confrontation
occur, and the groups dispersed after about
20 minutes.
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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
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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.
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? the hostages in a dangerous situation, Bremer said.
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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.
"I've really had an opportunity to look at myself and
to reflect on the mistakes I've made and the people I've
injured in trying to pursue my goals and how I injured
myself in the total quest for power and prestige," said
Jenrette, who is seeking re-election.
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