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Hostages in 'good shape'
TRHKAN, Iran ? One of two International Red
Cross representatives who visited "one by one" all the
American hostages in the U .S. Embassy in Tehran said
yesterday he found their health to be rather good and
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"To me they appeared in rather good shape," said
Harold Schmid de Gruneck, the permanent Red Cross
representative in Tehran, who with Dr. Bernard
Liebeskind and three Iranian officials spent seven
hours in the occupied embassy.
It was the most extensive visit by any foreigners to
the captive Americans since militant young Iranians
seized the embassy and its staff last Nov. 4. It was also
the first time any foreigners were reported to have
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The Red Cross, apparently by agreement with the
militants, would not confirm that the Americans total
50 in number, as the State Department says.
Cuban airlift delayed
LIMA, Peru ? The start of the airlift of Cubans from
the Peruvian Embassy in Havana has been delayed by
a dispute over who will be the first to leave.
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10,800 Cubans who crowded into its embassy compound
Easter weekend. It said it was ready to fly the first 500
to Lima as soon as the Cuban government would let
them go, and Charge D'Affaires Armando Lecaros
submitted a list giving priority to the sick, the aged and
members of family groups. ;
However, informed sources said the Cuban govern- j
ment rejected the list and countered with a list of 800 of
the 4,000 people who got safe-conduct passes to leave |
the 20-acre embassy compound and wait at home for
evacuation.
Some 5,500 of the would-be exiles were reported
spoken for. The United States announced that it would
take up to 3,500; Costa Rica said it would admit 300;
Spain invited 500 and Ecuador 200.
Gandhi attacker held
NEW DELHI, India ? The man police say threw a
six-inch switchblade knife at Prime Minister Indira
Gandhi and missed her was brought into court briefly
yesterday and ordered held until April 24 for further
questioning.
Police officials told Magistrate V.B. Gupta they
needed more time to interrogate Ram Bulchand 1
Lalwani, 37, "to find out his political background and
other conspirators in this sensational crime."
Lalwani did not speak during the preliminary
hearing.
The attempt was made on the 62-year-old prime
minister as she was on her way to her car after at- I
tending a ceremony in honor of the late Dr. B.R. j
Ambedkar, a leader of the Untouchables, the lowest j
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PEKING ? Chinese authorities have draped a
shroud over a recently completed 20-foot mural at the !
Peking airport, apparently to stem criticism of its
frontal depiction of a volptuous nude female, travelers :
said Monday.
The mural, in a restaurant for foreigners, is one of
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celebrated on Sunday by members of the Dai
nationality in China's southwest Yunnan Province,
adjacent to Burma. Nudity has been taboo in Chinese
art under the communists until very recently, and
members of the Dai nationality complained about the
mural.
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Privacy rights expand
WASHINGTON ? Police may not enter a person's
home to make an arrest without a warrant if there is no
emergency, the Supreme Court ruled yesterday.
In a significant expansion of constitutional privacy
rights, the justices ruled by a 6-3 vote that the warrant
requirement ponce musi meet ior searcnes also applies
to arrests.
"Neither history nor this nation's experience
requires us to disregard the overriding respect for the
sanctity of the home that has been embedded in our
traditions since the origins of the republic," Justice
John Paul Stevens wrote for the court.
The Supreme Court previously has ruled that most
often police must have a court warrant before searching
a home. But before yesterday, the court never
had invalidated an arrest because the arresting officer
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Energy controls remain
WASHINGTON ? The Energy Department announced
yesterday that President Carter will extend
for nine months the mandatory thermostat controls
imposed last summer as a means of saving energy.
Deputy Energy Secretary John Sawhill said the
controls will be extended through January 1981.
The program ? first imposed last July 16 ? requires
that thermostats in public buildings be set at no higher
than 65 degrees during the winter and no lower than 78
in the summer.
They were due to expire at midnight, but Sawhill said
Carter has determined that the program "worked and
it worked well."
Carter ordered the thermostat controls under a
federal law which allowed the setting to be invoked to
cope with a "national energy supply shortage."
Decision upsets Kane
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. ? Tears glistened in
Robert J. Kane's eyes as the U.S. Olympic Committee
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the Olympic Games.
Ralph Mann, a silver medalist in the hurdles in the
1972 Olympics, choked up while discussing the decision
and had to walk away from a group of newsmen.
Although almost everyone anticipated a pro-boycott
vote, there was nothing cut-and-dried about it. The
decision wasn't an easy one to make, as evidenced by
the emotion displayed following Saturday's historic
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Yielding to pressure from the Carter administration,
the delegates voted by a 2-to-l margin to boycott the
1980 Summer Games in Moscow as a protest against
the Soviet Union's military intervention in
Afghanistan.
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SAN J0S1C, Calif. ? A lG-year-old youth has pleaded
guilty to first-degree murder in the killing of his
stepfather and has pleaded no-contest in the death of
his mother.
Todd Martin Gjevre, who was committed to the
California Youth Authority, pleaded guilty Monday in
the shooting death of his stepfather, Ernest Blair
Gjevre, last Dec. 26. He entered a plea of no contest in
the death of his mother, Sandra Gjevre. \
Gievre and Clarence Johnnv Garcia. 19. were
charged with killing the couple, allegedly in order to
use their insurance money for the purchase of cars and
perhaps a house. Garcia still faces trial.
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Farmers near 'disaster'
COLUMBIA ? Farmers in South Carolina are on
"the brink of financial disaster" according to state
Commissioner of Agriculture Bryan Patrick.
"Never in my lifetime have I felt such pessimism as
farmers start a new crop year," said Patrick in a letter
Monday to U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Bob
Bergland.
In the "state of the farmer" letter Patrick told
Bergland that federal commitments to protect the
financial status of the farmer after the Jan. 4 embargo
of crops to Russia have not been carried out.
"Instead of prices improving, prices have taken a
drastic decline, and nobody knows where they will go,"
j Patrick wrote.
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farmers, but the survival of America," Patrick said.
Jenrette leads in poll
COLUMBIA ? Sixth District Congressman John
Jenrette says he is serious about his re-election
campaign and, despite his political problems, a poll
indicates he is unbeatable in the district.
Jenrette, who has been implicated in the Abscam
probe and is the subject of other investigations of his
j land dealings, was on hand for the South Carolina state
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Jenrette and his wife Rita received a warm welcome
from those on hand, although the congressman admitted
he was a little bit nervous about his appearance.
I Meanwhile, there is some good news for Jenrette on
the political front. A recent poll indicates that, if the
election were held today, he would winby a wide
margin.
The poll, by New York pollster Arthur Finkelstein for
the National Conservative Political Action Committee,
shows Jenrette would get about 46 percent of the vote in
a seven-way Democratic primary.
I Gas stations overcharge
I GREENVILLE ? An audit by the U.S. Department
of Energy indicated three service stations in Greenville
and Spartanburg were charging more for gasoline
than federal regulations permit.
The audit, completed last month, said the stations
were among 74 in the Southeast foundjfo?De overpricing
gasoline. >
The department said some stations wure charging as
much as 17 cents per gallon more than plfttyitted under
gederal guidelines. 8 White Horse Exxon in Greenville,
and Rowland Automotive and Twin Oaks Exxon in
Spartanburg were mentioned in the report.
S.C. studenl in Liberia
CHARLESTON ? A Charleston man who has been
studying at a Liberian University is one?of about 5,100
Americans who remain in strife-torn Liberia.
ILiberiari President William R. Tolbert was reportedly
shot and killed during the weekend uprising, the
first in this African nation that was founded by former
slaves.
John Burts Bryant, Jr., 20, of James Island, was
reportedly invited to spend the Easter holidays with
the Tolbert family, but his parents have been unable to
confirm if Bryant waswith. theTolberts when the coup
occurred.
! j tsryani s lather, John B. Bryant, said he has asked
| j the U.S. State Department and Liberian officials who
I j took over the country's United Nations office in New
I York during the weekend to check on the whereabouts
j! of his son.
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