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Problems among diplomats
BOGOTA, Colombia ? Health and morale problems
are reported among the 16 diplomats who today are
spending their 59th day as hostages in the Dominican
Republic's embassy.
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beginning to exhibit health problems, said a source
connected with the Inter-American Human Rights
Commission after two representatives of the commission
spent two hours at the embassy Tuesday.
The source, who asked not to be indentified, refused
to elaborate on the health problems or say which of the
hostages were affected. But one of the visitors, Prof.
Thomas Farer of Rutgers University, said the
diplomats' living conditions in the small embassy were
"bleak," and they have to sleep on mattresses on the
floor.
USOC explains decision
LAUSANNE, Switzerland ? Leaders of the U.S.
Olympic Committee were called before the top
Olympic hierarchy Wednesday and explained their
decision not to enter the Games in Moscow.
"There was no criticism, and no mention of sanctions
against us," said Robert Kane, President of the USOC,
after leaving a meeting with the executive board of the
International Olympic Committee.
The executive board, under IOC President Lord
Killanin, talked to the Americans for an hour and then
discussed the boycott problem in private. There was no
immediate announcement of any IOC action.
Carter to meet with Pope
VATICAN CITY ? President Carter will meet Pope
John Paul II at the Vatican June 21 before attending
the summit of the leading Western industrial nations in
Venice, Vatican sources said Thursday.
John Paul II visited Carter at the White House in
October and had a general review of problems of world
peace. This time, Vatican officials say, the talks are
expected to focus on more concrete issues, such as
Iran.
Carter arrives in Rome June 19, will meet Premier
Francesco Cossiga and other Italian officials, and go
sightseeing before the audience with the pontiff.
Last week, U.S. Ambassador Richard Gardner told
the American Club in Rome he was having a problem
explaining to tne Secret Service that there are no cars
in Venice.
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explain to them that there is no motorcade possible in
Venice. There might be a gondolacade, but they don't
believe there is a city in the world that has no motorcars."
Smallpox case reported
MILAN, Italy ? Regional health authorities Wednesday
reported what they said was the world's first
case of smallpox in three years, but national health
oniciais in Kome expressea some aouois.
The World Health Organization last October had
declared the dreaded disease eradicated.
Lombardy regional health officials said Italian
engineer Umberto Moretti, 32, developed smallpox
symptoms after returning from a business trip in Indonesia.
But the Italian Health Ministry in Rome was skeptical
that Moretti actually contracted smallpox.
Ministry officials said he had been vaccinated several
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KEY WEST, Fla .-Cuban exiles from Florida
delivered 200 more refugees to Key West Wednesday in
the third day of a ragtag "boatlift" encouraged by the
Cuban government but frowned on by U.S. officials.
The refugees landed at a deserted naval base near
here, officials said, pushing the three-day total of
Cuban arrivals to nearly 300.
1 One boat docked Tuesday carrying about 30 seasick
refugees, some from the throngs that have crowded the
Peruvian Embassy in Havana.
"When I got off the boat, I kissed the dock," Vincent
Ramsay, a 46-year-old welder who left his wife and two
children in Havana, said when he arrived Tuesday. "I
said,4We are now free.'
"My little boy was sick," he said. "I couldn't wait.
I've been waiting so long to leave Cuba."
Athletes appeal decision
WASHINGTON- Eighteen amateur athletes asked a
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The athletes, all Olympic hopefuls, said the USOC
violated their constitutional rights, an amateur sports
law and its own constitution.
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j executive board and the Olympicteam's rowing coach,
asked a U.S. district judge to void the April 12 decision
and prevent USOC officials from carrying it out.
The suit, which seeks to become a class action 011
behalf of all Olympic hopefuls, said the USOC "yielded
its autonomy and has succumbed to political and
economic pressure."
According to the lawsuit, the Amateur Sports Act of
1978 guarantees that athletes have the right to participate
in international competitions.
iBiracial group for county
WRIGHTSVILLE, Ga.-Johnson County Sheriff
Roland Attaway, primary target of black protests in
this rural town, said Wednesday he believes a biracial
committee will be formed soon, but he will not serve on
Attaway said he felt that neither he nor the leaders of
a month's long black protest over local economic
conditions should be on such a committee.
"What would we accomplish if we were on the
committee.' I would not be a member under any
condition," the sheriff said.
Distillers deny 'fowl' play
NEW YORK-That wild turkey at the White House
| delighted the makers of a certain Kentucky bourbon,
but the distillers yesterday denied they were behind
the fowl play.
i "Oh, we're just delighted that it happened," said
Richard J. Newman, president of Austin Nichols Inc. of
Lawrenceberg, Ky., distillers of Wild Turkey. "But as
far as our company and our ad agency are concerned,
we had nothing to do with it."
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president's home Tuesday morning was put there by a
"certain Kentucky distiller."
Anchorman Walter Cronkite introduced the "scoop"
this way : "There was an Old Crow reported in the
Four Roses garden at the White House today, spotted
by an Old Fitzgerald, a Virginia Gentleman, our man
on the scene Robert Piemoint. abashedlv reoorts."
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SCE&G beats resolution
COLUMBIA ? South Carolina Electric and Gas Co.
stockholders defeated a resolution to halt construction
on the V.C. Summer Nuclear Station, but plant opponents
said they were surprised at the number who
voted for the measure.
About 90 percent of the stockholders at Wednesday's
meeting voted against the resolution, which cited
health hazards, "prohibitive" costs and lack of need
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However, the fact that nearly 10 percent voted for the
resolution "shows that we in Jenkinsville are not alone
in opposing this plant they have placed in our front
yard," said Jennie Maniaza of Jenkinsville, a member
j of the group that submitted the resolution.
"Even the people who own the company are telling
SCE&G's managers to find safe ways to make electricity,"
she said.
Lancaster suit for victim
LANCASTER ? Lancaster and state officials are
being sued for $785,000 by the brother of the Alabama
man who died in the Dec. 27 fire at the Lancaster
County Jail. Eleven persons died in the blaze, one of
thp worst iail disasters in the state's historv.
The suit was filed in the Rock Hill division of U.S.
District Court in Columbia on Monday by Wayne
Jones, older brother of Keith Jones of Huntsville, Ala.
Keith Jones was visiting Lancaster during the
Christmas holidays when he was arrested for driving
under the influence of alcohol. He had been in the jail
about 20 minutes when the fire broke out.
The suit claims that county and state officials
negligently operated the jail. "It was unsafe in the
event of fire," the suit says.
Nuclear waste resolution
COLUMBIA ? South Carolina should be asked its
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temporarily buried in the state, according to a
resolution approved by the state Legislature.
The resolution got final approval Tuesday when the
House accepted Senate changes in the proposal, which
j the House passed earlier.
It calls on Congress to consult first with state officials
before considering South Carolina for a
radioactive waste burial site.
! A special committee of the governor and members of
the House and Senate will be set up under the measure
to confer with federal officials in nuclear waste matters.
I The resolution also requires approval by the
governor and General Assembly for establishment of
an interim storage facility in the state.
Man shoots vandals
CHARLESTON ? A James Island man who says his
home has been the target of bottles and rocks for the
past three years will stand trial for shooting two youths
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Both students were hospitalized for numerous
shotgun pellet wounds but are back at school.
Magistrate William H. Simmon Jr. denied two
motions for dismissal Monday and ordered George A.
Elliot to be tried on charges of assault and battery with
intent to kill.
Elliott told authorities he fired his 12-gauge shotgun
at two Fort Johnson High School students in an effort to
stop their car, which he said had been used to vandalize
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