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WORLD Hostages to be moved iran ? me American nosiages win ue dispersed to cities throughout Iran to foil another possible U.S. military rescue attempt, Tehran Radio reported Saturday. The broadcast said the strategy was adopted by the Moslem militants who seized the 50 Americans at the U.S. Embassy 177 days ago. Three other Americans have been held at the Foreign Ministry. 44As a precautionary measure, the U.S. hostages will henceforth be kept in various cities throughout the country," the militants said. Brig. Gen. Valiola Fallahi, Iran's army commander, said there are probably more American bases remaining in Iran besides the abandoned one near Tabas where the hostage rescue attempt was aborted PriHoi; a. & iuuj . Thatcher backs Carter LONDON ? British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher hailed President Carter's handling of the abortive U S. attempt to save the American hostages in Tehran, while the Soviet Union and its allies heaped criticism on what the Kremlin called Carter's "dangerous game." A spokesman at the prime minister's No. 10 Downing Street office said that Mrs. Thatcher was "very much moved" by Carter's address to the nation Friday announcing the ill-fated rescue bid. She sent Carter a personal letter expressing the "greatest admiration for the courage you have shown," the spokesman said. Sir Ian Gilmore, Britain's deputy foreign minister, called on America's European allies to support the American effort. "This is a time for allies to stick together and not criticize each other," he said. Air disaster kills 1 45 SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, Canary Islands ? Rescue workers searching for bodies from the air disaster that left all 138 British passengers and seven crew members dead have speculated the jetliner may have exploded in the air. They said they found no severed tree trunks in the area of the search, only a few destroyed treetops, indicating the trees were hit by falling parts of the jet rather than by direct impact of the aircraft. Red Cross personnel with 15 ambulances and more than 500 policemen, soldiers, firemen and shepherds concentrated their search in a two-mile swath of rugged terrain in a pine forest mid-way up a volcanic mountainside. They said some of the bodies they found were "horribly mutilated," and that pieces of the victims were hanging from the limbs of trees. Nixon supports decision BERLIN ? Former President Richard M. Nixon said Friday he fully supported President Carter's decision to attempt a rescue of the American hostages in Iran, adding "there are always risks" in such actions. Nixon said Carter was justified in ordering a rescue mission because "the United States has suffered humiliation. The hostages have suffered imprisonment and mental and emotional abuse and this has to be brought to an end." In Wpst Rprlin tn Hie nam linnl/ rx-i II C ... *f wv ?*?? w J7? vuiv/tv i no il^VY WVUI\ Ull u ,0. foreign policy, Nixon said the president must reserve the option to use force in such a situation. Getting HE mitt full H Catcher Keith "Red Light" , Taylor gives needed support I to pitcher Bill Land rum in 9 jSaturday's 8 1 victory over Georgia Southern. PavejobyK GAMECOCK [NOTION 1 Servicemen honored ATLANTA ? Gov. George Busbee has ordered flags on state buildings in Georgia to be flown at half staff today, honoring two Georgians who were among the eight servicemen killed in the aborted mission to rescue U.S. hostages in Iran. They were Air Force Capt. Lynn Davis Mcintosh, 33, of Valdosta, and Marine Staff Sgt. Dewey L. Johnson, 32, of Dublin. "I extend to their families our deep sympathy and our admiration and respect for the patriotism and loyalty displayed by Capt. Mcintosh and Sgt. John son, Busbee said Saturday in a statement. Darvon under scrutiny WASHINGTON ? Darvon, the nation's most widely prescribed painkiller, is coming under renewed scrutiny by the federal government in a move that could sharply limit its availability at doctors' offices and drugstores. The Drug Enforcement Administration said Thursday it already has tightened federal regulations on Darvon in pure, bulk form. The Food and Drug Administration is considering the same restrictions, including prohibiting telephone prescriptions and banning refills, for other, more common forms of Darvon. This would include the pills irirl nqnculoc nlain r*r pnmhinpH ntVior HrncJc iicpH 1 U11V4 V.IA|/UM1VU, V/? VVCIlR/lllVVI ?T * VII VVIIVI VII V4^Uf VIOV.VI by millions of Americans each year for pain ranging from headaches to toothaches. Government figures show Darvon second only to barbiturates among prescription medications used to commit suicide. About 1,000 to 2,000 deaths a year are associated with Darvon. Potts execution likely ATLANTA ? Georgia, which has executed more prisoners than any other state in the country, is considering whether Jack Howard Potts will become No. 418. Last fall, Potts, 35, abandoned his appeals, fired his lawyers, announced he had found God and asked that his sentence be carried out immediately. But the deliberate pace of the state's legal death machinery has pushed the date of Potts' likely execution into next month. The state Board of Pardons and Paroles will decide by May 1 whether Georgia carries out its first execution since 1964. The next-to-last formal step toward the electric chair was taken Thursday when the state Board of Pardons and Paroles held a commutation hearing, at which [ Potts' mother challenged the state to "have the nerve" j to carry out her son's sentence. illness really chickenpox ATLANTA ? An illness diagnosed as smallpox in Italy last week turned out to be a severe case of chickenpox, the national Center for Disease Control | confirmed Friday. Public health officials at Milan, Italy, reported that an engineer developed a smallpox-like illness after returning from a business trip in Indonesia. He was hospitalized in Brescia, near Milan. The CDC said laboratory tests on specimens from the patient confirmed that the case reported at Brescia, near Milan, is chickenpox. I The case is among numerous susnerted rasps of I. D 1 smallpox which have been reported since the disease was declared eradicated worldwide in October 1979 by I the World Health Organization. Mmm&m ainiis Riley talks about Senate COLUMBIA ? A broad-based committee should begin work on state reapportionment plans "posthaste" to get ready for what will be needed when this year's census figures are in, Gov. Dick Riley suggested at a news conference Friday. Riley, again going on record for separate districts for the 46 Senate seats, said a third of the members of such a committee should be black. Members should be named by the Legislature and the governor, he added. Asked what he thought of the U.S. Justice Department's decision the day before to postpone a suit aimed at changing some Senate election procedures this year, Riley said he's happy the June primaries apparently won't be affected. "I don't like to disturb the election process unless there's some major reason to do that." He described as a "serious problem ... the timeliness of what you're doing. That's almost as important as what you're doing." Teachers'dues to be voted COLUMBIA ? The South Carolina Senate, unable to cut off a filibuster by Sen. John Drummond against a bill on teachers' dues to professional organizations, agreed Friday to vote on the matter tomorrow. The agreement, a victory for Drummond, calls for debate on a constitutional amendment to limit taxes and spending to begin immediately after the vote on fpaohorc' hiipc "The big fight was not nearly as much the dues checkoff as trying to get the tax limit up for debate," said Drummong, D-Greenwood. i Drummong said he is unsure whether he and other opponents of the dues bill have the strength to defeat it. But even if they don't, he said, "Dues checkoff won't have time to be passed in the House this year." Attempt approved in poll GREENVILLE ? A computer programmed by WFBC radio station to take listeners' opinions by telephone showed that 78.2 percent of those calling approved of President Carter's attempted raid in Iran to free American hostages. The unscientific poll was begun Friday morning just after reports began about the aborted military mission. I A1 Kamhi, news director at the station, said callers were asked to punch the No. 1 button on their telephone if they agree with the question, No. 2 if they disagree I and No. 3 if they have no opinion. Of the 383 callers in the first two hours the raid question was offered, 302 agreed the raid should have been attempted. The computer showed 77 callers, or 20.5 percent, disagreed. Four callers, or 1.3 percent, were undecided. Spence seeks re-election COLUMBIA ? U.S. Rep. Floyd Spence announced Friday he would seek re-election to a sixth term in Congress. The second district congressman, who was first elected to the House in 1970, is a member of the House Armed Services Committee and the House Ethics Committee. He is the ranking Republican on the Ethics Committee. ^^Spence said his campaign would be based on the need I to "fight inflation and oppose further government j intrusion into our private lives and our jobs." i Spence also said he would continue to work for a | strong national defense. I i .1 4 > j r--:. -v\.: ::v"