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Wireffeports World D~I:?L L I: i I i uiibii pnone lines resiorea GDANSK, Poland - Jubilant strikers announced Monday night that the beleaguered communist government had bowed to their demand that telephone communications be restored between strike-paralyzed northern Poland and the rest of the country. mi * J ii_ ^ _ ? i. i t i iney saia me aorupi reversal uy government negotiators meant talks could resume on about 20 other economic and political demands pressed by 150,000 striking workers at shipyards and other industries along the Baltic coast. Anna Walentinovic, a strike leader, said telephone lines were tested immediately and they were working. She said that for the first time in at least a week, a telephone call from this port city to Warsaw went through in about five minutes. Afghans leaving country KABUL, Afghanistan ? Quietly and without fanfare, many members of Afghanistan's dwindling middle class are trying to sell family heirlooms and antique carpets that they can't easily carry into exile. Getting out of Afghanistan isn't easy, and the growing number of Afghans who are thinking about leaving because of the Soviet occupation know they need liquid assests like cash or jewelry, not heavy antiques or rugs. The antique and carpet shops in the foreign quarter of Share Naw, which have always been a paradise for an tique lovers, are even more so today. For the past few months, the richer Afghans have been selling their prized possessions but no tourists have been coming to buy them. So, stores are packed with old Bokarra and Beluchi carpets, red and blue Bohemian crystal, old English silver and American art deco vases, old firearms and Russian samovars. China's oil minister fired PEKING - The Chinese government fired its petroleum minister Monday, censured a vice premier and accused other officials of "an important dereliction of duty" in an oil rig accident last November that cost 72 lives. Xinhua news agency made public the vigorous steps against members of the covernment. The government, called the State Council, said bluntly: "The inappropriate handling of this serious accident was also an important dereliction of duty by the leadership of the State Council which therefore should admit its error before the people of the whole country." Published charges against the fired minister, Song Zhenming, the rebuke to Vice Premier Kang Shien, who is in charge of the petroleum industry, and the swipe at the government leadership represent a new attitude of openness and frankness. The oil rig capsized Nov. 25 in the Gulf of Bohai while it was being towed away from a typhoon. The State Council said the accident was a result of negligence and refusal to follow safety procedures. > i r i r ^ Man found atter 3U years TOKYO ? A former Japanese communist leader, missing for nearly 30 years, has been found alive and living in China, Japan's Kyodo news agency reported today from Peking. Ritsu Ito, the 67-year-old former member of the Japanese Communist Party's Central Committee, is undergoing ireatment at a Peking hospital for an undisclosed illness and is reported in "relatively good physical condition," Kyodosaid. Ito reportedly was smuggled out of Japan in the autumn of 1951, a year after he and other party leaders went underground following a government crackdown on communists triggered by the outbreak of the Korean War in 1950. His whereabouts had remained a mystery. I Chasing i the ducks #- i_i r%? - ? - - * - rour- yuar-oia ureg nazzo tries to eaten the out at the Thomas Cooper Library reflection po Monda y. (Photo by Barry Ne wman) N ation nv . i ii Kaia needed mere copters WASHINGTON - The ill-fated raid to rescue the hostages in Iran last April had a number of flaws, one of which was that there weren't enough helicopters assigned to the mission, according to the Pentagon. A Pentagon review panel which released its analysis of the mission Saturday said that at least 10 helicopters should have been originally sent on the mission. Eight helicopters were sent to rescue the 53 Americans then held hostage in Tehran. And when three of the choppers became disabled, the mission was scrubbed. But as the raiders withdrew April 25 from a remote site in the Iranian desert, a copter and a C-130 cargo plane collided, killing eight servicemen. i rne panel proposea inai in ine miure, an u.s. military "counter-terrorist forces" should be under a single command and the Joint Chiefs should create a senior body of officers to review plans and operations in this field. Anderson picks Lucey WASHINGTON ? Patrick J. Lucey became John Anj derson's vice presidential running mate Monday, saying he believes the independent ticket "was a real chance to win this election." Lucey, 62, is a former governor of Wisconsin who served ' President Carter as ambassador to Mexico but quit to take a senior post in the now-failed campaign of Sen. Edward M. Kennedy. In making the announcement at the National Press Club, Anderson said Lucey meets his three criteria: That the candidate be a Democrat, a veteran of elective politics with broad experience in government and fully qualified to assume the office of president. "Pat Lucey has a superb lifelong record of public service," said Anderson, a Republican congressman from J Illinois. I Libyan money for taxes ATLANTA ? U.S. Senate investigators have learned Billy Carter did not begin paying federal taxes on his 1978 income of more than $300,000 until he received $200,000 from the Libyan government in April, The Atlanta Constitution reported Tuesday. The newspaper reported that Carter did not file quarterly estimates of his 1978 income as required during that year, nor did he remit any payment for federal taxes owed for 1978 when they were due in 1979, the newspaper said. me constitution quoted unnamed sources close the the special judiciary subcommittee investigating Carter's ties with the Libyan government. Carter received $200,000 from a Libyan bank on April 7, describing the sum as an installment of a $500,000 loan from the Libyan government. On May 21, Carter paid $25,000 to the IRS, apparently on owed 1978 taxes. He made a $20,000 payment to the IRS on July 28, apparently for the same purpose, and told investigators that both sums had come from the Libyan money, the newspaper reported. Trudeau making TV debut NEW YORK - "I'd rather be the butt of a good joke than a bad rumor." j So saying, Margaret Trudeau has decked herself out as Damsel in distress, tied to the railroad tracks, crying for help. She also appears as a bird-brained zoo keeper, clad in hiking shorts and a bush helmet, who loses a boa conj strictor on a talk show. A ^ rv * Mr? r?U till V* f f nlnrminnl A/t rtiiu, ui cuui^c, sue cuua up wiui uioi uioaai^di dtcessory, the pie in the face. j These are among the "good jokes" on "Big City Comedy," a Canadian version of "Saturday Night Live," where she makes her satirical TV debut this fall, People magazine says. The show also will be syndicated in the United States. >nd I ' t State Citadel names president CHARLESTON ? The Citadel's interim president, Maj. Gen. James A. Grimsley, said Monday he will seek to work as a partner of the school's Board of Visitors. "I have no problem with the relationships or authority between the Board of Visitors ana ine president, Grimsley said. "They have the legislative mandate." The general made the comments at a news conference called to announce his appointment as interim president of the Citadel for the 1980-81 academic year. The board named Grimsley Saturday to succeed Vice Adm. James B. Stockdale, who resigned. Grimsley left no doubt he would like the interim appointment to become permanent when the board picks a president next June. "It has been made crystal clear that this is an interim presidency and that I will be given consideration for the inh on a nfirmanent basis in comoetition with other can didates," Grimsley said. State gets federal aid COLUMBIA ? Some congressmen from the Northeast and Midwest say South Carolina and 31 other Sunbelt states are getting a disproportionately large slice of the federal funding pie. The government returned $1.16 in federal spending for every tax dollar South Carolina sent to Washington last vear. according to a reoort bv the Northeast-Midwest Institute. In all, the state gained more than $730 million when its tax contributions were measured against federal spending in the state, according to the study by the Washington-based research organization. The study was commissioned by the Northeast-Midwest Congressional Coalition, whose members are pushing for changes in the way federal tax money is allocated to the states. They hope the study will become part of the debate in mis year s presiaenuai campaign. Naked man found at zoo COLUMBIA ? A naked 22-year-old man who had apparently been robbed was found in the parking lot of Riverbanks Zoo early Sunday, police said. The unidentified Georgia native told officers he was in the lounge of a motel on Interstate 26 and left with two women and a man he had met there. They drove around in his van until one of the others knocked him unconscious, the man was quoted as saying. When he awoke, his clothes, his tools, a watch, his money, a pair of pants, a vest and two stetson hats were missing. The man had been drinking, according to police, and said he did not know how he got in the parking lot. ' Story of rope hammocks PAWLEYS ISLAND, S.C. ? Folks can snooze comfortably in rope hammocks because a turn-of-thecentury South Carolina barge captain got sick and tired of sleeping on a straw mattress below decks. Thp harffp pantain Inchna InVin U(ot-/J ? f ?* ...? O'" 1/WIIUH *? C* i- U, IA1CIUC it ICW U1 j the knotless hammocks for friends, who became the first to discover how nice it felt to swing in his invention. Today, the makers of the "Original Pawleys Island Rope Hammock" can turn out 40,000 to 60,000 handmade rope hammocks a year, according to plant manager T ou>ir ajv. w 10 miuuiciuu. The company sells the hammocks to people in the United States, Canada, Europe, Hawaii and South Sea Islands, Middleton says. The outlets are gift shops, department stores, hardware stores, swimming pool shops and, yes, nautical outfitters. The hammocks are sold at a 10-building gift shop complex off U.S. 17 located south of the snrawline Grand | l_Strand resort area. J? H ' ' imr M i i '