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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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