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Wine reports i World a 4-i borne striking continues WARSAW, POLAND - About 15,000 miners at three coal pits in Upper Silesia remained on strike yesterday in local disputes after accepting a basic fact on unions and wages with Polish government negotiators, local sources said. The communist country announced that the Soviet Union had granted it further financial credit so that it can buy from the West badlv needed raw materials for in. dustry and would impose price controls to check the rising cost of living. In Washington, the AFL-CIO has established a special assistance fund to help Polish workers enlarge their newly won independent union movement. Reportedly, the Carter administration objected to such action, saying the Soviet Union might view the fund as interference from the West. The official news agency PAP had said coal miners throughout Silesia were back at work following the settlement Wednesday granting them the right to form an independent trade union and allowing other job concessions. But the sources said the holdouts in Bytom, a city of about 100,000, were remaining off the job to underline their demand for changes in management. r- .1 .11 .ii i! tgypr, israii plans talks ALEXANDRIA, EGYPT - The United States says Egypt and Israel are resuming negotiations on Palestinian autonomy in a few weeks. But one of President Anwar Sadat's chief advisers says only preliminary talks will be held unless Israel makes concessions on the issues of .IpniGQlom Qnrl Taurick catHamanto in nn/tlininrl V ?? MUUIV1U u?u uvn 1011 ov LVIVIUVIIU} 111 uvi.upicu ICi f 11U1 ICS. U.S. Mideast envoy Sol Linowitz announced the breakthrough in the Egyptian-Israeli deadlock Wednesday after a meeting here with President Anwar Sadat and earlier talks in Israel with Prime Minister Menachem Begin. Linowitz said the two governments, who had been I feuding for more than a month over a new Israeli law claiming eternal control over unified Jerusalem, "agree to resume the autonomy negotiations at a mutually agreed dated, and to consult regarding preparations, timing and venue of a summit meeting" to be chaired by Carter. Russian organizer on trial MOSCOW - Alexander Ogorodnikov, a 29-year-old organizer of Russian Orthodox religious study groups, is on trial in the city of Kalinin, 100 miles northwest of here, dissident sources report. He is the third dissident in two weeks to be tried on the charge of anti-Soviet propoganda. The sources said at the opening of the trial Wednesday, (APfulnilrmi onnnnnn/ul ? ~ iU. 11 ;i ,v> uuiunui aiuivuilt^cu lie UIU I1UI I CVU^IUiC U1C ClUUlUI'Uy the court and dismissed the lawyer who had been assigned to defend him. He was sentenced January 1979 to a year in a labor camp for "parasitism," or failure to hold a socially useful job. Last week, Gleb Yakunin, 46, a Russian Orthodox priest who organized an underground religious study group in Moscow, was sentenced to five years in labor camp and five years of internal exile. Human rights activist Tatyana Velikanova, 47, was convicted on the same charge and sentenced to four vears in camo and five in exile. Italian scales Mt. Everest PEKING - Italian mountaineer Reinhold Messner became the second man in history to scale Mt. Everest via the south side and the north slope, the Chinese Mountaineering Association reported. Messner, 35, reached the summit of the world's highest mountain on a solo climb on Aug. 20, the association reported Tuesday. It said he started from Tibet two days earlier without assistance and without oxygen tanks. pj Messmer previously reached the peak from the south 1 side in Nepal in 1978. | "M" Junior Media Arts major, Brian BKg|. Gilbert tries to cool off by wind- i surfing across the Thomas Cooper | Library reflection porta yesieraay, but his efforts were hindered by a j ieck of wind. {Photo by Mark Rj Corey) jp? sgpj| iiauuii AFL-CIO backs Carter WASHINGTON-Conjuring up the threat of unions posed by Ronald Reagan, the AFL-CIO have endorsed President Carter and vowed to wage the most vigorous campaign in its history to secure his re-election. Not a single "no" vote was heard when the leaders of | the 104 unions that make up the labor federation formally | lent their substantial political operations on behalf of p Carter ti However, leaders of the firefighters union and the I nation's largest union of federal workers, the American Federation of Government Employees, later said they had abstained. In announcing its support, the 13.6-million-member labor federation set aside past differences with the administration over economic policy. r I I _ I _l omoKing can De aaaicnve WASHINGTON - A government advisory group has recommended that cigarette packages should carry a warning that smoking can be addictive. The recommendation, now being reviewed b; Surgeon General Julius Richmond, was made by the' National Advisory Council on Drug Abuse. The council concluded mere is ciear evidence mat tooacco is addictive in tne same way as heroin and morphine. Spokesmen for the tobacco industry were quick to respond to the recommendation. "It is another attempt by do-gooders or no-gooders trying to disrupt North Carolina's major industry," said state Agriculture Commissioner James A. Graham. "I'm not going to deny it's difficult to stop smoking. It's a habit just like eating too much, chewing gum or eating too much sugar/' he said. But, Graham said, "Putting (the new warning) on a pack isn't going to stop people from smoking. Garwood jury selected CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. - A jury of six men was selected vesterdav for th? court-martial of Marim* Pfr RnKprf Garwood, the only American prisoner of war charged with desertion and collaboration with the enemy in Vietnam. The military judge, Col. R.E. Switzer, tentatively scheduled Garwood's trial to begin on Sept. 17. Garwood, 34, could be sentenced to life in prison if he is convicted of the charges. He returned to the United States last year after almost 14 years in Vietnam. Final selection of the jury was made with surprising speed during a 30-minute session yesterday, Tha CIV-mAmKnt* inmr ?o r*/\l D ! * T 4 illb OlA llIVIllUVl Jul y IO V/V/i. l\ClillCUI X . iUllUUC ill .J Lil. : 1 Col. Abrome L. Vallese, Maj. Charlton H. Blanks, Maj. j Charles R. Packett, Maj. Kenneth R. Frederickson and j 1st Lt. Ernest T. Gonzales. [ | Garwood was a 19-year-old Jeep driver when he ji disappeared near Da Nang in 1965. He surfaced again I early last year, saying he had been held captive for more v than 13 years. [I Caffeine linked to defects j llf A onikTrt mA&t ml *?I 1 a ' n/tomnu iu? -inc icuerai government says pregnant women should stop drinking coffee, tea and cola drinks ar at least cut down-because caffeine may cause birth defects. The Food and Drug Administration stopped short of requiring warning labels on products that contain caffeine. Pregnant women have long been warned to watch their diet and to curtail smoking, alcohol and drugs. Caffeine, a stimulant, and other substances reach the unborn child The agency's actions do not include warnings to others [ who drink caffeine beverages. Americans consume an [] average of 2.5 cups of coffee and 12 ounces of a soft drink [ | ^8 ' ' - ~~r ? x-v? '. . - ' * ' - - - *> y^y State Southern Bell wants hike Southern Bell Telephone Co. asked the state Public Service Commission yesterday for a $39.6 million rate liilra flAvrin/t /IaiiKIa ivtfiam **nnr>fir>iiAn Aa amtwIa iiuvc, oajrui? uvuuw U1511 uuiauun tuuuiiuco ui a uuc uui earnings sharply.'* The company asked the regulating agency to allow it to put the 12 percent rate increase into effect on Oct. 4. "We have had only two increases in the last five years and they were only about half what we needed and requested," said Harry Marsh, vice president for Southern Bell operations in South Carolina. "...We have reached a point where we must seek and increase in our rates..." He added, "We have limited our request to comply with the voluntary wage-price guidelines. However, our full revenue requirements based on today's conditions fully justify a $66.4 million increase." Under the proposed increase, the cost of having a rotary dial telephone in the home would rise by $2.05. In businesses the increase for the same phone would be $4.S0. Absentee ballots are issue Candidates who pick up handsful of absentee ballot applications and distribute them to voters are contributing to voting abuses, a legislative panel was told Wednesday. State Election Commission Director James B. Ellisor urged that legislation be passed giving his agency authority to require that county commissions follow certain abuse prevention procedures. Ellisor said the state commission cannot legally issue rules and regulations. It can only make recommendations that county officials could, and occasionally do, "thumb their noses at," he said. Sen. Edward E. Saleeby, a member of the joint HouseSenate subcommittee on election laws, said a law should be passed to prevent people from picking up absentee ballot applications for anyone other than themselves. "I think (hat'a tuKara Kiillr nt aluou m ? i ?? ?? ? m w ivii->>v wuin wi auiw VWIWH UVUI) said Saleeby, D-Darlington. "If you eliminate that you eliminate 90 percent of the problem." Iranian freed on bond BEAUFORT - A 26-year-old Iranian arretted here last week and charged with overstaying his visa is free on $1,000 bond, a U.S. Immigration Service official said. A deportation hearing has not been set, said Immigration sDokesman Jerrv Patton Hassan Khodabande was arrested in Beaufort last week after an America h woman he had married allegedly tokl authorities her marriage to him was "just a favor" so he could remain in this country, Patton said. Khodabande, who had been a student at The Citadel, and his wife were living in Charleston at the time of his arrest. Patton declined to identify the woman, who married the Iranian man Dec. 5. His visa had been valid until April, when President carter revoked the visas of most Iranians, Patton said. Khodabande was originally held on $10,000 bond. An administrative judge reduced bond Friday. Drug jury completed Jury selection was completed Thursday in the trial of a dozen men charged with trying to smuggle $12 million worth of marijuana from Colombia, South America, to South Carolina. Opening arguments were scheduled to begin Monday at 10:30 a.m. before U.S. District Judge Falcon Hawkins. The smuggling attempt was blocked June 30 when the snrimper Dixie, used to carry 12 tons of marijuana, ran aground in the Edisto River, authorities said. Eight Colombians, a Spaniard and three United States citizens are charged with conspiracy to illegally import marijuana, conspiracy to possess and distribute marijuana and illegally importing with the intent to distribute. 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