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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.
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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
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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,
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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
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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 |
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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.
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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,
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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
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Southern Bell Telephone Co. asked the state Public
Service Commission yesterday for a $39.6 million rate
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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.
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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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