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Wire reports i World Stowaways die in ship SANTO DOMINGO, DOMINICAN REPUBLIC ? i; Drawn by the sounds of frantic pounding from inside the | ballast tanks of a Panamanian freighter, rescue workers | found the bodies of 22 young stowaways, apparent victims of an ill-fated plan to gain illegal entry into tto United States, police said. Authorities said 12 survivors were pulled from the tanks Friday night, shortly before the ship's scheduled departure for Miami, Fla. Officials said the stowaways apparently hoped to hide in the ship's ballast tanks during the Caribbean crossing and get off in Miami. A crewman of the 1,500-ton freighter said the tanks were sealed and flooded with salt water as the general cargo, vessel prepared to put to sea on its regular run between Santo Domingo and Miami. As the water was being numned in. RAilnra hpjirH mnfflm) nnnnriincr from within the tanks find called authorities. Police, firemen and Red Cross workers answered the call and helped remove the survivors and the bodies. Police said some of the victims had drowned and other suffocated. Chief of staff arrested PARIS ?The former chief of staff of the East German air force was arrested with French military documents found in his possession and has been charged with espionage, French officials announced Saturday. Counter-espionage agents arrested Gen. Heinz Bernhart Zorn, 68, Aug. 19 on a street in the northern French city of Lille. He was carrying French military information, particularly pertaining to tanks and anti-tank v. ^oons, an Interior Ministry spokesman said. ^ Officials said Zom arrived in France alone on a tourist visa at the beginning of Auoust and immediately was nut under surveillance. Officials did not reveal where Zorn obtained the documents or if any other foreigners or Frenchmen were involved. Zom was a Luftwaffe officer during World War II and continued his military career in the East German air force after the war, rising to chief of staff. ?:-J 1? i *u?? ? e l;- I nciivu uuiutua aaiu iic i cui cu uu re yca? ttgu iruni ills military post and began working for the East German secret service. Death sentences upheld SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA ? The Seoul appellate court has upheld death sentences for two members of an alleged pro-North Korean subversive organization, but reduced death sentences for two otliers to life in prison. iney were among 73 persons sentenced last May for their roles in what the prosecution described as a communist guerrilla organization intent on overthrowing the South Korean government. The court also reduced the life sentence of another of those convicted to 15 years, while UDholding life terms for three others. The court upheld sentences ranging from eight months to 15 years for the remaining 65 defendants, but suspended sentences of 29 of them, most of them students. The martial law command, meanwhile, announced the indictments of 175 people in connection with the Kwangju rebellion in Mnv Thp rmnlt in that npnuin^lol nonUoi mmm |/? w MlVftMA vupivut claimed 189 lives. The defendants are charged with sedition and violating martial law decrees. Studying... mis squirrel percnea on a uam-, m \ women's quad trash can seems to BBSjaBF '4 be catching up on some lastminute studying-or does he have a I copy of the test? He'll never tell. I (Photo by Deana Easier) "! ! ; i jgg iii li lihiiiiiiiiiiii i i i imimmiiiii \ \ s Natinn Jenrette called 'corrupt' WASHINGTON ?A prosecutor Friday called Rep. John W. Jenrette a "corrupt politician" who knew how to arrange a bribe and plant a cover story to hide an illegal act. But a defense attorney in Jenrette's U.S. District Court bribery trial pictured the South Carolina Democrat as a victim of vendettas by the government and an FBI informant in the FBI Abscam investigation. Assistant U.S. Attomev John Kotellv in hio nrw?ninet , j i ~ ?' -r"""? statement, said Jenrette "was a cautious man" who arranged for an accomplice to pick up a $50,000 payoff last Dec.6 from an FBI undercover agent. The money was in return for Jenrette's promise to introduce a private immigration bill for an Arab businessman who the undercover agent said he represented, Kotelly told the packed courtroom and a jury of eight women and four men. OtJIIUItJ lti|t?V-lb UIU Dili WASHINGTON ?The Senate has rejected a bill authorizing $49.7 billion in aid to higher education over the next five years. Thu QAfiafA Kti TKnno/ifttf'o /vf Ac JO - ? ?1 ?? ...v wun/, wj tiiuiouajr o ?uw vu IU1IICU UOWn the measure that passed the House a week ago, although Senate sponsors said they might try to revive it. The measure would extend the government's major higher education aid programs through 1985. It makes important changes in various aid programs, mainly increasing ceilings on grants and loans and raising some interest rates on education loans by one percentage point. Oswald's widow in court FORT WORTH,Texas ?Marina Oswald Porter has asked a state district court to open the grave of her former husband, Lee Harvey Oswald, because "very evil people" may have removed the body. "The rumor I have heard lately is that his body is no longer in tiie grave," she said in a hushed courtroom Friday in the first day of a hearing to determine whether Oswald's body will be unearthed. "I strongly believe in the possibility that the body will not be there," she said, reading from a prepared statement. "I ask the court to move for the opening of the grave." The widow of President John F. Kennedy's accused killer appeared at a hearing on her brother-in-law Robert Oswald's request for a temporary injunction to block the exhumation sought by British author Michael Eddones. Eddones believes the body in the grave is that of a Soviet agent, not Lee Harvey Oswald. Parents try to trade child FLEMINGTON.N.J. ?A 14-month-old boy was placed in a foster care facility after his parents were accused of trying to trade him for a used sports car. laman M OTk T"? 1- o n ?- -- uaiuvo m, uiccn, anu x~ttiueiH opencer oreeii, zi, oi Frenchtown, were being held Thursday on $100,000 bail each on charges of endangering the welfare of a child and selling a child. The two allegedly tried to give the boy to lalo Patinella, owner of Patinella Auto Sales where, in exchange for a 1S77 Corvette when they couldn't raise $8,000 for the car, officials said. Patinella made a report to the state Division of Youth and Family Services. Hiiii iniiiiiiui.iiij.i-ooniii^j^iy HI - > *<* * u> IMIR^^^HN|g?gH?gg. ; "' ' : :v&>x -'" :' ' - - ' ^ - State Crop losses upset Riley GOV. DICK RILEY has asked the Small Business Administration to reclass 39 of the state's 46 counties as disaster areas resulting from the continuing statewide drought, "Farmer's throughout South Carolina are facing severe I financial hardships," said Riley. "They need help and I am pleased that we have been able to put together the information to request this declaration so quickly." TT fKn CO A nr\i\t*Airnn DilAit^o ?*AnifnttmoM ttrkn Kntrn ii wrc uun ?[ip uvco ivucjr o & imuiuo nnv uovc suffered tnajor crop losses due to the drought will be eligible to apply for low interest loans from that federal agency. The governor's office, with the assistance of the Farmer's Home Administration, has compiled a county by county assessment of crop losses. That assessment shows major drought damage to crops in 39 counties, indicating crop loss to at least 40 farmers in each of 33 counties and uninsured losses of more than 25 percent for at least five farmers in each of the other six nraintioo VVMA1UV*J? Census almost completed THE HEAD COUNT is almost over, and U.S. Census Bureau district offices around South Carolina will begin closing their doors this week. (The Columbia office will close Thursday, with other census offices in Greenville, Spartanburg, Florence, and Charleston expected to close in the near future. In Columbia Saturday, workers loaded census forms into boxes which will be shipped to New Orleans for iceuiug mw a uensus .Bureau computer. Revised preliminary population counts for cities and towns across the nation are expected to be released next month, Statewide statistics will also be released this fall. Those figures will be used as a basis for reapportionment of Congressional districts. Plant worries officials BEAUFORT ?A proposed chemical plant 35 miles upstream on the Savannah River from the BeaufortJasper Water Authority's intake canal has officials worried. Milliken and Co., a Spartanburg textile manufacturer. I has purchased 1,556 acres on the Savannah River near Newington, Ga., for construction of the chemical plant. Authority Director Lee Webb said a final decision has inot Deen made but it will depend on an impact report to be prepared bv a consultant. Tour guides overruled CHARLESTON ?John C. Roberson and other tour guides must abide by Charleston ordinances barring them from operating on certain streets, the state Supreme Court has ruled. The high court Thursday handed down a unanimous decision overruling City Judge Theodore Stoney, who said Roberson, a carriage driver, was wrongly convicted of violating the ordinance. Thfl {11H0P nVAPthrOUf " 14 j v.v.v.uvn uiv uiuiiiautc, saying it WHS unreasonable and interferred with Roberson's right to operate a lawful business. m wWMHHWfcKimm a