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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
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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.
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military post and began working for the East German
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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.
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claimed 189 lives. The defendants are charged with
sedition and violating martial law decrees.
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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.
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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.
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WASHINGTON ?The Senate has rejected a bill
authorizing $49.7 billion in aid to higher education over the
next five years.
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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.
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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.
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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."
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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
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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.
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unreasonable and interferred with Roberson's right to
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