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New government in Spain
MADRID. Spain ? In an apparent bid to stem criticism
over inflation, unemployment and terrorism, Premier
Adolfo Suarez has formed his sixth government in four
years.
The centrist premier on Monday removed deputy
premier and economic expert Fernando Abril Martorell,
me man ^pain's communist ana socialist parties neia
partly responsible for the nation's 16 percent annual inflation
rate and 11.2 percent unemployment rate. He was
replaced with Common Market Minister Leopoldo Calvo
Sotelo, whose post was downgraded to undersecretary and
given to Catalan economist Eduard Punset Casals. That
appointment was seen as a move to enlist Catalan support
in a parliamentary vote of confidence Suarez is expected
to face next week.
Sellers' memorial held
LONDON ? If Peter Sellers ever harbored a needless
fear, it was that no one would show up at his memorial
service.
An estimated 500 mourners, many of them entertainers,
did show up Monday at St. Martins-in-the Field to pay
tribute to their friend who died of a heart attack here July
24.1 Monday would have been Sellers' 55th birthday.
Prince Charles, a special fan of Sellers, was
represented by British comedian Michael Bentine. Lord
Snowdon, ex-husband of Princess Margaret, read the 23rd
Psalm, and friend, fellow jester and singer Harry
Secombe sang "Bread of Heaven."
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/iciur uaviu mven recalled mat ne ana Jieiiers attended
a memorial service for Noel Coward several years ago As
they left the church, Sellers said he hoped there would be
no such service for him "because I don't think anyone will
show up."
Niven added: 4'I just hope that he knows that Laurence
Olivier described him as a genius."
Trudeau offers control
OTTOWA ? Prime Minister Elliott Trudeau has offered
Canada's provinces greater control over their natural
resources in an effort to get their agreement to the
transfer this year of control over the Canadian consitution
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Trudeau's offer Monday came at the beginning of a
potentially historic conference with the 10 provincial
premiers to try to reach agreement on the repeal of the
British North America Act of 1867, Canada's present
constitution, and its replacement by a Canadian charter.
Trudeau offered the provinces power to tax natural
resources that leave their provinces. The premiers accepted,
but this did little to dispel the belief that a week of
bitter wrangling lay ahead.
Libya has'radical change'
TRIPOLI, LIBYA ? The Libyan government is confiscating
small shops and requiring people to show
urgent need" before they can withdraw money from
their bank accounts under a sweeping program of radical
change launched by the nation's revolutionary leader,
Col. Mormmar Khadafy.
4'His goal is nothing less than the destruction of all
forms of government and economics known to the
Western world/' says a top foreign diplomat in this North
African caoital on the edize of the Sahara Desert
The government has shut down small shops in the name
of modernization and replaced them with gleaming five
story, steel-and-glass supermarkets. The shutters that
board up the closed stores are painted green, the everpresent
color of Islam and the color that gives the title to
Khadafy's three-pamphlet "Green Book" capitalism and
communism.
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Jenrette trial uses tapes
WASHINGTON ? Rep. John W. Jenrette, sitting at the
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Jenrette, the unwitting star of an FBI videotape.
"I've got larceny in my blood," the on-screen Jenrette
tells an FBI agent posing as a representative of an Arab
sheik offering $50,000 in $100 bills for legislative favors.
Earlier, the congressman savs: "There's nothing I'd
rather do than walk out with it."
The tape was made Dec. 4 in the library of a
Georgetown home rigged with a hidden camera as part of
the FBI's 14-month Abscam investigation, in which undercover
agents said they represented wealthy Arabs
needing immigration bills.
The Jenrette tape was played in a hushed U.S. District
courtroom Monday in the bribery and conspiracy trial of
the three-term South Carolina Democrat and Richmond,
Va., businessman John R. Stowe.
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oqueaKy rromme talks
SACRAMENTO, CALIF ? Five years after threatening
then-President Gerald R. Ford's life, Lynette "Squeaky"
Frnmmr* savs "was nnt HfltprminpH to kill thp oiiv
obviously, because 1 didn't do it."
The member of the Charles Manson "family," imprisoned
at the Federal Correctional Institute for Women
at Alberson, W. Va., spoke about the 1975 incident in an
interview with the Sacramento Bee, published Sunday.
"I was fed up. With lots and lots of things," Ms.
Fromme said. "Here's this guy coming in to Sacramento,
smiling like everything's all right with the world, and we
got all these problems over here/'
She said she was "checking things out" when she
confronted the president. Officials said after the incident
that the firing chamber in her gun was empty but there
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ejected the top shell before she left home.
Nixon speaks on debates
NEW YORK ? Candidates who have paid attention to
history will concentrate on winning the audience, not the
war of words, in the 1980 presidential debates, says for
mer r resident Kicnara Nixon.
Nixon, in an interview taped for broadcast yesterday on
NBC's "Today" show, advised this year's debaters to take
a tip from his owii 1960 match with John F. Kennedy.
"Polls were taken after my famous first debate with
Kennedy, which indicated that those who heard it on radio
thought I had won," He said. "Those who saw me on
television thought I looked terrible, which I did, and they
... agreed that he'd won."
The lesson, said Nixon, is that "making very small
debating points or even big ones won't win this particular
election. It's how the man looks, how he sounds."
I The League of Women Voters is to announce today who
is eligible to participate in tlie debates it will sponsor this
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Oswald hearing ends
FORT WORTH, TEXAS ? Who owns or controls Lee
Harvey Oswald's controversial grave? A brother who
doesn't want it opened? A mother who won't comment? Or
his widow, who wants to know whether Oswald really was
buried there?
This is the question State District Judge James E.
| Wright has been asked to decide as a result of a British
f-j author's effort to have the grave opened to prove or
g disporve his theory that a Soviet spy - not Oswald - killed
g President John F. Kennedy.
[ i Wright indicated at the conclusion of a civil hearing
I Monday that he will decide next week on a temporary
i < injunction sought by Oswald's brother, Robert, to halt the
II author's attempt to exhume the body.
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INAACP against two-term
The National Association for the Advancement of
Colored People is asking its South Carolina members to
I reject a proposed concututionai amendment to let
governors run for consecutive terms.
NAACP state field director Isaac Williams says the
association opposed the two-term amendment when it was
considered in the General Assembly earlier this year.
I The civil rights group opposes giving governors a
chance to succeed themselves because "you might get a
bad apple in there" who would spend most of the first
term running for re-election, Williams said. The best
solution might be a single six-year term, he said.
The NCCP's efforts are not necessarily intended to deny
Gov. Dick Riiev another term. Williams said. But he
added the organization was disappointed that Riley spent
considerable time pushing the issue instead of working
harder on other needs of the state.
"He has been dominated by two things this year, getting
the two-term bill through and re-electing Jimmy Carter,*'
the field director said.
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SPARTANBURG ? A judge yesterday ordered a 12year-old
boy, charged in the strangulation death of his 8year-old
cousin, to undergo 15 days of psychiatric testing
at a state mental hospital.
I Judge Alvin Biggs issued the directive to Randy Price,
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Price, 42, and Frances Ann Price, 28.
Authorities said a hearing would be conducted within
three to four weeks to determine if the boy should be tried as
an adult.
The three are accused in the Saturday slaying of Tracie
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plastic trash bag in an abandoned house near her home in
nearby Una.
Folly boardwalk sold
FOLLY BEACH ? No one else at a public auction bid on
the Folly Beach boardwalk, so the original owner, Folly
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seven-acre tract.
The company bought the once-bustling seaside attraction
Monday for $500. The firm had no Comment of
plans for the property because they had just regained
ownership, said Norman Stevenson, an attorney for the
company.
The commercial front was sold at public auction
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purchase price of the boardwalk.
Family Park bought the tract in 1978 and made several
unsuccessful attempts to revitalize the boardwalk.
The pier and some of the boardwalk were heavily
damaged in a January 1972 fire. Extensive repairs are
needed before the front can again be a commercial
operation.
Allendale firing 'unjustified'
ALLENDALE ? Allendale's former town manager
says her recent firing by the town council was unjustified
and says she feels she was the victim of discrimination.
But council members privately say Jacqueline Jones
was fired after 16 months in office because they felt she
was unqualified to handle a $650,000 budget. according to
I the State newspaper.
The Lowcountry town has a mammoth fiscal
headache?a $230,000 deficit, no cash on hand and only
4,000 residents to pay taxes.
The council has doubled the town millage from 75 to 190
miles rate in an effort to climb out of the financial abyss.
Council members also fired Mrs. Jones, 27, over the
objections of Mayor William Holmes, who said she had
done an outstanding job and had made an effort to
j:; overcome financial problems left by her predecessor.
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