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DAMASCUS, Syria ? Syria and Libya Wednesday [
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Damascus Radio broadcast a joint communique saying
Syrian President Hafez Assad and Libyan leader Col.
Moammar Khadafy agreed to form a unified government
for thf? mprcrpd nations within one month.
A "Revolutionary Congress" will assume legislative
powers in the unified sta^e which will have a single international
entity, according to the communique came
only hours after Assad returned to Damascus trom a iwoday
visit to Tripoli for talks with Khadafy.
"The two leaderships have agreed to proclaim the two
countries a unified state and to bring about a total
economic, political and military merger," the communimie
said.
"The unified state will have the democratic institutions
that will ensure that power will be in the hands of the
people," it added.
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TEHRAN, Iran ? Iran's prime minister has told I
Secretary of State Edmund Muskie he will talk with the
United States if it "confesses and repents," demands
Prpsirfpnt Darter has alreadv rpipptwl Hp also demanded
unfreezing of Iranian assets, return of the Shah's wealth
and an end to "barbaric tortures" of Iranian students in
the United States and "puppet countries."
Prime Minister Mohammad Ali Rajai and the speaker
of the Iranian Parliament. Hashemi liafsaniani. in other
speeches also attacked President Abolhassan Bani-Sadr
for his refusal to endorse seven of Rajai's 21 nominees to
his cabinet.
Kajai spelled out his terms tor talks with the united
States in a speech that was broadcast Tuesday by Tehran
Radio. He was responding to a letter from Muskie,
delivered last week by the Swiss Embassy, urging the
release of the 52 American hostages.
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WARSAW, Poland ? Stanislan Kania, Poland's new
Communist Party chief, has appealed for unity in the
trade union movement, but journalists' and dockworkers'
unions were reported planning to join others bolting the
official Trade Union Council to seek independence.
The Trade union issue must be treated "with calm and
consistency," Kania said in a speech to party faithful in
the southern coal mining city of Katowice, one of the
centers of the recent labor crises.
"We stand on the ground of unity in the trade union
movement," he said. "Unity is our great achievement and
we shall take care of it."
Polish Television, which broadcast a summary of
Kama's remarks, gave no indication whether the new
leader mentioned independent trade unions, a major
concession won by workers who struck numerous enterprises
across the nation in a three-week rebellion.
O'Neal, Fawcett to marry1
VENICE, Italy ? It's a Venetian love story for former
"Charlie's Angel" Farrah Fawcett and actor Ryan
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Miss Fawcett and O'Neal, guests of Italian fashion
designer Roberta Di Camerino, showed, up at St. Mark's
Square over the weekend to help distribute trophies to the
winners of the Campiello prizes, one of the most
prestigious literature awards in Italy.
"I am very happp, and let me tell you Venice is the most
beautiful city in the world," said Miss Fawcett, who
previously was married to actor Lee Majors.
The couple's friends said Ryan, father of actress Tatum
O'Neal, and Miss Fawcett will co-star in a movie to be
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Jenrette called a 'crook'
WASHINGTON ? The alleged co-conspirator in Rep.
John W. Jenrette's bribery trial told an FBI Abscam informant
in October 1978 that a congressman ? later
identified as Jenrette ? is "is as big a crook as I am,"
according to a tape recording played in U.S. District Court
Wednesday.
Stowe was speaking to Melvin Weinberg, a convicted
swindler who worked with the FBI in the 14-month ADscam
operation.
Jenrette's attorneys contend the Abscam indictment of
their client was the result of a five-year Justice Department
drive to "get" the congressman. They say the drive
began when the campaign manager of a 1976 election
opponent became a U.S. attorney.
Jennrette is charged with conspiracy and bribery, while
Stone, a Richmond, Va., businessman, is accused of
conspiracy and aiding and abetting a bribery.
Stauback in Senate?
WASHINGTON ? Some Texans are pushing for retired
Dallas Cowboy quarterback Roger Staubach to take the
qualities he showed on the football field and use them in a
race for the Senate.
"I think Roger has proven in his career that he has the
capacity and the ability," said Republican Mark Tapscott,
an organizer of the campaign to persuade Staubach
too run against Sen. Lloyd Bentsen, D-Texas, in 1982.
"He has demonstrated the kind of determination, the
kind of ability to think under very intense pressure and the
ability to lead," Tapscott said.
In a telephone interview Wednesday from Dallas,
Staubach spokesman Roz Cole said, "He's not having
anything to do with it. He doesn't have any intention of
running," she said.
Tapscott said he and fellow Texan Albert Forrester, the
originators of the campaign, are not discouraged by
Staubach's response.
He said the idea of drafting Staubach came up after the
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Women's lib is 'valuable'
WASHINGTON ? A document prepared for a meeting
of the world's Roman Catholic bishops says women's
liberation is valuable but "we must carefully look at what
bonds are to be untied and what values are to be
promoted."
Obstacles to be removed, the document says, include
the fact that a woman's " place in the family is sometimes
made secondary as far as dignity is concerned." A
preface says the 115-page document "is simply A means
I for reflection and discussion" in the worldwide Synod of.
Bishops, which begins Sept. 26 at the Vatican. It offers a
traditional view of church doctrine on: the Synod's theme
of "The Role of the Christian Family in the World Today."
Plane has false threat
SAN FRANCISCO ? Bomb squads and an explosivesniffing
dog failed to ferret out any explosives aboard an
Eastern Airlines jet after a telephone threat, and the
plane took off without incident early yesterday.
FJight 74, from San Francisco International Airport to
Atlanta and Charlotte, N.C., was delayed almost three
hours by the threat, the second known in two days at the
airport.
"A man said there was a bomb in the baggage comI
partment aboard Flight 74," airline supervisor Patricia
Reilly said of the 9:10 p.m. PDT Wednesday threat.
Although 126 passengers and a crew of 10 were on board
originally, Ms. Reilly said one woman decided not to
reboard after the search was made, preferring to take a
later flight.
Jim Ashlock, public relations director for Eastern in
Atlanta, said he thought the caller was "looking for a
State
Smaller budget approved
Gov. Dick Riley says state agency heads need to
remember that ttife sacrifices they arc being called on for
this year are not temporary.
"It's something we have to learn to live with," Riley
told the department heads, college presidents and other
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School Wednesday afternoon. "Only through
your best efforts to increase productivity will our goals be
achieved."
Rilftv and the rest of the state Budeet and Control Board
tentatively approved a 1981-82 budget that proposes a
reduction of 7 percent in each agency's funds for personnel.
State officials said they are $49.5 million short of the
funds the state needs to meet the proposed $1.9 billion
budget. The 7 percent personnel reduction and other cuts
in programs will make up the difference, they said.
Farmers to lose millions
GREENVILLE ? South Carolina farmers will probably
lose $344.o million Decause 01 crops damaged oy drougnt
this summer, Clemson University Extension Service
official said Thursday.
W.T. O'Dell, director of the extension service, said the
"staggering loss" means farmers will lose more .than a
third of their anticipated $1 billion income.
He and other officials said a survey of extension agents
in the state's 46 counties showed the Pee Dee area to be
the worst hit.
They said extensive damage was found in soybeams,
tobacco, cotton and com. In the Piedmont, which is
dominated by cattle and livestock operations, hay'and
pastures are most seriously affected.
"There isn't any (hay and pastures)," an extension
service spokesman said. "Cattlemen will be in critical
condition."
4 Soybeans were the crop hardest hit by the three months
of hot dry weather this summer, they said. The service
estimated farmers will lose $112 million in soybean crops.
Corngrowers are expected to lose $61 million, tobacco
farmers probably will lose $36 million and cotton growers
$25 million. Pasture loss is estimated at $17.5 million.
AFL-CIO: a force in state
CHARLESTON ? The president of t|ie state AFL-CIO,
James Johnson, told the opening session of the union's
convention Thursday that candidates for public office now
recognize the organization as a force to be reckoned with.
Johnson said the union group is committed to using all
its resources to make an impact on state politics and to
elect candidates it endorses. He announced the?state
organization would go on record at the meeting for the reelection
of President Carter and for passage of a state
constitutional amendment to allow a governor to serve
two terms
He noted a voter registration drive is under way with
the goal of getting*every union member and voting age
members of the families on the books.
Instructor's rank reduced
P ARRIS ISLAND ? A special court martial has found a
former Marine drill instructor guilty of maltreatment.
nazing recruits ana irregularly performing physical
training with recruits.
Sgt. Joseph E. Williams, 26, was reduced to the rank of
corporal and received a pay cut of $150 per month, according
to Lt. Stan Gould, assistaiit public affairs officer
at the Parris Island Recruit Depot.
The court, comprised of three officers and four enlisted
Marines, found the Jacksonville, N.C., native guilty of six
incidents of recruit abuse and not guilty of the remaining
eight alleged incidents. .
Williams was relieved as an assistant drill instructor in
July 1980 when the charges were referred against him,
Gould said.
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stadium Saturday while anticipating
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