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Wire reportsi World Iran against OPEC I VIENNA, Austria ? Iran has kept up its attack on the j proposal to set up a joint system of pricing and production | luuuuis iui me urganizauon 01 feiroieum tixporting Countries, saying it ignored the needs of the oil nations. Iran's opposition and the resulting split between it and Saudi Arabia was good news for the United States and other industrial countries. It meant that the Saudis would not increase their prices before the end of the year and would not reduce production. And that meant that the ! present glut on the oil market would continue, putting pressure on other OPEC producers to sell for less than the I cartel's official base price of $32 for a 42-gallon barrel of crude oil. Oil ministers and other representatives of the 13 OPEC nations opened a three-day meeting Monday called to agree on machinery to adjust crude oil prices upward every three months to keep up with world inflation, currency fluctuations and economic growth in industrial countries, and to reduce production whenever necessary to keep the price up. rl The goal is to raise the cost of oil eventually to the price of other sources of energy, which OPEC economists estimate is now the equivalent of a $60 a barrel. Passengers jump to safety LONDON ? All 215 passengers on board an American | DC-10 jetliner jumped for safety yesterday when fire hrokp nut in thp r?la lio'c Iinfiarnoirinrtn on it > ?? ~u * * - ... v.w >1 unui.1 vaino5c cto ii was dUUUl IU take off from London's Heathrow Airport. At least nine person were reported injured seriously enough for treatment. The jet, National Airlines flight 099 to Miami, was taxying for takeoff at the time, airport officials said. ' r ire engines ana amDuiances rushed to the aid of the jet, and passengers were quickly evacuated through escape chutes. A police official at Heathrow described the incident as "minor," but three passengers were taken to the hospital with suspected broken limbs and six to the airport's medical center suffering from minor burns. Several other passengers received cuts and bruises during the evacuation. The flight crew aboi ted takeoff after receiving advice from the control tower. Japan's elderly still work TOKYO ? More than a fourth of the 10.6 million Japanese over 65 still work, and about 8 percent of those who don't still hope to Het iobs. according to a onvprnm^ survey released today on a national holiday honoring the aged. The report said Japan's population totalsH5million and 9.1 percent are now 65 or older, an increase of 340,000 in the past year. The percentage is expected to more than double, to 18.8 percent, by the year 2020, the survey said. , Japanese life expectancy is one of the longest in the world. Males average 73.46 veflrs fomnloc 7ft no TKoro w - ? ^ ?? ? J - < U. . A llVri V are 968 persons aged 100 years or older. Carter, Zzia plan to meet ISLAMABAD, Pakistan ? A Washington meeting between President Carter and Pakistan's president, Gen. Mohammad Zia ul-Haq, is being arranged for early next mnnfU ?..iU It. - i.1 mv/iiui, duuiuniauvt' sources saia Monday. ' I The White House meeting, expected to be on Oct. 3 or I Oct. 4, would be the first bilateral session between Zia and I a Western Pakistani Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, i said the sources, who did not want to be identified. * In Washington, administration officials said Zia is going I to be in the United States to address the United Nations ;! and that they consider it likely that a meeting with Carter I will be arranged. No details were available. ! \ Zia was expected to bring up the Afghan crisis and [ j make a try to persuade Carter to let Pakistan have the I latest generation of warplanes. ? USC employees work Tuesday to dean out the Thomas Cooper W$* Library reflection pond. The fBI ducks, who live in the pond seem PMlM ^ neither upset or concerned about jj|j| the housec/eaning. (Photo by BBWBmSW^ Ja ) J ) r'' ' . . ' ' ' : " fv Nation ^ .... barter aide takes leave WASHINGTON ? Tim Kraft, who as President Carter's national campaign manager has run the day-to-day details of Carter's re-election effort, is taking a "leave of absence" amid an investigation into allegations he used cocaine in 1977. Kraft said in a statement issued Sunday that he is "completely innocent of the charges," which reportedly are being investigated by a special prosecutor. But, he added, "I have concluded that I can best serve the president and avoid political exploitation of the false charges against me bv taking a leave of absence from the campaign.1' "I have not worked hard for President Carter for the past six years just to become a subject of political controversy in the final six weeks of his re-election campaign," Kraft said. Vr?off on n ti ~:j- i?' utaii., OJ7, wuiivcu as a nunc nuusc tliue UCIUIC JOlIllIlg j| the re-election effort and is the third high-level Carter n aide to become involved in a drug controversy. j N.C. mayor is 22 |' RHODHISS, N.C. ? Mike Owens, at 22, is the youngest mayor in North Carolina - and it may force him to change his lifestyle. The 5-foot-10, 259-pound Owens has fought professionally and operates a boxing club in nearby Granite Falls. But that may change as a result of his appointment three weeks ago as mayor of Rhodhiss, a town of about 650 people. I "I'm trying to keep the boxing stuff low key now," j Owens said. "I don't know how people who see me in politics will relate to that." Owens had 32 amateur fighb and compiled a record of ! 27 wins and five losses. Since turning professional he has i fought three matches and has won two. r- i i i j. ^unt?r:no ena iuf uosiuyes WASHINGTON ? President Carter, less optimistic j than he was a day ago, said yesterdiay "there is no prospect at this time for an early resolution" of the stalemate over release of American hostages in Iran. His comment, made to a local television reporter while ha /inmnni/o 1 i- Ail i- ? ~ ..v *~?*iii|Migircu in /mania, was closer to secretary of State Edmund S. Muskie's comment Monday that it was a mistake to suggest that recent statements by Iranian authorities may foreshadow an end to the hostage crisis. Pausing outside Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, the president said there was no reason to believe the hostage situation "has been resolved at all." On Monday in Corpus Chris ti, Texas, Carter told a town hall meeting: "They're making statements in Iran that may very well lead to a resolution of this problem in the future." 1 MusKie and Carter seemed to offer contradictory assessments in separate statements Monday, the day before the scheduled opening of the Iranian parliament's debate on the fate of the hostages held in Iran since Nov. 4. Family gets boy from hotel A nnw * -*" ? ailainia ? a soutn Carolina publisher who found a I 13-year-old runaway hiding out in a downtown motel will i be the boy's new foster father, at least temporarily, county officials say. j Jim Broomfield of Beech Island, S.C., visiting Atlanta | with his wife and son two weeks ago, noticed Marcus n Maddox roaming the Hyatt Regency Hotel, sleeping under n stairwells and snatching food from buffet tables. t j The boy told Broomfield he had been living at the hotel 11 for about a week since running away from a foster father < who beat him. Broomfield, who grew up in a foster home himself, jj decided to take Marcus home with him after being unable :: to reach welfare officials over the Labor Day weekend. i i State Justice supports court State Supreme Court Justice David W. Harwell has called for an intermediate appeals court and continued improvement of the Universitv of South Carolina Ij>u; School. In a speech to the Law School Association Saturday, Harwell said, "We need an intermediate apellate court and we need it now. "It has already been mandated by the people of South Carolina in a referendum, and they should not have to wait years to get it." Harwell said the appeals court should handle civil inattprs wpII ac nriminal r?acac tn holn t 1/ ? u uu v< uiimui vuova iu nvip a tucvc CI X 72 III year backlog that now faces the state Supreme Court. He also told the group that more incentives were needed to improve the law school, " and we as active lawyers must have more participation in the law school's programs to provide more practical experience for our students." Deputy charged in slaying BENNETTSVILLE ? A Marlboro County sheriff's deputy has been charged with murder in the shooting death of a man he was trying to apprehend, authorities said. The dead man, Stanly Thomas, 23, was trying to flee into some woods when Deputy Bernis Brown, 38, opened fire on him, witnesses said. ni f#* * - - - - - ? anenu jack weatnerly said Brown, who is free under $5,000 bond, was placed on administrative duty pending the outcome of the charge. He added that the State Law Enforcement Division is investigating the shooting. Weatherly said Brown was trying to arrest Thomas on an assault charge when the shooting occurred at Brown's house. The two men live across the street from each other in a sparsely populated area about a mile south of Bennettsville. Witnesses to the shooting said Monday Thomas was unarmed when Brown fired at him. They said Brown fired two of the blasts in the direction of children playing in a neighbor's yard as Thomas ran past them into the woods. One of Thomas' relative said Brown later went into the WAOds with nthpr nffiporo onH onnH?ii> oknt ' >? . . .... v V?tivv> u MIIU ailVUIVl OHVi VTCU) ill CUi Weatherly said a preliminary probe by other deputies showed Thomas was hit by at least one of the shotgun blasts. Brown and several other officers found the man's body in the woods, he added. Lawyer violates code An Aiken lawyer has been reprimanded by the South Carolina Supreme Court for soliciting business in violation of the lawyers' Code of Ethics. The court ruled that Franklin D. Beattie Jr., who also is an ordained minister, obtained the business of a husband and wife while they were hospitalized with serious injuries from an automobile accident. Neither of the victims nor any immediate family member contacted Beattie for his services as an attorney, but they were pressured into accepting his services, according to tlie Supreme Court reprimand. Beattie's authority to practice law is not affected by the reprimand. Man killed in accident MULLINS, -r A Marion County man was killed in a freak accident Sunday when the rifle he was pulling out of a car trunk discharged, hitting him in the chest. Marion County Coroner Jerry Richardson identified the victim as Ben H. Williams, a bookkeeper for the Mullins T .nmhar Pn MuuaiMVA VU. Williams was removing the .22-caliber rifle from the trunk when the trigger caught on a luggage rack and the gun fired, Richardson said. Shot in the chest, Williams died instantly. BBB^lWWHlWl!^^B^^^^^^^B^^^BBMiBMBiMiiii^^^"::^ 88Hiiililtl