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World
Iraq gives truce conditions
BAGHDAD, Iraq ? Iraq announced conditions for a
truce with Iran yesterday and claimed its forces had
captured an important oil harbor and seized Tehran's
railroad, cutting off the port and another major city in
southern Iran.
The claimed capture of Khorramshahr, on the northern
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scored by Iraq. Iraq said it had captured 115 square miles
of Iranian border territory in four days of fighting.
Iran claimed it had pushed back Iraqi forces in one area
and reported for the first time the capture of a border post
inside Iraq.
Iranian jets made their deepest penetration yet into
Iraq, bombing a gas refinery at Ayn Zala, 280 miles
northwest of Baghdad and 400 miles from the nearest
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Soviets against free unions
MOSCOW ? The Soviet Communist Party daily
Pravda, quoting from the works of V.I. Lenin, yesterday
criticized the "bourgeois" concept of "free" trade unions
and said unions in a socialist country must be under
political party leadership.
The article made no direct reference to the mass strikes
last month in Poland, which ended with workers getting
the right to establish unions independent of the Com
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serious Soviet concern over unions outside the control of
political parties.
The article, presented as a review of a new collection of
writings by the founder of the Soviet state, said Lenin
sharply criticized "those who called for so-called 'free'
trade unions divorced from participation in tasks of the
state."
It denounced such unions as being "free" from "the
main tasks of the working class's struggle for socialism
and communism," and "independent" from the "common
interests of all working people."
'Hostages not in danger'
BEIRUT, Lebanon ? Iraqi attacks on Iran have not
endangered the lives of the 52 American hostages, a
spokesman at the Iranian Revolutionary Guard
headquarters in Tehran said Thursday.
"They are all right. They are in safe places," said the
spokesman, who refused to give his name when called by
The Associated Press here. "As we know, the militant
students have moved them to different nlaces. but thev
are all right."
Tehran radio announced Tuesday an unspecified
number of hostages had been moved from the cities of
Qom, Mashahd, Tabriz, Jahrom, Yazd and Kerman to
new, undisclosed locations.
The hostages, who spent their 327th day in captivity
Thursday, were removed from the U.S. Embassy in April
after an aborted U.S. rescue mission, according to the
militants who occupied the embassy last Nov. 4.
The Revolutionary Guard spokesman described the
situation in Tehran and the mood of the people as "calm"
and "quite satisfactory" after four days of war with Iraq.
Arson suspect arrested
HULL, England ? Police have arrested a 20-year-old
suspect in a string of arson fires that killed 23 people over
the past 10 years. Authorities say they believe the suspect
first began setting fires at the age of nine.
The unidentified man will be arraigned Oct. 16 on 10
charges of murder, arson and grievous bodily harm. He is
currently in custody on other, undisclosed charges. Police
in Humberside, in eastern England, have spent nearly a
year investigating the series of fatal fires, including
blazes in which eight children died. Other charges to be
lodged against the man stem from a 1977 fir#? at an nlH
people's home in which 11 men died.
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Nation
Census figures undercounted
DETROIT ? A federal judge ruled yesterday that the
U.S. Census Bureau's 1980 figures seriously undercount
the nation's populations, particularly minorities, and
must be adjusted before they may be used for reapportioning
Congress or distributing federal funds.
In a suit filed by the city of Detroit, U.S. District Court
Judge Horace Gilmore upheld the argument of the
nation's sixth-largest city that its population had been
unaercouniea in me census.
Gilmore's ruling is a national order which affects all
cities which protested that their populations were undercounted.
Thp II S Conference of Mavors. whirh has hntflina
the federal government over an alleged census undercount,
called the Detroit decision "a great victory."
Rep. Meyers wants to talk
WASHINGTON ? Rep. Michael Myers, D-Pa., convicted
of accepting a bribe in the Abscam scandal, wants
to tell his colleagues his side of the story in an attempt to
avoid being the first House member expelled since the
Civil War.
"I intend to take the House floor when this resolution is
brought before the full House, and at that time I will fully
explain to my colleagues every aspect of this case,"
Myers said Wednesday after the House ethics committee
voted 10-2 to recommend his exDulsion.
"I feel that I should be sanctioned in some way, but not
expelled," added Myers, who is seeking re-election to a
third term.
Missile removal sought
TUSCON, Ariz. ? The 18 Titan missile sites in the
Tuscon area would draw enemy fire like a "sponge" in the
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event ui uiermonuciear war, accoramg 10 a group mai is ,
starting a petition drive seeking removal of the weapons.
The petitions, circulated by the Nuclear Free State, say
an explosion last week at a missile silo in Damascus, Ark.,
is evidence the silos are not safe, group spokesman Edwina
Vogan said Tuesday.
Officials at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base declined to
comment on the petitions, which ask the Pima County
Board of Supervisors to demand removal of the missiles.
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WASHINGTON ? "This letter is your record of
registering with Selective Service, and you should keep a
copy of this acknowledgement as evidence of your
registration " the rnrrpsnonHpnrp sairi
The recipient was Sen. Jesse Helms, a 58-year-old
Republican senator from North Carolina.
Helms, who voted to begin draft registration, wrote the
Selective Service this week pointing out there must be a
mistake.
"I accept with alacrity your assertion that I was born on
May 10, I960," Helms wrote. "If you will not tell anyone
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A Selective Service spokeswoman said a prankster
apparently had registered, using Helms' name and the
address of his Washington office.
Prepare with science fiction
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. ? Looking for something to read to
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science fiction.
Susan Dobra, a University of Alabama English instructor,
thinks sci-fi "will make you more tolerant of
views you disagree with ? political, social and moral."
"Science fiction allows us to step back and look at our
national situation, indeed the world situation, from
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distant perspective. This is a very good way to look at the
situation on the eve of a major election."
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State
Insurance revisions sought
The state's chief insurance commissioner has urged a
joint legislative study committee to consider changes in
the state's automobile liability insurance laws.
John W. Lindsay told the lawmakers Wednesday that
revisions proposed by the Insurance Commission would
be much more acceptable to the public than changes
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The commission's proposals are modifications of
several Dins wnicn me :>enaie passed mis spring dui
which never were acted upon in the House of Representatives.
Lindsay said a change is needed in the way high-risk
drivers are insured because good drivers are complaining
about having to subside bad drivers' rates and companies
don't want to write policies for bad drivers.
Anderson on S.C. ballot
The South Carolina Election Commission said Wednesday
that a statewide petition drive to put John Anderson's
name on the state's ballot has succeeded.
The commission notified the Anderson's state
headouarters late Wednesday nieht nearlv a week after
the campaign officials had submitted 15,097 signatures to
the state. A total of 10,000 valid signatures were needed to
ensure a place on the South Carolina ballot.
James Ellisor, chairman of the Election Commission,
confirmed the announcement.
More than enough signatures were obtained to enable
them to certify Anderson's candidacy within one week of
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Anderson campaign.
Anderson's independent ticket got a bonus in addition to
making the ballot, Anderson's slate will occupy the first
slot on the ballot because of the rotation system used by
the Election Commission.
Tallest living twins in S.C.
ROCK HILL ? Former Winthrrm r'nllocm
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stars Ronnie and Donnie Creamer will be listed in the
Guinness Book of World Records as the world's tallest
living identical twins.
Ronnie is 6-foot, 10 and five-eigths inches and Donnie is
6-foot, 10 and one-forth inches.
Compilers of the book, who recently notified tne school
of the listing, say the tallest identical twins on record were
I the Knipe brothers, born in 1761 near Londonderry in
northern Ireland. They were 7-2.
The Creamers, sons of Mr. and Mrs. William L,
Creamer of Williamston, were born Aug. 12, 1957 ?
Ronnie two minutes ahead of Donnie.
I They were key players on the 1978 Winthrop men's
basketball team which set a National Association of Intercollegiate
Athletics record for most wins by a first-year
team. The squad had a 25-10 record.
Both have graduated and live in Rock Hill.
SLED must slash budget
The State Law Enforcement Division has been ordered
to slash next year's budget by nearly half a million dollars
and mav have to lav off snmp of itc 1% inuocfinotftrc tn
comply.
"We were told to cut our budget by $400,000," SLED
spokesman Hugh Munn said Wednesday. "That money
will have to come out of salaries and that might mean
layoffs."
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muiiii saiu aiong wun all otner slate agencies,
was given orders to reduce personnel expenditures by an
estimated 7 percent before the beginning of the next fiscal
year.
Each SLED department was told to prepare an impact
I study detailing how the budget cut would effect
operations.
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