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Wire reports Woild 11 r-x I I I r .11 breznnev calls tor talks MOSCOW ? Soviet President Leonid I. Brezhnev has called on the United States, "before it is too late," to resume "constructive" negotiations with the Soviet Union, particularly on arms reduction, Tass reported. According to the official news agency, Brezhnev made the comments in a meeting with Armand Hammer, chairman of the Occidental Petroleum Corp, and longtime friend of Soviet leaders. ui ctuucv a v,uiuiucuu> tame iw%j uaja uciuic muci ltan and Soviet negotiators are to meet in Geneva, Switzerland to begin a new round of nuclear missile talks. Tass reported that during his conversation with Hammer, Brezhnev said American moves toward a "constructive interaction... will always find a positive response in the Soviet Union." The Soviet leader was quoted as saying that the current state of Soviet-American relations posed a "growing danger." Hijacked plane stormed ANKARA, Turkey ? Troops stormed a hijacked Turkish jetliner in southeast turkey early Tuesday, captured the five Turkish hijackers and rescued the 143 passengers and crew members who had been held hostage for 11 hours, the semi-official Anatolia news agency reported. TSvn of the* hiiar>lrorc anH an nnHotprminoH riiimKor nf 1,,v ",v ."jK-nv.u ......vu ..u...?v. v. passengers were slightly injured in the rescue at Diyarbakir, in southeast Turkey, the Turkish state radio reported. But it said all the passengers and crew members were safe. Anatolia said the five hijackers, who posed as Iranians, were flown to Ankara. earner reports saia mere were six nijacners ana mat they demanded that Turkey emulate Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini's Islamic revolution in Iran and return to rule by Islamic law. Americans win Nobels STOCKHOLM, Sweden ? Two Americans - James W. Cronin of Chicago University and Val L. Fitch of Princeton University - have won the 1980 Nobel Prize in Physics for nuclear research. They were cited by the Swedish academy of Science "for the discovery of violations of fundamental symmetry principles in ttfie decay of neutral K-mesons." Fitch, a 57-year-old professor of physics, told a reporter who called him with the news at Princeton, "I am very pleased indeed, of course" by the award. He said his research in high energy physics deals "with machines and probes that search out the tiniest particles." Fitch and Cronin were the fourth and fifth Americans to win Nobel prizes this year. Union council to dissolve WARSAW, Poland ? Poland's independent trade union movement won another round yesterday as the official union council prepared to dissolve because all its branch unions have quit it to become "independent." Representatives of the independent movement charged that some of the breakaways were still controlled by the Communist Party. , Mieczyslaw Grad, secretary of the once-mighty Central Council of Trade Unions, said a "liquidation commission" probably would be formed soon to dismantle the council formally and that some of the 150 political officers on the council stall have quit, the olhcial PAP news agency reported. Grad said all the branch unions quit to become independent unions under the Gdansk settlement six weeks ago that ended the nationwide summer strikes. torn r\essfvr, assisrani at rung V; service director at USC, downs MB around with cotton candy and Karen Barneit at the Russell House liiv cookout yesterday. Grace Koehler ? | (right) and Tony Hardee, dining f|J service director (left) look on at yk the fun. (Photo by John Parnell) I . i> A, ?!J Piu? 1J. .It'. ,J JiU^E iiiauuu Explosion was 'accidental' ATLANTA ? Mayor Maynard Jackson sought again Tuesday to reassure skeptics in the city's black community that is was an accidental explosion that claimed five lives in a housing project day care center Monday. "The investigation is continuing. No possibility, no clue is being overlooked," he said. "But no evidence of foul play has been found." Nevertheless, Jackson said black skepticism of that explanation was understandable in light of attacks upon blacks in other cities, the apparent resurgence of the Ku Klux Klan and the unsolved slayings and disappearances of more than a dozen black children in Atlanta. The mayor, who is black, called on Atlantans of both races to express their concern by wearing black arm bands Wednesday, which he proclaimed a day of mourning in the city. Jackson also ordered the flag at city hall lowered to half-staff and asked other institutions throughout the city to follow suit. Reagan favors female judge LOS ANGELES ? Ronald Reagan pledged yesterday to name a woman to the Supreme Court if he is elected president, a promise that President Carter has refused to malro inunv. "It's time for a woman to sit among our highest jurists," the Republican presidential candidate said at a news conference before setting out on a tour of Western states. Reagan is the first candidate in the 1980 campaign to commit himself to nominate a woman to the court. Fivetjf the Supreme Court justices are more than 70 years old, and the next president probably will have a chance to name some successors to fill vacancies on the court. In making his announcement, Reagan said that "one of the first Supreme Court vacancies in my administration will be filled by the most qualified woman I can possibly find, one who meets the high standards I will demand for all court appointments.'' Smoq lifts in California LOS ANGELES ? Southern Californians can breathe more easily now that the worst October smog seige in nearly 10 years has ended. . The lifting of the inversion layer, a blanket of heated air that kept smog from escaping over the mountains that j ring Los Angeles, marked a returji of good air quality. During the two-week siege, the inversion layer had dropped as low as 800 feet. "We're on our way out of the smog siege and into the winter mode," said Jim Birakos, deputy executive officer of the Air Quality Management District. The smog season usually begins after April and ends in late September, he said. TV may get Abscam tapes WASHINGTON ? The Supreme Court has cleared the way for millions of television viewers to see the Abscam videotapes that led to Rep. Michael J. Myers' criminal conviction and expulsion from Congress. The iustices turned down an emereenev reouest bv lawyers for the Pennsylvania Democrat aimed at blocking access to the tapes by the three commercial television networks. There were no recorded dissents. A federal appeals court in New York ruled on Oct. 1 that tapes of Myers' conversations with FBI undercover agents could be copied and broadcast, but it postponed the ruling's effect to allow Myers to seek help from the nation's highest court. The ex-congressman's emergency request was subImitted to Justice Thurgood Marshall, who last week postponed the effect of the lower court rulings until some final determination by all nine justices. 1111 1 State K I i i _ iNurses to vot? on union SUMTER ? Registered nurses at Tuomey Hospital are scheduled to vote today on whether they want to be represented by the National Union for Hospital and Health Care Employees. About 80 registered nurses are expected to vote in what organizers say will be a close election. Hospital officials have refused to comment on the balloting. The union won the right to represent nonprofessional workers at the hospital by a vote on Aug. 26 of 224-167. The results of the election were not released until Sept. 10. This time however, officials say they are confident that the ballots will be counted immediately after the polls close at 4 p.m. Bill Chandler, organizer with union Local 1194, said if the nurses vote for union representation, they would be represented in a collective bargaining unit separate from the nonprofessional union members. Bush suspicious of Castro SPARTANBURG ? Republican vice presidential candidate George Bush has said he is suspicious of the motive of Cuban Premier Fidel Castro, who Monday announced the release of 30 Americans being held in Cuban prisons. Bush, campaigning in Spartanburg, said he did not Irnnui onmiah oKnnf tha nricntinw (n Hatnioninn a&aiVTT VfiVUgii UMVUV UIV pi iOVII^l O VVJ U^t^I 1III1IU W lid I Castro's move really means. "I am always suspicious of the motives of Fidel i Castro," he said. "Any move by Castro a few weeks j before an election would cause me to be suspicious." The newest AP-NBC poll shows Bush and GOP presidential candidate Ronald Reagan with an 8 percent ! lead over President Carter. Bush said, "Nobody is j complacent about this election. Gov. Reagan is making great headway and I understand South Carolina is no exception." League endorses 2-term The League of Women Voters of South Carolina has endorsed a Nov. 4 referendum for a constitutional amendment allowing the governor to serve two four-year terms. The non-partisan voter education group said that the measure, if passed, would strengthen the governor's office in a "strong legislative state." Now, the state's constitution would allow the governor to serve a second term only after leaving office and running again four years later. The grouD said its reasons for suDDortins the referen dum go back to a 1968 league study of the state constitution, which suggested a number of actions to give the governor more power. Gov. Dick Riley has backed the referendum, but is not actively pushing it. Jenrette staying in race FLORENCE ? Despite the Abscam conviction for taking a $50,000 bribe that admittedly scars his candidacy, Rep. John Jenrette says he will stay in the race for reelection. "This office is too valuable to allow anyone to win by default," he said at a news conference Monday, when his lips trembled and his voice broke at times. He has appealed his conviction and promised to resign from the seat, representing South Carolina's 6th District, if his appeal fails. Jenrette has served three terms in the House. "The Democratic Party is stuck with a candidate with many scars and little time for healing," said the 44-year! old Democrat, referring to the time remaining before the i Nov. 4 election in which he faces GOP candidate John H &<M? $$$$? fe?c. :^WBk L I W~Z~M ?^?::5:$&:S?^?:^!?'j^:: '^ft &?!&?& ::?i*?;|j|^B mrjjrlKt ' '-' ''^'.jH^l.^i'^: '*- '! Hf'- _^||^^p;:f v.. ^HH- :;";-'.;h"'lt-'',1