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Wire reports World" Premier elected to post MOSCOW ? Tikhon Kiselev, a deputy premier, has been elected to the post held by a senior Communist Party official killed Oct. 4 in an automobile accident, the Soviet news agency Tass has reported. Kiselev, 63, will replace Pyotr Masherov as chief of the Communist Party organization in Byelorussia, one of the Soviet Union's 15 republics. It was not announced whether he also will take over Masherov's more important post as an alternate member of the national Communist Party's ruling Politburo. j That decision is expected to be made by the party's Central Committee at a meeting next week in Moscow. Tri l in i-- 5ii A? " * ^ * n-iseiev imeiy win conunue serving as one 01 me aoviei Union's 13 deputy premiers at least until then. China sends protest note PEKING ? China has sent a "strong protest" to Vietnam over alleged Vietnamese military thrusts across the Chinese border and has warned that if such attacks continue "it will be absolutely impossible for them (Vietnam) to escape the consequences." China's official Xinhua news aeencv said the Drotest note from the Chinese Foreign Ministry was delivered to the Vietnamese Embassy in Peking yesterday. Xinhua quoted the note as saying the repeated Vietnamese armed provocations and intrusions in Chinese border areas "cannot but arouse the intense indignation of the Chinese government and people..." "Should the Vietnamese authorities continue to ignore the protests and warnings from the Chinese side, and keep on violating China's sovereignty and territorial integrity and provoking incidents, it will be absolutly impossible for them to escape from the consequences," Xinhua quoted the note as saying. There was no immediate Vietnamese comment on the note. Connors: 'sedate crowds' CANTON, China ? American star Jimmy Connors is || having no problem with his tennis game, but he's finding it | hard to get used to the sedate crowds in China. "TliniT rlnii ' Ar? nl m r\ lilrn it-* \Tmir " f II J. 1ICJ UU11 I Ul * IIV V' 111 VY 1 Ull\, inu puwci I Li 1 left-hander said after winning his second-round match Wednesday in the $50,000 Canton Tennis Classic. "I'm sure that as they come to understand the game better, they will get worked up." Connors, the top seed, whipped fellow American Jim Delaney 6-4, 6-2 after falling behind 4-2 in the first set. In other second-round matches, Harton Ismail of Zimbabwe, beat Jan Norback of Sweden, 7-6, 6-2, and Cliff Letcher of Australia, defeated Emilio Montano of Mexico, 6-4, 6-4. Sashi Menon of India, beat Ross Case of Australia, 6-3, 46, 6-1 in a first-round match. Moderate leader resigns LONDON ? Former Prime Minister James Callaghan has resigned as leader of Britain's opposition Labor Party, setting the stage for a battle for control between the party's feuding left and right-wings. Callaghan, 68, bowed to the urging of Labor's rightwing, determined to try to install another moderate party chief before new leadership selection rules, favoring the left, are scheduled to be drawn up early next year. Former Chancellor of the Exchequer Denis Healey, 63, looked almost certain to succeed Callaghan early in November. The annual leadership elections take place then under old rules, restricting the franchise to the largely moderate Labor members of Parliament. Callaghan, prime minister from April 1976 until his defeat in May 1979 by Marbaret Thatcher's Conservative Party, announced his decision to a meeting of top parliamentary aides at his office in the House of Commons. studying USC student Judy Gowder sits on the first floor of Russell House and studies while the sun makes Nation r> . / l?ll' reace summit unlikely WASHINGTON ? A Mideast peace summit by the end of the year now appears unlikely, even though U.S. of- I ficials say the latest round of formal talks between Egypt ] and Israel produced some progress on a Palestinian autonomy agreement. < According to these officials, who asked not to be identified, several issues that stood in the way of a five-year I plan for the Israeli-held West Bank of the Jordan River and the Gaza Strip are now closer to resolution. 1 Details were withheld, but Israel's willingness to share l authority with the Palestinians over some day-to-day living arrangements could be pivotal in devising an ; autonomy plan, the officials said. < Although there was apparently movement on both sides, i officials agree that a lot of work needs to be done before a i summit session can be held among President Carter, Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin and Egyptian i President Anwar Sadat. Heatwave killed 1,265 WASHINGTON ? The summer heat wave of 1980 was one of the deadliest of this*century, killing 1,265 people, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration : reports. The heat wave that came boiling out of the Southwest in June and clung on into September in the East and Midwest also caused $20 billion in damage, the weather agency ! said Wednesday. In this century only three other heat waves have taken a higher toll of lives. The highest reported heat death toll in this country was 9,508 in 1901. There were 4,678 heat deaths in 1936 and 1,401 in 1952. i Bv comDarison. in a normal vear about 175 Americans succumb to the stress of summer heat. j The NOAA said that most of those who died from the heat this summer were either elderly or poor and lived in homes or apartments that were not air-conditioned. Commercial causes stir RALEIGH, N.C. ? Citizen's Party presidential candidate Barry Commoner said Wednesday he approved the use of a barnyard epithet in his radio commericals ? but he refused to repeat the word during a news conference while campaigning in North Carlina. Commoner's commercial, which was broadcast for the ! first time Tuesday on CBS and NBS radio networks, has prompted thousands of telephone calls from listeners I upset over the use of the word "bullshit" over the air. Although declining to repeat the word, Commoner said ne tnougnt it was appropriate for his commercial. "It (the ad) opens with a very appropriate expletive," i Commoner said. "It's getting played. And it has gotten the message across and is therefore appropriate. Moore's son shooots himself LOS ANGELES ? Actress Mary Tyler Moore, whose movie "Ordinary People" deals with the accidental death \ of one son and the attempted suicide of another, has seen her screen role turn into real tragedy. Her only child, Richard Carlton Meeker Jr., 24, was ! killed late Tuesday night when he triggered his own shotgun and shot himself in the head, police said. ! A coroner's investigation was trying to determine whether his death was suicide or acciental, said Lt. Dan I Cooke, a spokesman for the Los Angeles Police Depart- ; ment. i] Meeker, a messenger at CBS Television City in Los I Angeles, died shortly after a phone conversation with his j| girlfriend in Fresno. He was at home in the rented house |j he shared with two women students near the University of ! Southern California when the gun fired about 11 p.m., police detective Jerry Ferrin said. His housemates, Judy Vasquez, 21, and Janet McLaughlin, 22, both said the shooting was an accident. State Lancaster has tax surplus LANCASTER ? After agonizing over how much to raise taxes earlier this year, the Lancaster County Council now has a new problem: what to do with a $268,000 surplus. "There're a lot of things that could be done with it," council member Fred Plyler said. The county needs fire trucks, sheriff's patrol cars and a truck to haul gravel in, he said. When the surplus was revealed last month Plyler and two other council members wanted to give most of it back to taxpayers with a 7-mill property tax reduction. But at an Oct. 3 meeting, at which auditors verified the amount of the surplus, a majority of the seven-member council didn't go along with the idea of a tax cut. For one thing, members said, a 7-mill reduction would only decrease the taxes on a $30,000 home by about $7. The council is scheduled to talk about what to do with the $268,000 when it meets Oct. 27. Agencies miss deadline Three quarters of South Carolina's state agencies missed the deadline for submitting plans for a 7 percent cut in personnel costs by July 1. William Putnam, executive director of the state Budget and Control Board, said replies had been received from Anhr 01 nf fho Qft orfon^inc anrl lnofifnfinnr* k?* fUn winj ui vti\^ uu agtuvico aitu uioiiiuiivii^ ancvicu UJ tllC board's request. The Budget and Control Board asked the agencies to submit the plans in order to avoid laying off employees if the state fails to shave $48 million from its proposed $1.9 billion budget for next year. A total of 3,155 jobs must be cut from the state payrolls either through attrition or layoffs, the board has said. One of the agencies which took steps to reduce its personnel costs Wednesday was the Board of Corrections, which, talking through a spokesman, expressed "disappointment in the position it has been put in." The Board of Corrections voted to close five prisons, cut 187 job positions and possibly lay off some workers in order to comply with the personnel cuts. Nurses vote down union SUMTER ? Registered nurses at Tuomey Hospital have rejected union representation on a 51-18 vote, according to the National Labor Relations Board. The outcome of the voting was the opposite of what happend in August when other hospital worker, such as maintenance and janitorial help, voted to join the National Union of Hospital and Health Care Employess. Three ballots were challenged, but they did not figure into the election results because of the margin of victory. Tuomey Hospital Administrator Ralph M. Abercrombie Jr. said, "This is a victory for the nurses. It's not a victory forme." Other than the brief Abercrombie statement, hospital officials would not talk about the election. They issued a short press release saying: "The registered nurses have voted not to affiliate with a union. We are gratified by this vote. We will now have the opportunity to work hard with all the RNs and with others to assure that this hospital is what they and the citizens of Sumter deserve. Art Museum Director auits . I - " _ GREENVILLE ? Jack A. Morris Jr. said he quit as director of the Greenville County Museum of Art because he couldn't make certain compromises. Morris offered his resignation late Wednesday, and the commission voted to accept it 7 to 4, according to museum commission chairman Arthur McCall. The resignation came after Morris had been under fire since late July when two museum employees charged him with unfair management practices and using his position fnnt*oAnnl 1U1 ptl AU1 Id 1 gdlll. McCall said the commission would start immediately searching for a replacement for Morris. . HL waBHH&HJgraK' IB / -_ - IH^Hk I wHHHH^