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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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McCall said the commission would start immediately
searching for a replacement for Morris.
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