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World
China to buy power plants
PEKING ? China has agreed to buy from France two
nuclear power plants valued at about $1 billion each,
according to French President Valery Giscard d'Estaing.
No contract was signed for the two 900-megawatt units,
but agreement in principle was reached for what will be
China's first nuclear power plants, Giscard d'Estaing said
at a news conference Friday.
It was not known where the plants would be built, but
possible sites included Shanghai and Canton. Chinese
experts have recommended nuclear power plants for
parts of south and east China where other energy sources
are scarce.
The project would be independent and not in
cooperation with another country, Giscard d'Estaing said.
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TOKYO ? Japan will move ahead of the United States
in 1980 to become the top producer of crude steel in the
non-communist world, the Japan Iron and Steel
Federation has said.
The Federation said that Japan's total crude steel !
production for the calendar year will reach about 111.7
million tons, unchanged from 1979 production, while U.S.
steelmakers will produce only 98 million tons, a drop of 21
percent from the 123.4 million-ton output last year.
It said U.S. steelmakers, hit by severe recessions in the i
construction and auto industries, will produce less than
100 million tons for the first time since 1963.
The Federation obtained its figures from data reported
at the International Iron and Steel Institute meeting in I
Madrid, Spain, earlier this month.
Israeli troops destroy bases
TEL AVIV, Israel ? In its first mainr attarU nn
southern Lebanon in two months, Israeli paratroopers and
infantrymen destroyed two Palestinian guerrilla bases
and killed at least nine guerrillas, the Israeli military j
command said Friday.
A spokesman for Yasser Arafat's Palestine Liberation
Organization in Beirut said it repulsed the Israeli attack
and acknowledged that four of its men were killed and five
wounded. The spokesman said the victims were from the
Palestine Liberation Army, the PLO's regular military
force.
This was the first time since Israel's 1978 drive into
southern Lebanon that the PLO was officially reported
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ugimng witn Israel.
An Israeli army spokesman said all Israeli troops
returned safely after surprising guerrilla forces in 1
overnight attacks on the villages of Jarmak and Shaika, !
about seven miles north of the Israeli border.
Worker wins over 'old hag'
COPENHAGEN, Denmark ? A district court has ruled '
that a worker cannot be fired without advance notice or ;
severance pay just because he calls his boss' wife an "old
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Reversing a lower-court decision, the district court has I
said the name-calling came "in an isolated incident under !
circumstances that did not justify" firing the man. j
According to court testimony, two days before the effective
date of his resignation, a machinist got into a |
quarrel about his accumulated vacation pay with the
company's assistant director - who happened to be the I
boss' wife.
When she told him he could not collect the pay until he
had left, tempers flew. The machinist denied he called the
boss' wife an old hag, but witnesses testified he did.
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Debra Dobbins relax on the
Coliseum grounds Sunday during WkU "?88H
f/ie campout for (JSC-C/emson
tickets. Over 600 students began
camping out Saturday night in
hopes of getting one of the 1, 700
allocated tickets for the Nov. 22
football game. (Photo by John
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Nation
Teen-age pregnancy up
BALTIMORE ? A dramatic increase in sexual activity
among teen-age girls in the nation's metropolitan areas,
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control pills, has resulted in a steady rise in teen-age
pregnancies, say Johns Hopkins University researchers.
A study by the university's School of Hygiene and Public
Health showed "more sex, more contraception, but more
pregnancies," said Marvin Zelnik, who directed the
research.
Results of a survey of 1,717 girls ages 15-19 showed that
sexual activity increased from 30 percent in 1971 to 49.8
percent in 1979.
Pregnancies among sexually active girls in that age
group increased from 28.1 percent in 1971 to 32.5 percent in
1979, said Zelnik.
He said that "sensationalized" reports on the risks of
oral contraceptives are partly to blame for the trend.
Police begin canvass
ATLANTA ? City police and firefighters were ordered
to begin door-to-door inquiries today in an intensive effort
to break a series of unsolved slayings and disappearances
of 14 black children that has left the black community
deeply disturbed. j
As many as 800 patrolmen and firefighters are expected
to participate in the citywide canvass for information into
incidents which have left nine black children dead and
five others missing over the last 15 months.
Meanwhile, the state crime lab and Fulton County
medical examiners worked Sunday to identify the
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discovered during a search by hundreds of volunteers in a S
west Atlanta neighborhood where a 7-year-old black girl,
Latonya Wilson, was abducted iri June.
John Zimmer, a spokesman for the special police task
force investigating the child crimes, said police would
begin Monday going door-to-door in their precincts
handing out photographs of the five missing children and
information on their disappearances. Residents would be
asked to fill out questionnaires on the crimes.
Homes missed by police will be picked up by fire
department personnel, according to Bill McKenney, an
assistant to Police Chief George Napper. McKenney
compared the canvass with New York's "Son of Sam"
investigation.
Reagan to debate Carter
WASHINGTON ? Republican Ronald Reagan ntu? I
agreed to a one-on-one campaign debate with Jimmy
Carter, something the president has been trying to
arrange for several weeks.
In a statement made to reporters at LaGuardia Airport,
Keagan said, "I have instructed my debate negotiators to
be in touch with Mr. Carter's staff to begin discussing
details of format and sponsorship."
Asked if that meant a "one-on-one" debate with Carter
? excluding llep. John B. Anderson ? Reagan said:
"Yes."
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debate formula include Anderson, the independent candidate
whose standing in the polls has plunged in recent
weeks.
Robert Strauss, Carter's campaign chairman, had said
earlier in the day he has informed the League of Women
Voters that the president "would accept a one-on-one
debate with Governor Reagan at any reasonable time, on
any reasonable date, at any reasonable place, under any
reasonable format..."
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State
Jenrette may lose his vote
MYRTLE BEACH ? U.S. Rep. John W. Jenrette, DS.C.,
can legally run for re-election despite his recent
Abscam conviction, but he may not be eligible to vote.
South Carolina laws prohibit any person convicted of
any one of a long list of felonies and misdemeanors, in
eluding bribery, from voting or registering to vote.
Marsha Silver, a spokeswoman for the state attorney
general's office, told the Myrtle Beach Sun News that a
person convicted of any of the listed crimes also forfeits
his right to run for or hold a state elective office, but he
can run or hold a congressional seat.
That means Jenrette may run for re-election to his 6th
District seat in the Nov. 4 election against Republican
challenger John Napier, but he may not vote for himself
or anyone else.
There is a loophole that may allow Jenrette to vote in
the general election. Officials say it usually takes one or
two months for a court to notify the state Election Commission
to remove a name from the registration books.
! Carlen high on ND list
GREENVILLE ? South Carolina football Coach Jim
Carlen is on a list of possible successors to Dan Devine at
Notre Dame, the Greenville News reported Fridav.
The newspaper said a source "close to the Notre Dame
scene" said Carlen's name was high on the list as late as
last week.
Carlen told the newspaper, "I regard it as a compliment
that anyone would think I'm being considered." He
declined further comment.
The newspaper said the others being mentioned for the
prestigious but pressure-ridden post include John
Mackovic of Wake Forest. Lou Holtz of Arkansas irm
Restic of Harvard, George Welsh of Navy, Terry Donahue
of UCLA and Terry Foust of Noeller High School in Cincinnati.
Devine announced in August this would be his last
season at the Irish helm.
Men injured in crash
Two Florida men were injured when a twin-engine
airplane crashed while attempting to land at Columbia
Metropolitan Airport Friday night.
The pilot, Jack Yaunt, 50, and Ralph Leighton, 40, both
of West Palm Beach, were in Richland Memorial Hospital
Saturday. Leighton's condition was listed as serious,
while Yaunt was in satisfactory condition. A hospital
official said both men suffered m?lHni<? iniiiri^
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Cubans plead innocent
Two Cubans accused of hijacking a jetliner to Havana
have pleaded innocent to charges of air piracy.
The Cubans, Crecencio Perez Perez and Juan Adega
Fresneda, entered their pleas Thursday before U.S.
Magistrate Charles Gambrell, who set trial for no later
than Nov. 17.
The two are the first Cuban nationals to be returned to
the United States for prosecution after a hijacking. The
Cuban government sent them back to Columbia only a few
days after warning potential hijackers they would do so.
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Oct. 27 and the pre-trial conference between attorneys and
the presiding Judge Charles Simons will be Oct. 31.
The defendants, indicted by a grand jury Oct. 7, have
been in the Lexington County Jail in lieu of $750,000 bond
since they were arrested.
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