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Wire reports i "World ~ Soviet Premier resigns MOSCOW ? Soviet Premier Alexei N. Kosyg?" resigned "on health grounds" and been replaced by his first deputy, 75-year-old Nikolai Tikhonov, the Soviet news agency Tass has reported. Kosvein. who is 76 and has hepri nrpmipr iq<m h?c v c/ ? r- *wv '? a,MW been ill most of this year, reportedly with heart and circulatory problems. He was said to have suffered two heart attacks in recent years, and Soviet sources have long let it be known he was eager to step down from power. His resignation was announced to the Supreme Soviet, the national Parliament, by President Leonid I. Brezhnev yesterday. The departure of Kosygin, who was last seen in public almost three months ago, further underlines the 73-yearold Brezhnev's unquestioned role at the top of the Kremlin hierarchy. Tikhonov, a former locomotive fireman and metallurgical enpinppr is rpuarHpH nc a I Soviet president. Conditions to stay secret BEIRUT, Lebanon ? A special committee of Iran's Parliament has finished a report on the 52 U.S. hostages, and the proposed conditions for their release will be presented to the full assembly on Sunday, a panel member has reported. But Ali Akbar Nateq Norri, a member of the Islamic Republican Party who sits on the seven-member committee. said yesterdav in a teleDhone interview with Tho Associated Press "some more conditions may be added" o the four basic terms outlined by Avatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. Last month Khomeini said the conditions were the return of the late's shah's fortune, a U.S. pledge not to meddle in Iranian affairs, dropping of law suits against Iran, and release of $8 billion in frozen Iranian assets. Noori said the conditions proposed by the panel would remain "secret" until they were unveiled to the 228member assembly on Sunday, the hostages' 358th day in captivity. I? \ / I y-x r* I I /-* ?? -?- - ?* I LA^MU^IUI I ll[Jb 5LIIUUI BILBAO, Spain ? A powerful explosion ripped through a grammar school in Spain's northern iron-mining region yesterday killing at least 64 children, officials said. More than 100 others were reported injured, many of them seriously. Rescue workers dug frantically through the debris and some grief-stricken parents carried home the bodies of their sons and daughters after the blast, blamed on gas, partially demolished the "Marcelino Ugalde" school in Ortuella, eight miles northwest of here. Officials said many children were trapped and cries could be heard. There wprp n limit 7(Wl r?hilHrr?n otrorl r. ?/? in 1K,I run school, comprised of three buildings. The explosion almost completely destroyed one of them, officials said. Leader to form Cabinet BEIRUT, Lebanon ? Shafik Wazzan, Lebanon's newlyappointed prime minister, has begun consultations with parliamentary block leaders on forming a Cabinet in attempts to end the political chaos that has plagued this Mideast nation since the 1975-76 civil war. Following his appointment Wednesday, Wazzan. a Sunni Moslem lawyer who is head of Lebanon's Islamic Council and a former member of Parliament, pledged to work for good relations with Syria, whose peacekeeping trnnnc (>r\r\nf\ (ho <- i */i 1 mar ... V-..V.V-V- v.. ? .. <> <-? . "But we shall also aim at preserving Lebanon's total unity and stability," said Wazzan, whose appointment ended a nearly five-month-long government crises following the resignation of Prime Minister Salim el Hoss on June 7. Lunch hour ^^^31 entertainment ]BBM Maranatha Christian Center ministers Mark Caulk and Bill McCaig sing songs about their own religious experiences j vvtfuritfsuuy afternoon at HUSSe// Interested persons can hear them sing at the center on Pickens Street tonight at 7 p. m. Vm0 (Photo by Kyle Holland) Nation Donations pledged to center ATLANTA ? Downtown Atlanta businesses have pledged $50,000 in supplies and equipment, and hope to raise about $150,000 more to rebuild the housing project day care center destroyed last week in an explosion that killed four preschoolers and a teacher. yvf 1 Ail a. ? rk 1- ? ? uuituus ut ^emiai /\iiaiua jrrogress nave said tney plan to raise about $200,000 for the project. Two construction firms have volunteered to build the new structure at cost, while other businesses have pledged to donate supplies and equipment. Tom Wood, president of Atlanta Newspapers Inc. and vice president of Central Atlanta Progress, said the organization's directors decided last week to collect funds from Atlanta businesses, but then expanded the drive when unsolicited donations began to pour in. "The business communmity will do its part," Wood said. "But we've received so many offers of help from civic and religious groups and from individuals that we want to go public and give all Atlantans an opportunity to participate. i- i i iii txtra hostage being held WASHINGTON ? One more American has been arrested and is being held in Iran in addition to the 52 diplomatic hostages and a free-lance writer, according to the State Department. George Havens, a spokesman for the department's Iran Working Group, said the man, Mohi Sobhani, 44, an Iranian by birth and a naturalized U.S. citizen, was arrested in Iran last month and is being held on unspecified charges. "He is being held. The Swiss have been trying to get access to him but so far have been unable to do so. We know of no formal charges," Havens told a reporter. The U.S. government has been working through the Swiss Embassy in Tehran on hostage-related issues. Cash tor attending class SAN DIEGO ? City school trustees say they like a plan to pay Memorial Junior High School pupils to show up for class, giving them cash credits up to $5 a month. The plan proposed by Principal Robert Amaran to end the school's heavy truancy was approved unanimously Tuesday night. But a final vote will come next week. "I'm not paying kids for coming to school," Amaran I said. "I'm rewarding them for being in school. There's a subtle difference." Pupils would earn 25 cents a day credited on "privilege cards." At the end of each month, the cards would be redeemed in the school store. M? "iamb-" 4V.yx.rl U? I '1.* rTIU ~ I J -1 iiu juurv iuwu tuuiu uc uuugiii. me uuys anu gins could use the money for other food and school supplies or they could apply the credit toward bus trips and cultural events. Man spots his stolen car PROVIDENCE, R.I. ? Joseph P. Stevens did a double take as he drove to work 011 Interstate 195 and spotted his car, stolen the day before, going by on the back of a j flatbed trailer. The car was smashed into a hunk of junk metal six in| ches high and 18 feet long. Stevens, 51, of Fall River, Mass., knew the car was his by the insurance company sticker still fastened to the bumper and the rag hanging from the mangled trunk in the same spot he put it before the car was stolen. He followed the truck until the driver stopped at a diner and then he called police. i The police arrived Tuesday to find an intact federal sticker with an identification number that proved the 1971 American model car belonged to Stevens. They impounded the entire shipment of cars, which they said came from a salvage company in Westport, Mass. The truck driver was released pending further in State Military plane crashes BETHUNE ? An Air Force fighter plane on a routine training flight crashed on a golf course just outside this Kershaw County town Thursday afternoon, killing the pilot. The identity of the victim was not released. "There's debris in quite a large area," said a woman at the Bethune Country Club about a mile west of Bethune. A Bethune Fire Department and Rescue Squad worker said remmants of the aircraft were spread over a 300 to 400 yards of fairway at the seventh hole. The crash occurred around 2:15 p.m. "Several people heard it crash," the rescue worker said. "They've been flying low around here for awhile." The A-10 Thunderbolt II fighter was stationed at Myrtle Beach Air Force Base and was flying a routine training mission, said Sgt. Mark Abbott, an Air Force spokesman. The airplane is a one-seater. Sister skeptical of release MYRTLE BEACH ? The half-sister of one of the 52 American hostages in Iran has said she is skeptical of Iranian moves to release the captives and she will believe they are free when she sees her brother in person. Linda Gainey, whose half-brother William Belk is one of the hostages, said she has had a "woman's intuition" that the hostage situation would be resolved before the November election "I've had positive hopes the past six month," Ms. Gainey said. "But as far as the current situation, I really won't believe it until I see him get off the plane." Belk, 44, is a career diplomat who was a 20-year veteran of the Marines before he joined the State Department in 1975. Ms. Gainey said she thinks the Iranians want the hostages released before the election because they fear a change in American policy if President Carter is not reelected. SCE&G selling its land South Carolina Electric & Gas Co. is trying to get out of the real estate business as quickly as possible, according to company officials. SCE&G's Energy Subsidiary has put 6,000 acres on the block to be sold "as a whole or in segments," said Virgil Summer, president and chief executive officer of SCE&G. The state Public Service Commission ordered the utility to divest itself of its real estate subsidiary "in an orderly manner" in 1974. And the company interpreted the order to mean that it should develop and market its existing properties. Summer, who became chief executive of SCE&G last year, said the utility is fulfilling the promise he made during SCE&G's rate hearing last fall to sell the land holdings as fast as justifiably possible. :! IpnldrK will rin tn Ohio w -V v> ' ' III I V ' I I I V-/ GREENWOOD ? The Rev. Leroy Jenkins has decided to return to Delaware, Ohio - the town where his evangelical organization began - when he compietes a 12year term in a state prison. Jenkins, convicted in 1979 of conspiring to assault two men and burn two houses, has had his household goods moved back to Ohio from Greenwood, according to his secretary, June Buckingham. Mrs. Buckingham said Jenkins plans to return to Ohio because he has a large church there, with a seating capacity of 1,500, a congregation of 5,700 and a parsonage. Jenkin's son, Dennis, plans to remain in Greenwood while his father is in prison, she said. Well-known lawyer F. Lee Bailey, who represents Jenkins, will file an anneal with the U.S. Sunrpmp Court ' 1 A I " next week seeking a reversal of Jenkins' convictions, Mrs. j Buckingham said. BpKPBPW^^r*