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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resigned "on health grounds" and been replaced by his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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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"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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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next week seeking a reversal of Jenkins' convictions, Mrs.
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