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Wire reports i .. ?i i???ii.i?hi i hi; .nil ikimi ! ! ???dn?OT??Mwmpo???mmmmmm-y World Begin rebukes Weizman JERUSALEM ? Prime Minister Menachem Begin has I rebuked former Defense Minister Ezer Weizman for what J upjjtmevi vu uc an cnuorsemeni 01 rresiaeni warier s election campaign, a Cabinet official said. | Asked in a Cabinet meeting how he reacted to news that | Weizman had briefly joined Carter on the campaign trail, Begin was quoted as saying he "deeply regretted" : Weizman's involvement in the U.S. election. "There is a cardinal principle that the citizens of one democratic country do not interfere in the electoral process of another democratic country," Begin said, according to Cabinet Secretary Aryeh Naor. Stressing Israel's neutrality, Begin was quoted as [ saying the Israelis appreciated support by "the American I people irrespective of party affiliation." Even Weizman's friends said he had overstepped the limits of political propriety by joining Carter on a presidential flight to Cleveland, Ohio. Pope attacks genetics VATICAN CITY ? Pope John Paul II, in a major speech on medical ethics, has attacked genetic experimentation, "irresponsible" medical research and indiscriminate use of drugs. | "The tragic example of thalidomide is a proff," the pope told a group of Italian physicians in a private audience at the Vatican, referring to the drug that caused severe birth deformities worldwide before being banned. "Even in the attempt to cure, the physician can, in- j voluntarily, harm the right of individuals to their proper life," he said. He warned of ethical dangers posed by artificial insemination, birth and fertility controls, organ transplants and new drugs. There are "alarming voices" denouncing the harmful effects of "a medicine that cares more for j itself than for man whom it must serve," he said. "Science is not the highest value to which all the others must be subordinated." he said. "Higher...is the right of individuals to their physical and spiritual life and to their pyschic and functional integrity." Arabs aaainst I J. S hpln _ - - - r MANAMA, Bahrain - The United States would j "precipitate a very grave oil situation" and alienate the conservative Persian Gulf states if it tilted the scales in the Iran-Iraq war by supplying Iran with military spare parts, Arab officials and oil industry sources on the Arabian peninsula warn. Most Arab oil officials ruled out the possibility of another oil embargo. But they predicted Saudi Arabia and other Arab oil >, would call off the production increases they ar- \> anning to offset the cutoff in exports from the two warring gulf nations. "We would reconsider our oil production policy, with a view to exporting just enough of it to meet our financial needs for economic development, and not in any way to help those who deliberately hurt us," said an official in Knuiait Leftist terrorist hanged ANKARA, Turke\ - A 22-year-old convicted leftist terrorist, Serdar Soyergin, was hanged in the third execution in Turkey >ince a military coup six weeks ago. Soyergin was hanged Sunday at Adana Prison after being convicted Sept. 19 on charges of murdering rival i leftist Erdogan Polaf a gunbattle. Soyergin was said to have admitted durin;; his martial law trial that he shot Polat, saying it was "him or me." Turkey hanged two convicted terrorists, a leftist and a rightist, on Oct. 8. They were the first men to be executed in Turkey in eight years. Pumpkin MBH This award winning pumpkinW weighs a wopping 110 lbs. andWi measures 80 inches in cir-1 cumference. USC student Beth I P/axco brought the mammothu v v niimnlfirt trt C.rth imhht /< />#?! ! *?* > " - ??? ? m tv 9 9 %J 9 9 9 ffO# hometown, Framingham, Mass. I (Photo by Barry^l/ewmanJ Nation Atlanta questions continue ATLANTA ? Investigators, sifting through thousands of leads in the slayings of 10 Atlanta children, are trying to determine if they are looking for one, two or 10 killers. n\il? 4 u ~ tk. *i? i?1? iyc uu uui nave uic iiuuiuiuuuu iu icu us conclusively that one person is responsible," Atlanta Public Service Commissioner Lee P. Brown said Monday night. "Therefore, we are operating under different assumptions and are not overlooking any possibilities." Fourteen black children between the ages of 7 and 15, all from low income neighborhoods, have disappeared at intervals of roughly three and a half weeks since July 1979. Four of the children are still missing. The deaths and disapearances have deeply frightened residents of Atlanta's public housing projects and low income neighborhoods. As police and city officials sought t n palm f ho toncn hlonb /inmmnnitii iiAliin(nnKr v\7 vuiac* V?iv bviiov K/Iuvn vv/llllliuilivj , VViUIIlCtt O WCl C called upon to search for the bodies of those children still missing. Cosby wants 3 presidents SPOKANE,Wash. ? Each of the three major presidential candidates has his deficiencies, but as a team they might work pretty well, says comedian Bill Cosby, who has decided to endorse them all. "One is mellow, the other just wants to kill, and the other one wants to give everything away," Cosby said of candidates Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan and John A /Aiiueisui:. jj "It's an oval office. Just put all three of 'em in it. They'd fight all the time, but at least we'd have something," Cosby said last weekend while performing in the Spokane area. Contract victory for labor KALEIGH, N.C. ? Union successes this month with J .P. Stevens & Co. may give labor more of a foothold with textile and furniture workers in North Carolina, according to labor leaders. The Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union, which won the Stevens contract after a 17-year fight, used the agreement as a symbol of victory in distributing thmicanHc nf !?? ?? ?? 1 ...vuuuaaiu v* ivuntio auci 1U> (/dLl Was MgUCU, Those leaflets read: "Stevens workers have shown the way. The ice is finally broken. If they can do it, so can you." Whether new triumphs for unions will occur is a matter for speculation, but some union and industry observers generally agree they will. "If one of the biggest and richest employers couldn't win the battle, I believe it will discourage others (from fighting)," said Carl Scarbrough, international president of the United Furniture Workers of America. Fire hits census office NEW YORK ? A suspicious, fast-spreading fire early Monday caused severe damage at a U.S. Census Bureau office in Brooklyn, destroying nearly all of the bureau's 1980 working papers and population reports for the neighborhood of Bedford-Stuy vestant, a spokesman said. Ray Bancroft, a spokesman at Census Bureau i ? - - * neaaquarters near Washington, D.C., said the area, which was about 225,000 residents, would be counted again. Preliminary reports from the Census Bureau office in Manhattan had said records for the entire borough had been destroyed and that a recount of that magnitude' probably could not be held. At that time, before the damage was inspected, Census spokesman William Hill said that based on Fire Department reports, "if we have any records at all, we have damn few." Bancroft said bureau staff from several cities would be flown to New York to begin the recount of the area "in a few days to one week." Bb? ;j: -y A,n& ' State Crewmen rescue woman CHARLESTON ? A German-speaking woman who spent five days on a life raft was pulled from the choppy waters of the Atlantic Ocean Tuesday by crewman of a Navy submarine tender, officials said. The woman was identified as Dereka Dodson. Her age and home were not immediately available. Navy officials said the crew had difficulty speaking to the woman due to the language barrier, but were able to gather a few details of her ordeal. The submarine tender, the USS Canopus, was expected to arrive in Charleston early today. A Navy spokeswoman quoted the woman as saying that sne ana a man, Angus Primrose, were sailing from Beaufort, N.C., to Fort Lauderdale, Fla., when their sailboat sunk during a storm about 11 p.m Thursday. The boat was the Deamon of Hamburg, Germany, the Navy said. Bobcat, cougar stolen The owners of a bobcat and cougar fear their animals were stolen during the weekendfor their hides. A statewide search has been launched for the 2-year-old bobcat, valued at $800, and the 13-month-old cougar worth $1,500 The animals are owned by Doug and Debbie McCracken, who kept the cats in pens behind their rural Richland County home. Richland County Sheriff's deputies say the lock on the bobcat's cage had been pried off and the door to the cougar's pen had been opened with wire cutters. Although the animals are tame, Mrs. McCracken said either of the two would kill other animals they got close enough to. ,4I can't believe that losing a child could be any worse," Mrs. McCracken said. "I only pray that whoever has them will take good care of them and feed them right." Pricon rnn rl i ti r\ nc 'chn kkw' i i i i i v-/1 i 111 w i i o oil VJ u y GREENVILLE ? Jon Gaynor, a 32-year-old toy manufacturer who was held captive by the Cuban government for 11 month, termed the conditions of his imprisonment "shabby." "I have (had) no knowledge of what's going on in my case," Gaynor told an interviewer at GreenvilleSpartanburg Airport after his arrival late Monday night. Gaynor had been living in Massachusetts, where he operates a toy firm. His parents live in Greenville, and he went there to rest before returning to New England. Gaynor said he was sailing in the Caribbean when he had problems with his sailboat and veered into Cuban waters. He was taken into custody by authorities there on Dec. 5,1979 and charged with attempted drug smuggling. He was among 30 Americans being held in Cuban prisons wno were I reed Monday. Interstate connector delayed The South Carolina Highway Department says it is delaying, and may scrap, plans for a $65 million connector to relieve traffic congestion between interstates 26, 126 and 20. "Unless we get more money, there is nothing we can do," highway planner Blan Mellette told a meeting of the Columbia Area Transportation Study Monday. Mellette said traffic conditions along interstates into Columbia will get worse if the project is not completed. "Wp woro truinir tn /Jopinn ?* ??* "A ..~ >.v>v ?g, w uvoigii a latuuy iu mtxi iu-ytar needs," he said. "To understand what that means, take traffic now and double it for the year 2000." So far, only the first-phase, a $503,283 plan by an Atlanta consulting firm, has been completed. I ! III! I HI Wl|> WW IIIHIWIMI W I ?IWl T I