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Begin rebukes Weizman
JERUSALEM ? Prime Minister Menachem Begin has I
rebuked former Defense Minister Ezer Weizman for what J
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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."
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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"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
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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
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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."
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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."
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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
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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.
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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.
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