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News fc City bomb t (AP) ? Several hunc from the Edgar A. Brow while authorities investi out to be a hoax." A receptionist at the st telephone call about 1 p. said he had placed three to division director Jack The caller said the fit X TV it.-11 2 5 J (j.in., iviuiuiKs saiu. The building was ev stood outside in the su minutes while State La capitol complex secur firefighters searched the Mullins said the calle minute and there was no The Brown Building structure about 100 yar the Personnel Divisic Alcoholic Beverage Con of Parks, Recreation an agencies. Ticker tape NEW YORK (AP> ? Prontpst tirkor tnnp nn 0. ------- vv,r^ Connecticut company, hostages almost wouldn at all. The former hostages concrete canyons of 1 workers will shower the shredded documents anc In the mid-1960s, ticke Street as the great finan computers. So earlier this week trucked 100 miles of yell office here. Trans-Lux Vice Pres reports of ticker tape's < ticker tape machines ar Wall Street, they're wha Singer to he ATLANTA (AP) ? concern over the death: children here, will hold i funds and focus natk spokesman said Thursd; i ne concert, piannea Mayor Maynard Jacksc Davis spoke through a s California home. Davis' publicist, Billy in Atlanta's Civic Cent< what Davis hopes will bi nation's conscience abo\ Spanish pre MADRID. Spain (AP resigned, the news agem The resignation came centrist premier's Cabi expected next week, the The 47-year-old prem come under increasing recent weeks. Despite growing criti run the government, withstand the convent presidency again. Suarez' resignation ca Juan Carlos was to toi Basque region, but ther how the premier's resigi Rogers visit (AP) ? Heisman Tr says it's no secret that young toughs on the stre It took "a whole lot of' right track, he told a g maximum security Bi Department of Youth Se "I hope you will list sincere in what I say. M; intr> mv hrwrvlrc o en. J wvnu (4 iV7V OV believe how much book almost out of them. "Football is what t "Football and getting country, where it's quie much trouble to get into. Dog saves t (AP) ? A 16-year ok vacant house by a man into action, police said. Officers quoted the in walking on Colleton Str the young man grabbed The dog began barkinj the leg. The commotion ran to her rescue. Police The girl said the dog just u little street dog 'Hut now 1 call him i -1. - ? ?* niefs hreat a 'hoax' ired employees were evacuated n State Office Building Thursday gated a bomb threat that turned ate Personnel Division received a m. from an unidentified man who bombs in the building, according Mullins. *st bomb was set to explode at 2 acuated about 1:30. Employees nny, mild weather for about 45 w Enforcement Division agents, ity guards and Columbia city ? premises. No bombs were found, r was on the line for less than a chance to trace the call. j a modern, five-story concrete ds from the State House, houses >n, the Tax Commission, the trol Commission, the Department d Wildlife and several other state l': I hard to find New York's mayor promised the rade of all time But without a the bash for 23 of the former t have been a ticker tape parade will be driven today through the ower Manhattan, where office ?m with tons of computer cards, I toilet paper. r tape began disappear from Wall cial houses shifted from tickers to Trans-Lux Corp. of Norwalk ow and white tape to the mayor's ident Albert Boyers discounted iemise: "There are still plenty of ound, but most of them aren't on t we call "personal tickers." JILL UtiJLltJJLIU ! Sammy Davis Jr., expressing s and disappearances of 17 black i benefit concert in March to raise >nal attention on the cases, a *yfor March 10, was announced by m at a news conference at which special telephone hookup from his Rowe, said the concert, to be held ?r, is only the first in a series of e a nationwide etiori 10 "raise tne it the Atlanta tragedy." jmier resigns i ) ? Premier Adolfo Suarez has cy Europa Press said Thursday, at an emergency meeting of the net ahead of a party convention news agency said. ier, in office since July 1976, has criticism within his own party in cism that he lacked authority to Suarez had been expected to 1 1 A. 1 * ? A* iuii assauu ana win me party ime four days before Spanish King ir Spain's violence-torn northern e was no immediate indication of nation would affect the royal visit. jS state campus ophy winner George Rogers Jr. he used to hang out with some ets of Atlanta. whuppins'" to get him back on the roup of youths being held at the rchwood Campus of the state rvices on Wednesday. en to me," Rogers said. "I am y biggest regret is that I didn't get I oner and a lot better. You don't I ;s will mean to you until you are | urned me around," he added, off the street and out into the t and peaceful and there's not so -eenage girl I girl was being pulled behind a when her small mutt dog sprang lidentified girl as saying she was fet in Columbia on Monday when her \ and oil the man several times on i attracted 1 ru* girl s cousin who said thr a!t v k?t then tied "adopted ni< ;as4 suninu-!" lie s - a mutt and ne - not a 'oot ny little hero " - - - - - i;'; ,'?^--- M---:-^ JHi (AP) ? William Belk says he isn't a profound or glib speaker, but during a news conference Wednesday he showed a relaxed articulate style that belied the 14 months he spent as a hostage in Iran. The 44-year-old Winnsboro native arrived back in his home state to be welcomed by the happy shrieks and friendly shouts from relatives at Columbia's airport and a shower of yellow ribbons dropped by a helicopter and two airplanes during an hour-long 4 1 A 1 * muLuiutiuc niai passeu Dy thousands of well-wishers. For the most part, a smartly-dressed, smooth-shaven Belk seemed to take it all in stride from the airport Lennor ATLANTA (AP) ? Mai Chapman's former past ~ *~ i v iKi^muii uiauc iwu 11 ip iu i to kill former Beatle John Le overcame "an unexplainab to slay the musician during trip. During the second trip, killed the rock music star, Charles McGowan said Wedr The first trip to New York to four weeks before Lennon to death Dec. 8, McGowan sa "He said he overcame pulsion he had the firs McGowan said, "and callec and told her, 'I've won a grea I'm coming home. I'll tell yo wnen 1 gei mere. tiut an man returned home to McGowan said, "he said 1 there two or three weeks and (to kill Lennon) began to bi him again... "He said he lied to his borrowed some money and s Today at Student workshop Stenoscript," 3 p.m. 20. Call 5223 for more Showease product p.m. at Long strei Street. Tickets $1 for KII Film ? 44Krani drama about paren Shows at 7, 9:30, $l.5( Weather Friday: Partly cloud in the mid 50's. Weekend: Chance > 30's. Iliy.h in the 50's .w.'.'/sss tj.u.u.tv? w.w.-.-.. .v.v.v. I - -- ? |pSVk M has ret reception to the downtown news conference. It was a sharp contrast from the imatJo Ho npocnnJA/J !? ? >?1U(,V IV pi ootllicu 111 d videotaped interview the Iranians released last Christmas that showed a nervous disillusioned man with shoulder-length hair and a beard. The foreign service communications officer said the worst part of his 444 days of captivity was "the confinement in a very small area, being locked in a very crr\ oil rAnm T a aa ? uiiiun i win, 1 i cau 1W UUUKS, approximately. Belk firmly, but politely i refused to answer most political questions, but he did express his opinion about one event he thought led to the seizure of the U.S. embassy and its staff. <1 ?ll 1 i Rilled 01 rk David of Hawaii, without t or says he was or what he wa Slew York flew back to New Yoi mnon, but McGowan made hi le drive" interview publishec ; the first edition of the Atlantc Chapman said he has talked the Rev. three times ? twice lesday. his arrest Dec. 8 slaying. was three i was shot Now pastor of t id. church in Alabama the com- pastor of the t time," Presbyterian Churcl I his wifp v^uui i t_y w lieu V/ii< it victory. member while a high u about it Chapman, 25, w? ter Chap- mediately after Leni Hawaii, was charged with le stayed murder. He has p the drive and his court-appoir uild up in said his defense will I McGowan said wife and Chapman by teleph lipped out minutes the day aft< use ? "Notetaking and Fridays through Feb. information. ion ? "Peer Gynt," 8 et Theatre on Green students. ler vs. Kramer," a ts that won 5 oscars. ). Midnight show. $1. 'v. Low in I he .'iO\s. IIi^h I showers. l.i i> Ha axed; I n riH (ho r?t twiv hostages were taken captive in the U.S. Embassy in Tehran Nov. 4, 1979, shortly after the United States allowed the shah to enter the country for medical treatment. Belk said if he had known the U.S. was going to allow the shah into the country for medical treatment, he would have gone home. "One of the students told me they were looking for something to do to get this revolution going aeain." the ex-Marine said. "And we conveniently provided that for them ? by letting the shah in," Belk said at the news conference. "I do resent the facl that we were not given the right to n secon elling her where then me is going to do, and York on *k." "'I w< s comments in an very ra 1 in Thursday's had a 1 Constitution. He everythi I with Chapman "Althou in person ? since done, i for the Lennon planned why I dii "He s; he Presbyterian he went , McGowan was 'I'vebee Chapel Woods the last 1 i in south Dekalb struggle ^ - apiuau was a rigm am i school student. "He s as arrested im- almost non's slaying and special second degree avoid,'" leaded innocent, The r ited attorney has him dur be insanity. that, "U he talked with remorse one for 30 to 40 feel dee ir his arrest, and all that's Reagant oil price NEW YORK (AP) ? Americans could be paying a dime a gallon more for C;molinf? ;inrl hojitina ac result of President Reagan's decision to abandon price controls on the nation's oil supply' industry analysts and government officials say. But the move should also help the United States conserve oil, spark in cri':K<>rl rUwnocf i/ . . x. MWMK.HIV. )'i >M|||\ IIUI I and reduce the imports that now provide nearl\ -10 percent of tin country's petroleu?n nerd.-,, 'hey ^;n<I Shorllv al'ler 'he decision .uil?ou:iced, i.wuii i oi p said iliat. " 11 ei ti\ e Thui -day, i' W.I !'i ->! 11 >1 Ex-hostage William QfktLr r?nnr> orr> r/ o # o iL/(7in cu cwg cm /f C7 vko conference at the Carolina Coliseum's Elephant Room Wednesday to answer questions concerning his 444-day captivity in Iran. (Photo by Barry Newman) style leave Iran prior to the admission of the shah. Had I known he was going to the United States, I would have too." Despite his 444 days in captivity, which included 45 days in solitary confinement, Belk said he is not bitter. "What happened in Iran should not make us hate those people," he said. "It was perpetrated by a very few ? a religious element so fanatical that it has brought discredit to the Iranian people." Belk, flanked by his 24year-old wife, Angela, and his 86-year-old grandmother, Mamie Belk, was relaxed and smiling during the halfhour news conference. d trip 't privately with him in New Dec. 18 and 19. auld say he was very lucid, tional," McGowan said. "He very clear memory of ing he had done. And he said gh I understand what I've md although it was well by me, 1 do not understand d it." aid it was a struggle and that through a torment. He said, ;n going through a torment for two or three months, and it's a between good and evil and d wrong..." aid, 'I just gave up. It was as if I was on some kind of mission that I could not McGowan said. ninister said Chapman told ing their second conversation p until now, I haven't felt any ;. But now I'm beginning to p remorse and sadness about > happened." abandons controls wholesale prices of gasoline 2 cents to 3 cents a gallon. However, a spokesman for Exxon, the nation's largest oil company, said the increase, which can be passed on by retailers, reflected past crude oil price in creases and was not sparked by Reagan's action. Reagan decided Wednesday to lift controls eight months before they were due to expire President Carter began lifting the controls in .lone I97i< and mdustr> spokesmen estimated thai only J.11 '/' ( ; ! of A in me a s ci'iicit* oil remained :ird. r conti ol b\ Wei hii'stlav