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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
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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.
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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
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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."
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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 "
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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
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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
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p.m. at Long strei
Street. Tickets $1 for
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has ret
reception to the downtown
news conference. It was a
sharp contrast from the
imatJo Ho npocnnJA/J !? ?
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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/
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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
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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\
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