Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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News Briefs 1 ^ i Busboy held for Hotel arson LAS VEGAS, Nev. (AP)? A 23-year-old busboy ap pea red before a justice of the peace via closed-circuit television Thursday and was ordered held without bail pending arraignment on murder and arson charges in Tuesday night's fire at the Las Vegas Hilton. Philip Bruce Cline, dressed in jeans and a black T-Shirt, remained in tne mam jail while Justice of the Peace Earle White Jr. conducted a probable cause hearing at the nearby courthouse. Cline was booked on eight counts of murder and one count of first-degree arson. White told reporters Cline had been charged with the offenses, but the district attorney's officc later said formal charges would be filed at the arraignment. The blaze? the second large and deadly hotel fire in Las VePAS in thrPP months? killpH piaht ivnnlp anH ininroH 198. Hospitals had said that 242 people were hurt, but officials later said that figure was incorrect. Atlanta child makes plea ATLANTA (AP)? A 10-year-old white boy, fearful because of the growing list of slain and missing black children in the Atlanta area, has written an open letter to "Mr. Murderer" asking that he surrender. "Being a kid isn't so bad but I want the chance to grow up," said the youth in a hand-scrawled letter published Tuesday in The Atlanta Journal. "I hope you read this and stop killing little children please, and turn yourself in. "Everybody's been trying to catch the murderer but kids, So I decided to write him," the youth said. "I sent it to the paper and hope the murderer will buy the paper and read it and turn himself in." The boy's mother, who asked that shteral her son not bp named, said her son "seemed to rea^v tjel in his little heart that it this mean man sard it TWfe plea) from a child, it might make a differei ..e." Dwyer back in hometown AMHERST, N.Y. (AP>? Cynthia Dwyer, returning from nine months' imprisonment in Iran to the bitter wind and new-fallen snow of her upstate New York hometown, said, "It was nice and warm in Tehran, but it's a lot warmer here, if you know what I mean. Feeling "great" after her release from Tehran's Evin prison, she arrived here late Wednesday to the hugs of friends and relatives she hadn't seen since leaving for Iran last spring. A "Welcome Home Cynthia" banner was strung outside her home, and inside about 20 friends and relatives waited with gifts and two cakes, one decorated with daffodils and "Welcome Home Cynthia, We Love You." The 49-year-old mother of three went to Iran to write about the American Hostages, but was arrested last May, 10 days after the failea hostage rescue mission. City won't buy paperclips j CHARLESTON (AP)? Charleston mayor Joseph P. Riley Jr. has issued a ban on purchase of that old friend of the bureaucrat, the paperclip. j Riley told city department heads in a meeting Tuesday mnrnino that th*? nih; will ctnn Kimlnn ? ?1 41?4 ? ? 0 ...uv ?<v vivj tt in o iup uujr tug ^dj^Cl C1IJJ5, ctllU 11 lit I their staffs should hang on to those in their desks and ones that arrive in the mail. "Henceforth, when paperclips come in, they will not be thrown away, but will be put aside and reused," the mayor declared. Riley acknowledged the action was a small step in trying to hold down city costs, but added he hopes it will get employees used to conserving. A city employee who declined to be named termed the action "peanuts." City Purchasing Director Roger Spateholts said the city has ordered paperclips three times since May 1978 at a total of $126. | Riley said the modest cost-cutting campaign isn't over. Unneeded papers with one clean side may be bound and cut into note pads, he said. i Smuggling leader sentenced GREENVILLE (AP)? Brian O'Neal Sullivan, the man law enforcement officers described as an organizer of the | nation's largest marijuana smuggling operation, has received a 10-year federal prison term. Sullivan, 51, pleaded guilty Tuesday to charges of importation of marijuana, mail fraud and jumping bail, each of which carries a five-year term, U.S. District Court Judge G. Ross Anderson said Sullivan could serve two of the sentences concurrently. Sullivan, of Columbia, S.C., was a furniture salesman before rising to the top of a Missouri-based smugling ring known as The Company. The nationwide smuggling operation employed more than 240 people before it was broken up last year by federal investigators. T r\ f f rv-rtTO ntr n 4- -5 XjU^cfcJ. auuunioj 0 uxwiii WASHINGTON, <AP)? West Columbia, S.C., attorney I Addison G. "Joe" Wilson has received one of two new appointments to positions in the U.S. Department of Energy, a DOE spokesman said Tuesday. Robert G. Liming, acting spokesman for Energy Secretary James B. Edwards, said Wilson has accepted a job as DOE's deputy consel and Carol Bauman, wife of former Rep. Robert Bauman of Maryland, will serve as spokeswoman for Edwards. Liming, who said Edwards is "delighted" Wilson has accepted the position, said the former South Carolina governor has known Wilson for two years and considers him an experienced attorney. Wilson will assume the post Feb. 23, Liming said. : W Belk spea (AP)? Former hostage William Belk says the United States should not base future relations with Iran on the hostage crisis. Belk says the United States and Iran were friends before he and more than 50 other Americans were taken captive in the U.S. Embassy in Tehran. That friendship, he says, should color future relations between the nations. The 44-year-old State Department communications specialist made the comments Wednesday before a joint session of the South Carolina General Assembly. "I and my colleagues were the ones who suffered," he told the lawmakers, who sat in rapt attention. "I think it should be us who decided if we should hate or not." I "SI Hang |p teri-nis JL shoes 2| A pair of discarded |H|M Nike tennis shoes j hang from a line < J behind the McBride Ji fraternity quad near | ijflBj the Blossom Street garage. Would the , owner please pick them up or they will be towed for illegal parking? (Photo by Stan Hawkins) I mi ri UCWIOII over an <AP)? While there's no evidence o a new wave of anti-semitism against the estimated 8,000 Jews in South Carolina, state leaders of the faith are concerned about incidents in the othe. parts of the country. "We are concerned about the resurgence of the Ku Klux Klan and the appearance of the Neo-Nazis," says Jack Weintraub, the executive director of the Jewish Community Center in Columbia. He says the latter is only a small group that seems to get a lot of press. But he says it's important the public be informed about the activities of such groups. "In metropolitan Columbia we're blessed by not having any overt evidence of anti-Semitism," he says, he says there's been "no desecration of cemeteries, no desecration of Today at US Marathan clinic ? Carolin pre-race clinic will be held al BA building, Room 005. Mor from Dr. Russell Pate at 777-5! Tennis Exhibition ? Billi* liana Mandlikova, Eliot T Butch Walts at 8 p.m. in Coliseum. Tickets are $8 for r 0a r-n f 1 -a. anu fi..)u iui uin esei veu si (available at gate). RH Film ? "Annralvn^p Mr - -i j r" 6 and 9 p.m. for $1.50 and at mi Weather Friday: Fair. Low in the 20s. H Weekend: Continuing fair wet the mid-30s. High in the mid-50 ks at State "We have been friends for many years with Iran and that should take precedence," he said. Belk, who is from West Columbia, S C . said he Questioned reDorts bv other former hostages that they were tortured in their captivity. "I would question some of the things said about torture," he said. "I would not call my colleagues liars. I can only speak for myself and I was not tortured." Despite the harsh treatment, Belk said the Iranians are a gentle people and the student militants treated the hostages "as fairly as they could, given the circumstances." "Belk said he was puzzled at the Iranian students' paranoia about the PI A \*/hir?h fhpv olaimpH was hphinri the Shah of Iran's regime. Belk said PPjjjpP ^ 4 _j- J.-.o^^<iil^<^ s >v ? >:: ^ s i leaders ti-Semi1 synagogues and no threatening letters" to Jewish residents as have been reported in other areas, particularly in northern cities and in California. Nat Shulman, the director of Charleston's Jewish Community Center says such incidents are "a very disconcerting thing." He says they're carried out by a "certain number of people who have to project their failures on other groups, be they Protestant Catholic, or Jewish." Shulman says he's constantly on ...n?/.u u? 1 i-j wditu iui cuutreuiraieu, ongoing program of anti-Semitism," but adds he's seen nothing like that in the Charleston area. Both Weintraub and Shulman say groups like the Christian-Jewish Congress of South Carolina and the Christian-Jewish Action Council help n I Jenrett a Marathon's OH ; 7 p.m. in the (AP>? Former R e information W. Jenrette claims and his estranged wi once made love on I of the U.S. Capitol, 1 e Jean King, reported Tuesday, 'elscher, and "We made love the Carolina Capitol steps" late ( eserved seats a*the House deliber . , . .. the early hours "dent section m0rniiw. the form. Carolina congressn Wednesday during >w." Shows at in his Abscam court dnight for $1. Jenrette told the Washington bureau suggested it and tl Jenrette agreed to it "It's somethin always wanted to igh in 40s. said. "She told me s ither. Low in . . going to put it in th s. he said, referring wife's upcoming a * House his captors claimed CIA agents taught agents for SAVAK, the Shah's secret police, various torture methods. "To the people of Iran I would like to say this is very untrue," Belk said. "CAVAIf HiH I'm euro nrfnro Hmir. KJ'ilTIIAft VMVt, A. I.V1 VUA V UI^.U people, but a few years before the revolution the shah was starting to clean up his act." Belk said, "Someday, Iran will have to take responsibility for their actions. As long as they have this mentality of blaming things on everybody else, they will always have problems." Belk, who spoke from notecards, told lawmakers he was speaking only for himself and not for the other former hostages. Belk was introduced by Gov. Dick Riley, who called him "our personal link in the historic chain of events we call the hostage crisis." i J ; . : : ' ' ;.x :. -r 11 ^ 11 .: $3* I upset tism promote good relations between faiths. Both serve as a sounding-board for religious concerns. Wointranh cavc ho'c auiaro rtf fT Vlllbl iAUh/ tJMJ U (IV U UfTUt \> V* codewords such as Zionism being used on the National and International level. He notes that word has been use at the United Nations, by the Palestine Liberation Organization, and at meetings of the Organization of Petrolium Exporting Countries. "There is some concern that a Jihad against isreal will be against all Jews in general," he said. He adds that the seizing of the American hosages in Iran was of special concern to the Jewish people. "It was almost like the Holocaust where Jews were imprisoned because they were Jews. Here Americans were imprisoned simply because they were Americans," he said. es made love a . ? . capital steps ep. 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