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Allies pleased with talks
ROME (AP) - Western European leaders say they are
pleased by the U.S. commitment to open talks with the
Soviet Union on missile deployment in Europe and by
President Reagan's personal letter to Soviet President
T .AnniH Rro^finou
Secretary of State Alexander M. Haig Jr. went a long
way toward easing anxieties among the NATO allies by
disclosing Monday that the United States intends to open
talks with Moscow before the end of the year to limit the
number of medium-range nuclear weapons stationed by
the two superpowers in Europe.
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meeting of the foreign ministers of the 15 members of the
North Atlantic Treaty Organization. The meeting ends
today with the issuance of a communique.
Death, sentence appealed
COLUMBIA (AP) - An appeal from condemned murderer
James Terry Roach, whose attorneys are seeking a
new trial, is slated to be heard by the state Supreme Court
this month.
The justices have already upheld death sentences given
Roach and co-defendant Joseph Carl Shaw for the 1977
slayings of two Columbia teen-agers. Shaw's second
appeal was denied last month and he has been sentenced
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Roach pleaded guilty to murder, criminal sexual
assault, kidnapping and armed robbery.
His attorneys contend Circuit Judge Clyde A. Eltzroth
erred in ruling against a new trial. Thov sav Hnaph's
guilty pleas were not made voluntarily and that his
original legal representation was inadequate.
FTC rates cigarettes
WASHINGTON (AIM - Smokers switching to low tar
and nicotine brands also are likely to inhale less carbon /
monoxide, a contributor to heart and lung diseases and a
possible threat to unborn babies, the government's latest
cigarette rankings show.
The Federal Trade Commission, for the first time, is
rating cigarettes according to the carbon monoxide they
produce, in addition to publishing figures on tar and
nicotine levels.
The results, published Monday, show that 11 of the 20
brands lowest in tar and nicotine also rank among the
bottom 20 in carbon monxide; a product of incomplete
combustion that reduces the ability of the blood to carrv
oxygen.
Six of the 20 brands with the highest concentra4 ons of
tar and nicotine also produced the ?argest amo .nts of
carbon monoxide.
The report quoted the surgeon general's office as
concluding that "carbon monoxide may interfere with
fetal development, increase symptoms in patients with
heart and disease and contribute to hardening of the arteries."
King dropped by company
NEW YORK (AP) - E.R. Sauibb Co. has dronned Rillip
Jean King from its advertising, but other companies
whose products Mrs. King endorses are sticking with the
tennis star for now, a newspaper reported.
The New York Daily News said Mrs. King's year-long
contract with Squibb, a drug manufacturer, was cancelled
in the wake of her announcement that she had a lesbian
affair with a former secretary who now is suing her for
support.
Squibb advertising director Kenneth Anderson denied
the company's action resulted from Mrs. King's surprise
announcement.
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said. "The controversy had nothing to do with our
decision."
There was no immediate comment from Mrs. King.
Several other companies said they had no immediate
plans to drop Mrs. King's ads. Mrs. King also promotes
Nike Athletic shoes, Yonex tennis rackets and a resin
substance called Power Grip.
Hostage eats for lost time
on/*i>L> juNt nuN, coio. (AP) - Former hostage Billy
Gallegos has been eating more than the two meals a day
he got from his Iranian captors - and it shows.
Marine Sgt. Gallegos has added 50 pounds in the 3 .
months since his release from the Iranian embassy.
"I've put it all on in the wrong places," said Gallegos. "I
haven't had much time to exercise."
Gallegos, 22, is one of the 52 Americans held hostage for
444 days in Iran until he was freed Jan. 20. He is a Marine
recruiter in Denver and visited here last week to speak to
families of Marine recruits and to deliver speeches about
ins cApcnences in me Marine corps.
One member of the audience asked Gallegos if he was
well fed by his Iran^in captors. "We were fed rice twice a
day," he said.
Tonga offers nationality
SUVA, Fiji (AP) ? Stateless persons and others who
want a quick change of nationality can buy the protection
of the Polynesian kingdom of Tonga for $2,375 a year
under legislation adopted by the islands' legislative
assembly. An acre of volcanic land is included.
The Tongan Passport Act has been amended to allow
non-Tongans to hold a "Tongan protected person's
passport,'' the government newspaper The Chronicle
reported
Brady has c
WASHINGTON (AP) - White House press secretary
James S. Brady, facing continued difficulty in his
recovery from a gunshot wound to the brain, is resting
comfortably after surgery to prevent potentially lifethreatening
blood clots from reaching his hpart anH lunas
officials say.
Brady was reported in satisfactory condition after the
2 hour operation late Monday night, said Emily Turk,
a spokeswoman at George Washington University
Hospital.
It was Brady's third operation since he was shot March
30 during an assassination attempt on President Reagan,
in which Reagan and two law enforcement officers also
were wounded. The first two operations were on Brady's
bullet-pierced brain.
Dr. Dennis O'Leary, a spokesman at George
Washington Univeristy Hospital, said doctors decided to
operate after discovering several small clots in Brady's
lung. He said, however, that the clots were in 4,no way"
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BELFAST, Northern it took away from them in
Ireland (AP) - Roman 1976.
Catholic housewives banged
out a requiem with the lids of , ,
their garbage cans for Sands had been an
Bobby Sands early today as ""known prisoner for most
the death of the IRA hunger ?f his "'"e years ln Athe Irl?h
striker set off several more Republican s
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on a prison hospital
"This is about what we waterbed with a golden
expected," a police crucifix from Pope John Paul
spokesman said. "We are }' 'n emaciated hand, he
prepared for it " became for supporters of the
IRA and many other
Catholics the newest martyr
The 27-year-old IRA in their cause? the
guerrilla died at 1:17 a.m. in unification of the Protestantthe
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the 66th day of his fast mostly Catholic Irish
demanding that the British Republic.
government give imprisoned
IRA members the special Meanwhile, the IRA's fight
political-prisoner privileges for the special privileges
Today at USC 1
Reading Day will be tomorrow, with
exams beginning Friday and continuing
through May 15.
Graduation ceremonies will be held May
16 at Carolina Coliseum.
Weather
Wednesday: Scattered showers with partial
clearing by late afternoon.
Thursday: Sunny with a high in the low 80s
and low in high 50s.
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between the leg and the lungs and "if a larger clot were to
break off, it could be potentially life-threatening."
The surgery involved inserting an umbrella-shaped,
sieve-like device, with the diameter of a "fat ballpoint
pen," in a vein carrying blood from the legs, where clots
sometimes form, to the upper torso. The device is called a
Kimray-Greenfield or vena caval umbrella. '
Deputy White House press secretary Larry Speakes,
who said the latest development "does not appear
troublesome," described the device as a "net letting blood
pass inrougn but stopping may clot." On April 22, Brady
underwent hastily scheduled surgery to close passages
that had been letting air seep into his brain.
Since last Monday, Brady, on doctors' orders, has
remained in bed with his head elevated 20 degrees to help
prevent further seepage. This was scheduled to last about
10 days.
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its off violence
Sands did not win was donderry, intent on keeping
carried on by three other the rioters from spilling over
hunger strikers in the Maze, into neighboring Protestant
Visitors said one of them, districts and setting off a
Francis Hughes, 25, was backlash by extremists of
within days of death after 52 the Protestant Ulster
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guerrillas in the 45th day of The violence simmered
their fast were in less serious down around dawn, and the
condition. Protestants were not involved.
Despite pleas for calm
from Catholic leaders and The police fired six shots
Sands' family, three days of over the heads of rioters in
mourning ordered by the Londonderry. Firemen
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"xfec. wiui i ionng Dy tougnt a fire in a West
roving bands rampaging Belfast police station set off
through the dark streets of by youths hurling gasoline
Belfast and Londonderry, bottle bombs. A bank and a
the province's two biggest drug store were gutted in
cities. other areas of West Belfast.
Police dispersed a gang of 70
Hundreds of extra police y?u,th?, wh? set "re ?
were deployed in the battle- P?rtablcAcabln on the s,t?e?f
scarred Catholic districts of { >? American-owned
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Article hurtscampaign
GREENVILLE (AP)~ Democrat from Lexington,
Witnesess in the trial of ran unsuccessfully for ,
former state Sen. Tom governor that year. !
Turnipseed's $10-million The two checks were
libel suit said here Monday written for $7,000 and $3,500
that an article in the to pay Spectrum Southern
Greenville News dealt a Inc. for a documentary film
major blow to Turnipseed's on the candidate.
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hub guoernaioriai campaign.
Listed as defendants in the
In Greenville County case are the Greenville
Coom Pleas Court, Bruce G. News-Piedmont Co. and
Dew testified he thought the staff writer Dale Perry,
article destroyed Turnipseed's
campaign. The lil>el charge centers on
Turr.ipseed filed the suit in one paragraph in the story
1978 after the newspaper written by Perry which said
published a story about two the checks bounced because
returned checks written for Turnipseed did not cover
hio campaign Turnipseed. a them "as lie nromixed
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