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-wire Group reports NEW YORK (AP) - To executions are common occur Efrain Rios Montt flssumpii ternational charges. The group said about 2,6C slaughtered by military and c actions between March and Jii The international human r mid-August that 2,186 Indians March military coup. The updated figure was rele the group's annual "Prisoners According to the report, d April 5, 100 people were mui Covadonga, and at a village i ; ,1 1 l 4i? U1C 1R)1U?1U> ctliu liipcu LUe V battered the children to death. A house-to-house raid in the resulted in the deaths of 25 men, Amnesty International In today's editions, The Ne\ in Mexico as saying Guatem; than 300 men, women and ch Indian village of San Francisc The newspaper, in a dispat reports of such massacres are along Mexico's border with Gi Woman in conr ROME, Ga. (AP) - A 28-y unconcious for more than two pound boy, according to officii here. CVinrrtr PriHor a PoCnri1 uiiv-i i j iuv.i , a va vv upi i the hospital Aug. 5 sufferin received in an automobile acc: On Sunday night,Mrs. Cride; 1 1/2 hours before giving birtl Crider, her third child, a hospi "We had to make a declsic something did happen to Sher Crider. "I decided to keep th better now that she's had the b Doctors "said she did assist "They said she pushed. I reck< The infant was taken to Sha Monday for testing, nurses at 1 Dr. Paul Ferguson, the nei called the birth "damned ur experience this was the first occur Bear visits com FRANKLIN, N.C. (AP) motorist to stop at the Mac directions' but sheriff's dis weekend when a lost bear stur Brett Ensley was in the courthouse about 1 a.m. Satui blowing. Ensley said he oper chasing a bear through the coi The bear crashed through a glass door and lumbered do\ while the woman driving the c Ensley called for reinfon county sheriff's deputies form The bear ended up in the Aj indoor flower bed,but it ap realized the only way out of tto he entered. nnu^ i 11? i a uc posse anu uie Dear about the same time. The pc and the bear ran full speed out It hasn't been seen since. Judge awards SAN ANTONIO, Texas,(AP two cats in an uncontested awarded a $5-a-month cat-sup A judge signed an order ? payment from his ex-wife, K Rebel and Dixie. "The history of it is, he is wanted to contribute to the Lawton Stone, lawyer for N< sweet gesture." Judge Pat Priest of 187th I Wednesday making the uncon Antonio couple,who were mai tlement includes the monthly < "I thought Judge Priest wa whpn ht? -;nw f h#? oat-snnnnrt n ? " r USC todaiy R'l film: "Deliverance" Jon Voight and James Did p.m. FREE. I. Intramural/Recreational a i officials meeting, 5 p.i Ci \?r. *" " r |>'1 l"i torture, death rture, mutilation and mass ences in Guatemala since Gen. power in March, Amnesty Info Indians and peasants were ivil rfpfpinsp unite in at lpast 119 ily of this year. ights organization reported in had been massacred since the ased in a report Monday during ; of Conscience Week." uring a day-long terror spree rdered in Mangal, 35 killed in in Quiche soldiers gathered all vomen, beheaded the men and same province one month later children, la women and three claims. v York Times quoted survivors ilan soldiers slaughtered more lildren in the tiny Guatemalan o July 17. ch from Comitar, Mexico, said j common in the refugee camps jatemala. la gives birth ear-old woman ,who has been i months,has given birth to a 6als at the Floyd Medical Center ng housewife, was admitted to ig from severe head injuries ident near her home. r was in natural labor for about h at 10:40 p.m. to Preston Kirk tal spokesman said. >n whether to keep the baby if ry," said her husband, Randall te baby. I think she'll do a lot ?aby." " during delivery, Crider said. )n Mother Nature did that." llowford Hospital in Atlanta on the Rome facility said. jrologist treating Mrs. Crider, msual," saying in 12 years of f U/\ V-\ r? r\ r-r\r??A n ll niii?j lie uciu occu autu <x uu tn ntry courthouse - It's not unusual for a lost on County Courthouse to ask ipatchers were stunned this nbled in. communications room of the rday when he heard a car horn led the door to see the vehicle irthouse parking lot. quarter-inch thick, 9-foot-high vn the halls of the courthouse ar kept blowing her horn. cements. Police officers and ed a posse. *ricultural Extension Service's parently wasn't satisfied and n ii- ~ . - c cuuriiiuuse was me same way reached the shattered doors at >sse scattered in all directions of town. cat support *) - A man who got custody of divorce settlement has been port payment from his ex-wife, granting John Boss Nolan the ;aren L. Nolan, for support of going to keep the cats and she support of the cats," said J. 3lan, 22. "I think it's a rather district Court signed the order tested divorce final for the San rried on Jan. 10, 1980. The set:at-support payment. s going to fall out of his chair" rovision, Stone said. I starring Burt Reynolds, <ey, 2:30, 7 and 9:30 Sports: Volleyball coaches ti., Room 110, Blatt PE ?? . , . . ..... ... - Solidarity it WARSAW, Poland (AP) - Angry Solidarity militants in Gdansk 1-*~1 1 1 ciiducugcu ruianu s mm UcU-iaw enforcers yesterday by calling on 17,000 workers to mass for a second strike to protest a new law that outlawed their union. Police routed stragglers who refused to disperse Monday night following an illegal but peaceful eighthour strike to protest the Communist government's latest labor crackdown, which banned Solidarity and nullified reforms the union won for Polish workers. State television said police used 4'means of coercion" on "several groups" of onlookers who defied orders to disperse after dusk fell outside the giant Lenin Shipyard i where Solidarity was born during strikes in August 1980. Western reporters in the Baltic port said the protestors decided to strike again yesterday for eight hours and told the wokers to assemble outside tho dntoc II1U . 1 ila > . ::^^Ke| Good stuff Sweet Rice Dumpling was one of s and dumpling wrapped in bamboo let Environments WASHINGTON (AF) - The Reaj policies are damaging the environmen across the nation, according to a repor envii onmental groups. Among the problems the report i pesticide exposure among South T dangerous levels of chemicals in Gr< variety of mining and development tl national parks. "The stories we report are not all big sad ones that need never have happene< "Taken together, they paint a pictun committed to a systematic weakening < suit the pollutors and handing ov< resources to private interests." The study, titled "Hitting Home: The Environmental Policies on Communit is a compilation of reports from local c in more tnan 40 American communities "In Washington, we have a tendency about what is happening in the country examples," said Larry Williams, Washington director. The study's subjects range from j Maine, Massachusetts and Wisconsin Handicapped 4 (AP) . Lobbying groups don't usually fight to get special laws passed and then forget to take advantage of them, but that's exactly what organizations for the handicapped have done this year. The law was a new statute which requires each county to create an additional votine nrwinrl whpro persons in wheelchairs or on crutches can cast their ballots without asking strangers for help. "It was pushed by a coalition of all the organizations involved in rehabilitation and the handicapped," said state Rep. Joyce Hearn, HRichland, who sponsored the legislation. "This was their big issue this year," she added. "It was,brought out in two huge handicapped luncheons I at lilitants call 1 The defiant unionists are demanding the reinstatement of Solidarity and the release of its leader, Lech Walesa, who was interned along with hundreds of other union activists after martial law was imposed Dec. 13. The workers were the first to ODenlv defy the tight union controls adopted Friday by Parliament. They decided not to wait for a fourhour general strike Nov. 10 urged by the underground committee of four top Solidarity leaders. That date is the two-year anniversary of Solidarity's official registration by a Warsaw court as the first independent union in the Soviet bloc. Three large convoys of police trucks were seen heading north in the direction of Gdansk , on Monday. Highways in the area were blocked to northbound traffic and the government severed all telex and telephone communications with the north coast, making it impossible to get an independent estimate of the nuiuuei ui sinners.| liiiM fg - ' ^r'c-^;71 ||?| everal dishes offered during Chinese Day ac1 ives. J Ll! ii groups crnic gan administration's grazing on govern] t in hundreds of ways Interior Departme t released today by 10 Agency as the chief Doug Baldwin, c described were high James Watt, dismis exas farm workers, "We expect a bai *at Lakes fish and a these groups atter ireats to well-known races," he said. "If in the past, there is j stories. Some are just i," the report says. One of the mail j of an administration cutback in federal 3f pollution controls to dous waste and p< er publicly owned vironmental progn 50 percent, the stud Effects of the Reagan New York officia ies Across America," half of the state's 2S invironmental leaders "Our p/irrAcnAnH w ? Wft* y to get very abstract Carolinas, Florida, r. We wanted concrete Jersey, New Yc the Sierra Club's Washington ? all t and water quality acid rain damage in sources of pollutioi to the effects of over- ces," the study said lon't use new v tended and this was the legislation they requested for this year." The bill passed. Any handicapped persons who wanted to vote in the special precincts were to register to have their names transferred from their regular poling places by Oct. 2. When deadline passed, only three persons in Abbeville County and one in Florence County had registered, according to Pat McNeely, state coordinator for the News Election Service. "I'm rather amazed," said Hearn. "They always pick one issue to concentrate on, and this was the issue they felt very strongly about this * t*\r\ " Apparently no one felt strongly enough about it to pass the word to the people who could have used it. r For strike Reporters and witnesses returning to Warsaw said the Gdansk strikers appealed for support from other factories in the tri-city area of Gdansk, Gdynia and Sopot. The Gdansk organizers also urged walkouts in Silesia, center of the coal industry in southern Poland. In Warsaw, one official source said there could be trouble in Poland's five coastal provinces and two interior, where Solidarity support was strong. But no sympathy protests were reported. The new labor law abrogates liberalization measures won in the nationwide strike wave that spawned :i.. no *U? All : oimumiLy 40 iiiunuid agu. /ui uuiuil registrations were canceled, as was the right to strike. Only local unions can organize, and only under Communist Party control. In Rome, Polish-born Pope John Paul II repeated his pleas Monday to the Warsaw government to free all dissidents, relax military rule and restore Solidarity's status. ivities Monday. The dish is meat ize Reagan ment land in Oregon, and it names the int and the Environmental Protection culprits. ihief spokesman for Interior Secretary ;sed the report as election-year politics. rage of last-minute slings and arrows as npt to influence the outcome of some this report mirrors what they have done going to be little truth to it." 1 criticisms of the EPA concerned the funds to support state air, water, hazarjsticide programs. Grants for state enims have been reduced from 16 percent to y found. Is said they may have to close as many as >0 air-monitoring sites because of the cuts. ents in state after state ? California, the Illinois, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New >rk, Ohio, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, ell the same stories: less sampling of air , cursory reviews of permits for new ? ?i t ? I auu icwer inspeciions oi existing sourl of the cuts. otiny aid law "It really isn't anybody's responsibility to do that, that I know of," said Joe Dusenbury, state commissioner of vocational rehabilitation, among those who pressed Mrs. Hearn to back the law. "Our reason for pushing it was that a number of handicapped people had raised the issue and said they just u/ant<u4 Jn a- ? * uv/ w ciun; 10 go ana vote and not be attended by somebody else," he said. Handicapped persons can vote absentee, or they can accept help at their regular polling place if there are barriers. "Some just said they didn't want to have to go to a strange place and be helped by people they didn't know," Dusenbury said.