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Dateline. \ digest Police gas bask ashpvit i p m r ap\ p, 4 4 ^ V* / * ' halt a melee that broke out Saturd of North Carolina at Asheville-Ms The scuffle began with 9:19 left . Hill leading by three points. UNC6-6 forward, grabbed a rebound KocKy bpauiaing in me eye witn a 6-6, hit Haus in the /ace. Both benches cleared and severe ferent spots on the Justice Gym f the stands and joined in the fight, i^tyC-Asheville athletic director. Three campus security officei brawling players but tear gas was r Harris said. Order was restored ii said, and Spaulding was ejected f "I've never seen security guari players during a fight," said Mar: whose team lost 71-57. "Was thai to pull guns and stuff?" Campus police are issued Mace /tor /> iimr/4 r? * r? /> L uiuuiu^ui^ IU waiu uu auatr according to Arnold Jones, ass police. 28 died of cold (AP) ? More cold-related d Carolina during December than i past decade, state health official; Twenty-eight of last year's 35 pened in December ? nine on C Department of Health and Envirc reported Friday. The previous single month h when 25 South Carolinians died f: officials said. That year's toll wa Twenty-one counties reported year, with Greenville County far < Trench divides ( MOUNT VERNON, N.Y. (AI been divided in half since 1894 created by the tracks of the Ne1 cuts through the heart of the do City officials say the division (area's development, and project: cfrnof nffiPA hnilHinac anH norl/ii oil uvi v/ihvv uuiiuiii^a uiiu put ivii so the trains can operate out of, Royko to syndi CHICAGO (AP) ? Newsmi Pulitzer Prize-winning column w tionally, following his recent mo Times to the rival Chicago Trib "I'm going to be syndicated ii said Jan. 17. After Royko's successful employers, his column was 1 newspapers in the United States Royko said he was negotiatii his column and could not releas estimate the number of newspa receive his columns. Royko's move to the Tribum the Sun-Times by Rupert Murd Legalized gamb GALVESTON, Texas (AP) beachfront city overwhelmingly ing Saturday, voting against < that asked if they wanted glitte resort* Casino eamblins was reiecte 7,992 votes, to 37 percent or 4, Saturday night's vote was sii nion and carries no legal weigh said they hope the decisive marj this city of 30,000. I "Now Galveston can remain munity," said former city cour was a member of a group cal Casino Gambling. ihe Great ualveston Beach rolling dice and whirling rou billions of dollars into the local < ing return to the "good old da fun and rescuing the city from decline. _M? (w . m use today J RW FHw ?Disney Animation Fei Vfflfa," with Mickey Mouse end" 11' ? .I < ? 1 ' 1 ' ? , I etbalS mob olice sprayed tear gas to p"1 lay during the University J^v irs Hill basketball game. Pn in the first half and Mars att Asheville's Tom Haus, a so) and caught Mars Hill's n elbow. Spaulding, also t!? sai il fights broke out at difloor. Fans jumped from co] according to Ed Harris, wh s tried to separate the cn leeded "as a last resort," st^ n about five minutes, he rom the game. ds try to shoot Mace at s Hill Coach Bob Ronai, R t going to be a next step, v on W< canisters and use the im- . :ers and break up fights, 13 iistant chief of campus jV Re in December n eaths occurred in South N n any sijngle month in the 5 say. cold-related deaths haphristmas Day alone, state /" i f* ruiuciiiiu ^uuiiui uiiiuais ? 'I igh was February 1973, I rom exposure to the cold, < is 30 deaths. % deaths from the cold last exceeding the rest :ity in half *) ? This city has literally' by a 26-foot deep trench w Haven Railroad, which wntown business district, has been a barrier to the ij are in the works to con ig garages over the cavity sight. icate columnj in Mike Royko says his son will be syndicated na- j Vic from the Chicago Sun-i une. n about a month," Royko ;gal battle to switch ost to about 150 other rt i - i T i, i^anaua anu japan. ig national distribution of e details about his plans or tpers that might eventually i 2 followed the purchase of | och. ling rejected - Residents of Texas' oldest " ' rejected organized gambl- . a non-binding referendum h ;ring casinos on this island d by a vote of 63 percent, ,632 votes in favor. 3 mply an expression of opi- < t. But gambling opponents J gin puts the issue to rest for ^ a tourist and family com- 1 icilman Bob Albright, who i led Galvestonians Against 1 Association had claimed s lctte wheels would inject i economy, creating a glitter- i ys" of prosperous sin and i a permanent, irreversible 1(1 I? I mwwMJL i I V- +? I ' 1 Itival; f&rtwkk "Steamboat, The Throe Uttto Hat." Free., 1 F " I 1 , Vttorney WASHINGTON (ATP) ? William kith, the multimillionaire corporate wer and close Dersonal adviser tc ssident Ronald Reagan, resigned a: orney general, administratior irces said yesterday. Fhe sources, who spoke on condi n they not be identified by name d it appeared that the leading can late for a successor was presidentia Linselor Edwin Meese. The 66-year-old attorney general 10 reversed civil rights, antitrust anc minal enforcement policies that ha< >od through four previous ad nistrations, kept his plans to himsel nost up until the last minute. THE SOURCES said he tolc agan of his intention in a one-on e meeting in the Oval Offia ednesday. But even yesterday, Smith d not advised assistant attorney: neral at the Justice Department o! > plans. During the Oval Office meeting :agan told Smith, who was Reagan': H?-r.Vr< .V Jiy ' / , ' '' ' ^ ^ I ^ ppli gnH|^^;4 ^B;Bl fc:iffl? I |;f p|^^^WMj|j^^^H^B^^igJ^||| Gciod^ibrataoiis^ Micnaei, iz, tiroy uanizjer, iz, enjo' radio. The two were walking down afternoon. iarvin pushe CHARLESTON (AP) ? It will c( /ou more to pull that tab or pop tli :ork if a measure proposed by StJ Mouse majority leader Rep. Alex H; /in III becomes law. But the lawmaker says increasing 1 :ax on beer and wine to suppi alcohol abuse programs is cheaj than the tax society is already payii The Clarendon County Democ says by "placing a small duty" on b and wine, the state could raise $: million in new revenue for alcol abuse and treatment programs. "ini itiE. long run 11 win save us money, and more importantly, it v save the lives of many South Care nians," he told a news conference h Friday following a whirlwind tc across the state to stump for i proposal. The idea is to raise the tax by sev< r#?nths r?f a rent ner 12 ounr.es volume, which Harvin says is two ce general resic i personal lawyer for many years, that i the Cabinet post was his as long as he > wanted it. ; The sources said Smith was not i pressured to leave, but he had simply aftpr thn?p vpar? in nffipe it was time to go. They said Smith felt , that he had accomplished his major goals. 1 Smith is an intimate friend of Reagan and a member of the old , Reagan "Kitchen Cabinet" until the 1 president brought him into his official i inner circle as attorney general. f DURING THE transition period between the 1980 election and Regan's inauguration, Smith chaired the KitI chen Cabinet's personnel task force tVmt cplppfpH fhp lr#?v mpmherc r?f thf? "IMt V..V ~ ; administration, many of them ? like i Smith ? longtime members of 5 Reagan's informal group of friends f and advisers. The meetings of that task force and , of the Kitchen Cabinet generally were 5 held in Smith's law offices at the Los -WW] Soldier than fa t SCHWAF.BISH-GH 8 Army soldier has adm being abducted by anl decided to fake his ow anti-nuclear protester Protesters have picl Gmuend, where the; missiles reportedly ar Fowler, a mainten He admitted the Sch waebish-Gmuend and German authorii m sources said he woul Fowler reported 1 p VV shortly after he faile< fepjM later notified Germa 2:30 a.m. Jan. 14, wl napped him in his ca Later that day .hl XggMM through the Americ? . Daytona Beach, Fla. n??t ly Jm Jasftasa a hoax. y music as they carry their, "! W have to h< Greene Street yesterday Fowler. is for beer, wine )St tat "In the long run it will save lte us flil mnnpu and tho liuoc nf ar- "" Wl many South Carolinians." ^ ? S.C. lawmaker )er Rep. Alex Marvin III ig. , 1 * " rat on a quart of wine and about six cents Nr ' on a six pack of beer. 5 8 Gary Turner of the S.C. Tax Commission said presently, South Carolinians are paying a tax of 28.8 cents on a quart of wine and 43.2 cents on a six pack of beer. all Harvin said 75 percent of the new vill revenue would go to county alcohol >li- abuse treatment programs and the reere maining 25 percent would be earmark>ur ed for the state Commission on Drug the and Alcohol Abuse. Currently. liauor is taxed to help support treatment en- agencies. of nts HARVIN SAID that "with total jns post Angeles firm of Gibson, Dunn & Crut- 1 cher, where Smith was the managing partner. The sources said they expected Reagan to formally announce the decision sometime today. Smith's decision came as a surprise to associates who had heard him in the past express a desire to be the first attorney general since Herbert Brownell in the Eisenhower administration to complete four full years in office. SMF "1 FIRST voiced that desire to aides he was under attack in 1982 from L, jcrats, including Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass.f over his in vestment in oil and gas drilling tax shelters and for taking a $50,000 severance payment when he left the board of directors of the Jorgensen Steel Co. to become attorney general. Smith diffused that controversy by returning the $50,000 and agreeing to limit his tax deductions in the two ventures to the amount of his cash investment. lies rather ce spouse rtUEND, West Germany (AP) - A U.S. itted he made up a story last week about :i-nuclear protesters rather than face his ick her up at work, officials said, ler, 21, of Port Orange, Fla., said he rn kidnapping when he needed an excuse , U.S. military authorities and German wo. around for hours Tan 1 trvino to ' * w ~ ? ?O to tell her, the authorities said. He :arly the next day to say West German s had kidnapped him. ceted the Army base outside Schwaebishfirst.battery, of nine Pershingill nuclear e sited. ance worker at the headquarters of the Brigade, was not working near the es said. He disappeared after a tour of ound Jan. 15 in a barn in Bavaria, more sast of his army garrison. hoax during police questioning in Thursday, a joint statement by the Army ties said. eadmitted to a U.S. military hospital in 1 request, the statement said. Informed ia undergo mental examinations, ler husband missing to military police J to pick her up from work. The military n police. She next heard from Fowler at len he called to say six protesters had kidtr. i called his wife to ask her to publicize in news media the German opposition to nuclear missiles in West Germany, who recently moved from Port Orange to , said they were shocked by the claims of jar it from him before I believe it," his r, told the Daytona Beach News-Journal. ing if it's true," said his father, Kenneth tax increase resources ? including all federal, state and local revenues ? of just $10 million, these agencies served some 32,000 clients in fiscal 1982-83. That's a 33 percent/increase in the number of clients served over the number served five years earlier, yet they've received no additional funding to handle the rapidly rising demand for services." Harvin, who plans to introduce the proposal in the State House tomorrow, said the economic loss from alcohol abuse in 1982 totaled $800 million in the state, including $200 million for alcohol-related health care. The figures from the Commission on Alcohol and Drug Abuse also showed 600 people were killed in alcohol related accidents in the state that year. Harvin called the tax "a very fair user duty on beer. If we don't tax the in A ? h A AA A A a. A A M # Atfl CM USCIS U1 II1C piuuuu wc aic IUACU III ?u many other ways.