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pngv 2 ? March 25, 15)85 Dateline thk gamecock ^ Qnwon noronnc UUVUIB pUIOUIIO as car touche: By Associated Press JUPI'I KK, Ha. ? Seven people, including three small children were electrocuted in their car Saturday when it touched another vehicle on which a downed 7,620-volt I'""1-1 Witnesses gave conflicting versions of what happened. One, Bernard Johnson, told Palm Bcach County Sheriff's Department that the seven died as they tried to flee a fire caused by the power line, which tell in tront ot their mobile home before dawn, said department spokeswoman Carolyn Nelson. She said the seven were electrocuted when the rear door of their car struck another automobile on which the downed powerline had fallen. But Thomas Kennedy, 23, told The Press t lu?i five of I hi* victims were spending the night in the ear and died when they tried to get out of the vehiele. Kennedy said Bernett Fulks, 21, her three children and her boyfriend, Irving Robert Sr., 26, were in the ear around 4 a.m. when the downed powcrlinc struck a car parked nexl to them. "Irving tried to back away from the wire but he was trapped in by the trailer." Kennedy said. CHICAGO ? Clara Peller, the feisty actress JOHANNES who became famous for killed in new i bellowing "Where's the death and bun beet " in those hamburger working with ing "I found it. I Really I i\o deaths ' fovmd it." eastern ( ape But she's plugging a dif- erowd ol hlael fcrtfnt product ahd^ died as a result Wendy's International who died of hi Inc. said Friday the in* I lie I hurstl; uorsement me&nt sne macks marchec couldn't continue to speak of Uitenhage. I for the hamburger chain. ths of unrest tl Peller, who is believed . c '"L to be in her 80's is now do- doad ,.1> pol,cc ing a commercial for unvnsh,p ou,v Campbell boup's Prego ? l ff Spaghetti Sauce, being llUll Ddll broadcast on prime-time NKW YOKI :|pWe betfm the com- gl,ni,a?ie mircial affects her credibility because she can ri . .......?'i ' mSMSaat-* ;W , :T Mil wimiilut; only find the beef in one pregnant but * . place, Wendy's," said ^rol d !!> . Dennis Lynch, vice presi- A, |cM nv() dent, of communications M imn,vi T Dublin, Ohio dCRafsakl I ihepregnan c ; . . Y. Y spokeswoman ( 1 Six other wc [ jJ . ; \ knees, calves a &1? (M muac J Wtt* mm A #1 #1 Ss *?.UU | OUR REGULA z COLOR PRINT ?& iu% aiscouni 10 fjg 1417 Sumter St. Is,clusi"'01 ro"po' * w Columbia. S.C. JO Ph. 254 9329 (located in the Marriott Parking Garage) electrocuted s oowerline I Fulks' mother and brother were alerted to the danger and came out of the trailer to help the five escape, kennedy said. As they touched the car, Fulks opened a door that touched the adjacent car, electrocuting all seven people, Kennedy said. lie said the couple was in the car because Robert did not get along with Fulks' parents. Pronounced dead at the scene, Nelson said, were Robert, Fulks and her children, San Tresa Renett Brown, 4; Irving Fulks Jr., 2; and Gail Danielle Fulks, 7 months; her mother, Bcrnice Fulks, 44; and her brother, James Fulks, 23. The bodies were taken to the Palm Beach County medical examiner's office for autopsies. lulks' father. James Troy Fulks. 46, slept through the incident and knew nothing about it until rescue crews came. Neighbor Edna Runner said she accom panted another tulks daughter, Joanne Fulks, 19, who lives elsewhere, to identify the bodies. Florida Power and Light Co. spokesman l name scneer saici u was noi immediately known why the powerline had fallen. "We have a team of investigators trying to piece together the situation," he said. d today c 7 in Qnnth Afrioa o f ( uuuiii nil iwu 1|U K(I, South Africa ? Seven blacks were iotini! on Saturday, three of them hacked to led b\ an angr\ crowd that suspected them of the \\hite-miiu>rit\ government, police and occurred in kwanohuhle, a black township in ...... ..... i,,..,i \ marchers in a nearby community. Nineteen dI' die shootings, including a 24-year-old black s injuries Saturday. iv shootinps took place when 3,000 to 4,000 1 illegally Irotn l.anga toward the white center it was the bloodiest simile incident in nine moil Hat lias left about 250 blacks dead. Cierric van Rooycn said two blacks were shot early Saturday moring in Kwazakhele, a black ide the Indian Ocean city of Port Elizabeth. la arnntc in nlnh b Ul UpVO III UIUU '< ?Eighi people were shot and a woman was Saturday in an after-hours social club during a .eon factions of immigrants from the West Intl. u, iiiliiiuin^ u woman wihi was cigm mom us avc birth by C'acsarean section after the melee, :uarded and stable condition at area hospitals, gunmen fired 28 to 30 shots about 6 a.m., cause among some 300 people packed into the in the Bronx, said police Lt. Michael O'Shea. r crowd left either through the front door and a pie were known to have jumped out a second ' he said. t woman was shoi in the stomach, but the bullet hifd, said North Central Bronx Hospital Patricia Irving. imen and one man weie shot in the buttocks, nd feet. $1 mm 1 PHOTO JXrog I OFF s i R PRICES ON ? PRnrCQQIWR as P?. Good For Only One Roll ' y*^'r:V^^^P^^^HhMfcrBffc drift Hail U.S. airlifts Etf By Associated^ress LOS ANGELES ? U. S. military transport planes on Friday airlifted the last Lthiopian Jews from the Sudan to litael in a secret operation planned by the Central Intelligence Agency, the Los Angeles Times reported. The Jews, known as Falashas, were loaded swiftly aboard about 10 C-130 transport planes beginning at dawn on a gravel airstrip about eight miles north of Gedaref in eastern Sudan, the Times said in Saturday's editions. "Need Extra Cast I $14.00 On First Doi 0 Twice A Week Doni B c* d* d* | ?P ?P ?P ?P $ COLUMBIA PLASMA CJ ^ 1916 Tayltfr Street ^ Columbia, South Carolina 2 | Phone 254-6683 ICS OPEN 7:00 AM 4 4Bring this Coupon with , L VVk-j(jfli?-# ? ?i1 W^2HI3 t * - < m Pv Globetrotting j) jl ,mm in uoiumoia Harlem Globetrotters paid a visit to Columbia Thursday before an au .,7V| dience in the Carolina ColffHTTf,ijf. JggB iseum. Above, Hubert "Geese" Ausbie of the iT^[j Globetrotters dribbles the \ 1 balj away from Washington ^ Generals player Sam i HH Sawyer. At right, the two l\; , players show what good f H sportmanship is. : ^ JHBH JUStHH bAHNt I I / The Gamecock ! iiopian Jews The planes were believed 10 have followed a route over the Red and Mediterranean seas io israei, ine newspaper saiu. i ne numoer 01 Falashas was not immediately known, but about 900 were believed to have been in the Gedaref area, about 200 miles southeast of Kartoum, it said. The Ethiopian Jews, who fled conditions caused by the famine in that country, have t-%AAr> ISlMrt a n P rt^Ar tn tlta Cn/^nri rvt oirtlli i/vvii living A3 uiugtva 111 111^ juuau, maiuiy housed in straw huts at the southwest corner of the Tawawa refugee camp. 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