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Show Page 4 5 Thursday, March 1, 1979 SSSt' UT H GOURMET COFFEE & TEAS INTERNATIONAL Bangkok, Thailand Several counterattacks into China by Vietnamese forces have been repulsed, according to Chinese officials. Sources said China has reinforced troops along Vietnam's northeastern front, where some of the Vietnamese invasions reportedly took place, and shows no intention of withdrawing with-drawing from Vietnam despite pleas from President Carter to make "a speedy withdrawal". with-drawal". Carter said he has made known his "firm disapproval" of the Chinese invasion but added that it would be counterproductive to terminate the newly initiated bilateral relations with Peking. As the Chinese were reporting their repulsion of the Vietnamese counterinvasion, Vietnamese officials claimed their troops killed 2,200 Chinese troops in four days, 800 of them on Monday in battles along the northeastern coastal front. Vietnam reported it is fighting the Chinese 15 miles inside Vietnam along the banks of the Red River. China's Vice Premier Teng Hsiao-ping said Monday that the conflict might end next week but analysts predicted the Chinese invastion force first would launch an all-out assault against Hanoi's troops. Jerusalem President Carter's call for a Mideast summit was rejected by the Israeli Cabinet Tuesday but Prime Minister Menachem Begin said he would go to Washington to talk personally with Carter. In announcing the veto of the summit, the Cabinet accused Egypt of raising its treaty demands and said no progress has been made during the Camp David talks between Egyptian Prime Minister Mustafa Khalil and Israeli foreign Minister Moshe Dyan. The Israelis also were antagonized by Egyptian President Anwar Sadat's announcement that he did not plan to attend the summit. . In Washington, Carter said he will resume negotiations with Begin, calling a Middle East peace treaty an "urgent necessity". He said he may ask Egyptian officials to join the talks later in an effort to remove the barriers blocking a treaty between the two adversaries. Baghdad, Iraq Saudi Arabia, Iraq and Mexico have announced they will refuse to hike crude oil prices to take advantage of the halt in the flow of Iranian oil. Iran, meanwhile, has announced it will resume oil exports and auction auc-tion its oil to the highest bidder. Saudi Arabia confirmed Tuesday it would not increase its oil prices before April 1, when a boost already approved by OPEC nations will take effect. Observers were surprised that Iraq followed suit because that nation usually is a leader in increased price demands. However, several other OPEC members have taken steps to hike prices and take advantage of the supply decrease caused by the absence of the Iranian supply. Cittanova, Italy Vicenzo Minasi, 47, was ambushed and shot to death Monday, marking the 29th death in a family feud that has bloodied Cittanova for years. Minasi's body was found by his 14-year-old son, who police say may now become another avenger in the ongoing battle between the Fac-chinieri Fac-chinieri and Raso-Albanese families. Family feuds in southern Italy are triggered by grudges that lead to the first murder and subsequent revenge killings. Moscow The first manned space flight of the year was launched by the Soviets Sunday. On Monday, two cosmonauts docked their Soyuz-32 craft to the Salyut-6 space station and entered the orbiting laboratory. Unless technical problems arise, Western experts expect ex-pect Vladimir Lyakhov and Valery Ryumin to undertake a marathon stay in the space station. The two previous crews to visit Salyut-6 both set space endurance records. Banjainogara, Indonesia At least 182 persons per-sons died last week when the Sinila crater erupted erup-ted amid heavy tremors which rocked the entire en-tire Dieng Mountain range for almost five hours. Search and rescue teams, hindered by deadly fumes and collapsed bridges, tried to reach villages hit by the eruption. The road to the village of Pekasiran reportedly was blocked by 25 feet of lava and mud. The Deing range, 6,600 feet above sea level, has 26 volcanic peaks but the Sinila crater has not been observed closely because Indonesian geologists had classified it as extinct. NATIONAL Washington A standby gasoline rationing plan has been proposed by the Carter administration ad-ministration in response to "the situation with supply and pricing" of crude oil. The president said the situation is "serious but not critical." The rationing plan, which was to be submitted submit-ted to Congress on Thursday, assigns no specific amount of gasoline to individuals and could be used only in an energy emergency. Gasoline allotment "checks" would be mailed to owners of registered vehicles and could be "cashed in" for ration coupons at banks or other institutions. Washington An unpublished "psychological autopsy" compiled for the heirs of Howard Hughes depicts the billionaire as a drug-addicted drug-addicted and psychotic man who lived in darkness and filth for most of the last 15 years of his life. The report, commissioned by the Summa Corp., the Hughes holding company controlled by heirs to the Huges estate, says the recluse refused to wash his hair but insisted that cans containing food be disinfected before being opened. It claims he once rented a Hollywood studio and did not leave for four months, screening movies and living off candy bars, milk, nuts and bottled water. The report states that Hughes lived his final years in darkened hotel rooms, often naked and drugged. George Dean, one of the estate's attorney's, said the facts presented by the report were "indisputable "in-disputable and documented from every side". Washington An agricultural scientist claims he has created potato clones from single plant cells that possess great resistance to major blights threatening the world's potato crop. Reportedly, the cloned potatoes have identical eyes and identical lumps when mashed. Attica, New York "Son of Sam" killer David Berkowitz said Thursday he invented tales of,'-demons of,'-demons in an effort to "'cover up a guilty conscience". con-science". Berkowitz, now serving a 315-year prison term for murdering six young people and wounding seven others, said his claims of demonic possession were a product of "my wild imagination". "There were no real demons, no talking dogs, no satanic henchmen," he said in an interview with Associated Press, The New York Times and Newsday. "I made it all up via my wild imagination so as to find some form of justification for my criminal acts against society." The former postal clerk said the murders mur-ders were "motiveless and senseless". The 25-year-old Berkowitz will be eligible for parole when he is 54. Cleveland A teen-age boy and girl were charged last week with paying $60 to have their father killed because he was too strict. Detectives said John T. White, 41, was shot with a .38-caliber revolver when he returned to his home February 9. They said one shot missed, but the second hit him in the arm as he , fled the room. Reportedly, White was followed into the kitchen and shot in the head as he tried to open the door to escape. Police said that after the children paid Gerome Watkins $60 from their father's wallet, they put the body in a back room and went on a shopping spree with his credit cards. Watkins, 19, is still being sought. White, a very religious man, kept three Bibles in his living room and made his 14-year-old daughter and 17-year-old son observe a 9 p.m. curfew, according to police. 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