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Show Page 4 Thursday, February 8, 1979 INTERNATIONAL Tehran, Iran In an attempt to bring his religious revolution to a climax, Ayatollah Khomeini Monday night named a prime minister to head a provisional government and said anyone acting against the government would be punished harshly. Khomeini, who returned to Iran after a 14-year 14-year exile, appointed Mehdi Bazargan as prime minister of the new Islamic Republic. Bazargan was once a close ally of beleagured Prime Minister Shahpur Bakhtiar and his appointment may indicate that negotiations for a peaceful solution to Iran's political upheaval could be possible. London The state-run British Leyland automotive company said it could not survive a strike called by union leaders representing 100,000 of the company's workers. British Leyland is one of Britain's largest exporters ex-porters and one official said, "The strike could be castastrophic for the economy." The planned walk out would close 36 automotive plants and further disrupt a nation already crippled by numerous strikes. Rome In the first terrorist attack intentionally inten-tionally directed against a woman, two female urban guerrillas riding a motorscooter and armed ar-med with silencer-equipped pistols wounded a woman prison guard as she left for work Monday. Mon-day. The ultra-leftist Front Line Urban Guerrilas claimed responsibility for the attack. Moscow The Soviet Union Sunday accused the Carter administration of providing Chinese Vice Premier Teng Hsiao-ping with a platform for "slandering the U.S.S.R." while the Communist Com-munist official visited the United States. In a sharp attack on Teng's anti-Soviet statements and subsequent silence by U.S. officials, of-ficials, the Communist Party daily newspaper Pravda said, "That no one objected to the malicious anti-Soviet insinuations was not the point of diplomatic etiquette at all. It appears that it is exactly anti-Sovietism that is the basis, of the common interests and identical views which are referred to in the U.S.-China com munique." Rome Three days after the withdrawal of Communist support precipitated the fall of his previous government, Giulio Andreotti Saturday Satur-day accepted a mandate to form a new government. gover-nment. "It certainly will not be easy," Andreotti said after President Sandro Pertini asked him to try to regroup. For the first time, Andreotti's Christian Democrats agreed to allow other parties an active ac-tive role not only in drafting new government programs but also in choosing the cabinet ministers. Despite these unprecedented moves, many doubted that these concessions would appease ap-pease the Communists. Andreotti resigned January 31 after the Communists announced they would no longer support the government in the parliamentary majority formed last March. He did not wait for a vote of no confidence. London A 31-year-oid postman was put on probation for three years after being found guilty of snatching glasses off 38 women. The prosecutor told the court that John Hansford Han-sford sometimes would wear a black mask when he crept up behind the women and he oc-cassionally oc-cassionally would flash a knife before grabbing the glasses. "I don't really know why I did it," Hansford told police. "I just fancy girls who wear glasses." The judge ordered Hansford to undergo psychiatric treatment to prevent him from making a spectacle of himself in the future. Salisbury, Rhodesia Racial discrimination was formally outlawed Friday but there was little lit-tle celebration. Despite a package of eight bills ending official of-ficial segregation in housing, education, health services and public places, most economic barriers facing Rhodesia's black majority remained. Most of the country's 6.8 million blacks are too poor to take advantage of their new legal rights. NATIONAL Washington Shouting, "We've raised enough corn, but not enough hell!" thousands of farmers far-mers drove their tractors and other farm machines into the nation's capital Monday, blocking traffic and igniting outbreaks of violence. The farmers were in Washington to demand higher government price supports for their crops and police estimated 1,950 vehicles were involved in the demonstration. At least 19 farmers were arrested and 17 vehicles were impounded. Seattle Saying the friendship shown him during his eight-day visit was "most unforget-; table," China's Vice Premier Teng Hsiao-ping ended his familiarization tour of America on Monday. : The Chinese leader expressed hope that citizens of the U.S. and China will "live in friendship from generation to generation" and added that he is "laden with the warm sentiments sen-timents of the American people. ' ' Teng, 74, is spearheading a drive to modernize moder-nize his country of a billion people and part of the purpose of his visit was to witness the technology responsible for the American standard stan-dard of living. New York A four-year-old boy was listed in.' fair condition Monday after he fell seven stories, apparently while playing ' 'Superman. ' ' Charles Green was rushed to the hospital last Friday after plunging from the apartment of a cousin. The boy's mother was quoted as saying Charles had been "flying" through the house ever since his father had taken him to see the movie, "superman." Washington Air quality for the country as a whole has remained stable since 1972, according accor-ding to the Environmental Protection Agency. This condition is viewed as somewhat of a victory vic-tory in the battle against air pollution since the use of automobiles has increased by 30 percent during that period. The EPA said smog conditions are improving in California but getting slightly worse over the rest of the nation. The agency credited pollution control devices on cars as the major reason air quality did not deteriorate to a greater degree. But one official cautioned, "we're still a long way from having healthy air throughout the country. The problem of urban smog is among the most difficult before us." Washington The Postal Service, for the first time, may achieve its goal of eliminating its operating deficit. The U.S. mail has lost money ever since Congress voted in 1970 to abolish the Post Office Department and establish the Postal Service in the hope that it would be run in a "business--like" manner. The new service was in the red tor the tune of one - billion dollars a ' year ' at - the beginning but the deficit has been reduced significantly in the last two years. Penrose, Colorado Woodley Cassell, 29, was sentenced to a 90-day jail term last Friday for failing to return 130 library books. Police said Cassell had ignored a court order issued in July 1977 directing him to pay $420 for the books within one year. New York Punk rocker Sid Vicious was found dead in a Greenwich Village apartment last Friday and police said he apparently took an overdose of heroin. Vicious, whose real name was John Simon Ritchie, had been released from jail on $50,000 bail. He was accused of killing his American girlfriend, Nancy Spungen, last October by stabbing her in the stomach. Madison, Wisconsin The Wisconsin Department Depar-tment of Health and Social Services has been threatened with charges of criminal misconduct if it fails to end a policy of refusing to allow fat people to adopt children. The threat came after a state committee investigated in-vestigated the case of a couple who claimed they were denied adoption rights because they were fat. Among those testifying during the investigation in-vestigation was Senate Republican Leader Clifford Clif-ford Krueger, who said, "this has got to be the most ridiculous situation to have transpired in my 30 years in the Senate." Krueger, who has two adopted children, is a former circus fat man. The obesity rule has been suspended by the Department of Health and Social Services. l& BIRTHDAY q Baby: Todd Clayton Coleman Date: February 3, 1979 Place: Holy Cross Hospital Weight: 8 lbs. Vi ozs. Parents: Karen and Bill Coleman ti Q fl ft fi ffTHEDUSTY ?) ;ilw iitSsf Mm Vi l LARGE MSHftY WED. NIGHT DRAFT BEER & SET-UPS THURS. DANCE CONTEST VALUABLE FRIZES FRI. & SAT. SEC LIQUOR STORE ON PREMISES A. iCyC HOURS, 4:00P.M. 11:30P.M.' II K ADJACENT TO GONDOLA I BE MO PS MAM 1 ATTHE RESORT CENTER All Sizes All Models February 1 1 th, 1 2th, 1 5th, 1 6th -SCREEN -ffr- |