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Show Pge 4 -t ,. - x M f 4 I H 4 Wedhsday;AUgiLi$t16;i?78 " " ,l s ;;. i 1 i; ...i i.'i.i Bering InVolvoed In Crash 3 yi... -uu yiis yyi Bini lskls INTERNATIONAL s ! TI Aviv Eying next, month's peace talks at President Carter's Camp David retreat, the Israeli Cabinet has put aside a plan to build five new Jewish settlements on the occupied West Bank of the Jordan River. In an atternpt to revive negotiations between Israel and Egypt,, j Carter has , invited Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin and Egyptian President Anyyar Sadat to a summit conference on September 5,.,, i Officials in Tel Aviv indicated that, their decision on the West Bank outposts could chahge,' depending oh the outcome of these peace talks. M Beirut More than 100 people, 5 including 22 children, were killed Sunday when an eight-story building housing the military command of the pro-Iraqi Palestine Liberation Front (PLF) was leveled, by a bomb blast. f: ' Palestinian officials estimated the bomb contained more than 550 pounds of t plastic explosive. Among the know dead were Abul Abass the 29-year-old head of the PLF, and 37 of his"highly trained operatives."; Abass' extremist extrem-ist followers and Yasser Arafat's guerrilla group,; Al Fatah, have been engaged in a bloody conflict over Palestinian policy 'towarft Israel.) Sunday's bombing was the worst act of sabotage in Lebanese history. j, Tokyo China and Japan signed a peace and friendship treaty Saturday, ending'six years of on-again, off-again negotiations. A. The Soyiet Union repeatedly has warned that the treaty would be viewed as an unfriendly act and has hinted that it could cause a re-evaluation of its relations with Japan. One clause of thejpact declares that fc oth Japan and China are opposed to any efforts to establish dominance in Asia or any other region. j ' ' - J; j, China regards that provision as being directed at Russia. However, another clause included at Japan's insistence, states that the treaty does not affect either country's relations with third , countrijj;. This, Japan fegls(inanthe ,pact5i not directed at the Soviet Union. Lisbon, Portugal An American-educated engineer, en-gineer, who is a political independent, was appointed as Portugal's . prime minister last Wednesday. "" Alfredo Nobre Da Costa, 55, was asked to form a new government by President Antonio Ramalho Eanes. He replaces Maro Soares, who was toppled July 27 after losing conservative support for his six-month-old Socialist government. Soares stormed out, of the presidential palace after learning of the new appointment. Apparently angry that the new prime minister was not selected from his Socialist Party Soares said, ''In my Opinion, the president has not lived up to the constitution." -. - Mi - Brazzaville' Congo An attempted coup d'etat was foiled ' Monday by the country's ruling military council, according to Congolese President Joachim Yhombi Opango. In radio and television reports, the president claimed mercenaries backed "by Western and African ; capitals," had planned to invade the west-central African nation Monday and assassinate the military rulers. "We are in a position to identify the place where the mercenary troops and military planes were stationed in preparation for the attack on Brazzaville," President Yhombi Opango said, without revealing the place. The Congo is one of Africa's most avid Marxist states. NATIONAL Washington Testifying before the House Assassinations Committee Monday, the Rev. Ralph Abernathy told investigators Martin Luther King's murder was a conspiracy and said he thinks King knew what was coming. "I think he had received some word, from some sources, that he was going to be assassinated,'' Abernathy said. King's successor told reporters he believes the FBI was involved in the assassination and had warned the civil rights leader iri advance "to warn him and to threaten him both." :,' . - The testimony came during the first public hearings in the House's $5 million investigation of the murders of King and President John F. Kennedy". . '. ' i Santa, Iiarbara. California Southern California's Cali-fornia's (strongest earthquake in recent years resulted in relatively few, injuries Sunday but property damage will exceed $1 million, accordipg to emergency service officials. The, quake struck at :J-:4" p m., last ing for about 20 seconds and registering .11 on the Richter scale. Various J.in-pn.ils jrcaed i? persons for quake related injune?- hut most were n-lrasrd after' ti'U K- ' .'.' Cleveland The nation's youngest big-city mayor remained in office by a narrow 276-vote margin Monday. Mayor Dennis Kucinich was the object of Cleveland's first recall election only nine-months after taking office. His term has been beset by controversy, and demands for his ouster began after he fired popular Police Chief Richard Hongisto. - - Kucinich's political' life apparently was saved by' hard campaigning during which he claimed he . would . not be controlled by Cleveland's political and business "fat cats." Washington A former underworld "hit man" 'who has been a star witness during Senate ; hearings on organized crime said Sunday he has learned that a $1 million price tag has been placed on his head. Gary Bowdach, ! 35, a confessed murderer, arsonist, dope peddler and parking meter i violator, said his greatest danger results from ; his intention to testify in future trials of top 'crime figures. ! T'The price on me at this time, as I am getting it from somebody in Miami, is $1 million," : Bowdach told UPI. "There are many cases that are going to be brought in federal court on information j that ' I have supplied, especially information pertaining to investigations of a sensitive nature. It would be to their (the . underworld leaders) benefit to have me eradicated prior to those cases going to trial because we are talking about trials upon conviction that carry life sentences." ;!';!'::; : Washington A major advance in nuclear ; fusion that eventually could lead to abundant supplies of cheap energy has been made by Princeton University scientists, according to an energy department official. f"For the -first time in history, the actual conditions of fusion have been produced in a fusion reactor in scale model," a spokesman said. "Experiments at Princeton Unversity which began three weeks ago and are now. in progress arethe rnost fignificant development in ,.the'-27 years'" k4hefusion program." The experiment uses the same power that fuels the sun and which is utilized in the hydrogen bomb. If perfected, nuclear fusion reactors could convert sea water into energy. In true "the show must go ' on" spirit, The Newspaper ! met yet another deadline last Wednesday despite a demolition demol-ition derby that took place i outside it's office doors. , ; : On the scene to get the f scoop was editor Steve Dering. Dering's 1972 Volvo was struck broadside while' 1 parked at 419 Main Street by a runaway 1968 Ford truck not being driven at the time by 18-year-old Michael Wade of Heber City. , The truck ' coasted backward down the 1 street while Wade was f making a delivery. ; The accident, which occur-' occur-' red at 1 p.m., caused an 1 estimated $3,000 damage to ' Dering's car and $200 to the VW station wagon parked ' behind him. The VW belongs to Newspaper stalwart Bobbye Jean Hammond. "I never could parallel park," Dering quipped. A $130, 10'xl3' tent belonging belong-ing to Robert J. Stempson of Idaho was stolen from his car August 2 while it was parked at the Park City, Resort. A purse belonging to Carolyn Car-olyn Myers of Murray, Utah, , and a briefcase belonging to Thomas Morgan of Lay ton, Utah, were stolen from their vehicle parked on Main Street on August 5. In addition, a case containing 8-traek tapes also was taken, resulting in an estimated loss of $75. Elizabeth Kanter of Las Vegas was robbed of a purse containing $150 in cash and a 24-carat gold monogrammed lighter on August' 12 while she was staying in her parents' Three Kings condominium. condo-minium. A witness reported to police that two young boys were responsible lor the theft. The witness said while one youth, watched Ms. Kanter, the other cut a screen and entered the condominium. The purse was later recovered, although al-though the cash, which consisted of a $10(1 bill and other 'bills., was missingrTjie police reported a boy -attempted to pass a $100 bill at the 7-11 store but the clerk did not accept it. The clerk has not been questioned for a description of the youth. 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