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Show Thursday, December 7, 1978 Page 4 INTERNATIONAL Tehran, Iran Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi suffered a new setback Monday as thousands of oil workers were reported to have embarked on a new wave of job slowdowns in an attempt to cut Iran's oil revenues. Tehran suffered three days of large and violent protests against the government last week. Previously, the confrontations had been between unarmed demonstrators and armed government troops but during the latest uprisings a police officer of-ficer was killed when an urban guerrilla band attacked at-tacked a police station. The Iranian government said 17 persons were killed and 50 wounded after the violence began Friday night but diplomatic sources placed the death toll at more than 30. "We're fighting to the death now. We have shed too much blood to stop," one dissident told reporters. "The Shah is the enemy of the people and of Islam. We will kill all who support him." Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia As many as 143 people drowned Saturday when a boat crammed with Vietnamese refugees sank in heavy seas after being denied permission to land in Malaysia. The latest tragedy pushed the death toll for refugee "boat people" in recent weeks past the 330 mark. According to police, 148 refugees were rescued, 44 bodies were recovered and 99 persons per-sons were missing and feared dead after the boat went down in the South China Sea of Pasir Puteh. The Malaysian Foreign Ministry announced that the refugees still aboard the freighter Hai Hong, anchored off Port Klang, will be allowed to leave the ship and to settle temporarily because the United States has promised to accept those who cannot find homes elsewhere. Malaysia already has taken in more than 45,000 Vietnamese "boat people," whose boats are propelled to Malaysia's eastern coast by sea currents. Rome Sophia Loren and her husband, film producer Carlo Ponti, could pay up to $50 million in fines if a government lawyer gets his way. - Miss Loren and Ponti, who are living outside of Italy, are being tried with 27 other people on charges of exporting currency illegally. The lawyer, representing the Italian treasury, is seeking a total of $118 million from this group, which also includes actor Richard Harris and actress ac-tress Ava Gardner. Tokyo Masayoshi Ohira will replace Takeo Fukuda as prime minister next week. Ohira was elected president of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party by acclamation Friday after an hour-long session during which he stressed party unity. The 68-year-old surprise winner will be only the second Christian leader of Japan since World War II. His election received a positive response from Japan's financial community but once in office Ohira will be faced with ending a prolonged recession and reducing a huge trade surplus with the United States. Mexico City Nine persons were killed and 500 were injured last week when four violent earthquakes earth-quakes struck the Mexican capital. The quakes were centered in the Pacific in an area where a team of University of Texas scientists scien-tists last year predicted a major earthquake for 1978. At least two older buildings collapsed in Mexico City and 750 other structures suffered damage, forcing the evacuation of thousands of people. The first quake on Nov29 was the strongest of the four, registering between 7.8 and 7.9 on the Richter scale. It was the most powerful to hit Mexico since July 28, 1957, when 54 persons died. Not the strongest but the deadliest quake in Mexico occurred on Aug. 28, 1978 in Vera Cruz where 527 people died. Oxford, England "I screwed it up and I paid the price." This was former President Richard Nixon's summation of the Watergate scandal that forced him from office as related to the elite Oxford Union Society last Thursday . Nixon's reception . was mixed, with the 800 members of the debating society giving him generous applause while more than 100 demonstrators demon-strators outside chided him and threw eggs. NATIONAL Mountain View, California With scientists hoping to discover clues to the origins of Earth's climate and environment, Pioneer I went i:,to orbit around Venus Monday, commencing a 225-day 225-day probe of that cloud-covered planet; The mission will climax Saturday when a second space craft and four mini-probes launched laun-ched from it earlier will reach Venus and enter its atmosphere. The probes will crash to the surface, sur-face, transmitting valuable scientific data before they are destroyed on impact. The Pioneer I was expected to begin sending photographs almost immediately after entering orbit but it will pass no closer than 90 miles from the planet's surface. Two additional Soviet spacecraft are due to reach Venus on Dec. 21 and 25 and are expected to drop landers on the surface. sur-face. Bossier City, Louisiana At least four persons were killed and more than 250 others were injured in-jured Sunday when tornadoes touched down in Louisiana, Arkansas and Mississippi. Hundreds of National Guardsmen were activated ac-tivated for patrol duties when looting broke out. Two young sisters were killed in Bossier City when a twister hurled a car through the wall of their home as they slept. The damage to that city was estimated at $100 million. The tornado cut through the heart of the Bossier City's business district early Sunday, destroying three motels, one apartment complex, a trailer park, dozens of businesses, a school and many homes in a 10-blockarea. 10-blockarea. San Francisco Former aides to cult leader Rev. Jim Jones claim he left more than $10 million in a network of secret bank accounts around the world. Timothy Soten, a San Francisco lawyer who was once a Jones aide and legal adviser, said the People's Temple founder had spoken of channeling chan-neling the money to the Palestine Liberation Organization. Another former aide said Jones had mentioned giving the money as a gift to the Soviet Union if he should die. A group surviving the Guyana killings and suicides claimed they were on their way to the Soviet Embassy in Georgetown with $500,000 in cash, but abandoned the money in the jungle because it was too heavy. Washington President Carter Friday ordered that 56 million acres of Alaskan wilderness be preserved as new national parks, forests and wildlife refuges, marking the largest land conservation con-servation measure in history. Also included in a directive to the Interior Department, was an order or-der for the future preservation of 40 million additional ad-ditional acres. ' ,. '"-' The president's action more than' doubles the size of the existing national park system and the new acreage exceeds the size of North and South Carolina combined. Environmentalists were overjoyed by the directive and Charles Clusen of the Sierra Club claimed Carter would be remembered in history as "the greatest conservation president of all time." Montgomery, Alabama A symbol of Southern resistance during the civil rights upheavals of the 1960s has gone to pot. James G. Clark, the burly former Dallas County Coun-ty sheriff noted for his tough stand against civil rights demonstrators, was sentenced Friday to two years in prison on a federal marijuana smuggling conviction. He pleaded guilty to conspiring con-spiring to import more than three tons of marijuana from Columbia . Newport, R.I. Former CBS television newsman Daniel Schorr said last week that the late Rep. Leo Ryan of California was his source of uncovering a covert CIA operation in Angola. Ryan, who was killed in Guyana on Nov. 18 during an investigation of the People's Temple in Jonestown, reportedly provided the information infor-mation in 1975. Schorr said Ryan leaked the information in-formation to him after the congressman had received a top-secret briefing on the Angola operation from the staff of the House International Inter-national Relations Committee. The newsman said he usually does not reveal his sources but added that he felt it was appropriate ap-propriate in this case because the congressman is "dead and beyond reproach." Little Rock, Arkansas Cecil Walters pleaded guilty in 1973 to robbery charges and was sentenced senten-ced to a 21-year prison term. He later claimed the judge failed to explain his rights when he pleaded guilty and argued that he was entitled to a new trial. Walters received his new trial last week. He was sentenced to 36 years in prison. NEW CONSTRUCTION, REMODEL, REPAIR, SEWER & WATER CALL Potty Bros. 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