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Show Page 4 Thursday, January 4, 1979 sSlJps stdi our here INTERNATIONAL Tehran, Iran Iranian troops shouldered the work of striking control tower employees Tuesday, reopening Tehran's international airport air-port and allowing hundreds of Americans and other foreigners to flee the country. Despite pleas from their countries for nonessential non-essential nationals to leave, only small numbers of Americans and Britons were reported waiting to exit the country. A State Department spokesman said only about 4,200 Americans were trying to leave Iran out of a total of 35,000. On the political front, aides of Prime Minister-designate Minister-designate Shahpour Bakhtiar said he has made all his selections for a new civilian Cabinet which is to replace the military government installed two months ago to deal with anti-shah riots. Sydney, Australia A rash of UFO sightings were reported in New Zealand and Australia Tuesday with a dozen policemen claiming to have observed a bright blue object for about three hours. Australian scientists have expressed skepticism skep-ticism over the sightings and a New Zealand air force plane tried in vain for six hours to track down the UFOs. However, radar operators could offer no explanations for blips picked up on their screens over the weekend and a television crew said it photographed a "large glowing ball." Peking The establishment of diplomatic relations between the United States and Communist Com-munist China was celebrated Monday with American champagne toasts and the exploding of Chinese firecrackers. In an exchange of toasts, Leonard Woodcock, head of the U.S. liaison office and Premier Ten Hsiao-ping both mentoned former President Richard Nixon's 1972 visit to China as a move toward healing the rift between the two countries. coun-tries. La Coruna, Spain An estimated 15.3 million gallons of crude oil escaped into the North Atlantic Atlan-tic Monday 30 miles off Spain's northwest coast after the hull of the Greek supertanker Andros Patria cracked in heavy seas. Explosions and fires were reported aboard the vessel and all but three of the ship's 37-member 37-member crew were lost and feared drowned. The estimated 50 tons of oil formed two huge slicks but wind, weather and current conditions will determine if the slicks will hit the Spanish coast. Two tugs loaded with detergents to flight the slicks were dispatched to the area Monday but high waves prevented them from beginning the cleanup operation. Moscow Moscow suffered through the lowest end-of-the-year temperature recorded in the last century Saturday as the thermometer dropped to -33 degrees fahrenheit in the early morning hours. It was the coldest Dec. 30 temperature since the Moscow regional weather service began keeping records 100 years ago. As if that wasn't bad enough, the weather service ser-vice predicted temperatures could hit minus 49, five degrees below the all-time record for a Moscow winter. Algiers, Algeria Two million of his followers went wild Friday as President Houari Boumedienne was buried to a 100-gun salute. Screaming crowds struggled to touch his coffin and many mourners collapsed in grief, only to be trampled by fellow mourners. Appeals for calm by Radio Algiers went unheeded as followers from across the nation came to grieve for Boumedienne, who ruled Algeria for 13 of its 16 years of independence. NATIONAL Chicago Investigators, who have unearthed 27 bodies from beneath the home and grounds of John Gacy Jr., 36, said Tuesday they doubted anymore remains would be found. Gacy, a building contractor and convicted sex offender, to date has been charged with the murder mur-der of only one youth and that youth's body has yet to be found. According to published reports, investigators have said Gacy acknowledged killing as many as 32 boys and young men after he had sex with them. Washington Traffic accidents were repson-sible repson-sible for 355 deaths over the long New Year's weekend, according to the National Safety Council. Coun-cil. The council had predicted that between 350 and 430 persons would perish on the highways. Last year 314 traffic fatalities were recorded, compared com-pared to the 1965 death toll that reached a record high of 564 victims. Beverly Hills A palatial estate housing the mother and sister of the Shah of Iran was stormed stor-med by 200 Iranian students Tuesday, resulting in several brush fires, numerous broken windows win-dows and i: to overturning of a police car. Throwing rocks, bottles and dirt at the estate, the demonstrators chanted, "Bye, bye shah." One policeman and at least six students were reported injured during the 45-minute outbreak of violence. Washington Contradicting the conclusions of the Warren Commission, the FBI and other government agencies, a House committee stated Saturday that the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr. were probably the "result of a conspiracy." The House assassinations committee called upon the Justic Department to review its findings fin-dings and "analyze whether futher official investigation in-vestigation is warranted in either case. " The panel said its conclusion in the Kennedy case was based on new accoustical evidence while the "likelihood" of the King conspiracy was attributable to circumstantial evidence. Portland, Oregon A federal investigator Friday blamed a lack of fuel as the probable cause of a United Airlines DC-8 crash Thursday night that claimed the lives of ten people. There were 185 persons aboard the plane when it went down near Portland International Airport. In his last radio message, the pilot, who survived, sur-vived, said his engines were "flaming out." Washington America's trade deficit hit an all-time high in 1978, with the U.S. buying $1.95 billion more than it sold in trade with other nations, according to the Commerce Department. Depar-tment. Although the balance of trade problem has helped grease the slide of the American dollar and contributed to inflation, Carter administration ad-ministration officials are predicting a sharp reduction in the deficit during the coming year. Salem, Oregon A Salem woman described herself as "depressed" after a jury found her husband innocent of raping her. In the first case of its kind in the nation, the jury failed to conclude "beyond a reasonable doubt" that John J. Rideout had forcibly compulsed com-pulsed his wife Greta to submit to sex. Mrs. Rideout testified she had sex with her husband only after he beat her. 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