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Show Page 4 Thursday, February 1, 1979 INTERNATIONAL Tehran, Iran An army general was attacked by angry Moslems and movie houses and nightclubs night-clubs were destroyed Monday after embattled Prime Minister Shahpour Bakhtiar decided to cancel his peace mission to Paris. Upon hearing hat Bakhtiar would not meet with opposition leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, rampaging demonstrators pulled Gen. Taghi Latifi from his car, beat him senseless sense-less and then stabbed him in front of Tehran University. Troops and police responded to the violent protests by firing at thousands of demonstrators, sending scores to the hospital. Political observers feel Bakhtiar's cancellation can-cellation of the Paris mission has created another crisis and moved Iran a step closer to civil war. Cuilapan, Mexico Condemning rich landowners land-owners who "hide the bread needed by so many families," Pope John Paul II made a strong plea Monday for improving the quality of life for Latin America's poor. Pope John Paul arrived in Mexico on Friday to inaugurate the Third Latin American Bishop's Conference, a meeting which reportedly report-edly will set the course of the Roman Catholic Church in Latin America for the next decade. The purpose of the pope's trip to Cuilapan was to meet the common people after two days of discussions with some of Latin America's leading clergy. In his address to an estimated 300,000 Mexicans, the pope called for "truly effective measures on the local, national and international inter-national level" to alleviate the plight of the downtrodden. Bangkok, Thailand The deposed government of Cambodian Prime Minister Pol Pot claimed Monday it has recaptured almost all of the country's southwestern region and has pushed its area of control to within 12 miles of Phnom Penh. A loyalist radio station said Pol Pot's Khmer Roughe troops were launching daily attacks at the capital from the west, south and northwest. Diplomatic sources were unable to confirm the claims and were cautious as to their authenticity. authen-ticity. But the sources did say the Khmer Rouge was making gains, particularly in Takeo Province, where they apparently have regained control of the" town of Takeo. The Khmer Rouge was forced out of Phnom Penh by a Vietnamese-led offensive three weeks ago. Western diplomatic sources have estimated that as many as 100,000 Vietnamese troops took part in the offensive, which captured cap-tured Phnom Penh after a two-week campaign. Jerusalem The latest peace proposals offered of-fered by U.S. special envoy Alfred Atherton have been rejected by Egypt, spiking efforts to rekindle the FsraelirEgyptian peace talks, according ac-cording to Israel. The new peace proposals were formulated during a week of lengthy negotiations between Atherton and an Israeli legal team. The American diplomat travelled to Cairo last week to convey the proposals. A statement by Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin Sunday was the first official indication that Egypt had rejected the ideas aimed at removing the remaining obstacles to an Israeli-Egyptian peace treaty. Bonn, West Germany "Holocaust," the American television dramatization of the Nazi slaughter of Jews being telecast in West Germany, Ger-many, reportedly has caused breakups among the families of former SS men and evoked threatened suicides. One former Nazi SS man said Saturday that his wife of 25 years and their four children left him after watching the television series. "There is nothing left for me but to shoot myself. We were going to celebrate our silver wedding anniversary next week," he was quoted as saying. NATIONAL Washington President Carter and Teng Hsiao-ping, China's deputy premier, began three days of talks Monday and the two world leaders expressed divergent views on the intentions inten-tions of the Soviet Union and the prudence of a new strategic arms agreement. Teng and his wife were guests of honor at an elaborate state dinner at the White House. Included In-cluded among the 140 guests were former President Richard Nixon and former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. The deputy premier described the Soviet Union as a "hotbed of war" and argued that the United States is in "strategic retreat." He called on the U.S. and Japan to join his country in an alliance "to replace curbs on the Soviet bear." San Diego A teen-age girl opened fire with a .22-caliber rifle on an elementary school Monday, Mon-day, killing the principal and a custodian before surrendering. A policeman and eight students also were wounded by 16-year-old Brenda Spencer, Spen-cer, who said she wanted to "liven up the day." Miss Spencer barricaded herself inside her family home across from the Cleveland Elementary School for 6V2 hours before quietly agreeing to come out. After the shootings, the teenager reportedly said, "I don't like Mondays. This livens up the day." Washington President Carter has granted executive clemency to Patricia Hearst and commuted her seven-year sentence for bank robbery. A White House announcement said Miss Heart will be freed Thursday from the federal prison at Pleasanton, Calif. She has served 22 months of her sentence. The announcement said the heiress "has been punished substantially" and "needs no further rehabilitation, and it is the consensus of all involved in her proceedings and confinement that she is no risk to the community com-munity and that, on the contrary, she will be a law-abiding citizen." Tarrytown, New York The ashes of former Vice President Nelson Rockefeller were buried Monday during a private service in a small cemetary next to the family's estate at nearby Pocantico Hills. Rockefeller, 70, governor of New York for 15 years and vice president under former President Gerald Ford, died of a heart attack Friday night. New York A 49-year-old divorced mother of two was jailed Sunday after she allegedly commandeered a jumbo jet with 131 persons aboard. The FBI said Irene McKinney, described as distraught about her family and the Roman Catholic Church, hijacked the plane to preempt network television. The woman threatened to blow up the jet with nitroglycerin unless Charlton Heston, Jack Lemmon or Lindsay Wagner read an unspecified note over the air. No one was injured during the 11-hour ordeal. Chicago Two weeks of snow storms, collapsing collap-sing roofs and traffic battles are taking their toll on the nerves of Chicagoans. I The driver of a snow plow has been accused of purposely crashing into 34 vehicles and running run-ning over a car, crushing a man inside to death. A motorist was stabbed to death when he honked his horn at a car blocking his path on a snowy street. - Police say the city has experienced a 69 percent per-cent increase in murders and they put most of the blame on quarreling people who have been cooped up indoors because of the storms. i Scituate, Massachusetts Following a court, order preventing them from treating their son's leukemia with Laetrile, the parents of Chad Green and their son have disappeared. The Greens were ordered last Thursday to stop treating Chad with Laetrile. The parents left a note saying they could not comply with the court order, which culminated a year-long battle over the controversial cancer treatment. Officials said they will seek kidnapping indictments indict-ments against the Greens, who apparently have fled the state. 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