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Show Thursday, September 27, 1979 Page 4 " if m m wr ...OT'SSTIi una INTERNATIONAL Berne, Switzerland Soviet figure skaters Oleg Protopopov and his wife Ludmilla Belousova remained in hiding Tuesday as Swiss officials pondered their request for political asylum in the neutral country. The two-time Olympic champions were the fourth and fifth prominent Soviet performers to seek asylum in little more than a month, with three prominent members of the Bolshoi Ballet defecting to the United States in recent weeks. Johannesburg, South Africa Trade union rights, were granted to all black workers Tuesday in a government gesture to South Africa's black majority. The move was viewed as part of Prime Minister Pieter Botha's strategy to avert black revolution by making apartheid more palatable at home and in the eyes of the world. Although extending union rights to blacks, the government has passed legislation that prohibits racially mixed unions and excludes migrant workers from the rights. Bangkok, Thailand A United Nations official who went into famine-stricken northwestern Cambodia last week says about 80 percent of tjhe children he saw were starving. The official said there was obviously a very high infant mortality rate in the area, which is also infested with malaria . Bangui, Central African Republic The new president of the Central African Republic confirmed con-firmed reports Tuesday that ousted Emperor Jean Bedel Bokassa had practiced cannibalism, eating the flesh of the subjects he condemned to die. ' "Yes, there were pieces of flesh, human flesh, in the deep freeze at Bokassa's home," David Dacko said. Bokassa was toppled after a 13-year rule when other African nations learned he had massacred up to 200 schoolchildren. The youths were killed because they demonstrated against the emperor's em-peror's decree that they had to buy school uniforms at a store run by one of his wives. Bokassa has been charged with personally taking part in some of the killings and putting out the eyes of one child with a cane. Condemned to death in his own country, the deposed emperor has been given refuge by the Ivory Coast government. Beirut, Lebanon In the biggest air battle over Lebanon in three months, Syrian jet fighters and U.S. made Israeli F-15s dueled south of Beirut on Monday. Four Syrian Soviet made MiGs were reported downed while Syria claimed two Israeli jets were "hit." Syria said its MiG-21s scrambled to intercept the Israeli warplanes after the Israelis attacked civilian camps 10 miles from Beirut. Officials in Tel Aviv said the Israeli jets were on a reconnaissance recon-naissance mission over Palestinian guerrilla bases. London Britain and France have decided not to finance development of a second-generation of the supersonic commercial jet Concorde. The action ac-tion came as a result of astronomical increases in fuel costs, not environmental concerns, and it moved the Concorde a step closer to extinction. "Technically the Concorde was a success but commercially it ran into high fuel costs," a spokesman for British Aerospace said Saturday. Commercial carriers proved unwilling to operate the plane, which uses four times more fuel than a Boeing 747 to cary one-fourth as many passengers. Mexico City After more than two years of negotiations, the United States and Mexico announced an-nounced Friday an agreement has been reached on the sale of Mexican natural gas to the United States. The amount of gas involved is minimal but U.S. officials hope the result will be closer long-term long-term cooperation on energy matters between the two countries. Negotiations had been sporadic and often heated. Official on both sides said the agreement includes many demands made by the Mexican government and vindicates its decision to hold out for a higher price and a favorable escalator clause. Hamburg, West Germany Leading Hamburg politicians last week said poison gases found in an old chemical factory could have wiped out the city's entire population. Hundreds of residents were evacuated as troops and firemen removed hundreds of tons of poison-gas shells and other munitions left from World War II. "The quantity of gas found at the factory is enough to destroy all the people of Hamburg and millions of others as well," said one political leader. NATIONAL Washington A Carter administration task force on money has recommended that the government begin replacing the paper dollar with the new Susan B. Anthony dollar coin and, later, with $2 bills. It also . suggested that Congress consider eliminating the half-dollar coin, making pennies out of aluminum alloy if copper prices rise too high and urged a study of using plastic in future currency. The recommendations are aimed at lowering the government's cost of producing money, which will total nearly $35 million for coins this year and $72 million for paper money. Washington Spurred by higher costs for gasoline, home heating oil and housing, consumer con-sumer prices jumped 1.1 percent in August. The latest in a string of double-digit increases continued con-tinued the worst siege of inflation experienced by this country since World War II. The cost of living has gone up sharply for seven consecutive months and the annual inflation rate now stands at 13.1 percent. San Jose, California Nudes were in the news this week as 29 male and female models ended their week-long strike at San Jose State University Univer-sity after administrators promised to try to meet their demands. The nude models are seeking a pay increase from $4 to $6 an hour, warmer rooms to pose in and better dressing room facilities. The models complained that room temperatures have been so cold in the winter that they got goosebumps and caught colds. New York Some 200,000 anti-nuclear protestors, bolstered by rock stars, film stars and noted consumer advocates, gathered in Manhattan Sunday to participate in the largest such demonstration in the nation's history. The New York rally was one of a dozen being held throughout the country in an effort to raise money for political activity and opponents of nuclear power. "We are here to propose a conversion program from a nuclear to a non-nuclear society, community com-munity by community, state by state, region by region, to an age of solar energy and renewable resources," said Tom Hayden, well-known antiwar anti-war activist and husband of actress Jane Fonda, who also attended the rally. Washington Senator Edward Kennedy is rated ahead of Presient Carter by Democratic leaders in every region of the country except in the president's native South, according to a U.S. News and World Report poll. Responses from members of the Democratic National Committee in all 50 states showed 53 percent thought Kennedy would carry their state if the election were held today. Oshkosh, Wisconsin A study conducted by three University of Wisconsin graduate students indicates men who drink liquor are twice as likely as beer drinkers to try to pick up women in bars. Norman, Oklahoma In what is believed to be the first human-to-chimp transfusion, human blood has been used to save the life of a baby chimpanzee. A spokesman at the University of Oklahoma Institute for Primate Studies said Saturday about four teaspoons of human blood were given to Zeb, a three-week-old chimpanzee following a premature birth. 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