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Show 5 Page 4 Thursday, October 25, 1979 .JT'S ST1I y IT WERE INTERNATIONAL Nairobi, Kenya Because of the commerical value of its horns, Africa's rhinoceros population is in danger of extinction, according to the president of the World Wildlife Fund. "The rhino is in desperate straits and faces imminent extinction," said Russell Train. The rhino population has been reduced to one-tenth one-tenth of what it was five years ago. In Kenya, it is estimated that poachers have cut the number of black rhinos from 14,000 to fewer than 1,500 in the last decade. On the entire continent it is thought that fewer than 15,000 black rhinos survive. Jerusalem Prime Minister Menachem Begin suffered a stunning setback Monday when Israel's highest court ordered the government to dismantle the controversial Jewish civilian outpost at Elon Moreh within 30 days. The High Court ruled the private West Bank land was taken for political reasons and not for overriding security needs, as contended by the government. The surprise court ruling followed by only a day the abrupt resignation of Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan over West Bank policy disagreements. For months, the former battlefield commander and defense minister, whose black eye-patch made his face a worldwide symbol of Israel's military prowess, had urged a more moderate stance toward the Palestinians although not the Palestine Liberation Organization in an effort to reach an accommodation in the West Bank and Gaza. Bonn, West Germany Chinese leader Hua Guofeng said Monday that China supported the "legitimate aspirations" of the German people to have East and West Germany reunited. Some observers said Hua's remarks could be a slap at East Germany, which is exceedingly sensitive to any question of the "legitimacy" of the communist state. East Germany is a steadfast ally of the Soviet Union in its ideological struggle with Peking. The question of reunificiation is one of the topics Chancellor Helmut Schmidt and the Chinese visitor discussed at a private meeting, according to a government spokesman. Pusan, South Korea President Park Chung-Hee Chung-Hee put his army in charge of the industrial cities of Masan and Changwon, Saturday, officially extending military control outside Pusan for the first time since violent rioting by anti-government students started last week. The government announced martial law in Pusan, South Korea's second largest city after three days of sporadic student riots and demonstrations, with about 550 arrests and unknown numbers injured. Pyongyang, North Korea North Korea Monday called on South Koreans to "rise up" to topple Chung-Hee's government, the Korean Central News Agency said. The agency said the appeal was made at a mass rally, held in the North Korean capital of Pyongyang to denounce the South Korean authorities in connection with recent antigovernment rioting in the South. Hong Gi Mun, chairman of the North Korean Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of the Fatherland, was quoted as demanding the South Korean authorities "unconditionally discontinue the fascist suppression of students and people and release the illegally arrested students and people at once. Karachi, Pakistan Pakistani police have freed 445 young boys from slave camps in two districts northeast of Karachi, government officials said Sunday. Police have been ordered to investigate the possibility that the boys, aged 8 to 15, were kidnapped. Raids on slave camps had been conducted previously but no punitive action was taken and the camps have continued to operate. Stockholm, Sweden The 1979 Nobel Prize for literature was awarded last Thursday to Greek poet Odysseus Elytis, who seeks "true reality" through vivd works strongly rooted in the landscape, life and age-old tradition of his native land. The 68-year-old Elytis, little known outside the Greek language, was chosen over a half-dozen internationally acclaimed writers. Oslo, Norway Mother Teresa, Calcutta's "saint of the gutters," won the Nobel Peace Prize Wednesday and said she would spend the $190,000 purse on lepers and the destitute to whom she had dedicated her life. Her order, the Mission of Charity, was founded in Calcutta's slums in 1948 when Mother Teresa opened her first school with 40 cents in her pocket and special permission from Rome to live outside the convent. Guantanamo Bay, Cuba Flexing its muscle on Cuban soil, the U.S. Marine Corps landed 1,200 soldiers at Guantanamo Bay last week aboard helicopters and amphibious craft. President Carter ordered the landing, estimated to cost $500,000, earlier this month, saying he wanted to show that the United States could stand up to the threat posed by Soviet combat troops in Cuba. NATIONAL New York Faced with the high cost of acquiring funds, several major banks raised their prime lending rates on business loans to a record 15 percent Tuesday. Banks use the prime rate as the basis for setting interest rates on almost all commercial-industrial commercial-industrial loans. Although it has no direct effect on consumer loan interest rates, the prime is viewed as an indicator of trends in interest rates in general. New York The deposed Shah of Iran, reportedly suffering from cancer and a blocked bile duct, has been granted special permission to enter the United States for a series of extensive medical tests. Responding to an unofficial description of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, 60, as gravely ill, a spokesman at New York Hospital Cornell Medical Center said, "There is no truth to it at all." Warwick, Rhode Island A jury of four men and two women ruled Tuesday that Sidney Robinson owes Gerald Zarella $80,000 for stealing Zaralla's wife. The jury said Zarella's right to "exclusive privileges of physical intercourse" with his wife had been violated. The suit was filed in January of 1977 and Robinson, a former friend of Zarella's, has since married the former Mrs. Zarella. New York Exxon Corp., the world's largest oil company, said Monday its profits were up 118 percent for the third quarter, a time when many Americans were waiting in gas lines and worrying about the price and supply of home heating oil. The company's comptroller said, "It was a good quarter." But he noted that most of the company's profits were reaped from overseas operations. Those profits amounted to $1.14 billion compared to a mere $525 million for the same quarter last year. Carson City, Nevada Jesse Bishop died in the Nevada gas chamber Monday for gunning down a man on his honeymoon during a stickup of a Las Vegas casino. Bishop went to his death with a shrug and a smile becoming the second man executed in the nation this year. After the death sentence was carried out, officials revealed Bishop had confessed to 18 other murders, most by contract for money or favors and most in connection with drug-running. Los Angeles Kenneth Bianchi, 28, was sentenced to life in prison Monday after pleading guilty to five slayings in the "Hillside Strangler" murders that terrorized Southern California women for six months. Bianchi's cousin, Angelo Buono, made a five-minute five-minute court appearance later in the day. Buono, charged with murder in all 10 Hillside Strangler deaths, has claimed he is innocent. Bianchi agreed to plead guilty and testitfy against his cousin in return for an agreement by prosecuting authorities that they would not seek the death penalty. Washington The nation's economy displayed surprising strength in the quarter ending September 30, registering an annual growth rate of 2.4 percent. The increase followed a decline in economic activity in the second quarter which had many economists declaring the nation had entered a recession. Do you have better things to do with your time? Let us do your cleaning! PARK VALLEY MAINTENANCE Commercial accounts welcome! CALL SUSAN PRIGGE 649-7289 VOTE for GREG LAWSQN for City Council T. "." v I' . ' ' . eJk ' i TV wfc... 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