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Show ESTHER Page 4 5 January 3, 1980 TTjTS STll UT WERE I TK K N ATI ON A 1 , Afghanistan Afghan President Hafizullah Amin was overthrown and executed last Thursday Thur-sday in a Soviet-backed coup presumbably motivated by fear of strengthening Moslem forces for-ces along the 1,000-mile common border. Engineering the bloody battle was newly-installed newly-installed Prime Minister Babrak Karmal, a pro-Moscow pro-Moscow communist the Soviet Union believes will be more effective in destroying the Moslem forces. An estimated 45,000 Soviet soldiers have poured into Afghanistan. On Wednesday, heavy casualties were reported on both sides, as fighting continued in Badakshan province near the Chinese-Afghanistan border, and Kandahar, Jalalabad and the capital city of Kabul. The North Atlantic Treaty Organization met in Brussels, and is studying a number of retaliatory measures against the Soviety Union. Considered is a boycott against the July 1980 Moscow Olympics Olym-pics and increased arms sales to Pakistan, whose Moslem government has expressed fears about the Soviet presence in neighboring Afghanistan. Tehran, Iran Thousands of Afghans and Iranians swarmed the Soviet Embassy Tuesday to protest the U.S.S.R. intervention in Afghanistan. Just one mile away from the embassy, em-bassy, American hostages began their 59th day in captivity by Moslem militants. U.N. Secretary General Kurt Waldheim flew to Tehran Tuesday to begin a fact-finding mission into the hostage situation. Foreign Minister Sadegh Ghotbzadeh said, however, there would be no negotiations with Waldheim over the hostages. "This is only a fact-finding trip and nothing else," Ghotbzadeh said. Chapais, Quebec At least 41 people were killed and 42 injured in the early hours of Tuesday when a New Year's Eve party goer set fire to a Christmas tree as a prank. The fire took place in a community club with more than 300 people in it ranging in age from 16 to 70 years. Police said the people apparently panicked as flames rushed through the one-story club, sending them for the exists that became jammed in the stampede. A 20-year-old man has been taken into custody, but has not been identified. Police are still unsure un-sure how many people are missing in the remains of the burned building. London Eighty-year-old film genius Alfred Hitchcock became Sir Alfred Monday when he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth. Hitchcock, designated a knight commander of the Order of the British Empire, is expected to appear before the queen at Buckingham Palace early in 1980 in a ceremony to touch his shoulders lightly with her sword. Sir Alfred, who currently lives and works in Los Angeles, has been in film making for more than 60 years, and as master of suspence and mystery, is Britain's most distinguished director and producer. London Following the lead taken by New York last week, gold broke the $500 an ounce mark in London and Zurich for the first time in history. Dealers said Friday the unprecedented gold prices reflect international concern over oil prices, the U.S. Iran situation, and the recent Soviet coup in Afghanistan. Some dealers predicted predic-ted gold may hit $520 an ounce in the next few days. "While the price may rise some more, the gold game is becoming more and more dangerous with these unbelieveable prices," one Zurich dealer said. NATIONAL Anchorage, Alaska In a precedent-setting decision on native religious rights, Alaska's Supreme Court reversed last week the conviction of an Indian man who transported a moose out of season for use in a sacred ritual . Athabascan Indian Carlos Frank, a'tribal chief in Minto, was charged with unlawful transportation transpor-tation of illegally taken game in 1975 when a hunting hunt-ing party of 25 took a moose to be used in a ceremony after the death of a young Minto man. Likening the moose meat to sacramental wine, the court ruled Frank had exercised his constitutional con-stitutional freedom of religion by transporting the moose to a funeral ceremony. The court recommended that unless the ceremonial exemptions exemp-tions endangered the moose population, it should adjust game regulations to accommodate the Athabascans. Harrisburg In the first suit of its kind, a Pennsylvania couple living just over three miles away from Three Mile Island alleged last week that radiation released during the March 28 ar cident at the nuclear plant caused the still birth of their daughter. Edward ana ran wick accusea me owners ot i Three Mile Island in federal court of negligence I in allowing radioactivity to escape and failing to warn the public of the danger to unborn children. The couple is seeking $10,000 in damages in the suit against the nuclear plant owners. Mrs. Kiick said she called Metropolitan Edison Co., part owner of the plant, on March 29. She was four months pregnant at the time, and was told she had nothing to worry about. The couple has retained a Philadelphia lawyer, who contends the defendants knew the nuclear leak of high doses of radioactive gases would adversely affect af-fect the vital organs of any child. Kansas City, Mo. National Guardsmen and police struggled to protect the city from fire as 906 firefighters continued their sickout for the seventh day Wednesday. The sickout is in protest to the city's pay offer, and the dispute was due to move to the courtroom court-room Wednesday where two shifts of striking firemen are to face contempt of court charges. The charges stem from a Dec. 24 temporary restraining order barring firefighters from refusing to work overtime as part of their slowdown to protest the city's pay offer. Washington The Voyager 2 spacecraft has made discoveries that indicate life could exist in an ocean on Europa, an ice-encased moon of the planet Jupiter. Space agency consultant Richard C. Hoagland said only three other objects in the solar system have been suggested as possible areas of life Mars, Jupiter and Saturn's moon Titan. But spacecraft investigation of all three bodies in recent years has left doubt that life could exist on any of them. "Europa seems to have what these other worlds do not an ocean of water, the prime prerequisite for life as we know it," Hoagland said. Although Europa is covered with ice possibly five miles thick over the ocean perhaps 60 miles deep, Hoagland said Jupiter once was a miniature sun. "It only lasted a short time, a few million years at most, but for that brief period Europa probably basked in energy as rich as any streaming toward Earth today from the sun. Long enough for molecules that are suspected life-process precursors to be created as they have been in thousands of 'earthly laboratory simulations." Williamsburg, Va. Archaelogists have unearthed remains of an Indian massacre and other artifacts in what has been called the most significant find of American Colonial history. After four years of work, archaeologist Ivor Noel Hume said remains of the massacre in which 58 settlers were believed killed in 1622 were found 10 miles northwest of Jamestown. Noel Hume said Wolstenholme Towne was ac-cidently ac-cidently found on Carter's Grove, an 18th century cen-tury plantation owned by the Colonial Williamsburg Williams-burg Foundation. Hume was commissioned by the foundation to look for 18th century remains at the plantation, but instead found evidence of life a hundred yearsolder. Hume said 220 colonists arrived in the area in April 1619, and relations were amicable under the direction of Chief Powhatan. But the Indians resented the European presence, and an attack was launched on March 22, 1622. The diggers discovered a body they believe belonged to Lt. Richard Kean. "His mouth was agape, his skul' had been cleaved with a heavy object and the scalp was apparently ripped off," Hume said. "The place is bursting with artifacts, at least 50 major items . . . including the first complete closed-face helmet in the New World." Boston Researchers have discovered that cancer patients who wear ice packs on their heads before chemotherapy may avoid the distressing hair loss that commonly accompanies accom-panies the treatment. The ice packs are made out of plastic bags and strapped onto patients heads and fastened with Ace bandages, turban-style. To keep ears from getting cold, earmuffs were fashioned out of heels from disposable slippers. Patients wear the frigid hats five minutes before their injections of the cancer medicines and for about 40 minutes afterwards. They continue con-tinue to wear them during treatment for the six to eight months they receive chemotherapy. 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