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Gardenias Orchids Roses Marguerites Pompons Iris Assorted Flowers Blooming Plants Hanging Fusias Order Bedding Plants Now We Will Deliver 649-4144 Park City's Petunias, Geraniums, Begonias, PlniAror Rrw Empatience, Marigolds, etc... . nUVVef DUX 1S r (CCDLPIIIIS 413) Ma nun Stoeeil; INTERNATIONAL Belfast, Ireland Full-scale civil war appeared ap-peared imminent in Northern Ireland as Bobby Sands, a hunger-striking IRA activist, came closer to death and received last rites Tuesday for the second time. Sands is on the 59th day of a hunger strike he started to demand that IRA prisoners be treated as political prisoners, not common criminals. Sands, serving a 14-year sentence sen-tence for weapons possession, reportedly has shrunken to 98 pounds, and is subsisting on a diet of water and glucose. The British government has refused to grant political prisoner status, saying it would give false legitimacy to the outlawed IRA movement. Protestors in Belfast, including Rev. Daniel Berrigan, Ramsey Clark, and Bernadette Devlin McAliskey, called on the British to change their minds. The Catholic IRA has threatened to unleash a wave of violence if Sands dies, and Protestant extremists have promised to react in kind. Sands' supporters say he has lost some sensory and motor ability, and is under medical care. Tokyo Scandal shook the nuclear industry in Japan when it was revealed that a power plant had failed to report two separate instances of leaking radioactivity. For more than a month, officials at the Tsuruga power plant failed to report an incident on March 8, in which radioactive radioac-tive waste water overflowed a storage tank, and 56 workers, some using only buckets or dust cloths, cleaned up a contaminated corridor. The company said no worker received an unsafe dose of radiation, but refused to disclose the names of their employees. Last Saturday, plant spokesmen reacting to newspaper reports admitted they also had suffered suf-fered a similar leak in January. As many as 45 workmen were exposed to radiation for five days while they repaired a cracked pipe leading to a nuclear waste disposal tank. Once again, spokesmen for Japanese power companies refused to give details on the incident. The Tsuruga plant has the reputation for being the most defect-ridden of the country's nuclear installations. In 11 years of operation, it has had 30 malfunctions. Beirut, Lebanon The latest bout of fighting in Lebanon has in recent days shown Syrian jets strafing Christian Lebanese also, two Syrian copters have been shot down by, Israeli jet, , fighters. Israel explained its attack by saying it. will not allow Syria to "invade Lebanon and liquidate the Christians in that country." The latest round of fighting began when Christian Phalangists moved into the town of Zahle and refused Syrian demands to leave, thereby prompting a blockade and bombardment bombard-ment against the town by the Syrians. Twenty short-lived cease-fires have been issued since then. London and Syndey, Australia Ringo Starr heard wedding bells as he married actress Barbara Bar-bara Bach. Halfway around the world, another British heart-throb, Prince Charles, was seeing stars after he fell off his polo pony for the third time in six months. The two surviving Beatles, George Harrison and Paul McCartney, were on hand for Ringo's wedding, a modest 45-minute civil ceremony. Outside the registry office 350 fans screamed, and one even fainted. Barbara Bach, who 15 years ago sat in the bleachers to see the Beatles at Shea Stadium, rocketed to fame as the deadly love interest of James Bond in "The Spy Who Loved Me." She met Starr while they were working together on the movie "Caveman." In Australia, Prince Charles flew over, his horse's head and landed on his backside during a polo match, exarcerbating fears that the accident-prone heir to the throne might not make it to the altar. So far, the prince has suffred nothing worse than a limp and a bloody nose, but British newspapers urged him to quit after his second fall. His betrothed, Lady Diana Spencer, hates riding, since she fell off a horse as a child. Paris French President Valery Giscard d'Estaing garnered more votes than nine other candidates in the first round of French elections and headed for a run-off election with old rival Francois Mitterand, the Socialist candidate. President d'Estaing won his first seven-year term in a 1974 run-off election with Mitterand, whom he defeated by a slim 1.6 percent margin. The incumbent has been criticized for his handling han-dling of the economy, and Mitterand's calls for nationalization of many large industries is ex pected to win votes. The president received a lackluster endorsement endor-sement from a defeated rival, Paris Mayor Jacques Chirac, who showed surprising strength campaigning on a program of Reagan-style economic reform. Mitterand has been campaigning cam-paigning as a moderate-left candidate who will not be pushed around by the Communists, but to win he may have to seek the endorsement of Red party candidate George Marchais. Bern, Switzerland The Swiss army is apparently ap-parently the largest collection of closet chauvinists in the world. A national woman's group, already angry because a group of soldiers used nudie pictures for target practice, is steamed at a troop of communications trainees who discuss the vital statistics of women in code. The practice was set up by a commander to stimulate his mens' interest in Morse code practice. prac-tice. The trainees practice the code by discussing the local waitresses and rating their physical attributes at-tributes one by one. NATIONAL Washington President Reagan told Congress he had recuperated, but the economy had not, in an effort to sell his program of budget cuts and tax reductions. "My health is much improved," . he said in the nationally televised address, "but the fundamental nature of our economic mess has not changed." He asked House Democrats to reject the advice of their own leaders . In particular, Reagan singled out for criticism . a Democratic budget proposal offered by the House Budget Committee and its Democratic chairman, James Jones of Oklahoma. Jones' program calls for less of an increase in military spending, smaller cuts in social programs, and a f one-year tax cut (instead of three years, as the " White House proposes). Reagan said the Jones plan fell "far too short" of the essential steps that must be taken. The Senate Budget Committee approved 15-6 the Reagan budget plan, which envisions a balanced budget by 1984 at the expense of $44.7 billion in unspecified buts. Even in the House, things were looking up for the GOP, as Speaker Tip O'Neill conceded he didn't have enough votes to stop the Reagan budget plan. Atlanta Civil rights leader Roy Inniss held up a sealed photograph a week ago Wednesday and said it showed the culprit who is responsible for at least six of the black deaths in this city. He even said his group would arrest the murderer if the police did not. But the FBI, after locating and interviewing Innis' suspect, ruled him out in the search for the city's mad killer. Innis said that CORE investigators, working with the bereaved families, had found a suspect a "psychopath" who was being kept under CORE surveillance. Through a spokesman he said the suspect was a black man who obtained ob-tained victims for whites. Innis said CORE would nab the man by 1 p.m. Saturday if police didn't, but an FBI agent in Atlanta said Innis told him the deadline was only to gain the attention of authorities. 'A "mother of 6nespflhe victims said Innis was only using the case to improve his own status. As leader of the Congress of Racial Equality, Innis has had his leadership challenged by charges of illegal fund solicitation and mismanagement of monies.. Meanwhile, 21-year-old Jimmy Ray Pyane was found floating in the Chattahoochee River, like several other victims. He was the 26th victim vic-tim in Atlanta's murder spree, and the fourth to be an adult of slight build. Hollywood Jim Davis, 72, a familiar face who finally gained enduring lame as the head of TV's most notoriuos family, died in his sleep Sunday. Davis played Jock Ewing, the stern patriarch of TV's "Dallas." He died only weeks before filming for the show was to resume. Davis recently recen-tly had been recovering from surgery for a perforated per-forated ulcer. Washington President Reagan fulfilled a campaign pledge by lifting the 18-month-old grain embargo against Russia, explaining that it placed an unfair burden on farmers and was not effective against the Soviets. Reagan apparently overruled Secreatry of State Haig in making the decision. Haig, said a confidential source, fought against the decision to the last minute, but said he would support the decision. Reagan's decision was denounced by Eastern liberals and praised by Midwestern farmers, while the Russian press claimed it was proof the embargo had caused more trouble for the U.S. than the Russians. Westmorland, California Extreme southern California was shaken this weekend by a series f "jiggle" quakes that registered above 3.0 magnitude. The strongest jiggle shook this small town, destroying at least two fragile adobe buildings, causing a small rural road "to just sink out of sight," in a witness's words, and cutting cut-ting the water supplies. "We've lost all our water," lamented Mayor Ron Rodriquez. The town was declared a local disaster area to qualify for federal aid, the state closed the town's main Street, fearing buildings in the area might collapse, and condemnation notices were tacked up on every adobe building in sight. Annapolis, Maryland A circuit judge ruled that former Vice President Spiro Agnew violated the public trust while he was governor of Maryland and therefore must pay the state $248,375. The sum represents $147,500 in illegal kickbacks accepted by Agnew, plus $101,235 in interest. Judge Bruce Williams found that Agnew solicited money from consulting engineers who were awarded highway contracts and in two cases took money directly from them' Agnew's lawyer said he would appeal the ruline in 30 days. 6 |