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Show Page 2 - THE HERALD, Provo, Utah, Friday, February 18, 1983 World Roundup Australia Fire Controlled MELBOURNE, - U.S. Says Planes Australia About 5,500 firefighters (UPI) brought under control a two-da- y "holocaust" of fire that killed at least 69 Monitoring Libyan Troop Movements - people and razed hundreds of miles of parched southern Australian brush, officials said today. Prime Minister Malcolm Fra-se- r called for a national weekend of mourning and described the loss of life and an estimated $400 million in damage as one of the "greatest disasters in our history. "South Australia and Victoria have been devastated by a holocaust and I extend my sincerest sympathy," a stunned Fraser said after surveying the two stricken states from a helicopter. A 1939 Australian fire killed 71 people. Only one blaze burned out of control today in the Warburton area northeast of Melbourne in the state of Victoria, where firefighters rescued 83 people who escaped the raging inferno by hiding in a tunnel. The group of 83 included three pregnant women, 20 children and 15 pet dogs who fled to safety in the tunnel in the Upper Yarra dam near Warburton Thursday when the brush-fire- s threatened their homes. The group spent Thursday night in the tunnel, officials said. About 1,000 firefighters today continued battling the last stubborn fire. Officials said no houses or lives were believed threatened but the Country Fire Authority in Melbourne warned some spot blazes could flare again. Burned out cars and the carcasses of animals littered the countryside. The CAIRO, Egypt (UPI) United States confronted Libyan leader Moammar Khad-af- y by sending four AWACS planes and an aircraft carrier to monitor Libyan military movement amid "extremely heightened" tension in North Africa. "Our armed forces are fully prepared to repel any aggression against Egypt's security," Lt. Gen. Hafez told reporters Thursday, commenting on reports of troop buildups along Libya's borders. In Moscow, the official govChief-of-Sta- During the Australian brushfires, 83 people, including three pregnant women and 20 children, huddled for 24 hours in a tunnel near their tiny town of McMahons Creek. The people also had 15 pet dogs with them in the tunnel. Eight other underground activists arrested last July in a raid that effectively dismantled Warsaw Radio Solidarity received lesser sentences, including two that were suspended. Romasz-ewski'- s wife was among those arrested. Rritish renorters described the princess Thursday as "cheerful and relaxed" on her visit to Glasgow only hours after the incendiary low-pow- bomb went up in flames at City Hall. Mexico Mulls U.S. Hijacker Request - ! and the threaten Western Sahara that the existence of the ports Thursday that Hussein Shey Kholya. 37. who seized a Texas commuter flight Tuesday 16 years ago to 260 cases of resulted in 13 may have caused up thyroid cancer and deaths, a government report said today. The accident occurred in 1957 at Windscale in Cumbria when 40 tons of uranium caught fire and burned for two days in a military reactor producing plutonium for atom bombs. The reactor has since been closed. Gases containing radioactive escaped into the atmosphere and spread over Wales, England and parts of northern Europe. As a result, said the report by the National Radiological Protection Board, a government watchdog agency, Britain's "population received an extra radiation dose equivalent to about half the annual radiation from natural sources. and forced it to the Mexican border city of Nuevo Laredo, was in a luxury hotel, but refused to sav where he was being held. - WASHINGTON Po-- ; (L'PIi lice experts with searchlights worked quickly today to recover and examine fragments of a bomb that shattered glass doors in the offices of Aeroflot Soviet Airlines and shook a nearbv hotel. The explosion at 11:23 p.m. EST Thursday did little other damage, however, and caused no EPA Controversy Spreads at Agency - WASHINGTON (LTD Controversy surrounding the Environmental Protection Agencv's toxic waste program is rapidly spreading throughout the agency, while Congress and the administration are locked in negotiations over access to secret EPA documents. House committees seeking to review the EPA files are in substantive agreement with administration officials, but were to meet again today to work out conditions for congressional access to documents on toxic waste enforcement, committee aides said. Two congressmen who received files earlier this week from EPA whistle-blowe- r Hugh Kaufman were to meet with reporters today to discuss the progress of their investigation. While the negotiations and investigations continue, other divisions of the agency are becoming engulfed in the toxic waste firestorm. news agency quoted Habre as saying Thursday. Habre did not comment on whether Sudan had offered to come to Chad's aid if Libyan forces invade, but said, "We are free as a country to sign (defense) pacts with this country or that." n body. 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