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Show Page THE HERALD, Provo, Utah, Sunday, January 3, 18 1988 World Roundup -1- MAQ IRAN Iranian Gunboats Attack Maitese-- f lag freighter Alga Saul V?J AHABlA iu,.v.. f7 UA.h j Bahrain (AP) -freighter was attacked and damaged, but it was not clear whether it was raided by Iran or Iraq, its operators and gulf salvage ofI ficials said Saturday. Iraq said its warplanes today destroyed a strategic y bridge in southwestern Iran. MANAMA, A Maltese-fla- g LONDON (AP) CIA - helped abduction A newspa- per reported Saturday that the CIA helped Israel's secret service abduct Mordechai charged with treason for allegedly spilling Israel's atomic secrets. story ; In a from its Tel Aviv correspondent, The Daily Telegraph quoted Vanunu's American girlfriend, Judy Zimmet, as saying the CIA helped Mossad, the Israeli secret service, take Van-un- u, two-paragra- -- - The Com- munist Party daily Pravda Saturday denied that an observatory under construction in the Central Asian republic of Tadzhikistan is to be equipped with lasers capable of blinding satellites. A private company in Sweden, Space Media Network, claimed in October that it had satellite photos showing an installation housing laser weapons capable of destroying satellites. The capability would be sig Vanunu to Israel in 1986. The report did not say how the CIA allegedly helped the Israelis abduct Vanunu. Vanunu, who worked as a technician at the Israeli nuclear complex at Dimona for 10 years, is now on trial for treason and espionage in a closed court in Israel. He was charged after telling The Sunday Times of London that Israel produces nuclear weapons. nificant because the U.S. Stra- tegic Defense Initiative, or "Star Wars," plans to use satellites as a first line of defense. Space Media Network said the Soviet observatory near Nurek, in Tadzhikistan near the Afghan border, was linked to a hydroelectric plant that powered lasers. The company said the lasers could smash the electronics of most satellites and blind space-baseearly warning systems. NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) -Iplans to launch its first communications satellite with French help "in the near future," Iran's official Islamic Republic News Agency said ran The report, monitored in Ni- Khayan. More than 100 flee hotel fire aret of the seafront Balmoral Hotel in Blackpool Saturday morning, forcing people from the Balmoral and a neighboring hotel to flee in their nightclothes. Police in this resort town on England's northwest coast said two people suffering from smoke inhalation were treated at the scene. The blaze began at about 6:30 a.m. and was quickly brought under control. cleared of slander in the Soviet Union and there should be no doubt he deserved the 1958 Nobel Prize for Literature. Pasternak, who died in official disgrace in 1960, rejected the prestigious award under pressure from the Soviet government. His sole novel, "Doctor was criticized in the Soviet Union because it allegedly sympathized with the aristocracy uprooted by the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution and the four years of civil war that followed. Zhi-vago- said a rocket hit the vessel just above its No. 2 cargo hold on the starboard bow. The spokesman, who insisted on anonymity, said there were no casualties among the crew of 21 Burmese and five Greeks. He said the captain believed the rocket was fired by Iranians. However well-connect- ed A police spokesman, who by British custom was not identified, said 78 people were evac- uated from the Balmoral and the nearby Craigy Don 24 from Hotel, aged. which was yok last month. A serialization of the novel will appear in the next few issues of the monthly literary journal, "Novy Mir," the first official Soviet publication of the novel. The writer's country house in the village of Peredelkino near Moscow is being transformed into a museum. His name was restored last year to the membership rolls of the Writers Union. gulf salvage officials and the London-base- d Lloyd's Shipping Intelligence Unit identified the weapon as a missile, and said there were strong indications it was fired by an Iraqi war-plan- e. Iraq claimed it struck a "big naval target" off the Iranian coast at 10 a.m. New Year's the same time the Day company says the attack on the Alga took place, Gulf shippers initially put that attack at 10 p.m. The company said the attack took place 140 miles southeast of Kuwait, where the ship had taken on a load of fertilizer for. China. KEW LASER I I I lSL I I I I I I train packed with migrant workers returning from South Africa, the national news agency AIM said Saturday. It said 71 of the 1,500 passengers aboard were hurt when the train hit a land mine, then were attacked by rebels of the Mozambican National Resistance who set the ambush. The train was about 25 miles from the South African border, headed east toward Maputo, when blasted off the tracks I DR. RON BROWN Podiatrist Foot Specialiit I FREE EXAMINATION TUESDAYS ONLY! By y When There's Trouble A "foot" CALL US! 373-34- JOHANNESBURG, South AfPolice fired on g of groups blacks, killing two black men, and a third man was found stabbed to death in a separate incident, police said Saturday. One man was killed when police fired on blacks stoning police vehicles near Stander- - rica (AP) appointment stone-throwin- rbachev's reforms that encourage reassessment of past official attitudes. "I read the novel long before the scandal around it," Yevtushenko said in a New Year's state-backe- "There should not be any about the question of Pasternak's Nobel Prize, he earned it with his entire life and work," Yevtushenko said. EXTENDED WEAR SOFT CONTACTS Limit 1 SOFT CONTACTS " DE JANEIRO, Brazil A West German rewho spent 74 days porter Ocean in Atlantic the crossing a pedal boat reached Brazil in good health but craving roasted chicken and a shower. Ruediger Nehberg arrived in Sao Luis, 2,100 miles north of Rio dc Janeiro, on Dec. 29. Details of his arrival were reported Saturday by the Rio newspaper Jornal do Brasil. "I'm sick and tired of spaghetti, beans, rice and fish. I want a roasted chicken," the RIO (AP) reporter for Bunte magazine said. Nehberg said he left the African port of Dakar, Senegal, on Oct. 16 and crossed the ocean in a small, Fiberglas boat to call attention to the plight of Brazil's Yanomami Indians, the largest primitive tribe in existence. Despite a storm that knocked out his radio equipment, a shark attack, and losing an oar, Nehberg said "everything was fine" on his 2,200-mil- e journey. pedal-rowin- g 1 p- -" SPECIAL SELECTION HIGH FASHION FRAMES 7ZfFffti AND EYE EXAM! (Limit a pair complete 1 Pair) WITH PURCHASE OF APPROPRIATE EXAM Some Restrictions Apply Outside Prescriptions Additional CALL NOW FOR A NO OBLIGATION APPOINTMENT AMERICA'S BEST CONTACTS & EYEGLASSES The Nobel Prize was awarded after "Doctor Zhivago" was published in the West. In the Soviet Union, the honor led to broad condemnation of Pasternak and his expulsion from the Soviet Writers Union. Excerpts of "Doctor Zhivago" were published in the weekly news magazine Ogon- - The Name Says It All MIDVALE OREM ' 1353 So. State St. ,26 W. 7200 So. (JUSt Off State St.) (Across from University Mall) 561-130- 0 225-85n- n Rescuers did not arrive for hours and some of the injured were not removed from the wreckage until Friday, AIM said. It reported that the injured were taken to a hospital in Maputo, where 11 remained in critical condition. Adventurer finishes ocean crossing Umit New Patients Only New Patients Only Thursday afternoon, the agency said. Five railroad cars were derailed and a section of track was destroyed, AIM said. Guerrillas looted the train and abducted several passengers, but most managed to escape into the bush, the report said. was shot to a v In the past two years, Pasternak has been fully rehabilitated under Mikhail S. Go- under investigation. Police sources said initial evidence points to a discarded cigarette in the bar. man ) J SEASONS GREETINGS FROM AMERICA'S BEST smoke damage, the spokesman said. The cause of the fire was Another I m witrj this coupon 2230 North University Parkway Provo Suite 8A the building suffered death in a similar incident in Katlehong, a township south of Johannesburg, they added. Police said both incidents occurred Friday, but provided no additional details. B 46 Balmoral's cabaret was destroyed and 90 percent of 90 miles southeast of Johannesburg, police said. i Cottontree Square The ton, about I I ARE EXTRA IF NEEDED I I i 1 not dam- Police open fire on African blacks MACHINE THIRAPY Callouses, corns and bunions Bone spurs and calcium deposits Arch problems Running injuries Warts Ingrown toenails Foot pain and other problems involving feet and lower extremities 22 killed in rebel ambush of train MAPUTO, Mozambique (AP) At Jeast 22 people were killed when right-win- g guerrillas derailed and plundered a I ! I DISEASES & SURGERY OF THE FEET L ," ambiguity telegraphs, BLACKPOOL, England (AP) Fire swept through the cab- been commercial arm of the European Space Agency. France's Arianespace, the cosia, said Gharazi's comments were published in Tehran's English-languag- e daily as saying the ternak's name has launch would be conducted by d IRNA quoted Mohammad Gharazi, minister of post and Saturday. - Poet and author Yevgeny Yevtushenko said the late writer Boris Pas- (AP) Day interview with the official Tass news agency. "Pasternak's name has been cleared of slander in the U.S.S.R," said Yevtushenko, a d leading figure in the effort to inject new life into Soviet literature. French to help Iran launch satellite 102 Transport of Piraeus, Greece, MOSCOW Pravda: Observatory has no lasers MOSCOW (AP) Gulf sources said the 26,260-to-n Alga continued on its journey and anchored today off the United Arab Emirates port of Dubai with a hole in its hull after the New Year's Day attack. 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