PLO to bargain for terrorist’s body
(AP) — Palestinian guerrillas claimed
Thursday they were holding bodies of Is
raeli soldiers killed in an incident inside a
guerrilla-held portion of southern Lebanon.
Sources said they would try to bargain for
the body of a female terrorist who led the
March 11 highway attack inside Israel that
touched off the big Israeli push into Leba
non.
Conflicting reports of the number of dead
ranged from three to five, the first Israeli
casualties reported since a cease-fire was
declared March 21. Israel claimed the guer
rillas had ambushed an Israeli jeep Wed
nesday four miles south of the port of Tyre.
The incident was reported as U.N.
Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim sent a
message to Israeli Prime Minister
Menachem Begin urging "speedy” with
drawal of the invading forces from southern
Lebanon.
Diplomatic sources at the United Nations
reported that the 21-nation Arab bloc will
call for a Security Council meeting to con
sider possible sancions against Israel for
refusing to remove its troops.
In Jerusalem, a U.N. spokesman said Is
rael Thursday had presented a plan for par
tial withdrawal of its forces.
Israel reported three dead in the Wed
nesday ambush. Palestinian guerrillas in
Beirut claimed four were slain and one cap
tured “unharmed,” and the United Nations
said its reports indicated all five were killed.
The Palestine Liberation Organization
(PLO) claimed the jeep was an Israeli patrol
trying to infiltrate guerilla-held positions, and
sources said the PLO would try to bargain
for the body of Dalai Mograbi, 22, the
female guerrilla who led the March 11 ter
rorist attack inside Israel.
The United Nations asked the Interna
tional Red Cross to arrange the return of the
Israeli casualties to their homeland.
In other developments, the Israeli
Foreign Ministry said it does not believe its
use of U.S.-supplied arms in the invasion of
southern Lebanon was a violation of a 1952
U.S -Israeli arms pact.
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Food price rise slow
WASHINGTON — Food prices slowed their rise in March,
helping to hold the month’s increase in wholesale prices to 0.6
percent, the government said Thursday.
Although the March wholesale price increase was substan
tially lower than the February hike of 1.1 percent, it still would
mean an annual inflation rate on the wholesale level of near 7.5
percent.
Meanwhile, in a separate report, the Carter administration’s
wage and price agency said overall inflation "seems hopelessly
stuck” in the six percent to seven percent range, and that the
threat of it getting worse is greater than chances of improvement.
Mead raps student critics
LOUDONVILLE, N.Y. — Anthropologist Margaret Mead
says she's tired of hearing that today’s college students are not as
politically involved and concerned about the world as students of
the Vietnam War era were.
"There was never more than four percent of the students in
any institution that cared in the least what was happening in the
world,” Dr. Mead said at Siena College here Wednesday night.
“But when that four percent marched, the rest marched with
them because they felt a bond among themselves—they felt they
belonged to the same kind of people,” she said.
Vet benefits may rise
WASHINGTON — About 2.2 million veterans disabled in
military service would receive a 6.5 percent monthly benefit in
crease under a bill approved by a House subcommittee.
The same increase would go to widows and children of
servicemen who died from service-connected causes. An esti
mated 471,000 people in these categories would benefit.
Bond supports ERA boycott
SEATTLE — Georgia state Sen. Julian Bond says he sup
ports a resolution by the National Drug Abuse Conference to
move next year's convention from New Orleans because
Louisiana has not ratified the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA).
Bond said in Seattle Wednesday that opponents of the ERA
are ill-informed but well organized and determined to defeat the
proposed constitutional amendment.
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North Carolina prisons
called ‘repressive’ system
BONN, West Germany (AP) — Amnesty Inter
national criticized North Carolina’s “repressive”
prison system Wednesday and demanded uncondi
tional pardons for 13 persons it claims were con
victed “solely on the basis of their political convic
tions.”
The London-based human rights organization
issued the statement through its office in Bonn while
North Carolina Gov. James Hunt was on a tour of
West Germany.
The statement criticized Hunt personally, saying
he refused to meet with two Amnesty International
officials who wanted to talk with him Tuesday about
the “Wilmington 10” and the “Charlotte Three.”
Amnesty International said the 13 were civil rights
workers and described them as “political prisoners.”
Three young blacks known as "the Charlotte
Three” were sentenced to prison terms of up to 25
years in 1972 following an arson incident at a riding
stable in Charlotte, N.C. Their conviction stirred con
troversy, with supporters charging they were con
victed on the testimony of a bribed witness. Two are
now free on bail and the third has been paroled.
The Wilmington 10 are nine black men con
victed in 1972 of conspiracy and unlawful burning in
the firebombing of a Wilmington grocery store during
racial strife in that city in 1971.
Report lists
‘heroin’ cities
SEATTLE (AP) — San Fran
cisco, Los Angeles and Phoenix
are the top three cities in popula
tion of heroin addicts, says a re
port released Thursday at the Na
tional Drug Abuse Conference.
Next came Detroit, San Diego,
Chicago, San Antonio, New York,
Seattle, Minneapolis, Miami, Den
ver, Philadelphia, Washington,
D.C., and New Orleans, said Dr.
Robert DuPont, director of the Na
tional Institute of Drug Abuse
(NIDA), which prepared the re
port.
Seattle’s ninth place standing
was due to being a seaport,
and its closeness to Vancouver,
the heroin-use capital of Canada.
Nationally, the NIDA report
showed that use of marijuana,
cocaine and phencyclidine which
causes hallucinations rose while
use of other drugs remained sta
ble during 1977.
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(AP)—The drug information of
fice at the University has been re
ceiving about 70 calls a day from
persons wanting to know the ef
fects of herbicide-contaminated
marijuana.
However, center director Miller
said research shows the effects of
smoking marijuana sprayed with
paraquat is not as dangerous as
some persons allege.
“A casual user, using highly
contaminated marijuana, would
experience microscopic dam
age,” Miller said Thursday.
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